Select Talent Solely by Ability, Establish a Bank!

Yu Xu held up the candle and stared at the ink slowly flowing from the Junior Guardian's brush.

"Select talent solely by ability, without asking about one's origins!"

The eight words he set down!

In Zhou Cheng, Liu Wen, and the others' eyes, they were like a bolt of thunder crashing onto the paper.

There was thunder in his brush!

As the men fixed their eyes upon it, before they could recover their senses, the brush tip continued.

"Amidst troubled times, distinguish neither between lofty gates and humble homes, nor between noble descendants and common grass; regard not the difference between broken bodies and flawless jade. Select talent solely by ability."

After finishing, the Junior Guardian's brush suddenly turned, adding another line:

"Neither shall there be distinction between men and women!"

Then he swept his brush across the page:

"Throw wide the gates of the imperial examinations, open broad roads for talent, gather the worthy from under heaven, greatly promote private schools, and teach according to aptitude."

"It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people!"

Only a few short sentences!

Yet they were like heavy hammers striking a drum, stirring the hearts of everyone present until breathing became difficult!

Yu Xu held the candle, hot wax silently running over the back of his hand, yet he felt no pain at all.

He only felt!

That his heart was burning unbearably hot.

He had originally been but a palace eunuch. Through illustrious military achievements, he had struggled every step of the way onto this road to power.

Yet he knew full well that in the Great Qing Dynasty, a eunuch commanding troops would ultimately remain a dependent beneath imperial power, unable to break free from the shackles of lowliness.

Born a man, yet denied a