Zhuge Liang raised his eyes and looked at Sun Zhong.

He knew Sun Zhong.

Sun Zhong is a child of a peasant family, and he was able to go to school in the state because of the support of the imperial court policy, which gave them subsidies and free meals, accommodation, and study utensils in exchange for their enrollment in school.

Because of this, the academic performance of the children of the peasant families in the state school is generally not as good as the grades of the children of the original scholar family, let alone keeping up with the footsteps of geniuses like Zhuge Liang.

However, they are generally hard-working, tenacious and appreciate the opportunity to learn.

Sun Zhong is a particularly good one among the children of the peasant family, and he is very diligent and inquisitive, because Zhuge Liang is the first, he often humbly asks Zhuge Liang questions.

Zhuge Liang was naturally willing to answer, Sun Zhong would salute after being taught, and would also bring Zhuge Liang some agricultural products at home to express his gratitude.

In this Xuzhou State Examination, among the more than 900 people selected, most of them are the children of the original scholar clan and the children of landlords and wealthy businessmen with strong family backgrounds.

Sun Zhong is ranked among more than 200 people, and among the children of peasant families, he belongs to quite good, Zhuge Liang paid attention to this classmate, and felt that his future would be relatively ambitious.

However, Zhuge Liang is not clear about his background and experience before entering the state school.

However, from these three words, Zhuge Liang could feel that this classmate should have suffered a lot, and he had experienced a lot of miserable things himself, which he couldn't imagine.

Zhang Yue seemed to know something inside, so he patted Sun Zhong on the shoulder and didn't say anything.

The atmosphere in the car was dull, and it was not until they arrived at the new inn in the evening that they could eat at the new inn that they gradually resumed their interest in laughing and laughing.

Since then, the road has been smooth and smooth, the official road is very stable, and the operation of the post station is also very good, this group of candidates did not experience any ups and downs to arrive in Luoyang, compared to their group of predecessors who need to go through nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties to arrive in Luoyang, it is really lucky.

For example, Gao Shun, Mao Jue and others, one needs to take the escort all the way to Luoyang, three battles and three victories, full of black humor, and the other becomes a refugee and almost loses his life in order to arrive in Luoyang.

Compared with these predecessors, the 10,000 candidates who arrived in Luoyang this time were really lucky to arrive safely and steadily, of course, hundreds of people did get sick on the road and were delayed, but they were also properly treated.

At the end of the first month of the sixth year of Zhenguan, all the candidates arrived in Luoyang, and none of them lost their qualifications for the examination for other reasons.

Liu Bei was very satisfied with this.

But what made him even more satisfied was that he saw some familiar names in some of the lists for this exam.

In this selection examination, the top ten in the state and state examinations were considered to have a great chance of passing the selection, so their list was summarized and handed over to Liu Bei, so that Liu Bei knew who the best one hundred and thirty students in the empire were.

Then Liu Bei saw Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Deng Zhi, Dong He, Sima Yi, Liu Ba, Lu Su, and Lu Yi in these lists.

In addition, Liu Bei was not surprised to see the name that made his heart move.

Zhuge Liang.

Xuzhou Prefecture is the first to take the exam.

Liu Bei laughed out loud, and in the incomprehensible eyes of the people around him, he stroked Zhuge Liang's name and sighed: "The heroes of the world are in my place!" ”

Zheng Xuan, who was reviewing the list on the side, was very interested when he heard this.

"It's just an exam, how can you be called a hero in the world? Your Majesty has spoken. ”

Liu Bei looked at Zheng Xuan and said with a smile: "Maybe, but I'm really happy that so many outstanding talents can be selected in one imperial examination, and if you continue to inspect, I don't know how long it will take to find so many heroes." ”

"Rao, you've recruited too much."

Zheng Xuan smiled bitterly: "Recruiting three thousand people at a time, even if it is one in a hundred, the number of people will inevitably be more, originally one thousand people is enough, if there are three thousand people, the pressure on the imperial court will be great." ”

"Fortunately, it's not big, and I even think that 3,000 people is not enough for the people we need at the moment."

