This day is the so-called auspicious day set by Yinggao himself, of course, this is just the external statement of officials at all levels, of course they don't know that this is just a day that Yinggao casually came up with in his head.

But of course, what the days are will not affect the enthusiasm of the candidates in more than 30 counties of Daqin, and they all received a notice from Lizheng, Pavilion Chief and others in their own place before participating in the examination, they do not need to carry anything by themselves, it is enough to bring their hands and feet to write, whether it is pen or paper, it is paid by Emperor Daqin.

This news is very useful to many candidates from poor families, and they know that they may not have to fall behind others because they don't have good wolf hairs and bamboo slips and haven't started yet.

When the candidates entered the designated room, they found that the seats were all neatly arranged, and each seat had a name on it, and the pen and ink were prepared, but there were no bamboo slips, instead of two white sheets of paper.

The candidates who arrived in advance basically found their seats under the gaze of the heavily armed Great Qin guards at the door, and after sitting down, they found that they and the candidates in front and behind them basically did not know each other, and in the face of a blank piece of paper, they didn't know how the examination school was going to be carried out for a while, so they could only look around blankly, waiting silently.

Finally, when someone reported that the hour had come, the doors of each room were suddenly closed, and the guards from Xianyang City stood at the door, finally letting the candidates in the room feel some unusual things about this examination school.

"You can use the wolf in front of you to write on the paper, the paper replaces the role of the bamboo slips, there are two hours of time, and the writing is done until the time arrives to be able to leave, the question is on the wooden board in this house, in the process of the school examination, if someone makes noise at will, immediately cancel the qualification, after answering, all the questions answered by you will be transported to Xianyang City, by the Jun Shang and Zuo Xiang and others to personally see, select the best for the next examination in Xianyang City."

A heavily armed janissary walked to the front of the room, and after saying that, he lifted the cloth covering the wooden plank in front of him, revealing two questions.

In case some candidates have prepared one of them before, the second one will definitely answer and there is a very big gap between the first one, and there is a total of two hours, Yinggao can judge whether the time allocation of these candidates is reasonable through the detail of the answers to these two questions.

Yinggao believes that this kind of detail will definitely help him select similar talents, and then fill them in the officialdom of Great Qin, and then prepare for the Peacock Dynasty, which will soon need a large number of talents.

At this time, Sun Yue naturally sat in the middle of a group of candidates who she was quite unfamiliar with, because she was a woman, and she attracted some eyes along the way, but in the room where she was, she was not the only woman, she roughly estimated that there were about four or five women among every hundred candidates.

Although it is very uncommon, Sun Yue also knows that he is no longer a maverick, there must be many women in the entire Great Qin who are doing the same effort as themselves, this is the opportunity given to them by the Great Qin Emperor, as for whether they can catch it, it depends on themselves.

Seeing the two questions on the wooden board, the first thing that most of the candidates thought of was to greet the whole family of the old guy who usually gave them a lecture and knew that they would endorse them.

Because these two topics are clear, let them talk about the new policy before Daqin in combination with their own opinions, if they write the content of the books that have been memorized indiscriminately, there is no possibility of promotion, and their own ideas must account for more than half of the content of the answer to be considered qualified.

In this case, two hours is very short for these candidates, obviously Yinggao ignores a problem, that is, in this era, it is faster to write on hemp paper with wolf hair than embroidery, but it is not much faster, not to mention that Daqin still uses such a complicated small seal, it stands to reason that even if it is given three hours, it is not very much.

But real talents are often born in such an environment.

These two hours, in the eyes of these candidates, are basically the fastest two hours in the years they have lived, and when the guards in front of them signaled that the time was up, many candidates were still sweating like rain.

Until the guards' repeated warnings that if anyone did not put down the pen and paper in their hands, it would be invalid, these people were reluctant to put down the pen and paper at this time, seeing that the things loaded with their achievements over the years were taken away by the guards, there was a trace of expectation in their hearts, but there was a trace of fear.

Among this group of candidates, there is a person who is not young, although he looks like he is already bearded, but his real age is really not too big, and he has just reached the age limit proposed by Yinggao.

He was one of the few candidates who put the content of his answers neatly as soon as the time came, and then Shi Shiran walked out of the examination room and went by himself.

There is no other reason, because this person's experience is already very deep in this era, and it is a lot better than this, and it is really not that he has not experienced it in the first half of his life.

When the Wei State was about to be destroyed, he had the honor to become the servant of the Wei State, of course, he was also the last servant of the Wei State, when the Wei State was destroyed, he began his exile career, and also participated in Liu Bang's anti-Qin army, but then saw that the situation was not good and broke away from it, and then, because of the amnesty of the Great Qin several times, he thus obtained the legal identity of the Great Qin, in his heart, there has always been a dream, a dream to appear again in the Great Qin court, he is called Cai Yin.

In fact, there are still some people like him, but how many of these people really have real talent and real learning, that is not necessarily.

This time, the imperial examination is even more anxious than the candidates, and he may be a few wins, and he is almost counting the days in the court of Daqin waiting for the arrival of the answer sheets of the entire Daqin candidates.

