The group of people who learned the fastest and the best writing in the ink were basically concentrated here to help with the transcription.

Suitable for the final inspection, Six Fingers muttered while copying there, obviously a little dissatisfied.

"Straw is so expensive, and those people have collected money with Wu Zhu, and they are about to be arrested to go to Iron Mountain to mine, so why waste these straws?"

He muttered in his mouth, but his hand did not stop.

Shi listened to the six-fingered muttering again, and then listened to the muttering echoed by others, couldn't help but shake his head, knocked on the wood next to him with his hand, and said, "Let's stop for a while." ”

The next door was there to sort out the future decree of the non-proper jurisdiction, and they just glanced curiously in this direction, and went on with the business at hand.

Shi looked at the person on his side, walked up to Six Fingers and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

The six fingers are respectful rather than afraid, thinking that they are right, and replied confidently: "I just think that it is good to keep the grass silk to teach people to learn words." Those people who collected money with Wu Zhu were about to be killed......"

He pointed to the cheap words and numbers written on them and said, "They don't recognize these things, and you are not ready to let them be officials, so why do you have to do this?" ”

Everyone had stopped, and they all heard the words of the six fingers, and they did not understand the matter.

After thinking about it, he asked, "What do you say, what are the clothes for?" ”

The original level of education within the Mozi was not high, and Mozi often used this metaphor to reason, and when everyone heard Shi suddenly ask a strange question, they knew that this was telling everyone the truth, so they answered one after another.

"Shame."

"Cool in the summer and warm in the winter."

"Princes and nobles used it to distinguish between the noble and the low."

"Sacrifice."

After the strange reasons were said, he smiled and said, "I have heard that there is such a person in the Chu State. He was originally poor, but later became rich, so he bought a set of gorgeous silk clothes, used the most expensive purple dye in Qi country, and took the carriage back to his hometown, it happened to be night. ”

But he did not return home at once, but waited outside the city gates all night, and returned home at noon the next day. Someone was puzzled, and he said; 'Walking in brocade clothes at night, how can others know that I am rich? Here, clothes are meant to show wealth, so be sure to be seen by others. ”

Pointing to the half-copied papers, he said, "These straws are like clothes." The selection of talents is like covering up shame and keeping warm; And to let those who cannot be virtuous people answer, it is like to show the wealth behind the clothes. ”

"If you just let the ink master go directly to be an official, but don't go through this assessment, isn't it a brocade night walk? Brocade clothes can cover shame and keep warm, but they can also show wealth. ”

"This method of selecting talents is like brocade, and it is natural to make everything that brocade can do."

At the same time, I also hope that the world will see that there is such a way to select talents. As for those officials who were originally harmful, in the eyes of our Mo family, they were just ants lying on their fingers. ”

Stretched out his fingers, gently crushed it, stretched out his palm and said, "If you crush it gently, you will die." But before they are crushed to death, they can also do something for the benefit of the world. They may not want to do it, but we can get them to do it. ”

Six fingers scratched his head and said: "But what if all the princes and princes in the world use this method of selecting talents?" They don't use the righteousness of the Mo family, but they use this method of selecting talents to select talents, isn't it more difficult to benefit the world? ”

Shi shook his head, if the prince of the heart wants to use this method, I am afraid that he will have to ask those nobles, side relatives, large sects, and small sects if they agree, at least they must be cleaned up first.

Those travelers in the world, if they know this method, they will definitely hope that the princes and princes will use this method. It's a pity that the prince wants to use it, and he wants to weaken the nobles first, and as soon as this kind of selection method comes out, the wanderers are afraid that they will have to fight with the nobles.

There were some dark words, which were inconvenient to say at this time, so he smiled and did not answer, and answered some doubts of the people, so he returned to his seat and continued to check the papers.

…………

Three days later, it was a sunny day.

It was another day after the spring ploughing, and a large number of people in the city came to see the excitement, and the righteous master separated the people with ropes to maintain order and prevent everyone from making noise.

The examination room is arranged in a very staggered style.

Some people in Mohe and Pei County are accustomed to tables and chairs, so there are some tables and chairs in the examination room.

Some people who stick to the old rules are not used to tables and chairs, so there are small tables on the ground, and some cattails on the ground.

However, paper, brushes, and charcoal are all the same, and they don't take into account the rest of them.

Because this is not an absolutely fair assessment, and the tables, chairs and desks are just a symbol of fairness.

More than 20 people were selected from within the ink maker and walked in one by one.

Most of those who were ready to take advantage of this opportunity to make the Inkers admit that they were virtuous, but when the time came, they had to force the Inkers to ask them to come out to do things, were also mostly present.

Ji Chengzi stood behind Shi, holding a piece of paper, muttering some lists in a low voice, and a new local craftsman in Pei County next to him was pointing out them one by one.

The people on the list are all those who need to be arrested, have their belongings confiscated, and are ready to be sent to the mines to work in collusion with Wu Zhu.

Shi felt that the ink man was really merciful, but Ximen Leopard directly threw these little officials into the Zhanghe River and drowned, and the ink man lacked labor on his side, so he was really reluctant to let them die.

