after being kidnapped by the general

The Zhou Mansion was very large, and after hearing that these Jingzhou students had no place to live in Ye County, Zhou Gongdan invited them to live in the Zhou Mansion.

Wang Qianzhi and others were overjoyed, so naturally they would not refuse.In the next few days, they often came to see Zhou Gongdan, and would ask Zhou Gongdan to teach them some questions with books.

After they got acquainted with Zhou Gongdan, Wang Qianzhi asked some doubts about the imperial examination, "My lord, I don't know what this 'physical test' is?"

Although the imperial examination promulgated by Yuanli allows candidates to apply for the exam freely, it is not without requirements. Candidates must accept the "physical examination" arranged by the Wen Guo government after the exam.

The "physical examination" includes a physical examination. Yuanli will first send a medical doctor to examine the examinee's body. Students with heart disease, asthma, infectious diseases and other diseases cannot participate in the imperial examination.

After the physical examination, there is a physical examination. The physical examination arranged by Yuanli is very simple, that is, running.The standard of the physical test is also very low, as long as it is an ordinary person can complete it.

If it is not completed, it will not be able to participate in the imperial examination.

Yuanli took over the methods of later generations, and the reason for doing so is very simple. What Yuanli needs is good health, the ability to work at the grassroots level, and the ability to be an official for a long time, not just one or two years before the body is broken. practical officer.

Yuanli will recruit at least [-] officials this time, and most of these [-] officials will go deep into various counties and counties to become grassroots officials.This is a physically and mentally exhausting task. If they can't even pass the physical test, they can't bear such hard work.I took up a place in the imperial examination for nothing, but in the end I couldn't do anything. Either I couldn't last for a few years, or I was exhausted to death in the official position. What is this picture?

When Yuan Li proposed the physical test, some people were worried that among the students who could not pass the physical test and were eliminated, there would be great talents.

But Yuanli was unmoved.

He doesn't care if there are great talents among those who are eliminated, because officials who go deep into the grassroots don't need great talents, they only need a good body, ordinary IQ, and management skills.

Where in the world are there so many talents?The operation of a government is mostly unknown officials.Even if there are great talents eliminated, Yuan Li doesn't feel it a pity to miss them, because there are already many great talents by his side.

One more is not much, one less is not much, no matter who is missed, it has no effect on Yuanli or Wen Guo.

If there is really a great talent who is too weak to pass the physical test that ordinary people can pass, the physical condition of this great talent can be imagined.

No one can guarantee that he can live for a few years. What can he do with such a poor health?In his limited life, could it be that Yuanli really kept him busy in his official position, made him exhaust his energy, and forced his weak body to handle official documents and do things for himself?

It may be cruel, or it may make students with poor health feel unfair, but Yuanli insists on being responsible to his subordinates and others, and he insists on doing so.

This time the imperial examination is the first time in the world, and Yuanli must lay a good foundation.He wants the students to start paying attention to their physical fitness. Only when they are in good health can they do more things and realize more ambitions.

We must not slowly become like the later generations who are inferior in everything, only have a tendency to study high.In order to study, the students ignored their physical health one by one.

His men understood him.

It seems ruthless, but it is actually a good way to deal with the common people and the weak students. The officials in Yuanli are really too busy and have too many things to do.The lord is walking too fast now, and their courtiers have to chase after every step. If they don't have a healthy body, they will die within two or three years. The lord is the same as them and even the people under this official. Bad news.

Zhou Gongdan explained it to Wang Qianzhi and others, and the students breathed a sigh of relief.

Students these days are not as weak as the students who only knew how to read when the imperial examinations were popular in later generations. The children of scholars need to learn many things. Horseback riding and archery are the basics.Even children from poor families have never been the type to bury their heads in reading, because they don’t have so many books to read. If they want to learn, they need to walk to many places with their feet and suffer a lot, just like Guo Mao. Today's knowledge can only be obtained after traveling all over the world.

The only ones who can be eliminated by this physical test are those who are weak in nature and don't care much about their health on weekdays, or those who take too much Wushisan.

Ten days later, these students took a "physical test".

During their physical examination, Yuanli also went over to watch them.

Seeing some students whose faces were pale and panting after running, and some students who fell to the ground with limp legs after running, Yuan Li shook his head and sighed, bringing out the matter of organizing the annual medical examination for officials in his heart .

The body is the capital of the revolution, and Yuanli will not be able to force officials to exercise in the future, but the annual physical examination is indispensable.

After the physical test, not many students were eliminated.Even the frail students tried their best and passed the physical test with gritted teeth.

Ten days later, it will be the day of the imperial examination.

These Jingzhou students who temporarily lived in Zhou Gongdan's house passed the physical examination, and because of this physical examination, they finally knew how many people were going to participate in this imperial examination.Because there were too many people, they became very nervous, holding books and forgetting to eat and sleep every day.

