The tenth day of the October 10th month was not the imperial examination for the Ming Dynasty, but the imperial examination for the People's Army.

On the tenth day of October last year, thousands of candidates participated in the imperial examinations and were eventually admitted to the People's Army.

The 1,000 admitted people were sent to various places to take office a job a year ago. They first internships. If they pass the performance, they can become regular. If they do not perform well, they will continue to internships or rush home.

Now more than half a year has passed, at least 80% of the 1,000 admitted people have successfully become regular, and the rest have been driven home. The People's Army is short of people, but no one will accept them.

The best performers have been promoted to deputy department-level officials, and the worst performers have also become ordinary officials. You should know that there are a large number of illiterate officials in the People's Military Government. They are of the lowest rank. No matter how bad the illiterate officials are, they are still higher than the illiterate minor officials.

There are many people who want to be officials, and even merchants want to be officials. How can merchants compare with officials?

Of course, for big businessmen, it is impossible for them to become a small official in the People's Military Government and be promoted step by step. Big businessmen are more willing to let their descendants participate in the imperial examination.

Earlier, the People's Army fought with the Ming Dynasty, and the People's Army won consecutive victories, which forced the Ming court to sign a ceasefire agreement and compensated the People's Army with millions of taels of silver. This matter was not arbitrarily discussed in the Ming Dynasty ruling region, but it was well-known in the People's Army ruling region.

"The People's Army is very powerful. Even if it cannot destroy the Ming court, it can still fight against the Ming court. The general trend of the People's Army has come to fruition."

This is the idea of ​​many gentry and merchants under the People's Army. Since they live under the People's Army and dare not go to the Ming Dynasty ruling area, the gentry and merchants want to have a good development under the People's Army. Just because merchants are not enough to make them feel at ease, they just want to establish relationships with officials of the People's Army government, or if someone in their own home is an official, so that they can help.

The lower-level people who fully support the People's Army are not counted. Others' confidence in the People's Army has gradually increased. Last year, only more than 1,000 people participated in the imperial examination, and this year, the number of people participating in the imperial examination exceeded 1,800.

The number of people participating in the imperial examination surprised Fang Nan a bit. Of course, even thousands of people participating in the imperial examination together can achieve this. Guangdong’s population is nearly 10 million. Based on one percent of the literacy rate, nearly 100,000 people can read.

However, this is all the situation before the People's Army raised the flag. After the People's Army raised the flag, they killed or arrested countless people who read literacy. The literacy rate dropped significantly under the rule of the People's Army.

There are indeed few literati and scholars, only a few thousand, but the literate people are more than ten times that of literati and scholars. However, it is good for most people to be able to recognize all common characters, and their literary skills are much worse than those of literati and scholars.

The People's Army's first imperial examination was the main force of the candidates were literati scholars and descendants of wealthy gentry merchants. This second imperial examination required many people with poor literary skills to sign up for it.

The main reason is that the situation of the first imperial examination has spread. The People's Army imperial examination did not attach much importance to the literary foundation of candidates. As long as you learn arithmetic and common sense well, you may be admitted.

A large number of people with poor literary backgrounds went to Wenhua Bookstore to buy books and study, thinking that they would become officials of the People's Military Government through the imperial examination. Even if they were just a minor official at the bottom, they would have a higher status than before.

Examination halls are still set up in cities at or above the municipal level. On the tenth day of October, more than 1,800 candidates entered the examination room for examination. The exam ended on the same day.

After the exam, none of the candidates from other places left the examination room in the city. They had to stay here for a month waiting for the People's Military Government to announce the results and the list of admissions.

There is no need to worry that some people will go hungry. In this era of low literacy rates, it is relatively easy for those who can read to have enough food. They can sell words, copy books and other business.

The People's Military Government also prepares accommodation for homeless candidates and even provides meals, which is not much.

The examination papers of candidates in each city will be sent to Guangzhou City for review. After the review is completed, the admission list will be determined, and then the express will be sent to each city.

While the candidates were anxiously waiting, a month passed quickly. On the tenth day of November, the candidates gathered towards the examination room where the exam was a month ago.

As officials read out the ranking of candidates, the candidates who were first read out their names became excited. According to the situation of the first imperial examination, the People's Army's chances of admission were very high. As long as they were ranked first, they would be admitted steadily.

Just as the candidates thought, as last time, the People's Army directly admitted 1,000 candidates and went to the People's Military Governments of various places for internship.

In fact, the officials of the People's Military Government are almost in full state. If these thousand interns are added, even if only 80% of the interns become regular, the People's Military Government will be overflowed, and there will even be three people doing two people's work.

However, Fang Nan is not satisfied with this situation. The People's Army will obviously not be limited to Guangdong. The Ming army is preparing, and the People's Army is also preparing. In the next war, the People's Army will open its territory and expand its territory to expand its ruling area, at least several times.

With the improvement of the People's Army's military strength, it is possible to destroy the Ming court in one battle, but the People's Army did not have enough officials to govern various places, so Fang Nan planned to take two steps, expand the territory several times, and then wait for a few years to recuperate, and destroy the Ming court in the last battle.

However, there may be an accident. Perhaps the People's Army will directly destroy the Ming court in the next battle. This requires a preparation for a Fang Nan, and it is said that a large number of officials who originally belonged to the Ming court must be activated.

During this second imperial examination in the People's Army, the People's Army not only admitted 1,000 candidates to be interns in the local people's military governments, but also took out an additional 500 places to open an official training class in municipal cities.

Students who are willing to participate in the training class need to study for half a year, and the People's Military Government officials will take shifts to class. After half a year, the exam will be held. After passing the exam, they will become officials of the People's Military Government, but they are just the lowest level of literate officials.

Students participating in the training class can receive subsidies. The subsidies are not too much, but they are enough to allow the candidates' family to have a full meal.

The most important course in the training class is ideological education, which mainly allows students to understand the People's Army, ultimately identify with the People's Army, and be willing to fight for the People's Army.

After officials of the People's Military Government announced 1,000 admission quotas, most of the remaining 800 candidates were depressed because they were not admitted. With such a high chance of admission, they did not pass the exam. Do they really have no talent to become an official?

The next moment, as the officials told the matter about the training class, the candidates who were not admitted became excited again. Participating in the training class was much worse than directly being an intern in the People's Military Government. At least it was very close to becoming an official, and only a few candidates gave up the qualification to participate in the training class.
Chapter completed!