However, as an old scholar, Li Tiancai deeply disagrees with Liu Baiyu's behavior of using money to buy talents. Why should I work hard for more than ten years to become a scholar? But you can just buy it with money.

?Isn’t this a polite way of sweeping the floor?

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, in theory, if a scholar wanted to become a scholar, he had to pass three stages, including the county examination, the government examination and the college examination. The county examination was generally presided over by the county magistrate, and children in the county had to take the same examination.

Only five candidates who are friends with each other and have a local student as a guarantor can take the exam. The exam period is usually in February, with four to five exams. The content includes eight-legged essays, poems, strategies, etc. Only those who pass the exam can apply for the exam.

Examination. The prefecture examination is presided over by the prefect or the Zhili Prefecture magistrate, and the Zhili Department Tongzhi. The content and venue of the examination are the same as those of the county examination. The examination period is usually in April.

Only those who pass the prefectural examination can take the college examination. Some scholars have to try many times to pass the most basic county and prefectural examinations and become Tongsheng. Some people, after obtaining the status of Tongsheng, fail the college examination many times and are still called "Tongsheng" when they are gray-haired.

There is no shortage of talented people. Why is it so difficult? This is attributed to the fact that every place has a limit on the number of students. Most people think that Tong Sheng is a scholar, but it is actually just a rumor. Of course, it also proves that Liu Hongyu, who became a refugee, is actually considered a scholar.

That’s right, you are a child at this age. If your family had more money, you could study abroad and build your own relationships. Scholars would actually be able to control it.

Even if you become a child student, there is another hurdle, which is the so-called academic examination, also called the Taoist examination, which is presided over by the academic administration in charge of the affairs of Confucian students in a province. Only those who pass the academic examination can be called a scholar, enter the official school, and can take the imperial examination

.In the Ming Dynasty, when the imperial examination system was already quite stable, it was established in the early Ming Dynasty that there was a fixed number of students, 40 in the government school, 30 in the prefecture school, and 20 in the county school. Each person was given six dou of rice per month as food for the village.

In places where literary culture thrives, there may be thousands of children taking part in the college examinations. After passing the examinations of academic administration and great masters, they compete for the vacancies among the dozens of talented people. The competition is very fierce. Because if they are not deprived of their honors and titles, they die, and the high school leader

There is a shortage of scholars who come here. There are only so many scholars with great reputations in each county. If the family is not well-off and the family is not from a big family in the township, it is already considered a great honor for someone from a small family to be admitted as a scholar.

Of course, what I talked about for a long time was actually only theoretical, and I used Jiangnan as the example, which is the most difficult to take the exam. If it is a remote place, such as a semi-Chinese area like Yunnan and Guizhou, where there are not many people who can read, the students may not

If you just recite the Analects of Confucius, you will be a child. If you can write a few good calligraphy strokes, you will be a scholar. It should be said that students in the Chinese department of universities now only need to review for half a year and do targeted adaptive training. It is really easy.

things.

There is such a big difference in the difficulty of exams in different places. To be honest, from a purely examination perspective, it is not incomprehensible that candidates from Jiangnan are dissatisfied with candidates from other places and even want to monopolize the imperial examinations.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, as the academic field had been appropriated by successive teachers through various black and white means, coupled with the low wages in the Ming Dynasty, if the teachers did not find ways to generate income, they would starve to death. This lower limit has been reached repeatedly.

It is nothing new to lower the price of talents and children in remote areas. The establishment of a state to seize Liaodong this time is certainly a great disaster for the people of Liaodong, but combined with the reality of poor education, it has appeared again in Zhili and Shandong.

A new kind of business.

This is the so-called "Liaodong scholar". With the war in Liaodong and the massacre of Nurhachi, the former wealthy scholars became the first targets to be massacred. However, from another perspective, fraud naturally means death without proof, so

There are various "Liaodong people" who don't have the slightest Liaodong accent and go to various places to supplement their "scholars". Of course, this is also a little fun for the teachers...

It should be said that at first, although the so-called "Liaodong scholar" was a well-known Xibei product, he was still a high-quality imitation. He pretended to be someone else and made fake files, fake witnesses, and fake physical evidence. Of course, if

If we go to Liaodong to investigate, the bottom line will be revealed immediately, because these so-called "Liaodong scholars" even remember the location of their hometown's landscape incorrectly. But did the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty dare to go to Nurhaci's territory?

Therefore, it is nonsense to say that these so-called "Liaodong scholars" are flawless, and it is really not just nonsense to say that they are confusing the real with the fake! However, later Wei Zhongxian found out about this, and at the age of nine thousand, he suddenly discovered that these scholars seemed to be inferior to eunuchs for fame.

, so they were deliberately used to disgust scholars and allowed the eunuchs to mass-produce these so-called "Liaodong scholars"!

