The white-faced scholar who shouted at the beginning said, "Student Shi Lezhi is also a Changle person, and this accent is proof."

The official opened the booklet and read out the name, age and home address of the man. Wu Zhengxin stood up in the crowd and said, "Sir, this man is lying. He said he is from Jixiang Lane, but my family is in Jixiang Lane. There are 27 families living in that alley. Because I am poor, I often help my uncle sell tofu when I was young. I have been in every household in Jixiang Lane. There is absolutely no one with the surname Shi. Have anyone seen him?"

The people of Changle shook their heads, and Shi Lezhi defended: "The student's hometown is Jixiang Lane, and later moved to a village outside the city, so everyone did not recognize him."

"That town?" Wu Zhengxin said: "There are all towns here, why no one recognizes you."

Zhao Wenting grabbed Wu Zhengxin and asked, "Brother Shi is from Wenling Town. He seems to have met him when he went to Wenling two years ago."

Shi Lezhi seemed to be a drowning person to catch a straw and quickly said, "That's right, I am from Wenling. I have to meet an old friend. I have been blessed with my three lives. This grievance has been whitewashed."

Bai Rongan waved his hand: "Catch this dog."

Wu Zhengxin asked: "General, hasn't Brother Zhao proved his innocence?"

Zhao Wenting said: "Justice Yu was just cheating him. Wenling Town is on the beach. The relocation of the border and the sea has been abandoned. How could I go to that place to see this spy? When General Bai restored Fuzhou, he led his army to guard Changle for a while. Naturally, he knew Wenling, so he knew that the guy was lying."

Shi Lezhi was pulled aside and served by soldiers with sticks. Finally, he admitted it. This guy turned out to be from Jian'an, belonging to Jianning Mansion. The Shi family was also a big family in Jian'an. He himself was a scholar. There were seven or eight officials in the tribe. A few months ago, the army attacked Xianxia Pass in the north. In order to collect food, grass and military expenses, he directly confiscated the Shi family first. Anyway, even if the entire tribe is killed, he would not be criticized by the military court. Shi Lezhi's relatives fled to the countryside and are now organizing militia to resist. His father and Yue Lele gave him the magistrate of Jianning. Shi Lezhi was sent to Fuzhou to disrupt the Southeast scientific research. He was not only a spy sent by the gentry, but also an official spy, and he caught a big fish.

After Shi Lezhi admitted, he immediately caught three people. One of them was originally a Changle man, but he had already become a clean team and confessed to more than a dozen spies distributed in other prefectures and counties.

"Where are you? Do you admit it?" After packing up Shi Lezhi, Bai Rongan looked at the others.

The remaining two people saw Shi Lezhi being beaten up so unpopular, and they admitted that one of them was sent by a gentry to make trouble, while the other was not a rioter. It was just because his cousin was an official in Jiangxi. According to the rules, he was not allowed to take the exam within five years. Five years later, he was over-age and took risks and pretended.

After cleaning up the scene, Bai Rong'an ordered the soldiers to arrest people and leave, and said with a smile: "Sir, I'm frightened, I'm frightened, and I have something to offend. Please forgive me."

"General, I can leave now." Zhao Wenting asked.

Bai Rongan smiled and said, "Not yet. Spy is still being arrested in other places. The news cannot be leaked. Please stay here for a day, and be at ease. Our army has taken care of the meals on this day, and it's the other......"

Bai Rongan pointed to the official and said, "This Captain Wu is an expert in the exam. You might as well tell you that among the candidates of that class, Mr. Wu is among the top ten, especially the method of calculating, and he is even more proficient in the method of calculating. Today, he will give you free lectures. If you learn it, you can get full marks in the intermediate and advanced tests."

"Take it seriously?" Everyone was shocked.

The officer took off his hat and showed the standard flat hairstyle of the United States soldiers, and saluted: "I am the First Brigade of the Army's First Division, deputy battalion commander of the heavy field artillery battalion!"

Zhao Wenting said: "Everyone, if you talk about the academic knowledge of science, most of the outstanding ones are artillery officers, even the customs, the tax department cannot compare with them. With Professor Wu, we can add a few more points to the winning chances."

Artillery is the most technically important group of all arms. Not to mention the army, it is a practical mathematics mastered by artillery officers who are unmatched in the navy. In this era when most people don’t know what functions are, it is an expert.

