"But if you eliminate most of the officials, there will be not enough local manpower."

"It's okay!" Liu Chan waved his hand and said: "Now this group of people are all officials, and there must be many talents in the opposition who have not yet come out."

As the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, as long as I select a group of talented and virtuous people, I can let them recommend talents who are not around them.

After they are in the lower places, they can also be allowed to recruit their own subordinate officers. They are all talented and virtuous people, and they will definitely do their best to do things for the country, and the subordinate officials recruited and selected are not far behind. Therefore, now, this group of talents must be strictly screened, and there can be no relaxation. ”

"Your Ministers obey!" A group of courtiers surrendered their orders.

In this way, on the first day of the assessment, nearly 2,000 people failed, and only those who passed the Ming Calculation, and more than 1,000 people who did not take the other three subjects were retained.

Among these 1,000 people, there are only more than 500 people who participate in the assessment of subjects such as law, agriculture, and current affairs.

By the next day's assessment, the examination room prepared by Du County was mostly empty at once.

In the morning, the assessment is the law of officials, and the law of officials is actually the assessment of the law.

In many TV series, the county officials are responsible for judging cases and solving various incidents all day long, such as Bao Zheng, Song Ci, Di Renjie and the like.

In fact, the duties of the county magistrate are not limited to this, but the trial of cases is one of the most important responsibilities of the county magistrate.

Therefore, it is particularly important for the assessment of the law.

However, compared with the scriptures and calculations, the examination papers of the law are much more difficult.

The content of the exam paper is also from shallow to deep, at the beginning it is about the assessment of legal provisions, which is equivalent to fill-in-the-blank questions, including Shu Ke and Wei Fa.

Later, the examiners of the Han Dynasty came up with some cases for the officials to answer, deduce who the murderer was, and finally, express their opinions on the law.

At noon, the assessment was over, and the examination papers were sent to Liu Chan and others again, this time Liu Chan was not disappointed, and the officials who applied for the examination of the examiner's law were all some real skills, more than 400 people, and nearly eighty percent of them were qualified.

Passing the law examination means that these people have some means to solve cases, and they are delegated to the localities, so as long as they don't encounter that kind of particularly complicated cases, the officials can solve them.

In the afternoon, the assessment was on agricultural affairs, and the number of officials participating in the assessment of agricultural affairs was more than the number of officials who were assessed by the law, and more than 500 of the 1,000 people participated in the assessment of agricultural affairs.

The assessment of agricultural affairs is not simpler than that of the law, and the content of the questions is also from shallow to deep, at the beginning it is some basic knowledge about agriculture, and then it involves the construction of tuntian, water conservancy and other aspects.

If you can answer it well, it will not be a problem to manage the agricultural affairs of a county, and if you can put forward some novel suggestions, you can also serve as an official of the county and state. After all, in this era, agriculture is the foundation.

In the middle of the night, Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang and others finished reviewing all the exam papers.

Zhuge Liang said to Liu Chan: "Your Majesty, there are a total of five hundred and twenty-three people who participated in the agricultural assessment, and forty-four people are qualified. Among them, more than a dozen people put forward some good suggestions. For example, Tuntian and water conservancy have good insights. ”

"That's good!" Liu Chan took out a roll of paper from his bosom and handed it to Zhuge Liang: "This is the information of these officials, select the noble and qualified people, and they can be delegated to the county level as officials, and those who answer well can go to the state and county as officials." ”

Zhuge Liang took the information, flipped through a few pages, and immediately gave up his order: "No! ”

On the third day, the current affairs of the assessment.

There are not many topics in the current political assessment, but there is only one, that is, how to govern Guanzhong.

Although there are few questions, the scope is very wide, and there is a lot of room for play because you can answer them from all aspects.

It's a pity that the quality of this group of talents is not high, and there are only nearly 100 officials who participate in the assessment.

The first imperial examination of the Han Dynasty ended like this, and the effect was not ideal, and Liu Chan did not gain any talents.

The main reason is that Wei has governed Guanzhong for many years, and outstanding talents have entered Wei State, and there are not many people in the opposition, and Cao Zhen also took them all away and sent them to the Central Plains, and the rest are mostly some crooked melons and cracked dates.

According to the information provided by Liu Chan, Zhuge Liang eliminated some officials with bad conduct, so that there were only about 600 officials left.

Subsequently, according to the achievements of these people and their origins, Liu Chan assigned them positions, went down to the locality, and instructed them to recommend talents, and let them recruit subordinate officials on their own after they arrived at the locality.

In this way, the problem of Guanzhong officials was solved.

The land of Guanzhong, at this moment, has entered December, the weather is cold, and it freezes every morning, so the work of building the city can only be put on hold.

Because of the freezing in winter, according to the principle of thermal expansion and cold contraction, it is impossible to carry out concrete operations, otherwise it is a tofu slag project.

Although it was freezing cold, the soldiers stationed outside the city could not enter the city and station, because as soon as they left, the defenders of Chang'an City would come out to destroy part of the city wall that had been built.

Fortunately, Liu Chan ordered Longyou to bring a batch of winter clothes over, and the soldiers were not afraid of cold.

This batch of winter clothes is made of cotton, that is, cotton clothes, now cotton in Liangzhou, Longyou has been planted for three years, has been a large-scale promotion of planting, most of the people in Yongliang have cotton clothes and quilts, no need to serve as frozen.

Due to such a large-scale construction of the city by the Han army, Luoyang, the Wei court also received the news.

Luoyang Imperial City, in the main hall.

Cao Rui said to a group of civil and military officers: "It is reported that the Shu army has built a large-scale city wall outside Chang'an City, with a length of more than 20 miles on one side.

If it is freezing today, they will stop, but in the spring of the next year, the Shu army will start construction again, and at this speed, the city wall can be built around October next year.

At that time, if Chang'an is besieged, tens of thousands of defenders will be trapped in it, I heard that the Shu army built a city, using cement, as solid as a rock, so the city, can not be broken at all, and so the city is built, the defenders in Chang'an City will mutiny, you say, how to solve this matter? ”

Hua Xin arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty! Liu Chan sent Huang Xu to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to Tongguan, Deng Ai Zhang Bao led 20,000 troops to guard Feng Xu, held Pubanjin, Wuguan, and Guan Yu led troops to guard.

Our soldiers and horses could not enter the pass at all, and now the plan is to let the general withdraw his troops and return to hold Tongguan. If he hesitates, the general and the 90,000 soldiers and horses will be buried. At that time, our Great Wei troops will be overstretched, and it will be even more difficult to resist Shu. ”