Chapter 169: Choosing a Guest

Su Lin didn't know that the flower demon Su on the other side was like this, so he hid in the mansion of Li Yuncong, the secretary of the criminal department in the capital, at this time, he was walking briskly towards the living room in the mansion with Yuan Du and Hong Liyu, to interview those guests who came to take refuge. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The living room of the Su Mansion was full of Confucian scholars, and the lowest one was also a scholar. While sipping the refreshments prepared by the people of the Su Mansion, they talked to each other, waiting for the arrival of Su Lin, the owner of the mansion.

"I heard that Su Gongzi wrote three poems in January, but I don't know if it's true. If it is true, even if Su Gongzi does not come up with the meteorite, it is worth it for us to take refuge in him. ”

"Naturally, it's true, two of them are on the "Holy Text". Moreover, in this government test, Su Gongzi once again wrote a war poem about the town, and moreover, Mo Yi is full of words, which country can have such a genius?"

"It's no wonder that so many people and jinshi will come to take refuge!"

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Most of these jinshi here are on the older side. Moreover, almost all of them have a powerful family background, so they choose to take refuge in the sons of some big families to seek better ideological development. Although there is a world of difference between a doorman and a houseslave, in the final analysis, becoming a doorman in someone else's house is, to a certain extent, also going to some freedom.

Therefore, the general Confucian scholars above the rank of scholar, after it is difficult to advance in the ideology of civil status, the first consideration is to enter the court as an official, and the second is to find a promising and talented son of a family to take refuge and become a guest in his house.

"Childe, all the guests who came to take refuge are here. The old slave counted, a total of thirteen jinshi, and thirty-six people. For the rest of the talents, the old man directly let them go back. Jia Lao smiled and introduced to Su Lin.

At the same time, when these Confucian scholars sitting in the living room saw Su Lin, they also immediately stood up, looked at Su Lin with curious, eager, and even somewhat admiring eyes, and bowed to Su Lin.

The doubts that have been haunting their hearts are solved little by little, and the seemingly ordinary and friendly young man in front of him is the Su Lin who wrote three poems in January?

"Childe, all of you are talented scholars who have come from all over my Wu country to take refuge......"

Jia Laozheng was excited to introduce himself to Su Lin, but Su Lin saw an acquaintance at first sight, this person was none other than Ye Hongye, the temple superintendent at the time of the Surin County test.

"Inspector Ye, why are you here too?"

Su Lin interrupted Jia Lao, walked in front of Ye Hongye, and asked with a smile.

"Su Lin, hehe, don't call me Ye Jian again. Since the county examination two months ago, I have resigned from the temple as the superintendent of the imperial examinations of the Heavenly Examination Department. Wandering between the nine countries of the Tianren Continent, hoping to break through to the university scholar's rank, I happened to be near the Wu Kingdom recently, and I heard that your mansion was recruiting guests, and you also took out such a precious treasure as the meteorite stone, so I naturally hurried over......"

Ye Hongye looked at Su Lin in front of him thoughtfully, although Su Lin's appearance has not changed much in the past two months, but Ye Hongye intuitively saw the change in Su Lin's temperament. At the beginning of the county test, the young man who had just opened his mind, but at this time, he was already a well-educated man who wrote four poems about the town and the country, and Moyi was full of words.

It had only been less than two months, and although Ye Hongye had already overestimated Su Lin's genius as much as possible in his heart, he still never imagined that Su Lin would make such progress.

"I see! Ye Jinshi is already on the verge of breaking through the scholar, and he needs the help of this meteorite to enter the state of asking responsibly. ”

Without hesitation, Su Lin took out a meteorite from the Qiankun bag and handed it to Ye Hongyedao, "You are also half of my teacher, please accept this meteorite stone." ”

Just by talking like this, Su Lin was able to give away the meteorite worth more than 500,000 taels. Such a big gesture instantly calmed the Jinshi present.

The situation of these Jinshi is not particularly good, and 500,000 taels is a huge amount of money for them. What's more, the current meteorite is already priceless, even if you have 500,000 taels, you may not be able to buy it.

"No, no, no...... Su Lin, how can this be done? It is useless, and when I went to Fengle County to serve as a county trial supervisor, it was just a routine public office. ”

Although Ye Hongye urgently needed this meteorite stone, he still shirked it.

"That'...... Let's just be the reward for Ye Jinshi to come to my mansion as a doorman!" Su Lin said with a smile, handing over the heartstone to Ye Hongye's hands.

"Surin, what do you mean...... Have you accepted me as a doorman?but, you haven't gone through any selection and testing?" Ye Hongye was stunned, he didn't expect that he could become a doorman in Surin Mansion so smoothly.

"Can I still trust Ye Jinshi? Moreover, the Confucian scholars here still need to ask Ye Jinshi to help me select and test! I don't need many disciples, but I must have outstanding expertise and pure thoughts. ”

Su Lin pointed to the other Confucian scholars in the hall and said, "Su is very grateful to you for your trust, but if you want to become a guest in my Su Mansion, you must not be an ordinary person. You can talk about your talents and thoughts. Ye Jinshi and I will inspect and select ...... together"

After finishing speaking, Su Lin asked Jia Lao to arrange another room to imitate the interview process of a modern company. Let the Confucian scholars in the hall come in one by one, and the interviewers are Su Lin himself, Ye Hongye, Jia Lao, and Yuan Du and Hong Liyu.

