A few days later, officials from all over Chang'an arrived in Du County.

There are thousands of these officials, large and small, all of whom were officials of the original Wei State in Guanzhong.

Among these officials, there are Taishou and county officials with high official positions, and those with low official positions have county orders and county lieutenants.

But most of them are still officials.

Officials are not officials, they are equivalent to civil servants in later generations, and they are the most basic cadres. For example, the jailer is an official, and Song Jiang in the Water Margin is the director of Yuncheng County, who does the work of handling paperwork and is also an official.

In ancient times, the number of officials was controlled by local tyrants, landlords, and surnames, such as the position of Song Jiang's charge secretary, which was selected from local industries in the Song Dynasty.

If you are born in a landlord's house, you can serve as a local official, which does not require an examination or recommendation.

The imperial power is not under the county, but the clan is under the county, and the clans are all autonomous, and autonomy depends on ethics, which is the situation we are talking about.

Since the quota of local officials is controlled by these landlords and surnames, whether the place can be stable depends on the character of these landlords and surnames.

If these people are virtuous, they will be able to work for the well-being of the people, but if they are not virtuous, they will become bullies, bullying men and women, encroaching on the people's fields, annexing the land, and making it difficult for the people to live in the local area.

As for the imperial examination system, it is the officials who are examined, not the examiners.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system collapsed on a large scale, and those who failed to participate in the imperial examination, such as Xiucai, could serve as local officials and did not have to pay taxes, which eventually led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the number of local officials is in the hands of local landlords and big surnames, whether the state can control the place well and whether a place can be stable depends entirely on the officials dispatched.

If the officials are clean officials, loyal to the people, loyal to the country, then they can suppress these officials and firmly control the localities for the state.

If the official is a corrupt official, then he will be in collusion with the people in these places, and the life of the people will be particularly difficult.

Liu Chan was lucky this time, because he had just won Guanzhong, and the soldiers were winning, and the local powerful landlords did not dare to go against it.

Liu Chan ordered that the officials and officials should be assessed together, and those who are not talented enough and moral enough will be eliminated, and the rest will be elites.

Du County Government in the middle of the government.

In front of Liu Chan's table, there were five scrolls.

These five scrolls are the test questions of five subjects, including classics, clear calculations, official law, agriculture, and current affairs.

Liu Chan read the test questions one by one, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Zhuge Liang: "These test questions are good, Da Sima, you have a heart." ”

Zhuge Liang arched his hand and said: "This assessment is related to whether the politics of Guanzhong for 30 years are clear, how dare Weichen be careless?" ”

Liu Chan asked, "By the way, have all those officials arrived?" ”

"It's coming all the time." Zhuge Liang nodded: "These people are very flustered when they hear that the content of this assessment is so complicated, and some even want to bribe officials to get exam questions." ”

"The local officials take the role of the children of the powerful family, and many of them have no real talent and real learning, and there are many people in the township." Liu Chan sneered: "I have already sent someone to investigate the conduct of these people, you just need to keep the exam questions and don't leak them."

Now that the people have arrived, let's start the exam tomorrow, tomorrow we will first test the scriptures, and the Ming arithmetic, the scriptures and the Ming arithmetic are the foundation, whether there is real talent and real learning, you can know at a glance.

The day after tomorrow, the law and agricultural affairs will be examined, and finally the current politics will be examined. ”

"No!" Zhuge Liang gave up his hand.

Early the next morning, the assessment officially began.

During this time, Zhuge Liang has sorted out the examination room in Du County, due to the large number of people, an examination room can not accommodate at all, in Du County, there are more than ten large and small examination rooms.

In the morning, the scriptures are examined, and in the afternoon, the calculation is examined.

Such a scale is also a major event, but unfortunately, the quality of this group of talents is not high.

Because after Cao Zhen retreated to Chang'an, he summoned many officials to Chang'an, because Cao Zhen knew that if these people were not gathered, they would be obtained by Liu Chan.

Cao Zhen has been in Guanzhong for many years, and he is very clear about the talents in Guanzhong, most of the people he has gathered are elites, and the rest are mostly crooked melons and cracked dates.

Soon the day's assessment was over.

Thousands of files were sent to Liu Chan's mansion.

Liu Chan and a group of officials seized the time to approve it, because the local government is now in a state of unofficial governance, and Liu Chan must select officials as soon as possible and delegate them to local posts.

What Liu Chan held in his hand were hundreds of clearly calculated exam papers.

Ming arithmetic, that is, arithmetic, is equivalent to mathematics in later generations, because usually the government has to coordinate the calculation and expenditure, such as grain and grass, taxes, how much to spend, and how much to harvest, all of which must be used in arithmetic, so Ming is a major subject for assessing officials.

These are actually very simple calculations, a little more complicated, just tens of thousands of addition and subtraction and one-dimensional quadratic equations and the like, such as the problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage.

But the study of mathematics in this era is not profound, and there are no multiplication formulas, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. People who are not proficient in arithmetic have to think about even the addition and subtraction of dozens for a long time, so it is also a big difficulty to calculate clearly.

Liu Chan looked at the exam papers on the table, and only felt that he was reviewing the mathematics papers of the third grade of primary school.

"This person named Li Ming can even miscalculate the addition and subtraction within a hundred, and he is not as good as a primary school student, so he can still be an official? And it's also a county! ”

Liu Chan reviewed dozens of exam papers in a row, only felt exhausted, and among the dozens of exam papers, only a few people reached the passing line, and the rest were all wrong.

Obviously, Liu Chan uses a 100-point system, and the passing score is 60 points. The questions range from shallow to deep, starting with addition and subtraction within a hundred, followed by thousands, tens of thousands, and finally involving complex equations.

The depth of this examination paper is at most the level of the third grade of primary school, but the number of people who pass is very small.

However, considering the level of mathematics in the Three Kingdoms era, Liu Chan could only endure it.

Liu Chan and a group of officials stayed up all night and reviewed until midnight before all the examination papers were reviewed.

Liu Chan asked, "How is it, is the statistics out?" ”

Zhuge Liang arched his hand and said: "There are a total of 1,236 people who have passed the scriptures, and only 875 people have passed the calculation. ”

"Hey, there are too few people with real talents!" Liu Chan sighed and ordered: "Except for the other three subjects that have not been examined, all those who are clearly unqualified will be eliminated,"

"Your Majesty, isn't this too harsh?" When an official heard this, he said: "In this way, most of the officials will be in short supply." ”

"Yes, some people have learned well, so they can stay."

Liu Chan slapped the table and said: "Nonsense, if you answer well in the scriptures, it doesn't mean that you can govern the country, and you can't even calculate clearly, what's the use of just saying the sage's truth?" Scripture and clarity are the foundation, and only when they pay equal attention to the two can they become officials. ”

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