The morning sun is slightly dewy.

Liu Jun has already begun to review the recitals in the upper study and deal with the government affairs. Recently, the most important things in the imperial court are that the first imperial examination of the new dynasty has begun, the county government examination has been completed, and this year's children's examination is also the largest since the previous dynasty.

According to the statistics of the following report, the candidates from all over the country who participated in this year's children's examination have exceeded the million mark. This figure made Liu Jun have to sigh that the Han population is large and there are many scholars.

In some counties, there are thousands of candidates for the next exam.

Among them, Macheng, Huangzhou, the emperor's hometown, has more than 3,000 candidates in the county, while Shanghai County has more candidates than Macheng County, but the largest number of candidates is not these two counties, but Ruyang County in Henan, with more than 8,000 references.

Dahan's children's examination is also the same as the previous Ming, divided into county examination, government examination, and hospital examination, but there is a slight change, changing the past two examinations a year to a centralized examination, the county examination and the government examination, each time half a month apart, the examination starts in May, and ends in July.

Most of the candidates will be brushed in the first round of the county exam, and then some will be brushed in the government exam, and they will be able to pass three rounds of several exams and become a showman, which is quite rare.

The admission rate of the children's examination is even lower than that of the Jinshi, and the most difficult level of the children's examination is the government examination.

In this year's imperial examination, although Liu Jun intends to reform, the Tong test still takes care of the ideas of most officials, and the Tong test follows the methods of the Ming Dynasty.

The content of the three examinations of the children's examination is roughly the same, mainly based on the four books, the scriptures, the treatises, and the strategies. The prefectural examination has fewer questions than the county examination, and the county examination requires students to write one essay on each of the four books and the scriptures, one on the other, and one on the question.

However, the government examination only needs to write an eight-strand essay and an essay. The examination questions of the college examination include "the Four Books", the scriptures, the policy, and the theory, and the number and form of the examination questions are basically the same as those of the county examination.

Among the three examinations, the government test is the most difficult to take, and the candidates are also the most. In the children's test, candidates who have been referred to in the past should have taken the county test before. You can directly participate in the government examination, and the government examination is the most difficult, so in the past, countless people were stopped at the government examination every year, which led to the annual children's examination, and the number of candidates who participated in the government examination was always the most.

I have passed the county examination and the prefectural examination, and finally I have to pass the hospital examination.

When it came time for the hospital exam. Millions of candidates have been stopped in large numbers. For example, nearly 300 of the more than 4,000 candidates in the Shanghai county examination were admitted, while only 60 or 70 were admitted in ordinary counties.

In this year's children's examination in Dahan, Liu Jun asked local school officials to increase the admission rate, such as Ruyang, Shanghai, Shaoxing, Macheng and other counties with a large number of candidates, the number of admissions is three to five hundred, the average large county is one or two hundred, and the ordinary county is fifty or sixty.

Finally, the total number of students admitted to this year's children's examination is 50,000.

This means that 50,000 new talents have been created this year. Compared to the past. At least doubled.

However, for the imperial court, it has no impact on admitting more Xiucai, except for the top 20 Xiucai in each county, they can enjoy the qualification of the rice and send some rice every month, and the rest of the Xiucai do not need to pay anything extra from the imperial court, and they no longer enjoy preferential treatment. At most, it is to have a fame and more glory. It's just that the officials don't have to kneel, and the court doesn't care about adding more talents.

According to statistics. In the past, there were no less than 600,000 talents in the world, but now an increase of five years is nothing.

In the Ming Dynasty, scholars became Xiucai after passing the children's examination, and Xiucai had to go to school in the official school, called Shengyuan. The official school of each prefecture and county. The number of students was regulated, and at first there were only twenty people per county. Later, the enrollment was expanded, hyperplasia was added, and then later, the enrollment was expanded again. Epiphytes have been added, and there is no quota for epiphytes.

This is mainly because the fame of Xiucai is generally lifelong, although in the county school, Xiucai also has to participate in the monthly examination, stipulating that the examination results are sixth-class, and the last class must cancel the fame of Xiucai. But basically, it is rare for the grades to be ranked as the last and the fame is removed, which leads to the increase in the number of talents.

By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the epiphytes in many counties were already dozens of times the number of endowments and proliferations of the fixed quota, as many as a few hundred. Even in some large counties, there are nearly 1,000 students, and there are often thousands of people in government schools. For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were nearly 700 students in Shanghai County, and more than 3,000 students in Songjiang Province, including Shanghai County.

The number of students in Zhejiang Province is even more than tens of thousands.

After the Han Dynasty now abolished the privileges of the talents, it expanded the scale of admission, and admitted 50,000 people in one subject.

The new 50,000 talents, plus the original 600,000 talents, have completed this year's township examination qualification examination, that is, the scientific examination.

This year's imperial examination also has a reference number of 600,000, of which about 50,000 students did not participate in the examination for various reasons.

In Jiangxi alone, 50,000 talents participated in the scientific examination.

Due to the large number of Xiucai, before the official township examination, there must be a township examination qualification examination, a scientific examination, which is presided over by the school officials.

Only students who have passed the imperial examination can be called students of the imperial examination and are eligible to participate in the township examination.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the admission rate for the examination is generally 30 to 1.

Liu Jun also increased the acceptance rate of this year's scientific examination, and before the exam, he had already set the admission amount, and a total of 60,000 people were admitted in the world.

