Generally speaking, the political level of the Tang Dynasty, like the military level, is improving rapidly, and the work efficiency of various functional departments of the imperial court is also improving.

The first thing in the early dynasty, Li Shimin announced the new appointment of Xiao Yu, the actual governor of Jiannan Province and the governor of Yizhou, who took office a year ago.

Although the grade has dropped by one order, it is still in the top sequence, and it is not a degraded official.

In addition, there are a series of local official appointment adjustments, higher ranks, and it is worth mentioning that Wu Shi Tong, he was promoted to the governor of Shannan Province, the governor of Jingzhou, and like Xiao Yu, he is the real power governor of the soldiers, horses, money and grain, which proves that Li Shimin still recognizes the achievements he has made in Yangzhou, of course, the main task of transferring him in the past is to move people to Guanzhong.

The people of the Wuximan, Yi, Miao, Tujia and other ethnic groups in Yongzhou, Huaizhou, Jizhou, Kuizhou, Guizhou, Liangzhou and other places have to move to Guanzhong in large numbers.

It is believed that as long as the samurai can communicate well with those ethnic minorities, under the situation of coercion and inducement, the resistance of these local residents should not be great.

Sun Xiangfu made a rare suggestion to Li Shimin, if it is really an area with greater resistance, it is good to move some young people with adjustable characteristics first, and the die-hard elements in the middle-aged and elderly will naturally not exist when this generation grows up.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Sun Xiangfu and Xiao Yu came to the Guozijian for the first time, Datang did not build a special tribute courtyard at all, and now the weather is cold, and the Guozijian with a warm pot in the room was designated by Li Shimin as the examination room for this imperial examination.

Historically, during the heyday of the Zhenguan Dynasty, the number of foreign students studying in Guozijian alone was as high as thousands, and these houses were more than enough for the imperial examination, but because the number of tables and chairs was not enough, they needed to be seconded, and even temporarily set up some suggestions.

Looking at the final reference list handed over by the scribe, Xiao Yu said with a smile, "After singing so much at the city gate, the number of students who came to apply for the exam really increased, and it actually reached as many as 8,000 people, and many of them are industrial and commercial subjects, which can solve the urgent needs of the imperial court this time." ”

This situation has long been expected by Sun Xiangfu, he took the roster handed over by Xiao Yu, and while flipping through it, he answered, "There are more people, at least there are choices, our country will get bigger and bigger, and the management will become more and more detailed, not to mention 8,000 people, even 80,000 people to refer to, it's too little!" ”

Think about the thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge in the Song and Ming dynasties, and think about the tens or millions of college graduates in later generations, this kind of examination with a total of only a few thousand people in the whole country is simply not worth mentioning.

The two were chatting, and Kong Yingda of Guozijian came over to say hello, he had objections to the new system of taking industrial and commercial medical students as officials in the imperial examination, but they did not cancel the liberal arts based on the Four Books and Five Classics, and the examination questions of Xiao Yu's Jinshi Department were also consulted by him, and they were quite decent, which made him not say anything more.

Seeing Old Man Kong, Sun Xiangfu was actually a little embarrassed, after all, he had scolded people before, but now he is of a higher grade than him, as long as he doesn't communicate with him if he has nothing to do, of course, people are afraid of embarrassment now and are unwilling to deal with him.

"Xiao Xiang, Guozijian's secretary, doctor, teaching assistant, straight talk, a total of thirty-nine people, three days later, will participate in the invigilation, how to operate, please show Xiao Xiang."

Thirty-nine people, plus Xiao Yu and himself, are only forty-one people, so to speak, one person has to invigilate about two hundred students, which is a bit much, based on the size of these houses, one can accommodate a maximum of thirty or forty people for the exam, and one person has to take care of at least five rooms?

Xiao Yu originally wanted to say that he came according to the old routine of the previous dynasty, but found that Sun Xiangfu was frowning, so he asked, "What does Zhengming think?" ”

"The number of invigilators is too small, one person has to invigilate almost 200 candidates, and take care of four or five rooms, it is estimated that all kinds of plagiarism and plagiarism will be very serious at that time."

Hearing him say this, Kong Yingda immediately disagreed, and snorted with a straight face, "Hmph, my generation of scholars are all moral gentlemen, how could they do that kind of plagiarism." ”

Kong Yingda's opinion on Sun Xiangfu has always stayed three years ago, even if Sun Xiangfu has done these good things for the Tang Dynasty, it has not made him change his opinion of Sun Xiangfu, and he always thinks that he is a person who is unrighteous and unlearned, and when he hears what he says, he can't help but refute.

"Do you think that the world is now the same, and everyone is a moral gentleman?"

"The old man didn't dare to think about it."

"Isn't this it, besides, a large part of the people who are referred to this time are businessmen and workers, and not all of them are scholars."

"This ······"

Kong Yingda was blocked by Sun Xiangfu and had nothing to say, so he had to turn his face aside and stop talking.

