After the exam, the candidates exited in an orderly manner, Liu Bei and others also completed the invigilation work, and the next step was the intense marking work.
What is different from the selection test is that at this stage of the Jun test, Liu Bei has to personally review the top 150 test papers.
The marking officers led by Zheng Xuan were full of energy. They first marked the papers of the top 150 candidates, gave their own opinions and predetermined scores on the policy analysis, and left the rest to Emperor Liu Bei.
After Liu Bei handled his own government affairs, he took some time to review the 150 examination papers in person.
Among them, what he paid most attention to was naturally Zhuge Liang's test paper, so after tearing off all the anonymity, he picked up Zhuge Liang's test paper and looked at it.
At first glance, the good guy’s previous questions were all correct and not wrong at all. It is not easy to get full marks under such circumstances.
As for the strategy, Liu Bei saw that among the scores given by the reviewers, the part about Jiaozhou was full marks, the part about the Western Regions was also full marks, and the part about Liaozhou was deducted by ten points.
In other words, in the eyes of the marking officer, although this policy paper on Liaozhou is excellent, it cannot get full marks.
Regarding the scoring points for the policy theory, Liu Bei previously stipulated that the policy theory should not only focus on agricultural issues, but also divergent thinking, pay attention to commerce and military, and if it can further focus on mineral resources and handicrafts, it can even get extra points.
Originally, territorial expansion in the traditional sense meant increasing the land area and labor-producing population, thereby obtaining more land tax revenue. This was a very traditional and orthodox concept. In addition, traditional scholar-bureaucrats knew less about it.
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For this reason, traditional scholar-bureaucrats have always had little interest in land that cannot be cultivated or produce food. They only prefer fertile land that has been cultivated and can be put into production immediately. That is their favorite.
For the rest, just skip it.
In addition to its traditional significance, Liu Bei's land development also had more distinct military and economic purposes.
Therefore, Liu Bei requires candidates to pay attention to things other than agriculture. As long as they can mention things other than agriculture, they can give points as appropriate. The more and more thoroughly they mention things, the more points they will give, up to full marks.
He hopes to select non-traditional scholar-officials with overall thinking. This is an important reason why he has worked hard to promote education and launch "Chiade Tongyi" in recent years.
He hoped to cultivate a reserve army of the ruling class that was completely different from the traditional scholar-bureaucrats. He hoped that these people would focus more on the pure profit side of things instead of being limited by many other involvements.
Afterwards, Liu Bei carefully read Zhuge Liang's policy questions and answers.
He found that the logic of Zhuge Liang's answer was not limited to agriculture, but also paid attention to commercial and military issues.
Zhuge Liang noticed the issue of overseas trade when the imperial court was planning to open up Jiaozhou. He believed that opening up Jiaozhou would be conducive to trade with overseas countries and earn extra money. Therefore, the significance of opening up Jiaozhou was not only about agriculture, but also about commerce.
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He lives in Xuzhou and has heard news about Rinan County in Jiaozhou many times. He learned that the foreign trade carried out in Rinan County is very prosperous. Many people are willing to go to Rinan County to start trade and make money. They enjoy it endlessly, and it also drives more people to go to Rinan County to trade.
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He felt this was something meaningful to the country.
The same is true for the Western Regions. Zhuge Liang believes that the obedience of the Western Regions to the imperial court is not only as simple as honoring their ancestors, but more importantly, after acquiring the Western Regions with a population of one million, the imperial court can further sell goods to the Western Regions, and even through the Western Regions.
Sold further west in the Western Region.
He believes that after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions, in addition to increasing the strength and base to attack the Xiongnu, a very important point was to open up the Silk Road, open up the trade routes between the two sides, and obtain channels to increase fiscal revenue.
Nowadays, the Han Dynasty no longer has the threat of the northern grasslands, so while gaining military advantages, using this military advantage as a basis to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road, and selling the advantageous properties of the Han Dynasty, we will definitely gain considerable profits.
In this way, the pressure on farmers can be reduced without damaging the country's operations.
Um?
