The World of Yellow Sky

"Originally, the General Staff Department was one of the nine departments. Later, the great virtuous teacher reformed the nine departments into six departments. The General Staff Department was changed to the Staff Department and merged into the Privy Council."

"The staff officer of the Staff Division is responsible for formulating strategic plans, as well as a series of military activities such as military training."

"Of course, it must be difficult to enter the General Staff Department. Now the staff members of the General Staff Department are all senior generals. They had to leave the battlefield due to injuries, so they entered the General Staff Department. However, they have all studied in the Martial Arts Hall. "

There was a hint of longing in the man's eyes.

"But now the great virtuous teacher seems to want to set up staff officers in each department and military area, so this teaching class has a quota of more than [-] staff officers."

Most of the current staff officers are older and more experienced generals and schools in the Yellow Turban Army. They were injured in the battle and are no longer able to continue fighting on the battlefield.

"The staff officers in the Ministry and the military region are responsible for military planning and undertaking specific military affairs similar to the long history of the Han and Wei courts. The main duties are to collect research results, make reports and suggestions, draft military documents, convey orders and instructions, and supervise and inspect at the same time. There is basically no need to go to battle, so the physical requirements are not high, as long as there is no major physical disease, you can enter the school."

Zhao Kang's face finally had a tinge of blood.

"Thank you, classmate, for clarifying the confusion. Originally, I was already thinking about this national exam, but now I have a little hope. Thank you very much. I'm Zhao Kang, from the Changzicheng County School of Health. May I ask the classmate if you can tell me your name."

The county student grinned, waved his hand, and said with a smile.

"My name is Gao Tang. I used to study at Chengjun College in Jinyang. My father is now a staff officer of the General Staff Department, so I am familiar with these things, and these things are also written in the handbook issued by the guild hall. There is no need to thank you. We are all classmates and should help each other.”

With Zhao Kang and Gao Tang's self-introductions, everyone in the carriage also introduced their names to each other, and the atmosphere became more familiar.

The sound of wheels and horseshoes came from outside the carriage.

Hundreds of four-wheeled carriages were driving on the incomparably wide Chang'an Avenue, with heavily armed guard cavalry on both sides, one after another wearing eagle wolf uniforms.

Although everyone had seen the magnificent scenery of Chang'an City before, what they saw in the car this time was completely different from before.

There was no one on Chang'an Avenue at this time. In order to avoid any possible attacks that would cause commotion and interfere with the county students taking the national exam, Xu An not only used military escorts, but also temporarily blocked the street.

The convoy moved forward slowly, and the carriage returned to calm. All the county students looked out of the window and were not in the carriage.

They passed through the tall Chang'an Gate and entered Yingtian Mansion.

After traveling for an unknown amount of time, the convoy stopped slowly and stopped in an open space.

Chen Sheng and the others stepped out of the carriage. In front of the open space were several tall palaces surrounded by soldiers.

This is their destination, where the National Examination Center is located.

In front of the hall, there are several road cards, and on each road card, there are many soldiers. At this time, they are searching the county students for notes, books and other artifacts that can be cheated.

Some of the county students who had been searched had already left Luca and walked towards the palace.

However, the attention of Chen Sheng and the others did not stay on Luka. His eyes were all on the tall building in the northwest - the Xuanzheng Hall.

The predecessor of Xuanzheng Hall was the front hall of Weiyang Palace. After Weiyang Palace was renamed Yingtian Mansion, the name of the front hall was also changed to Xuanzheng Hall.

The head of the sparse dragon is to resist the temple, and the shape is towering and precarious [jí yè].

The long beams of the male rainbow are connected by fen [fén] ridges.

As long as they pass the national examination, they can enter the Xuanzheng Hall to participate in the palace examination. The palace examination is their great virtuous teacher, and now Xu An, the Taoist master of Taiping Road, presides over it personally.

Now that he is able to stand here for the exam and have enough to eat, it is not because of others, but because of the bloody fighting of the soldiers guarding them with swords in their hands, and the person leading these soldiers is none other than Xu An ...

