At the end of the fifth year of Zhenguan, Zheng Xuan, the secretary of the school, was ordered by Liu Bei, the son of heaven, to publicize the world, officially promote the first imperial examination, and clearly inform the states to prepare.

Subsequently, he gathered with Liu Bei, the Son of Heaven, and many professional scholars to discuss the first nationally applicable examination paper for the state examination.

On December 12, the fifth year of Zhenguan, the state examination was officially launched, and students from every state school in the country and Taixue students can participate in the state examination as long as they are willing to refer to it and successfully register, without paying any fees for it or any other requirements.

Family background, ancestral achievements, official positions, etc., don't ask, just look at the results, only look at the test scores.

In the end, a total of 310,000 people from the 13 state schools and Taixue schools that have been built and officially put into teaching work across the country have signed up for this imperial examination.

The state exam lasted for three days, and the content of the test was mostly an extension of the basic content and the basic content, but the questions were difficult and complex, and there were many questions that needed to be answered, which was all-inclusive.

The Confucian classics include nine chapters of arithmetic, astronomy and geography, agriculture and industry, and even physics and chemistry.

This kind of all-encompassing examination paper and the three-day examination time are a great test for students' computing ability and ability to withstand pressure.

After the exam, there are countless students from all over the world, many of whom say that they have not completed all the questions, and some of the questions even need to be answered on a whole sheet of paper, which has a lot of content, especially math problems, which require a lot of time to calculate.

Although the exam lasted for three days, many people said that they did not have time to do a lot of math problems, or that they spent so much time on math that they did not have time to answer other questions.

After the state exams, the fear of math problems began to circulate among students.

Anyone can deceive you, but math doesn't, because math can't just won't.

The state exam is graded over seven days, and after seven days, the final results of the exam will be announced.

The selection method of the examination is mainly based on the different number of students in each state and state, and then in the process of operation, according to the principle of high selection and low selection, the best batch is selected to enter the second round of selection.

Because of the large number of students this time, the scale of 310,000 people also shocked many court officials, and later everyone thought that this should be the result of the achievements accumulated by the school department over the years of vigorously promoting the enrollment of students, so the number is particularly large.

Especially in Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Yizhou and Sili areas, because the school started early, the system is relatively mature, and there are more students enrolled, so many people want to participate in the examination until now.

Because there are too many participants, the selection is naturally more cruel, for the scale of the selection, Liu Bei is limited to 10,000 people, and then according to the different number of reference students in each state, the quota is allocated, trying to take into account the average number of people in each state, taking into account the most basic fairness.

In some places, the population is larger, the competition is fiercer, and in some places the population is smaller, the competition is relatively less fierce, Liu Bei established such a principle.

However, some officials feel that this is unfair to students in more populous areas, who may have more academic abilities but are not allowed to enter the selection stage because of this distribution model, which is somewhat inappropriate.

However, Liu Bei believes that this is a means for the Luoyang court to promote macro manipulation.

In the agricultural era, a large population in a region itself means that the land is fertile and the productivity is high, so more people will settle down, so the scale of the rich will be larger, and the number of students will be cultivated.

If the model of completely fair competition is followed, then the competitiveness of students in this region must be particularly strong, and the number of admissions will be particularly large, and in the case of the limited number of places selected by the imperial court, they will occupy too many places, and sooner or later they will leave other regions far behind.

As a result, there are too many officials from the same region, clinging to each other, and political and economic resources are overly skewed, which leads to an imbalance in the power structure, which will lead to larger-scale regional contradictions and power disputes.

A wise ruler and government would not tolerate such a situation, and even more so for Liu Bei.

He can't let one place have money and power, and other places can't even drink soup, he is the monarch of the entire Han Empire, the king of kings, not the monarch of a state, a warlord of separatism.

This kind of behavior that naturally promotes the development and growth of small groups, this kind of thing that makes the disadvantaged areas alienate from the central government, as long as his brain is not broken, he will not do it.

Therefore, Liu Bei directly chose the selection method of limiting the number of places in the region during the stage of the imperial examination, leaving a certain number of places for each state, even if it is a state with a sparse population and not very good economic development, there can be enough places to be selected.

And in this way, it may also promote the natural migration of the population to a certain extent, allowing some people to migrate from the Central Plains to settle in remote areas, so as to avoid fierce social competition and choose a relatively simple mode.

In ancient times, most governments would take the initiative to restrict the movement of population, hoping to tie the population to the land in order to stabilize the scale of agricultural production, but Liu Bei did not make such a mandatory requirement.

At the level of legal provisions, the hukou policy of the Third Reich allowed movement, and did not pay attention to nailing a person's hukou to a region, and there was only a provision that after migrating to the local area, he must pay taxes for five years before he could move freely.

For those who have previously migrated to remote counties, they have a tax holiday of several years, and then five years have passed since the start of paying the tax before they can move freely further.

In the past, the Luoyang Imperial Court used taxation to macro-control population migration, and through the promulgation of policies, the Central Plains region was more restricted, while the remote areas were less restricted, so there were more opportunities for development.

In this way, some people who were interested in development naturally migrated to remote areas following the policies of the imperial court.

After that, Liu Bei planned to add the means of educational examinations to carry out macroeconomic regulation and control, and tilt certain educational resources to remote areas, so as to guide a group of people to migrate to remote areas to settle in a relatively long period of time, enrich the population in remote areas, and reduce the over-enrichment of the population in core areas.

In the agricultural era, it is not necessarily a good thing for a region to have too many people, and it is even less good for a region to have too little population.