When Liu Bei was watching Zhuge Liang's strategy, he suddenly noticed that Zhuge Liang wrote this paragraph at the end of the Western Regions Chapter.
At this moment, will Zhuge Liang also notice the use of external economic means to reduce the pressure on internal farmers?
Liu Bei remembered that when Zhuge Liang was in charge of Shuzhong, he really paid attention to reducing the pressure on farmers. He used many commercial methods to govern Shuzhong.
For example, linking Shu Brocade to Zhibai Qian and maintaining the currency value of Zhibai Qian through exporting inflation have reduced internal exploitation and maintained basic internal stability. This is a great governance method.
He also believed that this was not a skill that Zhuge Liang was born with.
Judging from Zhuge Liang's experience in Xuzhou, he probably didn't learn much from his family in Xuzhou. Before following Zhuge Xuan to Jingzhou, Zhuge Liang should have studied under Zhuge Xuan's guidance, and his uncle Zhuge Xuan was not
A very talented person.
Therefore, Liu Bei believed that Zhuge Xuan should be the enlightenment teacher for Zhuge Liang. He did not teach Zhuge Liang much, but he laid a solid knowledge foundation for Zhuge Liang.
As for what made Zhuge Liang really take off, it should have happened after his family took refuge in Jingzhou.
Zhu Ge
High-end knowledge that ordinary people cannot learn.
As for the political and economic means of administrative governance, Liu Bei believes that Zhuge Liang should have access to and master them after he joined the Liu Group and obtained a certain status and power. Within the Liu Bei Group, Zhuge Liang should also have many "teachers".
For example, Zhuge Liang's economic management methods should be inseparable from Liu Ba, a master of economics - but no matter what, Zhuge Liang should be a high-IQ genius with strong learning ability and the ability to draw inferences from one instance to other cases.
Despite this, without sufficient experience and learning channels, Liu Bei believed that Zhuge Liang's ability to study and grow into a master of problem-solving with a high reserve of knowledge in Xuzhou was considered to have hit the ceiling.
The courses Xuzhou studied did not involve the content of the real political field. He should be able to master more things after he came into contact with politics.
Liu Bei even planned to train Zhuge Liang as his direct disciple.
But this sentence written by Zhuge Liang at the end of the Western Regions chapter surprised Liu Bei.
It seems that while living in Xuzhou, Zhuge Liang had noticed the suffering of farmers and had some thoughts. He also linked it with previous economic methods and came to a conclusion that ordinary people would not expect.
A very simple conclusion, which contains his political ideals and sympathy for the general public.
He comes from an official family. The family is not very rich, but it is definitely not a common man of the Eastern Han Dynasty. His life is guaranteed. The living standards of the common people of the Eastern Han Dynasty are far different from his. Under normal circumstances,
, he is also not very able to reach the bottom.
So how did this emotion and this thinking come about?
Liu Bei thought this was an interesting place. If he had the chance, he would summon Zhuge Liang alone and have a talk with him to see what kind of idealist the nineteen-year-old Zhuge Liang was.
Zhuge Liang also received full marks in the Western Regions chapter.
In the Liaozhou chapter where points were deducted, Zhuge Liang's answer was quite satisfactory, focusing on the military aspect. In terms of agriculture, Zhuge Liang's views were the same as those of normal people, and he was not very optimistic about the agricultural potential of Liaodong.
Therefore, he believed that the main purpose of the imperial court to open up Liaozhou was military, to prevent the re-emergence of hostile forces such as Xianbei, Wuhuan, and Goguryeo in the east, so as to ensure that Youzhou was safe, so he sent troops to Liaozhou to open up Liaozhou, and to
All hostile forces were wiped out.
Liaozhou is a barrier to Youzhou, which should be related to the later imperial court's plan to vigorously build Youzhou.
As for agriculture, Zhuge Liang believes that Liaozhou is bitterly cold, vast and sparsely populated, so the potential for developing agriculture is not very great, and the population it can support is not very large. As long as Liaozhou can be stabilized by maintaining a certain scale of production conditions, then
Will suffice.
More investment is not necessary.
The deduction points are here.
