Shennong Sequence

Chapter 284: National Examination of Luck!
Whatever the enemy wants, that is what we want to destroy!
Therefore, in the frenzied attack of the barbarian coalition, they were unable to seize control of this small world.

The overall war between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the barbarian coalition was maintained around the border between the Jinzhang Grassland and the Yanshan Mountains.

After all, that small world is located at the junction of the Yanshan Mountains, a natural barrier, and the Jinzhang Grassland.

At the same time, a location in this small world is also a trajectory node between the Barbarian King's Tomb and the endless veins of the Canglan Grassland.

Therefore, the war is not only on the surface, but also in the veins beneath the small world...

Of course, as time goes by and the dynamic balance of war re-emerges, war becomes just one aspect that most people focus on.

In addition, the national exam!
The Great Zhou Dynasty's unified national examination was gradually approaching amidst the border wars...

Zhao Yun stood on a high place in the Sinongjian and looked into the distance. He saw that outside the farmhouse, the street was crowded with people.

Especially many young students, who are walking around the streets and alleys.

These students, apprentices, etc., all came from various places in the border islands of Beiliang and arrived in Guihongzhou City in advance to participate in the national examination. They were talents who had fought their way through the difficulties on their own or were recommended by the chief officials of various places.

After all, before the blitzkrieg of the Northern Barbarians started, these people had already set out from various prefectures and counties and arrived in Guihongzhou City.

Only a small number of them arrived in the two days before the national examination was about to begin.

Therefore, the influx of students from all over the country and the upcoming national exam, a talent selection ceremony that can make people powerful overnight, have resulted in the city of Guihongzhou being bustling with people despite the tense atmosphere of the battles on the front lines.

But this crowded situation at this time was exactly the time when the officials in Guihongzhou City were nervous.

If we're not careful and let a spy in, there will be many casualties.

And by then, how many students might be delayed?

And if you can't take the national exam, you can only wait for the next time...

Therefore, along the streets, at regular intervals, there are guards conducting surveys and standing guard, etc., to protect the overall security environment in the entire Guihongzhou City.

But it’s a pity that this lively scene is among the people of the world and has little to do with Zhao Yun.

He doesn't dare to run out of the Sinongjian now.

In addition, there are more ways to become an official under the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty's destiny system than just the national examination. There is also the recommendation method.

But there are two types of recommendations:
A recommendation for a high official or a local ruler;

A type of situation where people from the bottom of society are recommended and need to start from the real bottom and stay at the grassroots level for the rest of their lives.

For example, Zhao Yun was recommended from the latter group, and the official position he obtained was also a low-level one.

Then, Zhao Yun had another opportunity, and he took a long step forward and was promoted to a higher position!
Of course, for those who come up from the bottom, every upgrade will inevitably be related to their cultivation.

If your cultivation level doesn't improve, you'll never be able to advance to a higher official position in your lifetime.

Even if your cultivation level has improved, it can only continue to rise unless it reaches a decent level.

Otherwise, there would be basically no chance for those who come from the grassroots to get promoted or make money.

In addition to these, some other methods of becoming an "official of luck" are also similar to recommendation. For example, some of those who graduated from various Taoist academies and had good grades could be valued by the chief officials in various places and then selected.

This is actually a method of recommendation.

It's just more direct.

As for the remaining students who graduated from the academy, there was no such thing as guaranteed job assignment.

Either they go out and seek recommendation from senior officials to enter officialdom, or they take part in the national examination together.

As for the students who graduate from the academy, what they learn in the system is far beyond the talents of those who are trained in informal institutions.

Therefore, the students trained in the academy actually have some advantages in major exams such as the national examination.

In addition, if a student in the academy cannot pass the exams of ordinary people, then he can only be said to be a real waste...

There is no need for it.

Moreover, those who pass the national civil service exam are part of the official national establishment, and their starting position is much higher than those who are recommended from the bottom.

If there is a vacancy in the future, all you need to do is meet the requirements, do a little research, and as long as your background is not too bad, you can transfer directly to fill the vacancy after some work.

Simply put, the national exam means a high starting point and fast promotion;

The recommendation of a senior official means a higher starting point, but the frequency of subsequent promotions may be slower due to the large steps taken before, or the promotion of a truly outstanding person may be faster and more rapid...

Recommendations from the grassroots level have a low starting point, slow promotion and wealth, and the most work... and unless there is a great opportunity, it is possible that you will never be promoted to a high position in your lifetime.

Zhao Yun went from being a soldier to a horse breeder in a horse farm, and was eventually accepted as a disciple by Master Sun, who taught him the method of promotion in the sequence, as well as the subsequent position of a small official in charge of farming, etc. Then he got a chance to expose the means deployed by the barbarians in the border island of Beiliang, which made his own situation suddenly improve, and he broke the situation that people at the bottom could not be promoted.

But situations like Zhao Yun's are usually rare and are exceptions. Only then can one break out from the endless bottom...

What's more, Zhao Yun had the help of "external plug-ins", which allowed him to reach the current level of these two sixth-rank official positions, which is considered a low- to middle-level leader in the Great Zhou Dynasty of Fortune.

However, there are many examples of people who, once selected in the national examination, were quickly promoted.

Therefore, this is also the case for the vast majority of people. It is not that they do not have the ability to start as grassroots small officials or clerks, but that they are seeking to achieve rapid development in the national examination.

In other words, those who pass the national civil service exam will serve as a foundation in the initial period, but they will be promoted quickly and have good prospects!
Some people who were recommended from the bottom and promoted up basically served as low-level officials for their entire lives. In addition, most of the talents recommended by high-ranking officials had positions, but they often only served as counselors and military advisors for the high-ranking officials...

