Daming 1805

Chapter 257 The Imperial Examination
During the recent period, while the two long history houses of Dongyi Kingdom were preparing for the imperial examination, other administrative tasks did not stop.

Now the two Changshi Mansions of Dongyi Kingdom have completed the acceptance work of all counties and larger villages and towns in the area.

The retraining and reorganization of the original militia has also seen initial results.

Now the ordinary garrison troops in the counties and residential areas of Dongyi Kingdom have basically been replaced by new militias with Ming veterans serving as officers.

At the same time, the main forces of the army dominated by Ming people and Yin people were stationed in Lin County and Wei County respectively.

As for the naval forces of the Ming Dynasty, they are still all Ming people, and they are not native citizens of the Ming Dynasty, so they are not eligible to join the Ming Dynasty Navy.

The Ming Navy is currently the highest actual force.

However, in the process, various problems gradually emerged.

Compared with other areas in Dongyi Kingdom, the biggest problem in Lin County is that there are more rich people, and those with assets exceeding [-] silver bills are often sought.

Compared with Lin County in other areas, there are too many people who own a lot of land, and the number of farmers who run farms is quite a lot.

Moreover, there are still a large number of Mo slaves in the entire Dongyi Kingdom.

Although it belongs to the northern part of the United States, slavery is also prevalent here.

Not only slave labor in factories and farms, but also a large number of domestic slaves serving white people.

According to the policies of the Dongyi Kingdom, the original residents were allowed to keep property worth [-] silver bills, and allowed to keep the area of ​​land that the family could cultivate by themselves. There were also restrictions on the number of houses and slaves.

Anything over the limit will be confiscated.

The premise of this confiscation is to re-register the household registration, check and confirm the amount of property.

After the inspection is completed, residents are allowed to continue to acquire more wealth, but they have to pay a heavy tax of more than 50.00%.

But this re-registration and check confirmation will take time.

It also requires a lot of manpower, including translators and soldiers.

Before the asset confirmation is completed, those assets that must exceed the standard have been trying to transfer, sell, and hide.

So far, Liu Weizhi has received reports.

Attempts were first made to hire large numbers of men to carry out valuables such as cash, gold and silver, and works of art.

The Changshi Mansion restricted ordinary people from leaving the country and prohibited anyone from leaving Long Island until the asset inventory was completed.

So some people started smuggling, using small boats to smuggle valuables across the river to New York.

The Changshi Mansion arranged for the navy to patrol around Long Island, and specially arranged for the army fleet to patrol along the coastline.

The boat that was found to be smuggled was directly controlled, and all the people on board were killed on the spot without entering any trial process.

Ming's navy and army will not show any mercy to these western barbarians.

It is absolutely not allowed to violate the regulations of the Changshi Mansion and the will of Dongyi Kingdom and Daming.

After a series of thunder strikes, many smuggling ships and property were confiscated, and hundreds of smugglers were shot dead on the spot, no one dared to take the risk of smuggling again.

But this does not mean that these rich people can directly accept their fate.

They began to think of ways to hide their wealth.

Dig pits in the yard or in your own estate, or even in the wild, to bury high-value assets.

Some people even wrapped things up and sank into the bay lake and bay.

At the same time, real estate and land will be sold, and wealth will be hidden in this way.

Prepare to dig out slowly after the review and registration is over, using new income as a cover.

So the Changshi Mansion made a special announcement that, except for the funerary objects, any items that have not been registered and confirmed, after being dug out of the ground or salvaged from the water, belong to the owner of the country, that is, the Ming Emperor.

But there are still people who continue to do it.

They are betting that the Changshi Mansion will not be able to catch the current situation when they dig it out.

These things gave Liu Weizhi a little headache, but he didn't keep it too disturbing.

Everything is impossible to be perfect, especially this thing of confiscating other people's money.

At present, the situation on Long Island has been basically brought under control, let them bury those who bury things.

If you really push people to the point of nowhere, then you have to worry about someone going to extremes.

As time passed, the day of the imperial examination finally arrived.

On June [-], the first year of Ankang in the Ming Dynasty, the first imperial examination in the Dongyi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty officially started.

Gauss has been reviewing for more than half a month, and today he wore the simplest clothes and went to the examination room with a pen.

According to the explanation obtained before, there are three rounds of this kind of imperial examination, which are called the county examination, the government examination, and the courtyard examination.

The name is exactly the same as before the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the content of each exam is completely different from before.

The three exams directly use the scope of primary school to middle school, middle school to university, and civil service exams.

The first round of examinations is called the County Examination, which is also held in each county.

Unlike the mainland of Ming Dynasty and other old vassal states, Dongyi Kingdom does not have a specially constructed standard examination room.

