After reading the questions of the two, Yinggao drew two questions in them, and the questions of the first round of the first imperial examination were determined.

These two questions are almost all questions about the understanding of these people in the school about the new policies that Daqin is currently implementing.

Yinggao believes that when he implemented the New Deal, those lecturers should have played these things in front of those young people who listened to the lectures, but now, the previous New Deal has passed for a long time, and Yinggao believes that no one will mention the previous things in the recent period of time when lecturing.

Under such circumstances, in addition to what they had heard from their teachers at the beginning, most of these candidates who participated in the examination should have drawn some conclusions through their observations in the Great Qin Realm in the past two years, combined with some allusions in the sage books they had read, and finally formed their own opinions, which was not much different from what Yinggao wanted to see their real opinions and strength.

"Your Majesty, how should the bamboo slips answered by these people participating in the school examination be dealt with in the end, and how should the preliminary selection be conducted? You can't bring them all to the king, right? ”

After determining the topic, Xiao He asked a very critical question, of course he knew that Yinggao wanted to personally check the school as much as possible, but if he wanted to personally review each candidate's answer, it must be quite unreliable.

"I naturally can't cover all aspects of this matter, but I can't delegate such a lot of power to the county, they are 108,000 miles away from Xianyang, once there are any bad ideas, it is very difficult to track down in the end, I will send some guards to wait until the end of the examination school to directly transport these candidates' answers to Xianyang City, after arriving in Xianyang City, you two find some knowledgeable people to conduct a preliminary review, select the best works for me, and then I will finally determine the list of people who will enter the next round, This is the first year of the implementation of the new imperial examination policy, even if you two work hard, you must be cautious! ”

Obviously, Yinggao wants to control all the matters of this imperial examination within the scope of Xianyang City, he doesn't want some local officials to manipulate this millennium plan, if this imperial examination arouses the doubts of the people, then the reputation that Yinggao has accumulated over the years will not be very good.

"Your Majesty, this matter will take a lot of time......

After thinking about it briefly, Xiao He had to remind Yinggao, because this matter has now spread in the realm of Daqin, and there are no other restrictions on registration except for age, that is to say, you are a guy who can't do anything except write, and you can also participate in this examination, as long as you don't say anything disrespectful to Daqin and Yinggao when answering the questions, there is no problem at all, but if there are more such people, the time wasted for the reviewers is not a little bit.

Originally, according to Xiao He and Lu Jia's ideas, they would suggest that Yinggao conduct a primary election in each county first, at least present similar things to Xianyang, so as not to waste too much time.

But before they could say this idea, they had been completely blocked by Yinggao, Yinggao obviously didn't believe in the local officials in various realms, but Xiao He still wanted to fight for it, after all, the bamboo slips sent by the entire Great Qin, there were not necessarily many.

"Maybe it won't be so troublesome next time, but this time, I won't allow the slightest mistake to occur, and anything that might have an unfair impact on the outcome of this school exam shouldn't be here."

"Although the monarch is relieved, the two of us will definitely finish this matter, no matter how many bamboo slips in the entire Daqin need to be reviewed, the two of us will try our best to complete it, and we will definitely select the top talents in Daqin!"

This time, Ying Gao was serious, Xiao He and Lu Jia assured Ying Gao together, obviously this matter was already settled by this time.

"I naturally know the suffering of this matter, just those bamboo slips want to be transported from various counties to Xianyang City, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be spent, so for this matter, I have already prepared a thing, maybe you can save a lot of energy."

After finishing speaking, Yinggao looked at Xiao He and Lu Jia who were dazed, beckoned to his rear, and a guard took out a thing, divided it into two after arriving in front of Lu Jia and Xiao He, and then handed it to the two.

At this time, what was presented in front of them were two square, but they were very soft to the touch, and what was even more strange was that they were still very white and quite strong.

"Your Majesty, this is ......"

"With this thing, the school no longer needs bamboo slips, bamboo slips are very bulky, and the content is also very easy to be seen, this is hemp paper, in fact, some people in the southern region of Daqin have been able to make this thing over the years, but it is not used for writing, for this matter, I specially sent Zhang Kai to investigate, after several months finally got this way of making hemp paper, and then tried in Xianyang City for more than a month, this thing was made, It just happened to be used in this school examination, which saved a lot of trouble. ”

"I don't know how you know how this thing was made? If it can really replace the bamboo slips, I see that this number can replace two rolls of bamboo slips, which is convenient to transport, I don't know how much! ”

For such an emerging thing, Lu Jia always has a very curious heart, he really didn't expect Ying Gao and Zhang Kai to be able to use the so-called paper after some transformations to write, this invention with the imperial examination system proposed by Ying Gao before, is really a weapon to promote the progress of the times.

"This is made by soaking hemp and rags in water to make them swell, and then chopping them up with an axe and washing them with water. Then soak it in plant ash water and steam, rinse it with clean water, and pound it. After mashing, the obtained thing is prepared into a suspended slurry with water, and then the pulp is fished out with a leaky paper mold, and it becomes paper after dehydration and drying. If the paper surface is wrinkled, it must be calendered before it can be written. ”

After Yinggao explained it through a series of professional things of his own, Lu Jia was almost stunned on the spot, of course, these words were also said by Zhang Kai and Yinggao after the initial success, in the end, in the end, the paper thing can be popularized a little earlier than one or two hundred years earlier, which is not someone else, but the first inventor in the Great Qin Dynasty, Zhang Kai.

