Eu4 Examination System [TRUSTED]

The old Nobility’s influence dropped by 15%. The crown’s rose by 5%. And Tuo Zilong’s head adorned the southern gate. The Golden Age of Paper (1460-1500) For forty years, the system worked better than any edict before it.

Ignore it. (Lose 50 Meritocracy, gain 5 Corruption.) Option B: Root it out. (Lose 100 Administrative Power, trigger a Rebel faction of ‘Disappointed Scholars.’)

He refused to sit for the exam. The Emperor, backed by a new faction of scholar-bureaucrats called the declared him a rebel. In a brutal, two-year campaign—fueled by the new +10% National Tax Modifier from the efficient new magistrates—the central army crushed the hereditary lords.