This has worked well, and the so-called "Liaodong Scholars" have changed from high imitation goods to dog meat with sheep's heads. The price has also dropped all the way. From the peak of two hundred taels, it fell directly to twenty taels, and there are also

The downward trend continues... [This paragraph is required for the plot, not historical fact, don’t take it seriously]

This is why if Liu Baiyu does not have a Liaodong accent, Li Tiancai thinks it is normal, but has a real Liaodong accent, and Li Tiancai is shocked and frightened. But since Li Tiancai is prejudiced against Liu Baiyu, naturally

He looked a little uncomfortable, his expression wavered between a bitter smile several times, and finally he said to Liu Baiyu, whether he was crying or laughing.

"This time I have to work Mr. Liu." Li Tiancai reluctantly bowed, "The current year is not good, farming is not a trivial matter, and the quality of the school fields is related to the morale of the county..."

Don’t you know that it’s scariest to pretend to smile if you can’t laugh? Liu Baiyu also knows that this person has the same problem as Magistrate Guan, or that the literati of this era are a little bit intolerant of the hard and not the soft, so he simply gave a warning:

"I once heard my eldest brother say that Li Tiancai is a rare master. Not only is he decent, he is also dedicated to his work. But in reality, it's really..."

"What is it really?"

“Seeing once is better than hearing it a hundred times!”

"What! You...hum, you are a dandy, how could you know that this is a difficult thing!"

Li Tiancai laughed angrily, pointed at Liu Baiyu's nose and said:

"Do you know how much money is needed for this ink, paper and inkstone, and how much is the subsidy for children? Do you know that in order to make money, I ignored the dignity of scholars and went to work in the fields... Forget it, I know it too.

What are you trying to say? It’s nothing more than buying and selling child birth quotas, but, but..."

Li Tiancai's gray hair and beard stood up straight. Although he was smiling, he was crying:

"But in this world, you are shameless, and there is even more shamelessness. I just thought about it last month. I wanted to ask the local gentry to pledge a few donations, but even if I didn't even think about it, I would go to the neighboring county and become a child! In this world,

Corruption and perversion of the law must be done quickly, it is really..."

"Since Mr. Li keeps saying that he is doing practical things, I would like to ask you, as an instructor, do you know what your responsibilities are?" Since it is not popular in this era to speak well, and you have to play the angry youth style to be popular, then modern people

Is Liu Baiyu still afraid of these ancients when he sprays?

"A scholar's opinion! Isn't the duty of an edict to cultivate a culture? Who doesn't know this? But if you don't have money, you can't even take care of the lives of poor children. How can you talk about cultivating a culture!? Childish, childish!" Li Tiancai pointed out

Liu Baiyu kept shaking his head, obviously feeling helpless that Liu Baiyu could not be carved out of a rotten wood. If he changed to Luo language, he would say that he was in the advanced stage of Shenjing Bing, and he could give up treatment!

Can you please stop contradicting yourself when you always criticize others? First you say that I am a playboy, and then you become a scholar? Have you ever thought clearly?

Liu Baiyu smiled cutely towards Li Tiancai and winked at him.

"You are talking confusingly, and you are talking about others!" Li Tiancai also realized that his mistake this time was a bit low-level, but he is a person who is unwilling to admit his mistakes, so he just slapped him down!

"I didn't say anything to you, did I? You were the one who said good things about me?" Liu Baiyu burst into tears!

"In short, you maliciously misled me!" Li Tiancai refused to admit his mistake!

"Let's not talk about it anymore. Sir, do you admit that doing this is nothing more than finding the problem, analyzing the problem, and solving the problem? These three steps?"

"What you said is quite coherent, but you know a saying? It's easier said than done! How can we promote local culture if we don't even have the money to maintain it!?" Li Tiancai shook his head.

"Then, let me analyze it. In fact, promoting local culture and maintaining money can be achieved at the same time! Right?"

"You are a scholar again. You only rely on the output of the school field to support the expenses of the county school. That is, Taizu could barely do it when he became an ancestor, but now he can't even do it in Jiangnan!"

Li Tiancai now firmly believes that Liu Baiyu is a scholar who has never changed from ancient times. What era are these things talking about? So he kindly gave Liu Baiyu some science knowledge:

"Don't look at how prosperous Jiangnan Chui is. In fact, it doesn't have much to do with the local county schools. It mainly relies on various academies. Even the famous Donglin Party members also rely on Donglin Academy. This relies on

Money to promote local culture and maintain it? Hehehe, that’s a lot of bragging!”

"I think your idea is really... In fact, most scholars can't go to school. Why not just be more practical and become a master or something like that? It can be regarded as a decent way out for a scholar!"

"You are still not convinced that you are a scholar? This painting [Master] is all practical, but it is different from the eight-part essay. In fact, it cannot be done by people who are not talented and intelligent!? Among other things, it is the work of water conservancy, earth and stone.

Class, how much material is consumed [volume calculation], it is not something that ordinary officials can figure out, it all depends on the secret method passed down from family!"

As Li Tiancai was talking, he suddenly felt that he could see through Liu Baiyu's heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys, and pointed at Liu Baiyu and said:

"You probably know that some Zanhua people have nothing to do and are very leisurely. Do you think that all Zanhua people are like this? Those people have a history with the officials, use the name of Zanhua, and tactfully accept help from their friends.
Chapter completed!