After Huang Zhiyuan was admitted to the new science and technology show, he did not rush to return to his hometown, but continued to take it in Xunzhou City, preparing to participate in the Guangxi Township Examination to be held not long after.

In order to ensure that the general examination can be held on time in April, the county examination, the prefectural examination, and the hospital examination are not only combined into one examination, but also not far from the holding of the township examination.

In order to allow students from the west and even the north of Guangxi to arrive and participate in the township examination, this time the township examination was not held in Wuzhou, but in Xunzhou Prefecture, and it is expected that the number of participants will be hundreds.

Because not only these new students in Xunzhou Prefecture, but also new students from other state capitals in Guangxi will also rush to Xunzhou Prefecture to participate in the township examination.

Even if it is a talent of the former Ming Dynasty, many of them have applied for the township examination.

This time in the Tang Dynasty, the Xiucai of the former Ming Dynasty can come and directly participate in the township test as long as they want, and they don't have to be born or something.

Many of the Ming Dynasty talents who were not even qualified to participate in the township test in the past were greatly moved after hearing about it, and many of them went to Xunzhou in advance to participate in the township test.

The interval between the hospital examination and the township examination is very short, and Huang Zhiyuan has not had time to rest for a few days to adjust his state, the township examination has begun, and this time the number of participants in the township examination is even more than he expected, and a total of more than 800 people have signed up for the examination.

Although most of them are new students, the talents of the former Ming Dynasty also account for as many as half.

The township test is also three days, and the content of the exam is also similar to the college test, but the questions are definitely more difficult, this time Huang Zhiyuan also tried his best to stand out, and after the exam, the whole person felt like he was going to collapse.

After the release of the list, he, Xu Hanshi and a few other people who participated in the township test went to wait for the list early in the morning.

It doesn't matter if he looks at it, he actually found that his name is in the front, although not in the top three, but also in the fourth.

If this is replaced by a palace exam, it will be the first place in the second class.

This made him very excited, because he finally passed the exam, even if this person was a person in the Tang Dynasty, but it was also a person, and more importantly, even if he failed in the follow-up test, he could still be a seven-grade official.

His best friend Xu Hanshi also did not fall off the list, but his ranking was a little lower, only more than two hundred.

This time in the Guangxi Township Examination, more than 800 people took the exam, but the number of selected candidates was enough to be 250 people, which shows that the probability of admission is still very large, but is this important for candidates? It's not important, the important thing is that you got in.

Before they could celebrate for a few days, they were taken on a naval transport ship bound for Zhaoqing the next day.

Not only them, but more than 100 candidates from Guizhou have already set off, and candidates from several state capitals in Guangdong are also on their way to Zhaoqing.

When a total of about 500 new subject candidates from these three provinces went to Zhaoqing, in fact, a small number of candidates had already arrived in Zhaoqing in advance, and they were the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there are very few people who come, there are only dozens of people, and most of them are not very much, and there is no hope of getting into the Ming Dynasty Jinshi, but this is not important, the important thing is that they are former Ming Juren, and they also came to participate in the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty.

For these people, the Ministry of Rites is very preferential, with good food and drink, and the flower girl who sent the warm bed was sent.

It doesn't matter what level of knowledge these people are, what matters is the political signal they send after they come to participate in the imperial examination!

And these are the purposes of Li Xuan's imperial examination!

Huang Zhiyuan and other people from the new imperial examination went down the river in boats, and the speed of eastward movement was very fast, and it did not take long to arrive in Zhaoqing.

After arriving in Zhaoqing, he found that this Zhaoqing and Xunzhou capital city are very different, although the recent changes in Xunzhou capital city are also very big, but compared with the changes in Zhaoqing, it is not worth mentioning.

First of all, the cleanliness of the streets, almost to the point of being unbelievable, there is not a single bubble of or urine on the streets, which is simply unbelievable.

And the buildings on the street are neat, no business dares to encroach on the street, not nothing, in fact, there used to be, but those who dare to do this are already afraid of being fined.

The Tang Dynasty treats these people who violate the rules, especially some illegal acts that have little negative impact, and they are generally too lazy to be arrested and put in prison, but mainly fines, and heavy punishments.

The reason for doing this is very simple, it's all about money.

Datang is poor, and as a judicial institution, it is even poorer, and patrol police bureaus around the country often need to develop their own financial resources, otherwise they will not even be able to pay the salaries of the patrol police.

Therefore, fines have become an important means of income generation for them, and there are even indicators, how much the patrol police who patrol the streets for public security and sanitation must be fined a day, and the more they are fined, the more they are fined, and the less they are fined, the wages will be deducted.

Under the blow of this income-generating means, basically the cities under the rule of the Tang Dynasty have significantly improved their appearance and even public security, and several important cities, such as Liuzhou, Wuzhou, and Zhaoqing, are even better to the point that it is unbelievable.

After entering Zhaoqing, Huang Zhiyuan could frequently see black-uniformed patrolmen patrolling the streets, and also saw many military soldiers in military uniforms, patrolling the streets in groups, carrying rumored muskets.

