It is already July, and intellectuals in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Huguang provinces are stepping up their efforts to go to counties or cities to sign up for the imperial examination, and the People's Army's scientific examination report is only available for two months, June and July, and after this period, they can only wait until next year to sign up for the imperial examination.

Now the People's Army is about to hold the fifth imperial examination, and it is also the first imperial examination for the entire People's Army-ruled area after the end of the war; in March last year, the People's Army had already occupied Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Huguang provinces, but last year's fourth imperial examination was only held in Guangdong Province.

There are two main reasons for not holding the imperial examinations in the newly occupied areas: one is that the occupation time of these four provinces is too short, and the officials are relatively busy; The other is that the intellectuals in the four provinces have not yet completed the content of several books involved in the exam.

The knowledge involved in the imperial examination is still the books "Translation of Traditional and Simple Common Words", "Elementary Mathematics", and "Common Knowledge", and the content of the three books is not much, but for the intellectuals of the old era who came into contact with these books for the first time, it will take at least half a year to be able to learn them initially.

In March, the People's Army occupied four provinces, in April Wenhua bookstores were established in various parts of the newly occupied areas, selling all kinds of books to the outside world, and the tenth day of October was the day of the imperial examination, which was only half a year, and many intellectuals were still hesitant to come and buy books as soon as the bookstore opened.

Under these circumstances, the People's Army did not conduct the imperial examination in the newly occupied area last year, and the postponement of the examination for a year could make it better to conduct the imperial examination.

This year's fifth imperial examination will cover the four provinces, and the names of the scientific examination have just begun, and there is an endless stream of intellectuals from various cities and counties who have signed up.

More than a year is enough time for the remaining intellectuals to understand that the general trend of the People's Army has been achieved, the Ming Court is no longer able to resist the People's Army, and there is no good result in continuing to be loyal to the Ming Court.

More intellectuals loyal to the Ming court, even if they did not have much property, ran away before the People's Army came and ran north, wanting to continue to contribute to the Ming Court, hoping that one day the Ming Court would be able to defeat the People's Army.

There are also many intellectuals who remain, but this intellectuals are even counted as people who only know all the words, and this kind of people who barely know all the words have very little loyalty to the Ming court.

By the end of July, the data of candidates from all over the country will be summarized, and the number of people who have signed up for the imperial examination has exceeded the 10,000 mark, and these people will not all be admitted to the People's Army, and as long as some of them are admitted, they will be able to fill the vacant positions in the People's Military Government in various places.

The central government of the People's Army has already made plans for the imperial examinations for all five provinces in the KPA-ruled areas, and the examination papers are the same, but the examinations will be conducted on a provincial basis.

Candidates from the county will go to the city to take the imperial examination, and after the examination, all the test papers will be sent directly to the provincial capital, and the provinces will be reviewed, and then ranked by province, and the number of candidates admitted will be selected according to the situation of each province.

Admitted candidates will only enter the People's Military Government of a certain place in the province, and will not cross provinces.

If all the test papers are sent back to Guangzhou City for review, the candidates have to join the province across provinces, which is too troublesome for the People's Army and the candidates, and it is completely unnecessary.

The fifth imperial examination is coming, and the candidates in Guangdong Province are better, after all, there have been four imperial examinations in Guangdong Province, and the vast majority of people who want to participate in the imperial examination have already participated in at least once, and there are very few newcomers who have signed up for the fifth imperial examination.

However, for the candidates from Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Huguang provinces, this was the first time they had come into contact with the imperial examination of the People's Army.

As a matter of fact, at least two-thirds of the candidates who participated in the People's Army's imperial examinations in the four provinces were previously unqualified to participate in the Mingting Imperial Examinations, while there were no restrictions on participating in the People's Army's imperial examinations.

Of course, those who participate in the imperial examination cannot be indiscriminately filled, and the officials of the People's Army Government will carefully review the examination papers, and if the candidates do not even know simplified Chinese, such candidates will directly enter the blacklist of the People's Army, and they will not have to think about becoming an official or joining the army in the future, and they will not even be able to participate in the various projects of the People's Army Government.

There are no fools among the candidates who sign up for the imperial examination, and they will not sign up for the imperial examination without preparing anything, no matter what, the people's army is the ruler, and playing the people's army is self-defeating.

Anyone who is interested in participating in the People's Army imperial examination will basically take out the money to buy three books at the Wenhua Bookstore, study carefully, the three books are very cheap, most people can afford to buy them, they really can't afford it, they can also borrow them from friends, they can always study the three books well, and they will sign up when they are ready.

The People's Army Imperial Examination has been held four times, and anyone who knows the Ming Imperial Examination can see that the People's Army Imperial Examination is very different from the Ming Imperial Examination.

The most obvious difference is the number of people admitted, the number of people admitted to the People's Army Imperial Examination can exceed 1,000 at one time, and the Fifth People's Army Imperial Examination may admit more than 5,000 people, and they are all qualified to enter the People's Army Government and become officials.

In contrast, the number of people admitted to each imperial examination in the Ming Court is small and small, and everyone's eyes are on the champion, the list eye, and the tanhua.

The second is the rank of the official of the high school of the imperial examination, the People's Army must first intern for at least three months, and then serve as the lowest level of literacy or one level higher level of officials, and will never be directly appointed to a high-level official position such as the county magistrate (zhixian), but it will happen in the Ming court, you must know that a person who passes the imperial examination does not necessarily mean that he will be able to become a good official.

The time for the imperial examination is getting closer and closer, and the candidates are full of expectations that even if they can only serve as a minor official after passing the imperial examination, their fate will change.

Before that, they might keep accounts in merchants' shops, they might sell characters on the streets, they might make a living copying books, and they would become officials of the People's Army, and they would have a stable salary and the possibility of becoming high-ranking officials.

In the People's Army, although it is said that graduates of the three-year education are descendants, more often than not, they are promoted according to the ability of officials, and it is impossible to quickly promote a three-year education graduate who does not have much ability, nor will it allow capable intellectuals of the old era to stay in the same place, at least on the surface, the People's Army treats everyone equally, and those who are capable are promoted.

In the Ming court, even if it is a small official, it is not something that intellectuals can be, of course, many literati and scholars will also hold their own identity as small officials.