I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 367, Drought in Jizhou
An hour passed quickly, and candidates from the examination room came out one after another!

And Tian Chou didn't leave the examination room after handing in the paper, but waited for Xian Yuping and the others to come out!
After seeing them, he walked over and asked, "How did you do in the exam?"

Lu Dun frowned and said: "I don't know. I only said to write a 500-word essay, but I didn't delineate the scope. I don't know if my essay can be taken by the examiners! The number of words is too small, so I am not used to it. This piece of policy should be the worst I have ever done in my life!"

So few words and so little time, it was such a pain for Luton, it was as if the talk had just begun and ended!
Gongsun Xu smiled wryly and said: "Yes, 500 words is too little. When I wrote the Border County Strategy, I wrote thousands of words casually. Later, I continued to revise and reduce the number, but it was still much more than that!"

Xian Yuping reassured: "Write more, it should be fine!"

Tian Chou asked, "Guoan, what strategy did you write?"

Xian Yuping said: "Regarding the strategy of ocean development, I have stayed on the island of Youzhou for more than two years, and found that there is incomparably huge wealth in the sea, but we have not developed it before. The ocean is a huge wealth. If Jizhou Even if we develop the struvite on the island, or learn from the government to fish fish, there will not be millions of refugees!"

Tian Chou nodded and said: "Indeed, the ocean is a huge wealth, we have ignored this before!"

But Xian Yuping also smiled wryly: "I just wrote a few briefly! There is too little time!"

An hour is really not enough to write a policy theory!
The few were silent for a while. They found that this exam was their worst performance, and they felt a little panic in their hearts for a while!
And at this moment, several people passed by them, discussing about the exam!
"500 words are too difficult to write. I don't understand many words. I can't win even if I flip through the books. I just can't find the words I don't understand!"

"That's right! It would be great if there is a book that can be used to look up words. This time the book will not be too much of a problem to bring into the examination room!"

Another laughed and said, "You don't know how to write in pinyin, but the 500-word article is indeed the longest article I've ever written! It took me a long time to write 500 words!"

After hearing these people's words, Tian Chou's confidence seems to be back. With such an opponent, their strategy doesn't seem to be too bad!

At the same time, after the exam, hundreds of examiners headed by Jia Xu continued to correct the test papers!

"That shit doesn't make any sense!" Jia Xu saw the test paper with circles of crosses, and immediately made a big cross with a red pen!
"Bullshit!" This is really eye-catching, a tenth of the 500-word article is pinyin!Such a person dares to take the imperial examination, I can't even imagine it!
Jia Xu's correction speed is very fast. If you can read it well, you can check it and pass it. If you don't understand it, you can basically correct it with a glance!Articles like Tian Chou’s can be said to be non-existent. Jia Xu felt that he was going to be sick, and the other examiners were the same. Not pass, so the correction process is very fast, only [-] test papers for one person
At this time Xu Wei came to the examination room and asked Jia Xu, "Wenhe, how is the quality of this batch of candidates?"

Jia Xu shook his head and said, "It is still necessary to set a threshold for governing!"

Then he took out some big forks of the article and said: "Letting this kind of person take the imperial examination will not only reduce the quality of the imperial examination, but also waste a lot of energy! Such a person is not a scholar at all!"

Jia Xu looked disdainful, and couldn't even write all the words, which deserves to be called a scholar!

After reading these articles, Xu Wei showed nostalgic expressions. This is really similar to the articles written by elementary school students in his previous life.
But for Xu Wei, this is already a success. Don’t look at the candidate’s essays all relying on pinyin, but at least 3000 commonly used characters should be known. This is considered to be out of illiteracy. There are many words that I don’t know!Literacy education in Youzhou is still very successful!After all, it has only been ruled here for two years.

But Xu Wei said: "This is the threshold. Those who can't even learn such a small composition well are obviously scumbags! Such people still need to study for a few more years!"

Then Xu Wei looked at some of the ticked compositions, most of them were barely readable, but there were a few good-quality classical Chinese essays, Xu Wei could roughly see the meaning of the articles, and there were quite a few people who wrote them in 500 words. With a strategy, it can be regarded as a talent.

No need to look at the name, Xu Wei knew that this should be the son of a powerful family. They have studied the Six Classics of Confucianism for more than ten years to have such a literary talent!But Xu Wei didn't care, firstly, he didn't rely on strategy to select talents, and secondly, no matter how beautifully written the strategy was, that is to say, it was a matter of becoming a small official with hundreds of stones.For Xu Wei, governing the country through science and engineering is the kingly way. In the future, there will be more people who read basic mathematics than the Analects.

