Luoyang.

Outside the county government, scholars have already gathered here.

There are armor soldiers stationed around, responsible for law and order here.

The scholars gathered here, and naturally divided into two factions.

Those gathered in the distance are all the children of the big clans, and Luoyang at this moment is suddenly dilapidated, and the children of these big clans are no different from the children of the Han family, but the difference can be seen at a glance.

After all, clothes can be worn, but the materials used will not change.

A tattered splendor, that's also splendid.

And there are many slaves around them to help, the carriage is parked not far away, and the slaves are constantly bringing all kinds of things from the carriage, running back and forth.

These people talked about the recent trends among the scholars, and they didn't want to look at the larger children of the Han family in the distance.

"I heard that Ruan Gong has a new work?"

"Oh, when you are in turmoil, there must be a famous article."

"It is not surprising that today's traitors are in power, the rule of virtue is corrupt, and the famous articles are doubled!"

"Silence! The eagle dogs of the thieves are distributed all over the place, don't talk nonsense! ”

"Those traitors can only appear among the immoral villains, and those who are here are all high-ranking and famous people, how can they help the abuse?"

As everyone talked, the spearhead couldn't help but be aimed at the emperor.

Cao Chao's status in the hearts of these scholars is really poor now.

They all felt that this Great Wei was going to perish at the hands of this tyrant.

They compared Cao Chao to the Qin Emperor Han Wu, the reputation of these two emperors was actually good in the Cao Pi period, they belonged to the merits and demerits, and they were quite objective, but when the second generation rose, the reputation of these two began to plummet, and in the hearts of elegant and refined scholars, their behavior was very barbaric, very arbitrary, and very "uncivilized".

It is worth mentioning that the reputation of many emperors of the former Han Dynasty and the Later Han Dynasty among the Wei and Jin scholars has changed greatly, the most obvious of which is that Liu Xiu's reputation has been on the rise, while the reputation of Wu, Xuan, Jing, including Liu Bang and other emperors has declined, and Emperor Wen has remained unchanged.

And after the Nandu incident, the reputation of these emperors will change again.

Today is the day of the county test in Luoyang.

The imperial examination created by Cao Chao is completely different from the imperial examination of later generations, which is something that combines the official assessment method of the Qin and Han dynasties and the assessment of the Taixue Five Classics.

Even the grassroots imperial examination method is much more advanced than the Zhongzheng system.

These scholars were very displeased with this so-called imperial examination method.

Originally, they only needed to show up to be recommended, and the assessment was also carried out separately, as long as the family was powerful enough, then there was no need to worry about the exam at all.

And if you choose the truth of Taixue, you can also pass the Five Classics assessment in an easy way, and then become an alternate official.

But now, they actually want to give up their advantages and follow these mud-legged people to participate in the same assessment.

For them, it's nothing short of humiliating.

In the first imperial examination of the Great Wei, the children of the great clan barely participated, which was a statement of their opposition to the new system.

Now those who participate are still forced by the adults in their families to participate, and the adults in their families are all important ministers in the temple, if no one in the clan participates, they are worried that they will offend the emperor, so they forced several children under their command to participate.

Of course, there are also a few people who sincerely participate and want to rush to the emperor and become famous all over the world through their true talents and learning.

Therefore, the state of these children of the big clan is very poor, and they are not concerned about this assessment at all, and a few of them are even discussing whether to hand in a blank paper to prove their courage and attitude.

For them, the imperial examination is not an opportunity at all, they want to be officials, and there are too many opportunities.

Although the emperor announced the abolition of the Zhongzheng and Taixue Five Classics, they didn't care in their hearts, the temple didn't have to be an official themselves, who else could they use?

Aren't you afraid that no one will be available?

And those people in the distance are all students from humble families and ordinary people.

The state of these people is completely different from those high-ranking scholars.

They were very excited at the moment, and their faces were full of anticipation.

The imperial examination is really a great kindness to them.

Under the original Zhongzheng system, people like them, who are inferior to their families, or even those who have no grades, will not get the opportunity to be officials at all, even if they defect to the big clan and go to Taixue by luck, then there is no chance, and they are not qualified to participate in the Five Classics assessment.

The road was completely blocked.

Their greatest opportunity is to serve as a local official, and then grab the thigh of a certain big clan's son, flatter, and wait for the other party to promote themselves.

Now, things have finally changed.

They can also participate in the assessment, not by family background, but by their own knowledge level.

Of course, the children of the big clan, even if they don't have the heart to study, but they have enjoyed the best resources, teachers, books, and all aspects since they were young, and they don't know how much ahead of them, but this is nothing, and it is already very rare to let the other party participate in the same exam as themselves.

