describes the Lilliputian method of recruiting official to high posts
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The officials in high posts and of high favour at court were recruited by entertaining the emperor. They were not always of noble birth, or liberal education. Skilled rope-dancers impressed the emperor enough to get these positions.When great offices were vacant, either by death or by disgrace, five to six candidates petitioned the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with their rope dancing skills. Ministers were often commanded to show skill to convince the emperor that they had not lost their faculty. Another method was where the emperor lay on a table and the emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates either leapt over the stick or crept under it. The person who performs the best was rewarded with blue-coloured silk, the red to the next and the green to the third.
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