Sun Qinian and three friends from the same hometown took a boat back to Suzhou with Fang and others. Naturally, they drank and had fun on the way.

Everyone in Fang treated the four of them equally as they did when they came here. They did not treat Sun Qinian differently from the other three friends just because he was the man who discovered the beauty.

At least the money is the same!

It’s just that the fee is much less than when I came here.

Fang also made it clear that this was a friendship discount because we were all acquaintances.

On the other hand, most of the money collected last time went into her adoptive mother's pocket, and she only got a small amount herself.

But now, everyone in Fang doesn't have an adoptive mother lying on her body to suck her blood. The money they receive is all their own, so part of the price has been reduced accordingly.

It’s a business, small profits but quick turnover, and we can attract repeat customers by the way.

Even so, she got much more money than before.

So everyone from Fang also said that they could go find her after returning to Suzhou. From then on, she would no longer hang out with Qinhuai. Of course, she didn't plan to return home from good deeds or anything like that. Instead, she would hang out at a boat house in Suzhou.

She was sold to her adoptive mother by her parents when she was a child, and her biological parents have long since disappeared.

She herself has been doing the same thing on the Qinhuai River since she was in elementary school. It would be very reliable if you let her play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but I'm sorry that she doesn't know how to make a living in other ways.

Although she no longer has a low status or a contract to sell herself, considering her future life, she still plans to continue working in this industry.

The reason why I left the Qinhuai River was simply that there was too much competition there. There were several oirans of all kinds popping up every day, and many of them became free people because they no longer had the contract to sell themselves.

Even if they are still placing orders on some boats, they can come and go freely and earn more than before. Everyone is very active and can't wait to pick up ten or eight enke's a day.

Everyone said that he was already eighteen years old and was about to lose his beauty. While he was still young, he went to Suzhou to work alone for a few years and then retired after saving some money.

Sun Qinian was not interested in everyone's invitation.

He himself is not good at this, and there is no special feeling for the other party. Moreover, we have played together many times during these two trips. To be honest, the little novelty at the beginning is gone.

So when we arrived in Suzhou and got off the ship, even though we were perfunctory that everyone would go there to support us if we had the chance, we had already made up our minds: we would definitely not go.

It’s just a pink skull!

Returning to Suzhou City and arriving home, there was naturally a celebration.

His family had received an official notification a few days ago, saying that Sun Qinian had passed the exam. In the past two days, the Sun family had already made preparations to welcome Sun Qinian home and have a banquet for guests.

Sure enough, after Sun Qinian returned home, the Sun family invited a group of relatives and friends and held a flowing banquet for three days.

Then he went to visit nearby local officials with three friends who had passed the national examination. After all this work, Sun Qinian was free.

He still has a lot of time. He can stay at home for about a month before setting off to return to Jinling City and then take up his post.

During this period, he repeatedly declined, but he was still dragged by several friends to go to the boat where everyone had placed orders. To be honest, he really didn't want to go, but his friends kept inviting him, and he really couldn't save face, so he went.

Seven or eight times.

Otherwise, even if everyone from Fang wrote to her several times, saying that several of her best friends had also come to Suzhou to place orders and happened to be in the same boat house as her, he would not go.

It’s just a bunch of red and pink skeletons, I’m really not interested!

In addition to these unavoidable human relationships, during this period, he also taught his eldest son, who had just become enlightened, to read at home, and incidentally also taught lessons to several of his nephews.

In addition to teaching the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, we also focus on teaching various subjects, especially mathematics.

This time he came back, but he brought back more than 20 textbooks on Gewu.

Since the imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire in the future, even the Jinshi subjects, would also require examination of physical science subjects, he naturally needed to pay attention to it and let his children and the children of relatives and friends get in touch with and learn from it early.

Especially his eldest brother's eldest son, who is already fifteen years old this year and has made some progress in his Confucian studies. This year, he will almost start taking exams.

This eldest nephew's classics are good, but he will be blinded in various subjects. Sun Qinian also knows that when waiting for this year's imperial examination, even in the county examination, arithmetic and other subjects will have to be added, even if the proportion is not

It will be very big, but it is still a test.

I let my eldest nephew study for a few months first, so that even if he memorizes it by rote, he can remember some of it. When the county examination comes, when other students are faced with a group of questions on the subject of geophysical studies, my nephew will be able to calm down.

Correct answer.

In this way, the chances of passing the county examination and even the subsequent hospital examination will be greatly increased, and there is hope for gaining a reputation as a student.

But Sun Qinian didn't know that he was not the only person who had this idea and did it. In fact, before this, many well-informed people in Suzhou were already doing this.

They sell or copy books on various new subjects from various channels, and then use them to study or teach their children and nephews.

Even the professors at Suzhou Fuxue have begun to teach the content of Gewu in a serious manner.

