Three days later in the morning, Liu Yan came to Handan for the second time.

This time, he made complete preparations. First, he arrived at the Wei Manor in the south of the city one day in advance, where he had a long talk with Wei Song, Gongsun Xun's client. Then early this morning, he entered Handan City majestically with full guard of honor.

It has to be said that the arrival of this Jizhou governor seems to have made the already lively Handan even better.

After all, these days there is almost no such thing as an emperor going on patrol, and local officials are not allowed to leave their base easily without special reasons, so even for a big city like Handan, at most it will have a provincial governor.

Of course, compared to the people in Handan City, the people who were more surprised were Liu Yan and his state attachés.

"Wen Qi," Liu Yang got out of the car in front of the public school and couldn't help but pointed at the towering library and asked seriously. "It's only been a few months, but I won't ask you how you built a tall building from the ground?"

Just tell me, is there really a hundred thousand volumes hidden here as rumored?"

"Uncle Fang is joking," Gongsun Xun, who came to greet him with a group of people, saluted and smiled knowingly. "It's just ten thousand volumes of books, in ten copies."

"Oh..." Liu Yan said with a look of surprise on his face. "This is considered a big deal. Even if there are tens of thousands of books, how can you easily collect them all in this world? Moreover, although the idea of ​​printing has been heard before, but once

One hundred thousand volumes are enough to shock the world!"

"Everything is like this," Gongsun Xun said unconcernedly. "The first time is always unbelievable. Once you get used to it, it will just be like that."

Liu Yan slightly twirled his beard and nodded, but then looked around, frightening many local powerful people to lower their heads and pretend not to see him: "I heard that the world-famous Cai Bojie is also here. I have admired his name for a long time, but I have never heard of him.

The moment we meet..."

"Mr. Cai is indeed here, and he has served as the public school's wine sacrificer. If Uncle Fang is interested, he can go and see him at any time. But..."

"But what's the matter?"

"But things have been complicated these two days," Gongsun Xun said with a chuckle. "There are many things that need to trouble Uncle Fang. In order to offer wine, Cai Gong also has to bathe in incense and prepare for tomorrow's sacrifice. If he wants to have an in-depth discussion, he will have to wait a little later.

Moreover."

"It's no problem." Liu Yan naturally didn't take it seriously... The word "jiujiu" originally came from the elder who held the wine and presided over the sacrifice during the sacrifice. The doctor of Jijiu from Taixue in the Han Dynasty also had the same meaning, and the word "jiujiu" was originally meant for sacrifice these days.

It is a very sacred event, and the emperor must respect it. So it is understandable that Cai Bozhe bathed in incense and did not see guests.

Besides, Liu Yan's trip is complicated, and he may have to stay in Zhao for a while, but he doesn't care about this little time... In fact, participating in the 'opening ceremony' of Handan Public School tomorrow is what he is going to do.

One of the purposes of the trip. Even today, he has to do something for Gongsun Xun in the public school as agreed.

In this way, Liu Yan led everyone in the state to greet the people who came to greet him. Even when he faced a group of Zhao Guohao who asked him to send off his concubine, he didn't care at all. He looked like a polite and virtuous corporal... It was a waste of money.

After half an hour, he went directly to the public school gate at Gongsun Xun's invitation.

However, as soon as he stepped into the door and passed the screen wall full of notices, the Jizhou governor was stunned on the spot.

It turns out that there is an extremely spacious courtyard inside the public school gate. In the courtyard, a large number of long horizontal and vertical lines are drawn with white ash, dividing a bunch of squares, and in each square there is a straw futon and a small table.

...Of course, there is also a student in different attire and age, who is either sweating profusely while grading papers, or looking relaxed and waving a pen.

At a glance, there were more than three to four hundred people!

"Is this an exam?" Liu Yan was stunned for a few breaths before he suddenly realized what he saw in the Wei Manor.

"It's just a preliminary examination for admission." Gongsun Xun immediately laughed. "It's better to divide them into classes and teach them according to their aptitude, right?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that?" Liu Yan, who has eighteen years of experience in running schools, of course knew what a preliminary examination was when he heard it, but when he thought about what Wei Song had done with him last night, he twisted his beard and chuckled. "Wen

Didn't Qi say that Xiaolian would be publicly launched today? She also asked me to arrive today to be a witness for you."

