After going through the tedious examination procedures, Tokugawa Yorinobu was finally able to enter the examination room and find his room.

He keenly noticed that there were several candidates with dark skin and severely flattened facial features who entered the examination room before and behind him. They looked like they should be natives of the Southeast Asian countries.

These natives also saw Tokugawa Yorinobu, who had uneven hair. They all looked at each other and smiled without saying much, and each entered his own room.

He looked at the big clock in the center of the examination room and saw that it was only five o'clock in the morning. He took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and rested.

At seven o'clock in the morning, after a bell, the staff in the examination room began to distribute breakfast to the candidates: this time the civil service examination lasted for one and a half days. During this day and a half, the candidates' food and other things were all provided by the examination room.

supply.

This was not done in previous imperial examinations: firstly, the country has no money, and secondly, if food is distributed uniformly, who will be responsible if it is spoiled?

But for Zhu Youdong, these are not problems: a central government with an annual income of hundreds of millions, this little food money is not a problem. As for food safety: If there is a large-scale food poisoning among examinees, who is responsible for this?

Naturally, the official responsible for the matter has to take the lead. But if it happens occasionally, then I'm sorry: How can I be a civil servant when I'm in such poor health?

Of course, due to the technology of this era, it is still too difficult to check the identity of candidates. Therefore, as long as candidates enter the examination room, they are still not allowed to come out before the examination is over.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the bell rang again. The staff in the examination room took away the dishes and distributed the examination papers. At 8:30 on this day, dozens of staff in red uniforms were holding wooden signs high and repeatedly in the examination room.

walk.

"Huh? A poem expressing one's ambitions, one poem with seven rhymes. A poem with a summer scene as its theme, a Chinese poem? Oh! I'm very familiar with Chinese poems."

Japan is different from North Korea. The former was greatly influenced by the Tang Dynasty, while the latter was more influenced by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the more the poems, lyrics, and poems test questions are closer to the former dynasty, the greater the advantage the Japanese will have.

After having enough time to go through the several "question-based" essays he had prepared in his mind, he quickly selected the article, and then began to write silently on the draft paper...

The poetry test in the morning was very easy. The test started at 8:30 and ended at 11 noon. Then it was lunch time. At 12 o'clock, the staff took away the dishes and told everyone: as long as you don't leave the examination room, you can stay in the middle of the examination room

You can take a walk in the courtyard to eat, or you can take a nap in the dormitory by yourself.

When hearing this notice, foreigners like Tokugawa Yorinobu didn't feel it was very out of the ordinary, but the Ming Dynasty scholars who referred to it, especially those who had participated in the imperial examinations in the past, all had their eyes widened.

However, after widening their eyes, everyone still walked out of the room very happily: Oh my god, the room was so small that I couldn't straighten my legs while sleeping. Besides, I ate so much in the morning and didn't move much, and then at noon

I ate so much again that I really couldn’t eat at night if I didn’t go out for a walk.

Slowly, there were more and more people on the central courtyard of the examination room: although there were still some raindrops in the sky occasionally, for the candidates, if they could go out for a walk, a little rain would be nothing. Besides, with this amount of rain,

What does it mean? In the words of us scholars, this is the fun of rain without the pain of dripping wet!

Tokugawa Yorinobu also walked out of his room, stretched, and nodded to several dark-skinned candidates in his neighborhood: That's it, at least for now, he has not found any other Japanese candidates except himself.

.Although those who can take this exam, no matter what ethnic group they are, will definitely be able to speak Chinese, but it is better to speak less Japanese-style Chinese accent.

Just wandering around slowly, nodding greetings when meeting other scholars, and slowly he found that more and more scholars began to gather in one place.

After he walked over, he realized that everyone was surrounding one person and complimenting him non-stop.

After standing nearby and listening for a while, he finally figured it out: It turned out that the man who was surrounded by everyone to compliment him was called Wu Jungong, and he was currently a great poet in the Ming Dynasty.

After listening carefully for a while, he suddenly felt anxious in his heart: Wu Jungong's seven-line poem actually contained sixty lines, more than four hundred words. Thinking back to his own rhythmic poem? It was a pitiful four lines, twenty

Eight characters. Ouch, why are you so stupid? It is said to be writing seven laws, but there is no limit on the length! Ouch!

No! I can’t listen anymore. If I continue to listen, I won’t be able to take the exam in the afternoon. Hey, it’s good or bad to allow candidates to hang out and communicate between each exam. People like me have commanded hundreds of thousands of troops.

The mood of the people was affected at this moment. How would those scholars who only read the books of sages feel if they found that their poems were far inferior to others?

In short, it was just as he thought: after all, he was a person who had stood at the top of a country, so he quickly adjusted his mood and faced the afternoon test in a normal state.

