As lunch approached, Guo Peng left the Imperial College, left Luoyang City, rushed towards the Shouyang Mountain Martial Arts Hall, and soon arrived at the Shouyang Mountain Martial Arts Hall.

At this moment, the first martial arts examination has ended.

When Guo Peng arrived, all the candidates who took the martial arts examination had left--they had to go back and rest as soon as possible, maintain their energy, and deal with tomorrow's second personal military skills assessment.

The person responsible for presiding over this exam was the staff officer Ling Xizhong and the general of the guard Zhao Yun. When Guo Peng arrived, Xizhong and Zhao Yun were in charge of the examiners to conduct data statistics.

“How is the exam?”

Guo Peng came up and asked.

"His Majesty?"

Xi Zhong and Zhao Yun saw Guo Peng coming at a glance and immediately saluted.

"Back to your Majesty, there were 1,836 people who passed the first exam, and almost one-third of them had not completed the exam and had been eliminated."

Xi Zhong reported a number that Guo Peng was quite satisfied with.

Guo Peng nodded, patted Jai Zhong's shoulder, and then patted Zhao Yun's shoulder.

"It's a good job. It's good to have so many people pass the first assessment, after all, it's so difficult."

Guo Peng smiled, and then began to ask the first candidate what his name was.

Zhao Yun handed over a piece of paper.

"When you go back to your Majesty, this is the information of the first candidate. This person's surname is Wang, his name is Ping, his courtesy name is Zijun, he is twenty years old, his hometown was Ba County, Yizhou. He now lives in Lantian County, near Chang'an, and he seems to be a priest."

"Wang Ping?"

Guo Peng turned out to see the information table that Zhao Yun handed over, and hey, let alone, it was another familiar name.

Should it be said to be fate?

Seeing Ma Su there, Wang Ping here.

This military genius who doesn't know a lot of big words but has a strong military talent.

During the Zhuge Liang period, he was a person Zhuge Liang relied on. He fought against the famous general of Cao Wei many times, but Zhang He did not take any advantage in his hands, and Zhuge Liang also trusted him very much.

After Zhuge Liang's death, Wang Ping shouldered the important mission of Hanzhong defense in the middle and late periods of Shuhan. After Wu Yi's death, Wang Ping guarded Hanzhong alone for ten years until his death.

During this period, he defeated Cao Shuang's 100,000 troops with 30,000 troops, smashed Cao Shuang's plan to invade the south, and made great contributions to the stability of the northern defense line of Shu Han. He was known as the Three Marquis of Ping'an together with Deng Zhi and Ma Zhong.

He had never received formal military education, and he had not even received cultural education. His only little culture was learned after he held a position in the army.

But he can learn by reading others for him. He will not lose his central idea when talking to others, and will not lead people to deviate from his or her. He is a type of person with strong learning ability.

but……

The martial arts examination also depends on cultural level. Even if Wang Ping passes the physical fitness, his personal military skills will also pass, but in terms of cultural level...

Did he learn a few more words?

Guo Peng remembered Wang Ping's identity as a priest of war and realized that Wang Ping probably moved from his hometown to Guanzhong to live in the war he fought against Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang once used a group of archers to help resist the Wei army, so after the war, Guo Peng asked Le Jin to deal with the archers and defeat them. The archers who survived were moved to Guanzhong as a whole to fill the population of Guanzhong.

Perhaps Wang Ping settled from the land of Sichuan and Shu to Guanzhong in this process.

If this is the case, maybe Wang Ping can really recognize a few more words.

Because in order to allow the unruly and war-going monks to be assimilated as soon as possible, Guo Peng not only broke up the monks and lived with the Han people, engaged in agricultural production, and got rid of the habit of half farming and half fighting, but also allowed the monks and Han farmers to receive literacy education.

This will help to assimilate the monks into real Han people as soon as possible.

With Wang Ping's genius, it should not be difficult to know hundreds of words more. With a little effort, reading should not be difficult for him.

However, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass the third exam just by recognizing words.

The third exam is really difficult to test military theory, understand and think about military tactics, write articles, and accept the scrutiny of professional staff.

Unless you graduate from the Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall, or have a family background.

Wang Pinghe and most martial arts candidates do not have these two points.

The full score is 300. Even if you get high scores in the other two games, it will be difficult to get the score in the third exam. In this case, the total score can only be around 200, and you will definitely not pass the martial arts exam.

After all, the imperial examination should face students, not ordinary people.

Despite this, Guo Peng cannot stop his appreciation of Wang Ping.

Guo is still very concerned about such a defensive military genius. If the empire territory is almost expanded in the future, military talents who are good at defense will naturally appear on the mainstream stage.

After smiling, Guo Peng handed the paper to Zhao Yun.

"Zilong, after the assessment is over, I will give me the scores and the third day's test paper."

Zhao Yun received the order.

"Abide by the order."

On the way back to the palace from the Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall, Guo Peng was very happy and told Cao Cao and Guo Jia a lot of his prospects and ideas for the future.

He felt that in the future, the Taixue and Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall will become a very important export base for officials and military generals. The Taixue and Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall will train countless famous officials and generals, and continuously inject fresh blood into the Wei Empire.

Then he suggested that Cao Cao and Guo Jia try their best to let their children of appropriate age take the imperial examination.

"Just just as I asked Ajun to take the literary exam this time, I will let him participate in the martial arts exam next year. I will let him compete face to face with the best and enterprising group of talents in the entire China. I will see whether he is stronger or others are stronger.

This helps him to recognize himself, his shortcomings and strengths, helps him improve his shortcomings, and can also help him play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses. I don’t need him to be an official, but I want him to recognize himself, and you’d better do the same.”

Guo Peng seriously suggested that Guo Jia and Cao Cao, and Guo Jia and Cao Cao naturally listened carefully.

According to the rules of the Wei Empire, no matter how great the contribution a person makes, he will only be able to win two sons at most.

It is already good that the father's contribution can make his two sons spend their money on the credit book.

The remaining children have to find another way out.

Of course, with the status of Cao Cao and Guo Jia, there are power and contributions. If you want to get a position for your children, Guo Peng will naturally not let them be confined to the constraints of the imperial examination.

However, they also realized that more than 10,000 people participated in the imperial examination for the first time, and the number of people participating in the future may be more.

Once all officials and generals will rise to power by relying on the imperial examination, the children of noble families will rise to power by relying on the family to gain power by relying on the merits of their ancestors. Not to mention the decreasing titles in different generations, they will probably be despised by people.

Isn’t this the case for the recommendation?

Everyone relies on the recommendation and become high-ranking officials. Once you do not rely on the recommendation and promotion, you will naturally be looked down upon and despised by the recommendation and promotion.

Didn’t scholars and bureaucrats look down on those who did not rely on recommendations to become officials?

Thirty years after Hexi and thirty years after Hedong, the feng shui has changed. If officials did not rely on the imperial examinations to enter the government in the future, they would probably be looked down upon, which would be very embarrassing.

By relying on the imperial examinations to enter the officialdom, you have to study hard and practice hard. Whether it is literary or martial arts, it is very difficult, and it cannot be easily solved. All of them require years of hard study to achieve results.

So, if your own children are not successful and cannot compete in the imperial examination hall, it will be really ugly in terms of face.
Chapter completed!