Gongsun Xun chuckled again, but did not refute.

It turned out that long before Cai Yong, Lu Bu and his entourage arrived, when the library had just been erected, Zhao Guoxiang Xiangxu, who never went out, suddenly spread the word that since a public school was to be established, what about the Xiaolian students in junior high school this year?

, then he will be recommended by the public schools, and he will naturally be recommended to the court at that time.

Of course this sounds a bit out of tune.

However, just a few days ago, the public school that was about to be established simply passed down a few documents through official channels and stuck them in various pavilions in the country. Naturally, they said that they would continue to recruit students and so on, and called on locals to

The scholar went to the public school to report; on the other hand, he simply said that because the Prime Minister had an order, there would be an impromptu test one day before the opening ceremony, and everyone would have to take it... and he also specifically said that as long as it was

Regardless of whether Zhao Guoguan's children want to enroll in school or not, and whether they have a job or not, as long as they can get to Handan Public School this morning, they can take part in this 'preliminary examination'.

What this implies... is almost equivalent to telling everyone clearly that the previous rumors are true, and Xiaolian this year, regardless of anything else, must at least take this exam.

Of course, the real Xiaolian had already made arrangements, and the children of the local wealthy families in Zhao State had already enrolled in school one after another. Even Gongsun Xun had already designated the former county from the list sent in advance by Zhang, Wang, and Lu.

The youngest son of Prime Minister Zhang Shu... This is because Zhang Shu performed best before, and a man from Zhuangzi died.

However, this does not mean that Gongsun Xun cannot use this as bait to further improve the style of the public school and the value of his status as a public school student.

In fact, looking at the number of examinees in front of them, it can be seen that for the local students in Zhao State who heard about it at first, the incident was really exciting. Even many serving junior high school officials also asked for leave.

Take this 'exam'.

There is no way, this is filial piety and integrity, which is the fundamental way to become an official in the Han Dynasty... Once a school is overtly or covertly linked to this thing, they can't help but be excited.

Liu Yan even saw the student of Wei Song who had denounced the public school to his father and son in front of the Wei Manor, and seemed to be bent on evading the exam rankings!

"Wen Qi has such a wonderful idea." Liu Yan immediately lowered his voice and carefully stepped away from the honor guard.

Gongsun Xun smiled and said nothing... He couldn't say that everything from the library to the basic examination was his mother's plan, right?

Of course, even Gongsun Xun himself felt that his mother's idea of ​​taking the basic examination was a good idea. You know, when he was issued temporary admission passes to the library to those people, he had already been named by those scholars from all over the world.

The background makes my head swell. There are so many students in front of me. If we don’t take exams, how can we know their true level?

Of course, in order to test the true level of these people, the questions are very difficult, there are just a lot of them...

"Wonderful!"

Even though he knew he shouldn't say anything at this time, when Liu Yan got a printed paper, he couldn't hide the instinct of an eighteen-year private teacher and actually praised him in public. "From the original text of Confucian Classics

From silent writing to the explanation of the saint's righteousness in the paragraph, to independent composition, and then there are criminal law questions...especially this last question is even more exciting. Taking the previous investigation of land acres in Zhao State as the original case, first used a plan to hide the number of acres,

To calculate the debt for another year, it is necessary to combine the "Spring and Autumn Annals" to explain the subtle meaning of this matter in the country, integrating arithmetic, law, and classics... Please also forgive me for being honest, this paper cannot be compiled by one person.

from."

"It was the result of the hard work of many famous people in the public school." Someone next to him naturally intervened to explain. "The last question was the result of the joint efforts of Wu Wuhou and Wei Gong..."

"So that's it." Liu Yan became more and more emotional. "In fact, the excellence of this paper is not only in a certain question, but also in the fact that both simplified and traditional texts are used in the entire text, which can better highlight the differences between people taking the exam..."

