On the high platform, Liu She, Wei Xuan, and Uncle Tian, the three 'gentle gentlemen', were competing with each other for the stacks of cicada wing white paper.

Under the high platform, the more than 8,000 scholars began to compete with the test questions written on the wooden board one by one, waiting for the candidates to copy and write down.

- Even if this is the first time in the history of Chinese and even human civilization that grassroots officials are selected in the form of a 'written test', there are always some things that candidates rely on only instinct to 'learn from their own teachers'.

At this moment, in front of each sub-examination room, a wooden board has been erected, but it is no longer the previous seat number of 'one to ninety-nine', but has become a series of exam questions.

And the first time they saw the exam questions, even if the examiners didn't have time to shout out the sentence 'copy the questions on the answer sheet', the candidates still instinctively rolled up their sleeves, raised their heads from time to time, and copied the exam questions on the board.

There are a total of 10 questions.

The first four questions all belong to the arithmetic problem of 'as long as you are really a literate person, you will definitely be able to do it right'.

It's just that on the basis of the arithmetic problems, some tax-related knowledge points have been added.

For example, the first question: Say that a certain farmer, Chinese New Year's Eve nine, has 100 acres of land;

His wife was Chinese New Year's Eve sixth, the eldest son was twenty-one, the second daughter was seventeen, and the youngest son was twelve.

In a certain year, the family received 300 stone of grain in the autumn, and the price of grain set by Shaofu was 50 yuan per stone.

Question: After paying all the taxes and taxes that should be paid, how much is the total value of the surplus grain of the farmer's household?

Such a question, casually placed in front of anyone who has been an official at the grassroots level, or even just a 'official', can be described as a complete question for sending points.

Even the peasants, despite not being able to read and write, can also give their own clear calculation process for such a problem.

- The harvest of three hundred stone grain, the price of fifty denarii per stone, the total value is fifteen thousand denarii.

The agricultural tax of thirty taxes and one needs to pay ten stone of grain, that is, five hundred yuan;

The thirty-nine-year-old farmer, his thirty-six-year-old wife, and the eldest son, who had reached the age of twenty-one and had reached the age of 'Shi Fu', each had to pay forty yuan in an oral fee.

Finally, since the seventeen-year-old second daughter is still at home, it means that she has not yet married;

If you don't marry at the age of seventeen, according to the laws of the Han family today, you need to pay an annual fine of 120 yuan for late marriage.

So the final answer is equal to: fifteen thousand minus five hundred minus one hundred and twenty minus one hundred and twenty, which is equal to fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.

Overall, the difficulty of this problem is not too high, and the part that involves calculations only includes simple subtraction and multiplication.

If there is any difficulty, that is, some sons and brothers who were born in wealthy families and don't know the hardships of the world may not know that in addition to agricultural taxes and oral taxes, the Han family actually formulated a 'late marriage fine' for women over the age of 15.

But on the whole, the difficulty of this first question has also made the vast majority of candidates roughly understand the intention of the compiler, that is, when Zisheng today.

"The first four are all arithmetic, which shows that His Majesty does not like to talk about it, or to quote scriptures and scriptures, and to be full of poetry and righteousness."

"Your Majesty, you should be a more pragmatic person······"

"The first question is 'a certain farmer', and it also involves taxes, taxes and other expenditures, and His Majesty's attention to peasant households is no less than that of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xianxiaojing."

"It also involves the punishment of late marriage for women who are not well understood by most of the children of high-ranking families······"

"Your Majesty, is it also like the first emperor, like the words of the Legalists?"

In the No. 1 sub-examination room, that is, the first examination room of A, looking at the white paper in front of him, which had been stuffed with exam questions that he had copied down, Yan Yi only frowned subconsciously.

This question is of course not a problem for Yan Yi, the tenth grandson of the Fusheng Yan Hui.

What Yan Yi was thinking at the moment was not how to deal with the ten questions in front of him, but from between the lines of these ten questions, he figured out the political tendencies or preferences of Zisheng today.

Although he was born in Confucianism, before getting the news that Chang'an was about to hold an examination, Yan Yidu was still working as a pavilion chief in Jinan County.

For this kind of topic that is really related to the survival of peasants, Yan Yi can be said to have it at his fingertips.

But after coming to the conclusion of 'today or Dharma-seeking' from this first question, Yan Yi's brows quietly furrowed slightly.

Even if he didn't stop for a moment in the pen, he quickly finished answering the first question, and Yan Yi's frowning brows did not show any tendency to relax······

At the same time, in a more central position in the examination room, the master father Yan also completed the first question.

