The civil service examination was held as scheduled, which caused the inns and liquor stores in Keelung and Bengang to be overcrowded for a while.

The number of people who participated in the civil service recruitment examination alone reached more than 27,000, which seems to be a small proportion base for Hongmen, which has a total population of more than 3 million, but don't forget that more than 27,000 people are basically out of illiteracy, at least half of them can be said to be half a scholar.

It can be seen that Hongmen's efforts to promote the popularization of education have brought about changes over the years.

Among them, what may make the newcomer Ma Chengshi feel panicked and even feel a little humiliated, is that the young women who are dressed up and dressed up and walk with a fragrant breeze actually participated in this exam, and the base is not small.

In Huaxia, with the gradual prosperity of Cheng Zhu Lixue, women have a little sign of not going out of the door in their daily life, except for the bottom families in order to make a living and women go out to walk and do what they can, ordinary women rarely come out to show up.

Not to mention that like now, a group of women who don't seem to be short of food and clothing, and even have a good life, appeared in the crowd generously, making the disciples of the Han family who were somewhat influenced by Cheng Zhu Lixue feel uncomfortable.

"If you lose to a group of women, you will really have no shame to go back to see your family!"

With this group of women involved, many Confucian disciples changed color, and while dozens of people waved their sleeves away, most of the rest overcame psychological barriers, but the pressure in their hearts also became extremely great.

However, the local men in Hongmen have long been accustomed to it, and the status of women in the territory of Hongmen has long been incomparable to that of the Central Plains Continent, and even among the positions recruited now, there are several positions that specifically restrict women's entry.

Except for the congenital weakness of women, the rest of the places are not inferior to men, so in the current systems of Hongmen, women's jobs have occupied more than one-third, and the wages are generally not low.

With a stable source of income and an environment where they can live independently, women's self-confidence and voice have a foundation, and they dare to fight against all kinds of patriarchal ideas. And Li Tianyang, a high-level member of Hongmen, and his wife Chen Yumo are the most supportive of women's equal status, so that women have more confidence to fight for power.

"What's so embarrassing about this, let me tell you, in our Hongmen men's life, we have been crushed by women all our lives, and we may not lose a piece of meat!"

Listening to the complaints of the foreign man and his companions, the local man from Hongmen on the side smiled freely, as if he was explaining the other party, and as if he was laughing at himself.

"You know what? In the past few years, the top three in Hongmen Bengang High School are all women, and it is conceivable that we men are not less ridiculed by our female classmates. ”

The stranger turned his head to see that it was a young and old-fashioned young man from Hongmen, who was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

“……”

Several strangers glanced at each other, with mixed feelings in their hearts, but they were embarrassed to get angry at the enthusiastic young man in front of them.

The syllabus of the examination, in fact, in Keelung, Bengang County opened a pair of bookstores, you can also buy the content of the previous sessions, although the examination questions are not the same, but for outsiders also have a high research reference value, so that they can understand the difference between the Hongmen examination and the Ming imperial examination during the preparation for the exam.

Of course, there is a world of difference, the Hongmen exam pays more attention to mathematics and daily general knowledge, but the requirements for the four books and five classics are relatively low, which is very unfair to the literati who came from afar in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, although the Daming School also dabbled in arithmetic and miscellaneous studies, they focused more on the fundamental Confucian doctrine of the Four Books and Five Classics, and derived the way of governing the world from it.

On the contrary, Hongmen attaches more importance to the professional knowledge involved in various occupations, and the industrial sector needs to understand the origin of raw materials, cost accounting, factory construction and other issues; However, the agricultural sector needs to be familiar with the impact of the 24 solar terms on crops, the role of manure on the land, and even the impact of large-scale grain production on local food prices.

All of these are rarely covered in Confucian governance, and some officials or gentlemen have mastered this knowledge from their life experience, but they regard it as their own unique doctrine and cherish it behind closed doors, and they will never teach it to their own disciples.

In this way, the knowledge that can really benefit the people in the county prefect yamen needs to be explored by the new parents and officials themselves.

Of course, today's Hongmen's civil service examination involves things that are still very simple, and a lot of knowledge is just a point-to-point, and the really in-depth knowledge needs to be further studied and slowly improved after the staff of various departments take up their posts.

The exam consists of two days, the first day is arithmetic, and the second day is the professional knowledge of each profession.

When the first day of the examination is over and the test papers are collected, the candidates can leave the examination hall and return to their temporary residences, which is very different from the Daming Imperial Examination.

Along the way, the candidates who came out of the examination room had different expressions, or frowns, UU read books.com or their eyebrows fluttered, each with their own thoughts.

Several candidates who are familiar with each other get together, and they start to look and talk about the exam questions in twos and threes, and they will be ecstatic that a test question is proved correct to each other, and at the same time, they will be frustrated and extremely frustrated because of the error of a certain test question.

"I didn't expect that this Hongmen exam attaches so much importance to arithmetic!"

Ma Chengshi, who came out of the examination room, saw the dense application questions and calculations on the test paper for the first time in the exam, although most of them are not profound, as long as there is more contact and learning on weekdays, this test paper has a lot of certainty, anyway, in Ma Chengshi's view, this test paper is full of test questions, and his grasp is still not small.

The reason why Ma Chengshi has not been able to stop showing his talents in the imperial examination, and he has not even obtained the body of a person, is not that he is not capable and talented, but that he feels that this dead reading is not as poisonous as reading, but it is not as interesting as reading miscellaneous books.

But don't say it, when he was an official in Dashun, he relied on his own miscellaneous learning, but he did a good job in the position of county commander, and even did better than many officials from Jinshi, which is also one of the reasons why he was proud in his heart and thought that he was not inferior to others.

Although it is only a civil service examination now, Ma Chengshi has found some advantages that are different from the way of selecting talents from the Ming Dynasty.

"Perhaps, I've really come to the right place this time."

Ma Chengshi muttered to himself.

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