When Zhuge Jin first joined the office, he worked in a collective farm, and later was transferred to the county government to work in engineering, and then because he did a good job, he was transferred to the county government to work on more important tasks.

During the previous construction period of Xuzhou, Zhuge Jin ran back and forth because of the problem of allocating the living materials needed by the people and official slaves, and he didn't go home for half a month when he was busiest.

Even if he went home occasionally, he came back with a lot of official business, Zhuge Liang felt sorry for his brother's busyness, and went to help do some simple calculations.

So when Zhuge Jin was resting, he would also spit out his bitterness to Zhuge Liang a little, and talk about the strange things he encountered when he was in the office.

One of the things that Zhuge Liang remembered most clearly was that when the road was being built in Donghai County, the two people got into trouble in front of the officials in charge because the rations were not enough, which made Zhuge Jin embarrassed.

Because at that time, in Langya County, there happened to be a scandal in which officials in several counties withheld people's rations to fill their pockets, which attracted strict supervision and vigorous crackdowns from the Yushitai, and the officials of the Yushitai were like wolves smelling blood, and a large group of people went directly to Langya County.

At that time, Yushitai took down four county orders and six county officials in Langya County in one go, found out more than 100 gang officials, cut off more than 30 heads in the back, exiled 7 or 800 people, and solved this matter.

Then, the entire bureaucratic team in Xuzhou became the focus of the Yushitai and was heavily suspected.

Zhuge Jin happened to hit the muzzle of the gun at that time, so he was suspected of cutting corners to enrich his own pockets, and was taken away for investigation by the officials of the Yushitai who were in charge of supervising the project.

Fortunately, because there were only two people complaining, the officials of Yushitai felt strange, and after an investigation, they found out that these two guys ate too much, too much to eat, and the other people were fine, so the two of them finished the rations in advance, and as a result, they were hungry, and they couldn't get angry, so they came to make trouble.

The subsequent investigation also proved Zhuge Jin's innocence.

Zhuge Jin was conscientious and conscientious, but as a result, he made such a fuss, and suddenly felt that life was impermanent, so he told Zhuge Liang about this matter as a complaint during a break.

Zhuge Liang has since understood that the handling of government affairs cannot be handled with pure mathematical thinking, but needs to be properly filled in with some human thinking, or in other words, any thing that deals with people cannot be viewed purely with mathematical thinking.

However, this is the examination room, and he relies on scores to speak, so Zhuge Liang used pure mathematical thinking to sort out this seemingly complicated question, and in the time of a stick of incense, he gave a standard and correct answer and calculated all the data.

In this way, Zhuge Liang felt that this exam was still a bit interesting, although it could not simulate the work of real officials, but it really tested people and everyone's basic skills.

He heard from the teacher of the state school that once he passed the imperial examination, he would be awarded the position of a subordinate official in accordance with the provisions of the Jiupin Official Law.

And most people's first job is to be the representative of the court of the collective farm, responsible for managing the agricultural affairs of a collective farm, dealing with dozens or hundreds of peasant households, eating and living together, and by the way, connecting with the county government, and completing a series of tax collection and labor needs of the county government.

Because the number of people in charge is relatively small, this job does not seem to be so important, but in Zhuge Liang's opinion, this is indeed the starting point of the official career.

If even dozens or hundreds of peasant households cannot be managed well and can not deal with each other well, how can they be promoted to manage a county, a county, or even a state?

In the same way, if an official does not understand how the country's most basic farmers live and understand the world, and then rises to a high position, how can he formulate policies?

Zhuge Liang used to read history books in the process of studying, and saw many high-ranking figures formulate some unbelievable policies, and use extremely abstract means to implement them, and finally get disastrous consequences, so that the country collapsed.

At that time, he didn't understand why a person in a high position would do such a stupid thing, was there something behind it? Is it playing some big chess but falling short?

Later, after Zhuge Jin entered the official career and began to do things, Zhuge Liang gradually figured it out.