Only after understanding these different ways of becoming an official can one understand why, with the border war imminent, the national examination still attracts so many people from all walks of life, and they have to come to Guihongzhou City to participate in such a grand event.

This is a major event that can change destiny and change a family system.

The next day, the Spring Equinox!
The national examination just kicked off like this.

People from all walks of life have their own examination locations:
Confucian students all went to the specially arranged examination hall at the academy at the foot of the mountain;

There are corresponding examination halls for candidates from Taoism, Gongshu School or other schools.

After all, in the Great Zhou, each sect has its own corresponding government department to govern it, and these departments are also responsible for the corresponding affairs of the national examination.

On the farming side, a large number of students who had traveled long distances from villages, guard posts, counties, prefectures, etc. had already been arranged in the Sinong Supervisory Office.

And today, on the day of the Spring Equinox, a unified national civil service examination will begin in a large examination hall supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture.

In addition, there are leaders of various departments in the Sinongjian, and those people sent by the Ministry of Personnel of the Great Zhou Dynasty for joint supervision, together with personnel drawn from various departments of the Sinongjian, form an invigilation team to carry out a series of processes such as distributing theoretical examination papers, invigilating answering questions, invigilating and grading practical examinations, etc.

As the deputy inspector, Zhao Yun naturally did not have to do such a stressful and tiring task.

But Zhao Yun finally found some time to join in the fun and take a look at the specific situation of the national examination.

It is quite similar to the specifications and conditions of the mock exam conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture during the previous severe cold season.

After all, the name of the mock exam is that it is a direct copy of the examination process of the real national exam.

Therefore, those candidates who have participated in the mock exams in advance have some experience and are not too nervous.

However, some students who had just arrived in the past few days from more remote areas and had not taken part in the mock exam at the Zhoucheng Sinongjian behaved quite reservedly.

After all, every person who takes an exam has naturally been branded with a little bit of nervousness in the process of taking various exams since childhood.

Zhao Yun took a quick look at the situation and left after the assessment began.

Now, he still has a lot of things to prepare for his trip to the small world.

So this time I came to take a look at the format of the national examination, just to let it go and add some fun to life.

But I didn't find much fun, so I left naturally.

As for those people that Zhao Yun had previously favored, they all participated in this national examination.

As for whether I can pass the exam?

That is a matter of personal fate.

Moreover, Zhao Yun can lend a helping hand when he fails the exam. When he is sad, he can give a little help to those without background, and then check his quality during his work...

If the quality is feasible, then we will add some resources to cultivate it;
If the quality is not good enough, then the fate ends here, and if you want to continue to move forward, you can only endure it slowly...

Moreover, Zhao Yun's help is actually the final test stage for apprentices with good conditions and no background. As for whether he can continue to help in the future, it really depends on his loyalty, gratitude, or hard work...

Later, when the test entered the assessment stage, Zhao Yun had already gone to the Inheritance Hall to check other techniques that he needed to master.

In addition, Zhao Yun also specifically asked the masters who drew the true intention of the magic in the inheritance hall to draw the true intention of the magic with the remaining four basic methods that they had not learned in the Tianshi faction, so that he could comprehend and practice them when he had nothing to do.

Zhao Yun got some information from Jing Da Si Nong.

For example, in the ninth sequence of the Farmer's Path of Agriculture, the cultivator needs to learn one of the three faction basic methods of Heaven, Earth, and People during the ritual step of the sequence promotion.
Sequence 8 Ikuta Masters also need to choose one of the three factions to learn the basic methods;
The same is true for Sequence 7 Naturalists, who also need to learn the basic law of a faction;
This means that no matter what Si Nong chooses from Sequence Nine to Sequence Seven, no matter which basic method of the three factions of Heaven, Earth, and People he follows, when he finally reaches Sequence Seven, he will need to practice all twelve basic methods of these three factions in their entirety.

In this way, the techniques learned by Si Nong can cover and involve the corresponding techniques between the coordinated relationship between heaven and earth, human body and nature, and it is also a major foundation for subsequent promotion to Sequence Six!

Therefore, the 12 basic methods of the three factions of time, place and people must be practiced in the subsequent stages of practice!

Therefore, Zhao Yun simply took advantage of the power in his hands to complete the four basic methods of the Tianshi faction.

The effectiveness of using the basic method is not only related to the state of personal perception, but also has a great relationship with the state of mana output when using it.

The saying “great strength works miracles” is still applicable here.

As long as your magic power is strong enough, no matter how simple the basic spell is, it can be effective and explode directly.

Therefore, these 12 basic methods can be seen as laying the foundation for future practice!
In this way, no matter when or what the Si Nong is in, he can use different techniques based on the relevant situation to ensure his own safety and planting needs...

Moreover, after practicing the basic techniques, practicing the subsequent techniques is equivalent to learning such a prerequisite process, which will make it easier to get started.

As time goes by,
That was the end of the first part of the national examination.

As far as the Ministry of Agriculture is concerned, the first day is a theoretical exam, and the second day is a practical operation exam.

Moreover, these practical examinations are arranged in a way that either involves being directly taken to a certain area for actual combat assessment, or using a unified illusion to conduct the assessment.

This is also the characteristic of Sinong assessment.

In addition, there are corresponding assessments between other walks of life and sects.

For example, the assessment of soldiers and generals from the military strategists and military honor families, which are the most widely involved with the farmers, not only requires the assessees to be able to fight and use military tactics, but also to be able to write memorials!

(End of this chapter)