"With this thing, with the new policy that the king has just formulated, the spring of my Daqin scholars has really arrived, and I want to thank you for the thousands of readers in the world!"

The reason why Lu Jia said this was not that he wanted to compliment Yinggao, but that he said it completely from the heart.

Not to mention anything else, just through Yinggao's explanation just now, Lu Jia's first thought was that the manufacture of this paper really doesn't need anything too expensive, although the process is indeed a little troublesome, but the cost is definitely not too high, and even if you really want to do it in the people's homes, you can do it.

In other words, under the impact of this paper, the expensive and very inconvenient bamboo slips are about to become a thing of the past, which will greatly enhance the circulation of knowledge compared with the previous era, so Lu Jia will say that the spring of the reader is coming, and this sentence is not in that without purpose.

"Don't talk about those useless ones, you seal the examination questions I have selected and send them to each county, and send someone to take care of them, and strictly prohibit anyone from checking them privately, and at the same time each county pulls up a few wagons of hemp paper for these people to answer the imperial examination, and after answering, mark their names and places and other information on the paper, and when they finish answering, you can bring them back for review after collecting the papers of these people's answers on the spot."

Xiao He and Lu Jia went through the process of Yinggao in their hearts, and found that there was really nothing wrong with you not to say it, what the two of them didn't know was that Yinggao didn't know how many exams he had participated in in later generations, and he came up with two ideas casually about the exam, which could ensure the fairness of his imperial examination in this era.

The explanation has been completed, whether it is software or hardware, Yinggao has already paved the road, and next, naturally, he is waiting for the result he wants in Xianyang Palace.

In fact, at the same time, somewhere in Xianyang City, Zhang Kai was working on making a huge rubbing, and the small seals carved on it were the Qin laws of Daqin today, according to Yinggao's requirements, after this rubbing was completed, these things could be printed on many sheets of paper side by side at once, and then the papers were arranged and bound, which was a Qin law of Daqin.

In this era, in such a hurry, Yinggao still felt a little difficult to completely invent the modulation printing technology that was gradually used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, so he could only use such a relatively ancient rubbing method to achieve this.

But Yinggao also knows that he has an open head, in case of a flash of inspiration in his open head one day, plus a few words from him, it is estimated that some things will really appear seven or eight hundred years in advance.

This book of Qin Law will be the first book made of paper in Daqin in the Yinggao era, Yinggao will print as much Qin Law as possible, and then spread it widely in the territory of Daqin, so that the Qin Law after its own modification is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people of Daqin.

More than a month later, the time for the examination in each county was about to arrive, and at this time in Xiangjun, the county guard Sun Qian had just spent a full day entertaining the officials sent by Zuo Xiang Xiao He to deliver the topics and papers to Xiang County, and in the evening, Sun Qian, who returned to the house, hurriedly found his daughter Sun Yue, because there were no days before the imperial examination, so Sun Yue has been holding a stack of bamboo slips these days.

"Father, don't bother me anymore, I still have a lot of things to grasp about these ancient books."

"Today I just greeted the official who transported the question, the question was still tightly guarded by him at this time on the carriage he brought, and as long as you finished answering, he will transport the question you answered that day, and go to Xianyang City to wait for the decision of the king and Zuo Xiang, Lu Jia and others, so this examination is really very fair, whether it is a nobleman or a Qianshou, it is impossible to know a little bit of news in advance, you have to play hard."

Although Sun Qian would not go to the examination school for his daughter, as a county guard, he naturally had to inform Sun Yue of the first-hand news he knew.

"In that case, aren't those aristocrats who are ready to move have nothing to rely on? This is about the same, they naturally don't know how many of the children of the head of Qianshou have to spend a lot of energy in order to go to the county to listen to a lecture? Fortunately, the emperor is really an emperor who personally observes the people's feelings, and the reason why my Great Qin has been able to develop so far is all related to the monarch! ”

Sun Yue is still a very strong little girl, although she has become the kind of female official that Yinggao said in front of her before, but she wants to rely entirely on her own ability, but she now feels that she is still a little behind.

After all, after this news came down, the few people who had been lecturing to them all said that only those who memorized the classics well had a little chance to enter the eyes of Emperor Daqin. This has led to the fact that people like Xiang Sun Yue and others who are not yet very old almost have no confidence, although they are all making up for it in their own homes, but in such a short period of time, how can they eat all the ancient books thoroughly?

"It doesn't matter, how old are you, even if it doesn't work out this time, it's no problem to wait for another ten years, but if you're like this, your marriage will ......"

"As a county guard, don't you hear that when you married Mrs. Tian Yan, you had a request not to be a woman under 20 years old? Now that the king is in power, you naturally don't have to talk about the marriage so early, and it's not too late to talk about it after five years, and by that time, maybe my official position will already be higher than my father's. ”

After listening to Sun Yue's rebuttals, Sun Qian found that he had nothing to say, and he was very doting on his daughter, so he could only smile slightly, and made up his mind in his heart, and waited until tomorrow to refuse the proposal of the nobleman in Nanhai County to let Sun Yue marry him.

And Sun Yue didn't care about this sentence, just prepared for the upcoming imperial examination by herself, just like the young people in other counties.