At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

It seems that the stability of Jingzhou and the existence of Xuexuetang during Liu Biao's period still laid a solid foundation for Jingzhou scholars.

Even if Guo Peng used the Ceremony on Talents to bring back all the northern scholars living in Jingzhou, there are still many excellent scholars in Jingzhou.

Relative peace and stability can develop relatively good education, and good education can cultivate good talents.

From this point of view, Liu Bei was able to successfully pull up the Jingzhou administrative team of the Shuhan regime, thanks to Liu Biao's training.

Without Liu Biao's emphasis on education for more than ten years, after Liu Bei occupied Jingzhou, he would not be able to take away such a large number of Jingzhou talents, such as Zhuge, Ma, Xiang, Pon and so on.

One of these outstanding talents counts as one, and they all grew up and received education during Liu Biao's period. The existence of the school is also an indispensable part of their teaching career.

Unexpectedly, Liu Biao has been dead for so many years, and his legacy will shine at this time.

Chapter 1227 One thousand and one hundred and thirty-seven selection of talents is an eternal problem

On the whole, the level of elite scholars is indeed not comparable to that of the children of poor families and the children of Li Shu.

Even if he took more care and emphasis on the assessment, and clearly set up obstacles for the scholars, it still couldn't stop the scholars from obtaining such high scores, which were better than his son.

It can be seen that even after his brutal blows, the scholars can still gain status in accordance with his rules under the system he dominates, while the children of poor families and Li Shu's children are mostly unable to compete with him.

This is the meaning of the bottom line.

However, it is temporary.

In the future, the children of poor families and Li Shu who have an absolute advantage in numbers will keep up with the pace of progress, and scholars will still be buried in the dust of history.

Lost privileges, lost inheritance, lost everything, scholars are nothing more than smarter scholars.

It's not worth caring about.

On the contrary, the merits and demerits of these talents emerging from this exam caused Guo Peng to pay a little attention.

The imperial examination can test a person's knowledge reserve and political vision, but in terms of actual operation, it has no such function.

On the personality and psychological level, it is even more difficult to touch.

This is the short board of the test.

Only truly excellent and experienced bureaucrats can tell from thousands of words what a person's nature is like and whether he can undertake big things, but most people can't do this.

But Mr. Guo didn't have any good solutions, and he didn't plan to make any changes to the imperial examination.

In fact, selecting talents and appointing talents is itself an eternal problem.

Let's say Liu Bei is good at knowing people, let's not talk about those bad things in his early years, such as Zhang Fei defending Xuzhou and the like.

In the early years, he did not have much capital to employ people, but when he became rich later, he almost abandoned Pang Tong, almost killed Jiang Wan, and let Mi Fang guard Jiangling, and Fu Shiren guarded the police.

Zhuge Liang saved Pang Tong and Jiang Wan, but stumbled over the matter of Ma Di.

So the so-called knowing people and making good use of them may not be the whole picture.

Knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing hearts, people's hearts are separated by belly, so-called heart-to-heart communication is not a reliable communication mode. No matter how intimate the communication between people is, it is difficult to truly understand each other.

Not to mention meritocracy at the national level.

Exams can only be used as a filter to select those who are hardworking, hardworking, and talented, but they have no relevant functions in terms of personality and conduct.

After all, an exam is a paper, a test question, and a standard answer. It is impossible for a group of people to try to govern a county and then distinguish the good from the bad. The cost is too high.

Therefore, people like Ma Di and Cao Zhi who have obvious flaws but are brilliant can shine in the imperial examinations, get high scores, and reach the pinnacle of life.

However, people like Jiang Wan who have the ability to actually govern the country cannot beat them in the exam.

It seems a little unfair, irrational, and imperfect.

But if you think about it carefully, is there any way in the world to select talents that is more fair and just than such an open imperial examination, so that people have a choice?

If the selection criteria are to be enlarged to the scope of the entire country, the score that can be most intuitively reflected is the best choice, rather than the more abstract personality and behavior.

