After the end of the exam, the candidates left the venue in an orderly manner, Liu Bei and others also completed the invigilation work, and the next step was the intense marking work.

Different from the selection examination, at this stage of the Jun examination, Liu Bei has to personally look at the top 150 test papers.

The marking officers led by Zheng Xuan were full of firepower, first correcting the top 150 examination papers in the selection examination, and giving their own opinions and booking scores in terms of strategy, and handing over the rest to Emperor Liu Bei.

After Liu Bei handled his own government affairs, he took some time to personally look at the one hundred and fifty examination papers.

Among them, what he paid the most attention to was naturally Zhuge Liang's test papers, so after tearing off all the paste, he picked up Zhuge Liang's test papers to watch.

At first glance, the Q&A questions in front of the good guy are all right, and there is nothing wrong at all, and it is really not easy to get a full score in such a situation.

As for the strategy, Liu Bei saw that among the opinions given by the examiner, the part about Jiaozhou was a full score, the part about the Western Regions was also a full score, and the part of Liaozhou was deducted ten points.

In other words, in the opinion of the marking officer, although this policy about Liaozhou is very good, it cannot get a full score.

Regarding the scoring points of the policy theory, Liu Bei previously stipulated that the policy theory should not only focus on agricultural issues, but also divergent thinking, pay attention to business and military, and if it can further pay attention to mineral resources and handicrafts, it can even add extra points.

Originally, territorial development was traditionally an increase in land area and labor-producing population, and thus more land taxes, which was a very traditional and orthodox idea, and the traditional scholars knew less about it.

For this reason, traditional scholars have always been interested in land that cannot be cultivated and cannot produce food, and they only prefer fertile land that has been cultivated and can be put into production immediately, which is their preference.

For the rest, let's skip it.

In addition to the traditional significance, Liu Bei's land development has more distinct military and economic purposes.

Therefore, Liu Bei needs candidates to pay attention to things other than agriculture, as long as they can mention things outside agriculture, they can give points as appropriate, and the more and more thorough they mention, the more points they will give, and even full marks.

He hopes to select non-traditional scholars with a holistic mindset, which is an important reason why he has worked hard to promote education and launch the Guardian Tongyi in recent years.

He wanted to raise a reserve army of the ruling class, which was completely different from the traditional scholars, and he wanted them to focus more on the pure interests of things than on the many other involvements.

After that, Liu Bei carefully looked at Zhuge Liang's strategy Q&A.

He found that the logic of Zhuge Liang's answer was indeed not limited to agriculture, but also concerned with commercial and military issues.

In the imperial court's strategy to open up Jiaozhou, Zhuge Liang noticed the matter of overseas trade, he believed that the development of Jiaozhou is conducive to trade with overseas countries, can earn extra money, so the significance of opening up Jiaozhou is not only agriculture, but also commerce.

He lived in Xuzhou, heard the news of Rinan County in Jiaozhou many times, and learned that the foreign trade carried out by Rinan County was very prosperous, and many people were willing to go to Rinan County to start trade, earn money, and never get tired of it, and also drove more people to Rinan County to trade.

He felt that it was something that was meaningful to the country.

Zhuge Liang believes that the obedience of the Western Regions to the imperial court is not only as simple as honoring the ancestors, but more importantly, after obtaining the Western Regions with a population of one million, the imperial court can further sell goods to the Western Regions, and even sell them to the west of the Western Regions through the Western Regions.

He believes that after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions, in addition to increasing the forces and bases to fight the Xiongnu, a very important point was to open up the Silk Road, open up the trade routes between the two sides, and obtain channels to increase financial revenue.

Now that the Han Dynasty no longer has the threat of the northern grasslands, it is necessary to obtain considerable profits by using such military advantages as a basis to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road and selling the superior products of the Han Dynasty while gaining military advantages.

In this way, the pressure on farmers can be reduced without damaging the operation of the country.

Well?

When Liu Bei watched Zhuge Liang's strategy, he suddenly noticed that Zhuge Liang wrote such a paragraph at the end of the Western Regions chapter.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang will also pay attention to the operation of external economic means to reduce the pressure on internal farmers?

