It is already July. Intellectuals in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and Huguang are stepping up their trip to counties or cities to register for the imperial examination. The People's Army's imperial examination registration is only two months in June and July. After this period, they can only wait until next year to register for the imperial examination.

Now the People's Army is about to hold its fifth imperial examination, which is also the first time that the entire People's Army-ruled region has been facing the entire People's Army-ruled region since the end of the war. In March last year, the People's Army had occupied Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and Huguang, but the fourth imperial examination last year was only held in Guangdong Province.

There are two main reasons why the imperial examinations are not held in the newly occupied areas. One is that the occupation time of these four provinces is too short and the officials are busy; the other is that the intellectuals in the four provinces have not yet finished the content of several books involved in the exam.

The knowledge involved in the imperial examinations is still "Translation of Common Words with Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese", "Elementary Mathematics" and "Common Knowledge". The three books do not have much content, but for the intellectuals of the old era who were first exposed to these books, it took at least half a year to learn it.

In March, the People's Army occupied four provinces, and in April, Wenhua Bookstore was established in various places in the newly occupied areas, selling various books to the outside world. The tenth day of October is the imperial examination day, which only half a year has been spent. Many intellectuals are still hesitating and will not come to buy books as soon as the bookstore opens.

Under such circumstances, the People's Army did not conduct the imperial examinations in the newly occupied areas last year, and postponing the imperial examinations for a year could make it easier.

The fifth imperial examination this year will cover four provinces. The registration for the imperial examination has just begun, and there are endless intellectuals who have registered in various cities and counties.

More than a year has been enough for the intellectuals who stayed to understand that the general trend of the People's Army has been achieved, and the Ming court can no longer resist the People's Army. There will be no good results for continuing to be loyal to the Ming court. If you want to be an official and join the army, you have to join the People's Army.

More intellectuals loyal to the Ming court, even though their family property was not large, ran away before the People's Army came and ran north. They wanted to continue to contribute to the Ming court, and hope that one day the Ming court could defeat the People's Army.

There were also many intellectuals who remained, but these intellectuals included those who only knew all the words. Instead, they had very little loyalty to the Ming court.

By the end of July, the data of candidates from all over the country will be summarized, and the number of people who have registered for the imperial examination has exceeded 10,000. These people will not be admitted by the People's Army. As long as some of them are admitted, they can fill in the vacant positions of the People's Military Governments in various places.

The People's Army Central Government has already made plans for the imperial examinations for all five provinces of the People's Army-ruled regions. The imperial examination papers are consistent, but the examinations will be conducted in provinces.

The candidates in the county will go to the city to take the imperial examination. After the exam, they will directly send all the test papers to the provincial capital, and each province will review them. Then they will rank them in the provinces, and select the number of candidates admitted according to the situation of each province.

The admitted candidates will only enter the People's Military Government in a certain place in the province and will not cross the province.

If all the test papers are sent back to Guangzhou City for review, candidates will have to join the post across provinces. This is too troublesome for the People's Army and candidates and is completely unnecessary. If you can be simple, time is very important to the People's Army. It will be five years since the People's Army raised the flag to now.

The fifth imperial examination is coming soon, and candidates in Guangdong Province are better. After all, four imperial examinations have been held in Guangdong Province, and most people who want to participate in the imperial examination have participated at least once. There are very few newcomers who have signed up for the fifth imperial examination.

But for candidates from Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and Huguang, this is their first time to come into contact with the People's Army's imperial examination. Even if there is some news from Guangdong, they have not experienced it personally, which makes them a little uneasy and uneasy about strange things.

In fact, among the candidates who participated in the People's Army Imperial Examination in the four provinces, at least two-thirds of them were not qualified to participate in the Ming court imperial examination before. There were no restrictions on participating in the People's Army Imperial Examination. As long as you know how to write, you can sign up and you don't need to pay a penny.

Of course, those who take the imperial examination cannot just fill in the numbers. Officials of the People's Military Government will carefully review the test papers. If candidates do not even have simplified Chinese characters, such candidates will directly enter the People's Army's blacklist. They will not have to think about becoming an official or joining the army in the future, and they will not even be able to participate in various projects of the People's Military Government.

There are no fools among the candidates who sign up for the imperial examination. They will not sign up for the imperial examination without preparation. No matter what, the People's Army is the ruler. If you play with the People's Army, you will seek death.

Anyone who is interested in taking the People's Army imperial examination will basically take out the money to Wenhua Bookstore to buy three books. If you study carefully, the three books are very cheap and most people can afford them. If they really can't afford them, they can also borrow them from friends. They can always learn the three books well and only then they will register if they are ready.

The People's Army Imperial Examination has been held four times. Anyone who knows the Ming court's Imperial Examination can see that the People's Army Imperial Examination is very different from the Ming court's Imperial Examination.

The most obvious difference is the number of admissions. The number of admissions to the People's Army Imperial Examination can exceed 1,000. The fifth People's Army Imperial Examination may be more than 5,000. They are all qualified to enter the People's Military Government and become officials.

In comparison, the number of people admitted to the imperial examinations in the Ming court was small and small, and everyone's attention was on the top scorer, the second scorer, and Tanhua.

The second is the level of officials who are high school students in the imperial examination. The People's Army must first intern at least three months, and then serve as the lowest level or one-level official of the literate person. They will never be directly appointed as a high-level official position such as the county magistrate (county magistrate), but it will happen in the Ming court. You must know that those who pass the imperial examination do not necessarily mean that they can become a good official.

As the time for the imperial examination is getting closer and closer, the candidates are full of expectations. Even if they can only serve as a small official after passing the imperial examination, their destiny will change.

Before this, they might have kept accounts in merchant shops, sold words on the streets, and made a living by copying books. If they become officials of the People's Military Government, they would have a stable salary and the possibility of becoming high-ranking officials.

In the People's Army, although the three-year education graduates are the direct descendants, in more cases, they are promoted according to the ability of officials. It is impossible to quickly promote a three-year education graduate who does not have much ability, nor will it allow capable intellectuals from the old era to stay on the spot. At least on the surface, the People's Army treats everyone equally and those who are capable of it.

If it were the Ming court, even the smallest officials were not just those intellectuals could do. Of course, many literati and scholars would hold their own identities and not be minor officials.
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