The armistice negotiations between the Ming court and the People's Army are still continuing. It is expected that the negotiations will not be completed even if the 14th year of Wanli are over. The People's Army has been delaying time. The Ming court originally wanted to delay time. When hundreds of thousands of troops were formed to send them to the front line, there would be no need to negotiate with the People's Army.

However, expanding hundreds of thousands of troops is not possible in a short time, and the new army has low combat effectiveness and is easily defeated by the People's Army when they go to the battlefield. There were also many new recruits before the People's Army, but after so many battles, it can no longer be described as new recruits.

The Ming court naturally knew that if we wanted to defeat the People's Army, we not only had to expand the army by millions, but also carried out a certain period of training. We needed to equip the army with more thunder. If we could get the People's Army's tiger-headed spear, the Ming court also wanted to equip the army with more.

The key is that the People's Army will still siege tens of thousands of Ming troops, and food and grass can temporarily support it, but the two sides are only negotiating and have not completely ceased to fight. No one can be sure whether the People's Army will capture those cities.

Under such circumstances, the Ming court hoped to cease war with the People's Army as soon as possible, but the People's Army kept dragging it and was very dissatisfied with the compensation from the Ming court.

In early October, the People's Army completed the occupation of Qiongzhou Prefecture, and the population increased by hundreds of thousands under the People's Army. After completing the occupation of Qiongzhou Prefecture, the Ministry of Works quickly mobilized manpower and material resources to prepare for the development of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

It is very important to the development of Qiongzhou Prefecture. At this time, there is another thing that is equally important under the rule of the People's Army, which is the first imperial examination of the People's Army.

There are two subjects in the People's Army's imperial examination, one is mathematics and the other is comprehensive.

Needless to say, the latter will comprehensively test a lot of content, including content in common sense books, understanding of the People's Army, and explaining the issue of how to manage the people under the rule.

And it should be noted that traditional characters are not allowed on the test paper, and points will be deducted if the traditional characters appear.

The registration time for the imperial examination is from June to July. After registering with the county and municipal governments, the examination will be conducted in the city on the tenth of October and will be accepted according to the scores.

After July, more than one thousand people signed up for the exam. Not only were literati and scholars from the old era registered for the exam, but young merchants, sons of landlords, etc. also signed up for the exam. People's Army did not refuse.

These people can live well under the rule of the People's Army, which means that they have never done any evil before. As long as they can agree with the People's Army, the People's Army will give them the opportunity to join. If they have a two-minded heart after joining the People's Army, the betrayer will be severely punished everywhere.

From the time when Wenhua Bookstore sells exam books to the beginning of the formal exam, it only takes half a year. Half a year does not mean long or short. It is not a big problem to learn simplified Chinese characters, and it is not a big problem to learn common sense books.

The only problem with mathematics is mathematics. Even if there are detailed explanations of various mathematical symbols, it will cause headaches for many literati and scholars. Fortunately, you can learn more basic mathematics so you won’t get zero points in the mathematics exam.

In fact, by the end of August, more people wanted to participate in the People's Army's first imperial examination, mainly because the People's Army defeated the Ming army again, gave more confidence and disappointed some people with the Ming court.

It has only been a year since the People's Army raised the flag and now, but the People's Army has defeated the Ming army many times and has occupied most of Guangdong. The foundation has gradually stabilized. In this case, it is quite possible to become a founding hero.

It’s a pity that the registration time for the People’s Army’s first imperial examination has passed. If you want to participate in the next imperial examination, you have to wait another year. The People’s Army has announced that it will hold an imperial examination every year.

But it will be very disappointing for most people who want to participate in the imperial examination but have passed the registration time. Joining the People's Army a year later may open a very big gap, but this matter is mainly due to them, who makes them too brave.

Soon, the tenth day of October arrived, and the first imperial examination of the People's Army was about to begin.

Guangzhou City, Lu Xun, Hao Xuan, Wang Mincai and others walked towards the examination room together. Everyone had serious faces. They regarded the People's Army's imperial examination as the previous Ming court imperial examination. This was an opportunity to change a person's life destiny, and everyone treated it with caution.

No one dared to walk to the examination room with laughter. Once the People's Army noticed it, he was very worried about being disqualified from the examination.

"Brother Lu, can we pass the exam?" Wang Mincai asked.

Lu Feng replied seriously: "Yes, we will definitely pass the exam and believe in ourselves."

As time comes to enter the examination room, under the inspection of the People's Army soldiers, candidates enter the examination room one by one.

At the beginning of the exam, the candidates couldn't wait to start answering the papers. As the general of the People's Army, Fang Nan came to the examination room to inspect the candidates who were taking the exam.

Walk around the examination halls and see if there are any cheating candidates. The candidates who are answering the papers seriously only feel that a high-ranking official from the People's Army has walked by, and they do not know that this person is the general of the People's Army.

Fang Nan often walked around Guangzhou city alone or with Hu Xiaoya, but there were almost no one who really knew Fang Nan’s identity, just like the emperor of the Ming court. Except for the people and ministers around the emperor, even if the emperor walked in front of him, there were a few more people who could recognize him.

Every time Fang Nan walked through an examination room, an examiner would say something like "The Grand Governor came to inspect just now. This is the Grand Governor's importance to you. You must take the exam seriously and get a good score."

In the examination room of the city outside Guangzhou City, the mayor of the area will also enter the examination room for inspection. The main purpose is to let the candidates know the attention the People's Army attaches to them.

In fact, Fang Nan did not attach much importance to these intellectuals from the old era. If the People's Army had enough talents in hand, Fang Nan would not have allowed these intellectuals from the old era to join the People's Army. After giving the People's Army some years, more talents will be cultivated under the People's Army's education system, and this kind of imperial examination will be of little use.

Moreover, the People's Army's education system has trained more people, far more than those elected by the imperial examination. In this case, the intellectuals of the old era who joined the People's Army will not have much impact on the People's Army.

Even if they don’t pay much attention to them, Fang Nan should show his importance to them on the surface.

Take math first and then take comprehensive exams. There are two quarters of a minute to rest in the middle and you can go to the bathroom. In just half an afternoon, the first imperial examination of the People's Army ended.

The candidates came out of the examination room. Some were frowning, some were sad, some were expressionless, and there were few and few people with smiles. Obviously, the People's Army's first imperial examination failed to adapt to the candidates, and they did very unsatisfactory.

Before the exam, Lu Xu was very confident in himself. After the exam, Lu Xu kept sighing and was already very unconfident in his grades.

No matter what your mood is, all candidates are looking forward to the announcement of the test results earlier, and many people are already eager to join the People's Army.
Chapter completed!