Su Lin didn't know that Su Rushi, the flower demon from the other side, hid in the mansion of Li Yuncong, the Minister of Justice of the Capital. At this time, he was walking quickly towards the living room of the mansion with Yuan Mu and Hong Liyu to interview the guests who came to join.

The living room of the Su Mansion was filled with Confucian scholars, and the lowest was also the Juren's literary position. While savoring the refreshments prepared by the people of the Su Mansion, they talked to each other, waiting for the arrival of the mansion owner Su Lin.

"I heard that Mr. Su wrote three poems on the country in January, but I don't know if it is true. If it is true, even if Mr. Su didn't take out the Heart Stone, it would be worth it for us to join him."

"Of course it's true. Both of them were included in "Sacred Literature". Moreover, in this test, Mr. Su wrote a war poem to maintain the country again. Moreover, Mo Yi's words are all in one word, which country can have such a genius?"

"No wonder, there are so many juren who come to surrender!"

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Most of the Jinshi here are older. Moreover, they almost have no powerful family background, so they choose to join the young masters of some big families to seek better ideological development. Although there is a world of difference between servants and servants, after all, they have become servants in other people's mansions, to a certain extent, part of their freedom.

Therefore, after the general Confucian scholars above the Jinshi were difficult to improve their literary position, the first thing they considered was to enter the court to become officials, and the second was to find promising and talented young men from aristocratic families to surrender and become their disciples in their mansion.

"Young master, all the disciples who came to surrender are here. The old slave counted that there were thirteen Jinshi and thirty-six Juren. The other scholars. I asked them to go back directly." Jia Lao smiled and introduced to Su Lin.

At the same time, the Confucian scholars sitting in the living room immediately stood up when they saw Su Lin, staring at Su Lin with curious, eager and even admiring eyes. They bowed and bowed to Su Lin.

The doubts that had been entangled in their hearts were gradually unraveling. The young man who looked ordinary and friendly in front of him was Su Lin, who wrote three poems on the country in January?

"Young Master, you are all talented and famous scholars who came from all over our country of Wu..."

Jia Laozheng was excited to introduce to Su Lin, but Su Lin saw an acquaintance at first sight. This person was no one else, but Ye Hongye, the temple supervisor during the Su Lin County trial.

"Chief Ye, why are you here too?"

Su Lin interrupted Mr. Jia and walked to Ye Hongye. He asked with a smile.

"Su Lin, haha, don't call me Supervisor Ye again. Since the county examination two months ago, I have resigned from the temple as the Supervisor of the Tiansheng Department. I wandered between the nine countries of Tianren Continent, hoping to break through to the Grand Secretary's position. Recently, I happened to be near Wu. I heard that your mansion was recruiting visitors and also brought out a precious treasure like the Heart Stone, so I naturally rushed over..."

Ye Hongye looked at Su Lin in front of him thoughtfully. Although Su Lin's appearance has not changed much in the past two months, Ye Hongye intuitively saw the change in Su Lin's temperament. At that time, the young boy who had just become wise was already full of knowledge and wrote four poems on the country. The man who was well-educated with the meaning of the Mo Yi was a scholar.

It was less than two months since Ye Hongye had tried his best to overestimate Su Lin's genius in his heart, but he still could not have imagined that Su Lin would make such progress.

"So that's it! Ye Jinshi is about to break through to the brink of the Grand Secretary. He is just in need of this heart stone to enter a state of chasing and asking questions."

Without hesitation, Su Lin took out a heart stone from the Qiankun bag and handed it to Ye Hongye. "You are half of my teacher, please accept this heart stone."

Just after just a few words of conversation, Su Lin was able to hand over the heart stone worth more than 500,000 taels away. Such a big deal instantly shocked the Jinshi present.

The situation of these Jinshis is not particularly good. 500,000 taels is a huge sum of money for them. What's more, the meteorite is now priceless, and even if you have 500,000 taels, you may not be able to buy it.

"No, no, no...Su Lin, how can this be done? I will not receive any reward without merit. When I went to Fengle County to serve as a county test supervision, it was just a routine public office."

Although Ye Hongye urgently needed this heart stone, he still refused.

"Then... let's be the reward for Ye Jinshi coming to our mansion as a disciple!" Su Lin said with a smile, handing over the heart stone to Ye Hongye.

"Su Lin, what do you mean... have you accepted me as a guest? But you haven't gone through any selection and test yet?" Ye Hongye was stunned. He didn't expect that he could become a guest in Su Lin's mansion so smoothly.

"Can I still believe you, Ye Jinshi? Moreover, the Confucian scholars here need to ask Ye Jinshi to help me choose and test! I don't need many visitors, but I must have extraordinary expertise and pure thoughts."

Su Lin pointed to the other Confucian scholars in the hall and said, "Su is very grateful for your trust, but if you want to become a disciple in my Su Mansion, you must not be an ordinary person. Everyone can express their talents and ideas. I and Ye Jinshi will investigate and select..."

