Ji Province was actually very close to Luoyang. At any rate, reaching Luoyang from there was much easier than coming from Qingzhou.
The problem was that Hebei had once suffered an upheaval in which the Great Clans were slaughtered and large numbers of literati fled. This had caused its civil scholarship to decline, and Ji Province was among the hardest-hit areas.
That was why the officials there had repeatedly complained that the number of their literati who passed the assessments could only match those of Bing and Liang.
When Cao Mao received the local Inspector's memorial, he smiled bitterly.
He had never expected the realm's first wave of imperial examination migrants to appear under his rule.
This was also an inevitable consequence of separating the lists.
Cao Mao simply had not expected them to act so quickly.
Faced with this situation, the Imperial Court could only introduce comprehensive laws as soon as possible, or gradually reduce the provinces and commanderies covered by the Autumn List. Cao Mao felt that places like Ji, Jing, and Yong could be moved onto the Spring List in the future.
Only those remote, backward regions would continue using the Autumn List. And if anyone moved for the imperial examination, a residency requirement could be imposed, stipulating how many years they had to settle there before they could take part in the Autumn List...
Of course, Cao Mao did not need to work all this out personally. Zhong Hui and the others were quite capable of resolving it.
Cao Mao was still sending people to investigate the instigators.
Although the literati had their own reasons for causing trouble this time, someone must also have been pushing them from behind.
The progression of events did not make sense. At first, only a few literati had felt something