On the afternoon of February 21, while many candidates were relaxed after the exam, the leaders of the college led by Lao Qi Teng were so busy that they couldn't touch the ground.
The storage and transportation of all the test papers in the past two days have made Lao Qi Teng very annoyed.
The papers were to be graded by a team of members from the academy and the royal family, and at the same time as the team was formed, Wilhelm received an update on North America from the Count of Brüneke at the royal palace in Brandenburg.
After the arrival of Prussia's second North American consignment, the Count of Brünecke had a total of nearly 8,000 troops, but the situation on the North American continent did not change for the better.
The French were very uneasy about the heavy infliction of the American forces in the south by the British army, and just recently another Franco-Spanish army with a total of 14,000 men landed in Spanish Louisiana.
Spanish Louisiana borders Georgia, which means that the strength of the American army in the south, which originally reached 5,000 after the emergency support of the Continental Congress, will suddenly swell to nearly 20,000, and even with the 4,000 British troops led by Cornwallis, the total number of British troops is only 12,000.
In other words, in the southern theater, the advantage gained by the defeat of the American army turned into a floating cloud with the landing of the French and Spanish coalition forces.
The situation in the southern theater was once again unfavorable for the Prussian and British troops.
In the north, Clinton did not achieve a decisive victory over the main force of the American army led by Washington.
Clinton had only more than 10,000 men at his disposal, and he had always hoped that he could start a battle with Washington so that he could effectively destroy the main force of the American army.
But Washington is like a loach that slips and doesn't spare its hands.
This left Clinton with a lot of headaches, and at the same time the pressure on the French Navy in the West Indies was like a mountain pressing on him.
Under such circumstances, General Clinton again asked King George III for reinforcements, but now Britain could not mobilize forces to support North America, and Britain could not abandon the colonies of the whole world because of the North American colony.
If Britain had concentrated its forces in North America, who knows if the despicable French would have resorted to a sneak attack, it was with this in mind that George III rejected Clinton's request for reinforcements.
But if North America is ceded like this, George III is really unwilling, and if Britain swallows this bitter fruit, wouldn't it be a clear telling other countries to fall into empires" is just a joke?
Therefore, George III threw the idea to Prussia, and George III hoped that William would be persuaded to send troops immediately to North America by the Count of Brunec telling William the gravity of the situation.
When William saw the report about the landing of the Franco-Spanish army in Spanish Louisiana, he felt a little uneasy in his heart, knowing that at the moment Britain did not have much advantage in the confrontation with the French, and the removal of Prussian power did not count.
France, Spain, and the Netherlands declared war on Britain, and Britain's colonies around the world were in jeopardy in the face of a formidable threat from these three countries.
If Prussia did its best to participate in this war, then after the war was over, Britain would share the interests of Prussia on the North American continent, but once it failed, once Britain lost, once Britain lost, Prussia's western front would become a powder keg, not to mention Denmark, and the war might burn to Prussian land.
Will the French spare Prussia after their victory in the war for world hegemony against England, the answer is obviously no, that Queen Mary was eager to hang William, so William felt that he had only one way to go, and that was to send troops to North America.
After making up his mind, William sent an order to Prince Henry and Locks, who were far away in Potsdam, ordering them to prepare 10,000 men of materials at once, and that the North American Expeditionary Force, which had been planned to be sent in April and May, would be dispatched early next month.
After deciding to send troops, William did not rest assured, and he had no intention of revealing the wind to the British, because he would not make a condition until the British asked for him.
For example, it was to talk to the British about Denmark, and at the beginning William had reached an agreement with George III that after Prussia had sent all its troops to North America, Britain would assist Prussia in annihilating the Danish navy within this year.
In addition, on the question of land on the North American continent, William also sent someone to George III to put forward his additional conditions: in view of the deterioration of the situation on the North American continent, Prussia, in a spirit of friendship and mutual assistance, proposed to Britain that if the war ended with the victory of the British army, Britain would temporarily assign Georgia and South Carolina to Prussia after the end of the war.
William believed that these two conditions were not too excessive for the British, and that the British should accept them.
For Denmark, William's original plan was to start after the army was ready, but now that a series of reform measures are being implemented, it is not a good time to fight, and William must unify the Junker military aristocracy in the country before he can be able to fight a decisive battle.
Thinking of this, William is even more full of expectations for the entrance exam held this time, even if it is one in a hundred, as long as a group of talents can emerge among them, then William has a greater certainty about the future.
In the evening, the elder Ziten and Dessau got up together to report to William on the afternoon's summary work "Your Majesty, in the afternoon we have completed the filing of all the test papers, in order to make this exam results faster, we have invited many experts from various fields to review the test papers, and it is preliminarily expected that the results of this exam will be obtained in mid-March."
As the dean of the Military Academy, Qi Teng said unyieldingly But it seemed a bit late for William to get detailed results in mid-March, so he told Ziten: "Your Excellency Qi Teng, isn't it a little late in mid-March?"
Hearing William's question, Qi Teng showed a wry smile to William, and then said bitterly: "Your Majesty, this is already the fastest speed, you must know that there are tens of thousands of people who have taken this exam, so many test papers, and more than half a month is already the shortest."
After listening to Qi Teng's words, although William was still a little reluctant, he had to admit that Qi Teng's words, originally, would take a month to get the results in the college entrance examination in the future.
"So how are you going to inform the students who have passed the exam," William asked curiously, considering that in the 18th century, the means of communication were extremely backward, which was not like the later generations when you could get the results with a phone call and then solve the problem with an envelope.
"We divide the whole Kingdom of Prussia into many small areas, each of which will be notified by the teachers of our academy, and we will notify the local travel according to the candidate's place of origin, and the candidate will be notified by the place of origin."
Dessau took William's question and spoke After listening to Dessau's words, William felt as if he was still a little insecure, so he said to Dessau: "It's correct to divide the area according to the candidate's place of origin, but what if someone can't be notified, or if the person is not in the local area?"
Hearing William's words, Dessau and Ziten looked at each other and were speechless, it is true that such a situation is often seen in terms of current means of communication, but there is no good way for them to be limited by the times.
Just when Zittten and Dessau looked at William, William was also stumped by this problem, and he didn't have a good solution, "Headache" William thought