At this moment, all other thoughts disappeared.

More than 500 scholars stood up one after another, lined up under the orders and leadership of the officials, and began to walk towards the main hall.

There, their destiny awaits them.

Zhao He looked at the more than 500 neatly silly geese in front of him, and felt a little moved.

Even these guys want to govern the country for me, I don’t know how many of them can truly connect theory to reality, rather than the kind of waste who only talks about paper.

Zhao He took back his mind and said slowly: "Since the Er Sanzi can stand in front of me, it has proved your excellence and excellence. Today's palace examination must be a turning point for your life. There are competitions and rankings. This is normal, but a competition cannot determine your life. What will happen to your life? After all, it depends on your efforts and struggles. Do you understand?"

After Zhao He finished speaking, many scholars said in unison: "Here!"

Zhao He glanced at Qiu Ye and said, "Qiu Qing, come and announce the final ranking."

Qiu Ye, one of the two examiners, stepped forward, holding a list in his hand and said loudly: "This examination has been reviewed twice by the examiners and examiners and submitted to the king for review and approval. The rankings are as follows:"

Qiu Ye paused slightly, then continued: "The first place in the palace examination - Xunzi!"

"Second place: Zhou Zheng!"

"Third place: Chen Qi!"

“Fourth place…”

There was silence in the hall, but huge waves had already been set off in the hearts of all the scholars.

Many people secretly stared at Xunzi with a shocked expression on their faces.

It turned out to be... Xunzi again?

The first exam, the academy exam, the palace exam, and the palace exam were the first!

Especially Zhou Zheng, a scholar of the Legalists who had just comforted Xunzi, looked extremely complicated at this moment.

Zhao He's eyes also fell on Xunqiu. Zhao He thought that this great scholar who was younger than him was still relatively objective.

Everyone, including Zhao He, knew from the beginning of the imperial examination, that the final first name was either Confucianism or the law.

After the decline of another great scholar, Confucianism and Legalism led the controversy among the academic community, while the other became the ruling program of the monarchs of major powers. It was no surprise that a peak collision occurred in such a competition.

Just from the Legal Program, Zhouzheng is undoubtedly even better.

In terms of Confucianism, Chen Qi, who came from the Confucian family of the Academy, was also very thorough.

But when it comes to learning from the strengths of the two schools and integrating Confucianism and Law into one, it is obvious that only Xunzi can do it.

When Zhao He looked at Xunzi's test paper, he even felt like he had seen the book "Xunzi" in later generations.

Finally, after almost two quarters of an hour, all the names were recited.

Zhao He stood up and walked to all the scholars.

"Xunzi, come out."

Xunzi's body was shocked and he immediately went out to perform a great ceremony: "My minister Xunzi is here."

Zhao He nodded, looked around and spoke slowly.

"The first name Xunzi is chosen by me. I know that many people here may be confused, wondering if it is because of my preferences, or because of Gao Tangjun, or something else."

"I want to tell you that you are all wrong."

"What are you doing? It is the future of Zhao State, it is you, it is the future of thousands of people in the world!"

"Some people say that the Legalists are domineering and Confucianism is kingly. I think this statement is very good."

"But I find it very strange, because I discovered something that Confucianism and Legalists never seem to deal with. It seems that after you learn Confucianism, you will become a bit of a Legalist in your theory and become unforgivable and unforgivable."

"I think this is not good. This world has never been black or white. We cannot look at problems so one-sided and narrow-minded."

"Is domineering useful? Of course it is useful. We will not show mercy for all enemies blocking our Zhao State. We must use thunder to eliminate them and eliminate future troubles forever! This is the domineering nature of our Zhao State."

"But we can't just use domineering. There are 30 million people in the whole world. How many of our Zhao State are there? Three million, four million, five million? If we kill all the other 20 million people, can we defend such a large territory with the millions of people in our Zhao State? No."

"Is the kingly way useful? Of course it is also useful. For those who were our enemies but now surrender to us wholeheartedly, we use the kingly way to educate them, so that they can eventually become a Zhao person from Qi, Yan, Chu, Rong, Di, and Yi people. The so-called "the sea embraces all rivers, and tolerance is great" is what we should do with the kingly way."

"In this way, we don't need to pay too much to gain more than 20 million people from Zhao like us. Isn't that great?"

"But we cannot just use the kingly way. What will it become? It will become compromise and appeasement! This is wrong. We must also pay attention to distinguishing and seeing which ones really want to become Zhao people, and which ones just pretend to be Zhao people, but actually have other plans. For the former, we use the kingly way to welcome them and accommodate them. For the latter, we use the domineering to eliminate them."

Zhao He stretched out his hands.

"Did you see these two hands of me? No one wants to lose any hand, and Domineering and Kingly Dao are the two hands of Da Zhao Laiyi sweeping the world. Do you understand?"

"Once upon a time, the domineering and the kingly way were fighting to the death, I could understand."

"But now-time has changed, everyone."

"Our stage has become much wider than before. There is still so much land waiting for us to conquer and so many people waiting for us to educate."

"Why do we still stick to the differences between this theory, and why do we need to develop such narrow-minded views instead of focusing on the broader world and displaying our talents?"

"A great man I respect very much once said this sentence - 'Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth'. Today, I will give you this sentence."

"Do things well, do practical things, and do good things. This is what I expect from you."

"Xunzi is my example to you."

"Today, I believe that every scholar present is proud to be an official in Zhao State. I hope that in the near future, I and the thousands of people of Zhao State will be proud to have officials like you!"

Zhao He suddenly raised his tone: "Tell me, can you do it?"

After a brief silence, a wave of sound suddenly broke out.

"able!!!"
Chapter completed!