Compared to Feng Zhen's loss of composure, Wei Ci's reaction was much calmer.
He didn't seem to see through the interviewer's clumsy disguise and glanced at the person's resume.
The two words "Xu Chun" were impressively in the list.
It really was her.
"What's your name?"
Wei Ci and a few others took turns interviewing, but Wei Ci came to every class, not because he loved this job, but because he had the advantage of "foresight" compared to ordinary people. If he didn't make good use of this advantage to create value, wouldn't it be a pity?
For example, for this interview, he had some impression of many of the scholars being interviewed. This was much more accurate than the "resumes" they submitted.
Some of them were truly talented and virtuous, and could be employed without worry. But there were also slackers mixed in, and the interviewer had to find a way to check and identify them. If someone with bad intentions was successfully promoted, the people in Nansheng would be the unlucky ones.
When the recruitment notice was first sent out, Wei Ci was wondering if "Xu Chun" would appear. He didn't expect her to really come.
"My surname is Xu, and my name is Chun. I'm from Ningzhou. Greetings to both of you."
"No need for formalities." Wei Ci went straight to the point without any delay. "If you're ready, you can begin."
The girl said respectfully, "I'm ready. Sir, please set the question."
Feng Zhen was frantically hinting at Wei Ci with his peripheral vision, but the latter chose to be intermittently blind and ignored his little tricks.
Wei Ci was in charge of this interview. When the interview assessment was over, he put the book of interview questions on the table.
"That's enough. Go back and wait for news. There will be results in three days."
The girl bowed and retreated to wait for the other interviewer.
Taking advantage of this gap, Feng Zhen said, "The content this person submitted is most likely fake. Why can't you tell?"
Wei Ci said, "It can't be fake."
"She's obviously a woman. If she really wanted to become an official, no one would stop her if she wore female clothes. Why did she disguise herself as a man and deceive us?" Feng Zhen didn't understand. The recruitment notice didn't say that "talents" had to be male. Why did she have to be so careful and come up with an alias? If she didn't get recruited, that would be fine. But if she did, her resume would be easily found out to be fake.
Wei Ci said, "This woman's name is Mi Yu. Xu Chun is her first name. So what if he was dressed as a man? She did not say that she was a man. There was no written rule in this world that said that women had to dress as women and men had to dress as men. It doesn't matter if the name is fake, as long as the person is real. "
Back then, his lord had also used this kind of sophistry to absolve herself from deceiving the world by dressing up as a man.
One could have double standards, but double standards could not be a slap in the face to his lord.
When Feng Zhen heard this, he could not help but look at Wei Ci with a complicated expression.
"You know this woman? Otherwise, how would you know so much? "
With the Lord, he still had the guts to pay attention to other women. Was he tired of living?
Without raising his head, Wei Ci said, "Observing the stars at night and calculating with my fingers, I'll know."
Feng Zhen was speechless. Wei Ci had used this lousy excuse for many years. Even if he was not sick of it, others would be sick of it.
"Well, our Demigod Wei, what did you find by 'observing the stars at night and calculating with your fingers'?"
Wei Ci said, "Mi Yu is a woman with a story. It just so happens that my lord needs her. She came at the right time."
There were three thresholds for this call to recruit talents. There were 766 people who participated in the first written examination, and this was only the first batch. However, there was not a single woman among these people. There was only one woman, Mi Yu, who was dressed as a man.
If Mi Qian had not appeared, Wei Ci had planned to put on a self-directed marketing campaign of "buying a horse's bones with a thousand gold coins".
"What story could she have?"
"You'll find out in the future."
Wei Ci's tone softened as he spoke on behalf of Mi Yu.
"Not to mention anything else, just the fact that she was able to walk up to us is already not easy."
"You're right."
Feng Zhen recalled the rules of the call to recruit talents and nodded in agreement.
"It must have been hard on these scholars."
The interview was the last stage. The first two thresholds were "submitting one's resume" and "written examination."
There was nothing much to say in the "resume" segment. In short, it was to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, boasting in all sorts of ways to let others see their abilities.
The second threshold was the "written examination." It was not long, and there were only ten questions.
Due to the limited space, there were no complicated and vast collections of classics and history. Moreover, ten questions would not be able to test the true background of the candidates.
Under their lord's suggestion, they changed the exam to nine "practical questions" and a semi-proposition, which was a discussion of an essay.
The questions were not difficult to understand. Any child who had studied for two or three years would be able to understand what the questions were about. However, it was not easy to score high.
Many scholars who came to participate in the examination came in full of confidence and left with a confused look on their faces.
At the same time, they cursed in their hearts.
What were they testing on!
The style of the examination questions was strange. It was not easy for scholars to cheat.
For example, there was a murder case in a county. The victim was a woman, and the perpetrator was her husband. The two of them had a pair of children. The children were underage. Usually, it was the woman who did the housework, took care of the children, and served the in-laws. However, the mother-in-law was dissatisfied with the harsh nature of her daughter-in-law, who argued and hit people. Therefore, she urged her son to kill his wife and remarry. If the examinee was the county magistrate, how would the case be judged? What was the reason?
Apart from this, there were also hypothetical questions such as "how to deal with the collapse of the embankment in a certain place", "how to pacify the civil unrest in a certain place", as well as "the situation after the defeat of the Nie family in Zhongzhao", "when will the Duke of Lanting send troops to Zhongzhao", and other conjectures about the current situation …
There was no fixed answer to such questions. They had to speculate and prove from many aspects and details. It seemed that no matter how they answered, they would be lacking.
If it was a simple answer such as "sentence a certain person to death", "use a large number of troops to suppress the rebels", "recruit corvee to build the embankment" … there was no need to look further. Such examinees would definitely be eliminated without any suspense. Only those who passed the written examination, which was physically and mentally tormented, could participate in the final interview.
If the scholars even passed the interview, they would be conscripted.
This was the first time such a selection system had been used in Nansheng. Many scholars shouted about how bad Jiang Pengji was while they participated in the written examination, which was physically and mentally tormented. In comparison, the difficulty of the interview was not that great. They could also see the big shots.
Whether it was the written examination or the interview, Mi Qian's performance was quite outstanding. She might even be able to get into the top three.
As a red dot in a sea of greenery, her information was presented to Jiang Pengji for her to read and decide.
Jiang Pengji looked through it carefully, especially Mi Qian's examination paper. She looked through it repeatedly.
"Zishi, what do you think?"
She put aside Mi Qian's examination paper, resume, and the comments of the two interviewers during the interview.
Feng Zhen said, "After discussing with Zixiao, we have decided to recommend her."
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