The armistice negotiations between the Ming court and the People's Army are still continuing, and it is expected that the negotiations will not be completed by the end of the 14th year of Wanli, and the People's Army has been dragging its feet, and the Ming Court originally wanted to delay time, and when hundreds of thousands of troops were formed and sent to the front line, they could not negotiate with the People's Army.

However, the expansion of the army of several hundred thousand is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and the combat effectiveness of the new army is low, and it is easy to be defeated by the people's army on the battlefield, and the people's army has many recruits before, but after so many battles, it can no longer be described as new soldiers.

Ming Ting naturally knew that if he wanted to defeat the People's Army, he would not only have to expand the army by one million, but also have to train for a certain period of time, and he needed to equip the army with more earth-shattering thunders.

The key is that the People's Army will also besiege tens of thousands of Ming troops, and the food and grass can be supported for the time being, but the two sides are only negotiating, and there is no complete truce, and no one is sure whether the People's Army will capture those cities.

In this case, the Ming court wanted to stop fighting with the People's Army as soon as possible, but the People's Army kept dragging its feet and was very dissatisfied with the Ming Court's compensation.

In early October, the People's Army completed the occupation of Qiongzhou Prefecture, and the population under the rule of the People's Army increased by several hundred thousand.

The development of Qiongzhou Prefecture was very important, and there was another matter that was equally important under the rule of the People's Army at this time, that is, the first imperial examination of the People's Army.

There are two subjects in the People's Army's imperial examinations, one is mathematics and the other is comprehensive.

Needless to say, the former will be tested in a comprehensive examination with a lot of content, including the content of the common sense book, the understanding of the People's Army, and the question of how to manage the common people under his rule.

And it should be noted that traditional Chinese characters are not allowed to appear on the test paper, and points will be deducted if traditional Chinese characters appear.

After registering at the county government and city government, the examination will be held together in the city on the tenth day of October, and the students will be admitted according to their scores.

After the end of July, more than 1,000 people signed up for the examination, not only literati and scholars of the old era, but also young businessmen and sons of landlords.

As long as these people can identify with the People's Army, the People's Army will give them the opportunity to join, and if they have two hearts after joining the People's Army, the betrayers will be severely punished wherever they are.

From the sale of exam books at the Mandarin Bookstore to the start of the official exam, there is only half a year, and half a year is not long or short, and it is not a big problem to learn simplified Chinese characters, nor is it a big problem to learn common sense books.

The only problem is mathematics, even if there is a detailed explanation of various mathematical symbols, it also gives many literati scholars a headache, but fortunately, relatively elementary mathematics can be learned, so as not to score zero in the mathematics exam.

In fact, by the end of August, the number of people who wanted to participate in the first imperial examination of the People's Army was even higher, mainly because the People's Army once again defeated the Ming Army, which gave more people confidence and made some people disappointed in the Ming Court.

It has only been a year since the People's Army raised its flag, but the People's Army has defeated the Ming Army many times, occupied most of Guangdong, and gradually stabilized its foundation.

It's a pity that the registration time for the first imperial examination of the People's Army has passed, and if you want to participate in the next imperial examination, you have to wait another year, and the People's Army has announced that it will hold an imperial examination every year.

But for most people who want to participate in the imperial examination but the registration time has passed, they will be very disappointed, and joining the People's Army a year later may open a very big gap, but this matter is mainly to blame themselves, who made them too bold.

Soon, the tenth day of October arrived, and the first imperial examination of the People's Army was about to begin.

In Guangzhou City, Lu Xu, Hao Xuan, Wang Mincai and others walked towards the examination room together, everyone's faces were more serious, they regarded the imperial examination of the People's Army as the previous imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, this is an opportunity to change the fate of people's lives, and everyone is cautious.

No one dared to walk in front of the examination room, and once noticed by the People's Army, they were very worried about being disqualified from the examination.

"Brother Lu, can we pass the exam?" Wang Mincai asked.

Lu Yu replied seriously: "Yes, we will definitely be able to pass the exam and believe in ourselves." ”

When the time came to enter the examination room, under the inspection of the soldiers of the People's Army, the candidates entered the examination room one by one.

As the governor of the People's Army, Fang Nan came to the examination room to inspect the candidates who were taking the exam.

Walking around the examination room, by the way, to see if there are any cheating candidates, the candidates who are seriously answering the questionnaire only feel that there is a senior official of the People's Army walking by, and they do not know that this person is the Grand Governor of the People's Army.

Fang Nan often walks around the city of Guangzhou alone or with Hu Xiaoya, but there are almost no people who really know Fang Nan's identity, just like the emperor of the Ming court, except for the emperor's people and ministers, even if the emperor walks in front of him, there are a few people who can recognize him.

Every time Fang Nan walked through an examination room, an examiner would say something like "It was the Metropolitan Governor who came to inspect just now, this is the importance that the Metropolitan Governor attaches to you, you must take the exam seriously and get a good result" and so on.

In the examination rooms in the city outside Guangzhou, the mayor of the city will also enter the examination room to inspect, the main purpose is to let the candidates know that the People's Army attaches great importance to them.

In fact, Fang Nan did not attach much importance to these intellectuals of the old era, and if the People's Army had enough talents in hand, Fang Nan would not let these intellectuals of the old era join the People's Army, and wait for the People's Army to train more talents under the People's Army education system, and this kind of imperial examination would not be of much use.

Moreover, the KPA education system has trained more personnel than those elected by the imperial examination, so the intellectuals of the old era who joined the KPA will not have much influence on the KPA.

Even if he didn't pay much attention to them, Fang Nan had to show that he paid attention to them on the surface.

Mathematics is tested first, then comprehensive examination, and during the two quarters of an hour of rest in between, you can go to the toilet, and in just half of the afternoon, the first imperial examination of the People's Army is over.

The candidates walked out of the examination room, some of them were sad, some were full of sadness, some were expressionless, and there were few and few people with smiles on their faces.

Before the exam, Lu You was very confident in herself, and after the exam, Lu You kept sighing, and she was already very unconfident in her results.

Regardless of the mood, all candidates are looking forward to the release of the exam results sooner, and many are already eager to join the People's Army.