Chapter 110: The Imperial Examination (II)
The kingdom of heaven has conquered the territory of the two provinces, and it needs thousands of officials, and if you add adjutants, it will be several times more. However, the number of people admitted to the first level of the exam is 5,000, which can be divided into civil ministers and military generals, and the second level of 10,000 people, all of whom enter Jinghua University in Nanjing City to study, and the semester is three years, and they can directly become civil ministers or military generals after the expiration of the period.
As for the losers, they can participate in the China University of Science and Technology to learn a skill and become an official, or they can go home and study for a year and wait for next year's exam.
The marking lasted for ten days, and dozens of old gentlemen were almost exhausted to death, and finally 5,000 qualified candidates were selected, and more than 100 of the most beautiful test papers were sent to Hong Tiangui's hands.
This is the so-called Jinshi answer sheet in the Kingdom of Heaven, but Hong Tiangui is not interested in the eight-strand essays produced by the old scholars, and this hundred answer sheets does not look at the flowery eight-strand essays written at all, but directly looks at the last three questions.
His face was sometimes gloomy and sometimes happy as he read the scroll, which made the waiting scribe full of anxiety, for fear of causing Hong Tiangui's unhappiness.
The test paper was divided into two parts, one of which was extremely thin, and it looked like thirteen or fourteen parts.
"Go and bring all the top five hundred rolls to this king." Hong Tiangui's expression was calm, and he did not show obvious joy or anger.
"Yes! Your Majesty! The scribe did not dare to slack off, and immediately hurried away.
In the warehouse where the test papers are stored, dozens of gray-haired old gentlemen are drinking tea and resting. A few days of high-intensity marking work made it difficult for these old gentlemen Alexander, even if they have dealt with Baguwen all their lives, to read dozens of copies a day, and to give full comments.
Seeing the scribe who sent the scroll to the Heavenly King come in, a white-haired old man spoke in a deep voice and said, "Xinghai, what did Your Majesty say?" β
"Lord Chen, Your Majesty asked all the top five hundred rolls to be sent to him." The scribe said respectfully. This Lord Chen's name is Chen Yan, the word tree sound, is a well-known scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, he served the kingdom of heaven in his early years, and was the first scholar to join the kingdom of heaven. Now as the first president of Heavenly Kingdom Jinghua University, his status is extremely high.
"What? Could it be that Your Majesty is not satisfied with our choice? The old man was quite tall, and even though he had silver hair, he was still full of energy when he said this.
"Your Majesty did not say anything, but divided the scroll into two stacks, one with eighty-seven copies and one with thirteen parts." The scribe whispered.
Lord Chen's brows furrowed, and he was a little unsure of the Heavenly King's plans. However, he could not block the king's orders in vain.
Soon, several scribes carried the remaining 400 volumes together and sent them to Hong Tiangui.
Hong Tiangui still distinguishes between them. This time there was more smile on his face, and there were more of the fewer rolls.
Hong Tiangui put down the last paper with a smile, stood up and stretched. Overall, the exam paper was a bit unexpected.
He said to the waiting scribe: "Send these three hundred and eighty-three points back, let Principal Chen and them rank, and the remaining one hundred and seventeen copies are all new science and technology jinshi, as for the three people in this first, the champion is set as Miao Yi, the list eye is set as Ye Rong, Tanhua is set as Li Xun, and the others are arranged in order." β
"Yes!"
The scribe didn't dare to slack off, so he asked people to copy it on the spot according to Hong Tiangui's request, and then the results and volumes of those transcriptions were sent to Chen Yan.
Although Chen Yan was slightly puzzled in his heart, he did not refute Hong Tiangui's decision.
Soon, the imperial examination was released, the people who passed the examination were elated, the failed ones were depressed and sad, and many scholars who failed the list finally paid attention to the choices given by the kingdom of heaven after suffering the pressure of falling off the list. After all, in their eyes, Jinghua University was like a national eunuch during the Ming Dynasty and the cradle of civil official training in the Kingdom of Heaven. But there are few people interested in Jinghua University of Science and Technology, and the scholars of this era have no sense of scientific research at all, let alone learn these things in the future as a craftsman and become an official. The hierarchical thinking of Shinong and industry still exists, and although craftsmen are not the lowest, their social status is really not high.
In addition to Jinghua University of Science and Technology, no one cared about it, and no one signed up for Jinghua Military University, until the Kingdom of Heaven announced that General Shi Dakai would be the president of Jinghua Military University, and some children of Tianguan families signed up one after another.
At the stall where Hong Tiangui was busy with the examination and the preparation of the new university of the Heavenly Kingdom, in Tianjing City, an undercurrent was surging.
After Hong Tiangui succeeded as the king of heaven, he first broke the rule of the worship of God in the court, and all the believers who were favored by the king were swept out of the court by Hong Tiangui, and even the six departments that were deeply involved in the worship of God also existed in name only under Hong Tiangui's repeated suppression, and the rest only needed to find a reason to cancel it.
But is the religious power that started as Hong Tiangui really so weak? Actually, no. From Hong Xiuquan's sudden lack of news to Hong Tiangui's sudden succession to the throne, many people in the God Worship Sect noticed that something was wrong and took the lead in hiding. In particular, King Shin rebelled against the attack on the Heavenly King's Mansion, and the Worship of God Cult also sent some people to participate in it. After the failure of the matter, King Shin disappeared, and the people involved were either killed or imprisoned, in order to worship God's infiltration of the heavenly kingdom, it was not difficult to get the situation of the day from the mouths of these prisoners, and they became more and more suspicious that Hong Tiangui's ascension to the throne was not a Heavenly King Chan, but a despicable and shameless coup d'Γ©tat.
However, after Hong Tiangui took office, he organized a new army, fought several wars, formed a cabinet, and found another way to avoid the six ministries, and expelled the forces of the worship of God from the court step by step, and with the control of the cabinet over the state capitals and counties, the power of the worship of God shrank to the extreme.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was originally a whole of theocracy, and many of the officials and generals of the Kingdom of Heaven were believers in the worship of God, but now, the Kingdom of Heaven has frequently lost on the battlefield, and more and more people no longer believe in the worship of God, so that when Hong Tiangui came to power, many officials and generals of the Kingdom of Heaven did not even care about the identity of believers in the worship of God, which also made Hong Tiangui easily reverse the situation of the Kingdom of Heaven and get rid of the influence of the religious kingdom.
Of course, no matter how stupid a religion is, there are some diehards, especially the Worship of God Sect with an insecure leader like Hong Xiuquan. In Hong Xiuquan's hands, there is a secret intelligence network, all of which are composed of the most devout believers drawn from the God Worship Sect, and the existence of this intelligence network is the top secret of the heavenly kingdom, except for the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan, no one knows. Although Hong Tiangui can control such an anti-heaven divine skill, he will not ask anything he doesn't know, and Hong Xiuquan can't take the initiative to tell him. This made Hong Tiangui completely relax his vigilance against the God Worship Sect, otherwise how could he have left the Tianjing lair many times, and now he would still be empty of cabinet officials loyal to him.