Chapter 285 The fifth-level giant dragon terracotta warrior is completed!
Therefore, the assessment of soldiers and generals is not just a process of talking about military affairs on paper, but also a process of practical combat operations!

As the national exam was approaching in the past few days, Zhao Yun learned that a particularly interesting item in the practical combat assessment of military strategists was the ability to command troops in battle.

Those who pass this practical test will be sent to some caves, secret realms or large illusions and given some places as Taoist soldiers. All the candidates in a continent who have reached this level will determine their ranking through mutual attacks.

Then, the Ministry of War will finally determine the number of places it needs, and those with the highest rankings will be admitted through the list.

And those who are ranked later will naturally be eliminated…

Therefore, the content of the national examination will be set according to the characteristics of the Taoism in various industries.

Of course, the content of the national examination questions is not something that can be decided by local officials themselves, but is calculated uniformly by the Ministry of Personnel in the Divine Capital of the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty, and then notified to each place through the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth just before the examinations.

After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty had a real-time communication treasure called the Mirror of Heaven and Earth, so it would be a very simple matter to quickly distribute the contents of these assessments to all parts of the country.

As for the scoring after these assessments, they will not all be gathered in the capital of the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty for correction.

Instead, each continent will mark and examine the test papers separately, and then seal the files!
As for the time when the national exam results are announced, the scores of all continents need to be summarized in the court of the Divine Dynasty, discussed by the court officials, confirmed to be correct, and then released.

The whole process takes 6 days!
Therefore, the results of the national examinations in each state are usually released on the seventh day after the examination!
Zhao Yun spent another two days studying, while the candidates were tortured by endless exams.

But two days later, it is also the time for all the students to leave the examination hall.

As for whether the exam was good or not, every student has a clear idea in their mind…

Therefore, the joys and sorrows are not only felt when the results list is posted, but also fully displayed when the candidates leave the examination room!
So Zhao Yun invited Master Sun to come over and help him do a personal thing – recruiting talents!
When Zhao Yun was in Yan Gui Ling Mountain earlier, he had told that group of people that he wanted to recruit talents and recruit some manpower!

And now, Zhao Yun does lack some truly usable manpower.

For example: delivering a message, picking up a document, or going out to the Ministry of Agriculture to buy something, all of these could only be accomplished with the help of Xin Ruyin or Master Sun.

In addition, Zhao Yun himself could not easily leave the post of Minister of Agriculture, so there were many things that he could not do himself.

Therefore, it is necessary to find some trustworthy people to do the work.

As for the talent recruitment order issued by Zhao Yun, a high-ranking official, although it has already gained some reputation, it has not been issued yet, which naturally makes many people worried.

This time, Zhao Yun took advantage of the end of the national exam. During this special period of time when candidates are anxiously waiting for the grading of their papers and the release of the final scores and red lists in the next few days, he asked Master Sun to help post the recruitment notice, which will surely attract some talented people to join him!
At that time, if there are talents related to the Ministry of Agriculture, they will be assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture.
If they are warriors or military strategists, he will arrange them into his own private army and include them in the Zhao Mansion purchased by Hongzhou City, which is a gift given to him by the Seven Surnames and Ten Princes World behind the previous 800 private soldiers.

If they are Confucian scholars, famous scholars, legalists, diplomats, etc., then they are classified as counselors and retainers…

Zhao Yun was a sixth-rank General Po Lu. Although he was a general with a miscellaneous title, he was still a general after all.

It is only natural to have some appearance!
At the same time, Master Sun can also report the names of the people he will recruit later to the Zhou Yamen in Zhou City every ten days.

By then, not only will the military pay and equipment be provided by the county government, but when he goes to that small world, if the rules permit, he can also bring this group of people with him and enter that small world together to help him.

Then at that time, the resources obtained will definitely be more abundant.

Therefore, the talent recruitment list written by Zhao Yun did not contain too much nonsense. Its main purpose was to recruit talented people, not limited to the Minister of Agriculture, but also people from other fields. All of them were welcome!

And they will also arrange related work based on their basic expertise.