Even Xu Wei was wondering if he would also come up with an allusion of Nine Chapters to rule the world, so as to show the world that he attaches great importance to mathematics!A few mathematicians are much more meaningful than a few great Confucianists. After all, great Confucianists always make big circles in the words of Confucius, and mathematicians can really change the world. At least the industrial age needs a lot of mathematical talents!
Xu Wei stayed here for an hour, and Jia Xu and the others also finished grading the test papers, and then reported to Xu Weihui: "In power, 3520 people passed the first round of imperial examinations!"

Xu Wei was a little surprised. After all, Youzhou had only been in his hands for two years. Simple literacy education not only trained 30000 elementary school students, but also trained more than 3000 middle school students, which really exceeded his expectations!

Xu Wei said: "These people will be regarded as children in the future, and they can start from the second round of the next imperial examination. Of course, if they want to enter politics, they can also start as officials!"

Fighting officials are not even village chiefs anymore, but the lowest-level clerks in counties and counties, but at least they have entered the civil service system of Dagan!It can be regarded as serving the iron rice bowl.

Jia Xu nodded, and then asked, "Government, when will the second imperial examination be held?"

Xu Wei said: "The list of passers will be posted today, and the second exam will start tomorrow!"

On the afternoon of the day when the exams were over, Ji County posted the list of those who passed the exam!
The 3 examinees gathered around the list, and those who passed the exam were naturally overjoyed, and those who failed the exam kept looking for their names!
The four of Tian Chou were happy to find that they all passed the exam, and as they continued to see their familiar companions, Tian Chou and the others seemed to realize at this time that the difficulty of this exam was very low, and basically all of them passed the exam. middle!

Xian Yuping didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It turns out that anyone who really writes a 500-word essay can get in. This imperial examination is too easy!"

Lu Dun thought for a while and suddenly realized: "This is not about selecting talents, Lang Guan, you didn't see it said above, those who pass the exam can become fighters, even if we come to the second round, we can only become hundred stones." Li Zheng, what kind of policy does such an official need to know! As long as he knows how to collect taxes and tell the people about the imperial court's announcement, that's enough!"

Tian Chou said: "We think too much. In fact, we can pass by just writing 500 characters to prove that we know how to read! It won't be too difficult to come to the second round. What the ruler is looking for is not a unparalleled national scholar, but a large number of small officials who do things. After all, it took only a few years for Dagan to expand from one county to three states. There is a lack of a large number of officials, and Dagan has power to go to the village. He wants several times more officials than Dahan. Now Dagan needs a lot of officials. Officials come to do things, so the government uses the imperial examination method to recruit talents!"

Tian Chou's statement was approved by Xianyuping people. After all, 3000 people will be selected this time, and there are thousands of people in Guangyou Prefecture. With such a large number, they are embarrassed to say that they are unparalleled.

But they were very bitter in their hearts. They all regarded themselves as peerless national scholars, but they didn't realize that they were just petty officials in the eyes of the ruling party!

The next day, the examination room was still the same, the process was the same as yesterday, but there were 10 times fewer candidates.

The test papers were sent out soon, but Tian Chou found that the math test this time was full of test papers, with a total of one hundred questions.

Tian Chou has not yet dealt with the previous four arithmetic operations. Even if he encounters a symbol that he does not understand, he can find the meaning of the symbol in a mathematics book, and then write the answer according to the method he learned from the nine chapters of arithmetic.But when it comes to geometry and algebra in intermediate mathematics, Tian Chou doesn't understand many topics. He has to look through the books to find formulas, and do calculations at the same time.This time he was not as relaxed as last time. After an hour of the exam, he still had more than a dozen questions to answer!
After the exam, the four of Tian Chou gathered together again!
"I haven't solved more than a dozen questions?" Tian Chou was the first to say.

Xian Yuping said dejectedly: "I know more than you, obviously I know a lot, but I just can't figure it out!"

Lu Dun smiled wryly: "I'm probably a little higher than the passing grade!"

Gongsun Xu said helplessly: "I can't even pass the exam. I didn't do half of it. It seems that I can only start as a fighter! If I knew that mathematics is so important, I would study Jiuzhang arithmetic seriously!"

However, with the experience of last time, the few people asked other people to ask about their exam situation, and found that everyone else did not do well in the exam!This made them feel more relaxed. If everyone is not good, they might still have a chance to pass the exam!

