Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been dozens of people in each department, and a few or a dozen people.

Wu Zetian began, added martial arts, and by the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, countries attacked each other year after year, and the imperial examinations were rarely carried out normally.

When Taizu Guo Wei established the Great Zhou, he could not carry out the normal imperial examination at the beginning, and it was not until the Guo Rong era that the imperial examination of the Great Zhou was basically restored to normal.

After Guo Zongxun ascended the throne, he made a small adjustment to the imperial examination system, called Chunwu Qiuwen.

The Wuju regular course is once a year, and the spring and April courses are opened, and the Wenju regular course is once a year, and the autumn is half open in September.

The additional one is called Zhike or Enke, and the time is not fixed, it all depends on the mood of Emperor Guo Zongxun.

"Your Majesty, the people who took the exam this time, including Yan Yun and foreign scholars, a total of 1,798 people."

Guo Zongxun has no concept of this, and he has less than 2,000 people in reference, so I don't know if it's too much or too little.

It is estimated that it is not much, the war in the Central Plains, Yan Yun is even more difficult to make a living, to be honest, Hu Guirong can bring thirty or forty people from the Northern Han Dynasty, which is not a few.

This time it was with the momentum of Yanyun's great victory, the Great Zhou Dynasty was in full swing, and after five or six years of recuperation in the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was relatively stable compared to other places, so more than 1,000 people came to take the exam.

There were about 400 Yanyun scholars, plus the Northern Han Dynasty, a total of 1,798 people.

"How's it going?"

"Your Majesty, a total of 136 Zhongjinshi and 98 Tongjinshi were taken."

The imperial examination of the Zhou system is not divided into three grades, and the top ten candidates are agreed upon by the examiners, and the top ten candidates will be presented to the emperor in three days, and the emperor will nod the three places, which are the champion, the list eye and the tanhua.

The rest of the Jinshi have to take the palace exam again, and the emperor himself will make the questions, and the chief examiner and deputy examiner will assist the emperor in reading the papers, and the thirty people will be called Shu Jishi.

Sankui, Shu Jishi, Jinshi, and Jinshi were born, from high to low, after the imperial examination during the Great Zhou Dynasty, they could directly be a nine-grade official, and the lowest was born with Jinshi.

This made Guo Zongxun a little surprised, aren't all the emperor's palace exams in the excerpts, and then hand-picked the champions, lists, and flowers in the court?

Alas...... It doesn't matter, the champion, the top eye and the tanhua, after giving me the handpick, you don't have to take the test again, which is good.

"Present the top 10 papers, I'm going to read them now."

The top ten rolls were also handed to Guo Zongxun's secret in the past.

"Wei Xiang, the top three you have agreed upon, let's look at them first."

Guo Zongxun first read the top three papers agreed by the examiners, in fact, Guo Zongxun didn't read the eight shares, mainly because he couldn't understand it, and he liked the strategy.

It is to see what these people who have not yet become officials think about current affairs and whether they have any unique views on the strategy of governing the country.

After reading the top three papers, Guo Zongxun read four to ten more.

"Kaifeng, I am very satisfied with the ten people you chose, but I still want to make an adjustment to the top three."

The emperor's request to open the seal was originally not in accordance with the regulations, but Wei Renpu and Ma Yilin had completely stood on the side of the little emperor, and the little emperor said that he wanted to see the name in advance, so he would look at it.

All ten volumes were unsealed.

The first place chosen by the examiners is the same as the first name in Guo Zongxun's mind, Liu Ji and Liu Bowen.

To be honest, even if Liu Ji doesn't win the veritable champion, Guo Zongxun is ready to give him this champion, and now it's okay, there is no need to cheat for personal gain.

The second place is Li Shaoyou, which is not surprising to Guo Zongxun, he has read three articles written by Li Shaoyou, and he was very optimistic about Li Shaoyou at that time.

When Guo Zongxun just opened the third volume, the small token in his hand became hot and disappeared.

The big guy who wrote "Heavenly Creation", Song Yingxing and Song Changgeng, are here.

"Liu Ji is the champion, Song Yingxing is on the list, Li Shaoyou is exploring the flowers."

The top three selected by the examiners are the same as Guo Zongxun's mind, Guo Zongxun just adjusted the rankings of Song Yingxing and Li Shaoyou.

"Your Majesty will obey your Majesty's will."

"Among the remaining Jinshi and Tongjinshi backgrounds, how many of Yan Yun and foreign scholars have been hit?"

"Your Majesty, there are seventeen of Yanyun's scholars, and five of them are from the Northern Han Dynasty."

Guo Zongxun stroked his forehead with his hand, too little, far from enough.

Yanyun Shizi has been bullied by the Khitan people over the years, and the overall level is not as good as the original Great Zhou Shizi, which is completely within Guo Zongxun's prediction, but he didn't expect that the winning rate is so low.

Let's not talk about the Northern Han Dynasty, less than forty came, and five were hit, and the winning rate was high.

But you can't break the rules for the sake of taking more, taking more actually means that people who don't meet the standards have also become Jinshi, and the principle that must be followed at this time is to rather lack than abuse.

"Let's put up the list, the Yanyun scholar list and the foreign scholar list are posted separately, except for the three kui, and the rest of the jinshi and the first are preparing for the palace exam."

Emperor Chrysostom Yuyan, Qiu Yu Sankui determined, Berwyn Chang Geng Shaoyou, for a time became a popular topic in the mouths of the people of Kaifeng City.

The rest of the jinshi conducted another temple examination and selected thirty scholars.

Sankui plus Jishi is the biggest winner of this scientific expedition.

Then, Guo Zongxun announced a decree, in the current territory of the Great Zhou selected several large cities, in addition to Kaifeng, there are Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou, Youzhou, Qizhou (Jinan), Luzhou (Hefei), in addition, Guo Zongxun also selected Zhigu (Tianjin), Jiaoao (Qingdao) these two places, planning to build coastal cities and ports.

Undergraduate Jinshi, in addition to the emperor's edict to stay in Kaifeng, there are three other cities to choose from, Chang'an, Luoyang and Youzhou.

Those who are willing to go to Chang'an and Youzhou will have their original official rank raised by one level.

For those who are willing to go to Luoyang, the original official rank remains unchanged.

That is to say, if you are appointed as a county magistrate in Chang'an County, the official residence is nine grades, and the salary can be raised to eight grades.

Chang'an is no longer the glorious ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, but an important city in the Great Zhou Dynasty to prevent Tibet.

Needless to say, Guo Zongxun sent Cao Bin over, and left Chai Yong and Niu Gao in Gubeikou, just to deter the Khitans at all times.

Luoyang doesn't need to say much, in short, this city has its charm, and in any era, you can't ignore him, maybe because of peony, or maybe because of Songshan Shaolin.

Yangzhou, Qizhou, and Luzhou are the second or third batches.

Zhigu and Jiaoao, at present, are just a concept, one in the Bohai Bay, the other in the Yellow Sea, these two major port cities, must be built.

What Guo Zongxun is thinking about is that the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei is too difficult, and it seems that it is still possible to integrate Beijing and Tianjin first.

Moreover, Guo Zongxun really has the idea of moving the capital to Youzhou.

In this day and age, the threat of war will never come from the sea, right?

If Youzhou and Zhigu are connected into one, a super city will be created, and after the conquest of the Khitan, the Northeast will also be transformed into a granary of China......

There are also Fushun open-pit mines, Liaohe oil fields, Daqing ...... It's too far......

Guo Zongxun began to think about it again.