Six hundred and fifty-eight
After getting off work that night, Zhuge Jin returned home and happily asked his family to prepare a table of food and drinks, and treated all the four selected members.
Then he also told the four of them a better news.
"In other words, 309 people were selected, but only the fifty-six people in the front could enter the Wei Duke's Mansion and become Wei Duke's subordinates?"
Xu Shu widened his eyes and looked surprised: "I... can I be a subordinate of Duke Wei, and call Duke Wei Ming?"
"Now there are very few people calling this. Everyone calls Mr. Wei. I was allowed by Mr. Wei, so I called Mr. Ming."
Zhuge Jin showed off his complacently: "But no matter what, you four can become subordinates of Duke Wei, accept the appointment of Duke Wei directly, and even meet Duke Wei directly. If you are lucky, you can still get Duke Wei's guidance."
"This...this..."
Xu Shu was so happy that he couldn't even say anything, and Meng Jian and Shi Tao were also inexplicably surprised.
Zhuge Liang stared at Zhuge Jin and asked, "Brother, so I am the number one?"
"Yes, Kong Ming, you are the number one."
Zhuge Jin patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder: "Mr. Wei appreciates your answer sheet. I heard that your answer sheet was first in person. Duke Wei also said that he would talk to you personally when you go to the mansion to report.
Kong Ming, this is really not a contribution to your brother. He is just a subordinate of Duke Wei. He doesn’t have that much ability. This is your own talent. Duke Wei appreciates your talent!”
“…”
Zhuge Liang suddenly laughed, rubbed his face, took a deep breath, and his face was filled with a satisfied smile.
Xu Shu looked at Zhuge Liang and suddenly laughed: "Kong Ming said before that he didn't care about the result of the release, but he didn't see his name with nine wooden boards. When the last wooden board was seen, Kong Ming ran over and ran faster than me, and I couldn't catch up! Kong Ming, Kong Ming, you look indifferent, you care more than anyone else, right? Hahahaha!"
Xu Shu drank a glass of wine in one sip and teased Zhuge Liang with a slight drunkenness.
Zhuge Liang also took a glass of wine, took a breath, and nodded with a slight drunkenness.
"I care, because I don't want my uncle to go there in vain. How much pain did my uncle suffer to pave the road in Jingzhou, but now I just leave and don't care about my uncle at all. If I can't gain a foothold in Yecheng, I would be too sorry for my uncle, right?"
Perhaps it was a slight drunkenness that inspired the emotions, Zhuge Liang's words contained a hint of crying.
To be honest, this is the first time that Xu Shu and others have seen Zhuge Liang show such an expression.
"Kong Ming..."
Xu Shu stretched out his hand and held Zhuge Liang's hand: "We have all been selected. We can work together to create a career under the command of Wei Gong! Leave a name in history so that everyone in the world can remember our career! How?!"
"Okay, OK, OK!"
Zhuge Liang nodded fiercely and held Xu Shu's hand tightly.
"Including Meng!"
"Including Shi Mou one!"
Meng Jian and Shi Tao also put their hands on them.
Zhuge Jin sat opposite him, watching the young people's spirits so vigorously, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then the smile suddenly disappeared.
The current situation is not that simple.
Under the calmness of the surface, undercurrents surge.
Zhuge Jin saw a glimpse of what was covered by the fact that the new emperor was established through some subtle changes, and just a little bit of it made him quite uneasy.
He always felt that something bigger might happen.
What determines the future fate may not be the present, but a certain moment in the future. If they can seize a certain opportunity in the future, they can all soar into the sky. If they can't grasp it, the problem will be big.
But, will it really be like that?
Zhuge Jin did not dare to speculate on his own.
But he always feels that there are definitely many people who are happy to see it.
Those who follow Guo Peng to start a business along the way seem to be no longer satisfied with their current status and power. They hope that Guo Peng will go to the next level, and then, they will go to the next level.
After all, Zhuge Jin himself has such an idea.
If everything really happens, then where can you be and what benefits can you get?
Zhuge Jin vaguely felt that he was also looking forward to it.
