In the first year of Shengkang, the Enke examination time was March.

Previously, Wang's "Great Qi" was also a triennial scientific expedition, but it has been stopped since five years ago. First, because of the continuous famine, the people are struggling to make a living; Second, uprisings and rebellions have emerged in various places, and the imperial court has no time and energy to hold scientific expeditions; The third is that most of the officials in this era rely on recommendation, plus buying and selling officials, and there is no good future for the poor students who pass the scientific examination, and the poor students who have knowledge but no way out are cold, and they do not attach so much importance to the imperial examination.

This year's scientific examination was held after five years, and it was held after the re-establishment of the Great Sui, coupled with a series of new regulations issued by the new emperor to benefit the people, so that the world's scholars began to believe in the imperial examination again, which led to a particularly large number of people participating in Enke this year.

During the reign of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the content of the examination was reformed, in addition to the four books of classics (there was no eight-strand text at this time), there were also simple mathematical and physical knowledge. These are very simple contents in the eyes of Mu Fushu and San Lang, and the questions of the examination will be issued by San Lang and Mu Fushu together, and the content will also refer to the results of these candidates' township examinations.

Because the exam has not been held for five years, some adjustments have been made to this exam. First of all, the children's examination in March, also called the "children's examination", is the local imperial examination presided over by the provincial academic administration, including the county examination, the government examination and the hospital examination three stages, after passing the college examination to obtain the qualification of students (Xiucai), before they can enter the government, state, and county schools to study, so it is also called the entrance examination. Test takers are called children regardless of age.

This was followed by the township test held in May. This is an examination held every three years in the provincial capitals of various provinces, generally held in August, so it is also called Qiufu (闱, examination room). The examiner was appointed by the emperor. After the exam, the main and deputy lists are released, and the main list is called lifting, and the first one is called Xie Yuan. This township test and the children's test were held at the same time. If you want to take the township test directly, you don't have to wait another three years, you can take the test again in May.

Then there is the entrance examination in August. As usual, the examination should be held in the capital every three years, usually in the spring. Therefore, it is also called spring. The examination is presided over by the Ministry of Rites, and the examiners of various provinces and the students of the national supervision and supervision can take the examination. Three hundred were admitted as tributes, and the first one was called Huiyuan.

Finally, there is the palace examination, which is also the highest level of the imperial examination system, and the emperor is in the palace court, and personally asks the tributes who are admitted to the examination to determine the first rank. In this palace examination, San Lang and Mu Fushu will come to the examination room in person and take the exam in person. In Mu Fushu's words, it is "interview".

Generally speaking, this year, students can first participate in the children's examination, and the children can participate in the township examination after the trial, and then participate in the examination after the township examination, and then participate in the palace examination, and the palace examination will be interviewed by the emperor and queen in person......

By mid-February, the Ministry of Industry had already produced white calligraphy and painting paper for writing with a brush, newsprint for letterpress printing, and straw paper for toilet paper......

Others, such as kraft paper and offset paper, are also being manufactured one after another.

Movable type printing is actually very simple, and the more troublesome thing is the typeface. The Ministry of Industry recruited hundreds of people to engrave together, and it took more than half a month to print tens of thousands of copies of San Lang's "Scientific Expedition Instructions" and deliver them free of charge throughout the country.

The content of the "Instructions for Scientific Examination" covers the content of the scientific examination and the time and place of the examination. The books required for the examination will also be printed in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Household Affairs and the private bookstore.

Zhou Boduan was very entangled after receiving the task. He also has a bookstore at home, and he wants to take over this business, even if it is only a component. You must know that throughout the ages, printing and publishing books is a major event for the benefit of the country and the people, especially among readers, he has a good reputation, but he himself is a household book, how can he open the back door clearly?

Zhou Boduan's entanglement was even seen by Chen Wenfeng, who was obsessed with Gewu, and after asking the reason, he gave an idea: "Why don't you ask Your Highness how to cooperate with this business?" ”

The "His Royal Highness" in his mouth refers to the queen Mu Fushu.

Since the emperor appeared in the court for the first time at the same time, the queen has also been to the court several times, and each time the court is a serious matter, and the ministers have turned a blind eye to it and let it go. After that, when I went to the court, I felt a little unaccustomed to seeing only an empty chair.

In Zhou Boduan's heart. Her Royal Highness the Queen is very kind, so after a big court meeting. directly found Gonggong Xi and said that there was something to play Her Royal Highness the Queen.

Gonggong Xi was very happy that there was a minister looking for Her Royal Highness the Queen to discuss matters, and he reported to Mu Fushu very quickly. Mu Fushu summoned him in the side hall of the Taiji Palace. After listening to his blunt request, Mu Fushu smiled and said: "This is easy to do, don't you avoid relatives." In the future, there will be many opportunities for cooperation between the Ministry of Industry and private businesses. The palace intends to use the form of bidding, and the highest bidder will win. ”

Mu Fushu handed over the bidding guide that had been prepared long ago to Zhou Boduan and asked him to operate it by himself.

Zhou Boduan looked at the bidding guide in his hand, and looked fascinated and fluttering, was such a good idea thought by Her Royal Highness the Queen? No wonder the saint wants to go to the court meeting with the queen, originally, the saint is in charge of state affairs, and it is not wrong to hand over this kind of financial affairs to His Royal Highness, just like his family, isn't it also his wife who is in charge of the family's income......

On the third day of the first month of March, the "Children's Examination" was held nationwide. Chang'an City naturally has to be tested, and the location is on Zhuque Street, the original Huaiwang Mansion.

