The Republic of Northwest's first civil servant recruitment examination attracted many people's attention.
Although they did not understand what the so-called "civil servant" was, there were still many people who signed up.
They were not fools. After a little thought, they could guess that the "civil servant" should be the official who managed the daily affairs of the territory. According to the past tradition, the officials were promoted by the lord. Usually, they were chosen from the lord's subordinates or relatives. It was rare to choose directly from the people like the Republic of Northwest.
It was rare, but it was not non-existent.
After all, the foundation of the Republic was weak. There were not many high-level officials, relatives, and subordinates. It was not enough to promote enough officials.
This was everyone's chance.
So in just three days, almost everyone in the four towns who had a skill had signed up. Many people even rushed to Void City to sign up through the teleportation formation.
After three days, the number of people who signed up was over 10,000, which stunned the staff in charge of the statistics.
"Do we have that many jobs for them to do?" Felix asked after he received the list. He was stunned for a while.
Madame Teague, the consul of Void City, thought for a while and shook her head.
"How many positions can we have?" Felix asked again.
"I've done the statistics. Currently, we have vacancies … and urgent needs. There are about 300 to 400."
"Let's make it five hundred. That means we have to choose at least one person out of 20 … "Felix sighed." I always feel that something will go wrong! "
Although she had never experienced this kind of thing before, she could understand it just by imagining it. Out of twenty people with some ability, nineteen were eliminated — if that was all, it would be fine. But when the number expanded to more than ten thousand people, it was almost equivalent to more than ten thousand people who had signed up to be eliminated.
If nothing went wrong with this kind of thing, she would swallow that statistical table!
It turned out that she was still too young and naive. She still needed to continue learning.
After Sui Xiong got the report, he glanced at it lightly and smiled. "The enrollment rate is 5%. This is quite high."
What? Quite high?! How was it high?!
Hearing this evaluation, Felix felt unwell all over.
She could not help but ask. Sui Xiong smiled and said, "20 people competing for a position is really not too difficult. And this is just the registration, the written test hasn't even started yet. "
"Can the written test filter out a lot of people?" Felix frowned. "There are so many people!"
"I think we can filter out a lot of them. After all, it's an exam. At most, we can just make the paper a little more difficult." Sui Xiong said irresponsibly, "If it really doesn't work, we can still recruit the best. There are always more solutions than problems."
"Exam?" Felix was stunned. This was different from the "written exam" she had imagined!
"Isn't that something from the school?" She asked, "Isn't the written examination just asking everyone to write something to prove that they can write and calculate?"
"How is that possible?" Sui Xiong's eyes widened. "If that's the case, how can we judge the advantages and disadvantages?"
Felix was stunned again. She really hadn't considered that. She had originally thought that the so-called written test was just a way to eliminate those who could not read a word. Unexpectedly, Sui Xiong wanted to imitate the curriculum in the school and set a high standard.
"To recruit a civil servant, of course, we have to take an exam first," Sui Xiong said. "First, through the exam, filter out those who don't even have a basic level of education, and also eliminate those who have strange ideas and can't be compared to normal people. Then, eliminate those who are mediocre and don't know how to behave and do things … After eliminating these useless redundant people, the remaining people can be considered valid registrations."
Felix thought for a while before she understood what he meant. She asked hesitantly, "But … let's ignore those who can't read, but what about those who can't read or can't do arithmetic?"
"If they can't even do that, how can they be a civil servant?" Sui Xiong laughed. "When there's something to report, they should at least write a report. When there's something they should be responsible for, they should at least write a note and sign their names. When there's a document from the higher-ups, they should at least be able to read, write, and calculate. I don't expect them to be able to write poems or compose operas, but at least they need to be able to read, write, and calculate."
Felix frowned for a while, then asked, "Then, how does Your Majesty plan to deal with those who are eliminated because they don't have enough education?"
"If they are interested in learning how to read and write, they can apply for permanent residence and then attend literacy classes. The tuition is low, and the curriculum is lax, but as long as they work hard, they can learn many words in a year or so. If they have money or are willing to pay back the money in the future, they can sign up for school. However, the school's enrollment quota is quite tight now, so they may not be able to sign up. As for those who are unwilling to learn, I can't do anything about it. " He smiled and said, "Let's leave it to one person. If he doesn't want to improve himself, how can I force him to learn?"
"… I was interested in that in the past, but not anymore! I have more and more things to manage, and I really don't have the energy. "
Felix more or less understood what Sui Xiong meant. He was silent for a while, then asked, "If those who are eliminated cause trouble, what should we do?"
Sui Xiong laughed coldly. "When the time comes, I'll let Wall host the written exam. I'd like to see how many people dare to behave atrociously in front of the God of Knowledge!"
In fact, there wasn't a single one.
In fact, among those who came to sign up this time, there were quite a few people with suspicious backgrounds and bad intentions. However, no matter what kind of thoughts they had, when they saw the God of Knowledge descending into the mortal world amidst the divine light and personally hosting the written exam, they all gave up their original plans.
Causing trouble right under the nose of a True God? What a joke!