The crowd also had the courage to ask Zhou Gongdan, wanting Zhou Gongdan to tell them what should be paid attention to in the imperial examination, and roughly what will be tested.

Zhou Gongdan frowned, "Do you want me to bend the law for personal gain and give you the title first?"

Several other people showed hesitation, and Wang Qianzhi immediately refused: "No, my lord, we don't mean that. The students just want to know, will the imperial examinations test scriptures, Confucian classics, poetry and prose?"

Wang Qianzhi knew that leaking the title privately was a major matter, no matter whether Zhou Gongdan would tell them or not, they should not have such thoughts.Wang Qianzhi also didn't bother to use this method to get a good ranking. Wen Gong chose to rank high and low according to his knowledge. He was obviously a person who valued fairness, so Wang Qianzhi had to show his abilities fairly.

Zhou Gongdan showed admiration, "Even if you ask me, I don't have any questions for you, because the lord didn't tell me what will be tested. The only thing I can tell you is that these questions are all given by the lord himself. of."

But the incident is apparently well known.

Everyone sighed in disappointment, saluted Zhou Gongdan honestly, and went back to their room to read.Only Wang Qianzhi showed a look of comprehension on his face.

Zhou Gongdan looked at their backs, shook his head with a funny smile, and sighed authentically: "Young man."

In the next few days, Xu Kang and others found that Wang Qianzhi became a little strange.He no longer read Confucian classics, nor did he read various commentaries on the scriptures, but worked hard on water conservancy, farming and even arithmetic.

They were really curious, so they asked Wang Qianzhi: "The scientific examination is coming soon, Brother Wang, why do you think about these things instead?"

Wang Qianzhi put down the book in his hand, looked at them, and said implicitly: "The content of this scientific examination is all tested by Wen Gong himself."

Everyone was puzzled, "That's right, what's wrong?"

Wang Qianzhi sighed, "Have you heard about Wen Gong's deeds?"

"Of course I know," Xu Kang said. "He is a student of Ouyang Ting, a well-known scholar all over the world, and he is familiar with scriptures and Confucian classics. If he proposes questions, they should naturally be all these questions."

Wang Qianzhi shook his head, "Although Wen Gong is a disciple of Ouyang Daru, both he and Ouyang are very pragmatic people. Wen Gong used a few arithmetic problems to subdue Cui Xuan's son Cui Yan, and they became married. It can be seen that Wengong is also a person who is proficient in mathematics and even loves mathematics. Since Wengong came to Youzhou, he has been building water conservancy projects and using the strategy of farming, and it can be seen that Wengong is also a person who attaches great importance to water conservancy and farming. This time Among the people who came to take the imperial examination, there were many children from poor families. If Wen Gong only took the Confucian classics or scriptures, wouldn’t the entire army of these children from poor families be wiped out? I don’t think this is what Wen Gong would like to see. If Wen Gong There will not be many topics related to scriptures, but there should be many theories about national policies, water conservancy and agriculture, and even economics for the people—after all, Wen Gong has done business with many merchants. .”

After he finished speaking, everyone suddenly realized, quickly put down the book in their hands, and anxiously read other miscellaneous books.

Just as Wang Qianzhi thought, Yuanli did not prepare many Confucianism questions for the scriptures, and most of them were practical policy questions and arithmetic questions.

He doesn't need a nerd who is full of Confucian principles but doesn't know the five grains, but a down-to-earth talent who can actually have the ability and strength to govern the world for him.

Policy topics cover various aspects, including politics, agriculture, water conservancy, commerce, law, etc. The topics go deep into the grassroots, and it is easy to check whether the students have real materials.

On September [-], Wen Gongguo's first imperial examination officially began.

A total of 400 students signed up for reference, including people from 600 states in the world, most of whom are from the north.This is already a jaw-dropping number. Because of the large number of people, Yuanli is also planning to change the number of admitted applicants from the original 1000 to [-].

The day of the exam was a beautiful autumn weather.

The autumn wind is blowing, neither hot nor cold.The students sat in the square, and a table was placed in front of everyone, with pens, ink, paper and inkstones placed on it.

These pens, inks, papers and inkstones were all provided by the Wengong Mansion, and the students had to go through a simple body search when they entered the square to prevent them from bringing cheat sheets.

The four sides of the square were garrisoned by soldiers led by Wang Er. A soldier in armor and with a sword at his waist surrounded the students firmly in the middle of ten steps.And in the center of the square, there is also a patrol team composed of Youzhou soldiers, who walk past the students' desks from time to time, sweeping each student's eyes like torches, monitoring whether anyone has violated the prohibition.

Such an arrangement enveloped the entire square in a dignified and solemn atmosphere. The students sat upright without looking sideways, only daring to look at the table in front of them, their palms sweating from nervousness.

When the big drum was sounded, the attendants who had already prepared immediately distributed the imperial examination questions to everyone.

The answering time lasts until the evening, and the students can leave after the answering is over, and the students who have finished writing the questions in advance can also leave early.

