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Chapter 469
His wife's childbirth and the Three Gorges Rebellion are the two things that Liu Jing is most worried about recently. The good news came from both at the same time, which made Liu Jing completely relieved, and then turned his attention back to the scientific examination.

First of all, the results of the Ming Law Department were the first. Liu Jing personally interviewed [-] exam winners in the main hall of the State Department. They stood out from nearly [-] candidates.

Moreover, most of them were born as small officials in counties and counties, and they lacked in talent, experience, and experience. What they lacked was just an opportunity.

Facing Liu Jing and Yan Yuese's questioning, they tried their best to appear serious and decent, so as not to give Liu Jing a frivolous impression, but they couldn't hide the joy on their faces.

It's no wonder that they were restless. Originally, they could only commit themselves to the counties and prisons, and they had little chance of success. Unexpectedly, after Liu Jing came to Xiangyang, he suddenly opened up the law department and opened up official careers for the judges. Now they pass Exams are about to make a fortune, how can you not like it?

Liu Jing understood their feelings very well. Confucianism flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty, aggressively invading legal science, and legal Confucianism became more and more day by day, and the status of legal science plummeted and marginalized day by day.

Take Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu who are both familiar with Confucianism and Legalism as an example. If they are allowed to take the exam, no matter what they think in their hearts, they will definitely abandon the law department and choose the classics department in the end.

Liu Jing, as a person of later generations, naturally does not want to see the Confucianization of the law. The Confucian set of "quoting the scriptures to judge the prison" and "the mind to convict the crime" is simply ruining the three views. Judgment of the prison, regard the "Han Law" as nothing, if things go on like this, what effect will the law have?

Liu Jing wanted to change the atmosphere of respecting Confucianism and despising the law, governing the people with the law and governing the people with punishment, so the talents selected for the first Ming Law Department must be reused as a model for the latecomers.

After discussing with Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Wang Can and other close confidants, Liu Jing decided to divide the 30 people into two, with half staying in the shogunate and the other half serving as county lieutenants and county magistrates.

Needless to say about the former, listening and using it by the lord's side, as the saying goes, the future is bright.

The latter is also not bad, although the county lieutenants and county magistrates are just small sesame officials with a few hundred shi, but if the officials are small, they are still officials.

At the beginning, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were only county captains when they started. Although Cao Cao worked in Luoyang, the capital, he could not be regarded as a county captain.When Sun Jian was young, he was the county magistrate for more than ten years.

From the county official to the county lieutenant and county magistrate, it is definitely a leap.

As soon as this result came out, it caused quite a stir in Xiangyang. After all, Liu Jing's move was a precedent.

However, the Han Dynasty has always respected Confucianism and despised law, which cannot be changed in the short term. Compared with Mingfa, Xiangyang scholars still pay more attention to Mingjing.

When they thought about it, Liu Jing had already put so much emphasis on the Mingfa Department, how could the Mingjing Department be soaring?
When Xiangyang scholars and people were discussing, Song Zhong, Qi Wukai, Sima Hui and others reviewed the examination papers day and night, and finally drafted a preliminary list of [-] people, and handed them in to Liu Jing together with the examination papers of hundreds of unsuccessful candidates.

Compared with the careless and hastily flipping through the papers in the first exam, Liu Jing paid more attention this time, and deliberately spared half a day, and invited Zhuge Liang and others to review the papers together.

Liu Jing calmly sat on the toilet, flipping through the examination papers, the more he looked at them, the more emotional he felt. Previously, there were 30 scholars in the Mingfa Department, but none of them were "celebrities from the Three Kingdoms". Looking at the Mingjing Department, Cui Jun, Shi Tao , Yang Yi, Xi Zhen, Yang Yong, Pang Lin, Liu Zhen, Pei Hui... It can be said that there are so many talents and stars.

And this also strengthened Liu Jing's determination to respect the law.

In view of the fact that the Confucian classics examination is based on Confucian classics, Liu Jingsheng was afraid of missing the talented but uneducated people. After reading the examination papers of the admitted candidates, he then looked through the examination papers of the unsuccessful candidates.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to see "Nanjun Ma Liang, with the word Jichang" written on a failed exam paper.

Ma Liang was the elder brother of Ma Di, who died in the Yiling Battle early in history, and his biography is lacklustre, and there is nothing surprising about it.But it is precisely because Ma Liang died early, and the proverb "Ma's Wuchang, Baimei is the best", left a lot of room for imagination, and his popularity is greater than that of many important ministers of the Three Kingdoms.

Liu Jing picked up Ma Liang's paper and read it carefully, a smile appeared on his face.

In this scientific examination, I don't know whether the examinees deliberately fell in love with him, or his calligraphy has become the object of imitation by government students. Anyway, there are not a few candidates who use his created Yankai and Xingshu to answer the paper.Ma Liang's writing is exactly Yan Kai, whose characters are strict and neat, and the shape is vigorous, and he has already achieved a lot of attainments.

There is no problem in the trial sense, no matter how you look at it, you should get an admission spot, so how could you lose it?

Liu Jingxin looked at Song Zhong with doubts, and asked, "Does the teacher know Ma Jichang? I think his test papers are quite outstanding, enough to be ranked first. Such a talent, why doesn't the teacher take it?"

Song Zhong seemed to have been prepared for a long time. He saw that he was stroking his beard, and he replied calmly: "Ma Jichang is intelligent and talented, a well-known academic officer, and he is Miannan Junyan. The reason why he didn't take it is because he is only sixteen this year, and he is just sixteen years old. It is time to concentrate on studying and accumulate knowledge, and it is really not advisable to enter an official position too early, so as not to overwhelm the seedlings and encourage them to grow, and it is difficult to become a pillar."

"What Zhongzi said is very true..." Qi Wukai and Sima Hui also held the same point of view.

Liu Jing didn't think so, and said: "How can age be used as a suspicion in selecting talents? If you don't use them because you are young, it will be difficult for Yan Hui to be the leader of virtues, and Ziqi will be unreasonable in the end."

Then Liu Jing took himself as an example and boasted: "Let's just talk about me. I have [-] prefectures and cities. I think I have a good way of governing. In the city, the tyrants steal, the profiteers and the cunning do not escape and hide. There is no fool in the city. Buming, the government is the crown of the counties. Today, fighting against traitors for Guoping and stabilizing the two prefectures of Jingjiao is worthy of the title of "pillar". Since I can become the pillar of the country, how do you know that Ma Jichang can't?"

How could Song Zhong and the others fail to understand Liu Jing's meaning, so naturally they would not sing against him again.

Seeing that he had successfully persuaded Song Zhong and the others with his words, Liu Jing was satisfied and put Ma Liang's test paper into the ranks of those admitted.

Afterwards, Liu Jing continued to look through the examination papers, looking for possible relics, but after reading all of them, he could not see any familiar names, nor did he see any examination papers that could be ranked first.

I have to admit that Song Zhong, Qi Wukai, Sima Hui and others are quite discerning in selecting talents. Except for Ma Liang who was defeated because of his youth, no other talents were left behind.

The admission list for the second round of examinations was finalized, with a total of [-] people.

The original plan of Liu Jing of the Mingjing Division was to admit a hundred people, and Ma Liang should replace one person logically, but this was too unfair to the person being replaced, so he simply admitted one more person, which was harmless.

(End of this chapter)