At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Xizhong reported a number that made Guo Peng quite satisfied.

Guo Peng nodded, patted Xi Zhong on the shoulder, and then Zhao Yun on the shoulder.

"Good job. It's not bad to have so many people pass the first assessment. After all, it's so difficult."

Guo Peng smiled, and then began to ask the No.1 candidate's name.

Zhao Yun handed over a piece of paper.

"Return to Your Majesty, this is the information of candidate No.1. This person's surname is Wang, his name is Ping, his style name is Zijun, he is [-] years old, his native place is Bajun, Yizhou, and now he lives in Guanzhong, Lantian County near Chang'an. He's a jerk."

"Wang Ping?"

Guo Peng finally looked at the information sheet that Zhao Yun handed over, hey, let alone, it is another familiar name.

Should it be fate?

If you see Ma Di over there, you will see Wang Ping here.

This military genius who doesn't know a lot of characters but has a strong military talent.

During Zhuge Liang's period, he was Zhuge Liang's most important person. He fought against Cao Wei's famous general Zhang Yun many times. Zhang Yun never took advantage of him, and Zhuge Liang also trusted him.

After Zhuge Liang's death, Wang Ping shouldered the important mission of Hanzhong's defense in the middle and late Shu Han Dynasty. After Wu Yi's death, Wang Ping guarded Hanzhong alone for ten years until his death.

During this period, he repelled the attack of Cao Shuang's [-] troops with [-] troops, shattered Cao Shuang's southward invasion plan, and made great contributions to the stability of the northern defense line of the Shu Han.

He has never received formal military education, and he has not even received much cultural education. The only little cultural education he learned was after he took a position in the army.

But he can rely on others to read to him to learn, and he will not lose the central idea when talking with others, and will not make people biased. He belongs to the category of people with strong learning ability.

but……

Martial arts exams also depend on cultural level. Even if Wang Ping passed the test in physical fitness and personal military skills, but in terms of cultural level...

How many words has he learned?

Guo Peng remembered Wang Ping's identity, and realized that Wang Ping was probably moved from his hometown to live in Guanzhong as a prisoner of war during his war against Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang once used a group of Jianren to help resist the Wei army, so after the war, Guo Peng asked Le Jin to clean up the Jianren and defeat them. The surviving Jianren were moved to Guanzhong as a whole to fill the population of Guanzhong.

Perhaps it was during this process that Wang Ping went from Sichuan and Shu to settle in Guanzhong.

If this is the case, maybe Wang Ping can really recognize a few more words.

Because in order to assimilate the rebellious and warlike Zi people as soon as possible, Guo Peng not only broke up the Zi people to live with the Han people, engaged in agricultural production, and broke away from the half-cultivation and half-war living habits, but also let the Zi people and the Han farmers receive literacy and literacy together. educate.

This will help to assimilate the Jin people into real Han people as soon as possible.

With Wang Ping's genius, it shouldn't be difficult for him to know a few hundred more characters. With a little effort, reading shouldn't be difficult for him either.

However, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass the third test just for reading.

The third exam is to test military theory, to test the understanding and thinking of the art of war, to write articles, and to be scrutinized by professional staff. It is really difficult.

Unless you graduated from the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, or have a family background.

And these two points, Wang Ping and the vast majority of martial arts candidates do not have.

With a full score of [-], even if you get high scores in the other two exams, it will be difficult to get the third exam. In this case, the total score can only hover around [-], and you will definitely not be able to pass the martial arts.

After all, the imperial examinations were supposed to be for students, not ordinary people.

Even so, it cannot stop Guo Peng from admiring Wang Ping.

For such a military genius who is good at defense, Guo is still quite concerned. In the future, the empire's territory will almost expand, and military talents who are good at defense will naturally enter the mainstream stage.

Smiling, Guo Peng handed the paper to Zhao Yun.

"Zilong, after the assessment is over, give me this person's score and the test paper for the third day."

Zhao Yun took the order.

"According to the order."

On the way back to the palace from the Martial Arts Lecture Hall in Shouyang Mountain, Guo Peng was very happy and told Cao Cao and Guo Jia a lot about his vision and thoughts for the future.

He feels that in the future, Taixue and Shouyangshan Lecture Hall will become very important output bases for officials and military generals. Taixue and Lecture Hall will train countless famous ministers and generals, and continuously input fresh blood into the Wei Empire. .

Then he suggested that Cao Cao and Guo Jia also try their best to let their children of the right age take the imperial examination.

"Just like this time I asked Ah Jun to take part in the Wenju exam, next year I will let him take part in the martial arts exam. I want him to compete face-to-face with the best and most enterprising talents in the whole of China. Let's see Whether he is stronger or someone else is stronger.

