Spring comes to the desperate place

Chapter 450: Test Paper

Three days later, Song Chunlin and Song Chunming sat together in the new classroom, surrounded by top scholars in various disciplines and their outstanding students.

It is very simple for the Ministry of Works to recruit people. What they want is talents in machinery construction and civil engineering. The test papers here can be divided into three major categories and several minor categories. However, because only the lowest-level craftsmen are needed, the difficulty of the test papers here is finally reduced a lot.

When Song Chunming was arguing with several teachers, Song Chunlin leaned over to join in, only to come back with a headache full of question marks.

Don't ask, because if you ask, he simply doesn't understand it at all.

Then came the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Personnel, and even the Ministry of Agriculture. This department dedicated to promoting agriculture gathered many good farmers. In fact, Song Dazhuang and Song Chunsheng were also among them. Song Chunlin vaguely felt that the others seemed to be focusing on his father and elder brother.

These farmers can talk about things in the fields very knowledgeably, but if you ask them to write a few words, I'm sorry, they don't know how to do it.

Therefore, all the written records were left to Song Chunming, and the others narrated orally, one after another, with saliva flying everywhere, as if they would not go home until they had explained everything clearly.

Song Chunlin silently wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at everyone busy. He felt very relieved. He believed that it would not be long before these test papers would fly to all parts of the country and be delivered to the hands of many candidates.

After Gu Fengyun knew that Song Chunlin went to the college for help, he finally smiled.

"This kid finally figured it out. I thought he would have to wait until spring before he remembered this academy he had personally promoted."

Lord Xu also smiled: "Young Master Song has always been very smart and wise, so it shouldn't be difficult for him to think of this."

Gu Fengyun didn't respond, but he was secretly complaining: "That's because you don't know this kid's background. If he were really that smart, he would have run for help a long time ago."

"This gives them an opportunity to promote Dajing College. I'm afraid more students will come to study there next year."

Gu Fengyun shook his head. "No, we can think of using exams to screen talents. How could they not think of this with so many smart people gathered together? There will definitely be people who want to study, but whether they can get in is not certain."

In the early days of Dajing Academy, most of its students and teachers came from the Lin family, which had a long history of learning. Later, the government stepped in to recruit talents and opened the door wide. As long as you are willing to learn, Dajing Academy will accept everyone.

But the space in the college is limited after all. Now the dormitory buildings in the college are almost saturated. If we want to recruit more students, we can only let them build buildings first.

Sure enough, the college really started to set up admission thresholds as Gu Fengyun said. The most basic literacy alone was enough to eliminate many people.

Of course, this is a story for the future. Now Song Chunlin is acting as an errand boy, rushing the newly-released test papers to the printing house. After the spring, the government will announce this new system to the world. At that time, these test papers will also be followed by officials to every prefecture in Dajing to be used for local officials to select suitable talents.

Once the civil service examination system was made public, not only was the whole country shocked, but the honest people at the bottom were very excited.

That means you will be working for the government. Regardless of the salary, at least you will be relying on the government as a big tree. In the future, you will be a person with a say in the government, and your relatives and neighbors will also look up to you.

Moreover, since ancient times, officials have been appointed through the recommendation system, and this is the first time to hear of a self-examination system. When everyone saw the reference conditions, the bold and enlarged words "no restrictions on background" meant that even if you were a craftsman, you could go to the government office to try. Even slaves were included. This kind of indenture was in the hands of their owners. If someone passed the civil service exam, the government would automatically release him from slavery.

It can be said that this move gave many criminals a chance to change their fate. Some people were eager to try it, while others were not optimistic and believed that the test paper would be very difficult.

Later, the test papers came out, and they were indeed very difficult, so difficult that they couldn't even understand the questions.