What a secret.

That is, they are divorced from the masses and cannot be down-to-earth, and the policies they come up with are all empty buildings, which are not realistic at all, and what they think in their hearts is good, but in the end they do all stupid things, and in the end the ruling clique is not satisfied, and the people at the bottom are not satisfied.

The old farmer needs a farm tool at hand, and you give someone a wooden spoon to drink soup and ask for the price of the farm tool.

It's no wonder that people don't smoke you.

It was precisely because there were more and more such insects that led to the rise and fall of successive dynasties, and led to the end of the Second Empire.

If we don't clean up these insects that occupy high positions, how can the world be done well?

Shaking his head, Zhuge Liang restrained his thoughts, and began to calculate and answer seriously from the first test paper.

A morning passed quickly, Zhuge Liang successfully completed the first test paper, and was about to start answering the second test paper, when he suddenly heard some noises, turned his head, and saw the inspection examiner put one or two lacquer boxes on his desk, and then dropped a pair of chopsticks, a spoon and a cloth towel.

"It's lunchtime, let's eat something before answering, and I'm not in a hurry."

After the inspection officer finished speaking, he turned around and left, Zhuge Liang raised his eyes and looked outside, and saw that many inspection examiners were putting food for the candidates, and the fragrance of food was slowly spreading in the examination room.

Zhuge Liang sniffled and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, the feeling of hunger welling up in his heart.

He took the two lacquered boxes, opened the large one, and was surprised to find that it was actually a complete meal, and the box was divided into several compartments, including meat, vegetables, rice, and pickles, and they were all full, full of portions, and fragrant.

He opened another box, found a soup in it, and tasted it a little...... Sweet?

He originally thought that the food for the exam tube was bread and other food, and he was given a glass of water at most, but he didn't expect it to be such a complete meal, and there was sweet soup, and the specifications of this meal were not even worse than the ones he ate at home.

Delicious sweets are not often found even in official eunuchs like Zhuge Shi.

In the past, only some elderly people could eat it, and these younger generations could only go to the elders' knees to sell cute candy to eat when they were very young.

I didn't expect to be able to taste the sweetness in the exam room now.

Zhuge Liang ate a lot of things in the morning, but he spent a lot of energy in the morning answering questions with high intensity, and now he is very hungry, so he raised his chopsticks and began to feast.

As soon as he ate the food, he was surprised.

That's delicious, isn't it?

It felt even better than the meals you ate at the station! It's so fragrant!

couldn't help it, Zhuge Liang began to cook and cook, and he didn't care much about his eating appearance.

Not only him, but the candidates in the entire examination room began to feast, cooking and cooking, and there were even cases where individual candidates felt that they were not enough to eat because they could eat too much, so they begged the inspection examiner to have another one.

Their request was naturally in the plan of the examination room, so under the premise of the disc operation, some of the big stomach candidates got a second meal.

After eating, the empty food box is taken away, and candidates can choose to take a lunch break, or they can choose not to take a lunch break and continue to answer the questions.

Zhuge Liang was confident, and he already had full confidence in this exam, so he reported to the examiner, pulled up the curtain and took a comfortable nap, and after getting up, he was full of energy and started answering questions in the afternoon.

At sunset, another meal of the same style as noon was delivered to the candidates, the dishes were slightly different from noon, the content was the same rich, meat and vegetable matching, and the soup was an egg custard.

Zhuge Liang, who had been writing hard all afternoon, was hungry, and when he saw the food, his index finger moved, and he held the lunch box and feasted.

After a while, the entire examination room was filled with a gurgling sound of chewing.

After dinner, Zhuge Liang rested for a while, lit the lamp, and completed two questions about the time of day and agricultural production that needed to be answered at great length.

It took him more than half an hour to answer these two questions, and after he finished writing, he looked up and saw that the comrades-in-arms of the candidates who had been walking across from him had also lit the lamps and were writing hard, and they didn't see anyone who turned off the lights and rested.