They don't have the heart to discuss any major events in the world at the moment, they are all nervously reciting the classics, for fear that they will make a mistake.

At the appointed time, the gate of the county government was opened, and officials came out to let everyone enter in an orderly manner.

The children of the great clans standing in the farthest distance made their own servants open the way at this moment, and then swaggered in, and the children of the Hanmen and the common people could only wait on both sides, and only after they all entered, did they enter behind them.

The county government attaches great importance to this assessment, although the number of participants is very small, only more than 700 people.

Cao Chao didn't set too many restrictions, and he didn't even pay too much attention to the exam questions, and let the local government handle it, because Cao Chao had originally checked the place and got rid of too many wine bags, rice bags and cunning villains.

Now the vacancy of local officials in Great Wei is huge, and after identifying the reserve officials of Great Wei, Zheng Yuan sent them to various places to plug the loopholes, but it was still far from enough.

The most outrageous is the Qingzhou area, because of the original rebellion, which led to a large-scale reduction of officials, and in some counties, there are only seven or eight officials left who have to be managed by the county.

The purpose of this imperial examination is to temporarily select a group of talented people from the people and let them fill these vacancies.

After passing the assessment of the county government, they can serve as petty officials under the county, promote those who have not been involved in corruption, and then let these new people assist them, and then form a new administrative team at the local level.

It is because of the embarrassment of the temple that this imperial examination seems a little sloppy, even a little naïve and immature.

But this is also forced by today's situation.

Under the change of the situation, everything will change, let's say that Jiangling, if it is in the normal situation of Wu State, even if there are only 3,000 people, Wei State is afraid that it will have to use 100,000 troops to besiege it for a long time, and it may not be able to take it.

Because the other side can get continuous assistance through water.

However, Sun Qi killed like this, the local people could not give rescue, the soldiers had no morale, they did not dare to fight, the generals all thought of surrendering, and they were terrified, let alone 3,000 people, even 300,000 people could not hold it.

The same is true for today's assessments, and in the case of a serious shortage of officials, we can't take care of whether things are done roughly.

When they go in and out, these people are checked to make sure they don't have anything on them that can cheat.

This was originally a very normal thing, but it was met with extremely strong opposition from the children of those big clans.

"What a humiliation this is?!"

"Do you think we're the kind of untrustworthy people?!"

They felt that this kind of body search was disrespectful to them, and in the words of those who came after them, it was insulting.

If they were ordinary officials, they really wouldn't be able to suppress them.

But Luoyang Ling is not a weak character, and today's Luoyang Ling is called Wu Mao.

He stood not far away, staring at the shouting soldiers in front of him.

Wu Mao's father, Wu Zhou, once served as the Weiwei Guanglu doctor, and he was also from a big family, loyal and good for generations, and this person has been more rebellious since he was a child, he doesn't like to make friends with the powerful, and he is honest and upright.

Historically, he served as the Taishou of Shangluo, with virtue and political achievements, and rose all the way to Shangshu.

At that time, there was an inappropriate person named Xun Kai, he liked this celebrity very much, and felt that he was from a big family, so he wrote a letter to make friends with the other party, but Wu Mao looked down on him and refused to associate with him, and then, he was defiled

is another story of chasing stars and killing idols.

And at this moment, Wu Mao has just come out, he is different from the rest of the scholars, he admires the emperor's behavior of rectifying the rule of officials, and doing things positively, even Cao Chao has heard of his name, and specially instructed Zheng Yuan, let Zheng Yuan look at this person more, if he does a good job, he can be promoted more.

He didn't want to condone these people at all, and immediately reprimanded: "If you have a clear conscience, why are you afraid of body searches?!" This is to make sure that no one cheats, and if you have a ghost in your heart, you can leave now! ”

Hearing Wu Mao's words, several scholars were furious.

But he didn't say anything more about leaving, and accepted this body search.

Then, they were searched for articles prepared in advance and various tools used for cheating.

Wu Mao was furious, and immediately ordered these people to be taken down and sent to Tingwei for punishment.

Wu Mao didn't understand, where did they get the courage to dare to be so arrogant when cheating!

When everyone walked into the examination room, Dawei's first county exam began.

The first test is a classic.

Because it is a county question, the difficulty is not very large, just some simple classic explanations, classic phrases, questions about the classics and so on.

Because the composition of the county guards in each place is different, the exam questions are also a little different, especially in the classics, but in general, the scope does not exceed the Five Classics, as long as you are not the kind of person who does not learn and does not know how to pass, you can easily pass.