Li Gang couldn't understand why the officials paid so much attention to a simple answer sheet.

Li Gang directly took the answer sheet from Zhao Huan's hand and after reading it carefully, he realized that this was not the official's attention, but the official's expression of dissatisfaction!

"The candidate on Guangnan West Road, even if he came to Bianjing a few years ago, he came to Bianjing during the Xuanhe period."

Zhao Huan laughed angrily, pointed to the test paper in Li Gang's hand and said: "In all the prefectures and counties we passed through, we did not pick up things on the road, and we did not close our doors at night? How could such a scene appear on Guangnan West Road during the Xuanhe period?

Such a nonsense statement, not to mention whether I believe it or not, you ask him to go to the Emperor with this answer sheet and ask the Emperor whether he believes it or not?

But take a look at the last question and see how this candidate answered it. Is this a person who sacrifices his life for justice?

Idiots like this can't even figure out what's going on. They are full of calculations but want to appear righteous and iron-clad. Li Qing, tell me, how should I treat this candidate?"

Li Gang's face has turned red——

Li Gang didn't care about the official's overt and covert ridicule of Emperor Zhao Jixiang just now. Li Gang was ashamed of his previous thoughts!

Should those who can have it both ways be deposed?

Now looking at this answer sheet, Li Gang feels that even a candidate who wants to have his cake and eat it too, as long as his answers to the first and second questions are almost the same, he will definitely be better than the candidate who made the answer sheet in front of him.

A thousand times! Ten thousand times!

After understanding the key points here and having a deeper understanding of what Zhao Huan said about employing people, Li Gang directly bowed and said: "I'm a humble minister who is confused. Please punish me."

Zhao Huan waved his hand with a smile and said: "What's wrong with Li Qing? The palace examination is to sort out the good from the bad and select talents for the country. It seems that candidates with no morals and no conduct like this should be swept away by the waves and deposed.

I’ll just never hire you again.”

After casually comforting Li Gang, Zhao Huan ordered Wu Xin to go to the kitchen to prepare some food, and then took Li Gang, Li Ruobing, Shen Hao and others to start marking the papers overnight.

…

Three hundred and fifty-eight test papers, even if they were divided into several groups and reviewed together, would not take a moment. By the time all the papers were judged, the sky was already getting slightly brighter.

Li Gang frowned and said: "In a palace examination, more than 170 people, nearly half of them, will be deposed. Such a result is really heartbreaking."

After following Zhao Huan to review the test papers all night, and exchanging a few words about the evaluation of test questions from time to time, Li Gang's mentality has also changed significantly compared to before, and his entire governing thoughts have become closer.

Zhao Huan’s governing thoughts.

It is precisely because of this that Li Gang was extremely dissatisfied with the results of this palace examination.

It is said that the most important thing in the country lies in the sacrifice of the Rong army, but in Li Gang's view, the importance of talent selection examinations such as the imperial examination is no less important than the sacrifice of the Rong army!

It happened that the imperial examination in the first year of Jingkang caused such a big joke——

Three hundred and fifty-eight people took the exam, and more than one hundred and seventy people who were just trying to make up for the exam need to be deposed. What does this mean?

This is almost blatantly saying that one hundred years of culture and education in the Song Dynasty is a joke! It is also pointing at the noses of Li Gang and others and saying that the so-called prime ministers and ministers in the court are just a bunch of trash who eat nothing!

However, Zhao Huan is not as pessimistic as Li Gang. Instead, he is very satisfied with the results of this palace examination——

According to Zhao Huan's plan, several people may be admitted to this palace examination, or none may be admitted. Now there are actually more than 180 people admitted, and there are a dozen of them who are relatively good. Miao Zi, this has far exceeded Zhao Huan's original psychological bottom line.

If Zhao Huan considers a relatively good seedling, even if he does not reach the level of a prime minister, he at least has the potential and value to be trained to the level of six ministers. Moreover, with the further spread of sociology in the future, the number of leeks will also increase. There will definitely be more and more wild talents that are worth cultivating or that don’t even need to be cultivated.

"There are actually fifteen people who can look forward to the future, which is far beyond my expectation."

After comforting Li Gang, Zhao Heng continued: "Send these fifteen people to the Forbidden Army for two years, and then go to the border army for three years. After they come back, they will be thrown into the Sixth Army to practice for half a year, and then thrown away Become a local official."

When Zhao Huan said this, Li Gang had not spoken yet, but Shen Hao was not happy: "Guan Jia, think twice! After all, it has been ten years, and these fifteen people are the most outstanding in this palace examination. The officials let They go to the Forbidden Army to practice, even if they don't have any ideas in their hearts, it is still a loss to the court."

Li Gang couldn't help but echoed: "I agree. Two years for the banned army and three years for the border army, which adds up to five years. In five years, I am afraid that the edges of these people will be smoothed, and the strength of these people will be wasted." Over the years, it is the court that has been lost."

"I have made up my mind, please don't try to persuade me anymore."

Zhao Huan waved his hand and said: "When the emperor's eldest son gets older, he will also join the army for training. Why, the emperor's eldest son goes to the army, but these people can't go? What's more, I have no intention of forcing these people to enter the army. , just give them this opportunity.”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Huan simply stood up from the dragon chair, walked around and said: "As the saying goes, to become a general or to become a prime minister, if you have never been in the army and don't know military affairs, how can you become a general? If you don't understand officialdom and people's livelihood, how can you become a general? Mutually?

To put it bluntly, I think highly of them and that’s why I gave them this opportunity to serve as a testing stone. If they can’t seize it, then I can’t blame them.”

Li Gang did not give up, and continued to persuade: "After all, a sword has no eyesight, if..."

"Then they should blame themselves for their misfortune. The most important thing in the Song Dynasty is people. There are so many people who want to be officials, and there are so many people with both talent and virtue. They are not short of them."

Zhao Huan sat back on the chair and said nonchalantly: "The instructor who will teach them will be the best instructor in the Forbidden Army, and the equipment given to them will also be the equipment currently in service of the Forbidden Army. They will develop their skills in the army and learn from the battlefield. After surviving, it is entirely up to them whether they will become generals or ministers, or spend a few years wandering around."

Just like that person who said that Prussia's victory had long been decided on the podium of primary school teachers, Zhao Huan also planned to start with these people in his plan to transform the Great Song Dynasty Hall.

After all, no matter how awesome the emperor is, he is only one person, and he cannot do everything by himself - if you have that time, is it not better to do some debauchery in the harem than to worry every day?

The future of the Song Dynasty still depends more on the efforts of the leeks to shine rather than just relying on themselves as the emperor.
Chapter completed!