Lin County accepts candidates from all over the world, and it has the largest number of candidates.

Even during the disembarkation process, all those who could not read or speak the elegant words of Daming were blocked outside.

However, there are still nearly 3 foreign candidates rushing to Lin County.

Liu Weizhi simply asked the soldiers to maintain order, and circled the Lin County Municipal Square, the stadium and other places.

A large number of seats were recruited from the private sector, and the test was carried out directly in the open air.

Fortunately, the time for the current exam has also been shortened, and the first round of exams can be completed within one day.

Gauss's test location was arranged in the Municipal Square.

Holding his ID card and admission number, after being inspected by the soldiers, he found his seat and sat down.

After waiting for half an hour, as a bell rang, the soldiers in the examination room began to distribute papers.

When Gauss received his test paper, he first smelled a smell of ink, which was printed with movable lead type like newspapers.

Get it in front of you and glance at the text on the top:

The Chinese test, the first round, the basic ability test, the full score is 10 points, and the test time is [-] and [-] minutes.

The types of questions are also very simple, similar to the Chinese test papers of later generations, but the number of questions is larger.

Look at the pinyin characters, write words according to the requirements, and write idioms according to the description...

Explain words, idioms, classic poetry articles, silently write classic poetry articles and reading comprehension, etc...

The first test was all about basic knowledge, and it was not difficult for Gauss to take the junior level test.

After the first round, there will be a 10-minute intermission, and the second exam, the writing ability test, will begin immediately.

The full score is also 120 points, but the test time has become [-] minutes.

It is required to write an application, write a report, write a telegram, write a letter, and finally write a composition in the form of reading notes.

The math and science exams in the afternoon, the scores of both subjects are [-], the two subjects are as much as the Chinese.

Mathematics is naturally easy to understand, while science is basic scientific knowledge including astronomy and geography.

Gauss's exam was over, and when he came out of the exam room, he felt a little nervous.

It's not that I think I didn't do well in the exam, but that I did a good job in the exam.

Those questions were not difficult for him at all, and Gauss felt that he could even get a perfect score in the test.

So Gauss worried that the exam questions were too simple, and the gap between candidates would not be widened.

What if Dongyi Kingdom planned to let 1000 people go in the first round, but all [-] people got full marks in the exam?
Write by yourself according to the pronunciation order of the name, or the stroke order of the surname, or directly draw at any time?
However, most of the other candidates around did not have such worries of Gauss, and most of them were in a state of jubilation.

Gathering in twos and threes, they discussed excitedly, and they all felt that their grades must be very good, and they would definitely pass.

Gauss was in a complicated mood, and he didn't have the mind to go out to play. He returned to his residence and began to review for the next round of exams.

After the first round of exams, the Changshi Mansion corrected the exam papers, determined the number of people who passed the exam, and announced the results half a month later.

Around several main examination rooms, the list and results of candidates who passed the first round of examinations were posted at the same time.

It was also printed with movable type ink, and several sheets were printed at the same time, so it can be posted in multiple places at the same time.

A total of [-] candidates don't need to be crowded together. It may take several days to look at the list, and there may even be an accident.

After waiting for half a month, Gauss came to the Municipal Square again.

The situation at the scene can be regarded as almost a sea of ​​people, but it is not impossible to walk completely.

Gauss squeezed his way to the front row, looking forward from the middle of the list.

In the end, I found my name in a large list of perfect scores.

Although Gauss had been mentally prepared for a long time, the questions of those exams were not difficult for him. Now that he was sure that he had passed the first round of exams, he was still relieved.

But some people are happy and some are sad. The entire square around Gauss is full of complaints.

"There are more than 3 candidates in the Lin County Examination Center, but only 3000 of them were admitted, an admission rate of one-tenth."

"This is just the first round of exams, and there are two more rounds to come. How many people will be screened out in the end!"

"The last one admitted has a score of at least 350. This score is too outrageous..."

But there were also people caught in the crowd, taunting wildly from time to time.

"What's the problem with the one-tenth admission rate? Don't you think Dongyi Kingdom will admit thousands of students?"

"No one thinks that a score of 350 is very high, right? This kind of test is for the Daming primary school to enter the middle school level. What face is there to call it here if you can't get a full score?"

"Those who have been eliminated should leave quickly. Don't stay in Lin County where people are crowded. Hurry up and make room for us."

Gauss has a relatively introverted and conservative personality. After confirming that he has passed the exam, he is in no mood to listen to other people's nonsense.

I searched for the three roommates who lived with me, and found the name of one roommate on the list, but the names of the other two roommates did not appear, so it can only be regarded as a failure.

Gauss sighed softly, wrote down the information and squeezed out the crowd again.

(End of this chapter)