Bai Rongan cooperated with He Wenrui to catch spies in Fuzhou City, but never expected that more than 300 people were arrested in Fuzhou City alone. Until this time, some people understood the shock of the Southeast scientific research on the feudal dynasty represented by the Qing Dynasty. The stronger the enemy's rebound, the more correct our approach was proved.

Li Mingxun returned to Fuzhou at the end of June and witnessed the joint trial of some Southeast reactionary forces organized by the Ministry of Justice, the Fujian High Court and the Military Trial Court, and some people who were extremely guilty were publicly executed. The next day after that, the preliminary test of the Southeast scientific expedition was launched in more than a dozen prefectures and counties in Fujian and Zhejiang.

According to statistics from the Fujian Administrative Office, the number of people participating in the preliminary test this time exceeded 40,000. Of course, most of them were just a fucking fuck. It was not in line with the situation at that time to call these 40,000 people. In addition to the scholars who studied hard, there were many merchants and craftsmen. In fact, the reason why they attracted so many people to participate was because after passing the test, the Fujian Administrative Office would order administrative officials at all levels to issue a "Certificate of Primary Test Passing" to these people. The official significance of this certificate is limited to being able to participate in the intermediate test conducted in various prefectures on November 10. Apart from this, the official will not recognize any of its effectiveness. Simply put, it is not an officially recognized academic qualification at all. In fact, the "Certificate of Intermediate Test Passing" is barely equivalent to the "primary diploma" of the base camp, which is the scholar certificate commonly known as the people.

If you have to find a "Elementary Test Certificate" for this "Junior Test Certificate", you may have issued a "Literacy Certificate" after literacy was conducted in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, even such a proof without legal and qualifications has been enthusiastically sought after by the entire society.

(I also have a literacy certificate issued to my grandma at home, which is similar to a certificate of award)

In fact, like the base camp, this type of low-level certificate of qualification is issued by an authoritative government agency. It is extremely useful when dating, working, worshiping ancestors, and even drinking and bragging. So much so that after the Southeast scientific examination gradually turned to the standardized examinations like the base camp, many ordinary people still demanded that such examinations continue to be maintained.

There is nothing in the initial test, but He Wenrui has determined that at least 3,000 officials are needed in the southeast to build administrative agencies at the provincial, prefecture, prefecture and county levels to maintain local stability. If you manage to the township level and even key villages like a base camp, it will require 35,000 people. At present, the administrative structure of the southeast region is built according to the two high-level overseas territories of Luzon and Yongning. Even so, it will require 20,000 people. Theoretically, the current examination mechanism can be fully matched in only four to five years. However, He Wenrui is very clear that in the future, the United States will occupy more and more land on the mainland and have more and more people. Just like the officials being drawn to overseas base camps, Fujian will be drawn in the future.

On July 1st, the preliminary examination officially started. Twelve examination rooms were opened in Fuzhou alone. Li Mingxun held Zhu Yushu's hand and held his youngest son who had just learned to walk. He walked in the examination room and inspected the scholars who took the preliminary examination.

The initial test is actually very simple. There are three items: writing, technic and Mandarin, totaling 100 points. Among them, writing and technic are thirty-five, and Mandarin is thirty-two. The first two items are written tests, and Mandarin is an interview.

Li Mingxun walked in the examination area of ​​the written test. There were two test papers in total, one was a square grid, which dictated the first 100 words of the hundred schools of thought, while the other was a thirty-five four-character problem. Each test area had an hourglass, each flip for one quarter of an hour, and the exam time was two quarters of a minute. It was here that Li Mingxun discovered a very interesting scene.

In the initial test, most people use quills and ink bottles. These two things are very good in Fujian and Zhejiang, and they are cheap and easy to obtain, so they expand very quickly. A small number of rich scholars hold rare pencils and fountain pens, but many people are unwilling to give up tradition and continue to use brushes.

The first item of the exam is writing words. It takes a quarter of an hour to write one hundred traditional Chinese characters, and it is actually very strict with the use of ancient study tools. You should know that even simplified Chinese characters can only write four hundred to five hundred in a quarter of an hour. Considering that traditional Chinese is also a pen that cannot be written continuously, it is considered relatively difficult.