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Jiaozhou, Liaozhou, and several counties in the Western Regions are all in need of manpower, I am worried that there are no more candidates after transferring too many capable people to fill them, and now there are so many excellent candidates, of course I have to seize the opportunity."

At this rate, the population of the Han Dynasty is increasing, and the territory of the Han Dynasty is expanding, so the number of officials needed will be more. ”

Zheng Xuan has nothing to object to.

"If that is the case, these 3,000 people are indeed a bit insufficient......

"That can't be too much."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "It's almost one of the three, if it weren't for the urgent shortage of manpower, there really wouldn't be so many people, you can take your time in the future, once every three years I think it's very appropriate, unless the population of the Han Dynasty continues to increase, the land continues to grow, and a larger number of officials are indeed needed, then let's talk about it." ”

"Well, that's fine."

Zheng Xuan nodded and didn't say anything more.

These days, in order to stand on the last shift, Zheng Xuan has personally experienced the scientific examination, and if he can do it himself, he will not let others do it, for fear that there will be a little mistake that will cause the first imperial examination to go wrong.

Even the military and officials who need to be used to maintain law and order in the examination hall and supervise the candidates not to cheat during the selection period must be divided into three batches, one batch a day, and the same group of people should not be allowed to stay in the examination hall for more than one day, so as to avoid cheating to the greatest extent.

Because of the complete preparations, after the candidates arrived in Luoyang, they were arranged to the candidates' dormitory not far from the examination center.

The candidates' dormitory is also a brand new building, and the supporting facilities belonging to the examination institute were built at a lot of expense, specifically for the use of candidates during the imperial examination.

Because the selection test is in mid-February, the Jun exam is in early March, and the final result will not be available until mid-March, which means that candidates will have to stay in Luoyang for at least two months.

Some candidates whose families are not very good obviously do not have the financial resources to live alone in Luoyang for two months, so Liu Bei adopted Zheng Xuan's opinion and built a dormitory for the candidates.

During the residency, as long as you are a candidate, you can eat and live in the candidate's dormitory for free, and you do not need to pay money.

Of course, if you feel that you are very rich and want to go out to improve your life, of course, it is okay, it depends on your financial resources, even if you go out to spend all day drinking, as long as you bring enough money and do not violate the law, the court is not very strict.

It can be said that the imperial court has taken the extreme into consideration for the candidates, and the parents are just like that.

On February 14 of the sixth year of Zhenguan, the second round of the first imperial examination was officially launched, and the examination time was the same as three days, and the candidates could not leave the examination institute for three consecutive days, and the food, accommodation and rest were in the examination institute, but the equipment in the examination hall was much better than the simple equipment in the state examination.

There are only classrooms in the state examination, and the examination institute for the selection is divided into a single room for the examination, a small compartment, each candidate has a small compartment to use, and the pattern of the entire examination institute is built by Liu Bei with reference to the structure of the Jiangnan Gongyuan in the Ming and Qing dynasties, similar to a small alley.

When Zhuge Liang arrived at his own compartment in the examination hall, he found that the equipment in the compartment was quite interesting.

The first is a long-legged desk, which has stationery such as pen and ink for exams.

The height of the desk was almost to Zhuge Liang's waist, which was obviously different from the case table they were familiar with.

Then he found that there was a stone bed in the compartment with bed utensils on it, and when he looked closely, he saw that the stone bed seemed to be solid, and that it was integrated into the whole compartment.

Only the part of the cubicle near the outside is space to walk, and a little further inside, it is full of beds.

The height of the desk coincided with the height of the bed, and he sat on the stone bed, lifted the desk in front of him, and found that it was just right for writing at the desk, and it seemed to be more comfortable than the ordinary desk.

Then he noticed that although the compartment was not wide, he could almost touch the sides of the compartment with his hands open, but the compartment was quite deep, and he lay on the stone bed, and found that with his own tall stature, the length of the stone bed could be well accommodated.

