One kick to the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 225 The Mysterious Applicant

The cook Li Ergou was the first person to eat crabs.With the first, there will be a second, a third, and more.

For three consecutive days, people went to the county government to apply for recruitment every day.Those who came to apply for the recruitment all thought they had special skills, including blacksmiths, carpenters, old farmers, and even a person who specially arranged funerals for people, and there were also a few rangers who believed in martial arts.

Except for the one who arranged the funeral, Qin Yi politely refused, and Qin Yi basically stayed behind for the rest.Blacksmiths and carpenters are craftsmen, and they are not used in the county government for the time being, but they can be sent to the barracks as craftsmen.In the future, Qin Yi will need blacksmiths and carpenters if he wants to run iron mines and farm tools.

Those old farmers didn't have jobs for them for the time being, but Qin Yi had an idea. After the beginning of spring, he wanted to build a test field to try out new planting techniques. These old farmers would be of great use in the future.Therefore, Qin Yi also left them in the county office to do some chores temporarily.These people are very happy to stay in the county government office to manage food and drink when there is no farm work to do in winter.

As for those rangers, Qin Yi let Pei Ji try their martial arts. Although they were not high-level, they were better than ordinary soldiers.Qin Yi directly stuffed them into the Qin Wei Song.

The so-called rangers are actually those who are aggressive, brave, and troublemakers. This kind of people cannot be left outside. Since they are here, don't leave. Let's go to the barracks to grind their temper.

To Qin Yi's disappointment, although there were more than a dozen people who applied, there was not a single one who was truly talented.

As for the situation in Lu County and Huguan County, Qin Yi didn't know for the time being. Probably, maybe, it was almost the same, and it was no different from Changzi County.

Is there really a lack of talent in this ghostly place of Bingzhou?Qin Yi really couldn't figure it out.

In fact, this is also very normal. It's not that there are no talents in Bingzhou, but that talents have already entered other people's hubs.In this era, the gentry is the backbone of the society.Every famous family has countless diners, and most of the local talents are recruited by these famous families.

For example, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu relied on family power to raise troops and become princes of one side.

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On the fourth day of the promulgation of the Recruitment Order, early in the morning, a yamen servant suddenly reported to Qin Yi that a person had come to apply for the recruitment. The person handed over a note and left.

When Qin Yi heard it, there was such a strange person.He asked for the note immediately.

When I saw it, there was a line written on the note: talent, virtue, which one is more important?
Hey, this is a test for me!

Looking at its fonts, golden hooks and iron strokes, silkworm heads and swallow tails, it is very skillful.In this era, regular script was not yet popular, and scholars generally used official script.

Official script is a milestone in the history of the development of Chinese characters. It took shape during the Warring States Period and became popular in the Qin Dynasty. By the Han Dynasty, official script was further simplified and formed the "Han Li".Before the emergence of official script, the most commonly used script was seal script.It is mainly used to engrave on metal vessels and bamboo slips. The strokes are complicated and the characteristics of hieroglyphics are retained.Official script, on the other hand, simplified and beautified the strokes and determined the basic shape of Chinese characters for later generations. This was a product after the invention of the brush.

Qin Yi didn't know seal script, but official script was very close to regular script, so Qin Yi naturally knew it.

Looking at the words on the paper, Qin Yi suddenly became interested in this mysterious man.People who can ask such profound questions are by no means ordinary people.Besides, when he came to apply, he actually tested me first. This is to see if I am qualified to recruit him!

"What else did that man say besides handing you this note?" Qin Yi asked the yamen servant.

The yamen servant thought for a while and said: "He said, please ask the county lord to give the answer, and give the answer to the brother at the door. At noon, he will come to get the answer."

"What does that person look like and how old is he?" Qin Yi asked again.

The yamen servant said: "The man is probably in his early 20s, tall and thin, with a yellow face."

"Oh, you go!"

After dismissing the yamen servant, Qin Yi stared at the note and thought.

After thinking for a while, he picked up a brush and wrote on a note: "Ordinary talents can be divided into four categories, namely those with virtue and talent, those with virtue without talent, those with talent without virtue, and those without virtue without talent. Dao, those with virtue and talent should be reused in an exceptional way; those with virtue but no talent should be cultivated and used; those with talent but no virtue should be restricted in use; those without virtue and talent should be resolutely not used.”

After writing, Qin Yi took the note in his hand and went to the concierge.He decided to spend his time in the concierge and meet this mysterious man in person.

However, until noon, Pei Ji came to remind Qin Yi several times to eat, but the mysterious person still did not appear.

Qin Yi had no choice but to hand over the note he had written to the janitor at the gate, and told them that if that person came to pick up the note, he must keep him, but he cannot be forced.

When Qin Yi returned to the gatehouse after dinner, the gatekeeper told Qin Yi that the man had just come, took away the note written by Qin Yi, and left another note.The man insisted on leaving, and they couldn't keep him.

Qin Yi immediately asked for a new note, and after looking at it, there was another question:
A beggar and a rich man lived together in a wild temple. The next day, the rich man said that three boiled eggs were missing from the food he brought. If Lingxian is the presiding judge, how should he be judged?

After reading the question, Qin Yi felt dizzy.This person is really good enough, and the questions he asks are so tricky.

"Can that person tell me when he will come to get the answer?" Qin Yi asked.

The yamen servant replied, "Before dark."

Taking the note back to the second hall, after thinking for a long time, Qin Yi finally came up with an answer, so he took up a pen and wrote: If you want to find out whether a beggar has stolen food, the method is extremely simple, you can order the beggar to rinse his mouth with clean water, and the inside of his mouth There must be egg residue.However, beggars are pitiful, even if they steal food, it is because of unbearable hunger, and their feelings are pitiful.The rich man was rich and heartless, and he dragged the beggar to the court just because of three eggs.Therefore, if Qin is the presiding judge, he will not investigate the case in detail, but only judge the rich man for false accusation and order him to compensate the beggar for a meal.

Taking the note, Qin Yi went to the concierge again.This time, he vowed to meet the mysterious man.

After waiting for a whole afternoon, Qin Yi handled several official duties in the gatehouse. Finally, in the evening, the gatekeeper excitedly rushed into the gatehouse and said to Qin Yi, "Master, the man is here."

Upon hearing this, Qin Yi immediately left the porter's room and walked out of the gate of the county government office.

I saw, to the east of the gate, a tall and thin young man was walking towards the gate of the county government without any haste.

"Is it him?" Qin Yi asked the yamen servant in a low voice.

"That's right, it's him!"

When Qin Yi heard this, he immediately went up to meet him.

"Brother, Qin Yi has been waiting for you for a long time." Qin Yi stopped three or four meters away from the man, cupped his hands at the man, and said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)