After the test, after dinner, he walked out to eat again. Then he keenly discovered that although the rain had completely stopped, the number of candidates out for a walk had decreased by at least half compared with that at noon. It was Mr. Wu Jungong,

At this moment, he was hiding in his room and did not come out: Haha, it seems that the test has upset many people.

After a night of nothing, I applied for the paper the next morning. After getting the topic, Tokugawa Yorinobu was pleasantly surprised to find that he had guessed the topic correctly again: On the advantages and disadvantages of the official system of Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang Dynasties.

After writing his essay smoothly, he left the examination room happily.

"Lord, are you out? How did you do in the exam?"

"It's okay. Except for the poor poetry, the last two classes were pretty good."

"Huh~" The accompanying retainers all breathed a sigh of relief: "Congratulations to the Lord, and I wish the Lord to be named on the gold list!"

"Hi, thank you all for coming with us."

…

"Long live my lord, here comes the report from the Ministry of Personnel, Sun Otsuka Zai, on this civil service examination."

"Well, let's pick the main one."

"Yes. Long live my Lord, this civil service examination, there are 98,320 candidates taking the main examination of the national examination. The poetry is 10 points, the practical test is 40 points, and the application is 50 points. The final score is above 60 points.

There are only 3,625 people. There are more than 453,000 candidates taking the local examination, and only 20,700 people have a final score of 60 points or above. Otsuka Zai asked for instructions whether to

Do we have to recruit 10,000 national civil servants and 100,000 local civil servants this year? If we have to recruit them all, we will have to lower the admission score."

"...Hey." After a long sigh, Zhu Youdong shook his head gently: "It's better to lack than to waste."

"Yes, I have received the order. I will reply to Otsuka Zai later."

Whether these five to six million candidates passed the exam or not, if they can pass the preliminary exam, they are also the intellectual class of our Ming Dynasty, right? But now there are 180 million people in the Ming Dynasty, plus the surrounding vassal countries, at least in

More than 230 million, how can only so few people refer to it?

No matter what, this matter cannot be rushed and should be done slowly. Moreover, if the civil servants are not fully recruited, some officials and servants will have to be retained. In this way, the officials and servants will not be able to form a joint force and will not cause too much turmoil to the country.

"Founderization."

"My slave is here."

"In this exam, is there any unpleasant sound?"

"News came from both Jinyiwei and Dongchang. There are roughly a few pieces of information. First, candidates are allowed to move around and communicate during the exam, which causes some candidates to feel unstable. Second, food is provided uniformly, and some candidates feel that they are not used to eating or

It violates religious beliefs. Thirdly, the proportion of poems is too small. Fourthly, the questions in the preliminary examination are too difficult, which prevents many people from entering the main examination room. In particular, many past students have reported that many candidates and scholars were dismissed in the preliminary examination.

After coming down, some officials and even foreigners entered the main examination, uh, saying that the emperor is not considerate of scholars..."

"Hey~!" Zhu Youdong stood up: "I said, you remember it, and then let Zhang Shize send it out."

"Long Live Lord please give me instructions."

"First, the candidates are all adults. If they are fooled by others, they will be in a bad mood. How can such people become officials? In the past, the imperial examination only looked at articles. I want to see the candidates through the examination room. Candidates can communicate among themselves.

State of mind. Officials do not know how many hardships they have to go through when they are in office. They cannot pass any test in this examination room. Even if they become officials, they will not be able to sit still.

Article 2: Our Ming Dynasty now covers thousands of miles, and the folk customs in different places are very different. If you become a civil servant in our Ming Dynasty, you may go to a foreign land to serve as an official. You can't even tolerate the slightest difference in food and beverage habits. If such a person becomes an official, he will definitely not be able to communicate with the local people.

The people mingle together.

Third, the world is now a time of great strife, and what I need are hard-working officials who are responsible and capable of doing things. What use is it worth to find out what the chapter is and what it is like?

Fourth, since some people look down on foreigners, why can’t they pass the exam while others can? People have their own expertise. Some people are not naturally suitable for exams, but it does not prevent them from achieving results in other industries. But if they are

Once you fail, if you don't look for the reasons within yourself, you will blame others and everything else. Haha, then you are hopeless.

Have you remembered everything?"

"Yes, I have all remembered it."

"Well, you go and do things."

"Yes, I will leave this slave."

After Fang Zhenghua exited, Zhu Youdong walked out of the Huangji Hall and looked up at the sky: Thirty-one years have passed. It has been twenty-seven years since he gained his own power and started doing things after enlightenment.

Over the years, Ming's military, economy, and science and technology have made great progress. Political reforms have also been steadily advancing. According to the Western intelligence learned over the years, in addition to being limited by its own majors in the technology tree, Ming's technology

Except that the growth rate of trees may be a little slower, in every other aspect, the Ming Dynasty surpassed Spain and the Ottomans.

Well, now this country has gradually prepared to deal with a long-term global war. After another three to five years of accumulation, after I have completely implemented various reforms and the new national machinery is in place, I will take the initiative.

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