The reviewer adheres to Liu Bei's idea of opening up new territories and believes that every inch of land is necessary and we should do our best to develop it if we can. Regardless of whether we do this or not, we must say this. This is political correctness.
Zhuge Liang said that more investment is not necessary, which is politically incorrect. Although the writing in other places is accurate, the final conclusion is wrong, so ten points were deducted.
Regarding this reason, Liu Bei thought for a moment, rejected it with a pen, and then wrote with red pen and returned the ten points to Zhuge Liang.
He's right.
Unless the climate changes, there is really no need for further investment in the Northeast and the outer Xing'an Mountains and the Ussuli River.
The Northeast Plains indeed have strong agricultural potential, but serious development must occur under two circumstances.
First, it is the global climate warm period.
Second, it is the advent of the industrial age.
The Northeast is very similar to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in a sense. It was a barren land for a long period of history. However, these two lands also had their glory days and powerful regional political powers were born, and both appeared in the
Tang Dynasty.
One is the Tubo Kingdom entrenched on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the other is the Goguryeo Kingdom that developed on the northeastern plains. Both countries developed and expanded during that period of relatively warm climate, and became a thorn in the side of the equally glorious Tang Empire.
At its peak, the Goguryeo Kingdom had the war strength to mobilize 600,000 troops. It took the Tang Empire decades to completely eliminate it. It is conceivable that during the Tang Dynasty, there were more people living on the Northeast Plains than today.
The population is several times larger.
There is no other reason than that the climate is warm and the rainfall is sufficient, so more food can be grown and more people can be fed.
But after the warm period, the human survival index in these places began to decline rapidly.
After all, the land in the Northeast is a plain, with very good black soil and relatively abundant water systems for irrigated land. There is nothing on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, so no strong local government has been born since the Tubo Empire.
In a sense, the Northeastern land is similar to the current Jiangnan land.
There is Yunmengze in the south of the Yangtze River and Liaoze in the northeast. With the changes of the times and climate, it has gradually become less difficult to develop over thousands of years. With the growth of human technology, places have become unsuitable for living.
It was transformed into a livable place.
Due to the colder climate in the Northeast, it is difficult to effectively develop the land with manpower and traditional agricultural tools. Unless there is a warm period, the mechanical agricultural tools produced in the industrial era are the way to tame the Northeastern land.
Based on the current climate conditions on the eve of the Little Ice Age in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, if the Han Empire was to use all its efforts to develop the Northeast, it would be better for everyone to work together to develop Yunmengze.
At least Jiangnan is relatively warm.
Therefore, although Zhuge Liang has no forward and backward vision and does not know the meaning of the Little Ice Age and the Warm Period, his judgment is correct.
At present, the greatest value of the land in Liaodong is its military value. It exists as a barrier to the North China land and as a strategic depth, rather than a valuable agricultural land.
Its value will have to wait for more than three hundred years before it can be developed for the first time, and serious development will probably arrive in the industrial age.
The temperatures of the Little Ice Age will teach everyone how to behave.
Political correctness on the issue of seeking truth from facts is the reason why many powerful countries have declined. This is a scene Liu Bei does not want to see, so Liu Bei decisively "rehabilitates" Zhuge Liang.
After that, Liu Bei spent a few days reading other people's policy questions and answers, and found that few people could think about policy issues as comprehensively as Zhuge Liang.
Most people focus on agriculture, population and taxation, and few people involve the commercial and military aspects. The remaining people focus more on the military aspect and ignore the huge changes that the commercial aspect can bring to the country.
Some people wrote the policy review into a praising article, fully affirming all the decisions made by Liu Bei.
Some people think that this is not enough, and they should continue to attack, continue to push the Han Dynasty to its military peak, and let the Han Empire continue to advance on the military level.
All in all, almost no one can explore the deep-seated reasons why the imperial court spent a lot of money to develop these places and the linkage with domestic governance from all aspects.
Liu Bei even saw some people who felt that the imperial court initiated these actions purely from the perspective of promoting the prestige of the Han Dynasty, and the ultimate goal was to transform foreign barbarians into kings, nothing more.
After seeing these contents, Liu Bei actually felt quite helpless.