Those who wanted to embarrass the "reasonable" inkman sat on their knees on the grass according to their old habit, and after the surroundings were quiet, the paper was distributed.

Shi bent his fingers there, calculating how long it would take for a sensation and dissatisfaction.

After only three bents, someone stood up and asked angrily.

"We don't recognize the words on it!"

When he said this, the rest of the officials also got up, quite dissatisfied, and shouted: "Is this how the ink master chooses the talents? ”

Shi didn't look at them, but said to the people who were watching the excitement outside: "You say, you don't even know the words, can this be considered a virtuous person?" ”

The people who watched the excitement laughed and said that it didn't count, anyway, it wasn't a big deal to watch the excitement.

Today, it is just for propaganda, and it doesn't care about those petty officials at all, so it is also aimed at the people.

One of the original officials said angrily: "We know how to read, but we don't recognize the words on it!" ”

Shi Haha laughed, pointed to the words written on the food shop in the distance, and asked the people around, "Do you recognize the top word?" ”

The food shop has been in Peiyi for a long time, and the words written on it are all related to eating, and the people may not be able to write it, but they naturally know it under the influence of their ears and eyes, and they shout: "That's a cake!" ”

Shi said with ridicule: "Look, you all know the words, but they don't know them, how can this be considered a virtuous person?" Behold, I see that ye are all more talented than they are. When the time comes, you can also come to participate, as long as you know the words, you can participate in the selection of talents, and choose the best ones. ”

"We Mohists say that officials are actually like carpenters and farmers, working to make money to support themselves. If you think about it, if you are a leader, your annual salary is still more than that of carpentry, and if you are allowed to choose, you will definitely be willing to be a leader. ”

"I don't think you can do it, but your children can. It is said that the son inherits the father's business, but I think it may not be in Pei County in the future. I can't say, but you are a farmer, and your children may have become virtuous and officials. You say, is it good to choose talents like this? ”

This is a very blatant shouting of words similar to Ning Youhu, this kind of words are inherently very inflammatory, especially when the patriarchal system is the rule of the world at this time, it is extremely demagogic.

Seeing the lively crowd applauding one after another, the faces of those little officials became more and more ugly, and someone walked up to Shi Shi with a paper and asked: "Although we don't recognize the words on it, we may not understand the truth above." ”

Shi casually asked: "One triangle, hook nineteen, strand one hundred and eighteen, try to ask the chord geometry?" ”

Some people still know the truth of hooking three strands and four, but the secret of adding squares hidden in it is not known to many people.

The little official was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is this the question on this?" ”

Shi shook his head and said: "No, the above is about asking about the geometry of the hook three strands and four?" ”

The little official said angrily: "If we recognize the above question, we can answer it!" Hook three strands four, its strings must be five! I also know that the hook six strands and eight strings must be ten! ”

He was quite complacent about this, but he said helplessly: "I know your ability, and I also know that if you ask about hook nineteen and stock one hundred and eighteen, you must know the length of the string." But I don't believe the people you sent can figure it out! I'm afraid that if I want to talk about nine numbers, they may not be like me, as long as I recognize the topic, I can compare! ”

"How can you ink artists choose talents like this, how can people convince them that they are virtuous?"

Shi Yang asked with a face, "Why don't you compare with me first?" ”

The little official's face twitched, and the rest of the angry people also restrained their arrogance, knowing the appropriate ability, and knowing those few eloquent articles, where did they dare to compare with him?

After learning a little Mozi's proud appearance, he said: "You are not as good as me, are you unconvinced?" I said this, on the nine numbers, from Yan to Chu, from Qi to Qin, there is no one in the world who is more correct and faster than me. ”

In fact, he only learned half a point, but Mozi was able to talk about his knowledge to the world's well-known Confucian scholars, and the rest of the people attacked his knowledge like touching an egg against a stone......

Shi didn't have such an opportunity, so he could only brag a few words in front of the officials of Xiaopei County.

But what he said was also imposing, and those people bowed their heads and were convinced, but they couldn't compare anyway.

After suppressing the arrogance of these people, he took out a book of nine chapters of arithmetic written by himself, trembled and said: "My knowledge of nine numbers is written on these straw silks. You don't even know the words, but those people know the words, and they can understand the knowledge. ”

It's like an adult is only five feet tall and another child is five feet tall when he is younger, but both parents are nine feet tall. If you had to choose someone who will be tall in 10 years now, what adult would you choose? Or will you choose that child? ”

"They may not know about Nineteen and One Hundred and Eighteen now, but they will know in the future. You now know the hook three strands, four strings and five, and they know it, but they can still read and write, so who is the virtuous person? ”

"Meritocracy is to be compared. The same farmer, will plant, but some people can produce three stones per mu, and some people can produce one stone per mu. ”

"Selecting the best and selecting the virtuous, you can't say that everything that can be planted is a virtuous person in the crop thing, right? Virtuous people are first of all human beings, all ministers of heaven, and they need to be more virtuous than others to be counted as virtuous among people. ”

Shi asked the people: "You say, is it right to choose talents like this?" ”