"What Uncle Fang said is true," Wei Song said with a smile. "Although my son Wei Chang has no intention of taking the position of Xiaolian, I still let him give it a try... Let's see how good he is.

Standard? After all, this test paper is made of engraving, so there is no harm in printing more copies."

Liu Yan nodded slowly when he heard the words, and stared at the test paper more and more non-stop. But at this moment, following Liu Yan to this place, a short, fat and tied-haired boy stood behind Liu Fan.

He looked panicked, then backed away slowly...

"Afan is old, so forget it, Azhang." Liu Yan didn't look back, but raised his hand and passed the paper in his hand back. "You haven't been crowned yet, go down and try!"

The chubby young man was panic-stricken, but he could only accept the test paper with a grimace. Then he took the pen and paper brought by others and sat down in front of an empty room... No one knew that this was inevitable.

He was the nephew of the governor's family who had just arrived in Yecheng in the past few days. From what he said, he was probably the son of Liu's governor's family. Therefore, his eyes inevitably became playful.

Of course, Gongsun Xun's eyes were particularly playful.

After all, the exam could not last a whole day, or even half a day. At noon, a group of students stood up nervously and respectfully handed the test papers and their answer sheets to the teacher in front of them.

After handing in the papers, the public school did not let these public school students leave. Instead, they were asked to stand in front of the court and wait for their results... It turned out that the public school actually had to mark the papers on the spot and judge them as first-class or third-class.

Ten people attended the banquet held by the junior high school in the evening to entertain the governor during his trip.

What does this mean? I don’t have to explain it... The prime minister of the country does not care about political affairs, and the princes below are helpless, so Xiaolian can only use this strange way to do it - first select thirty people based on their talents and learning, and then

From among these thirty people, we can judge the moral character and family background, and there is a governor supervising the whole process.

And this is actually an important reason why Gongsun Xun invited Liu Yan here. He needs the other party to endorse his deviant act of "selecting Xiaolian" throughout the whole process!

That's right, it's an endorsement for 'deviant and treacherous', not for the private appointment of filial piety and integrity... The latter is too ordinary, and it will not attract rumors. On the contrary, Gongsun Xun pretends to use examinations to determine filial piety.

Lian's method, even if it was only to select thirty people, was even more difficult for the world to accept, and it took a state governor to calm things down.

Of course, the test papers are not anonymous at all, and even the preliminary results cannot be fair... The only thing Gongsun Xun can guarantee is that if there are really outstanding people among them, then pay more attention in order to get them.

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Choosing talents for the country is fake, but choosing talents for oneself is true...Tian Feng has a sharp eye.

Due to long preparation, dozens of top figures from junior high schools and public schools joined hands in the hall to mark the papers. The former was responsible for the objective questions, and the latter was responsible for the subjective essay questions that had been discussed for a long time. It can be said that they were as fast as the wind.

It's so neat.

By evening, everything was ready.

Gongsun Xun personally put the names he had prepared for him into more than twenty names, then calmly led everyone out of the hall and began to call people from behind to the front...

"Twenty-fourth, Handan Zhang Huai and Zhang Zirong." Gongsun Xun shouted. "When you hear the name, come forward and salute the princes, and prepare for the banquet in the evening!"

Hearing this name, some knowledgeable people couldn't help but raise eyebrows. Zhang Huai, the youngest son of the former county magistrate Zhang Shu, was even more overjoyed. He stepped forward and saluted Liu, who was standing in the door of the hall, twirling his beard and peeking at the scene in front of the hall.

Yea, at this point I have about three-thirds of guesses.

But soon, even the astute Governor Liu had no time to make random guesses.

"Twenty-third, Jiangxia Liu Zhang." Gongsun Xun paused slightly, but suddenly put his hands behind his hands. "Jiangxia Liu Zhang, a public school student, come forward!"

Liu Yan in the room was stunned for a moment. With his shrewdness, he could not have guessed Gongsun Xun's evil idea, but at this time he was speechless. He could only watch his youngest son Liu Zhang, who had been following his eldest son Liu Fan outside the hall, running out in confusion.

Gongsun Xun saluted.
To be continued...