After reading the questions, the students either frowned or pondered, or showed anxious expressions. All kinds of behaviors made Liu Jixin, Zhou Gongdan, Xiang Hongyun and Guo Mao, who were sitting in front of the invigilator, find it very interesting.

It was the first time for them to see so many students holding their pens straight in front of them. Such a spectacular and novel scene, they felt that they would not feel bored even if they watched it for a whole day.

Wang Qianzhi also got his own topic.

After reading the title, he put his heart back in his stomach, and couldn't help showing a slight smile.

Just as he thought, there was only one scripture question among all the questions, and the rest were arithmetic questions and policy theories.

The scripture questions are not difficult, and the first few arithmetic questions can be regarded as the basics. It seems that Wen Gong has considered most of the children from poor families and lowered the difficulty appropriately.

Wang Qianzhi quickly completed these topics, and turned his attention to the topic of policy discussion.

He has three policy questions to answer.They are a law question, a civil affairs question, and a military question.

The legal question is a civil case, and Wang Qianzhi is asked to write how to judge the case and sentence it.This is not difficult for Wang Qianzhi. He is a admirer of law. Compared with Confucianism like Confucius, he actually prefers the rule of law as the core, and he has already kept the laws of the Northern Zhou Dynasty firmly in his heart.

The civil affairs questions are also not difficult, and the questions are related to taxes.If it is not someone who has a deep understanding of the bottom layer, he must be at a loss for this question, but fortunately, Wang Qian has made up for it a few days ago, so he knows how to answer it.

These two questions didn't take up much of his time. Soon, Wang Qianzhi turned to the last question: how to treat the Karasuma people in Youzhou and the Huns outside the Great Wall.

This is a very "big" topic.

It is easy to write big and vague, and it seems that there is a lot to write, but in fact it is full of nonsense.How to treat Karasuma and Huns?Does anyone know how to treat them better than Duke Wen and the General?

No.

Even if there were, it shouldn't be students like them who haven't even been on the battlefield.

Wang Qianzhi paused with his brush for a long time, contemplating how to write this policy theory.

Faced with this question, these brats, no matter how they write it, it is false.Obviously, Wen Gong asked this question not to get useful advice from them.

Since the purpose of testing them is not to get advice, it is to test their attitudes, to test their attitudes towards the Karasuma people and the Huns.

What kind of attitude should that be?

Wang Qianzhi faintly felt that he had grasped some clues.

Suddenly, he heard a movement in front of him, but he quickly regained his composure.

Wang Qianzhi raised his eyes and looked forward, and saw the two colleagues who left Zhou Gongdan's mansion a few days ago coming from the other side.Seeing them, Liu Jixin, Zhou Gongdan and others got up and saluted with a respectful attitude.

Wang Qianzhi's pupils dilated.

In an instant, he understood the identities of these two people, they were not ordinary colleagues of Master Zhou, they were clearly Wen Yuanli and General Chu Hechao!

His heart was beating fast, and Wang Qianzhi's mood was fluctuating. Before Yuan Li looked over, he quickly lowered his head and tried to calm down.

After such an interruption, Wang Qianzhi suddenly understood how to answer when he looked at the last strategy topic again.

Just like what he thought, this question is not about what useful suggestions they can give Wen Gong, but about their attitude towards the Karasuma people and the Huns... No, it is more accurate to say that they are treating the Wusuma people. What kind of attitude should Maru people be.

It stands to reason that the Karasuma people surrendered to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so they should be appeased and domesticated so that they can become the subjects of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.However, in this question, the Karasuma people are compared with the Huns. This shows that in Wen Gong's mind, does the Karasuma people regard the Karasuma people as the Huns?

As for how to treat the Xiongnu, everyone knows that "those who are not from our tribe will have a different heart."

If he was a courtier or a student of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, then Wang Qianzhi would obviously answer this question in the same way that the Northern Zhou court would.But now he is taking the test of Wen Guan... an official of Duke Wen, and Duke Wen doesn't seem to want to see such an answer as to subdue Karasuma.

Wang Qianzhi closed his eyes and made up his mind.

He dipped the brush in the ink and raised the pen to write the first line.

"Karasuma is a minister of the Zhou Dynasty, and should be preserved and used by the Zhou Dynasty. The students are dull, and they privately call Karasuma a foreigner, and they still have wolfish ambitions..."

In the evening at the beginning of the unitary hour, the rays of the sun dyed half the sky red, and the leather drum beat three times, and the time for answering papers was over.

The last group of students finally put down their pens and watched as the attendants pasted their names on the scrolls, then gathered the scrolls and left.At this time, the imperial examination will be completely over, and the students can go back.

The students were either calm or lost, and left the square in twos and threes with great reluctance, and returned to their temporary residence.Even after the exam, they didn't intend to leave Ye County just yet.

Because in just one month, their grades will be posted in front of the official gate by the people of Wen Gong's mansion.