This Chang'an selection, regardless of the outside world's comments, is certainly the biggest talent selection examination in recent decades, and it is destined to leave a mark in history.

In the 46 counties in Guanzhong, there is a shortage of more than 130 county-level officials at the grass-roots level, plus the chief officials, adjutants, and officials at the state and county levels, a total of 213 people will be recruited.

And because of the relationship of time, from Yizhou, Yongzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, all over the country, rushed to Chang'an, but there were only three hundred and seven candidates. This acceptance rate is simply scary.

But in any case, if there is no experienced person to preside over the exam for 300 people, it is all up to Liu Bei to judge which of these people are suitable for being officials in which place, and what kind of official like Liu Bei can't do.

Not to mention that Liu Bei is already sixty-four years old this year, his physical condition is getting worse and worse, and he even has a little uncomfortable symptoms after coming to Chang'an.

Therefore, this kind of thing can't all be pressed on Liu Bei's body, even if Liu Bei is willing, Zhang Xi, Pang Tong and others will not be happy.

Under Zhang Xi's strong recommendation, Ma Yan, who had five years of experience in opening a branch and taking scholars, was named the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites by Liu Bei and transferred to Chang'an to assist Qin Mi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to deal with the matter of taking scholars in Chang'an.

In fact, everyone knows that Qin Mi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has a more important matter of ancestor worship etiquette to study, and the person who really organized this collection of scholars is Ma Tan.

Really, as long as you don't let Ma Tan touch the military, he has his own set of ideas and ideas, whether he is a citizen or a scholar, and this set of ideas can be proved to be correct through practical tests.

Moreover, after five years of governance and training in Yueshan County, today's Ma Jian is also less pompous and more pragmatic when he was young. At least after Liu Bei met Ma Jian in person, his private evaluation with Zhang Xi was no longer "exaggerated".

"Ma Youchang has no shortage of talent, and with more experience, his achievements may not be under his brother."

This is Liu Bei's latest evaluation of Ma Tan, thinking that Ma Jian will probably be able to reach the height of Ma Liang if he exercises again.

This is already a not low evaluation, you must know that Ma Liang's current status in Jingzhou is second only to Guan Yu and Wang Ji, especially in government affairs, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the actual number one.

One day, if Guan Yu and Wang Ji are both promoted to the central court, then Ma Liang will be enough to serve as the assassin of Jingzhou.

All in all, Zhang Xi was also quite relieved after hearing Liu Bei's evaluation of Ma Yan. Ma Jian is indeed talented, just don't let him drive ducks to the shelves to do things, step by step, after all, he is a pillar of talent.

Zhang Xi has a sense of pride that he has changed Ma Yan's fate.

And this time, the arrival of Chang'an and Ma Jian did help Liu Bei a lot.

Although Ma Tan opened a branch in Yueshan County, the largest one was that thirty-four people took the exam at the same time, which was far from being comparable to this Chang'an scholar.

But Ma Tan really has experience, and he has his own set of mature methods, and he has made some fine-tuning on the basis of his own experience, but he can barely build the framework of this time and make it decent.

And with Ma Yan's presiding, Zhang Xi can get out of these things and go to other things.

Zhang Xi has a lot of things, which is very directly related to Liu Bei's stay in Chang'an.

Liu Bei stayed in Chang'an, and he was not in a hurry to arrange a position like Yongzhou Assassin for a while, and when Cao Wei withdrew from Guanzhong, half of the people in Guanzhong were moved, and all the officials in the main official place moved away.

Therefore, the affairs of the entire Yongzhou are supported by Zhang Xi, Huang Quan, and Pang Tong.

Huang Quan is in charge of the army, Pang Tong is in charge of military affairs, and Zhang Xi is naturally in charge of government affairs.

Who let the three of them, Zhang Xi once had the experience of being in charge of the ruling party in Jingzhou.

But Zhang Xi also wanted to cry out for injustice, he was just managing a county in Nanjun at the beginning, but now it is a state.

And when he was in Jingzhou, Zhang Xi had Ma Liang, Sun Qian, Zhao Lei, Deng Ai, and the Xi brothers to help, but now, there is only one Liu Yin left by his side.

Ma Tan's Chang'an has not officially started, and even if it is really a scholar, before these officials take office, the affairs of the entire Yongzhou must be handed over to Zhang Xi to make decisions and arrangements. It's strange that this thing can be less.

With no choice, Zhang Xi had to start shaking people again.