Moreover, in this process, Yinggao also found more than a dozen conscientious and well-appreciated doctors and imperial historians in the Great Qin Dynasty for Xiao He and Lu Jia, and asked them to be responsible for the evaluation of candidates' examination papers within the entire Daqin range.

In the end, after counting, more than 30 counties reported a total of more than 4,000 candidates to Xianyang City, that is to say, each county is actually more than 100 people. Of course, there is a factor that Yinggao limits the age, but in a larger way, there is still a big gap with Yinggao's previous predictions, according to Yinggao's original estimates, the candidates who took the exam should be close to 10,000 talents, and now, it is only half of what he expected.

As for the reason for this, Yinggao also knows, after all, after the implementation of the new policy of the lecture hall, he still sent a lot of people such as Yushi to various counties to understand the local situation.

At that time, according to the news sent back by various officials of Daqin, although there were still many people in the lecture hall, the proportion of the entire population of Daqin was actually not high, and only some people whose family burden was not so heavy would go to the lecture hall.

After all, there is no reward for listening to lectures in the lecture hall, only when those young people who go to the lecture hall every day to listen to lectures instead of farming really become an official above the Great Qin Dynasty, even if it is a small official, it can also make his neighbors change some of their views on the lecture hall.

And this kind of influence is also gradual, a single imperial examination can not change this situation, only a few years later, the imperial examination has become a scale, will more and more children go to the lecture hall.

However, the benefits of more than 4,000 test questions are also obvious, that is, under the leadership of Lu Jia and Xiao He, it only took more than ten days for more than a dozen reviewers to find out the answer sheet from which the words are smooth, they know some allusions, and they can have a little bit of their own opinions, and handed them over to Xiao He and Lu Jia.

At this time, there were more than three hundred answers left in the hands of the two of them.

"Zuo Xiang, these more than 300 copies, should I submit them all and let the king decide for himself, or do some more screening?"

Lu Jia's head is obviously still lively, he knows that even if the two of them say that these bamboo slips are almost all outstanding, Yinggao will definitely believe it, and if he presents all of them, he can also avoid some Yinggao appreciated talents buried in the hands of the two of them, right?

"It's better for you and me to use some more time to review it, the king has already worked very hard for my Great Qin's country, and it's good to save him some energy."

As soon as he heard Xiao He say this, Lu Jia knew that he should not be able to avoid this tiring matter, so he could only take away some of the hemp paper and start a new job with Xiao He.

In the end, in front of Yinggao, there were more than 100 answers, all of which were screened out according to Yinggao's requirements.

"Your Majesty, these more than 100 people, all of them are showing some of their own ideas in the answers, rather than copying all the books of their predecessors, although many people's ideas are still quite immature, but it is very likely that they are all materials that can be made after some training, and please review them in person, and then decide who to choose to participate in the second round of examinations in Xianyang City."

"Among the more than 100 people, I don't know how many women?"

"This ...... There are only two of them. ”

"It's not enough, this time there must be at least five women among the people who go to Xianyang City to take the exam, and at least three more must be selected!"

The two of them couldn't understand Yinggao's statement, and didn't they keep saying that women and men were treated normally? Why did you start to do it again at this time?

But naturally they couldn't say this to Yinggao in person, and Yinggao's request was not excessive, it was just to increase the number of women participating in the school to five.

For the answers of more than 100 people, Yinggao actually really didn't plan to read them one by one, and after he read more than 100 articles, it is estimated that several days have passed, so Yinggao's decision is to leave these people's articles here, he will read them slowly in the future, and directly from Xianyang Palace issued an edict, these more than 100 people directly entered the second round, and set a date for them to go to Xianyang City to participate in the second round of examinations, and then sent to various counties.

Yinggao is indeed a little anxious to do this, but this time he is not in a hurry, the Western Regions will definitely be built rapidly in the hands of Fusu, and the occupation of the Peacock Dynasty cannot be delayed for too long, he must pick out at least a dozen reliable talents or people with great potential among the more than 100 people as soon as possible, if this is not the case, it is estimated that the court of Daqin will fall apart after directly dividing the talents needed by the Peacock Dynasty.

The news was passed out one by one, and the first one was naturally in the hands of the county guards of each county, among which the county guard Sun Qian of Xiang County was naturally the most anxious one, because his daughter was also in the school this time.

Looking forward to, looking forward to, finally less than two months after the end of the examination, a messenger came to Xianyang City, still Yinggao's guard, not any minister in the court, this detail has fully explained that Yinggao has firmly controlled the imperial examination in his own hands.

Because Xiangjun is located in a remote area, there are not many people in Xiangjun among the more than 100 people this time, but after Sun Qian took over the list, he found that the first to bear the brunt was his daughter Sun Yue.

After Sun Qian got the news, he hurriedly informed one of his subordinates about the list, and asked him to inform the other two of them of the news as soon as possible, as for his daughter, he naturally wanted to be free to go home as soon as possible to inform the good news, because of this incident, Sun Yue has not slept well for more than a month.