On October 17, the 309 selected candidates selected in the ceremonies of the Talent Ceremony, Guo Peng called the Jinshi in groups, wearing uniform Wei officials' costumes, and lined up to enter the Wei Duke's Mansion.
They would go to the Wei Gong Mansion together, and then prepare to carry out an operation called Kuaguan on the main square street at the gate of the Wei Gong Mansion.
It is said that this is a way that Guo Peng came up with a slap in his head, in order to commend the three people who came out of more than a thousand people.
The top three Jinshis in this exam were allowed to ride on the tall horse, and the three important officials under Guo Peng, including Cheng Yu, Xi Zhong and Wang Can, helped them get on the horse. Cao Cao, Cui Yan and Chang Lin led the first to third horses respectively, leading them to the long street.
The long street was full of selected and unselected scholars, as well as the civil servants of Yecheng who came to see the lively Yecheng and the personal soldiers of the Tiger Guard who maintained order.
That's really a crowd of people.
Zhuge Liang, Tian Yong and Liu Ba have never seen such a scene?
This scene...
Cheng Yu was the Minister of the Wei State, and Xi Zhong was the General Staff Order of the Wei State. The two were the top military and political leaders of the Wei State, with high positions and great powers, and their status under Guo Peng was very important.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Can is the most close minister around Guo Peng. He is with Guo Peng every day and is the official who has been with Guo Peng for the longest time and is closest to him.
Wang Can and Guo Peng were even more close than some old officials in the Yuan Dynasty. They also received Guo Peng's permission and called Guo Peng one of the few officials who called Guo Peng as Ming Gong.
The three of them were Zhuge Liang, Tian Yong and Liu Ba, who were holding the horses and holding them on the horses with a spring breeze on their faces, which surprised the three of them.
For example, Zhuge Liang didn't dare to let Cheng Yu support him and even said that he couldn't bear it.
"This is the rule by Mr. Wei. It is a reward for you to stand out from more than 1,300 people, so as to encourage more later generations to study hard. You are the first, and you can't bear it, who can't afford it?"
After Cheng Yu persuaded this, Zhuge Liang broke into a tall horse with some caution and stepped onto a tall horse with the help of Cheng Yu.
Seeing Zhuge Liang like this, Tian Yong and Liu Ba were so nervous that they accepted such treatment.
In fact, Zhuge Liang and Tian Yong both have their relatives as officials under Guo Peng, so the process is somewhat clear about this, but Liu Ba is different.
He is a native of Jingzhou and has a good family relationship in Jingzhou. He has been invited by Liu Biao many times, wanting to be a filial and honest person for him and make him an official. However, Liu Ba was not happy and felt that Liu Biao had no future here, so he was always paying attention to other forces.
This time, a large number of scholars from other places in Jingzhou collectively returned north. In this wave of return to the north, Liu Ba was one of the few scholars in Jingzhou who returned north with scholars from other places.
He had always looked down on Liu Biao. Now that he saw Guo Peng recruiting Wei officials as the king of Wei, he saw that he saw that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity based on the current situation.
If he missed this opportunity, he would probably have to be a scholar in Jingzhou, and even Xuzhou would be inferior to that of people.
So Liu Ba decisively followed scholars from other places to Yecheng, participated in the talent ceremony, and successfully stood out from more than 1,300 people and got a third place in the exam.
Then he was told that he would become a subordinate of Duke Wei. Not only that, he would also attend a ceremony called Kuaguan.
He brought his wife and children to Yecheng to participate in this talent ceremony. He was gambling because he had no relatives in Yecheng and had no familiar people. Everything was done according to the rules and regulations. Who would have thought he would get a third place?
Extremely excited, he even suspected that he was dreaming.
This suspicion did not end until he was helped by Wang Can and got on the horse.
He was really not dreaming. Through this essay on talent, he relied on his own talent to become a subordinate of Duke Wei, and his identity was changed at once.
Guo Peng did not discriminate against him because of his origin, but chose him and gave him the opportunity to continue to display his talents.
Chapter completed!