February 10th happens to be the last day of early February.

Early in the morning, Li Mengxi got up and walked out of the door. He saw that the morning sun was very bright, and the common gray sky in winter had long since disappeared.

There are more chirping birds in the yard, and the green leaves of young leaves are exposed on the branches.

Spring has finally arrived.

When they arrived at the city lord's palace, Liu Bei, who had not slept all night, saw Li Mengxi coming and said with a smile, "Xi'er, all the test papers have been printed. Can you check them?"

Li Mengxi glanced at the pile of test papers and said to himself, "Test the hammer."

If it is not verified, although the printing plate will not be wrong, there will inevitably be some errors in the thousands of test papers and the hand-printed stamps.

After walking a few steps to the short table, Li Mengxi thought of a trick. Instead of checking each one one by one, during the exam, he just took a big wooden board, pasted the original exam paper on it, and then asked the examiner to compare it by himself.

, if you make a mistake, correct it yourself.

After sitting down, Li Mengxi told Guan Yu and Liu Bei about the examination process.

Because there are as many as fifteen subjects to be tested, many test papers, and many rounds, it is easy to get confused if not arranged properly.

Therefore, the method Li Mengxi came up with was to form a team of candidates and specify their respective exam numbers before the exam.

In this way, the order of each round of exams is fixed.

Then, collect the test papers in order, and put out the test papers in order. In this way, when the final total is made, the regulations will be much clearer.

After the process is set, the next step is to send people to gather all the people who will take the exam, including the Zhuozhou scholars, including the hundreds of scholars from the Junzi Camp of the Rebel Army, and sort them into order.

Then, find a place to set up the venue and arrange the examination room.

The examination room is easy to arrange, it's just a matter of finding an open place, keeping a good distance, and then setting up low tables, that's all.

However, in addition to a desk, the exam also needs a pen and ink.

When I went to collect pens and ink, I discovered that the entire army had collected just over a hundred pen and ink tools. Among them, Zhuozhou scholars contributed a large number. All the Zhuozhou scholars who came here were equipped with pens and ink.

Li Mengxi wanted to curse. There was no shortage of paper and printing skills, but in the end, there was not enough pen and ink.

Li Mengxi was reminded of a paradox. The paradox is that the capacity of the barrel is not determined by the longest board, but by the shortest board.

Now, with enough paper and enough test papers, thousands of test papers only require hundreds of pen and ink.

Soon, the centurion who was responsible for summoning the candidates came back and said that they had been taken outside the west gate.

Li Mengxi asked, "Have you found out? How many people are there?"

The centurion replied, "There are six hundred and eighty-nine."

Six hundred and eighty-nine people, six hundred and eighty-nine high-level scholars.

These people are all high-level talents in the army who can be called true scholars.

Six hundred and eighty-nine people, one round for one hundred people, and seven rounds.

If there are seven rounds of exams on one day, fifteen subjects must be tested on fifteen days.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown. He felt that he might have made an inappropriate mistake by preparing for the imperial examination on a whim.

Farming is about to start. If we delay it for half a month, it will already be February. If we delay it for a few more days, will the land still be planted?

Li Mengxi thought about it. He recalled the questions in the fifteen subject test papers. The questions in the test paper did not seem to contain much information. Taking the "Confucian Classics" paper with the most text information, the score of 200 points was just some Analects of Confucius.

Just some random sentences, some dictation words, and some official document formats, etc., half an hour should be enough to complete the answer.

In a day, the exam starts at seven o'clock and ends at seven o'clock in the evening. There are always twelve hours. Subtracting the one hour for lunch, there are still eleven hours.

If you add in the evening exam and take the exam in the evening, and use three hours in the evening, it will be just right. You can take the exam for fifteen hours in a day.

By spending one hour on each subject, you can take exams on as many as fifteen subjects in one day.

Calculated this way, the exam time can be compressed to a lot.

Then I thought that if I had to take the exam at night, I would have to consider lighting. Considering that it might be windy at night, I would have to consider the issue of wind protection.

(Yes,) Li Mengxi thought of a useful tool, (torch stand.)

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Outside the west gate of Julu City, why is it the west gate? Because the south gate is where the civilian camp is stationed, the north gate is where the war barracks are, and there are pottery kilns and the like on the east gate. Only the west gate is temporarily vacant.

Outside the west gate, all the scholars in Julu who were about to take the exam were sitting on the ground, holding bowls and eating happily.

Among the crowd, Jian Yong was also in the queue. He was in a relatively middle position. Jian Yong was not with the scholars from Zhuozhou. They were separated from the scholars from Zhuozhou when they came up and mixed in with the Julu scholars.

Jian Yong thought that it would be good to treat everyone equally, regardless of whether they were giant deer or foreign animals.

While he was eating, Jian Yong saw another group of soldiers coming. This group of soldiers were carrying wooden stakes, shovels and hoes. They didn't know what they wanted to do.

The leader was a man carrying a coiled hemp rope and holding a few short bamboo poles in his arms.