The Huaiwang Mansion was repaired by San Lang before, and later it was renovated in order to make a tribute.

More than ten years ago, the residents on Suzaku Street were all officials or royal relatives, and they moved away one after another after the Huai Wangfu was destroyed. It is said that it is often heard in the middle of the night in the Huaiwang Mansion that there are strange noises, and in layman's terms, the Huaiwang Mansion is haunted. There are many superstitious people in the world, and there are only four or five families on Zhuque Street near Huaiwang's Mansion, but they have moved clean in more than a year.

A few years ago, Saburo came back in a low-key manner, and after living for a short time, he entered the palace and became the emperor, and several families around the Huaiwang Mansion simply sent the title deed of the family to the eldest princess's mansion to make makeup.

The Huai Wangfu is already large, and now with the addition of several families on the left and right, this tribute academy will undoubtedly become the largest tribute academy in the Great Sui, San Lang and Mu Fushu plan to make the tribute academy a school after the imperial examination, which is the so-called academy.

After the reform of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, the scientific examination time was condensed from three days to one day, entering the examination room in the morning and handing in the papers at the end of the unitary hour.

The examination room here does not have the cramped room where Mu Fushu remembers, eating, drinking, and sleeping all in it. Instead, it is set up in a large room that can accommodate 30 people to take the exam together, and each seat is a separate seat, like a grid of workstations in a modern office building.

Each lattice is separated by thick wooden planks, and there is only a table and a chair inside. During the exam, all the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are uniformly distributed, and candidates do not need to bring anything and enter the examination room empty-handed. At noon, each person can receive a glass of water for three nests, and if you want to go to the toilet, you will be accompanied by a special person.

Mu Fushu and San Lang felt that this arrangement was quite satisfactory, and when the time came, they only needed to replace all the windows with glass windows, so that the light would be clearer, and the candidates' every move could be seen clearly from the outside, and cheating would be more eliminated in a certain way.

The sign of Huaiwangfu has long been taken down, and the words "Gongyuan" are hung on a red background and black characters. A total of more than 100 rooms have been renovated according to the layout of the examination room, and a toilet is set up at the end of each row of rooms, which is a ceramic squatting pit, and everything can be seen at a glance when you walk in. Although the person who goes to the toilet may be a little embarrassed, in order to put an end to cheating, it can only be done this way.

The ceramic squatting pit is a "sample" made by the newly established ceramic factory of the Ministry of Industry, and it is almost indistinguishable from the modern one. It's just that it's not tap water that is rinsed, but a large vat filled with clean water, and when the time comes, you have to take a scoop and flush it yourself.

After these "samples" are installed in the Gongyuan, they will be popularized among the people, and when the time comes, according to the ideas of San Lang and Mu Fushu, they will find merchants to bid for cooperation, and the imperial court will take the dry shares.

On the first day of the exam, there was no pilgrimage. Mu Fushu and San Lang left the palace early in the morning and arrived at the gate of the Tribute Courtyard.

According to a series of measures taken by the government during the "college entrance examination" in the previous life, a decree was also issued in Chang'an City a few days ago: on the day of the children's examination, the section of Zhuque Avenue near the entrance of the Gongyuan was all under martial law, and no one was allowed to enter or leave except for candidates and invigilators.

At the beginning of March, the weather warmed up, the sun had come out, and the spring breeze was blowing in the face, and I didn't feel too cold.

San Lang and Mu Fushu wore the same pale green jacket, and Mu Fushu added an emerald green jacket. San Lang had an emerald hosta in his bun, and Mu Fushu only combed a fallen ponyback in a low-key manner, with a simple beaded flower on it.

The two of them walked slowly down Suzaku Street, followed by five or six guards dressed in homely clothes. They were scattered in the crowd, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't tell that they were following the beautiful young couple in front of them.

On Suzaku Street, Mu Fushu looked back and forth, and said curiously: "There are not many people!" ”

San Lang pointed to the sun on his head: "The hour has passed, and the candidates have all entered......"

Before the words fell, a man in a white shirt with messy hair ran past them, and Mu Fushu couldn't help but sigh: "What a man like the wind......"

Saburo chuckled: "This must be a candidate who missed the exam time." ”

This is a children's test, children's lives, ages from ten to dozens of years old, Fang Cai's face is not light, looking at his clothes and hair, he is about ten or twenty years old.

Mu Fushu and San Lang walked forward quickly, and when they arrived at the alley of the Gongyuan, there were six guards with knives standing at the entrance of the alley, and when they saw them coming, they shouted loudly: "The Gongyuan is heavy, and the idlers stop!" ”

A man behind Saburo stepped forward, took out a token and shook it. The guard who spoke was stunned, waved his hand to the people behind him, and let them in. When San Lang passed by, he said in a low voice: "Please don't make a loud noise after Lang Jun goes in, so as not to disturb the students' exams." ”

Saburo stopped and asked, "Do you have relatives and friends in it?" ”

The guard blushed and shook his head, "None." ”

In this era, it is great to be able to read and write, and it is even rarer to be able to participate in the children's examination.

Saburo nodded and threw down a sentence: "You are very good." ”

The guard was stunned, then bowed his head and said nothing.

Mu Fushu also deliberately glanced at him when he passed by, and motioned to the people around him to pay attention to this person's name and life. If this person doesn't have a intestine to the end, he is a heart, and if he has a good character, he can be used. (To be continued)

ps: I was dizzy yesterday, and the number of chapters was written incorrectly, and I can't change it...... Depressed R655