As the disputes in the northern grassland came to an end, people's attention gradually shifted to the imperial examination.

In fact, there are still many people discussing the situation, such as the whereabouts of Rouran from the North, and the King of Goguryeo who has just sent a letter recently, but compared to the popularity of the imperial examination, these are all inferior.

After all, this matter is something that cannot be avoided from Bingzhou to Pingzhou, almost every county is discussing this matter. People who come and go, whether they are merchants, passers-by, or even scattered refugees, know the news of the Youzhou imperial examination.

Especially in the quiet area, you can hear it on the streets and alleys.

In such a eager environment, there is a group that remains silent, that is, the aristocratic families and families spread all over the three states, especially those who have served as officials for generations, do not say a word about this.

However, many people can understand.

Although there is a saying of recommendation for officials, it generally follows the path of inheritance. Only those scholars and families of aristocratic families can inherit poetry and books. If you want to learn, you will not be involved in the complicated farming and business affairs, and only those with wealthy families can do it.

It has been passed down from generation to generation, with clan studies as the foundation, and with the same bureaucratic clans, classmates and classmates in the court and local areas as barriers. Only then can we start our career.

Not to mention, the new Han Dynasty has made a ninth rank evaluation. If this person wants to be an official, it is definitely not his own business, but the result of the joint promotion and role of a large family, a system, and even an officialdom.

Those who are officials have power and can mobilize social resources, and in turn feed back to their families, give them privileges, promote development, and consolidate their status.

Of course, there is no hope for such a stable system to be destroyed by outsiders.

Unfortunately, the imperial examinations clearly showed that chariots and horses were going to destroy this situation. He narrowed his study as an official from a large clan to a small clan, a clan, or even a person.

Judging from the current news, many aristocratic families have noticed that some scholars who come here alone are qualified to participate in the imperial examination.

How can this work?

To be an official, one had to go through the joint effects of many links, but when he arrived at the imperial examination, even if he was a person, as long as he was innocent, could take the exam, and passed the examination, he would be qualified to be an official. This would have a great impact on the aristocratic family and it had already exceeded the bottom line.

Even the original civil and military exercises actually had many invisible restrictions, and people from other places could not participate at all. Therefore, although the aristocratic families resisted, at least they still had a front line, but it really gave them a headache right now.

Unfortunately, Chen Zhi was prepared.

The problems involved in an assassination caused a big family like Murong's tribe to be ruined. Now that Shanyu has been invited to live in Ji County, nominally an invitation, but in fact it is house arrest.

I heard that a few days ago, during the dinner, Sun Xiu even made a public clamor, saying that he had heard that Shanyu danced well and asked him to perform for a while. In the end, due to the affection, the Murong Shanyu just knocked on the place, but the news came out, which was really sad.

The Murong tribe is already a small country in the northern grassland. Even if the king of this country is like this, how dare the heads of the aristocratic family act rashly? So they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak out, and just waited to make plans after the imperial examination.

With the turmoil and attention from all parties, time has slowly come to an end and the imperial examination has officially begun.

And this first game was a county test.

It is said to be a county examination, but it is mainly targeted at Pingzhou and Bingzhou. Due to the recent conquest, the rule of the general's mansion has not yet deepened. At most, it is controlled at the county level. It is not as good as Youzhou. There are students in every county, and even ordinary villages and towns. Therefore, these two states are all candidates from the same county, gathered together and took the exam in one place.

In contrast, the situation in Youzhou is a little different. Every county has people taking the exam. The original move was that the entire county ranked together afterwards. However, because there were too many people and some candidates jointly wrote to the General's Mansion to suggest, it was finally changed to an extra exam.

In other words, the county will take the exam first, and then go to the county middle school entrance examination, and finally select it to take the exam.

It is said that when Chen received the news, he was quite surprised, saying that so many people took the initiative to take the extra exam, which was really not easy.

But even so, many people still feel that they have suffered a loss in the Youzhou exam.

"Gao Jun, have you ever heard that there are many people who go to Pingzhou and Bingzhou to become naturalized and want to participate in the imperial examinations locally? Do you think it's strange?"

On the morning of the exam, candidates in Jixian City gathered outside the school early in the morning and waited to enter, and someone was having a diplomatic conversation.

The person who spoke was Hu Sheng. This man came from Jizhou in the south. He was also his uncle Hu Jing. The uncle and nephew came here with great difficulty, with the same purpose, just to participate in the imperial examination.

However, just by looking at the two of them, you can tell that they are from poor families and candidates from those aristocratic families do not like to make friends with them.

But Gao Qing is an exception, but he is deliberately making friends with these people.

Over the past few days, Gao Qing has lived in Gaobing's home, but he has not been idle. Instead, he has collected a lot of information. Only then did he realize that his distant relative of the same clan is extraordinary, and many places make him secretly admire him.

If it weren't for the pride of the main meridian, Gao Qing would inevitably be proud of Gaobing's achievements and would be proud of him.

However, this did not prevent Gao Qing from learning from Gao and. One of the key points was to notice that Gao and was not opposed to all the people of all religions and ranks. Therefore, he had a wide connection. Therefore, he could quickly complete many things Ran Zhan ordered and has since risen to the top.

Now Gao Qing intends to imitate it, and he doesn't know anything about all kinds of religions and ranks, but just makes friends with those talented poor people among the candidates.

This uncle and nephew of the Hu family are one of them.

Listening to Hu Sheng's words, Gao Qing smiled and said, "Brother Hu, you don't know anything. You think that Pingzhou is so easy to get into. I dare to assert that people who want to go to Pingzhou must have never been in Pingzhou. That is not a warlike and cheap place."

His voice was steady and there was no turmoil, which made many people around him secretly admire him, because there was a spread of tension in the crowd, and more and more people were worried about the upcoming imperial examination that might change their destiny.

"Oh?" Hu Sheng was interesting and was about to say a few more words to relieve the tension in his heart. However, the entrance of the school suddenly beat gongs and drums, and then the door opened and several examiners walked out.

Suddenly, the originally noisy crowd quieted down.

The imperial examination finally began.
Chapter completed!