This will help him recognize himself, recognize his shortcomings and advantages, help him improve his shortcomings, and help him develop his strengths and avoid weaknesses. I don't need him to be an official, but I want him to recognize himself, you guys Better to do the same. "

Guo Peng seriously advised Guo Jia and Cao Cao, and Guo Jia and Cao Cao naturally listened carefully.

According to the rules of the Wei Empire, no matter how great a contribution one person makes, at most he will have two sons.

It is not bad that the father's credit can let the two sons rest on the credit book.

The remaining children will have to find another way out.

Of course, with the status and status of Cao Cao and Guo Jia, they still have power and credit. If they want to find a job for their children, Guo Peng will naturally not let them be restricted by the imperial examination.

However, they also realized that more than 1 people participated in the first imperial examination, and the number of participants in the future may be even more.

In the future, all officials and generals will rely on the imperial examination to get their positions, but the sons of noble families will rely on their family members to get their positions, relying on the merits of their ancestors to get their money, not to mention that the titles will decrease every generation, I am afraid that people will be severely despised.

Isn't that the case?

Everyone relies on inspections to get to the top and relies on inspections to become a high-ranking official. Once you don't rely on inspections to get to the top, you will naturally be looked down upon and despised by most people who rely on inspections to get to the top.

Wasn't that how scholars and bureaucrats looked down on those who did not rely on inspections to become officials?

In the 30 years of Hexi and the 30 years of Hedong, Feng Shui has taken turns. If officials do not rely on imperial examinations to become officials in the future, they will be looked down upon, which is very embarrassing.

To become an official through the imperial examination, you have to study hard and practice hard. Whether it is civil or martial arts, it is very difficult, and it cannot be done easily. Both require years of hard study to obtain results.

Therefore, in this way, if one's own children do not live up to expectations and can't compete with others in the imperial examination room, then it will really be very embarrassing.

Thinking of this, Guo Jia and Cao Cao also felt rather uncomfortable.

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In fact, after the imperial examination system was fully established, many officials felt that Guo's move was not authentic.

This is forcing their children to study, study and practice martial arts and cannot let them go.

And it doesn't necessarily lead to good results——

If a puddle of mud doesn't stick to the wall, wouldn't it be over?

In the future, I can only be a useless person, and it will be difficult to enjoy glory and wealth.

But no matter how upset they are, Guo Peng will not change his goals and views, and his decision will not change in any way.

He just wants to force the bureaucratic group to let their children study hard through a more complete martial arts and literary examination model, as well as restricting the positions and fields that bureaucrats who are not born in the imperial examination can hold.

Let them practice martial arts hard, actively join the army, improve their abilities, and work against entropy, so as to increase the vitality of the entire Guowei Empire.

Then he further thought that just selecting civil and military officials could not promote the progress of science and technology. Science and technology can be applied in various fields such as military economy, which is of great significance.

If it is impossible to cultivate talents who are good at scientific and technological inventions, ancient Chinese science will still not be able to achieve an independent system.

In this case, even if he included mathematics, agronomy, and astronomy and geography into the entire imperial examination system, nothing would change.

Only a set of systematic theories can guide technological development.

No, the imperial examination needs to be changed, and scientific and technological talents should also be included in the scope of the imperial examination, and the Ministry of Industry should be defined as a gathering place for scientific and technological talents.

Anyone who is specialized in agricultural production, water conservancy construction, iron and steel smelting, astronomical observation, etc. is conducive to social progress can participate in the imperial examination and be included in the national system. They can receive salaries, eat imperial food, and receive preferential treatment.

Medical treatment can also be operated, and medical treatment can also be included in the scope of scientific research, so as to cultivate more medical talents and work hard to increase the average life expectancy of the population of the Wei Empire.

This is all doable.

Creating the third and fourth entry steps in this way will further open up the upper and lower flows, and it will also facilitate the Wei government to further control the elite power of the entire society.

So Guo Peng sent someone to release the news. He wanted to let people know that the emperor intended to include technology and medicine in the scope of the imperial examination.

In the not-too-distant future, maybe in three years or five years, in addition to liberal arts and martial arts, medicine and engineering will also appear in the imperial examinations.

He wants to allow special talents with these special abilities from the people to join the government and become officials.

Begin to shape the public opinion base.

At the same time, in order to further stimulate the social atmosphere brought about by the imperial examination, to further confirm the significance of the imperial examination, and to increase the inclusiveness of the imperial examination, after returning to the palace, Guo "wrote" another poem to express his love for any All aspects of talent are very eager attitude.

