Three Kingdoms

Pang Tong quietly left Chang'an and headed for Wancheng.

Others came to Chang'an one after another.

An industry, a society, a court, if it cannot make the best use of its people, it should at least take good care of its top people.

This top wave does not refer to those with vested interests who have reached the upper levels, nor are they those high-level officials who are shouting and yelling, but some capable people who are climbing up. Give these capable people some promotion channels, otherwise there will be class monopoly every day, and there will only be a few carrot pits, and problems will occur sooner or later.

Don't you see the ruffian Liu Lao'er, the country doctor Zhang Daozhang, Huang Laoxie who failed many times, the monk Zhu Laoda who returned to secular life, the laid-off Li Gongwu, the failed scholar Hong Dage, etc., but they all have something to say.

If these people can't be bribed by beautiful women with beautiful cars, then things will be big when they come to get it themselves.

Fei Qian is now preparing some beauties.

Everyone hopes that they are unique and have great opportunities, but in fact, only a small number of people are often the ones who truly have the perseverance to climb all the way up amid the thorns.

This kind of perseverance is manifested in many ways, one of which is the ability to learn.

Learning is a hard work, and people without great perseverance are often disturbed by miscellaneous things, or give up midway. Anyway, nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to give up. So once you learn well, although it may not necessarily represent the level of personal ability, at least this kind of person has a little perseverance in persisting in doing one thing.

It's not that there are only studies and exams in the world, but that people who show their abilities in this process meet the requirements of society and the court.

In this world, many times, what we fear most is perseverance.

At least those who have perseverance and are willing to persevere will do more and greater things than those who do not have perseverance and are unwilling to persevere.

Therefore, as the current person in power in Shanxi, Fei Qian naturally needs to take the first step and acquire these scholars who live in the countryside and have poor conditions, but are still diligent and persistent.

As the Enke exams in various counties around Sanfu came to an end, those selected from these counties began to go to Chang'an one after another.

First of all, food, accommodation, transportation and horses are free.

For a squire from a wealthy family, the cost of food, accommodation, carriage and horses is nothing, but for some students from an average family, these expenses may be a huge obstacle to their progress. So much so that some people turned over the past, but left the root of the disease in their hearts, just like many feudal officials who repented after corruption. I come from a poor mountain village...

Therefore, the benefits that Fei Qian provides to these people do not actually cost much, but they can quickly win people's hearts. Food, accommodation, carriage and horse expenses are limited to two times per person. If you fail the test once, you can take the test again next year, but you still fail, then there will be no free food, accommodation, carriage and horse.

The so-called things are no more than three.

It is also a subtle reminder.

Secondly, it is to deploy special inspections to be responsible for point-to-point guidance.

These inspections are drawn from the Chang'an Third Assistant School, and are specifically responsible for picking up and dropping off these students who come to Chang'an for reference.

Mainly for subtlety.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the situation where ordinary petty officials take advantage of the situation while traveling, causing these students to be adversely affected before they enter the officialdom. On the other hand, most of the inspections are from the military. Those who were born were protected by soldiers, which was actually similar to the dispatch of armed police for a certain exam in later generations.

When it comes to sensitivity to the situation, businessmen are second to none.

I know that when a large number of students come to Chang'an to take the exam, the accommodation and catering expenses immediately increase a lot. Fortunately, Fei Qian attaches great importance to food prices, and the Dahan Chamber of Commerce coordinates the management. In addition to the previous paragraph Time has just killed off a group of blind hoarders, so the price of raw materials for food, that is, grain, rice and noodles, has not increased much, but the price of finished products has increased.

Just like the tourist season in later generations, the accommodation and catering fees in tourist places are rising, but the local prices of rice, flour and oil have not changed much. The impact on locals is not big, but what about outsiders...

Therefore, the food and accommodation in Yiguanyin Station are still cheap.

Of course, if there are students who have a lot of money in their pockets and want to experience the customs, delicacies and other things of Chang'an, the surrounding restaurants and restaurants are also very welcome.

The initial establishment of the county examination system means that the imperial examination system under Fei Qian's rule has generally entered a relatively complete stage. Although it cannot be said to be mature, it at least has obvious differentiation.

The examinations within the county are mainly for screening.

The purpose of screening is to eliminate.

Some people are not suitable for studying. They are born to feel sleepy when holding books, so there is no need to force it. If it is not suitable to take the local exam a few times, just change careers and go elsewhere. The cost is not high. Otherwise, if you go to Chang'an, you will not pass the exam. If you pass, give up. You may be unwilling to do so. After all, the sunk cost is too high. If you don’t give up, you may not be able to pass the exam next time.

Therefore, taking the exam nearby avoids this problem.

If there are more exams in the future and they are decentralized to the next level, in the county, then it is really just a screening. As long as you are willing to put a little thought into it, it will not be difficult to pass the exam and become a scholar, just like elementary school to junior high school in later generations. Under the nine-year compulsory education, as long as it is not too far off the mark, there is basically no problem.

But further up, there is selection.

This is especially obvious in the exam in Chang'an.

Those who can only study hard and those who are truly capable will be distinguished in this exam.