The country needs an intuitive, clear and difficult-to-operate standard to select talents, so as to reduce the cost of material selection, instead of using abstract and easier-to-operate standards to select talents.

This is like a dispute over establishing the virtuous and establishing the elders. Whether it is better to establish the virtuous or the elder, everyone will say that it is better to be the virtuous.

But the standard of virtuousness is too general, and everyone has a different opinion on what constitutes a virtuous person.

Liu Bei felt that Ma Su's big talk was exaggerated and unvirtuous.

Zhuge Liang felt that Ma Su was eloquent, eloquent and precise, and he was a great sage.

The maneuverability is too strong.

The standard of "length" is fixed, unchangeable, and independent of human will. It is an objective fact that once the standard of establishing length is determined, no one can operate it, from the emperor down to the officials.

As for the phenomenon of elders being unworthy, it can only be said to be a chronic disease of human society, and there is no solution for it for the time being.

After all, for a huge country, stability, fewer mistakes, and long-term continuity are the best policies.

Therefore, the examination, like the Lichang, can reflect the advantages that other systems cannot.

The selected talents may make mistakes, and they may have problems once they get started.

But I have to say that the ratio of real talents among this group of scholars who are willing to study hard and stand out must be higher than the ratio of talents among ordinary people in the vast ocean.

Exams are the best way to help the government and employers reduce the cost of talent selection.

As for those talents hidden among the people, geeks...

Compared with the entire country, it is nothing to regret to give up. It can only be said that luck is bad and life is bad.

So even though Ma Di could be the number one scholar, Cao Zhi could be the second, and Jiang Wan could only be the No. [-] scholar, that's okay. The rules and system of the imperial examination will only be further maintained by Guo, and will not be shaken.

The lesser of two evils is the true taste of the world.

Guo Peng asked Xu Jing to go back to preside over the work, and then showed him the papers they thought were top ten, and then called Guo Jun over.

Soon, Guo Jun came and learned the fact that she could score No.3 in this exam.

"Ma Di, and... Zijian."

Guo Jun sighed: "I can't match Zijian's talent. Zijian's eloquence is well-known. This kind of talent is recognized by the world. I admire him. Who is this Ma Di?"

Guo Peng showed Ma Di's paper to Guo Jun, mainly for the later part of the policy discussion.

After reading it, Guo Jun silently put down the paper, and had to admit that she was indeed not as good as Ma Di in terms of policy essays.

"Do you know where the problem is?"

"understood."

"Is Ma Su good?"

"sharp."

"Then why does the father think that he is exaggerating and should not be used?"

"what?"

Guo Jun blinked, but didn't understand what Guo Peng meant.

"Look carefully at his papers and his strategies. Each of the strategies he mentioned is a broader goal. What kind of goal is to be achieved? On this basis, another goal is achieved, and then Join together to achieve a big goal."

Guo Jun looked at it, and it was indeed the case.

"That……"

"Did he say how to do it specifically? How many people and how much money will it take to do it? Did he say it?"

Guo Jun was taken aback for a moment, then looked again, and sure enough, it was just like what Guo Peng said.

This paper does not say how to achieve his goal, but how to achieve the big goal by achieving the small goal.

Although this goal is indeed well stated, and it is indeed what the Wei Empire should do, the line is also correct, and a considerable part of the words are even consistent with the line planned by the Wei government.

Ma Su's vision is indeed good.

But vision alone is not enough.

"Look at your locust control strategy again. As a father, I know that you have been to the front line of locust control, and have personally experienced the hardships and practical problems of locust control. The feasible conclusions given by these actual problems, and Ma Su gave It's just a goal."

Guo Peng leaned on the chair: "You don't have to think that you are inferior to Ma Di, you are not inferior to Ma Di, but Ma Di is more eloquent than you, he sees a little farther, but doesn't notice his feet, such a person, always Walk with your head up, if you can't learn to look down at the road, sooner or later you will suffer."

