Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 149 Recruiting Scribes
The controversy in front of the Kaifeng mansion was soon reported to Li Buqi, but at the pre-booked dinner to celebrate Yixue teacher Zhongju, Li Buqi just thanked them for upholding justice with a few simple words.

The scholars who teach in Yixue this time may have to stand up when others ignore the facts because of their integrity, but after all, someone has spoken for Li Buqi, and this is a good start.

All six teachers who took the exam for this subject passed the exam.If he gets a few Jinshi exams, he will always be able to help Li Buqi in the officialdom in the future.After all, Li Buqi has been with them for two or three years, and has subtly infiltrated many things beyond this era. The thinking of these people is not exactly the same as that of the original Song people.

This is the harvest, although it is slow, it always has an effect.Li Buqi thought that his experiment was considered a success, and the next step was to make a big one.

After the autumn, Zhou Qing also came back from Dengzhou.This time he reached the mouth of the Tumen River and found some natives there.Because there is no interpreter, I dare not say that it is the Jurchens, but fortunately, those natives were very interested in the iron arrowheads and glass beads in Zhou Qing's hands, so they exchanged various things, and Zhou Qing returned with a full reward.

There are not many wild ginseng in exchange, there are only a dozen large and small, and only one of them weighs more than eight taels, which is considered a treasure.There are also great bundles of skins from mink, fox, squirrel, deer, roe deer, bear, lynx, leopard and tiger.They are all the finest furs. These furs alone are worth tens of thousands of guan on Jingdong Road.In addition to these, there are gold, bear bile, tiger bone, leopard bone, antler, antler, wood frog oil, cistanche, and ganoderma.All in all, it was a great trip.

Of course, the best things should be given to the emperor, and the rest will be divided among Li Buqi and several nobles who have invested in the capital according to the amount of investment.Everyone including the emperor expressed satisfaction with the harvest of this voyage, and they are all planning to send two more ships there next year.

Compared with these economic interests, Li Buqi is more concerned about the situation of Tamra Island.Zhou Qing said that when he returned to the island, he went to the island to meet Luo Tong, Shi Feng and others, and saw that they had built some houses by building stones, cultivated fields, and learned to go fishing in the sea.Now they teach the natives on the island to farm, and the doctors who went with them also treat the locals, and the two sides get along very well.However, Zhou Qing also said that the original information on Tamna Island was wrong. He originally thought that there were only a few thousand natives on the island, but Luo Tong and others determined that the population of the island was more than [-] after field investigation.In contrast, the population of the rebel army is too thin.

This is also impossible.Li Buqi lacks connections in the local area. If a large number of people are transferred, it will be easy to be discovered and cause trouble.He could only sigh: "I have nothing to do about the population. I can only take my time."

But Zhou Qing said: "The officials don't need to worry about this matter. In fact, there is a solution on Jingdong Road."

Never underestimate the creativity of your subordinates, Li Buqi immediately became interested: "Tell me."

Zhou Qing said: "Jingdong Road is the same as everywhere else. There are many fleeing families hiding in the deep mountains and seas. Last year, Jingdong Road was hit by a disaster again. The big households took the opportunity to merge, and many people had no food and clothing. Just let the wind out and say that there is a place overseas." Wherever they can live, people will naturally go to them.”

Li Buqi said: "This matter must be kept secret, and the local government must not find out."

Zhou Qing laughed: "As long as you have money, those officials will definitely be blind."

Li Buqi said: "Okay, you can do it. You were originally assigned to be pirates. This identity can be used appropriately, and it will pave the way for future things."

Zhou Qing bowed and said, "Yes. I will go back to Dengzhou to handle this matter in the next few days, and I will see how many more seals have been caught by the way."

After the fall of the autumn period, scholars from all over the country went to Beijing one after another, even if it was not the coldest day to hurry, but also to inquire about news and learn skills after arriving in Beijing.

The news that Li Buqi got from the little official of the Ministry of Rites is that there are more than 2 candidates in various places this time, and 830 nine people were admitted in the last subject of Jinshi and other subjects, and this subject will not be too many, so The admission ratio is about one-thirtieth.Therefore, most of these exams will not pass the exam.Among those who failed the exam are hidden dragons and crouching tigers. Selecting the elite will be of great use in the future.