Of course, among these people, there were people who were not afraid of death. However, when faced with a True God, no matter how strong-willed they were, it was difficult for them to muster up the courage to throw caution to the wind. Among them, there were one or two who had a slight impulse to throw caution to the wind after repeatedly struggling with their thoughts. However, before they could make up their minds, they were already seen through by Wall. With a wave of his hand, he directly grabbed them and sent them to the "shelter" in the God Kingdom.
As for these people who were gnashing their teeth and about to self-destruct in the examination hall a moment ago, and in the next moment in the God Kingdom faced with a super large jellyfish that made one's scalp tingle with numbness, would they break down or go crazy? This was not within the scope of the "civil servant exam."
Because of Wall's presence, the written exam went very smoothly. Just as Sui Xiong had estimated, most of the applicants were not able to obtain the minimum standard of passing marks in the written exam and were tragically eliminated.
This was definitely not because the written exam paper was too difficult, but because the education level of this world was too low.
The written exam paper was written by Felix, and was divided into four parts. The first part was to judge whether thirty common words were written correctly or not. The second part was ten very easy addition and subtraction questions. The third part was to read a notice and write a simple summary of the notice's contents. The fourth part was to listen to a civil dispute and write down one's own way of handling it.
Out of these four parts, as long as one could complete the first two parts correctly, one would be able to get a passing mark. In Felix's opinion, this was almost like a free pass. Not to mention the students of the magic school, even many miners in the negative energy mines were able to complete the first two parts correctly.
However, it turned out that she was too optimistic.
When she was grading the papers, she almost broke down because of the messy mistakes. More than once, she roared and rushed out of the office. She yelled inexplicably for a long time before she calmed down and started grading again.
After this happened again and again, Sui Xiong finally could not stand it anymore and took over the job of grading the papers himself.
Those low-level mistakes were indeed maddening, but Sui Xiong used his divine power and did not even need to grade them himself. He fixed them in an instant.
When the result of "less than 20% passing rate" came out, Felix was very calm. She even asked curiously, "Your Majesty, did you lower your standards? How can the passing rate be so high? "
If it was before the exam, she would never have such a thought. However, after being tortured by the papers full of mistakes, she had completely lost trust in the educational level of the examinees. She had a serious misconception.
In her opinion, it would be a miracle if even ten percent of the examinees could pass!
But it turned out that this was just prejudice.
The results of the written exam were quickly announced. The examinees did not make a fuss. After all, they knew their own educational level. None of them felt that their level was high enough to pass. However, some of them stared at the blue word "passed" behind their name on the list and stared blankly for a long time. Then, they began to laugh foolishly.
At this moment, if someone were to borrow Fan Jin's performance when he passed, they would say, "Oh! I passed! " It would definitely be very appropriate.
Of course, they had not passed yet. There were still interviews to go.
More than 10,000 people had been reduced to less than 2,000. In the end, they had to hire 500 people. This ratio made Sui Xiong mutter a few times. It was nothing more than, "Why didn't I encounter such a high acceptance rate in the past?"
As a legitimate university graduate, Brother Xiong had naturally taken the civil service exam. However, art students were really not suitable for this kind of exam. His written exam results were terrible, and he did not even qualify for the interview.
He could not be blamed for this. It was not that there were no art students who passed the civil service exam, but it was really too rare!
Perhaps only those geniuses with a solid foundation in basic knowledge would be able to do such a thing.
However, if the written exam was as difficult as this one, everyone would probably be able to pass. Uh, the prerequisite was that the language of the exam was translated into Chinese …
The situation of the interview was slightly better than the written exam. At least more than 80% of the people were not eliminated. After a round of screening, they finally selected 500 people who were relatively outstanding. If the rest were willing to settle in the Republic of Northwest, they could be directly exempted from the written exam in the next recruitment. However, if they did not settle here, they would have to take the written exam again.
In the end, more than 1,000 people chose to settle here. In addition to the 500 recruited civil servants, the population of the Republic of Northwest suddenly increased by more than 1,500 people. Moreover, they were all of high quality — compared to the average level of this world.
This made Felix and the others very happy, especially Felix, who could finally say goodbye to the mountains of documents. He could not stop smiling.
However, Sui Xiong was not very happy.
In this civil service exam, he did not even find a single truly outstanding person.
He had thought that by organizing such a big event, he would at least be able to find a group of talents. He did not expect that among those who signed up, there was really not a single outstanding person!
This made him sigh and feel very depressed.
A few days later, Morani came to visit him by chance to discuss the matter of forging equipment for the oracle. Seeing Sui Xiong's sad face, he could not help but ask.
When he heard that Sui Xiong was looking for outstanding people, he was silent for a while and said, "If you do not mind, I have a talent that I can recommend to you."
"Who?" Sui Xiong was stunned and then asked happily.
"The famous wandering hero, known to the people under the name Ranger Paul. He almost succeeded in apotheosizing but chose to give up. Now, he can almost be considered an evil god, the 'Armored Lion' Reynold." Morani thought for a while and added, "My former chosen one, now my enemy."
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