Wake up early again, it's September twenty-eight.

Imperial Examination Day.

Stuck to the soft chest of the sack girl all the way to Jinling University, she just thought in her heart, after the exam, she must rest for two days.

These days, things are stacked one after another, every day from morning to night, Zhu Yuan feels that he seems to have asked for himself, and if he continues like this, it may not be gone in a few years.

You have to take a break.

There is also a family, a huge house, I haven't walked through it again, I haven't seen many extra girls, and all kinds of things on the back lake, such as hanging plaques and changing names, are all set aside.

That's not good.

The sedan chair entered Jinling University, and the time was the first moment.

It's past seven o'clock in the morning.

At the beginning of winter, the sky is getting shorter, but it is already bright, and the sky is also very face-saving today, a sunny day, to ensure that the exam can be held outdoors.

Zhu Yuan entered the palace yesterday morning and came here in the afternoon to start preparations.

The main thing is to arrange the seating of candidates.

As of yesterday, a total of 16,732 candidates arrived in Jinling this time, Tiannan and Haibei, Shinong Industry and Commerce, three religions and nine streams, it can be said that this is the most relaxed imperial examination in all dynasties.

However, in the previous understanding, Zhu Yuan also knew that many well-known Confucian scholars in this era, or scholars who had been officials in the former Yuan Dynasty, avoided this scientific expedition for the sake of fame.

Whether active or passive, it is an unspoken rule.

Even if the Yuan family belongs to a foreign regime, after all, it was once unified, and now it is destroyed, according to the etiquette of the feudal era, even if you can't be martyred, you have to show your attitude.

Otherwise, you will be looked down upon.

Just like Liu Ji, in fact, he has always had some kind of ideological baggage, and he was almost forced by Lao Zhu at the beginning, so he had to go out of the mountain to assist the left.

Therefore, more than 10,000 people ...... In a way, it's actually very "uneven".

Zhu Yuan didn't care.

It's not that he doesn't care about some kind of morality and etiquette, etiquette can't be abolished, and he is resolutely unwilling to go out of the mountain, Zhu Yuan can understand, but that Zhu Yuan doesn't care about the overall level of this group of people.

The requirements are already very low, just literacy.

Because many of the things that Zhu Yuan has to do next only need to meet a literacy standard.

Speaking of which, for scholars, this is a founding bonus, and if you catch it, you happen to have some talents, and it is not impossible to be crowned a marquis and worship the prime minister in the future. If you can't catch it, even if the current social status is not bad, after a few generations, the entire family may fall.

On the pyramid, the position of each layer is counted.

In the cold morning on the campus, Tao An, a bachelor of Hanlin, and Qian Yongren, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, did not leave at all yesterday, and patrolled everywhere early in the morning.

The 5,000-acre campus personally demarcated by Lao Zhu has been divided into 167 open-air examination areas in advance according to a group of 100 people, and the last group is 132 people.

Yesterday afternoon, the seating was arranged in the same random pattern as it was later.

Similar to an exam number.

In addition, after confirming the seat in advance, I ensured that I could find a seat as quickly as possible during today's exam, but this process was busy until the evening yesterday.

When Zhu Yuan arrived, the tiger guards who had changed into civilian clothes had already been scattered in various examination rooms, and the candidates generally got up earlier, and some people who did not stay in the small courtyard also arrived early and were already waiting outside the examination room.

After meeting with Tao An and Qian Yongren, the other two continued to inspect various details later to ensure that nothing went wrong, while Zhu Yuan checked the security arrangements everywhere.

Lao Zhu is coming today.

Not only that, Zhu Yuan also proposed yesterday that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and all the ministers of Zhongshu should come and see it today, this is a big event after all.

Lao Zhu also agreed.

Because of this, safety has become a top priority.

In case the old Zhu father and son have something wrong here, Zhu Yuan will definitely bear the brunt, if the mistake is too serious, then he can go home directly.

The "house" of the prefecture.

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I took a small sedan chair to stop and go, and it took less than a circle around the campus, and the time came to the time of Chenzheng.

Eight o'clock.

Candidates begin to enter the venue.

According to the arrangement, the mathematics test in the morning will take one hour, and the strategy theory test in the afternoon will be completed in two hours and one day.

As for the order of subjects, it is also for the sake of preventing cheating.

It is not easy to plagiarize the strategy, and the math ...... If there is more contact in advance and collusion, it is difficult to say.

When Zhu Yuan proposed this arrangement, Tao An and Qian Yongren did not agree with it, and they also felt that he was too guarded.

Zhu Yuan's rebuttal left the two speechless.

This is not to guard against the gentleman, but to guard against the villain. If you deliberately fail to act and allow the villain to take advantage of the loophole, it will be unfair to the gentleman.