Tiqi, who was in charge of maintaining order, began to urge him, and then Chen Sheng withdrew his gaze and walked towards Luka's position.

What the candidates didn't know was that not far from the examination room, Xu An was riding a war horse and watching them enter the examination room.

Xu An looked at the county students not far away who were slowly entering the examination room, and suddenly felt that the years flew by like a fleeting moment, and so many years had passed.

For so many years, schools around the world have been continuously built, students have continued to enroll, a lot of money has been consumed, and Taipingdao's family has almost been emptied.

But Xu An never gave up. In times of difficulty, Xu An would rather reduce the number of troops and keep the school running normally.

Paper is hard to come by, bamboo slips and slips are more valuable than gold, powerful families collect all folk skills, and collect millions of books at home, thinking of family learning.

Originally, ordinary people had no right to receive education at all, and no chance to read and write.

But now, everything has changed. Those knowledge and the right to read and write are no longer exclusive to those powerful families.

Ordinary people can also study, they can also be officials, and they can also enter colleges to study.

At the beginning, the Meng Academy was completely free and provided students with meals. Now, with the expansion of the workshop, although it is no longer free, the tuition fees charged are not expensive. Now the common people in the Ming Dynasty have a considerable income and can fully afford it.

After all, the land tax in the Ming Dynasty is not high now, and the people in the territory basically have land to cultivate, and there is no need to bear the original heavy corvee, and all the corvee has been changed to conscription.

It was completely free when there was only one place in Bingzhou with a million people, but now there are tens of millions of people in four states. If the schools in so many places are really free, how much will it cost? Undoubtedly, it was an astronomical sum, and the Ming Kingdom could not afford it now.

Of course, although the Meng School and the County College started to charge fees, the National College did not charge any fees, and there were corresponding subsidies for students with good grades. The better the grades, the more subsidies they received.

For example, Chen Sheng not only does not need to pay any tuition fees, but the state also grants Chen Sheng a certain amount of scholarships every semester and certain allowances for his family members.

Today's Ming Dynasty is a new country. There are not so many vampires, corrupt officials, and moths in the country. The financial situation is acceptable. The financial crisis has been greatly eased.

Gong Du and Wei Lu rode horses on both sides of Xu An. Yan Zhong, as the chief examiner, was currently in command of the examination room, supervising the examination room, and maintaining order in the examination room.

"There are still three years, three years later, after these foreign students graduate..."

Xu An's eyes were slightly fixed, and his heart was turning back and forth.

"Everything will be different..."

"Everything will be very different!"

Xu An's eyes were firm, and he held the reins tightly.

……

"clang----"

The bell for the start of the national examination suddenly rang outside the hall, and it spread throughout the examination room in an instant.

In the hall, one test paper after another was distributed by the examiner

In order to avoid cheating, the positions of the people are extremely wide apart, and there are low screens to separate them. For the standing examiner, it is natural to be able to see the movements of the examinee sitting in front of the desk, but the examinee sitting on the chair But there is no way to see the test papers and actions of others.

From time to time, there are inspectors walking back and forth in the examination room to check the situation. All whispering and looking around during the examination will be considered cheating.

The attention of these inspectors is not only on the county students who take the exam, those examiners are also within their supervision.

There are two groups of inspectors, one is Fu Zhu from the army, the other is officials from the Ministry of Justice, and the officials who preside over the examination are officials from Zhongshufu.

The three parties supervise each other in order to prevent the occurrence of serial cheating.

As a regulatory agency, Eagle Wolf Guard naturally also participated in it, existing as a fourth party.

No matter how the officials in the examination room arrange it, it has nothing to do with ordinary county students. Ordinary county students only need to answer the questions.

As for the fairness of the examination, it is the responsibility of the examiner.

After calming down slightly, Chen Sheng opened the test paper in front of him, and took out necessary items such as brushes and inkstones from his luggage.

Then Chen Sheng put the inkstone in front of his chest, and while grinding the ink, he carefully reviewed one question after another.