Like Yan Yi, Master Father Yan also saw from this first exam question that Zisheng attached great importance to the Legalists, or the law.

But it was different from Yan Yi's frowning and worried look: after quickly completing the first question, Master Father Yan only glanced at the first question and quickly focused on the second question.

——Different from Yan Yi, who was born in a famous family, and who was recommended by an acquaintance and had an official to do, and never worried about food and clothing: the background of the master's father can be described as quite a 'slight cold'.

Different from the Huang Lao, Confucianism, Law and other studies chosen by the vast majority of intellectuals in the Han Dynasty today, the earliest academic choice of Master Yan was in the extremely niche long and short vertical and horizontal techniques of the Han Dynasty today.

A hundred years ago, strategists and diplomats like Su Qin and Zhang Yi appeared in the Zongheng family, and they traveled between other countries, relying on the power of their tongues and tongues, without spending a single soldier, to obtain large tracts of land and countless cities for the countries they were loyal to.

But now in the Han Dynasty, in this unified regime, everything that the Zongheng family is good at seems to have lost its usefulness.

This time is different from the past~

At the time of Zong Zhou, Zhou Tianzi's prestige was not there, and the princes and countries were in constant dispute with each other, and all the Zhou could do was to see the wind and rudder and survive in the cracks.

But in today's Han Dynasty, not to mention the war and conspiracy between the countries of the Kanto region, if the exchanges are a little closer, they will immediately find the imperial history of Chang'an!

Especially after the Wu Chu Rebellion, the exchanges between the princes and vassal kings were under the close attention of the Chang'an court.

Even the brothers of Liu Rong, the king of Linjiang, and Liu De, the king of Hejian, are now in a state of 'never exchanging letters on non-major matters'.

Internally, externally, there is no soil for the Zongheng family to display their ambitions.

——For South Vietnam, or Lingnan Baiyue, the Han family adopted the tactics of boiling the old man.

It is very necessary to stabilize Lingnan as much as possible, just wait for the Qin Longchuan Order, the current king of Nanyue, Zhao Tuo, to breathe, and then let the prince grandson, who is now in Chang'an, return to the throne, and solve the problem of Lingnan through gentle means.

As for the north, that's even less to say.

Diplomacy?

the eggs!

Between the Han and the Hungarians, they either fought or dried!

No amount of scheming or scheming, no matter how clever it is, it can't compare to a strong crossbow and a spear.

Especially after ascending the throne today and becoming the first Han emperor to explicitly refuse the request of the Huns and refuse to make peace since the Han Dynasty, the Mao Dun between the Han and the Huns has also been visibly rushing towards the direction of 'not dying'.

Therefore, he had a hunch that the art of vertical and horizontal was no longer available, and the master father Yan also tried to turn the door around and study "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn".

It's just that after that, the master father 'traveled around the world', but he really failed to integrate into any of the literati circles.

Maybe it's because the master is a father, and he has always been bad at handling interpersonal relationships;

Maybe the main father was born poor, even if he has the knowledge to support his temperament, it is difficult to hide the 'poor sour' on his body.

Or perhaps, as the nursery rhyme that has been deeply ingrained in the mind of the master father said······

"The master is a father, he governs vertically and horizontally, speaks long and short, and is famous."

"You can't eat enough, you can't cover your body, you can't fit the length of your body, and you can't make ······ size"

"Humph!"

"When I get ahead, I'll settle accounts with you and other children!"

Gritting his teeth and straightening his face, the master father soon began to dance with pen and ink, writing down his own answers for the second exam question.

Once upon a time, the Zongheng family was like a hanging river, angry and the princes were afraid, and they lived in peace and the world rested!

Although things have changed now, there are always some things that have been inherited by the descendants of the Zongheng family.

- Eyes will be rewarded.

And the master father Yan, the descendant of King Zhao Wuling, can be described as the 'best among them'······

"This second question~"

"Hey;"

"Your Majesty, it's really still that jealous and hateful character······"

In a further position, Zheng looked at the second exam question in front of him, but there was only a burst of emotion and embarrassment on his face.

Yan Yi is a descendant of the Fusheng Yan Hui, and he still belongs to the 'scholarly family';

The main father Yan is the descendant of King Zhao Wuling, although he is already slightly cold, but he is also 'extraordinary in blood' after all.

These two people who have been in the Kanto region for many years and have not yet made a name for themselves are still like this, and Zheng Shi, who had been in Liu Sheng's palace, naturally could not be a 'mediocre' person.