From the south to the north, and from north to south, passing through a wave of candidates whose age can span from 14 years old to over 60 years old, Zhu Yuan was letting the sack lift the curtain and look outside, and the sedan chair suddenly stopped.

Zhao Xu leaned over and said to the sedan door, "My lord, Chang Ying asks to see you."

Chang Ying, the son of the commander of the battalion Haiwei and the same knowledge of Chang Xuan.

I've seen it before.

There are more than 10,000 candidates this time, Zhu Yuan didn't think about looking for historical acquaintances before, however, the one-foot-thick roster was less than a copy, so he gave up, except for some who knew, such as Chang Ying, such as a cadre of the ancient family in Zhangzhou, Fujian, and others, here in Zhu Yuan, it is just that even the name is unlikely to be seen.

The disadvantage of being crowded.

Mainly, Zhu Yuan is not too interested in doing so.

The coldness in his bones made Zhu Yuan lack the "archaeological" mentality, and he did not have the idea of promoting someone to make people worship in Weimo from the perspective of God, so whether it was a celebrity or a name, it was the same with him.

Chang Ying also handed over the post before and wanted to come to the door, Zhu Yuan was so busy during this time that he flew up, and in order to avoid suspicion, including many other people, he didn't see any of them.

However, the exam will start soon, and I think Chang Ying also deliberately came up to create a chance encounter, and it doesn't hurt to see it.

Walking out of the sedan chair, a young man waiting outside the guard circle immediately said loudly, "Chang Ying has seen adults."

The change of title is the biggest change after Zhu Yuan recognized his ancestors and returned to his ancestors.

At the public level, the "Hanlin" that I was gradually accustomed to was rarely "Pingzhang" or "adult" after that day. Because there is no canonization, it is not at the level of "Your Highness" for the time being.

It's weirder at home.

Not only did the petty officials dare not shout, but even "Dad" didn't dare to shout, and they were generally promoted by one generation, called "Lord", of course, the one who spoke twice. Zhu Yuan doesn't like it very much, but the freehand is also the way, and it must be changed, otherwise, if you get used to it, you will be seen by outsiders in the future, and it will be Zhu Yuan's dignity that will be lost.

There is no way to refute it.

Next to the sedan chair, motioning for Chang Ying to come forward, Zhu Yuan felt more eyes from the surroundings, and asked with a smile, "How are you preparing for this exam?"

Chang Ying was not restrained, but said cautiously: "The little one does his best, if the ability is not good and disappoints the adult, then come back in a few years."

Chang Ying's ability to participate in the scientific expedition is also a change.

Although it was the beginning of the founding of the country, if it were not for Zhu Yuan's suggestion, the children of military families, even if they were of the Chang family, would not necessarily be allowed to leave their nationality to take the exam.

This time, not only Chang Ying was able to participate in the scientific expedition, but Zhu Yuan also planned to carry out a larger-scale education activity for the children of military families in the future.

It's a perk.

If you become a soldier, it will be easier for your children and grandchildren to get ahead.

Lao Zhu is still a little worried about this, and feels that if this is the case, he will become a scholar in the future, and what if no one is a soldier.

Especially in this era, the hereditary military household is also quite reasonable.

Because the children of military families often have family "crafts". In contrast, ordinary people have to go through more drills before they can reach the level of being qualified to be sent into the battle array.

Zhu Yuan persuaded Lao Zhu again.

The concept needs to be changed.

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First of all, in the future war, the plan is to gradually switch to thermal weapons, and in this regard, there may be requirements for physical fitness, but it is no longer absolute. Second, it is necessary to analyze the pros and cons, from top to bottom, from ancient times to the present, and extrapolate, or to let go of the rigid military household system, which has more benefits.

Moreover, Zhu Yuan also gave another idea that can be called a big killer.

Military Service Act.

To put it simply, Zhu Yuan hopes that the future Ming army will be more and more oriented towards the "good family" of the Han and Tang dynasties, rather than the common "thief with army" since the Song Dynasty.

The right to education is one of them.

There will be more in the future.

Coupled with the "Military Service Law" that popularizes the whole people, Zhu Yuan believes that this time, the combat power of the Ming army will definitely not be the same as before.

Once Lao Zhu opened up the Ming Dynasty, to be honest, it was only for a while when he first fought the country, and his combat power was relatively strong, and then, it was really average. At the end of the day, there is actually only one, and it is no good to be a soldier.

After talking to Chang Ying for a while, Zhu Yuan sent the young man into the arena and sat back in the sedan chair himself.

Come to the largest plaza on the south side of the campus.

There are nearly 2,000 people sitting in the open air here, looking at the dense crowd around them, Zhu Yuan's most emotional point is that the productivity of the people in this land will be the highest in any era.

It's like this table, chair, bench.

