My name is Guqi. I never expected that I would have a disease called "state banquet phobia".

I especially remember that when His Highness of Qin King first arrived in Qinchuan, he first opened a state banquet and took the initiative to donate 100,000 grain for Qinchuan's severe drought.

With His Highness the King of Qin leading an example, all the Qinchuan tribes, without exception, donated special donations with their noses.

The attitude he had at that time was that His Highness, the King of Qin, had just arrived in Qinchuan and spent money to buy peace. He had no need to offend this king of the country for this matter.

So I spent my first state banquet safely like spending money to eliminate disasters.

At that time, the heads of the Qinchuan clan's clan leader were still thinking in their hearts that the new official took office for three reasons, but they did not expect that they would spend the money safely by donating some food and grass.

But that's true. After all, His Highness the King of Qin is only a twelve-year-old young vassal king. No matter how much he burns it, can he still burn the entire Qinchuan County?

In addition, after the first state banquet, His Highness of Qin was inexplicably waving and went straight to inspect the border without saying hello...

This trip lasted for three months, which made all the Qinchuan tribes feel relieved.

It seems that there will be no big change in the existence of the lord of Qin on this day...

Then, after His Highness the King of Qin returned to Hanyang, the second national banquet was officially held for the celebration of disaster relief and helping the people.

During this state banquet, although all the fine wine and delicious food and delicacies were complete, the Qinchuan tribes would rather eat crudely and simple food like the first state banquet.

It’s just because this first state banquet only costs money, but this second state banquet is really fatal!!

A tax reform strategy of "spreading acres into acres, and land into a combination of one" was released, so it was like half a life for the entire Qinchuan clan!

In particular, His Highness the King of Qin even lies in ambushing the armored soldiers and beheaded the five clan leaders on the spot with tough measures to show their public!

This made this state banquet undoubtedly a gloom that could not be erased in the hearts of the Qinchuan tribes for a long time...

So under the iron-blooded method of His Highness the Qin King, a group of Qinchuan clans attended the third Qin State Banquet with fear.

But unexpectedly, the third state banquet was calm. Not only did there not any bloodshed, but the Qinchuan tribes were greatly surprised!

It is just because His Highness, not only did he reward all the strange things of the aristocratic clans and the Western Regions, but he also ordered the two aristocratic clans to be Maocai, directly recommended the court, and even entrusted important tasks on the spot!

Such actions have naturally made the Qinchuan tribes extremely happy!

Just because His Highness Qin's actions were so good, it was obvious that three fires had finally burned out!

Those disobedient aristocratic races have become yesterday and ended up being killed.

As for the remaining aristocratic races today, they have finally survived the three fires of new officials taking office!

Even if you have been burned, at least you can still keep it up, which is much better than the end of death and death.

So after the third state banquet, the Qinchuan tribes who still remained relieved and no longer had to worry about His Royal Highness Qin's sudden idea and making trouble.

In this way, the peaceful life in the border county finally returned to normal.

Until the arrival of the fourth Qin State Banquet...

It was this state banquet that made the heads of the patriarchs, who were in their sixties or seventies, suddenly realized that they were still too young...

When His Highness of Qin announced that in the future, the selection of officials in Qin would be replaced by the imperial examination system, and not limited by his background, but only by his talent and learning.

The entire hall was speechless, silent...

The patriarchs and heads of the clan leaders were about to speak, but suddenly they remembered His Highness the elegant and easy-going and amiable manner of acting...

So they stopped talking wisely and responded with sparse but extremely lively applause on the spot.

So in a peaceful and cheerful atmosphere of the host and the guests were all happy, the Qin imperial examination system was officially announced and began to be implemented in the middle school!

However, when the imperial examination system was officially implemented, Zhao Zheng suddenly realized that it was threatening and forcing... Oh no, it was just the beginning of everything that was inspired by these Qinchuan tribes to agree to the imperial examination system.

If you really want to implement the imperial examination system in Qin, there are still too many problems that arise...

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The first issue is that when the imperial examination system is implemented in detail, the places where students can study and take exams, that is, the official Qin State school or academies must be solved.

This question is quite simple. In the face of major national affairs such as educating the people and selecting officials, the prefect Yaofei seemed to be extremely wise.

However, after His Highness the King of Qin summoned him to meet and give in to him, he took the initiative to vacate the county seat again.

He brought a group of Qinchuan officials to a smaller official residence not far away.

This is the third large-scale relocation of the county government after His Highness Qin took office and moved the Qin Palace...

Although this is helpless, there is no way.

Who made Hanyang City so poor and ragged, although it was the capital of a county and a country?

So urgently, I couldn't even find a mansion of the same size?

After solving the problem of the place of the school, Zhao Zheng faced the second problem that followed.

Where did the teachers in the school come from?

It should be noted that in Zhao Zheng's plan, this institution not only shoulders the important task of selecting talents for Qin, but more importantly, it is to cultivate talents for Qin!

