Outside Guiyi City stood a famous site known as Tiger Terrace.
Long ago, Marquis of Yangling Xue Chang and Marquis of Guangping Li Fu had contended for the road here, once drawing crowds so vast that the streets were emptied.
Tiger Terrace from those days still remained, but the dukes and marquises of those days had become yellow earth.
Yet Tiger Terrace was not ordinarily open to the public.
For beneath Tiger Terrace lay the famed Si Xuan Underground Palace.
At the height of Great Xia's prosperity, more than half the court's lords and ministers had sought the Dao at the Si Xuan Underground Palace, showing just how important it was.
In other lands, it could be compared to Qi State's Jixia Academy.
The final official examination of the Southern Frontier official assessment formally convened this time by the Southern Xia Governor-General's Office was held at Tiger Terrace.
Throughout Southern Xia, all those who aspired to the official path and met the basic requirements took part in this large-scale official assessment, which consisted of three levels: city examination, prefectural examination, and official examination.
A total of three hundred people had made it to Tiger Terrace in the end.
Those who could reach this stage were already rare talents. Even if they performed poorly this time, they would still receive official appointments.
And from among these three hundred, the best of the best would be selected to determine the prefecture governors for Southern Xia's twenty prefectures.
Southern Xia had originally possessed twenty-one prefectures.
But during the Qi-Xia War, the frontier troops of Jinan Prefecture had held firm with unyielding resolve, and the Qi Army's repeated assaults had all failed to breach them. After the decisive battle at Tongyang City ended and Guiyi City fell, the Jinan Prefecture frontier troops feared retaliation