Recently, while the two Changshi Mansions of Dongyi Kingdom were preparing for the imperial examination, other administrative tasks did not stop.

At present, the two Changshi Mansions of Dongyi State have completed the reception of all county towns and larger villages and towns in their regions.

The retraining and reorganization of the original militia has also begun to bear fruit.

At present, the ordinary garrison troops in the counties and residential areas of Dongyi have basically been replaced by new militia officers with Ming veterans as officers.

At the same time, the main army forces of the Ming and Yin people were stationed in the county seat of Lin County and the county seat of Wei County.

As for the naval forces of the Ming Dynasty, they are still all Ming people, not local citizens of the Ming Dynasty, and are not eligible to join the Ming Navy.

The Ming Navy is currently the highest force in actual status.

But in the process, various problems have gradually come to the fore.

Compared with other areas of Dongyi Kingdom, the biggest problem in Linxian County is that there are more wealthy people, and there are many people looking for assets of more than 10,000 silver bills.

In other areas, there are too many people who own a lot of land, and the number of farmers who run farms is quite large.

Moreover, in the entire territory of Dongyi Kingdom, there are still a large number of Mo slaves.

Although it was part of the northern part of the United States, slavery was also prevalent here.

There were not only slave laborers in factories and farms, but also a large number of domestic slaves who served the white people.

According to the policy of the Dongyi Kingdom, the original inhabitants were allowed to keep property worth 10,000 silver bills, and they were allowed to keep the area of land that the family could cultivate on their own, and there were also restrictions on the number of houses and slaves.

Those who exceed the limit will be confiscated.

The premise of this confiscation is to re-register the household registration and check and confirm the amount of property.

After the inspection, residents are allowed to continue to acquire more wealth, but they will have to pay a heavy tax of more than 50 percent.

However, this re-registration and confirmation will take time.

A large number of people, including translators and soldiers, are also needed.

Before the asset confirmation is completed, those assets that must exceed the standard have been trying to transfer, get rid of, and hide.

So far, Liu Luozhi has received reports.

Initially, there were attempts to hire large numbers of people to bring out valuables such as cash, gold and silver, and art.

The Changshi Mansion restricted ordinary people from leaving the country and forbade anyone to leave Long Island until the asset inventory was completed.

So some people began to engage in smuggling, smuggling across the river to New York in small boats carrying valuables.

The Changshi Mansion arranged for the navy to patrol around Long Island, and specially arranged for the army fleet to patrol along the coastline.

The smuggling boat was directly controlled, and all the personnel on board were directly killed on the spot, without entering any trial process.

The navy and army of the Ming Dynasty will not show any mercy to these Xiyi.

Clearly violating the regulations of the Changshi Mansion and violating the will of the Dongyi Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty is absolutely not allowed.

After a series of thunderous strikes, the confiscation of many smuggling boats and property, and the killing of hundreds of smugglers on the spot, no one dared to take the risk of smuggling.

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But this does not mean that these rich people can directly accept their fate.

They began to find ways to hide their wealth.

Dig pits in the yard or on your own estate, or even in the field, burying high-value assets.

There are even people who wrap things up and sink into the waters of the bay lakes and bays.

At the same time, the property and land will be sold, and the wealth will be hidden.

After the review and registration is completed, it will be slowly dug out and used as a cover for new income.

So the Changshi Mansion made a special notice that except for the funeral goods, any items that have not been registered and confirmed, after being dug up in the ground or salvaged from the water, belong to the owner of the country, that is, the Ming Emperor.

But there are still people who continue to do so.

What they are gambling on is that the Changshi Mansion will not be able to catch it when they dig it out.

These things gave Liu Luozhi a little headache, but they didn't bother too much.

It is impossible to be perfect, especially when it comes to confiscating other people's money.

At present, the situation on the entire Long Island has been basically controlled, so let them bury these things.

If you really force people to have no way out, then you have to worry about someone going to extremes.

As time passed, the day of the imperial examination finally arrived.

On June 6 of the first year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty, the first imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty Dongyi Kingdom officially began.

Gauss has been reviewing for more than half a month, and today he wore the simplest clothes and went to the examination room with a pen.

According to the explanation obtained earlier, there are three rounds of this kind of imperial examination, which are called the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination.

The name was exactly the same before the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the content of each exam was completely different from before.

The three exams are directly used from primary school to secondary school, secondary school to university, and the scope of the civil service examination.

The first round of exams is called the prefectural exam, and it is also held in each county seat.

Unlike the Ming Dynasty and other old vassal states, Dongyi did not have a specially built standard examination room.

Linn County has to accept candidates from all over the world, and it is the largest number of people who take the exam.

