The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1242 Results Announcement
By a small river outside the examinees' dormitory, a bearded man was washing his face with river water.

"Senior, your temper is still so hot."

The bearded man turned around and saw another shorter bearded man. He took a glance and said with some contempt.

"You've become a wanted criminal, how dare you come here?"

"Senior, please don't say that. If I am a wanted criminal, then aren't you a spy?
After all, why would a Prussian official come to the Austrian Empire to take the civil service examination? No matter how you explain it, it doesn't make sense, right? "

The shorter bearded man paused and continued.

"Although I am a wanted criminal in Prussia, I am not wanted here, and they don't even bother to ban my books."

"The Austrians are being too arrogant. They're going to regret it. Your book is far more threatening than the garbage they banned."

Said the bearded man with a scar on his face.

"I'll take it as a compliment from you, Senior."

"Don't get carried away. What are you doing here? They may tolerate your book, but they may not tolerate you as a person.

You have to think clearly, the Austrians love to capture people and send them to Africa to exchange for things with cannibals. "

"I have so little meat and I'm so skinny, they won't like me. But you have a strong back and strong muscles, so you should be more careful."

"Don't interrupt. What on earth are you doing here?"

"Just like you, I came to see what I can do."

The bearded man with the scar on his face laughed.

"sit."

Then he pulled out a cigar from his pocket.

"Mexican cigar, would you like one?"

The shorter bearded man didn't refuse and took a sniff and spoke immediately.

"Good stuff, but it's not cheap."

“It’s not cheap. I bought it in the Austrian royal department store. It’s on sale for 10 groschen now.

But even without the discount it’s still five groschen cheaper than in Berlin.”

The bearded man with a scar on his face looked a little lonely.

PS: The Groschen here does not refer to the Prussian Groschen silver coin, but the copper coin used in Austria.

1 florin = 30 groschen.

"The Austrian Empire's growth rate was indeed astonishing, especially since they could continue to plunder overseas colonies, just as the ancestors of the Habsburg family did."

"Prussia needs land in the sun, too."

In fact, Franz also reimbursed a certain percentage of the candidates' travel expenses. The reason why he did not reimburse all of it was because he was afraid that someone would have bad intentions.

Even though Franz was careful again and again, the proliferation of scalped tickets could not be avoided, and the railway's operations were inevitably subject to short-term losses.

Soon the results of the first civil service examination of the Austrian Empire were announced.

The result was shocking. Each subject had a score of 100, 60 points was considered a pass, and a total score of over 300 was considered eligible for appointment. However, the pass rate of this year's candidates was shockingly low, with an average of three subjects failing.

The leader of this session, Moore Hudson, only scored 388 points, and the talented young man who Franz had high hopes for actually scored zero in two subjects and was also found to have extreme nationalist tendencies.

The 2nd to 10th place winners of this session were all awarded mayoral-level positions, which made Moore Hudson very excited, but he never thought that he would be appointed as a high-ranking official in Galicia.

Although he was not the governor as previously rumored, his leap from an idle nobleman without an official position to the head of a province was still a staggering leap.

The separation of military and political affairs is the general trend. Franz will gradually abolish the governors in the country, and Galicia will be the first.

Among the top ten students of this session, nine were aristocrats. After interviews and background checks, 3321 of the 2582 people admitted were of aristocratic origin.

This was an unprecedented victory for the nobles, and they immediately became staunch supporters of the examination system.

Some of the nobles felt that this was a kind of compensation from the emperor. It turned out that they still had a certain weight in the emperor's heart.

In fact, Franz did not cheat. In fact, the test questions he designed were very unfavorable to the nobles.

However, universal education in the Austrian Empire was just beginning, as the nobles had controlled education for thousands of years.

Moreover, there is no comparison between the two sides in terms of resources and vision, and civilian officials will not be able to become mainstream in the short term.

As for the number of officials recruited, this was just an attempt for the first time, and the Austrian Empire was really short of officials at this time.

This is the aftermath of the civil war. As we all know, one can conquer the world immediately, but one cannot rule it immediately. Franz also cannot rely on the army to control the country.

After an exam, 75% of the admitted students are nobles. Can the people accept this? Even if it is a fair exam
If it had happened a year ago, Franz would have been engulfed by this storm, and some people with ulterior motives would have made a big fuss about it and called for reforms, which would have led to even more intense social unrest and an outbreak of discontent.

Even if the Austrian imperial government announced this result now, it would not cause widespread dissatisfaction and unrest.

However, it will still be exploited by those with ulterior motives, especially certain foreign forces, and Franz does not want to give them this opportunity to cause trouble for himself.

So Franz directly announced that all admitted candidates would be granted nobility status.

Apart from this, the Austrian Imperial Government only published the list and results, and the letter of appointment had to be sent to the candidates' homes via the post.

At this time, the rate of duplicate names in the Austrian Empire was very high, and not every noble used middle names such as "von", "de", "di", and "da". Some great nobles even disdained to add such modifications to their names.

Even if someone wanted to trace the origins, it would be very difficult to count a list of thousands of people one by one, and it would be even more difficult to distinguish which ones were nobles and which ones were commoners.

Of course, this only applies to ordinary civilians and small nobles. As for those great nobles, they naturally have their own channels.

In fact, the result of this exam, in addition to the fact that there are many nobles, there is another problem, that is, there are also many foreigners.

Since the Austrian Empire did not prohibit foreigners from serving as officials in the country, some small nobles in the German and Italian states who were unsuccessful or whose conceited talents were buried would be willing to come to Austria to try their luck.

Besides this, this time there are French and even Arabs.
However, these Arabs did not come from Oman, an ally of the Ottoman or Austrian Empire, but from Tripoli.

The Karamanli family's rule in Tripoli was neither popular nor secure.

Hamed Karamanli had been influenced by European culture for a long time and had completely regarded himself as a European. He believed that he was carrying out a civilizing mission in Tripoli.

However, locals see Hamed Karamanli as undermining tradition and making Tripoli worse.

All this stems from Hamed Karamanli's poor imitation. He also wanted to monopolize like Franz, but he was unwilling to give the benefits to the people.

Hamed Karamanli monopolized agriculture and animal husbandry, which were closely related to people's livelihood, but the profits were pitifully small, resulting in the people's livelihood being in dire straits.