Liu Bei remembered that when Zhuge Liang was in charge of Shuzhong, he did pay great attention to reducing the pressure on farmers, and he adopted a lot of commercial means to govern Shuzhong.

For example, linking Shu brocade to Zhibaiqian and maintaining the currency value of Zhibaiqian through the export of inflation, thereby reducing internal exploitation and maintaining basic internal stability, this is a very remarkable means of governance.

He also thinks that this is not a skill that Zhuge Liang can learn by nature.

Judging from Zhuge Liang's experience in Xuzhou, he should not have learned much in his own family in Xuzhou, before following Zhuge Xuan to Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang should have studied under Zhuge Xuan's guidance, and his uncle Zhuge Xuan was not a very talented person.

Therefore, Liu Bei believes that Zhuge Xuan should be the enlightenment teacher for Zhuge Liang, he did not teach Zhuge Liang much, but he laid a solid knowledge foundation for Zhuge Liang.

As for the reason why Zhuge Liang can really take off, it should be after their family took refuge in Jingzhou.

Zhuge Xuan is Liu Biao's old subordinate, through the relationship between Zhuge Xuan and Liu Biao, after Zhuge and the Jingzhou clan Cai, Huang, and Pang were involved, Zhuge Liang was able to follow the famous teachers in Jingzhou to learn some real skills and learn high-end knowledge that ordinary people can't learn.

As for the political and economic means of administrative governance, Liu Bei believes that it should be Zhuge Liang who joined the Liu Group and was able to contact and master it on the basis of obtaining a certain status and power, and within Liu Bei's group, Zhuge Liang should also have many "teachers".

For example, Zhuge Liang's economic governance methods should be inseparable from Liu Ba, an economics expert - but in any case, Zhuge Liang should be a high-IQ genius with strong learning ability and able to draw inferences.

Despite this, under the premise of not having enough experience and learning channels, Liu Bei believes that Zhuge Liang can grow into a great god with a high knowledge reserve in Xuzhou Prefecture, which can be regarded as touching the ceiling.

The curriculum of Xuzhou Prefecture did not involve the content of the real political field, and more things should be mastered after he came into contact with politics.

Even Liu Bei planned to cultivate Zhuge Liang as a personal disciple.

But the sentence written by Zhuge Liang at the end of the Western Regions chapter surprised Liu Bei a little.

It seems that in the life of Xuzhou, Zhuge Liang has noticed the suffering of the peasants, and has some thoughts, and has also linked with the previous economic means, and has come to a conclusion that ordinary people do not expect.

It is a very simple conclusion, which contains his political ideals and sympathy for the general public.

He was born in an official family, the family is not very rich, but it is definitely not a kneeling Eastern Han Dynasty grass people, his life is guaranteed, the Eastern Han Dynasty grass people and his living standards are 108,000 miles apart, under normal circumstances, he is not very able to contact the bottom.

So how did this emotion and this thinking come about?

Liu Bei felt that this was an interesting place, and when he had the opportunity, he would summon Zhuge Liang alone and talk to him to see what kind of idealist the nineteen-year-old Zhuge Liang was.

Zhuge Liang of the Western Regions also got full marks.

In the Liaozhou chapter where points were deducted, Zhuge Liang's answer was decent, focusing on the military aspect, and in terms of agriculture, Zhuge Liang's views were the same as normal people, and he was not very optimistic about the agricultural potential of Liaodong.

Therefore, he believed that the main purpose of the imperial court to open up Liaozhou was to prevent the re-emergence of hostile forces such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Goguryeo in the east, so as to ensure that Youzhou was safe, so he sent troops to Liaozhou, opened up Liaozhou, and swept away all hostile forces.

Liaozhou belongs to the barrier of Youzhou, which should be related to the imperial court's plan to vigorously build Youzhou later.

As for agriculture, Zhuge Liang believes that Liaozhou is bitterly cold, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the potential for developing agriculture is not very large, and the population that can be carried will not be very large, as long as it can maintain the stability of Liaozhou under a certain scale of production conditions, it will be enough.

