Chapter 416: Chapter 218: Great Increase in Luck

"Your Majesty, a total of 17,725 people participated in this imperial examination, which lasted three days and has all been completed."

On the third day of November, Cui Changqing came to report the results of the examination to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan nodded satisfied after hearing the news: "Not bad, to have so many scholars come, it seems that our preparations have not been in vain."

Having tens of thousands of people participate in the imperial examination was not an annual occurrence, even in Linhai County and Yuzhang Prefecture of Yue Country.

It wasn't that the two prefectures couldn't gather so many scholars, but not every scholar was confident that they would become a juren after participating in the examination.

Therefore, many people from less well-off families would often spend several years preparing before participating in the examination, in hopes of becoming a juren on their first try.