When Zhu Yuan was still in Mingzhou, he participated in the design of the style by remote control, similar to the desk in the later classroom, with a double seat, and a storage compartment under the tabletop.

There were some apprehensions at first.

Previously, the school planned to enroll about 10,000 students, which means that only about 5,000 sets of tables and chairs are needed, however, this time for the exam, it is not possible to sit at a table for two people, but one for each person, which requires more than 16,000 sets, a gap of more than three times in a blink of an eye.

At first, I thought I needed to find tables and chairs from all sides for this exam.

As a result, the imperial examination was determined, and it was ordered in advance, and at the moment, just this Jinling University, the reserve of tables and chairs has reached 20,000 sets.

More than enough.

Moreover, not only the desks and chairs, but also the school building, which began to be built half a year ago, has a total of 519 houses of various types on the campus, and the number of large and small rooms exceeds 2,700, which is also a lot more than the original planned 2,000 houses.

Half of them are dormitories.

According to the later university dormitory model, the standard double bed, although it is generally a single-story house, but because the room size is generally two to three times larger than the later dormitory, a room can put 6 to 10 double beds, that is, up to 20 people, this is still a relatively relaxed situation.

In addition to the double bed, there will also be space for desks and wardrobes in the dormitory, and at least one seat per person will be ensured.

All things considered, just the dormitory can roughly accommodate nearly 20,000 people.

Therefore, this time, most of the candidates, and even a small number of accompanying family members, after arriving in Jinling, lived here for free, and did not even need to use the classroom as a temporary dormitory.

In addition, in addition to the daily meal supply, this exam, even the stationery, was provided free of charge by the school.

For example, the math of the first session.

In addition to three pencils and a paper cutter for each candidate in advance, there is also a set of compass rulers.

In the afternoon, the plan will also be very relaxed.

You can use whatever stationery you want, charcoal, pens, brushes, you can do it.

Zhu Yuan's purpose is to encourage the first two.

In short, all of them, from the house to the furniture, from the food to the study, are all in two words, abundance.

on the square.

Zhu Yuan looked at the candidates who were getting more and more in the position around him with emotion, and got the news that Lao Zhu and his party were already on their way and were expected to arrive after the exam.

It doesn't matter.

At the moment, I want His Majesty the Emperor to take more than 10,000 exams openly before the exam

It's unrealistic to say a few words, and Lao Zhu is not a person who cares about those processes.

Tao An and Qian Yongren, who looked tired and excited, were talking, watching the students gradually sit down, the time, counting, after half past eight, there began to be plainclothes soldiers escorting the test papers sewn in burlap bags into the venue, and the other part of the court officials and plainclothes soldiers in charge of the invigilation also sent the draft paper in advance, two for each person.

Suddenly, a man approached.

...... in hand Holding an abacus.

After giving a salute to the three chief examiners, the official of the Ministry of Rites presented the abacus: "My lord, this is ...... Xia Guan felt that he still had to come over and ask, many scholars had brought abacus, abacus and other things into the venue, but were they allowed?"

Seeing this, the three people who were talking immediately looked at each other.

It's time to start the exam, but in the end it's still a problem.

Zhu Yuan also remembered that on the way to inspect before, he also saw some candidates holding some things such as calculations in their hands, but he didn't think much about it.

Zhu Yuan subconsciously did not object.

The abacus is also a type of stationery.

There is a problem at the moment.

The main reason is that this abacus can speed up the calculation speed of candidates, relatively speaking, it is unfair to candidates who do not have an abacus, or calculate chips.

Although, Zhu Yuan also thinks that if he learns his "Fundamentals of Mathematics" well, the written arithmetic may be faster than the abacus, but the problem now is that this will create a potential unfairness.

"One hundred secrets," Zhu Yuan took the abacus in his hand, sighed, and after a brief discussion with Tao An and Qian Yongren, he made a decision, and said to the official: "Notify me immediately, say my original words, in order to ensure fairness, please hand in all the abacus, abacus and other calculation tools that you carry, this time, you can only use a pen to calculate."

After giving this order, when the official hurriedly went down to pass the order to be executed, Zhu Yuan fiddled with the abacus in his hand for a moment, laughed, turned to Tao An and said, "This is a good thing, I ignored it before, but after the exam, I must also order it to go down and build tens of thousands, and all the teachers and students in the school must have one set for each."

In the era when there were no computers, the computing power of the abacus was relatively powerful.

I remember watching a movie about the creation of the atomic bomb, and some of the calculations of the data were all typed out by scientists with abacus.

Ordinary people may not feel it, but the ability to calculate mathematics is actually a kind of "productivity", and it is a very, very important kind of "productivity".

Let's talk about the development of nuclear weapons.

The cost of simulation through powerful computing power is very different from that of direct nuclear testing in reality.