Therefore, Liu Bei did not accept the doubts and dissatisfaction of those officials from well-off areas, but forcibly passed his own resolution, giving relatively more resources to remote prefectures and counties, and aggravating the academic competition in the densely populated areas.

The state exam stage is such a rule.

At the selection stage, the rules changed slightly.

According to the summary of the test results of students from various states obtained during the state examination stage, Liu Bei and a group of school officials and professionals from various disciplines came to a very clear conclusion.

That is, in the case of fair competition, the academic ability of students in the Central Plains region is generally higher than that of students in remote areas, and their scores are higher and their grades are better.

Especially in Jiaozhou, even if they received special care, only more than 100 students barely passed the state examination and were able to enter the selection stage.

Liangzhou can be regarded as having received Liu Bei's special care and the earliest start, so it can catch up with the Central Plains in terms of academic ability, while other regions have not gained too many advantages.

Although since Liu Bei's teaching reform, the teaching materials used by everyone are no longer mainly Confucian classics, but in the process of setting up state schools in various states to recruit and run schools, the Central Plains region is still faster than the remote areas, and the quality of students will be better.

The children of those families in the Central Plains who have survived many political storms still surpass the students in the border areas on the basis of learning, and their economic situation is also better and they are more able to study full-time, and the learning process during the Zhenguan period will be easier and more concentrated.

The lack of economic capacity in the border areas makes it even more difficult in the process of building state schools and recruiting students, and the starting time and duration of real teaching are not as good as those in the Central Plains, and the resulting gap in academic ability between the two sides is obvious.

Everyone did stand on the same starting line in terms of teaching materials, but the runway on one side was smoother, and the runway on the other side was potholes, and the result was that the Central Plains was a simple race, and the remote areas were made into obstacle races.

Take Jiaozhou, which has the worst conditions and the latest start, for example, if these Jiaozhou students with a weak foundation are allowed to compete with students from Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and other places, they will be left with no scum left.

So at this stage, Liu Bei fully understood why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make the north-south list back then.

The imbalance of educational resources, the imbalance of students' educational attainment, and the imbalance of educational background is a long-term problem, and it is a problem that the imperial court needs to invest great efforts to improve.

And before this problem is really improved, the imperial court can't just watch the students in the remote areas never get ahead, and it can't watch the Luoyang court not even have an official from Jiaozhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou.

Then sooner or later, these remote states will have to rebel, they will have to secede, they will have to become independent.

Therefore, Liu Bei decided to refer to the model of the north-south list, and temporarily set up a "border list", that is, border students and mainland students are admitted to the list, and the quota is allocated according to their respective reference numbers and the final number of admissions, and then they are listed on the list and choose their own outstanding ones.

Liu Bei made it very clear when he explained this policy.

"It is an indisputable fact that few remote students can compete with mainland students, and if you really want to be on the same list, the vast majority of those admitted are mainland students, and only a very small number of border students can be selected, or even all of them are mainland students, and there are no border students.

Do you think this is okay? Yes, I know that some people think that it is not very fair for mainland students to make my internal list, but this is a imperial examination, the selection is an official, it involves power, and there are too many aspects to take into account, and this is by no means a simple exam.

In the past, I worked as a pastor in Liangzhou, and I heard and witnessed the resentment and dissatisfaction of the people of Liangzhou against the Kwantung people, and I saw with my own eyes the astonishing mutual disrecognition and strife caused by different regions in the same Han country.

Although I tried hard, because the former imperial court was too generous to the mainland and too ruthless to the borderland, so that the change in just a few years could not reverse the serious shortage of the border land relative to the mainland.

Back then, the people of Liangzhou once asked me whether the people of Liangzhou were Han or not, and I felt creepy at that time, did the actions of the court of Luoyang have made the people of Liangzhou regret becoming Han? I knew then that this must not happen again.

I know you have a lot of ideas in your minds, but what I want to say is that the emergence of the Biannei List is the result of the failure of the imperial court's governance, and the goal of our generation's governance should be to completely depose the Biannei List. ”

Liu Bei's words were very clear, so the people who opposed them had nothing to say, and after thinking about it again and again, they agreed with Liu Bei's concept of taking people from the side list.

So when it was the turn of the candidate, this rule was set, and the exam paper was still the same exam paper, but according to the different origins of the candidates, the candidates were divided into two groups, the border list and the mainland list, and the admission was made by the list, and the treatment was the same after admission.

After determining this principle, everyone began to prepare for the selection in full swing.

The selection is a national examination that is a national examination for students from all over the country who are concentrated in the same stage in the Luoyang area, and the examination venue is in the Luoyang Examination Institute near Luoyang Taixue, which has just been completed, and the new building that has just been completed covers an extremely wide area, which can accommodate more than 10,000 people to study for the exam, so it is also known as the 10,000-person examination institute.

All students who have passed the state examination will go all the way to Luoyang in the form of a publicly-funded bus and horse under the organization of the state school of the state, and they do not need to bear any expenses in the trip.

During the trip, the state school escort will arrange accommodation throughout the whole process, and all candidates and escorts will eat and live together, and everyone only needs to prepare for the exam while rushing.

Through such a unified scheduling, not only can the students arrive in Luoyang to take the exam faster and safer, but also let them initially feel what kind of specific existence the "Emperor's Grace" is.

Although I don't know what others think, Zhuge Liang, a native of Langya County, Xuzhou, and his younger brother Zhuge fully feel the advantages of this policy arrangement and are grateful.

Not to mention anything else, this arrangement made their brother Zhuge Jin, who was worried about their personal safety every day, have nothing to say, just this point, Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Jun feel very good.

Zhuge Jin did love his two younger brothers very much, but Zhuge Liang and Zhuge both felt that this kind of love was a bit too much.

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