The man carrying the hemp rope looked like a craftsman. The man came and stood not far away. He looked at the group of scholars for a while, and then Jian Yong found that the man was laughing so hard that Jian Yong didn't understand why.

Jian Yong didn't know yet that the man carrying the rope was a craftsman who knew how to build a city. Among the hundreds of thousands of people in Julu, he was the master who knew how to measure and plan best. In the fifteenth volume of the imperial examination

, [Engineering Technology], there are many questions written by this person.

When the city builder came over and saw the long queue of scholars, he thought that later these scholars would have to do their own questions. When he thought about this, the city builder naturally became happy and laughed.

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A humble craftsman took his turn to give questions to the scholars, and everyone laughed.

The city builder set up positioning poles at the four corners, then pulled the rope and measured it from one end to the other and back again. After measuring several times and moving the pole slightly several times, he took the hoe and pulled

Hold another rope, compare the rope, use a hoe to dig a hole on the spot every other section, and dig a hole every other section, digging holes all over the place.

Soon after the pit was dug, the city builder put away his tools, looked at the scholars again, smiled again, and then left the site under the escort of the soldiers.

At this time, most of the scholars had finished their breakfast and were looking at the busy scene in the venue with boredom.

They saw that the soldiers buried the wooden poles they were carrying for a long time.

If you are careful, you will find that the place where the soldier buried the pole is exactly where the craftsman in front dug out with a hoe.

After a while, even people who had not noticed or cared about it could see that after the wooden poles were buried, although one was longer and the other shorter, the hundred wooden poles, ten long and ten horizontal, were buried neatly and surprisingly neatly.

It looks like a line when viewed horizontally or vertically.

When the scholars sitting on the ground saw this scene, they began to whisper.

In the crowd, Jian Yong took off his shoes and sat on the ground with his bare feet. Seeing Liu Bei's soldiers burying the poles neatly, Jian Yong nodded secretly. Jian Yong didn't see anything mysterious, but felt that Liu Bei's

Soldiers do things beautifully.

Jian Yong could not know at this time that Liu Bei's soldiers could bury wooden poles evenly spaced at equal intervals in this one place. This alone showed the level of the rebel army.

Zhang Jiao's ten-sided ambush formation was formed by measuring and burying poles and flags. Li Mengxi, the military advisor of the Zhuozhou Rebel Army, also relied on such clumsy methods and spent several days to get ahead of Huangfu Song.

Dozens of miles of Songqian Road have been surveyed and marked. Then, the flags are lined up all the way, and there is no need to command. The encirclement is rolling forward. Teams of troops only need to gather according to the flags, and line up towards the flag poles.

In the past, it was possible to build a neat and tight iron wall without any flaws directly and automatically.

At that time, the formation of the rebel army was astonishing, and the commander-in-chief Huangfu Song was in despair. Jian Yong and the Zhuozhou scholars did not know it.

If the wooden poles can be equidistant and even, this can only be said to have the ability to arrange a huge formation.

But there is a subtle point. When the soldiers buried the wooden poles, they consciously and consciously tried to align the buried poles on the left, right, and front as much as possible. If they were not aligned, even if they were a little bit protruding, even if they were protruding half a finger, they would deliberately pull up the poles and start again.

buried.

No one enforces this, but the veterans of the Zhuozhou Rebel Army are naturally accustomed to it.

Alignment and uniformity have become a habit, and this is another fundamental aspect of the rebel army.

The habit of uniformity comes from Li Mengxi's special military training method, which comes from queue training.

During the team training at that time, the requirements at that time included the direction in which the eyes were looking, the height of the tip of the nose, and even how to place the fingers.

The veterans of Zhuozhou who have gone through long-term formation training have become a common habit of pursuing neatness. If they are not neat, they will not be pleasing to the eye, and if they are not neat, they will feel uncomfortable.

Soon, another round of people came, this time they were also soldiers, a group of soldiers carrying shorter soldiers.

The group of soldiers placed the short ones one by one beside the buried wooden poles.

Yes, the front, rear, left and right are aligned very well.

After that, another round of people came and spread the manuscript mats behind the lower table, which were probably used as seats. The manuscript mats were also spread out in the same way.

You know, there was no compulsion to deal with Duoqi, and neither Li Mengxi nor Liu Bei were watching, but the veterans automatically arranged everything very neatly.

In this place, even if the emperor himself held a banquet, it is estimated that the banquet would not be so neat.

In the eyes of all the scholars, Liu Bei's soldiers and officers were considered good at their work, but they did not know that this was the foundation for the rebel army to become powerful.

Not long after, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and a small man came with a large group of soldiers.

When Liu Bei came, the scholars who were sitting on the floor stopped sitting and quickly put on their shoes.

Liu Bei came in front of all the scholars. Amidst the greetings of "Mr.

In this scientific examination, no matter one’s origin, age or age, it is a merit-based examination!

You are all knowledgeable people. You will have to take a test and differentiate between those who are superior and those who are superior. Those who are not as good will be promoted to official positions. Those who are not as good as others will be slow down. There will be no partiality! Everyone, please have no complaints!"
To be continued...