When it was close to lunch, Guo Peng left Taixue, left Luoyang City, galloped in the direction of Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, and soon arrived at Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall.

At this moment, the first session of the martial arts exam has ended.

When Guo Peng arrived, the candidates for the martial arts examination had already left—they had to hurry back to rest and recuperate enough to prepare for tomorrow's second personal military skills test.

In charge of presiding over the examination was the staff officer Ling Xi Zhong and the guard general Zhao Yun, and when Guo Peng arrived, Xi Zhong and Zhao Yun were directing the examiners to conduct data statistics.

"How's the exam going?"

Guo Peng came up and asked.

"Your Majesty?"

Xi Zhong and Zhao Yun saw Guo Peng coming at a glance and immediately saluted.

"Back to Your Majesty, there are 1,836 people who passed the first exam, and almost one-third of them have not completed the exam and have been eliminated."

Xi Zhong reported a figure that Guo Peng was quite satisfied with.

Guo Peng nodded, patted Ping Zhong's shoulder, and patted Zhao Yun's shoulder.

"Well done, it's good to have so many people pass the first assessment, after all, it's so difficult."

Guo Peng smiled, and then began to ask what the name of the first-place candidate was.

Zhao Yun handed over a piece of paper.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is the information of the first candidate, this person's surname is Wang, his name is Ping, his character is Jun, he is twenty years old, his hometown was originally Yizhou Ba County, and now he lives in Guanzhong, Lantian County near Chang'an, and he seems to be a man."

"Wang Ping?"

Guo Peng took a look at the information sheet handed over by Zhao Yun, hey, don't say it, it's another familiar name.

Should it be fate?

I saw Ma Jian over there, and I saw Wang Ping here.

This is a military genius who doesn't know a lot of big characters but has a strong military talent.

During the Zhuge Liang period, he was the person Zhuge Liang relied on, and he fought with Zhang He, a famous general of Cao Wei, many times, Zhang He did not take advantage of him, and Zhuge Liang trusted him very much.

After the death of Zhuge Liang, Wang Ping shouldered the important mission of Hanzhong's defense in the middle and late Shu Han Dynasty, and after Wu Yi's death, Wang Ping guarded Hanzhong alone for ten years until his death.

During this period, he repelled the attack of Cao Shuang's 100,000 troops with 30,000 troops, smashed Cao Shuang's southern invasion plan, and made great contributions to the stability of the northern defense line of Shu Han.

He had never received a formal military education, not even a cultural education, and the only thing he had about it was learned after he held a position in the army.

But he can rely on others to read to him to learn, talk to people without losing the central idea, will not let people deviate, belongs to the type of people with strong learning ability.

But......

The martial arts examination also depends on the level of education, even if Wang Ping passes the physical fitness, his personal military skills are also passed, but in terms of cultural level......

Does he learn a few more words?

Guo Peng remembered Wang Ping's identity and realized that Wang Ping was probably moved from his hometown to Guanzhong as a prisoner of war during his war against Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang once used a group of people to help resist the Wei army, so after the war, Guo Peng asked Le Jin to pack up the people and defeat them, and the surviving people were moved to Guanzhong as a whole to fill the population of Guanzhong.

Wang Ping may have gone from the land of Sichuan and Shu to settle in Guanzhong in the process.

If that's the case, maybe Wang Ping can really recognize a few more words.

Because Guo Peng, in order to assimilate the rebellious and warlike people as soon as possible, not only broke up the people to live with the Han people, engaged in agricultural production, and got rid of the living habits of half-farming and half-war, but also let the people and Han farmers receive literacy education together.

This will help to assimilate the people into real Han Chinese as soon as possible.

With Wang Ping's genius, it shouldn't be difficult to know a few hundred more words, and with a little effort, reading shouldn't be a difficult thing for him.

However, just for literacy, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass the third exam.

The third exam is really difficult to test military theories, to test the understanding and thinking of the art of war, to write articles, and to accept the scrutiny of professional staff officers.

Unless Shouyang Mountain lectures on martial arts graduates, or family history.

And these two points, Wang Ping and the vast majority of martial arts candidates do not have.

The full score is 300 points, even if the other two get high scores, it is difficult to get the score of the third exam, so the total score can only hover around 200, and you will definitely not be able to pass the martial arts.

In the final analysis, the imperial examination should be for students, not ordinary people.

Despite this, it can't stop Guo Peng's appreciation for Wang Ping.

For such a military genius who is good at defense, Guo is still quite concerned, and the future expansion of the empire's territory is almost over, and military talents who are good at defense will naturally appear on the mainstream stage.

Smiling, Guo Peng handed the piece of paper to Zhao Yun.

"Zilong, after the assessment is over, give me this person's score and the exam paper on the third day."

Zhao Yun took the order.

"Yes."

On the way back to the palace from the Shouyang Mountain Lecture Hall, Guo Peng was very happy and told Cao Cao and Guo Jia a lot of his prospects and thoughts for the future.

He felt that in the future, Taixue and Shouyang Mountain Jiangwutang would become very important output bases for officials and generals, and Taixue and Jiangwutang would cultivate countless famous ministers and generals, and continuously inject fresh blood into the Wei Empire.

He then suggested that Cao Cao and Guo Jia also try to let their children of the right age take the imperial examination.

"Just as this time I asked Ah Jun to take the Wenju exam, next year I will let him participate in the martial arts, I want him to compete face-to-face with the best and most enterprising talents in the entire Shenzhou, face to face, to see whether he is stronger or others are stronger.

This will help him to recognize himself, recognize his shortcomings and strengths, help him improve his shortcomings, and also help him develop his strengths and avoid weaknesses, I don't need him to be an official, but I want him to recognize himself, and you had better do the same. ”

Guo Peng seriously suggested Guo Jia and Cao Cao, and Guo Jia and Cao Cao naturally listened carefully.

According to the rules of the Wei Empire, no matter how great a person's contribution is, at most he will have two sons.

The father's merits can make the two sons lie on the merit book and eat the old book, which is already good.

The rest of the children will have to find another way.

Of course, with the status of Cao Cao and Guo Jia, as well as power and merit, if they want to get a position for their children, Guo Peng will naturally not let them be confined to the shackles of the imperial examination.

However, they also realized that more than 10,000 people participated in the first imperial examination, and many more may participate in the future.

Once all officials and generals rely on the imperial examination to ascend to the throne in the future, but the children of the noble family rely on the shade of the door to ascend to the throne, relying on the merits of their ancestors to eat the old capital, not to mention the decreasing titles from generation to generation, I am afraid that it will make people despise it fiercely.

Isn't that what it is?

Once you don't rely on the inspection to get to the top, it will naturally make most people who rely on the inspection to look down on and despise them.

Didn't the scholars and bureaucrats look down on those who did not rely on inspection to become officials?

Thirty years in Hexi and thirty years in Hedong, feng shui takes turns, and if officials do not rely on the imperial examination to enter the government in the future, I am afraid that they will be looked down upon, which is very embarrassing.

Relying on the imperial examination to enter the office, you have to study hard, you have to practice hard, whether you have a thesis or a martial arts, it is very difficult, it is not easy to get it, and all of them need to be studied hard all year round to get results.

Therefore, in this way, if your own children are not competitive and cannot compete in the imperial examination room, it will be really ugly.

Thinking of this, Guo Jia and Cao Cao also felt more unhappy.