Chapter 1228 One Thousand 130 Eight Imperial Examinations Changed Life in This Way

Guo Peng's words made Guo Jun somewhat relieved.

Guo Jun nodded, but was still very unhappy.

"However, my son's score is still not as good as him."

"Score is a standard, it is dead, but you are a living person, as long as your score is enough to make you stand out, it is enough. After you stand out, you have to speak with your real skills, not with scores. I understand. ?"

Guo Peng patted Guo Jun on the shoulder: "Your wife is also pregnant. After your wife gives birth to the child, you will go to Guanzhong to take a post. In Guanzhong, you will practice your own strategy and try to solve the locust plague. "

Guo Jun's eyes lit up.

"So, thank you father!"

This can be regarded as an explanation for Guo Jun's ranking.

He definitely can't really win the No.3 ranking. What he has to do is to be his prince honestly and step by step.

Guo Peng used a false identity to do these things for him.

After all, Guo Peng planned to entrust him to a place that the central government of Wei State could not directly control, and let him establish a state and build a country of his own in that place.

In addition to Huaxia, there is also Huaxia, and the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere may have to be formed in advance.

Some things need to seize the opportunity. If the opportunity cannot be seized, then every step will fall behind, and every step will suffer losses. After all, future generations will always complain.

Compared with this kind of complaint, Guo is more willing to let the scholars jump and scold him.

If it is said that scholars can still occupy some positions in the Wenju Examination, as beautiful as the afterglow of the setting sun, then there is no place for scholars in the Martial Arts Examination.

Li Shu's children accounted for the vast majority.

They are mainly the children of Li Shu who have stood out from the army and received education in the martial arts hall.

Relying on their military exploits and their own efforts, they changed their lives and passed the martial arts exam.

When I returned to the army, I basically started from the position of captain, which was completely different from the general soldiers who joined the army.

The top three champions such as Wu Zhuangyuan were directly awarded the position of school lieutenant.

Coupled with their excellent professional knowledge, which is equivalent to a professional background, it is hard to say that there will not be some rocket-like legendary figures after going through a few wars.

The children of scholars also participated in martial arts, and their own quality is indeed good, but at the level of professional martial arts exams, they couldn't stand the physique and strength of animals of the group of martial arts graduates, and they were defeated one after another. Come.

Mr. Guo is more concerned about martial arts than Wenju, so the content setting of martial arts exam is completely set for the teaching content of Biaoshou Yangshan Lecture Hall.

The champion of martial arts, Xu Miao, is a junior military officer from Li Shu.

His family was in Qingzhou, and later moved to Yuzhou. He was also an honest and responsible farmer's son.

This time, he was admitted to the champion of martial arts and directly became a mid-level officer in the army. The future is infinitely bright, and his family will inevitably be blessed by him, and there will be no more hard times to live through.

This is how imperial examinations change lives.

The imperial examination has such a powerful magic power that it can make a mud-legged person from the humblest background achieve great achievements, turn salty fish over, and embark on the right path of life.

Guo Peng is willing to believe——

Soon, it won't take long, the people of Wei State who feel the magic of the imperial examination will be so yearning for his Guo family's imperial examination, they will come to take it.

On the first day of April in the eighth year of Yande, Guo Peng held an imperial marking meeting for three consecutive days, personally marking the papers with the authority of the emperor, commenting on the pros and cons of the candidates' examination papers, and also commenting on the examiners' grading.

Good evaluations should be supported, and bad evaluations should be criticized and punished, so as to ensure the fairness of the evaluation papers.

On the fifth day of April in the eighth year of Yande, the final rankings of Wen Ju and Wu Ju were settled.

There was not much change, Guo Peng still relatively respected the marking results of the marking officers.

In terms of essays, the number one scholar Ma Su, the second place Cao Zhi, and the Tanhua Jiang Wan.

In terms of martial arts, Xu Miao was the champion, Zhang Xiong was the second, and Liu Shan was the best candidate.