After Liu Bei agreed, Zhang Xi urgently transferred Li Qiu, Zhao Lei, Zhou Tai, Zhang Yi, Ju Fu, Jiang Wan, Chen Yi and others to Chang'an to help, and at the same time appointed Liu Shen as the right Fufeng County Taishou and Hu Fen as the left Feng Yi County Taishou, building the administrative framework of Yongzhou.

After these people are in place, Zhang Xi's affairs are a little less, but they are still limited.

There is a lack of low-level officials, and all the affairs of a state are pressed on so many people, and it is impossible for these people to complete them all.

Yongzhou's government affairs have come to a standstill for the time being, and the resettlement of the people returning home is not going well, and this year's cultivation must be over, so Zhang Xi went to Ma Jian three times a day to ask him when he would be able to finish this exam, so that the officials could be delegated.

If you rub it off any longer, with the climatic conditions in Guanzhong, you won't even have time to prepare for the winter, and the people will inevitably be affected by that time.

Ma Jian can't help it, time is determined by the Son of Heaven, and the question of the selection exam, so far, Liu Bei has only given a tone, that is, to focus on practice, after all, these officials have to go to the local government as soon as possible to govern, and they can't do it without practical ability.

But if you do it like this, Qin Mi will have a hard time, what is the best exam question?!

At this time, Zhang Xi came up with an idea, and he calculated it with the topic of "how to govern Guanzhong".

Qin Mi was annoyed by Zhang Xi's words and rolled her eyes!!

Thanks to you, Zhang Yuanchang is embarrassed to say that his book of study is "The Book of Rites". Listen to what you say, is it "etiquette"?!

The suggestion is a good suggestion, but if he Qin Mi really uses "how to govern Guanzhong" as the exam question, then what awaits him is not to leave a name in history, but to be smiling and generous.

This topic is too uncultured.

In these years, in fact, the theory of the Four Books and Five Classics has not been completely formed, and the mainstream Confucian classics are only the "Analects", "The Book of Rites", and "The Book of Shang".

"The Mean" was born out of the Book of Rites, and no one in this era has separated "The Mean" from the "Book of Rites", and although the "University" is said to have been made by Zeng Zi in the Spring and Autumn Period, it should actually be written by the Confucian pseudonym in the Qin and Han dynasties.

As for the Book of Shang. What we are talking about here is the ancient text "Shangshu", that is, the "Shangshu" that Chao Cuo was ordered to ask Fusheng for advice, and it is not the "Shangshu" of later generations, and the "Shangshu" of today's text, according to research, is actually written by Wang Lang's son Wang Sutuo, and at this time, Wang Su was still studying at home.

Therefore, if Qin Mi wants to come up with a question, he must find the title from the Analects, the Book of Rites, and the Book of Shang.

It's not a difficult thing in the first place, in these classics, whether it's a person or a way to do things, it's not too difficult to find one as a practical exam question.

But the problem is that the interpretation of the classics in this era is not like that of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations, all kinds of collections are flying all over the sky, and they can be bought casually on the street, from the ancients to the interpretation of the powerful people of the current dynasty.

In this era, even Qin Mi's interpretation of the Analects may not satisfy people from other families in the Central Plains.

If you come up with your own exam questions, other families will think that it is wrong, or even laugh at it. Can Qin Mi's dream of being a great Confucian in the world still come true? !

Therefore, in order to prevent himself from being ridiculous and generous, and at the same time, in order to better test the ability of the students taking the exam, Qin Mi had already sent someone to Zheng's house in Beihai in March to ask for the "Book of Rites", "Analects", and "Shangshu" annotated by Zheng Xuan for reference.

People in the world are against him Qin Mi's understanding of the classics, and no one will question Zheng Xuan's understanding of the classics, right?!

This is a long way from Chang'an to Beihai, and it has to pass through Cao Wei's territory in the middle. Even if this kind of thing Cao Wei official doesn't necessarily care, but it always takes time, and Qin Mi hasn't received a reply from the Zheng family yet, so he really doesn't dare to ask the question easily.

Qin Mi can't come up with questions for a day, and this exam can't be carried out for a day, so Ma Jian naturally has no way.

And Ma Jian had no choice on his side, so Zhang Xi could only sit and wait to catch the blind, and then was persuaded by Liu Yin to go back. If you have this kung fu to find Ma Shilang three times a day, it is better to stay in the government office and read a few more documents to be more practical.

What can Zhang Xi say about this. Can it be said that Lao Tzu is dizzy from reading books, and he came out to fish lazily for some reason?!

Do you want to lose face!!

I had no choice but to follow Liu Yin back and continue to suffer in the sea of books.

(End of chapter)