On the first day of March, the literary and military exams officially began.

The Wenju exams were held in the Imperial Academy in three days.

The martial arts examination is conducted around the area around the Shouyang Mountain Martial Arts Hall and around Luoyang. If necessary, the guard barracks will be requisitioned for examinations.

In order to meet the examination needs of a large number of students, the Imperial College was suspended in late February.

The empty classrooms, lecture halls, etc. were converted into examination places, seats were re-arranged, tables and chairs were added, examination utensils, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, etc.

The classroom lecture hall can accommodate relatively few people, and it is a good luck to be able to enter here for the exam.

The Ministry of Rites has temporarily built a number house on various open spaces in the Imperial Academy, building a simple seat that can be used for candidates' answers to facilitate shelter from wind and rain. This is the treatment of most candidates.

Mr. Guo did not plan to set up an examination place for candidates to take the exam.

He thought that Taixue was pretty good, and it covers such a large area and always needs to be used, otherwise he would be sorry for Mr. Guo’s high allocation.

Because the test papers are numerous and the exam takes a long time, candidates are not allowed to leave the Imperial Academy at noon.

Candidates need to bring their own food rations to eat when they are hungry at noon. Only water is provided in the Imperial College, but no food rations are provided.

Of course, if you are sleepy and feel that you have plenty of room, of course you can choose to take a break at noon and lie on your seat for a nap.

The specified test time every day is three and a half hours, from morning to afternoon. The long test time is also a big test for the candidates' physiology and psychology.

During the exam, it is strictly forbidden for any unrelated person to enter and exit around the Taixue School, and the roads to enter and exit around the Taixue School will be completely blocked.

The entire Imperial Academy will also be surrounded by black armored imperial guards and guarded with weapons. Anyone who enters and leaves must hold a special warrant issued by the Minister of Rites. Without a warrant, they are not allowed to enter and exit at will.

There are invigilators and inspectors in the examination room. The invigilators are officials of the Ministry of Rites, inspectors are imperial guards, and they are all very good-looking. Once someone is found cheating, they will be arrested immediately, and the cheater can still receive generous rewards.

Candidates are confident and can choose to hand in their papers in advance. Candidates who do not hand in advance need to sit in their seats and wait for all the test papers to be collected before they can leave in an orderly manner under the arrangement of the imperial guards.

This is undoubtedly a novel and exciting experience for candidates who are first exposed to this extremely strict and standardized exam.

They feel that they are witnessing history, they feel that they are undergoing a very historical exam, and they will definitely be written by future history books.

The content of the assessment on the first day of the Wenju exam is the knowledge of the Five Classics, arithmetic and astronomy geography. It tests the candidates' basic understanding of the Five Classics theory, their mastery of basic arithmetics, their astronomy geography, and their preliminary mastery of the world.

If you want to be a qualified grassroots official, these things must be mastered and cannot be handed over to others to help you master them. You do not require all of them to be mastered, but at least you must understand them.

There are many questions, and the scores are generally low, so as not to disrupt fairness because some questions with too high scores appear. At the same time, in order to increase the time required for the exam, it will test the scholars' psychological and physiological tolerance.

Unlike the Wenju exam, the first day of the Wuju exam is purely a physical test, a cross-country running with weight-bearing obstacles.

Infinite simulation, if there is a lack of horses during marching and fighting, they will conduct this exam on the routes delineated around Luoyang City.

The exam time is set to two hours, that is, one morning.

The total mileage is there, and the difficulties and obstacles in the middle are there. Whether you can run or how long it takes to run depends on the candidates themselves.

If you can't finish running within two hours, just take it as a failure and get out directly.

Before starting, the candidates will follow the Wei army's marching standards, wearing armor, carrying weapons, carrying food, water, and some auxiliary equipment. If calculated based on kilograms, it will not be less than 25 kilograms.

Using such a weight-bearing to perform obstacle-track running can challenge the candidates' physiological tolerance limits.

The entire cross-country journey of the exam will be followed and supervised by the military cavalry at all times to prevent candidates from cheating in various ways and affecting the fairness of the exam.

Similarly, after discovering that some candidates secretly reduce loads or take shortcuts, the person they discover can also receive generous rewards.

On that morning, the imperial examination began at four o'clock and the imperial examination was officially held.

The Wenju candidates began to answer questions nervously, and the Wuju candidates also took firm steps to start to hinder the cross-country load-bearing running.

This exam that concerns them and the future of the Wei Empire has officially begun.

Guo Peng got up very early that day. After getting up early to handle state affairs for a while, he decided to leave the palace and go to the examination room to watch the exam.

As the main initiator and promoter of the exam, Guo Peng felt that it was necessary to experience the atmosphere of the exam room and what the test he personally promoted was like.

Moreover, in this exam, he secretly arranged for Guo Jun to join the exam as a Wenju candidate. He wanted Guo Jun to try his best to see how many people trained by the Royal Elite Education can rank among the candidates nationwide.

He thought this was very meaningful, which could allow royal children to recognize their own weight and allow Guo to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in royal education.

As a father, he was undoubtedly in vain, but as an emperor, he could also be involved in royal education. He judged whether there were any problems with royal education, where there were problems, etc., at least he could control the direction at the education level.

Mr. Guo, who attaches great importance to education, has never relaxed on these issues.

So he called Guo Jia and Cao Cao together, accompanied him into the Imperial Academy through the back door, climbed to the Wangyuan Building, the tallest building in the Imperial Academy, and overlooked the entire Imperial Academy examination room from the Wangyuan Building.

The establishment of Wangyuan Building itself was built by Mr. Guo, who was later built by Mingyuan Building in the imperial examination venue. Looking up at the distance, you can see more, farther and clearer. After walking around the Wangyuan Building, you can see many candidates.

In addition to Wangyuan Building, there are other two-story, three-story or even multi-story buildings, and there are also test sites for candidates around them. It is better to say that the candidate's number house is laid around one floor after another.

As for those candidates who are lucky enough to take the exam in the building, they may not be lucky. They will face a larger number of invigilators and inspectors.

Looking up at the distance, looking at the candidates who were writing at their desks in the account room, Guo Peng felt a sense of satisfaction.

"It will be worthwhile to see this scene for many years. I don't care about my background, family background, and ancestors' glory, and only look at the current answers. These self-reliant men are writing hard here, which is the most beautiful scenery in Wei. This is much better than any landscape."

Standing on the far-far building and patting the railings, Guo Peng felt deeply touched.

Guo Jia was about to agree, but Cao Cao had already spoken before Guo Jia.

"Your Majesty's martial arts strategy has reached its peak. Now even the civil governance has benefited the world. Since ancient times, there have been few emperors who can compare with Your Majesty. My Emperor Wei must be the Sage Emperor praised by future generations like Qin Emperor and Han Wu."

It seems that after years of experience, Cao Cao has long been aware of flattery and is also very good at flattering, and has evolved into a very qualified super bureaucrat.

Cao Mengde, who wanted to be the general of the Western Expedition and wanted to destroy the filth in the world, was still gone after all. Under the high-pressure rule of Mr. Guo, the super bureaucrat Cao Mengde was born.
Chapter completed!