For example, many applicants from poor families are actually of higher quality than those from rich families, but the circle they live in determines that their knowledge is relatively poor. Many people simply fail in the first round because no one teaches the test-taking skills. will be brushed off.But give them a chance to make up for these shortcomings, and they will be able to compete with those rich kids.

As the saying goes, the children of the poor headed home early.Since you are a child of a poor family, you shouldn't be indifferent to the four limbs and the five grains, right?Should you have some understanding of the sufferings of the people?Li Buqi didn't dare to expect them to be more concerned about the interests of the country and the people when they become officials than the current officials, but they should be more reliable in doing things, right?It shouldn't be just lip service, right?
From the time the first batch of candidates arrived in Beijing, Li Buqi sent people to post notices in middle and low-end hotels everywhere, recruiting scribes to copy books for the library.The conditions are very good, providing board and lodging, flexible working hours, providing scientific examination guidance, and the selected candidates can also use the books in the library.The last two are too lethal to poor families.

Of course, there are many restrictions on the recruitment conditions. Firstly, applicants must be admitted, secondly, they must prove that their families are poor, and thirdly, applicants from places like Shaanxi, Jinghu, and Guangnan that have always had fewer Jinshi examinations are given priority.And applicants must pass the exam.The exam is also divided into three steps. First, you have to take out your favorite articles and ask the examiner to comment, then you have to pass the written test, and finally you have to pass the interview.

Every year, there are poor people in the exams. Some even return to their hometowns without money after the exam, so they can only wander in the capital and wait for the next subject to take the exam.So as soon as this recruitment notice was posted, it attracted some poor people's minds.What's more, Li Buqi still has a lot of halos on his head. Although he is disliked by scholars, he at least has a reputation for being kind and charitable.

As a result, there was an endless stream of applicants who went to Lijiazhuangzi outside the city to apply for jobs. Those who were accepted soon began to copy books, and those who were rejected would also get a copy of Dingdu's Pinyin and Zhuyin "New Editing Correction" "Rhyme" and "Jade Pian", a guidance book for the examination of the Ministry of Rites.This is really a great help to those candidates who have no spare money to buy books, so the disadvantaged candidates all say the benefits of Li Buqi.

In this way, the later poor family members all wanted to try their luck in Lijiazhuangzi, and if there were newcomers, they would look for fellow villagers and learn from classmates.

In the dimly lit tavern, several Shaanxi juzi in linen clothes were muttering about this matter.After drinking a few bowls of sour wine, a young man in his early twenties said: "Actually, if you are going to work, just go. The salary given by Mr. Li is very generous. It is consistent every month, and the board and lodging are not bad. Moreover, the time for copying books is set according to the number of words, as long as they are copied on time, it will not delay friends and literary meetings. It is just that the books cannot be taken out, they must be copied in Zhuangzi, and they must not be defaced. There are rules for everything. Ultimately The wonderful thing is that in addition to the various writings in the classics and history collections in the library, there are also past exam papers, and after reading it, I realized that it will take a lot of work if I want to pass the exam."

"Oh, brother Li said so, isn't the younger brother even more hopeless?"

"That's not necessarily the case. Mr. Li is also preparing for the exam. He said that the collection of test papers is full of top-notch articles, such as Fan Xianggong and Ouyang Yongshu. We are absolutely inferior. But as long as we wait Articles that are better than those in the middle and lower reaches can be ranked first, so don’t belittle yourself.”

"That makes sense. But I don't know what to test for a job?"

"It's not difficult to rely on. If your article is approved, it will be a written test. You only need to write an article and then answer some questions."

"what is the problem?"

"It's nothing. For example, if your family is a farmer, you will ask what you have planted, when you planted it, when you fertilized it, etc. The one who took the exam at the same time as me had a family by the sea, so he wrote about fishing and cooking salt. I can see that those who don’t distinguish the five grains and don’t work hard will not succeed.”

"So simple? What about the interview?"

"The interview is to give you a book, read a paragraph, and see how much you can memorize. If you can't memorize it, you can talk about your own opinions. In addition, you will be asked a few questions, most of which are related to what you answered during the written test. , the answer is truthful.”

A scholar wondered: "This Li Daguan is really playing tricks. Why is he doing this?"

"Mr. Li said that his mind is very simple, that is, those who don't want to be officials are nerds with no knowledge of the world and ministers who can only recite poems and poems."

(End of this chapter)