Chapter 279

The imperial examination is only two words, but the specific operation is not as simple as two words. The examination questions of the imperial examination alone are enough trouble!

These things must be handed over to a trustworthy person!

And Fang Tianguang is naturally the most suitable candidate.

Of course, now that Jiang Ziya has joined, Fang Tianguang can also save a lot of effort. Lin Xiao plans to let them be responsible for the literary test and the martial test. As for himself, he wants to deal with the matter of xiaotianying and the selection of xiaotianwei. After all, this was decided by him before he set out!

From the remaining 8000 people, choose 500 of the most elite as their personal guards.

"Have you heard? Your majesty will choose Xiao Tianwei!"

"Really! If only I could be chosen, I heard that xiaotianwei's welfare is better than xiaotianying!"

"Apart from other things, the experience of beishouyuan is really very useful!"

"More than that, becoming your Majesty's personal guard will definitely benefit us beyond our imagination!"

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Hearing the news that Lin Xiao wants to choose xiaotianwei, the soldiers of xiaotianying camp are very excited. They carefully calculate whether there are enough demons and herbs they hunt in beishouyuan.

After all, being able to join xiaotianwei means great glory!

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While Lin Xiao selected Xiao Tianwei, Fang Tianguang and Jiang Ziya also began to arrange the imperial examination. They are both practical talents. After Lin Xiao assigned the task, they began to make intensive preparations.

The first thing is publicity.

This is Fang Tianguang's specialty. When he was Prime Minister, what he was best at was to win the hearts of the people. Now this publicity has the same effect. He communicated it to all the people, stimulated their interest in participating, and achieved their purpose of publicity.

I have to say that this publicity is very in place.

In just ten days, the number of applicants for the literary and martial arts test has exceeded 8 million, which surprised Lin Xiao and Fang Tianguang.

"Your Majesty, the number of applicants now is more than 3 million for the cultural test and more than 5 million for the military test, which is still rising and is expected to exceed 10 million!"

Fang Tianguang was surprised. Looking at the data in his hand, he didn't know what to say.

You know, the entire Daquan Dynasty has a total population of only about 80 million. Now one eighth of the people have participated in the imperial examination system, which shows how interested the people are in the imperial examination system.

Of course, this was the first imperial examination. Fang Tianguang deliberately relaxed the requirements for registration and allowed active soldiers to participate in the military test, and there was no threshold for the literary test.

But even so, such a number of applicants still surprised Fang Tianguang.

It seems that the Daquan Dynasty is not suitable for too few officials, but that many people have been living under oppression and have no chance to stand out!

"Good!"

Lin Xiao nodded with satisfaction. He seemed to be very satisfied with the number of applicants. He raised his eyes to Fang Tianguang, smiled and asked, "what's the matter? Is the prime minister sure to organize this imperial examination?"

"Of course!"

Fang Tianguang patted his chest and assured Lin Xiao, "Your Majesty, please rest assured that I will select the most suitable officials for the Daquan Dynasty for your Majesty in this literary examination!"

"Well, I'm relieved you do things."

Lin Xiao nodded, looked at Fang Tianguang confidently, and said to him, "you should also control more on the topic of the cultural test, so that the people don't feel unfair! I want people who can really govern the country, not those childe brothers who were born in an aristocratic family, okay?"

"I understand!"

Fang Tianguang heard the speech, solemnly nodded and continued: "by the way, your majesty told me about the general mode of the imperial examination last time. I discussed with Mr. Ziya and formulated the examination process. Your majesty, do you want to listen?"

"Well, tell me."

Lin Xiao had only a general impression of the imperial examination system. After all, he would not deliberately study the process of the imperial examination. Therefore, the specific process steps were left to Fang Tianguang and Jiang Ziya for discussion.

Fang Tianguang was affirmed by Lin Xiao, so he told the results of his discussion with Jiang Ziya in detail.

According to their imperial examination process, the whole imperial examination is divided into five rounds.

The first round was the selection in the city. The reliable officials designated by Fang Tianguang wrote questions, corrected the test papers, eliminated some who were too poor, and allowed most people to advance to the second round.

The second round is the selection in counties and cities. There are dozens of counties in the whole Daquan Dynasty, which are divided into 20 test sites by Fang Tianguang, so that the people can test in them. The test questions here are written by Fang Tianguang himself, and it is also a large-scale deletion, which will eliminate more than half of the people.

In the third round, the whole Daquan Dynasty was divided into three regions: South, North and central. The examination questions were still written by Fang Tianguang himself. This time, the top 10000 were admitted according to the ranking of the examination results.

In this way, there were only 30000 candidates left in the end, which was completely eliminated by 99%. It can be said to be quite cruel.

This reminds Lin Xiao of the modern college entrance examination system. It's really a single wooden bridge!

Hook lips smiled. Lin Xiao motioned Fang Tianguang to continue: "is the next fourth round of exam going to be held in Tianquan city?"

"Good!"

Fang Tianguang nodded and continued: "in the fourth round of examination, the questions will involve all aspects. I will personally write questions to invigilate the examination and strive for fairness and justice! Finally, I will still admit the top 300 people according to the ranking of the examination! These 300 people can be regarded as talents of the Daquan Dynasty. No matter what the situation in the fifth round is, Weichen will arrange some positions for them!"

"Yes."

Lin Xiao nodded and took 300 people out of 3 million, that's one in 10000. These people are one in ten thousand. They really should be made good use of.

When Fang Tianguang said this, he was also a little excited and continued: "Among the 300 people, we will divide them into three lists! The first is tianbang, there are only 15 people in total. These 15 people can be directly granted official positions, and most of them will be assigned to such positions as mayor and deputy sheriff. The second is tianbang, there are 85 people, and these people will also be directly granted official positions, but compared with tianbang, the official positions are much smaller!"

"What about the last list?"

Lin Xiao picked his eyebrows when he heard the speech.

Fang Tianguang smiled and explained, "these two hundred people can directly take the fourth round of the exam next year, or take a small post in the capital to study, and let me see if there is any material to make!"

"Well, yes."

Hearing the speech, Lin Xiao nodded and continued, "it's going to be hard, Prime Minister! By the way, just now you said there were five rounds of exams. What's the last round?"