After saying that, Su Lin asked Mr. Jia to arrange another room to imitate the interview process of modern companies. The Confucian scholars in the hall lined up one by one, and the interviewers were Su Lin himself, Ye Hongye, Jia Lao, Yuan Mu and Hong Liyu.

Nearly fifty Juren and Jinshi were sorted in the order of A, B, C and D, and then they were called into the wing room to receive this many-to-one interview. This interview system, which is very normal in modern companies, made Ye Hongye, Jia Lao, Yuan Mu, Hong Liyu and others instantly lit up their eyes.

"Su Lin, your method is really good and you can select talents very effectively." Hong Liyu sat beside Su Lin, looking at a scholar who had been removed in front of him.

"Instead of letting me choose from a bunch of Confucian scholars, it is better for us to sit down quietly, let these Confucian scholars come in one by one, and we will conduct a slow investigation. Only in this way can we understand a person's talent and thoughts more clearly..."

Su Lin nodded, but although the interview method was good, he had interviewed nearly thirty scholars, including those Jinshi, but he had not seen any disciples who made Su Lin really want to recruit.

Because these Confucian scholars who came to surrender had nothing outstanding in themselves. They were almost all orthodox Confucianism that practiced. Such people were most suitable to go to the court to become officials and become county magistrates in charge of the country. However, as a disciple, they did not seem to be of much value.

Many of them have some talent, but Su Lin does not need such a disciple. In Su Lin's opinion, it doesn't matter if the disciples he recruits are lower than their literary status, and they must have extraordinary ideas or skills.

Su Lin was following Mengchangjun during the Warring States Period. The three thousand guests in Mengchangjun's mansion had all kinds of talents. One of Mengchangjun's disciples "pretending to steal fur to help him escape", and the other one "learns by chickens and crowing and tricking him into opening the city gate". It was these disciples who were called "chicken crowing and dog thieves" who repeatedly helped Mengchangjun to resolve the crisis.

After all the Confucian scholars in the living room had interviewed, Su Lin still did not find the Confucian scholars who could make him moved. He couldn't help but shake his head and sighed: "Even though these Confucian scholars have reached the level of literary rank of Jinshi, their thoughts are rigid Confucian orthodox theory, and they do not know how to adapt and cultivate the essence of the hundreds of schools of thought. It's no wonder that their literary rank has never been able to break through and make progress. This is the consequence of being unable to clarify the inner path and blindly following the imperial examination system!"

The Jinshi to the Grand Secretary is the first step in the sublimation of the Confucian scholars from the imperial examination and entering the first step of self-reflection. However, many Jinshi are stuck in this hurdle for the rest of their lives. The fundamental reason is that the disadvantages of the imperial examination. Although the original meaning of the imperial examination is to help the civil examination and improve the civil examination through external forces, it is ultimately just a system form formulated by the temple.

After all, these Jinshi are not only successful products of the imperial examination education, but also failure products.

"Sulin, don't be discouraged. The Confucian scholars who came today are just the first to get news around Jian'an Mansion. The Qian family has spread the news of your recruitment of disciples in Jian'an Mansion to the Nine Kingdoms. I believe that more Confucian scholars who have read your poems in the country will come one after another..."

Seeing that no one was admitted, Ye Hongye comforted Su Lin and said, "These Confucian scholars are corrupt scholars who only know how to take the imperial examinations, so it's better not to be allowed!"

"Today, it was already a surprise that Ye Jinshi became the second visitor to our Su Mansion."

Su Lin waved his hand and said with a smile, "In the future, Ye Jinshi can help our mansion select guests based on today's methods. However, in my opinion, these Confucian scholars who took the initiative to surrender to the door are far from what I imagined. It seems that real talents still need me to take the initiative to discover them!"

After saying that, Su Lin took Ye Hongye to choose a residence in the mansion, and Ye Hongye hurriedly took the heart stone to retreat, and went to ask for a harsh question and broke through the literary position.

"Brother Su, your vision is too high. You didn't even like so many Jinshis. I still know several of them, and they are all famous in Jian'an Mansion." Yuan Mu said a pity for Su Lin.

"Brother Yuan, you don't understand. Just look at Su Lin's mansion and know that he is not an ordinary scholar to build a mansion. An ordinary Jinshi naturally cannot reach Su Lin's eyes. Moreover, I see that the Jinshi who came to join is not very good. Su Lin doesn't want them, it's right." Hong Liyu agreed with Su Lin's approach and said with a smile.

"It seems that I am too proud of my reputation. I think it's right. I use the Heart Stone as a means to attract my disciples to join. Although many Jinshi came, they are all for the Heart Stone, and there are also some people with ulterior motives."

In fact, during today's interview, Su Lin had already keenly discovered that among these Confucian scholars, many of them had their eyes dodging and their minds were floating. It was very likely that someone deliberately sent him to lurk with the spy next to Su Lin as a disciple. This is also one of the important reasons why Su Lin doesn't want any other except Ye Hongye today. (To be continued...)
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