However, there is no clear distinction between the academic and male-oriented exams in later generations in the current feudal dynasty.

Candidates who can come from various counties and counties have a certain level, but it does not mean that all of them can be admitted. After all, the learning atmosphere and academic level of each region are inconsistent, just like Hedong and Taiyuan, obviously there will be The level of students in Hanzhong and Longyou is slightly higher, so it is possible that about 80% of students in a certain county will be admitted, while in some areas only 40% to 50%, or even 20% to 30% will be admitted...

In addition to these students, there are also some people in Chang'an who also live in the inn.

These people are not here to take the exam...

For example, Song Hang and Cai Yu.

Song Hang and Cai Yu have been in Chang'an for some time, and they also live in the post house.

Song Hang arrived first, and Cai Yu returned to Chang'an later.

Wang Ming was injured on the way back. It was quite serious. He is recuperating in the Baiyi Medical Center. I am afraid he will need to recuperate for at least half a year.

Not everyone is as lucky as Song Hang and Cai Yu.

Wang Ming's escape was not a peaceful one. He tried to get through at first, but the checkpoints on the road soon became stricter. Wang Ming had to disguise himself and even walk on small roads in sparsely populated areas. Since Dong Zhuo moved the capital, many places in the Yin and Heluo areas of Henan are littered with corpses and extremely desolate. Even if the Yang family vigorously develops, it is only relatively better in the area near Luoyang.

Wang Ming had never participated in any wilderness survival training before, and he didn't have any positioning instruments or compasses. He just relied on the sun in the sky to roughly determine the direction, but it ended up being cloudy...

When Wang Ming met the hussars and the men and horses, he almost died of nutritional imbalance and died in the wilderness.

So within the inn, Cai Yu was relatively familiar with Song Hang.

Cai Yu came to Song Hang with a wine gourd on his back and several bags of food in his arms.

For them, there is a rather long vacation.

Fei Qian did not meet them immediately, but asked them to rest first and then imagine what they wanted to do. For those who have been in the other camp for a long time, it is like three years and three years, and they will become the boss if they don't come back. Sometimes it is inevitable that they will have some completely different habits from those here in Guanzhong Sanfu.

The two of them didn't look for anything elegant. They just found a few bean dishes and put some cold food on the table under the window of the post house where they lived.

Boiled salted beans, some minced meat jerky, and a few small grilled dried fish.

The wine is also very ordinary, similar to the glutinous rice of later generations. Of course, the degree may be higher than that of later generations of glutinous rice. This kind of wine is generally not heated, because it will become more acidic when heated, so most of the time it is not heated. Only filtered wine, which has relatively few impurities, needs to be heated for drinking.

Cai Yu picked up the wine and gestured to Song Hang, and the two of them raised their glasses together and drank it all.

When the wine went down, the chat box seemed to have a key.

"I heard that the Hussars are going to use Enke?" ” Cai Yu said, “Looking at the many new people arriving in the post house, they all said they were going to take the Enke exam this time... I saw that they were all holding books in their arms, and they couldn’t bear to put them down while walking and eating... ”

Song Hang nodded, and then sighed with emotion, "In the blink of an eye, so many years have passed. I remember back in Shoushan Academy, before the exam, I was holding the book and wished I could read two more words..."

The two couldn't help but sigh.

It feels like the people born in the 1970s saw that the company’s new employees were all born in the 1980s, and then in a blink of an eye a few years later, the young people born in the 1980s saw the people born in the 1990s, and then the people born in the 00s rushed up and swept the previous wave. One by one, they died in the company... uh, on the beach.

The two of them sighed and sighed, and then they felt that it was really best to study...

Time flies by, and the two of them are like the green and tender beans that were originally green, and then turned into the salty boiled beans on the table. Although they are both beans, they are completely different from the inside out.

"Brother Song, what are you going to choose?" ” After sighing for a while, Cai Yu asked Song Hangdao.

Qiao Qi gave Song Hang and others several options to consider. One was to change his name and work as a technical clerk somewhere, and then transfer him after a few years of calm. The other was to change his name and go to Nanzhong. Jiaozhi, continue to do their old business, of course, there is also an option is to convert some acres of land into money or something, and then go home and become a small rich man.

Song Hang was silent for a while and said, "I still want to be a bachelor of agriculture, and I don't want to go to Nanjing Middle School." 』

In the eyes of most Han people, the South Central Jiaozhi area is a terrifying wilderness.

Even though the Jiaozhi area is actually quite close to the level of Han civilization, many people are still afraid.

Cai Yu nodded, "Then you may go to Longxi, or you may go to Sichuan." 』

During this period, most of the officials, especially the newly recruited ones, basically went in these two directions. Very few could stay in Chang'an and Sanfu. At the same time, some officials in Sichuan and Shu were promoted to Hanzhong or Hedong. It also gave these small officials who went to Longxi and Sichuan some comfort in their hearts.

Some people think that spies are very interesting, like those in movies and TV shows who have special skills, bulging pockets, and many beauties. But in fact, most spies and agents are very hard-working, and some even Spies are still in pain, just like social beasts who work hard to complete the company's assessment targets, and they are still double social beasts.