The exam is very long, and there is a full day, so there is no need to panic.

After reviewing all the questions, Chen Sheng carefully started writing on the test paper with a brush.

At this time, many county students had already started writing topics.

No brawling warrior titled Meiyong, writing the sound of spring nibbling leaves.

In the halls and pavilions, all the county students are immersed in writing, with different expressions.

The examiner constantly walks around and patrols the examination room.

Time passed quietly. Although the weather was not hot in spring, many county students in the hall had already taken off their robes. They were all thinking hard. The difficulty of the national exam was more than a little bit higher than that of the county exam.

Chen Sheng had already forgotten the time, and kept writing answers on the paper. On the desk, the papers he had written gradually piled up.

The speed with which Chen Sheng answered the questions also caught the examiner's attention.

However, the examiner just glanced at it, but ignored it, and didn't even leave the seat. If the chief examiner of the first district leaves the seat, it may be considered as a coordinated cheating. Inspection is what the inspector considers.

This time, all the test papers need to be anonymously reviewed. All the chief examiners and inspectors are not allowed to discuss with any outsiders. After the exam is over, they need to stay in the nearby palace and wait for the selected reviewer to make corrections. After all the test papers have been finished, and the reviewer has checked all the test papers for correcting and correcting no mistakes, all the results will come out, and the list will be finalized before they can contact the outside world.

This is also done to avoid certain links between examiners and reviewers.

The examiner was also drafted by Xu An himself, and Xu An would issue the list only after all the test papers were collected.

The person who made the test was also temporarily selected, and then the military and the Eagle Wolf Guards jointly escorted him into Yingtian Mansion, and then set the questions. Xu An then selected a part of the questions as the test questions instead of adopting all of them.

The person who made the question will also be temporarily isolated, and will not be released from the ban until the day when the ranking is released.

There are also various regulations, all to ensure fairness and justice, and to prevent fraud.

Since the implementation of the imperial examination system in China, successive dynasties have continuously improved the system, but there are still cases of imperial examination fraud.

This is still a case that has been cracked. There are still many people who have successfully cheated but have not been found out. I don't know how many of them are.

Cheating in exams, making incompetent people make up their numbers, is not only a loss to the country, but also an unfairness to the rest of the candidates.

Therefore, even at any cost, it is necessary to ensure the fairness and justice of the national examination.

Chapter 756 Protector of the Western Regions, Three Koreans in North Korea

In the second year of the Ming Dynasty, the second day of April.

The whole Chang'an city was extremely lively, the streets and alleys, teahouses, hotels, and markets were all discussing about the national examination.

Originally, in the past few months, the people in Chang'an City have been talking about the news about the Western Regions the most.

The latest newspaper published information about the Western Regions. Guo Tai, the General of the Western Regions, has led his troops to the Kingdom of Kucha, is building a city on the commercial road, and will reset the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

At the beginning of the founding of the Taiping Road, there were seven countries in the Western Regions who came to observe the ceremony: Qiuci, Shanshan, Khotan, Jingjue, Cheshi, Yanqi, and Yaoqiang. These seven countries have now all belonged to them, and there are many other countries. countries also chose to join.

In the countries of the Western Regions, there are large countries with no more than a few thousand soldiers, and even small countries with no more than a hundred soldiers. These small countries can only be regarded as city-states, but they call themselves states.

The entire eastern part of the Western Regions has also been controlled by the Ming army led by Guo Tai, and all the countries in the west sent envoys to the Kingdom of Kucha when they heard that the Ming army had arrived.

The situation in the Western Regions has generally stabilized. There is nothing the countries in the Western Regions can do to break away from the control of the Han court. The Duhu Mansion and the Changshi Mansion have been established for a long time. Most of the countries in the Western Regions are not strong. They were ruled by the Huns before, and now the countries in the Western Regions are attacking each other. , and there is no country strong enough to unify, so a considerable number of countries have actually always hoped that the Han court can re-enter the Western Regions.