[Kyushu is angry and relies on wind and thunder, and it is sad to see thousands of horses in silence; I urge the Lord of Heaven to cheer up and send down talents of all kinds]

After the poem was written, Guo Peng ordered the palace servants and cabinet officials to go into battle together and post the poem in the streets and alleys of Luoyang in a short time to let everyone know that His Majesty the Emperor has a new work up.

Those who can take the imperial examination can naturally understand what is written here.

Those who don't understand are passed on by good people, and they can understand.

In addition to the administrative and military examinations, the news that other subjects will be added to the imperial examinations is also released, constantly shocking people's senses.

On the first day of the first imperial examination, the emperor announced to the outside world that he would reform the imperial examination in the future and allow medical and technological professionals to participate in the imperial examination to obtain official status and national recognition.

It is indeed shocking.

However, His Majesty the Emperor has always been able to shock the world, and no one will object to this.

The abolition of the imperial examinations and the establishment of the imperial examinations was originally a major change unseen in a century.

Now I just wrote a poem, and then added some content to the imperial examination, it is not worth being surprised at all... what a ghost!

Medical treatment and science and technology belong to square skills and miraculous skills, which have never been taken seriously.

In the hearts of people who pay attention to self-cultivation, morality and literature, medical treatment can be regarded as somewhat useful, after all, it can cure diseases and save lives.

But technology is a thing for entertainment when you have nothing to do.

In this way, some people say that they are playing with things and losing their ambitions, and they should be completely dismissed, and one of the reasons for the rise and fall of the past dynasties is also attributed to whether the emperor himself is "playing with things and losing his ambitions".

In their view, those who are not helpful to agriculture, medicine, and astronomy should all be dismissed.

In particular, there should be no technological innovations, such as more labor-saving and more convenient, so as not to let the tool people have more time for leisure and entertainment, and they will not seriously cultivate the land, but they will have some thoughts that they shouldn't have.

It's a ruler's mentality.

As long as the social classes other than the ruling class are busy with their own business, and have to spend all their time on labor in order to eat, that would be the best.

Let them have enough to eat, but not enough to eat. This is the most perfect social state in the eyes of the ruler.

Taoism has a kind of "jixin" thinking, believing that the progress of science and technology may not be a good thing for people's life, and rejecting the progress of science and technology, the negative attitude of small countries with few people who do not communicate with each other can be seen at a glance.

During the period from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the lack of attention and suppression of science and technology showed an upward trend, which was specifically reflected in the fact that scientific and technological talents were not valued by the government, and scientific and technological ideas were not officially recognized and valued by the government.

In the Song Dynasty, the situation changed.

The military disadvantage caused by the loss of traditional horse breeding land was so huge that the Song army suffered losses repeatedly, and the northern cavalry threatened the rule of the Song Dynasty.

As a result, this situation prompted the Song people to develop a variety of powerful infantry weapons to counter the advantages of the cavalry, which to a considerable extent promoted the Song people's tolerance for technological progress.

The Song Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats did not lack groups who had a deep understanding of weapons and other scientific and technological products. The official policy of the Song Dynasty was also tolerant of scientific and technological talents, rewarding them, and allowing them to be included in the official scope and support them.

Therefore, the economic and technological achievements of the Song Dynasty were far ahead of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Many powerful infantry weapons were carried forward in the Song Dynasty. The ancient heavy infantry also reached its peak in the Song Dynasty.

What Guo Peng decided to adopt was the official attitude of the Song Dynasty towards scientific and technological progress, and further incorporated it into the imperial examination system to promote their development.

There are not so many people with high morals in the world. It is normal to work hard for one's own fame and fortune. This is not shameful, but should be encouraged.

Isn't it perfectly normal to gain fame and fortune after putting in enough effort?

If someone Guo is willing to provide them with fame and fortune, he wants them to exchange their efforts and achievements. As long as they can make achievements and be recognized, Guo Peng will never mind giving them fame and fortune, so that they can get what they deserve .

Only in this way can people make great strides towards the fields of science and technology and medical care.

Both the country and the people are good deeds, such a good deed, Guo will definitely not stop doing it.

Even if some people object, some people raise objections, some people think this is completely incredible, it is useless.

If you can’t do it in a short period of time, then take some time to operate it, and spend a few years to implement this matter, so that people know that studying medicine and doing scientific and technological research can also be valued and rewarded, and they can also get official status.

The birth of the imperial examination was to subvert the old system. Now that the old system has been subverted, the old ideas must also be overturned. These outdated ideas cannot continue to occupy the mainstream.