Nearly 50 lifters and jinshi were sorted in the order of A, B, C, D, and then called into the wing room one by one to accept the many-to-one interview. This is a normal interview system in modern companies, but it made Ye Hongye, Jia Lao, Yuan Dui and Hong Liyu and others instantly shine.

"Su Lin, your method is really good, and you can select talents very effectively. Hong Liyu sat beside Su Lin and looked at a Confucian scholar in front of him whose name had been eliminated.

"Instead of asking me to pick one by one from a bunch of Confucian scholars, it is better for a few of us to sit down quietly and let these Confucian scholars walk in one by one, and we will investigate slowly. In this way, we can more clearly understand the strengths and weaknesses of a person's talents, learning, and thinking......"

Su Lin nodded, but although this interview method is good, but so far more than thirty Confucian scholars have been interviewed, including those Jinshi, there have been no doormen who make Su Lin very eager to recruit them.

Guy, the Confucian scholars who came to take refuge, did not have anything special in themselves. Almost all of them practice orthodox Confucianism, and this kind of person is most suitable to enter the court as an official and become the county commander of the ruling party. But as a doorman, it doesn't seem to have much value.

Many of them have learned a little, but Surin doesn't need such a doorman. In Su Lin's opinion, it doesn't matter if the disciples he recruits are low, they must have extraordinary ideas or skills.

Su Lin is emulating Meng Yanjun during the Warring States Period, and the three thousand guests in Meng Yanjun's mansion have all kinds of talents. One of Meng Weijun's doormen "pretended to be a dog and stole a fur to help him get out", and another doorman "learned to crow a chicken and deceived him into opening the city gate". It is these doormen, known as the "rooster and dog thief", who have repeatedly helped Meng Weijun to resolve the crisis.

After all the Confucian scholars in the living room had been interviewed, Su Lin still didn't find any Confucian scholars who could make him tempted, so he couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Rao is that some of these Confucian scholars have reached the literary rank of Jinshi, but their thoughts are rigid Confucian orthodoxy, and they don't know how to be flexible, and they also cultivate the essence of the hundred schools of thought." It is no wonder that their literary position has not been able to break through and progress, this is the evil result of not being able to clarify the inner Tao and blindly following the imperial examination system to study!"

Jinshi to university scholar is the first step for Confucian scholars to break away from the imperial examination and enter the sublimation of their own thoughts. But many Jinshi have been stuck on this hurdle for a lifetime. The fundamental reason for this is because of the shortcomings of the imperial examination. Although the original meaning of the imperial examination was to help Confucian scholars improve their literary status through external forces, it was ultimately only a set of institutional forms artificially formulated by the temple.

In the final analysis, these jinshi are both successful and unsuccessful products of imperial examination education.

"Surin, don't be discouraged. These Confucian scholars who came today were just the first to get the news from the surrounding areas of Jian'an Mansion. The Qian family has spread the news of your establishment of a mansion to recruit disciples to the Nine Kingdoms, and I believe that more Confucian scholars who have read your Zhenguo poems will come one after another......"

Seeing that no one was admitted, Ye Hongye comforted Su Lin and said, "These Confucian scholars are rotten Confucians who can only take the imperial examination, don't do it!"

"Today, it is already an unexpected joy that Ye Jinshi has become the second guest of my Su Mansion. ”

Su Lin waved his hand and said with a smile, "In the future, Ye Jinshi can help me select guests in my mansion according to today's methods." However, in my opinion, these Confucian scholars who took the initiative to come to the door were far from what I imagined. It seems that I still need to take the initiative to discover the real talents!"

After speaking, Su Lin took Ye Hongye to choose a place to live in the mansion, and Ye Hongye hurriedly took the meteorite to retreat, and asked responsibly to break through the literary position.

"Brother Su, your vision is too high. There are so many jinshi, you don't even fancy any of them. I still know several of them, and they all have a good reputation in Jian'an Mansion. Yuan Du felt sorry for Su Lin.

"Brother Yuan, you don't understand. If you look at Su Lin's mansion, you will know that he is not an ordinary showman. Ordinary Jinshi naturally can't get into Su Lin's eyes. Moreover, I don't think the Jinshi who came to take refuge with these money are not very good. Surin didn't want them, and he was right. Hong Liyu agreed with Su Lin's approach and said with a smile.

"It seems that I think I think too much of my reputation, and I think it's right, I use meteorite as a means to attract customers. Although there are many Jinshi who come, they are all rushing for the meteorite, and there are some people with ulterior motives. ”

In fact, in today's interview, Su Lin has been keenly aware that among these Confucian scholars, many of them have evasive eyes and floating thoughts, and it is very likely that someone deliberately sent them to lurk around Su Lin as a guest. This is also one of the important reasons why Su Lin doesn't want anything other than Ye Hongye today.