Everyone in the hundred families has memorized it, so there is no need to think too much about it. When everyone started writing, the scholars who used brushes started to grind ink. The sound of the inkstone was buzzing. The scholars kept looking at the hourglass. Every grain of sand fell was a knock on their heart. Li Mingxun didn't understand these people's persistence. He knew that they could not complete it, so why did they do it? Maybe this was a kind of protest.

The first one to finish writing is definitely the richest in this exam room, because they use pencils. This expensive writing utensil is the only one in the exam room that can be finished in one go, followed by people who use water-storage pens, followed by quill pens and dipped pens until they handed over the paper. Those who insisted on using brushes did not finish writing. You should know that the judging of a pen is like this. From one hundred words, select typos, vague and ugly words, pick one, reduce one point, and the number of insufficient numbers will reduce the number of insufficient points. Considering that there are thirty-five points in total, then those who write less than sixty-five characters will not have a single point.

There was some small chaos when handing over the paper. Some scholars who did not complete the paper did not want to hand over the paper and were directly bombarded. The administrative agencies of the United States do not need such stubborn and stubborn people. The next step is the jurisprudence assessment. At the beginning of the assessment, there were constant crackling sounds in the examination room. The reason was very simple. The jurisprudence assessment was not restricted from the use of keyboards and calculations. These were fine. There were also those who did not have enough fingers, took off their shoes and counted their toes. It was really a gentle and stinky. The phenomenon of uneven quality of candidates has been criticized by scholars. Fortunately, there were a lot of fewer intermediate and advanced tests.

During the jurisprudence exam, there was an extra piece of paper next to the test paper. It was originally used for calculations, but the addition of various calculation equipment gave this piece of paper a new meaning. Try writing!

The reason is very simple. Li Mingxun forced the mathematics to adopt Arabic numerals instead of traditional Chinese characters. Although in simple four-character operations, simple Eastern numerals such as Suzhou codecs can also be used, with the application of medium and advanced mathematics, Eastern numerals such as Suzhou codecs are somewhat overwhelmed. Ten different numbers plus various symbols are often blurred after writing. Although Arabic numerals are imported products, they are universally used worldwide.

Students in Fujian and Zhejiang are obviously not skilled in applying Arabic numerals. They can even calculate the four-character calculations using oral calculations, but they always involuntarily write the answers to Chinese characters. After the calculation, they often write them once on the calculation paper before copying them on the test paper. Of course, there is another important meaning. Quill brushes and other dipped pens can easily lose ink. The surface of the roll is not good-looking, and the characters written are not beautiful. In order to increase the "sheet score", scholars often dip them once, first write a word on the calculation paper and then copy them, so that the handwriting will not be blurred.

Thirty-five questions and thirty-five standard answers are the most unfair. Before the paper was collected, many scholars secretly wrote their own calculation answers on the calculation paper. They were worried that some people would commit favoritism and fraud and lower their scores.

The last item is the assessment of Mandarin. The assessment method is very simple. In northern Mandarin, that is, legal Mandarin, we recite the poem "Manjianghong" of national heroes. There are seven examiners who hold the "Advanced Mandarin Certificate". Seven people scored, at most thirty, at least zero points, one highest and the other lowest, and the remaining five are averaged, and then rounded up is the score of Mandarin assessment.

In both the base camp and overseas territories, the Mandarin test is like this, but in the Southeast scientific examination, it has completely changed its flavor. I don’t know who spread rumors. In the United States exam, the written test has a "face score" and an "impression score" in the interview, which has caused many scholars to be superficial. In order to get impression scores, some even put on powder and grease. Some people invited musicians to recite while playing. Some people who were not tuned even went to the theater to buy Yue Fei’s costumes and dressed up before playing. Although Hong Cheng-chan, as the chief examiner, publicly stated that he had no impression scores, everyone still followed suit. As a result, when the Mandarin test, the prepared scholars saw seven heads when they entered the examination room. The examiner turned his back to the candidates and completed the test and score.

Li Mingxun also enjoyed various Minnan-style Northern Mandarin in the examination room. In fact, the difference between Fujian dialect and Northern dialect is too big. Even though it has been announced in advance, the poem recited is "Manjianghong", and most people's pronunciation is still not standard. This eventually led to the initial test, which was over 60 years old and very few people with over 90 years of outstanding ones. This once led to the north-south dispute that had never been cut off in the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!