Two months passed in the blink of an eye. During these two months, the fifteen administrative provinces of China were all engaged in construction at a rapid pace.
And the construction carried out in the fifteen administrative provinces, without exception, is all road construction.
There are also five administrative provinces that are cooperating with the imperial court to build railways.
Because all the chiefs of these fifteen administrative provinces came from the Tang Dynasty.
Naturally, he understands the wise saying that if you want to get rich, you must first build the road.
If the road is not smooth, development is just empty talk.
When the roads are smooth, all aspects of work can be carried out calmly.
But now, it is actually the best time to engage in large-scale construction.
Because whether in the east, south, or west, there are a large number of East Slavs who were forcibly abducted by the Family Alliance.
These people have just experienced the war, the pain of losing their mood, and the pain of being displaced.
There is also the panic of changing owners.
Moreover, the materials allocated to them by the Family Alliance are not many.
It was just enough for them to barely survive.
There is no hope for their future lives.
In this case, construction means providing them with jobs.
The most important thing is that in the Golden State, there is no shortage of food.
Although this year, the indigenous people were chased step by step by the Family Alliance and a lot of food was robbed.
But it can't hold back Huaxia City's great harvest, and there are still countless grains in stock.
Even if this food is not enough, it doesn't matter. There is also plenty of food in the Tang Dynasty.
Since peanuts, corn and sweet potatoes were introduced, and rice in the south began to be harvested twice a year, or even three times a year.
Food in the Tang Dynasty is now overrun, and it is impossible to eat it.
If this continues, the consequences will be to debase the grain and harm the people.
As for the Golden State, due to the massive increase in population, it happened to purchase food from Datang.
In this way, it actually did Datang a big favor.
With enough food, other things will be easy to solve.
There is no shortage of architectural talents in Huaxia City.
Even if there is a shortage, it doesn't matter. Datang has plenty of such talents, and they can be hired at will with high salaries.
In the current Tang Dynasty, there is once again a boom in going abroad to work.
The development of Datang has now entered a bottleneck period.
In fact, instead of growing, the economy shows signs of recession.
This is actually a normal phenomenon.
Every country may have a period of rapid economic development.
However, this momentum cannot be maintained indefinitely.
The Tang Dynasty was at such a juncture.
Many people in Datang are facing the threat of unemployment.
But now, the Golden State has opened its doors to recruit workers again.
And the wages are at least three times the wages in Datang.
With three times the salary, you can also travel abroad, why not?
This move can also alleviate Datang's employment problem.
It can also solve the labor shortage problem in the Golden State, which can be said to be a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
With the addition of these talents, the speed of construction is bound to be greatly accelerated.
Cement factories are rising from the ground in the southern part of the Golden State.
Raw materials are being collected, cement is being fired, foundations are being dug, and roads are being built everywhere.
And building roads also played a great role in stabilizing people's hearts.
For those East Slavs, they saw no hope for their future life.
But once the construction is completed, they will have stable jobs and a regular and substantial income.
Their daily workload is not hard.
These East Slavs are very physically strong.
The work on the construction site is very user-friendly and will not make them too tired.
Working hours are about ten hours a day.
These East Slavs are full of praise for the food they eat every day.
They had never eaten such delicious food before.
In their opinion, this is a superb delicacy.
After working on the construction site for more than ten days and a half, they found that they had fallen in love with this kind of life.
They also get twenty yuan as wages every day.
With this money, you can buy almost ten kilograms of rice.
This rice is almost enough for them to eat for ten days.
This salary surprised them.
When they were in their hometown, they had never seen such high wages.
Through various comparisons, they felt that this place was better than their hometown in East Slavia.
The climate here is more suitable, and the land here is more fertile.
The wages here are higher and the food is better.
Although there are still some things they can't adapt to, overall, they have settled down.
Because life for them suddenly becomes brighter and full of hope.
For Li Min, in fact, the entire country's financial contribution was not too much.
Although so many people need to pay huge wages, it seems to consume a lot of money.
But with so much money, all we need to do is print more banknotes.
Of course, you must not print indiscriminately.
Excessive printing will cause inflation.
And these people have created a lot of wealth.
Li Min used the value they created to print banknotes.
For the vast majority of people, the most urgently needed material at present is still food.
As long as there is sufficient food, the people will not panic.
As for goods, it’s really not a problem for Chung Hwa Commercial Bank.
Over the years, they have produced so many products.
There are also some backlogged products that can now be put on sale.
Roads throughout the Huaxia Kingdom and various administrative provinces are being built bit by bit.
People's lives are getting better day by day.
There are many daily necessities in their home.
They all also put on new clothes.
In just two months, the entire Huaxia Kingdom has undergone earth-shaking changes.
If I left my hometown two months ago and came back two months later, I might not be able to bear the sight of my hometown anymore.
And two months later, the Huaxia Kingdom officially started the exam for the first time.
First, there is an examination and selection in each province.
There is nothing that can be done about this. After all, Huaxia has just been established, and there was no talent reserve at all before.
This is the only way to make selections now.
Finally, the candidates selected from each province will enter Huaxia City to take the unified examination.
As long as they pass the exam, they will be assigned to serve as officials in various places according to their ranking.
After that, a national exam will be held every year.
Candidates who pass the exam will make unified arrangements at that time.
Of course, by then, not all of them will be officials.
After all, as time goes by, there may not be so many places.
But you can work as a civil servant in a government department or as an official in a state-owned factory.
At that time, it will also be an iron rice bowl for ordinary people.
Nowadays, the salary of civil servants in China is very high.
At least three to five times the salary of ordinary workers.
This is of course to establish an image.