However, for those who came because of Zhao Yun’s reputation and wanted an official position that could be blessed with specific luck, Zhao Yun had only two arrangements for them: talents related to the Sinong Department would be incorporated into the Sinong Supervisory system, and the rest would be incorporated into his private army.

The Sino-Agricultural Supervisory Commission was an official department. Once one passed the examination and was admitted, one would automatically be given an official position.

As for the private soldiers of the sixth-rank General Po Lu, they also have the rank of the Great Zhou’s luck system, so after passing the review and getting a place, they will naturally be blessed with luck.

By then, he would have directly possessed an official position in the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty’s luck system, as well as the blessing of luck.

But if he can’t accept these, then Zhao Yun will have nowhere to go.

Also, what Zhao Yun wants to choose are talents that are suitable for him, rather than people who come to oppose him.

So the conditions have been given. If it looks suitable and you want to come, then come. If you feel the conditions are not suitable, then Zhao Yun doesn’t want it.

Although the exact number of people who can come for the interview is uncertain… Zhao Yun knows that there are many people who want to travel around and enter the government!

As for the recruitment list, it was also written that the final recruitment time was the morning of the third day after the national civil service exam results were announced, at the gate of Daonongfang.

And after the national civil service exam results are announced, some should laugh, some should cry, some should consider their way out, or some should wake up.

Therefore, the morning of the third day after the national civil service exam results are released is the time to recruit talents.

Of course, the number of people Zhao Yun will eventually recruit will not exceed 100.

After all, the Flame Taoist Soldiers are strategic weapons that can form military formations. Just like the mortal world does not allow people below to hide weapons and armor, the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty does not allow people below to own them privately. Therefore, 100 private soldiers must be counted in order to possess them.

And there are 800 vacancies for 800 private soldiers.

So when Zhao Yun recruited this time, there were only vacancies for 100 private soldiers!

If the number of private soldiers recruited this time exceeds the limit and is reported by someone, it will be troublesome and a serious crime.

Therefore, Zhao Yun would rather have fewer moves than more.

Moreover, Zhao Yun felt that it would be enough to control the number of students to be recruited to around 90. As for the remaining 10 places, it was not about giving them to anyone, but just keeping the places, and there was a vacant configuration, maybe it would be useful someday?

And after this recruitment, you can also leave them to the 800 private soldiers to help train them!
When the war ended and the 800 private soldiers withdrew, they had the experience of recruiting people for the first time, so the subsequent work would naturally be easier because of this experience.

In addition, we will also recruit one or two retainers, counselors, etc. when the time is right.

When there are too many Zhao Yuns, he can’t afford to support them, and he doesn’t want to support so many men…

So at this moment, for Zhao Yun, the most important things are soldiers who can fight and obey orders.

Time goes by.

Zhao Yun continued to prepare materials for entering the small world, and sold some dragon-shaped precious medicines excavated from the Barbarian King’s Tomb. Finally, he gathered the rest of the things without consuming the special material of merit.

At the same time,
Between the Jinzhang Grassland controlled by the barbarian coalition and the remaining land controlled by the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty in Beiliang Bianzhou, at the intersecting border between the Yanshan Mountains, the surrounding areas of the small world where the fighting was originally most intense have fallen into a strange state of calm!
Because in the past two days, both sides tacitly stopped fighting each other.

Moreover, the Barbarian King of Canglan Grassland has established contact with the You King forces, who are quite influential in the court of the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty and whose fiefdom is also in the border continent of Beiliang!

And the people of King You’s faction argued in the court and temporarily suspended the war.

As for the extent of the contact between the Barbarian King and the You King, and what specific matters were discussed between the two?
That remains unknown for now.

But the cessation of small-scale local wars began along that small world.

As for the wars in other areas, such as the Beiyuan Shensha Pass on the Beiliang border and the other six newly built major passes, the route through which the Canglan Grassland Barbarians first entered the Beiliang border in large numbers is still being harassed from time to time.

In other words, of the two routes of the barbarians’ invasion of Beiliang’s border island, one has calmed down, while the other is still in a state of restlessness.

This does not mean that the war will completely subside!
When this information was passed to Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun speculated that the ownership of the newly discovered small world might have reached some kind of cooperative intention during the conversation between the two sides!
In addition, the Barbarian King of Canglan Grassland might not be able to sustain multi-line operations.