Even in the process of disembarking, all those who couldn't understand Da Ming Yayan at all, and couldn't speak at all, were blocked out.

However, the number of foreign candidates who rushed to Linxian County was still nearly 30,000.

Liu Luozhi simply asked the soldiers to maintain order and encircled the ground in the Linxian Municipal Square, stadium and so on.

A large number of seats were requisitioned from the private sector and examined directly in the outdoor air.

Fortunately, the time for the exam has also been shortened, and the first round of the exam can be completed in one day.

Gauss's examination was held at the Municipal Square.

After being inspected by the soldiers, he took his identity and admission number, and then found his place and sat down.

After waiting for half an hour, a bell rang and the soldiers in the examination room began to roll their papers.

When Gauss received his test papers, he first smelled a smell of ink, which was printed with lead movable type like newspapers.

I took it and glanced at the text on the top:

Chinese test, session 1, basic ability test, full score of 100 points, test time 90 minutes.

The types of questions are also very simple, similar to the Chinese test papers of later generations, but the amount of questions is larger.

Look at pinyin characters, write words according to the requirements, and write idioms according to the description......

Explain words, idioms, classic poetry passages, dictate classic poetry passages, reading comprehension, etc......

The first exam was all about basic knowledge, and the exam was not difficult for Gauss.

After the first session, there will be a 20-minute break to start the second test, the writing ability test.

The full score is also 100 points, but the exam time becomes 120 minutes.

It is required to write an application, write a report, write a telegram, write a letter, and finally write an essay in the form of a reading note.

In the afternoon, I took mathematics and science, and the score of both subjects was 100, and the two subjects were as many as Chinese.

Mathematics is naturally easy to understand, while science is the basic scientific knowledge including astronomy and geography.

When Gauss finished the exam and came out of the examination room, he was a little apprehensive.

It's not that I don't think I did well in the test, but I feel that I did too well in the test.

Those questions were not difficult for him at all, and Gauss felt that he could even get a perfect score.

Therefore, Gauss is worried that the exam questions are too simple, and there will be no gap between the candidates.

What if Dongyi Country is ready to let go of a thousand people in the first round, but all a thousand people get full marks in the exam?

Write it yourself according to the pronunciation order of the name, or the order of the strokes of the surname, or just extract it at any time?

However, most of the other candidates around him did not have Gauss's worries, and most of them were in a state of joy.

I got together in twos and threes and had some excited discussions, and I felt that my results must be very good, and I would definitely be able to pass.

Gauss had mixed feelings, and he didn't have the heart to go out and play, so he returned to his residence and began to revise and prepare for the next round of exams.

After the end of the first round of exams, the Changshi Mansion corrected the test papers, determined the number of people who passed the exam, and announced the results half a month later.

Around several major examination rooms, the list of candidates who passed the first round of exams and their results are posted at the same time.

It is also printed with lead movable type ink, and several sheets are printed at the same time, so it can be posted in multiple places at the same time.

A total of 30,000 candidates don't have to be crowded together, so it is estimated that it will take several days to look at the list, and there may even be accidents.

After waiting for half a month, Gauss came to the town square again.

The situation at the scene can be regarded as a sea of people, but it is not completely impossible to walk.

Gauss struggled to squeeze to the front row, starting in the middle of the list and looking forward.

Finally found his name in a large list of perfect scores.

Although Gauss had been mentally prepared for a long time, the questions in those exams were not difficult for him, and now he was relieved that he had passed the first round of exams.

But some people are happy and some are sad, and the whole square around Gauss is full of complaining voices.

"There are more than 30,000 candidates in the examination room in Linxian County, but only 3,000 people have been admitted, with an acceptance rate of one-tenth."

"This is only the first round of exams, and there are still two rounds to follow, so how many people will be screened out in the end!"

"The last person who was admitted had a score of at least 350 points, which is outrageous......

But there are also people who are caught in the crowd and taunt wildly from time to time.

"What's wrong with a 1 in 10 acceptance rate? Do you think that Dongyi Kingdom will not be able to admit thousands of students? ”

"No one thinks 350 is a lot of results, right? This kind of exam is the level of Daming primary school to middle school, what face is it called here if you can't get a full score? ”

"Those who are eliminated leave quickly, don't stay in Linxian County, people are crowded, hurry up and vacate the room for us."

Gauss has a more introverted and conservative personality, and after confirming that he passed the exam, he is in no mood to listen to other people's nonsense.

I looked for the three roommates I lived with, and found the name of one companion on the list, while the names of the other two roommates did not appear, so I could only be regarded as unlisted.

Gauss sighed softly and jot down the information to squeeze out the crowd again.