Time flies quickly, in the blink of an eye to 196 AD, this time Liu Tao does not have the feeling that time has suddenly passed.

The past two years have been very fulfilling, after all, the drought and locust plagues in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, as well as the follow-up relief work, have wasted a lot of time. To this end, the imperial court launched macroeconomic control, allocated a large amount of budget, and carried out a lot of infrastructure construction work for the two states.

Refugees can work locally, and the court gives them a bite to eat. In particular, after the continuous improvement of water conservancy, the irrigation problem in the next 10 or 20 years can be solved.

By 196, the weather was starting to return to normal a little, or at least the rain was starting to be abundant. Judging by this situation, this year should be a good year.

"In the blink of an eye, it's time for the imperial examination again...... However, we can only get the three-level examination mechanism of Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Zhili Province and Gansu Province. Liu Tao sighed, if it is rolled out nationwide, it will take at least six to nine years.

"We need more teachers!" Xun Yue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and replied, "Academies in various places must be set up, and it will not be possible in a few years. In addition, the transformation of states into provinces should continue to ......"

It is not only a matter of changing the state to the province, in the past two years, on the side of Shanxi Province, the provinces have not changed, but the following counties have changed.

Or this is Liu Tao's original idea, under Shanxi Province, according to a hundred miles on the basis, set up a city, under the jurisdiction of two to three counties. Towns are set up under the county, and townships are set up where the number of people is insufficient. Villages are set up below the township, and li and pavilion are no longer used as units.

In a sense, it is to include the countryside in its jurisdiction, no longer semi-autonomous as before, or to the 'respectable' squires to assist in management.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court had almost no jurisdiction below the county level. This tradition continued to the Republic of China, and it was precisely because the government could not control it that there was the possibility of 'the countryside surrounding the city'.

This is based on national conditions, and this may not be applicable if you change countries.

"How many more people participated in this imperial examination?" Liu Tao asked silently.

"Three times more than the last time!" Xun Yue replied, all of them came to Luoyang, and the hospitality was almost a problem, and in the end he had to transfer all the troops out, which was barely enough.

"No way, this time you need to start the exam at the same time!" Liu Tao thought for a while and said, "In the first round of the exam, those who don't have the fame of Xiucai will participate, and they can get the fame of Xiucai in the exam; Then the lifting exam will be held, only Xiucai can participate, and only in the examination can he become a lifter; Finally, there is the entrance examination, and only those who raise it can take it. ”

"But on the side of the Xiucai exam, there are a lot of people needed." Xun Yue cautiously asked for instructions, so many candidates, five examiners, will be tired, especially he is also one of the examiners.

"Let's arrange fifteen examiners temporarily!" Liu Tao replied casually, "Divide the test paper into three stacks, and one person is responsible for one part." ”

"Isn't that a little unfair to the candidates?" Xun Yue was a little puzzled. After all, it is people who mark the papers, so each examiner has his own likes and dislikes, maybe this test paper is not good here with this examiner, but it can be with other examiners?

"Luck is also part of strength." Liu Tao reminded, "For example, a talent is eight buckets high, and there is Zai Fu. As a result, where are natural disasters and man-made disasters, even if he is so talented, can such a person be used? ”

"Then he's really unlucky." Xun Yue smiled bitterly.

I didn't believe in this kind of metaphysical stuff before, but I probably have a kind of 'my life is up to me'. As a result, after seeing Liu Tao take out the lucky scroll, he realized that luck is really not a fictitious thing.

Not to mention him, many people are now privately looking for something that can make them lucky. Even if it's not really useful, it's good to have a psychological comfort. Ever since they knew about the lucky thing, everyone suddenly realized that the world was not friendly.

In particular, it is said that His Majesty the Great Han's luck technique can be used against the enemy, and it is to increase the luck of the enemy, and to the enemy, of course, it is to reduce the luck of the enemy.

Who wants to experience what it's like to be targeted by the whole world? Anyway, Xun Yue definitely doesn't want to experience!

"I wasn't selected, I can only say that he was unlucky this time, let's try his luck next time!" Liu Tao said indifferently.

Xun Yue nodded when she heard this, and did not continue to dwell on this.

Originally, the imperial examination lasted about ten days, but I was afraid that it would be forcibly promoted to twenty days. Fortunately, Liu Tao has approved the temporary preparation of accommodation and food for the candidates, at least even if it does not cost a penny, they can get through the examination stage.

Of course, if you want to eat well, you can go into the city and buy it yourself, which is not forbidden. Among the candidates this time, there are a large number of children of scholars from the Central Plains, Hebei, and Northwest. The deduction has made it clear that the three generations who cannot participate in the imperial examination have basically come over.

Even if they clearly said they couldn't, they have silently cultivated the side clansmen in the past few years to take the exam. It is not allowed to be aimed at their descendants, there are a lot of side clansmen, and they can always find a few talents who are okay.

In the case of the Taiyuan Wang family, Wang Yun and Wang Ling are considered to be descendants, but Wang Hong is counted as one in the side lineage, and then there is Wang Ze and Wang Chang. In addition, Yingchuan Xin's family, Xin Ping defected to Yuan Shao, was banned from participating in the imperial examination, and has gone back to train young clansmen.

On the contrary, Xin Bi took refuge in Liu Tao at the beginning and has become the patriarch of the Yingchuan Xin clan.

The Yingchuan Guo family is the same, at first looked down on Guo Jia's sideline, but he had already found him two years ago, hoping that he could become the patriarch. As for the original patriarch Guo Tu, he has gone back and is responsible for cultivating talents in the family science.

The Guangling Chen clan is similar, Chen Deng became the new family patriarch, Chen Cong and Chen Yu...... The two are still serving in labor, and in two years they will return to Guangling and become the new household dogs.

The household dog is not fixed, since there is no way to go out, there is no way to lead the family to develop and grow, so go back to protect the ancestral tomb and ancestral home. Of course, this generation can't, so put your hope in the next generation!

With the talents of Chen Yu and Chen Cong, if they go back and continue to cultivate the younger generation, the next generation of Guangling Chen may have many successful successes. This is where the heritage of the old family lies, and it is difficult to completely defeat them.

Even in the capitalist era, the big family is still like this, the disciple joins the army as an official, runs agriculture and commerce on the side, and the money earned supports the lineage, and the disciple gives convenience to the side under the official face and the conditions allowed by the rules.

The stronger the concept of the family, the easier it is to unite. On the contrary, it is only a family that relies on blood or a certain elder to unite it, on the contrary, it is easy to go to different things after the death of the elders, and they do not get along with each other in old age and death.

"Your Majesty, the wooden ox and flowing horse that you let you study have been studied!" Just sent Xun Yue away, Su Shuang came over.

"Have you done a good job of surveying the route into Shu?" Liu Tao asked casually, it was ordered two or three years ago, mainly to send people to Yizhou and mark the routes along the line.

The point is that there is a way to open up a new, walkable route on the basis of the original route.

"Survey is survey...... But if you want to walk, I am afraid that it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to transform ......" Su Shuang was embarrassed.