- Zheng was the twenty-second grandson of Zheng Huan Gong Zheng You and the twenty-third grandson of Zhou Li Wang Jihu.

is different from Yan Yi, who has been familiar with poetry and books since he was a child, and his father traveled to study in the past: Zheng Shi, who was born in the Xingyang area, was born as a ranger.

Once upon a time, in the area of Liang and Chu, the heroic Zheng was also the number one person.

After the Wu Chu Rebellion, Zheng relied on his connections to rescue Lieutenant Zhang Yu of Liang who was in danger, and he also became more famous.

It is precisely because of this well-known fame that even if Zheng's ancestor at that time had been Xiang Yu's general, Zheng's 'unclean' hero at that time was still summoned to Chang'an by Emperor Xianxiaojing, and after a brief investigation, he was stuffed into Liu Sheng's palace and became Liu Sheng's prince's housekeeper.

At the beginning, Liu Sheng still had some interest in this hero.

After all, when a young man is hot-blooded, who has never envied a chivalrous man who is happy and vengeful when he is young?

But soon, Liu Sheng gradually understood what kind of 'chivalry' in this era was.

- Written as a chivalry, read as the scum of the Black Society!

Realizing this, Liu Sheng soon lost interest in this group, and naturally, he gradually sorted out Zheng Shi.

In this way, Zheng also became one of the few disappointed people among Liu Sheng's ministers who were 'eliminated from the imperial palace before Liu Sheng ascended the throne'.

I didn't get it from the dragon's work, and the minister of the hidden mansion didn't make it, but the identity of the ranger made it impossible for Zheng to return to his former residence at that time.

stayed in Chang'an, and it was not until this examination that Zheng finally waited for an opportunity to make back pot meat······

"Your Majesty despises my generation as a hero, but his temperament is also jealous and hateful;"

"Such a temperament, but I don't like my rangers, think about it, is there a misunderstanding······

"I took advantage of this examination to tell Your Majesty: Chivalry, it's not all stupid worms who kill people and oversell goods and oppress the good;"

"Chivalry, can also be a good talent who can rule the world with a full stomach and ······"

Among the candidates, there are many, many people like Yan Yi, Master Father Yan, and Zheng Shishi.

Most of these people have 'noble' blood, but most of them are also in the middle of the road - at least relative to their ancestors, and they have long been gone;

These people are familiar with the allusions of the sages, and they come with their mouths open their mouths when they quote scriptures, but they have no way to repay the country and no way to enter the country.

These people, either rich in food and clothing, or short of food and clothing, but without exception, cherish this opportunity very much.

- This time, you don't need to leave favors, trust relationships, or ask someone to write a letter of introduction, you can completely rely on your own ability to seek the opportunity of an official and a half-job.

In this expectation, longing, and a little tense and serious atmosphere, the first examination in the history of human civilization is gradually coming to an end······

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"It's noon~~~!"

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"It's noon~~~!"

A sound sounded in the examination room, and finally the examinees raised their heads and looked around following the sound.

Hearing the sound of the gong, the examiners, who had already been 'waiting for the battle', finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Stop writing."

"Get up."

The examiners were silent, and the candidates also obediently got up and stood in front of their own examination cases.

- It's not that the examiners are enough to be inferior, but around the examination room, the army after army of 'invigilators' is already on the hilt of the sword at his waist······

"Now, the examiner will collect your exam papers in order."

"Every time you collect an exam paper, you will leave."

"After leaving your seat, don't talk to anyone around you until you leave the exam room."

"Do not push, make noise, and do not argue with others······"

Another reading of the discipline of the examination room led the candidates to walk towards the entrance of the nearest examination room step by step with apprehension and a little excitement.

It wasn't until they walked out of the examination room that the candidates seemed to have been covered for a long time and finally let go, and each exhaled a long breath.

"Whew~"

"Success or failure is up here!"

This is the sigh of a person who has done well in the test and is full of confidence.

"Hi~"

"That's it······"

This is obviously the bitter sigh of those who are frustrated.

"Ha~"

"Finally came out."

"My lord, you should be waiting at home in a hurry, right?"

There are always some boys who don't care about the results of the exam at all, they just feel that they have just been in prison for two hours, and they have not been released until now.

But in any case, this examination has finally come to a successful end.

- At least in the part of the exam, nothing went wrong······

Sorry, I've been severely sleep-deprived lately, and I slept until this afternoon last night.

I'm coding today's update, and today will not be anti-theft

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