After all, the Canglan Grassland really experienced a dry season in summer and autumn!

The upper floor is fine, but the lower floor is horrible…

And after experiencing the drought in the summer, the subsequent supply problem of the entire army will become extremely serious!

Especially the expenses of moving those top military soul corps from other barbarian territories are even more unaffordable…

“So, with all these factors combined, I’m afraid that they would have to hand over to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and then cease fire, etc., right?”

In addition, Zhao Yun judged that with this local ceasefire, the time to enter that small world would probably come soon.

After a few days, the list of national examinations was finally released!
And under the red list, there are many people laughing wildly, crying with their faces covered, crying and laughing, trying to find a son-in-law under the list, and so on.

Among the five people without background that Zhao Yun had previously favored, three of them were admitted directly.

Those who passed the exam would naturally follow the national exam standards, and then be checked by the Imperial Astronomical Observatory. After confirmation, they would be assigned official positions. This had little to do with Zhao Yun…

Then, the other two people who were selected: Leng Zhi and Bao Qiwen, had slightly worse overall scores and did not pass the exam.

But failing the exam is a pity and sad for those who have experienced it.

But for Zhao Yun, it was like picking up two talents who could be used and supported.

As for whether these two can be used by Zhao Yun in the end, it depends on whether they accept Zhao Yun’s recruitment and their performance in the later stage…

Therefore, Zhao Yun asked Xin Ruyin to send a letter of recommendation to each of the two apprentices that Zhao Yun had chosen from the Sinong Supervisor, and asked them to wait three days before Zhao Yun started recruiting talents.

If they come, it will naturally mean that they agree and will become Zhao Yun’s disciples from now on;

If you don’t come, then we have no chance to meet, so just let it be!
However, the two of them are now in a state of loss after failing the exam. I believe that they will seize this state of loss and will definitely regard the recruitment information in the recommendation letter as another opportunity…

Then, more than a day later, Zhao Yun received a message from his master, Longze Zhenjun, using the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, asking him to go to the Sinongjian, where his master was in seclusion in the No. 1 secret room of Sijia, to see him.

When Zhao Yun saw this information, he had an idea in his heart, and felt that it might be that his fifth-level puppet was about to be refined by his master, Longze Zhenjun.

So, Zhao Yun immediately flew to the secluded secret room No. 1 of Sijia to find his master, Longze Zhenjun.

When Zhao Yun knocked lightly on the door of the secret room and stepped into the secret room underground,
Sure enough, what came into view was a huge, special dragon-shaped puppet that looked like both a tree trunk and a terracotta warrior, standing in the center of this huge secret room!
“This is the fifth-level earth dragon corpse you gave me. I used the special tree-man terracotta method inherited from my family to refine it into a fifth-level Tyrannical Giant Dragon Terracotta Warrior.”

“Its characteristic is not the attack capability of the terracotta warrior itself. In fact, the terracotta warrior itself does not have any attack capability.”

“But the function of the terracotta warriors is, first, to summon a fifth-order domineering dragon, and second, when standing on the ground, they can absorb the endless energy from under the ground to maintain the energy needed for their own operation.”

“Of course, if you have spirit stones or other energy sources or mana supplies, then the effect will naturally be much better than it automatically absorbing the energy of the earth.”

“In addition, when refining this fifth-level giant dragon terracotta warrior, because its main attribute is earth, I, as your master, also specially smelted a top-grade earth-attributed spirit stone.”

“As long as you don’t use up all the energy in the terracotta warrior body at once and summon a fifth-level Tyrant Dragon terracotta warrior, this top-grade earth-attributed spirit stone will be able to match the earth attribute of the terracotta warrior itself, and continuously draw energy from the earth to replenish the energy in the Tyrant Dragon terracotta warrior body…”

“Of course, if you explode with all your strength at once and completely use up all the energy in the terracotta warrior’s body, then the top-grade earth-attributed spirit stone that has been integrated into the terracotta warrior’s body will naturally be consumed, and there will be no possibility of recovery.

This can be considered as a trump card left for you when you entered that small world, which can unleash your fifth-order combat power to the fullest.”

(End of this chapter)