Zhuge Liang looked at the sky, then lowered his head again, answered two astronomical questions, and more than half an hour passed, he looked up again, and found that the candidates' comrades-in-arms were still working hard to write.

He checked his exam papers and found that at the end of the day today, he had completed about half of the questions, and only one-third of the three-day exam time had passed, and he knew the rest of the questions and was confident, so he nodded reassuringly, reported to the examiner, and turned off the lights to rest.

The examiner allowed him to register, watched him turn off the lights, closed the curtain, and then turned to leave, walked a few steps, looked around the candidates in the whole alley, and found that only Zhuge Liang was resting alone, and the others were still fighting at night.

And basically everyone's face is not easy, and there are a few people who are writing, but they always feel that their faces are wrong, and their hands are shaking, I don't know if it's because it's cold in the middle of the night, or because they also know that they are writing wrong.

In this way, it is really not easy to be the first candidate to report for lunch break during the lunch break, no matter what the content of his answers is, he is good enough psychologically.

If you don't have a strong psychological quality, how can you relax and sleep in such an examination room?

When I was ready to go to bed, I saw that other candidates were still working hard, and I felt a sense of urgency.

For example, the two columns of candidates in this alley, one by one, are answering questions with eyes as big as cow eggs, and they seem to be competing to see who goes to sleep first, and it seems that whoever sleeps first will lose.

But ah, it's not a one-day battle, it's a three-day battle.

If you don't rest well, you will be mentally exhausted from the second day, and on the third day, will you still have enough energy to support the exam?

And that candidate ...... Is it called Zhuge Liang?

I don't seem to care about this kind of competition in the shadows.

Rest early to have good spirits the next day, right?

Stretching and yawning, the examiner looked at the sky, walked to the end of the alley, handed his proctoring token to the guards, and finished the day's work.

The next work belonged to the central forbidden army directly under the emperor who was on duty here at night.

These examiners are all working in earnest, and they will invigilate the exam for one day today, and they will resume their normal work tomorrow, and someone else will take over as their inspector for the next day.

According to the requirements of the department, these inspection examiners can only serve for one day, and they have to rotate three batches of inspection examiners in three days, and no one knows who will be the inspection examiner the next day.

Today has been calm all day, and there is no cheating happening, the school department is so strict and guarded, like a thief, is it a bit too much?

The second day's exam was still calm on the whole.

At four o'clock, the candidates have all woken up, and the examination institute organized a wave of breakfast, mainly steamed dumplings and wontons, focusing on a light and easy to digest, to help the candidates replenish the energy they need in the morning.

This was followed by a full morning of exams.

Zhuge Liang successfully completed the fourth and fifth test papers, and answered all the questions to the full, and with the addition of abundant food, he felt that he was like a god in writing, just like the god of exams and answering questions, and his thinking was extremely clear and open.

In one morning, he completed the task that was expected to take a whole day, and he completed all the math problems without missing a single one.

So much so that when he was eating at noon, Zhuge Liang thought about whether he should slow down a little and take a good rest in the afternoon and not answer the questions, so as not to have nothing to do tomorrow.

Because the requirements for the selection of exams are very strict, candidates cannot submit papers in advance, and even if they finish all the exam papers in advance, they must wait until the exam is completely over before leaving, so if they complete all the exam papers today, he will have to sleep in the cubicle all day tomorrow.

Although he has the demeanor of a sleeping god at home, he can't fall asleep at any time in the end, thinking about it, Zhuge Liang felt that he would have a good sleep in the afternoon, and then answer these questions slowly and carefully.

The remaining volumes are all questions related to practical affairs, and Zhuge Liang deliberately left them for the end to answer, wanting to straighten out his thinking and answer these questions with the most meticulous thinking, and not wanting to make some low-level mistakes.

It just so happens that now that time has suddenly become free, Zhuge Liang can think seriously and answer cautiously.

(End of chapter)