Although it is not the Han court that resets the Protectorate of the Western Regions this time, but the Ming court.

But it is the same for all countries in the Western Regions. Han and Ming are all Chinese. They all speak the same language and look the same, and can provide them with protection and bring wealth such as silk and ceramics...

However, there are still restless countries in the Western Regions, and these countries are mainly Dawan and Guishuang.

Originally established in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions was not attached to the Dawan Kingdom, but remained independent.

This time Guo Tai reopened the Protectorate of the Western Regions, but Dawan Kingdom still didn't want to surrender.

Their national strength is not weak, and they occupy trade routes, and their products are rich, so they naturally don't want to send them to others.

The predecessor of Guishuang was the Yuezhi people. In the fifth year of Yuanguang (130 BC), the Yuezhi people went south to conquer Daxia and distributed Daxia to five tribes. The tribal leader was called Xihou. Later, Guishuang Xi Hou Qiu eliminated the other Xihou, unified the five tribes, and established the Guishuang Kingdom.

Dawan has a population of hundreds of thousands. It was originally a first-class country among the 36 countries in the Western Regions, but there is still a big gap compared with Guishuang.

The territory of Guishuang Kingdom is several times larger than that of Dawan Kingdom, and it is said that the population under its rule has exceeded [-] million.

Its territory starts from the border of later Iran in the west, reaches the middle reaches of the Ganges in the east, starts from the Syr Darya River and Congling in the north, and reaches the Nabada River in the south.

However, the news from Guo Tai confirmed that Guishuang Kingdom's focus is mainly on the south and the west.

In the south of Guishuang, there seems to be another big country called "Baicheng", and in the west there is also a big country called "Anxi".

Guishuang's main forces are all on guard against Baicheng, and they are also fighting Anxi.

This time Xu An sent Guo Tai to reopen the Western Regions Protectorate, which made Guishuang feel threatened. The original Western Regions, including Dawan, Guishuang actually didn't take it seriously.

But after seeing the military power of the Ming court, he also heard from some businessmen from the east that the distant east seems to be undergoing a change of dynasty. The country named "Da Ming" has occupied most of the east, and even The north was conquered by it.

The emperor of Ming Dynasty seemed to be ambitious. The emperor named Xu An couldn't wait to expand to the west before he could unify the entire east.

Therefore, the lord of Guishuang and the Dawan Kingdom, who also felt threatened, hit it off, united some small countries, and formed an alliance for defense and against the Western Regions Protectorate.

However, most of the troops of Guishuang Kingdom are restrained by Baicheng in the south and Anxi in the west. In fact, the alliance is still dominated by Dawan Kingdom.

Overall, the situation in the Western Regions is still stable, and Guo Tai has already started to build cities in various places to strengthen his control.

The Wuxiang Camp has already settled down in the Kucha Kingdom, and the city was built by civilians recruited from various countries in the Western Regions.

After the city is built, the people in the interior can be relocated to the Western Regions to further strengthen their control over the Western Regions.

When Xu An chose Guo Tai to reopen the Western Regions Protectorate, he valued Guo Tai's stable character and his overall outlook.

Guo Tai did not let Xu An down either. He was not in a hurry to anger Dawan and Guishuang. He chose to stabilize the country and control the area first, and began to build cities on the commercial roads, and to Dawan and Guishuang. The country sent envoys to show their favor.

Because the Ming army did not have much expansion intention, the two countries of Dawan and Guishuang did not provoke the Ming army, and because of Guo Tai’s envoys, they swore that they would not expand westward, only because they wanted to reopen the trade route. Reopened the Protectorate of the Western Regions and put down Xinlai a little bit.

The caravan that went all the way from Chang'an also successfully completed the transaction in the Western Regions because of the easing of the relationship. They sold all the ceramics, silk and special products of the Han region, and exchanged a large amount of spices and special products of the Western Regions. Now they are coming back on the way.

The caravans have already entered Liangzhou, and soon, the caravans loaded with spices and special products from the Western Regions will arrive in Chang'an.