As for the impact of Xunzi's efforts to cultivate talents, there must be one, in addition to squeezing the living space of other talents, it will also allow Xunzi's influence to penetrate into various fields.

It will even create an authority above 10,000 people under one person, and the ancients attached great importance to the inheritance of teachers and students, even if it was just a point, it should be counted as a half-teacher.

But Xunzi is just a person after all, and when everyone dies, the so-called authority will cease to exist.

As for the inheritance of thoughts, Xunzi's main thing to do is to screen and classify, so that different people can learn suitable things, not let everyone directly learn from Xunzi.

His energy is limited, and it is impossible to teach everyone, so only a few people inherit Xunzi's thoughts, and they will not let Xunzi's Confucian family dominate.

And Zhao Kuo felt that if he didn't have an accident, he should be able to die behind Xunzi.

As for squeezing the living space of other talents, this is not a problem, at least not for now.

As Zhao Kuo said, in addition to officials, there is a shortage of talents in all aspects of Zhao Guo, such as doctors, craftsmen, farmers, mathematics, water conservancy, and Kanyu.

There are many areas that are not blank, but also none.

Just like mathematics, one of the six arts of a gentleman is number, which is something that nobles must learn, but if you want to say how good they are, they are actually not good at it, and few people will specialize in this thing.

There are also craftsmen, most of the craftsmen in Zhao are illiterate, relying on experience, not forming a complete system, relying on the direction set by Zhao Kuo in a short period of time may be able to break through one or two, but if you want to obtain a lasting development and innovation, the basic things are definitely not good.

Historically, most of the craftsmen were born in poor people, but all the inventors who innovated on the path of their predecessors were born in aristocratic families.

Those craftsmen who can't read a single word may be very good at making certain things, but the road ahead is broken from the root, and time can only bring experience, not innovation.

The Mo family and the public loser are slightly better, and the descendants are basically literate, but their number is too small.

It is very difficult for Zhao Guo to change this situation, even if he starts cultivating from now, it is difficult to say in the future, because you don't know who is a talent and who is a mediocre talent, and there is no writing on everyone's face, which cannot be seen on the surface.

It's all a matter of probability, it's your luck if you run into it, and there's no way if you don't meet it.

And the significance of Xunzi is that he can pick geniuses out of the crowd, without having to gamble on luck, even if there will be mistakes, he will not leave ten, and at the same time, he can rely on talent to see what these people are good at, and cultivate the talents needed for Zhao Guo.

"The talent of the minister is actually based on the minister's own cognition, that is to say, the minister can only screen out the talents in the field that the minister understands, and if the minister does not understand this field, he will not be able to find the talents he needs." Xunzi explained helplessly.

He originally wanted to hide it all the time, but in his later years, he would recruit more disciples, and he wrote a book, but now that he was poked out by Yu Xin, there was no way to continue to hide.

"All talents are inherently based on the owner." Yu Xin arched his hand and said, the essence of talent is the sublimation of people's knowledge, experience, and spirit, and if you don't understand it, you still don't understand it, "King, this actually doesn't have much impact, because Xunzi knows a lot." ”

The Confucian things themselves are very miscellaneous, and Xunzi is even more miscellaneous, although there are some things he only knows the theory and has not practiced, but this is enough, and there is no need for him to do it himself.

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Zhao Kuo looked at Xunzi with a smile.

At this point, Xunzi also knew that he couldn't shirk it like before, unless he wanted to leave Zhao Kingdom.

But Zhao Kuo treated him very well, although he did not govern the country according to his ideas, he also gave him enough respect, and appointed him as the sacrificial wine of Handan Academy and was in charge of the education of the whole country.

In addition, he himself is a native of Zhao, and he was only forced to leave his hometown in the past.

If given a choice, who wants to be adrift?

"If I keep hiding, maybe I won't be reconciled." Xunzi sighed in his heart and bowed, "I don't know what kind of talents the king needs, and how many people do they need?" ”

"The more top talents in mathematics, the better." Zhao Kuo said that mathematics is the foundation of all engineering disciplines, whether it is water conservancy, road construction, bridge construction, or shipbuilding, all need the support of mathematics.

If Zhao Guo wants to build a bridge across the river, or an official road with relatively high difficulty, he must have mathematicians on his side, and he must be a top mathematician, and the ordinary kind is useless.

"Other talents are also needed, especially craftsmen of all types. Three hundred and five hundred is not too little, and twelve thousand is not too much. ”

Even if Xunzi can really find so many talents, he must cultivate them first, although talent will bring huge advantages, but it doesn't explain everything, the main thing is to look at the future.

"This ...... I'm afraid it's a bit of a lot. Xunzi said in embarrassment, even if he doesn't rely on talent, he can look at a person's qualifications, but if you really want to determine the direction suitable for training in the future, you must turn on your talent to do it.

If you open up the talent for a long time, the pressure on him is very high.

"It's okay to have less, Xun Qing just do his best." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said.

"I understand." Xunzi arched his hand and said.

"By the way, how many sets of old equipment do we still have in our army?" Zhao Kuo finally thought about what he was doing here.

"King Yu, there are more than 10,000, less than 20,000 leather armor, spears, spears and about 50,000, although the gun shaft and spear shaft are broken, but the spear head and spear head are good, and you can use it with a different rod." Le Yi said.

As for the iron armor, it is a good thing in any country, unless it is damaged to the point of incurability, Zhao Guo is not extravagant enough to retire the iron armor.

However, according to Zhao Guo's current iron smelting speed, it won't be long before those old iron armor and copper armor can be replaced with new standard iron armor.

"Pick 5,000 pairs of relatively complete leather armor, 5,000 spears, and 5,000 spears, and let Yuan Hua send them to Yue Guo." Zhao Kuo said.

"King, has something happened?" Wei Wuji asked.

"This is the news that just came from the Chu State." Zhao Kuo handed the information he had just received to Wei Wuji.

It records the changes of the king of Chu during this period, including sending Huang Xie to Jiangdong to reclaim farmland and build a glazed workshop, and then with the help of concubines, the harem was cleaned up, and the Xijun who bought the harem guards was killed by the three clans, and the two feudal monarchs were implicated and deprived of their fiefs.

A few days later, the two feudal lords who were implicated seemed to be unwilling, and even sent people to ambush Chu Wangwan on the road outside the city, and the city defense army was late to rescue him, resulting in Chu Wangwan being injured.

The king of Chu was furious and withdrew all the city defense troops and replaced them with the new army that had just been formed.

Since then, Chen Ying has been completely controlled by the king of Chu.