But when they looked at the list the next day, they were extremely surprised. In their opinion, hundreds of people got full marks on the extremely difficult test paper. After observing, they found that most of them were students from Ji County Academy. .And there are quite a few of them with high scores, but they are the children of the powerful and noble families. Although they all passed the first round, more than half of them were passed in the second round of the exam. The only luck is that they passed the first round of the exam. If you work as a fighting official, and if you don't distinguish between officials and officials, fighting officials can also be promoted. This can be regarded as a blessing among misfortunes!
Among them, Tian Chou had the highest score, but it was only 76 points, and the ranking even reached 233, while the others were even worse, but they were lucky to find that several of them were above the 1000, which means they passed the exam!
After several people passed the exam, they found a tavern to celebrate. After drinking for three rounds, Tian Chou was drunk and said: "It seems that Dagan will rule the world with mathematics instead of Confucianism. If we want to go further in the future, we need to learn mathematics well! Everyone even Don't give up learning mathematics even if you become Li Zheng, our future is definitely beyond that of a petty official like Li Zheng!"

Lu Dun said: "That's right, a gentleman should strive for self-improvement, and we must strengthen our studies in the future!"

The vigorous imperial examination ended like this, but to Xu Wei, it was just a relatively large civil servant examination, not a big deal.People who passed the first round of the exam have enriched the counties and counties of Youzhou and became clerks. The industrialization of Youzhou has been continuously strengthened, and the city needs more civil servants than big men. Their arrival hastened the development of the city. development of culture.

The scholars who passed the second round of the exam were assigned to the villages of Youzhou. They followed the old village head to learn how to deal with farmers and deal with the daily trivial matters in the countryside.After studying for a month, you will be assigned to Liaodong. After all, this imperial examination is mainly to send talents to Liaodong!
And Tian Chou and the others have no complaints about going to Liaodong. They are familiar with the officialdom and know how rare opportunities to climb up are, especially if they are in the new dynasty, they must seize every opportunity they can seize to climb up, because this time they are one step ahead , and will lead step by step in the future.

Going to Liaodong to become the head of the village, it takes three years to change a county magistrate, in their opinion, it is worthwhile, and another three years to change a county magistrate, this has broken through the restrictions imposed on them by the big man. It is basically impossible to contaminate the prefect of 2000 stones, that is to say, there is such a chance in the new dynasty like Dagan!Tian Chou and the others all signed up to assist the Liaodong Governor's Mansion.

After presiding over the examination in Ji County, Xu Wei came to Jizhou!
It is now mid-June, and the drought in the Central Plains is becoming more and more obvious, and it has begun to spread to Jizhou. The water level of the entire Jizhou river continues to drop, and many creeks and rivers have stopped flowing. Jizhou villages are competing for water everywhere. Faced with In such a situation, Zhang Baiqi also slowed down the import of immigrants, and informed Xu Wei of the situation!
When Xu Wei came to Jizhou, there was drought everywhere in Jizhou, especially the fields far away from the river, which were almost cracked.

Seeing this scene, Xu Wei asked Zhang Baiqi, "Don't you say that you want to build water conservancy facilities in Jizhou, why is Jizhou still like this!"

Zhang Baiqi said helplessly: "I didn't expect that Jizhou would suffer from drought this year. Most of the people in the first two months were working hard to restore the wasteland. The time for real water conservancy repairs was only these two months, but the water conservancy repairs in this time The facility can save not much food, only the wheat close to the water source, and it would be a blessing if the grain and grass production in Jizhou this year can be the same as last year!"

You must know that a few months ago, Zhang Baiqi told Xu Wei to find a way to double the food in Jizhou, but now a drought has made Zhang Baiqi's half-year efforts all in vain!

Seeing the drought, Xu Wei said helplessly: "I will grant you [-] million yuan of drought relief funds to build wells, canals, waterwheels and windmills! Build waterwheels and canals where there is water, and build waterways where there is no water. Well, build a windmill!"

Now in this situation, we can only find ways to expand the scope of water conservancy facilities, and we can also use work as relief to relieve the people in Jizhou.

However, this method also has limitations. Some small rivers and streams are dry, and it is useless to build canals and waterwheels.At this time, wells need to be drilled. In this era, the groundwater is basically not developed, and the water level is very high. Basically, if you drill a few meters down, there will be water!But this method of using a big man to carry water will exhaust people to death, not to mention that it is not very efficient!Build a windmill and use the principle of siphon to lift water. Such a windmill can irrigate thousands of acres of land. This irrigation method has become very popular in Bingzhou.

(End of this chapter)