When Liu Hongxun gathered all the 3,000 officials in Beijing and set off on foot with the emperor, Zhang Weiye followed Zhou Yanru and found that Zheng Zheng was actually walking in the row of first-class officials with Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun and others.

The examination room is located in Guozijian, which can accommodate tens of thousands of candidates at the same time, and there are not enough seats, so many candidates have added seats and take the exam in the open air.

Because the emperor's paper was compiled by him personally, the essay test part, the test is on Zhang Juzheng's reform, the science test part is a few simple arithmetic, only addition and subtraction, no multiplication and division, respectively, 100 points, the total score is 200 points, according to the emperor's requirements, as long as the text test can be fluent, 500 words, can write 300 words correctly, and can explain the meaning of the reform, you can, as long as the science test part of the 20 questions, can answer 10 questions correctly, even if it is qualified, such a requirement, in fact, is equivalent to the people who come, can pass!

At least, that's what Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen thought. He didn't know that he obviously overestimated the students of this era, these people were fortunately not the descendants of the landlord class, most of them were merchants, and their families were not extremely poor, but they also belonged to the children of the lowest families.

On duty outside the Guozijian were the officials of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, and when everyone saw the emperor coming, they all knelt down and shouted three times Long live!

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and asked Liu Hongxun, "How long is it?" ”

Liu Hongxun looked at Zhou Yanru and hurriedly replied, "The kung fu of less than a stick of incense is over." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen said to the neat officials standing behind him, "Then let's all stand and wait for a while, wait for a while, after the candidates finish the exam." All of you go and get three papers. Let's correct it on the spot. Knowing on the spot who is qualified and who is not qualified, such an efficient selection of officials is the first time in the history of our Ming Dynasty, right? Zhou Yanru, let the big guy copy the answer I gave you now. ”

Although the officials don't understand why the emperor let everyone ignore the government today and follow all of them to this country, who dares to have an opinion? Now the remaining group of officials. The sharpness is long gone, no matter how hard your neck is, can it be harder than the steel knife in the emperor's hand?

Although Zheng Zheng has already learned the emperor's resoluteness, everyone still thinks the same as Zheng Zheng, what is this? It's a bit hard to keep up. For the first time, the people in the yamen of the various ministries in the capital have a feeling that everyone is a whole, and since they are all in one place, and they are led by the emperor himself, this feeling is particularly strong.

The door to the exam room opens. Just now, the candidates have reached the end of the exam, and they have all heard the voices of the three shouts outside. Everyone was excited, the moment the door was opened, a handsome young man in a bright yellow dragon robe stood with his hands in the cold wind, who was it not the emperor?

The candidates were so excited that they couldn't shake their eyes, and in the heavy snow, they knelt down a lot.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen didn't let them all get up, and beckoned to Zhou Yanru, "Today, let's come to the scene to revise the papers, collect the papers, send them to the officials, and correct them on the spot. You are revising the papers, so that these new students can see the work efficiency of my Ming Central Officials. ”

Where to use a stick of incense, in fact, to make it clear that Zhang Juzheng is restructuring, it's just a shaker, the answer is clearly written, in addition to the 500 words must meet the standard, and then there can be no more than 200 typos, this basically doesn't need to be read, basically everyone is qualified in the literary test, and people who can't write words don't dare to come here to take the exam! What kind of place is this, the highest examination room in Daming! Who would dare to joke with their heads? I tried to brush off more than half of them!

Although it is the simplest method of addition and subtraction, twenty questions can be done correctly in ten questions, not even half.

Of the more than 12,000 candidates, only more than 5,000 passed.

Zhou Yanru hurriedly reported to the emperor the number of the first instance, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, and pointed with his hand in the array of officials, "Just divide it into two with this boundary, give the left to the right, and the right to the left, cross-review once, and don't misjudge a volume!" ”

The candidates are all kneeling on the ground and trembling, and many people are sweating in their hearts, after all, in this way, they can carp jump into the dragon gate to get the opportunity to get an official errand, and they may not be able to touch it once in their lives, everyone knows very well that if it were not for the imperial court now waiting for the employment of people, it would be impossible to lower the standard to such a low! Many people are practicing arithmetic in the past half a month, practicing arithmetic, those children of rich families, don't care about using paper, for a time the capital paper is expensive! The accounts of various shops also became popular for a while, and people like them were the most undignified, and even the social status of craftsmen was inferior, and they became particularly popular in the past half a month.

The re-examination did not take much effort, and a total of 5,478 candidates passed.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, "According to the grouping, separate the volumes, how many groups are there?" Just read the name on the passing exam paper, read the name, and then here, if you don't read the name, you can go out later. ”

Zhou Yanru immediately replied, "There are a total of twenty groups, and Weichen will arrange it immediately." ”

Twenty officials began to read their names on the qualified examination papers, and in less than half an hour, the results came out, and the total time was less than half an hour, which was really the fastest time in the history of the Ming Dynasty from the beginning of the exam to the assessment results!

The candidates who did not read their names stood up one after another, and a few went to the officials to check whether there were any missed thoughts, and most of them went out in despair.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen stood up with a smile, "Get up, I believe that all the students here now are students who have passed the exam, I know that most of you may not even be Xiucai, you must be very strange, my exam, is it so simple?" I tell you, it's that simple, the exam is to test a qualification, and you don't have to be ranked every time you take the exam! Now, you are the alternate officials of the Ming Dynasty! I told you, this is just the beginning, as for whether the yamen will eventually want you, whether you can pass the final retention list of the official department, it depends on everyone's diligence, diligence can make up for the clumsiness, I believe that at this stage, no one is stupid, only there are lazy people among them, and there is no way to save laziness. (To be continued......)