The next day, the exam continued, and by the evening, the exam was over, and then the examiners who had arranged in advance began to mark the papers.

Thousands of people's test papers need to be corrected in a short period of time, and in order to ensure accuracy, the test papers are cross-marked, so the workload is very large.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty is also different from other traditional dynasties, they will not directly send officials from other departments to participate in the reading of the papers, which is the work of the Ministry of Rites, and other departments are basically not qualified to participate.

Therefore, the people who mark the papers are all officials of the Ministry of Rites, including not only officials from the Department of Education, but also teachers from two universities, and some senior students from the Royal Institute of Technology will also participate in the marking.

When the marking work was going on, Li Xuan was not idle, and handled many of his affairs according to the usual practice, and waited until two days later that the Education Department of the Ministry of Rites sent the final results of the Jinling examination.

Among the more than 5,000 candidates, the top candidates have already been selected, but even after being selected, there are 1,000 people, so the people in the exam are at most on the list, and then sent to Li Xuan's side, as for the examination papers that Li Xuan personally checked, they are only limited to the top ten in the Jinshi and doctoral courses.

Li Xuan read through the top ten papers of each of these two subjects, a total of twenty papers, and there is nothing to say about the science papers in them, they all have standard answers, and they can directly give scores by comparing the answers, and the science papers of these twenty people are all above ninety-five points.

The examination of the Datang Imperial Examination has already begun to adopt a 100-point system, and it is not easy to score 95 points in the examination, after all, this year's science examination paper is more difficult than last year's.

As for the liberal arts papers, whether they are doctoral or jinshi papers, the articles are quite well written, and the scores given by many examiners are relatively consistent, most of them are above 95 points.

For the papers of these outstanding candidates, what Li Xuan has to do now is not to find fault or anything, but to rank these twenty people, and to rank the first and second grades, which has always belonged to Li Xuan's power.

Li Xuan didn't choose it at the first time, but first looked at the resumes of these twenty people, and then arranged the names according to the resumes.

After the ranking of these twenty people is determined, in this exam, the things that need Li Xuan to do it himself will be over, and then it is time to post the gold list.

As soon as the gold list is posted, naturally some people are happy and some are worried!

But no one pays attention to this anymore, and people pay more attention to the examination of the four sections of the Zhili Examination.

Many people know that this is an attempt and a pilot project for the imperial examination reform of the empire.

Although it is said that the change of the imperial examination that has lasted for thousands of years will cause some criticism, but since the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Empire, it has been constantly carrying out various innovations, from the cabinet to the army, from agricultural taxes to industry and commerce, the Tang Dynasty has almost reformed all systems, and the imperial examination and education are just one of them.

And basically people with a little insight know that the empire has been reforming education and imperial examinations, not much every year, but it is changing every year, and over time it will slowly get used to it.

Therefore, there are not many people who have opinions on the reform itself, and they are more concerned about what benefits they will bring after the reform.

Obviously, this time the reform of the examination will bring a great benefit to the world's readers.

Because of the number of people admitted, the chances of the scholars being admitted to the Jinshi are greater, and they can have a greater chance of becoming officials, why are they not happy?

The examination scores of the four provinces of Zhili were all conducted locally, so Li Xuan, who was in the meeting for a while, could not get any news, and two days after the Jinling City side announced the gold list, he was successively reported by the results of the examination of the four provinces of Zhili.

Because the four will test scores because it is a pilot, so the top and bottom are very important, strictly prevent fraud, so the test is very smooth, and finally successfully selected their respective Jinshi and doctors, and according to the previous regulations, these people were awarded Jinshi and Doctor merits, but they are all top three.

However, this has little impact, because even in the entrance examination in Jinling City, there are nearly 500 Jinshi students admitted, but there are only three people in the first class and only seven people in the second class.

In the imperial examinations held by the Tang Dynasty, the top ten were the first and second first, and the eleventh was the third at the beginning, no matter how many people were behind!

Candidates who can take the score test have little confidence to compete in Jinling City, so it is good to be able to pass the Jinshi examination.

But they didn't know that Li Xuan had been brewing for a long time, and after a few years, he would cancel the first, second, and third grades, and all of them would be called Jinshi or Doctor, and there would be no specialization.

With the Zhili Sidao examination has also achieved a complete success, even if the palace examination has not yet been held, Li Xuan is already eager to announce to the whole world through the Tang Dynasty newspaper that starting next year, the examination will also be set up in various provinces, and those who pass the examination will be awarded the merit of the top three jinshi and the top three doctors.

After the provinces are also opened, it means that the national examination and the provincial examination that Li Xuan has planned for a long time are basically finalized, and the follow-up is to continue to improve, such as reducing the grade of new science and doctor, expanding the number of students admitted to the provincial examination, so that the provincial examination and the national examination will become the main and even the only channel for grassroots talents to be selected for the country.

As for how to select middle and high-level officials, it will be slowly selected and trained from the grass-roots officials, in short, it is impossible for a new science and technology jinshi to become a seven-grade official just after being admitted.

Li Xuan was quite satisfied with the reform of the imperial examination.

When the reform of the imperial examination was successful, the follow-up modern education system was also established, then a complete set of education and imperial examination system was perfected, Li Xuan did not dare to say how advanced this system was, but it was better than the current one, as for what is the problem, or it will not adapt to the times in the future, then it will be changed.

Now, it's better than before.

Li Xuan has always been pragmatic about all kinds of reforms, and he has never thought of creating a system that can last for hundreds of thousands of years, and he thinks that he does not have the ability to do so.

Even many of the things he did were not taken into account hundreds of years later, at most he was considered to be a few decades, and this is already very powerful, no matter how long it is, the ghost knows what will become of it in the future.

Especially now that this era has its own, and according to Li Xuan's own prediction, no matter how bad it is in a few decades, it will at least enter the later stage of the steam engine industrial revolution, and maybe it will enter the era of electrification with one foot.

After all, it is not an exaggeration to have its own existence, constantly promote the progress of science and technology, and directly copy the successful experience of later generations, and it will take decades to develop to this extent.

And in this process, it will inevitably bring drastic changes to society and the whole world, and in the midst of such drastic changes, no one dares to say that the system can be effective for a long time.

So what Li Xuan has to do is that no matter what happens, as long as it is useful now, then it will be fine, and as for the future, it will be said later.

Sometimes Li Xuan wonders if he will create a group of capitalists in the future when he has come up with so many new things and greatly supported the development of industry and commerce, and then run out to overthrow himself or his heir......