More input is not necessary.

The point deduction is here.

Adhering to Liu Bei's idea of opening up the territory and expanding the territory, the marking officer believes that every inch of the country is necessary, and if it can be developed, it must be developed as much as possible, whether it is done or not, but it must be said that this is political correctness.

Zhuge Liang said that there is no need for more investment, this is politically incorrect, although it is written in other places, but the final conclusion is wrong, so ten points are deducted.

For this reason, Liu Bei thought for a moment, vetoed it, and then gave it back to Zhuge Liang with a red pen.

He's right.

Unless there is climate change, there is really no need for further investment in the Northeast and the Outer Khing'an Mountains and the Ussuri River a little further afield.

The Northeast Plain does have a strong agricultural potential, but it must be developed in two cases.

First, there is the warm period of the global climate.

Second, it is the advent of the industrial age.

In a sense, the Northeast is very similar to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and it was a wild land for a long period of time, but these two lands also had glorious and powerful regional regimes, both of which appeared in the Tang Dynasty.

The Tibetan kingdom on the Tibetan Plateau and the Goguryeo kingdom on the northeastern plains grew during the relatively warm climate and became the confidants of the equally glorious Tang Empire.

At its peak, the Goguryeo Kingdom had the war strength to mobilize 600,000 troops, and it took decades for the Tang Empire to completely wipe it out.

There is no other reason for this, but the climate is warm and rainfall, which can grow more food and feed more people.

But after the warm period, the index of human survival in these places began to fall sharply.

The land of Northeast China is a plain, with very good black soil and relatively abundant water irrigation land, and there is nothing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so since the Tibetan Empire, there has never been a strong local government.

In a sense, the land of Northeast China is similar to the current land of Jiangnan.

There are Yunmengze in the south of the Yangtze River and Liaoze in the northeast, all of which have slowly become less difficult to develop in thousands of years with the changes of the climate of the times, and with the growth of human technology, the uninhabitable places have been transformed into livable places.

Because the climate in the Northeast is more severe, it is difficult to effectively develop the land with manpower and traditional agricultural tools, unless it is a warm period, the mechanical agricultural tools produced in the industrial age are the way to tame the land in the Northeast.

With the current climate state on the eve of the Xiaoice River period of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, if the Han Empire wants to develop the northeast with the strength of the country, it is really better to work harder and develop Yunmengze together.

Anyway, Jiangnan is still relatively warm.

Therefore, although Zhuge Liang did not have a front and rear eye, and did not know the meaning of the Xiaoice River period and the warm period, his judgment was right.

At present, the greatest value of the land of Liaodong is military value, which exists as a barrier to the land of North China and exists as a strategic depth, rather than a very valuable agricultural land.

Its value will have to wait for more than 300 years to be developed for the first time, and the development of the Eight Classics will probably reach the industrial age.

The temperature during the Xiaoice period will teach everyone how to behave.

Engaging in political correctness on the issue of seeking truth from facts is the reason why many powerful countries are going downhill, and this is a scene that Liu Bei does not want to see, so Liu Bei decisively "rehabilitated" Zhuge Liang.

After that, Liu Bei spent a few days reading other people's policy questions and answers, and found that there were really few people who could consider policy issues as comprehensively as Zhuge Liang.

Most of the people focus on agriculture, population, and taxation, and few people are involved in the commercial and military aspects, and the rest of the population is more focused on the military aspects, ignoring the huge changes that the commercial level can bring to the country.

Some people have written the strategy as an article praising virtue, fully affirming all the decisions made by Liu Bei.

Some people believe that this is not enough, and that they should continue to attack, continue to push the military peak of the Han Dynasty, and let the Han Empire continue to advance at the military level.

All in all, few people have been able to explore the deep reasons why the imperial court spent so much money to develop these places and the linkage with domestic governance.

Liu Bei even saw that some people felt that the imperial court was purely from the perspective of promoting the national prestige of the Han Dynasty, and the ultimate goal was to make Waiyi bathe in the king, nothing more.

Seeing these contents, Liu Bei actually felt quite helpless.

(End of chapter)