It's good for resting and sleeping at night.

During the state exam, sleeping was a big problem.

After almost all the candidates were in place, a group of examiners came and conveyed the exam rules to the candidates in batches.

The exam lasts for three days and thirty-six hours.

Candidates can answer within 36 hours after the announcement of the start of the examination, during which they cannot leave the examination hall, eat and live in the examination hall, and if there is an emergency, they must get the permission and corresponding arrangements of the examiner, Zheng Xuan, the secretary of the school.

Candidates do not need to prepare three meals a day, and there will be a special person to deliver food to the candidates' compartments every time they arrive, and candidates can get food and drinking water without leaving the compartment, which is enough to satisfy their stomachs.

Therefore, candidates cannot bring outside food and drinking water into the examination hall, regardless of whether they live in the vicinity of Luoyang City, once found, they will be disqualified from the examination.

In addition, there are sufficient single toilets in the examination hall, and candidates who need to go to the toilet should request the inspector to take the toilet to the toilet in person.

The examination institute will provide a curtain for use at night to keep out the cold, but it needs to be opened during the day and cannot be closed, only after dark, if you are ready to rest, you can ask the inspector for permission to turn off the lights, close the curtain and go to bed.

If candidates have any additional needs or special emergencies, they also need to contact the inspection examiner, who will deal with it according to the examination regulations, and the candidate cannot act alone in any case, otherwise the examination will be disqualified.

There are more than a dozen of them, and the exam rules can be said to be very strict, full of taboos, and the slightest carelessness is to disqualify the exam.

And depending on the situation, if the situation is worse, then you may lose the qualification for the next or two imperial examinations, and if you cheat, you will be permanently disqualified from participating in the imperial examinations.

It can be said that the precautions have been full, and the punishment regulations have been stipulated to the top stage, but if there is something wrong, it may make the candidate lose his future at any time.

So even Zhuge Liang took the rules of the imperial examination seriously and carefully followed them to prevent the boat from capsizing in the gutter.

After the examiners have read out the examination rules, they will begin to distribute the examination papers to the candidates with the assistance of the Central Forbidden Army, and the candidates will be given six papers to answer and ten scratch sheets for calculations.

The same is true for pen and ink, and the same is true for candles needed for night lighting.

Zhuge Liang sat in the examination cubicle, and quickly got six test papers and ten calculation scratch papers belonging to him.

After flipping through the six test papers, he found that the content of the selection test was different from that of the state exam.

The test questions of the state exam are like a quiz game between the candidate and the examiner, all the questions have standard answers, or difficult, or simple, or complicated, or concise, no matter what, there are standard answers, which belongs to the assessment of knowledge reserves.

As long as there is a standard answer, then it is possible to get a perfect score.

The selection is different.

There are questions and answers on the basic knowledge of various disciplines, but the number is smaller, more in-depth questions, and the proportion of agriculture and astronomy and geography is relatively large, and the simple academic questions are reduced, and more are related to practical problems.

For example, the manpower, material resources, and financial resources required to build roads, as well as the allocation of personnel and materials and the calculation of the daily necessities of employees, will separate a government affairs that may be encountered by court officials into many detailed steps, give the standard number of materials, and require candidates to answer questions on material allocation.

For these questions, Zhuge Liang saw at a glance that this was definitely not a simple knowledge quiz, but required the candidate to make a plan as a responsible official and ask his subordinates to implement it.

When the state examination is held, it can still be regarded as a question and answer game between the candidate and the examiner, and the selection examination has advanced to the professional ability of an official, and the candidates need to answer the questions with the mentality of a responsible official and give the correct answer.

Of course, Zhuge Liang also knows very well that there are too many uncertainties in actual operation, and the questions on the test paper have been as close to reality as possible, but the actual problems are far more difficult than a math problem on the test paper.

can have such a cognition, mainly because Zhuge Liang's brother Zhuge Jin has encountered some very speechless things.

(End of chapter)