Since you want to cultivate talents, you must have a teacher to teach students!

But now, where can we find so many teachers with both virtue and talent?

But if there is no teacher, how can we cultivate more talents for my use?

Faced with the question of whether there is a chicken or an egg first, Zhao Zheng fell into deep thought...

After thinking hard but failed, Zhao Zheng chose to skip this part for the time being and talk about it after he came up with a solution in the future.

After all, the most urgent task at the moment is to recruit a group of talents. As for the long-term solution of cultivating talents, we will continue to do it in the future.

So Zhao Zheng was very wise and directly made a big speech in the county, publicizing the new policy of Qin, and encouraging poor families and even civilians Guizhou leaders to participate in the open talent selection of Qin!

In order to ensure the fairness and justice of the registration for this open selection and prevent anyone from making trouble in it, Zhao Zheng deliberately bypassed the prefect Yaofei and chose to appoint the honest and honest clerk Hao Zhen as the chief examiner to deal with the matter with full authority.

Although Hao Zhen also belongs to the Qinchuan clan, it is hard to say that he will not favor the children of other clans, when no one is available at hand, he can only draw the general from the short and simple son, let Hao Zhen, a loyal and honest man, go first.

After all, judging from Hao Zhen’s current performance, especially the words he recorded on his daily life, he is really an honest and reliable, trustworthy and honest person!

But this time, this honest man recognized by the Qinchuan clan seemed to disappoint His Highness, the King of Qin who trusted him...

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"Hao Zhen! You guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes! Do you dare to deceive me?!"

He heard the sound of "bang", which recorded the list of bamboo slips that were selected for the institution this time. He was immediately furious and threw them in front of Hao Zhen!

"My king! I'm wronged!"

When Hao Zhen heard this, he knelt on the ground in shock, and kowtowed continuously like planting onions. He exclaimed in panic!

"Since I have the trust of my king, I am afraid but still not too late. How dare I deceive my king?!"

"Then the list of talent selection! Why are there 8 or 10 children of aristocratic families?!"

Zhao Zheng was furious and pointed to the list of talent selections scattered around the ground and asked in anger on the spot!

In order to prevent the aristocratic families from using their family forces to influence this public selection, he specifically advised Hao Zhen clearly that every talent selected to be registered must clearly mark their family background so that they can see it clearly during the final review.

Therefore, this long list of talent selection (initial draft review) can be seen most intuitively with just a glance at the children of aristocratic families and many poor families.

So in this situation, Zhao Zheng glanced over with a vigorous look, but found that wherever he saw, eight out of ten were selected by the children of aristocratic clans. How could he not immediately change his color and become furious?

"That's true, I'm the king! I know that my king's imperial examination is intended to be fair and just, and to select talents for the country! Therefore, during the assessment, all the poor families never dared to despise them at all, and even treated them with preferential treatment!"

Hao Zhen hurriedly explained, and was so anxious that he almost cried!

"Why...but how could there be such a ridiculous list?!"

Zhao Zheng couldn't help but stagnate when he heard this. He knew that Hao Zhen's words should be true, but why did the final list of talent selection still account for the vast majority of the number of famous families?

"Report to my king! This conclusion is not because my ministers favor the children of the aristocratic race! In fact, most of the poor children are limited by their family background and have learned very little! Unless a very small number of talented people are indeed worse than the children of the aristocratic race they have cultivated since childhood, my king!"

When Hao Zhen saw that His Highness had an opportunity to explain to him, he quickly said anxiously.

"I know that my king's imperial examination is based on talent and learning, and not limited to his family background! But if we look deeper, we should still focus on talent and learning! Therefore, I must not select a group of useless talents for my king in order to take care of the poor children!"

Such sincere and heartfelt words were heard by Zhao Zheng, who was stunned and unable to speak for a long time.

Yes, this imperial examination is only about talent, only about how talented one is!

If you take special care of yourself because you are from a poor family, what is the difference between such a behavior and being treated especially because of your aristocratic family background?

Besides, after this statement, Zhao Zheng suddenly realized.

It turns out that the rulers of ancient feudal society knew that selecting officials from aristocratic families would continue to grow bigger and bigger, and even be difficult to restrain them.

But why do they rely on famous families from generation to generation, every day?

Perhaps apart from the system reasons, it is because there are not many people among the poor families who can use it!

It should be noted that in ancient feudal society, unlike modern nine-year compulsory education, almost everyone, regardless of their origin, can obtain nearly equal educational opportunities and resources.

In ancient times, especially in ancient society where there was no private school, educational resources were almost monopolized in the hands of famous families of aristocratic families!

With generations passed down one after another, it will naturally be easier to produce talents, and it will also make the family's power continue to grow, forming a virtuous cycle.

As for the poor children, they are far behind the children of the aristocratic families in terms of the educational resources they can obtain.

It means that at the starting line, you are already behind others. Unless you are really talented, how can you compete with the children of the aristocratic race?
To be continued...