The job was in the open and could not be completed. Every day, I was scolded by my boss and scolded by my superiors. A copy is in the dark and cannot be completed. Don't think about anyone sleeping well every night, Alexander. What? money? Thinking too much, it’s like being sold out. Of course you give more the first time. Later, when you are old and yellow, you are like sending away beggars with three melons and two dates...

Although Fei Qian would not use his identity as a spy to threaten Song Hang and others, Song Hang himself felt that the psychological pressure over the years had been too great. He did not want to continue doing this kind of work. He might as well simply be a Agriculturists are better off.

Anyway, Song Hang originally had a bachelor's degree in agriculture as a cover, and he was familiar with this aspect. It was not considered a cross-industry job. He was just far away from Chang'an Sanfu, and it would probably be at least five years before he came back.

How many five years are there in life?

Cai Yu picked up the boiled beans and grinded them in his mouth.

This thing is cooked and then dried in the sun. It looks like small pebbles. If you bite them randomly, your teeth will break easily, so you can only grind them slowly.

Song Hang glanced at Cai Yu and didn't ask Cai Yu what he would choose in the future, because Song Hang knew that Cai Yu himself was in a dilemma.

Different from the officials of Chang'an Sanfu, Cai Yu was used to being undisciplined under Cao Cao. He always performed routine tasks to get cards and get cards, and even often went over the walls of his colleagues. Of course, Cai Yu also had some differences from Cao Cao.

Lao Cao killed the man first, and then I raised his wife. Cai Yu was just comforting the concubines who were too busy for the man, and did not want to kill anyone.

People from Shandong actually have a very gentle attitude towards items like concubines. They even feel that others like the concubines in their homes, and their faces are still shining!

Many wealthy families held banquets, and if any important guests asked for maids, dancers, etc., they would pack them up and give them away without blinking an eye.

It was similar in the Tang and Song dynasties. Old man Su, who boasted about how dedicated he was, often gave other people concubines...

In the feudal dynasty, concubines were more like objects.

In fact, this custom was similar in later generations.

Just like being an escort in a certain university in later generations, as long as important friends like her, the school leaders will be happy! Anyway, she is not her own daughter, but the wife and daughter of some untouchables. Being able to play with distinguished guests is a blessing!

But in Guanzhong, or even in other counties under the rule of Hussar, Cai Yu had no time to play.

It's not that the officials here in Feiqian don't take concubines, but it's because the Wen Department, Dali Temple and Huqi Prefecture Department keep a close eye on them.

For example, in Shandong, banquets are held at every turn, where large and small people eat and drink together, and men and women have fun together. However, in Guanzhong, there are only two banquets that can be held publicly. If you want to hold other banquets, it is not impossible. It needs to be private. Not mentioning the money, it can easily lead to various audits.

Why do it? What's the reason? Who is attending the meeting? Is it a favor or a transaction of money and power?

How can many things be so clearly distinguished?

Everyone hates trouble, so large-scale banquets have completely shrunk. Basically, there are only some private, small-scale banquets in twos and threes. If I hear that there are a lot of people for a banquet, many people will refuse it directly. They don’t want to be visited by someone from the Wen Department or the Department’s direct office. Even if these people don’t come to the door, if the boss knows anything, it is indispensable to ask. , "Have all the targets been met this year?" Are you so free to hold a banquet? 』

Therefore, on the whole, the officials under Fei Qian's rule in Guanzhong were much more serious than those in Shandong.

Of course, this is also because most of the officials under Fei Qian's command today are promoted based on their abilities rather than connections. Perhaps at some time in the future, small groups will be formed for various reasons, and then they will once again evolve into determining official positions based on personal connections, but at least for a long time now, they are still very different from Shandong.

Cai Yu was also very distressed.

Let him take some money and go home to be a small rich man, which seems good, but in fact, even Cai Yu himself knows that according to his habit of spending money, he may not be able to hold on to a golden mountain for long. If you take a general official position, the salary will definitely not be high. Even if there are some subsidies in the early stage, it will not be enough to support Cai Yu's expenses.

So there's only one way left?

Cai Yu had a headache.

"Oh, how could I forget this?" "Cai Yu suddenly remembered something, clapped his hands and said, "I once heard a secret in Shandong..."

"Don't say it!" Don't say it! Song Hang raised his palms and said, "Since it's a secret, don't tell me." I don't want to hear these things now..." Song Hang has made up his mind to be an ordinary agricultural scholar, so naturally he doesn't want to hear these things anymore.

Cai Yu was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly awkwardly.

Suddenly, Cai Yu felt that although he and Song Hang were sitting on both sides of the table, they seemed to be far apart.

"You can go to the Youwen Division..." Song Hang glanced at Cai Yu, touched the wine glass and said, "If it's valuable, it can be considered that you have made a contribution, and then... you will have a better position or something... …』

Cai Yu rolled his eyes and his emotions came back, "Then I'll give it to Brother Song!" Come on, it's getting late. Let's drink first. I'll go to Youwensi tomorrow! 』