As long as you pass the exam, you will have a high income immediately.
Everything is of inferior quality, but reading is of high quality.
The other one is to be honest with a high salary.
I have already given you such a high salary. If you want to embezzle again, just fix the monster and I won't be polite.
This day is the eighth day of September. The autumn air is crisp and the temperature is suitable.
This day happened to be the day when Huaxia Guoenke started the first round of screening in the fifteen administrative provinces.
Because this is the first imperial examination in China, there are currently many positions that are lacking in China.
This time, the test questions are probably the easiest.
It is also the class with the highest admission rate, and it is also the class with the highest number of official positions that can be assigned after admission.
Because within the fifteen administrative provinces, there is a shortage of a large number of officials at the provincial and municipal levels.
The candidates who stand out in this batch of exams will inevitably be assigned to the provincial and municipal levels.
In the future, I am afraid that this kind of opportunity will never come again.
Therefore, soon after the new emperor ascended the throne, he issued another order to carry out Enko.
Applicants gathered.
This time, the opportunity is really good.
Countless people want to take advantage of opportunities.
Even some people who had just learned to write their names came to sign up for the exam.
As a result, all administrative provinces are overcrowded with applicants.
There are as many as hundreds of thousands of applicants.
This number may not seem like much.
But you need to know how many people there are in each administrative province?
There are probably only one or two million people in each administrative province.
The most important thing is that more than half of these people are East Slavs and aborigines.
The vast majority of these people are able to understand Chinese and have simple conversations in Chinese.
It can be said that the number of people who can write Chinese characters will never reach hundreds of thousands.
Here, too many people are just pretending to be fake.
The most critical point is that each administrative province has just been constructed.
There is simply no examination room that big enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people taking exams together.
Well, don't say that China is gone.
Even the Tang Dynasty did not have such a large examination room.
With such a large number of people, it is definitely impossible to conduct an exam.
In order to filter down the number of candidates, each administrative province had to conduct a pre-examination assessment on the candidates by city area.
Then, the urban area will take county and township as a unit to conduct a thorough examination on the advanced level of the candidates who have registered.
This exam is extremely simple.
Even, I didn’t take the Four Books and Five Classics exam.
From now on, Li Min was not prepared to take the Four Books and Five Classics as the main content of the exam.
Of course, the Four Books and Five Classics must be tested.
After all, this is a classic among classics of this era.
However, the proportion of the Four Books and Five Classics will be reduced a lot.
At most, it accounts for about 10%.
This time, the basic test included some very simple mathematical calculations, and in addition, it required writing an article of several hundred words in Chinese characters.
This is not a real exam, just a screening.
It is only required that these registered candidates can write fluently in Chinese characters to pass.
Moreover, the Chinese characters written can be the traditional Chinese characters used in the Tang Dynasty.
You can also use the simplified Chinese characters spread in Huaxia City.
No matter which one of these two fonts is used, it is OK.
But with such a simple screening, 99% of the candidates were screened out.
Many candidates write their names crookedly and difficult to read.
At first glance, it looks like I just learned it a few days ago.
I can't even write other Chinese characters, whether traditional or simplified.
Such candidates will undoubtedly be rejected.
Most of them can write a few Chinese characters, but the number is very small.
Not to mention writing a fluent article.
As for the math questions, although they were just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, a large number of candidates were screened out.
After this thorough examination, there were only about a thousand people left in each administrative province.
There are several administrative provinces, and the remaining number of people is less than a thousand.
This is not a real exam, just a simple screening.
Of course, Huaxia City has the largest number of people.
There are nearly ten thousand people left in Huaxia City alone.
There is no way, in Huaxia City, the Tang people are the largest, there are about ten or two hundred thousand people.
And among these Tang people, one tenth of them were literate.
What's more, Huaxia University is located in Huaxia City.
It is naturally impossible for students who graduated from Huaxia University to be screened out in the first screening.
The number of candidates in Huaxia City is still very large.
There is no examination room that can accommodate tens of thousands of people at one time.
However, the test can be divided into several examination rooms at that time.
On the eighth day of September, Enke's first exam officially began.
This exam was divided into two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Moreover, after finishing the exam in the morning, you can leave the exam room and go out to eat, which is very user-friendly.
The Chinese language test in the morning, well, it should be called Chinese studies.
This Chinese studies is divided into fill-in-the-blank questions and essay questions.
The fill-in-the-blank questions are mainly questions from the Four Books and Five Classics, which are not very difficult. We did not choose particularly remote knowledge points for assessment.
The focus is still on the essay questions.
The title of the essay is to briefly discuss the future development ideas based on the current situation of China.
This topic was asked by Li Min himself.
This kind of composition is about more than just literary talent.
In other words, literary talent is just a bonus, but it is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is to look at the development ideas.
Li Min wants to select talents who can serve as officials and benefit the country.
It does not require a talented person with outstanding literary talents.
A talented person may not be able to be a good official.
Of course, future exams cannot be that simple.
This is also a helpless move because the country has just been founded and the talents have not yet been cultivated.
The exam questions are still very simple.
However, it is not easy to excel in simple questions.
Because for such a simple question, everyone can write one, two, and three.
But if you want to attract the examiner's attention and attention and get high scores, you must find another way.
The test in the afternoon is a mathematics test, and the questions are quite simple.
Not to mention advanced mathematics such as calculus, even high school knowledge such as functions and parabolas are not designed.
It's just some simple calculations, field measurement, and harvest issues.
The income and expenditure of people in a city, and other application questions evolved from practical problems.
The question this time is really very simple.
There are less than 30,000 candidates for this exam.
Li Min decided to admit about half of the students.
There is no way, there are too many poor official positions now.