This is not seen in Xunzhou, there are not so many elite soldiers, more black-uniformed patrols and soldiers in the robbery camp, regular army soldiers are rare.

After arriving in Zhaoqing City, they were placed in several mansions to live, but if you are not short of money, you can also go to the guest house outside, and if you have relatives and friends to seek refuge, you can also go to the refuge, the official food and accommodation are free, you love to come or not.

Huang Zhiyuan has no relatives and friends in Zhaoqing, but his friend Xu Hanshi has relatives and friends to take refuge in Zhaoqing, to be precise, this relative and friend is a colleague of Xu Hanshi's second grandfather, the former Ming Dynasty was demoted, and now he is an official under the Tang Dynasty, Xu Hanshi's second grandfather has written a letter in advance to arrange, and when they arrive in Zhaoqing, they can go to take refuge, not only is it more convenient to eat and live, but also can know more about the inside story of the imperial examination.

It is even more beneficial for their exam preparation!

Therefore, Xu Hanshi took Huang Zhiyuan to take refuge with his second grandfather's colleague, the director of Zhengliupinsun, who served in the Guangxi Division of the Ministry of Households.

Mr. Sun was extremely happy with their arrival, and chatted with them all night, carefully explaining some of the points that need to be paid attention to in the test.

Outsiders may not know, but Chief Sun, who is an official in the household department of the cabinet, has long heard of it, this time the imperial examination, His Majesty has personally ordered, the four books and five classics are only the most basic, and the focus is still on the two subjects of policy theory and historical theory.

Of course, this is not to say that the Four Books and Five Classics are not important, because the Four Books and Five Classics are the entry threshold, and the level of the Four Books and Five Classics is not good, and they can't even be on the list. But if you want to get a good ranking, strategy and history theory are the focus, because the Four Books and Five Classics can make you win, but policy theory and history theory can make you get a good ranking.

The people who were able to participate in the examination, although their level was good and bad, the level of the Four Books and the Five Classics at that time would not be bad there, and under this system, the questions of the Four Books and the Five Classics would not be too difficult, and even the truncated questions would not come out, only the most basic questions.

Therefore, the focus of this meeting examination and the subsequent palace examination is to discuss strategy and history.

Director Sun even brought them a few volumes of test questions and textbooks from the Guozijian, and said that this time, the new imperial examination people on the Guangdong side are all students in the Guozijian, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Because the Tang Dynasty has not been long after conquering Zhaoqing, it has not had time to rule the provincial capitals of Guangdong, limited by the expected arrival, the large-scale military operation has basically ended, the first army has not even gone to Guangzhou at present, but has gone to other areas outside Guangzhou, although it has been conquered militarily, but the effective rule has not yet been established, and there are not many candidates from Guangdong to apply for this Dengji Enke.

Unlike Guizhou and Guangxi, where perfect local rule has been established, Guizhou has been ruled for more than a year, and Guangxi has less time, but it has been a few months.

Therefore, in the case that there are not many local candidates in Guangdong, most of the new imperial examination people here in Guangdong are students of Guozijian.

In the following days, Huang Zhiyuan and Xu Hanshi were devoted to studying the textbooks and topics of Guozijian, repeatedly thinking about how to write better strategies and historical theories, and even read many history books for this purpose.

It's the Four Books and Five Classics that have been thrown aside, anyway, they have been studying the Four Books and Five Classics for more than ten years, and the level is not top-notch, but they can't get there, not to mention that the Four Books and Five Classics can't be done quickly, and it doesn't have much impact if they don't learn it for a few days.

In the process of studying hard, although Mr. Sun was good to them, Mrs. Sun was quite complaining about them, although she did not say it explicitly, but she also said that it was not easy for the master to live in Beijing, and the old man of their family was just a six-grade master who had no real power, and the house he was assigned was just a small courtyard with only a few brick houses, and there were five or six people in their family, which was not very convenient to live.

Huang Zhiyuan also really felt inconvenient, there are not many houses in the house of the chief sun, and there are female dependents, in order to avoid suspicion, the young daughter and a daughter-in-law of the chief sun have not been out of the house for several days.

However, although it was inconvenient, in order to be able to get the guidance of Master Sun, he endured it and did not leave.

stayed for four days, and when it was about to open the test, he said goodbye to Xu Hanshi, and on the day he left, he obviously saw Mrs. Sun's face full of joy: "Finally sent these two people away!" ”

After leaving Sun's Mansion, they first went back to the examination hall to prepare, and the next morning they rushed to the examination room with other lifters to start the first examination in his life.

If you win the tribute, no matter what the results of the palace examination are, but the last time you are also from the same jinshi, you will be awarded the official position from the sixth grade.

If not, Huang Zhiyuan has already planned to continue to specialize in research for a year, especially the two subjects of strategy and history, and must be more proficient, and wait for the spring exam next year.

After taking the Four Books and Five Classics with apprehension, when it was the turn of the Policy Theory Section, just a glance at the question made him frown!