Among the 600,000 candidates for the examination, 60,000 were qualified for the township examination, which was one-tenth of the admission rate and three times that of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, through the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, and the scientific examination, from the world's millions of reference readers, only 60,000 people were finally selected to participate in the national township examination, these 60,000 candidates will go to the provincial capitals of the province to take the examination, and finally all the examination papers are divided into seven major examination areas to mark the papers, each examination area will admit more than 400 new imperial examination people, and the whole country will admit 3,000 people.

This is also double the acceptance rate in the past.

Township test in August, will test in December.

Although the acceptance rate has increased a lot this year, the content of the test will also be reformed for the first time, and the eight shares will be abolished for the first time. There may be many scholars who are not adaptable, but Liu Jun believes that in the face of his doubling of the admission rate, these scholars have nothing to complain about, after all, the reform is for everyone, everyone is the same test paper, starting from the same starting line.

Only the fittest survive, if they can't adapt, it can only mean that he is not suitable, and he is not a scholar that Liu Jun wants to choose.

The test papers of the township examination have come out, and after several presentations to the emperor and several revisions, they finally reluctantly got the emperor's permission. The content of the Four Books and the Five Classics is very small, accounting for less than 30%, and many of the rest are added according to the emperor's requirements, adding a lot of astronomy, geography, arithmetic, laws, and common sense objects.

The national township examination is divided into seven examination areas, but all the questions are the same. In the past, the admission quota of the township examination in the Ming Dynasty was the quota of each province, and the two capitals each admitted 100 people, and the number of other provinces was slightly lower, but this year it was divided into seven major examination areas, and each examination area admitted more than 400 people, no longer divided into provinces.

In addition to the imperial examinations that kept the officials of the Ministry of Rites busy, the imperial court now has two major events, one is the imperial court's Northern Expedition. The Mongolian tribes have been attached, and there are a total of six leagues and fifty-four banners in Monan, and now there are four leagues and forty-four banners attached, leaving only Horqin and other ten leagues unattached.

The emperor issued a new decree to summon the alliance that had been attached to the forty-four banners in Chifeng after the autumn.

As soon as this order was given, the Lifan Yuan, the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and other yamen quickly became busy again. It is not long before the September meeting, and the whole court must make comprehensive preparations for this first meeting. At the same time, the Ministry of War and the Privy Council also received a clear will, this alliance is to draw the Mongolian tribes to crusade against the four tribes of Horqin, and even prepare to attack the Manchus.

The army and logistics must be fully prepared.

As for the third major event, of course, it is the four-way counterinsurgency army of the imperial court.

Now three of the four road army are in the southwest, and the former Ming clan and courtiers who rebelled in various places have now been wiped out, and even those thieves and other thieves who want to fish in troubled waters have also been beaten and scattered, but the three road army did not collect its troops, but instead slaughtered into the Yunnan-Guizhou region and started to kill.

When Liu Qiao's soldiers entered Guiyang, killed the largest Tusi Shuixian clan in Guizhou, and returned to the imperial court in Guizhou, dividing the land and land, and liberating slaves, many officials were greatly dissatisfied with Uncle Liu's behavior.

thinks that Liu Qiao relies on his identity and acts recklessly.

For a time, the impeachment chapter flew like snowflakes on Liu Jun's imperial case.

Liu Jun was still very happy about the impeachment of the officials of Kedao, and they did not scruple because of Liu Qiao's identity. But on the other hand, they are dissatisfied with the vision of these officials.

They can't see the importance of Liu Qiao's actions in Guizhou at all, nor can they see the necessity of changing the land and returning to the river, but they are still speaking for those Nanxi Yi who rebel infrequently, and they still feel that Liu Qiao is provoking trouble.

Liu Jun's view is the opposite, in fact, what Liu Qiao did in Guizhou was all inspired by him. If he hadn't instructed him, Liu Qiao wouldn't have dared to make such a big move in Guizhou, killing An's position and changing the land and returning to the stream.

Yungui and other places are now nominally the land of the Ming Dynasty, and those Tusi are the local officials of the Ming Dynasty, and they have not been attached to the imperial court until now.

Liu Jun picked out all the impeachment excerpts for Liu Qiao, and then threw them all into a box, and all the impeachment excerpts were left unpublished.

Liu Jun picked up the pen and began to write a letter to Liu Qiao.

In the letter, Liu Jun praised Liu Qiao's performance in Guizhou, and praised him for mobilizing Guizhou's Tusi, Han military households, and Tusi slaves to rise up against those Tusi.

From a military point of view, in fact, Liu Qiao had 60,000 elites in hand, and there was no need to use those former Ming Guard soldiers, Tusi slaves and some small local officials to assist in the battle.

But from a political point of view, it's pretty beautiful and extremely important.

With the participation of these people, the battle of Guizhou was equivalent to the struggle between these forces in Guizhou, and the imperial army became the adjudicator.

Making full use of these Guizhou natives is the best way to truly break and change the current situation in Guizhou.

Liu Jun also told Liu Qiao in the letter that he should not rush to Yunnan, and first completely pacify and stabilize Guizhou. Guizhou is located in the center of the southwest, and if Guizhou is completed, the barbarian aborigines of the surrounding provinces of Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, and Yunnan will be divided and it will be difficult to form a piece. (To be continued.) )

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