Many people even used Sun Qinian as an example: Sun Qinian, you know, that person's performance in Shiwen was very average. If it weren't for the rush during the last provincial examination and many people didn't have time to apply, Sun Qinian wouldn't have been able to pass the exam. .

But with such a half-hearted effort, he actually passed the Gongshi examination in the general examination, and passed the examination of Gewu Ke Tanhua in the palace examination, and was awarded the seventh rank.

Can such a scumbag pass the exam?

Why, it's not because Sun Qinian sharpened his skills in the battle and learned a little bit about the object science, but he got lucky and passed the exam. If he was asked to take the Jinshi exam, he would be damned if he could pass.

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Some of these words reached Sun Qinian's ears, and Sun Qinian could not deny them.

They are just a group of envious, jealous and hateful villains, why should they do anything!

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When Sun Qinian was teaching his nephew Ge Wu Ke at home, Jinling City also returned to its former peace, and gradually restored its former prosperity.

The painted boats on the Qinhuai River are gradually returning, and the dazzling lanterns are the best proof.

However, Luo Zhixue is not very impressed by the restoration of prosperity in Jinling City itself. Most of the so-called prosperous businesses in Jinling City are in the tertiary industry, and at most they are coupled with some small-scale handicraft industries.

This city, like most ancient cities, is a pure consumption city, and Luo Zhixue does not attach much importance to these pure consumption cities.

What he values ​​more is industrial cities that can produce materials and provide power for national strength.

To unify China, he needs food and other materials, as well as guns and ammunition.

And Jinling City cannot provide him with these.

Relatively speaking, he pays more attention to the development of Dangtu not far away, where large-scale construction projects are underway, a large number of factories are rising from the ground, and a large number of workers are pouring into them.

Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture, was just a very ordinary small county in the past.

But since the Chu Empire occupied this place and discovered the large and easy-to-mine Maanshan Iron Mine.

The Dangtu Mining Bureau was immediately established here to mine local iron ore.

Now that there is a mining bureau, it is natural that an iron smelting plant is needed, so the Dangtu Iron smelting plant was established.

However, although the Mining Bureau has been established and the iron smelting plant has been prepared, due to the relatively short time and the steel production capacity of the Dachu Empire is currently sufficient, there is not much urgent demand for iron materials, so it is impossible. Just like in Daye, we will build the factory quickly at all costs and spend a lot of money in order to shorten the construction period.

The construction period of the two core factories here at Dangtu is still at a relatively normal pace, so it will take a longer time.

For the time being, the production of iron materials here is not large, and the monthly production capacity is only a few hundred tons.

However, the construction speed of Dangtu Arsenal, also located in Dangtu Industrial Zone, is very fast.

After all, the current iron production capacity in the Dachu Empire is relatively sufficient. The annual production capacity of just one large iron smelting plant is 50,000 tons, not to mention that the other iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry are several times larger in total.

Thousand tons of production capacity.

This does not include the production capacity of a large number of private iron-making workshops.

The Dachu Empire did not implement a government-run system for the steel industry, but adopted a system of official guidance and supervision that allowed private capital to participate to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the Chu Empire, many private iron-making workshops that were secretly operated during the Ming Dynasty are now open to the public. However, private iron-making workshops also need to obtain an official iron-making license.

In this way, the steel production capacity in the Da Chu Empire is actually more than the production capacity of several iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry.

The steel production capacity is relatively sufficient. The Taiping Mining Bureau here in Dangtu will proceed step by step in the construction of the Dangtu Iron Smelting Plant, and will not waste huge manpower and material resources blindly to quickly increase production capacity.

However, the arsenal is different.

The current Da Chu Empire has an extremely huge demand for weapons, especially new guns.

Especially the flintlock muskets that the Chu army has begun to equip in batches. The annual production capacity of the second-year Suifa rifles at the Hantian Arsenal is only 50,000 pieces, and this quantity is far from being able to meet the huge army, navy and guards of the Chu Empire.

Requirements.

After all, this production capacity can only equip about four divisions in a year.

If this is barely enough in peacetime, it will take about ten years to basically equip hundreds of thousands of troops.

But during the war, it was far from enough.

For this reason, a new flintlock production line is being built at Hantian Arsenal, and at the same time, a huge flintlock production line is also expected to be built at the newly established Dangtu Arsenal.

In addition to muskets, the Chu Empire still had a huge demand for artillery.

At present, except for a few ace units, the Chu army's other units, even the field artillery of the main division, are not fully equipped. As for the garrison divisions, not to mention, many garrison divisions now only have a few two-pound guns.

Semi-field artillery maintains a facade, but it mostly uses a large number of short-barreled artillery captured from the Ming army, such as general artillery, Franco machine artillery, etc.
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