Xiao Yu roughly knew about the festival between the two of them, and knew Kong Yingda's character, he was not a person who could persuade him at all, so he had to shake his head and ask Sun Xiangfu, "Now that the various departments of the court are reforming, everyone is busy, even the bachelors of the Hongwen Pavilion are repairing the dictionary and compiling new teaching materials. ”

Sun Xiangfu thought about it, then nodded and said, "There is a way, first of all, we have to set up a search staff at the door to search all the items carried by the candidates to prevent them from plagiarizing with books and cheat sheets, in addition, we can also number all the candidates, and also number all the seats, so that students of different subjects can diverge from the exam." ”

"Missed the test?" Xiao Yu didn't know what he meant, and asked again.

"Well, isn't there six major subjects in this imperial examination, such as Jinshi, Ming Calculation, Ming Law, Industry, Commerce, and Medicine, let's number all the candidates and divide them into six subjects, so that every candidate, there are at least five people in the middle of the students who take the same subject as him, so that it is difficult for them to plagiarize and cheat each other."

Xiao Yu smiled when he heard this, "Zhengming is a great good, so I will arrange manpower to make number plates, and divide the students who apply for the examination into subjects, and all the seats will be dispersed." ”

Sun Xiangfu will give the two children a full moon wine tomorrow, and there is no time to work, so the time is very tight, just do it, the two of them convened a cadre of officials from the Guozijian, numbered all the tables and chairs, and wrote down the corresponding number plates, and sent them to the students when the time came, until dinner, Sun Xiangfu was not busy.

Later, Sun Xiangfu found that Guozijian could not provide food for more than 8,000 students, so he proposed that the examination time of candidates be divided into morning and afternoon, one and a half hours each, and every half day, only two examination papers were made, and the examination was completed in three days.

In this way, there is actually no change for the students of Jinshi University, because their questions basically have no standard answers, but for candidates in other subjects, there are many advantages.

For example, Ming Law Department, one morning, three hours, he may do dozens of multiple-choice questions or judgment questions, and, after the test, basically will not take the test again, after they go back every day, they can also check the classics, focus on those who have not been tested, which will lead to their average test score will be a level higher, including medicine, also has such an advantage.

The rest, such as Ming arithmetic, after going back, each student can discuss the routine of the question with others, and know some ways to solve the problem, which can score higher in the later exams, and business, which roughly has such an advantage.

The test scores of each subject are high, and the Jinshi itself will be compared with the Jinshi department, and the reference personnel of the Jinshi branch itself has almost reached one-third of all the reference personnel, and when the time comes, the probability of winning the test is estimated to be the smallest, so that it can be foreseen that after a few sessions, there will be fewer and fewer people who are admitted to the Shike.

Sun Xiangfu doesn't have any opinions on people who study liberal arts, it's just that during this period, what is lacking is more practical science students, and when the economy of Datang reaches a certain level, liberal arts will still flourish, just like the country is developed, and the people will pay more attention to entertainment programs.

After returning to the house, Sun Xiangfu saw a bunch of manuscripts or letters in the study, but he didn't have time to look through them, he worked hard for Li Shimin every day, it was not good to miss the childhood of his two children, and it was most interesting when the child was talking about a month, Sun Xiangfu was not tired after holding Huanhuan for half an hour, until the child slowly played and fell asleep, he didn't think of eating dinner.

Sun's kitchen has a lot of lo-mei at any time, and all kinds of meats are available, especially in winter, but today there are new dishes, stewed pork rib soup with kelp, braised whale meat, and a steamed sea crab.

"Lingnan sent something?" Sun Xiangfu asked Uncle De, who was waiting on the side.

"Yes! This kelp, in the past, people along the coast did not eat, since you took the lead in eating, now there are many people in Chang'an City to eat it, the market demand in winter is very large, and the fleet of those in Lingnan has sent a lot.

And this whale, is Zhao Guard's fleet specially caught at sea, it is said that there is a tens of thousands of catties, a piece of good meat, a boat only pulled two over, Mrs. let people send a lot of to the palace adults' homes, the rest of tomorrow at the banquet to greet guests, the kitchen lady in the house studied several methods, this braised whale meat, is just the first course. ”

"Zhao Long, they are so idle, are they all whaling at sea?"

Sun Xiangfu said as he tasted the braised whale meat that looked good, but the taste was not bad.

"The guard who brought the fish said that these two whales were given to Childe and Miss as full moon gifts, and besides, ask their heads when they can take turns to go home to recuperate, and you are about to leave them at sea for three years."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu felt guilty for a while, everyone has wives and children, and they all have emotional needs, so they didn't think about it well, but right now, Shandong really can't leave them.

"Let the person who sent the fish go back and tell Zhao Long to recruit another 3,000 sailors for training! After the training, they will be able to come back in turn, forget it, I'll write to him! ”