The county school is still in the same depressed state. Compared with the prosperous Chenghuang Temple not far away, the Lingxing Gate of the county school is deserted.
Under Hai Rui's reforms, many students in the county school who had not come to school for a long time dropped out, making the entire county school even more empty.
Those who came to report with Su Ze were three other young talents from a poor family that Hai Rui had taken a liking to.
At this time, these three people had already arrived at the county school early. Su Ze knew that they were poor scholars in the county when he saw how they were dressed.
The youngest of the three looked younger than Su Ze, and the eldest looked to be forty years old. All of them were stooped and as thin as the remnants of the Changning Guard.
Those who are able to study are considered to be from well-off families in the Ming Dynasty, but it is still unrealistic for most families to fully support an adult male to study part-time. At first glance, these three people are the kind of scholars who work part-time and study part-time.
Su Ze was tall and attracted the attention of three people as soon as he entered the county school. If Su Ze wasn't dressed like a scholar, the three of them would have thought he was a martial artist.
Su Ze was the first to raise his hands and salute the three of them: "I'm Chang Ning Wei, Su Ze. I've met all of you classmates."
When they heard about Chang Ning Wei, everyone knew that Su Ze was a scholar of the military guard. No wonder he was so tall, and they all saluted Su Ze in a panic.
The oldest one was named Chen Chaoyuan. When Su Ze found out, he turned out to be a member of the Chen family in Beishan. However, Chen Chaoyuan had left the clan and moved to the county town a generation ago. He didn't know about the fight between the Changning Guards and the Chen family in Beishan. Instead, he was interested in Su Ze.
The most passionate.
Another short scholar named Xiong Yue, his family is a tea merchant in Wuyi Mountain, and his family should be the better among the four. When he came up, he brought out three pieces of Wuyi Mountain tea in bamboo tubes for everyone, and his words were impeccable. He is a businessman.
The habit has become a bit stronger.
The youngest is named Lin Qingcai. The Lin family is a common surname in Nanping. However, he is not related to the Lin family in Changning Wei. He is actually a member of the Lin family in Houguan County, Fuzhou. I don’t know why he moved to Nanping County to live.
Su Ze was in awe. Houguan County is a major imperial examination county and has frequently produced Jinshi since the Song Dynasty.
But the most famous one was Lin Zexu, who suppressed cigarettes in Humen in the late Qing Dynasty. He was from the Lin family of Hou Guan.
The famous talented woman Lin Huiyin in modern times also came from the Lin family. This family has a prosperous cultural background and is also a famous family in Fuzhou Prefecture.
However, Lin Qingcai was already a branch of the branch, and his family had been separated, so he had no way to go to the social studies school of the candidate Lin.
Lin Qingcai's family was in decline and he could only work part-time and study part-time. Hearing that Hai Rui, a county scholar, was willing to guide students from poor families to study, he immediately signed up.
After a while, Hai Rui's patched official uniform appeared in front of the four people. The four people quickly saluted Hai Rui. Hai Rui stroked his beard and said:
"I will take you to the school building to settle down first, and you will study hard at the county school in the past two days."
The four people quickly said yes and followed Hai Rui to the school building where Zhou Xiucai signed the guarantee letter last time.
The school building had been vacated a lot. Hai Rui found four clean school buildings for the four of them to stay in, and then took them to the other school building.
After Hai Rui paid homage to Confucius in the main hall and Yang Shi, Luo Congyan, Li Dong and Zhu Xi in the Minglun hall, Hai Rui brought everyone to the side lecture hall.
The main hall is a place for county students with student qualifications to study. Naturally, it cannot be used by people like Su Ze who have never even passed the county examination.
Hai Rui now gives lectures to the county students in the morning and lets them study by themselves in the main hall in the afternoon. He also opens up a side room specifically for Su Ze and the four of them to teach.
Pens, ink, paper and inkstones were already placed on the desk. When everyone sat down, Hai Rui took the lecturer's seat and started today's lecture straightforwardly.
Su Ze's imperial examination has reached Level 3, 55/300. These days, he has been studying in Wei Xuegan and has read through both "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Great Learning", which have the smallest number of words.
Zhu Xi also memorized all of Zhu Xi's annotations. Originally, Su Ze thought that his understanding was in place.
But after hearing Hai Rui's explanation, Su Ze realized that his understanding was still shallow.
Although Hai Rui was only a scholar, his study of the Four Books and Five Classics was undoubtedly quite thorough. However, Hai Rui's thoughts were more focused on traditional Neo-Confucianism rather than the popular psychology.
Nanping is the hometown of Zhu Xi, but the study of mind is the most popular knowledge in the world today, so Nanping is naturally affected by this trend.
Although Yanping Academy teaches Neo-Confucianism, it often invites great scholars of the mind to give lectures, and the scholars are greatly influenced by the mind.
However, when it comes to taking part in the imperial examination, traditional Neo-Confucianism is obviously better, because the scope of the imperial examination is Neo-Confucianism.
[County school attendance, "Imperial Examination" experience +10, Lv3, 65/300]
Hai Rui talked for an hour, and Su Ze was surprised to find that he had gained 10 experience points, which was much faster than studying by himself!
Relying on the buff of "Every grain of hard work", Su Ze studied for two hours after meals every day, and gained about 10 experience points a day.
This progress is not slower than that of ordinary scholars. According to this progress, it only takes less than two months for him to reach Level 5, which is the level of a scholar.
Ordinary scholars who study hard for ten years may not be able to pass the boy's examination and become a scholar.
However, due to the expansion of liver skill experience after level 5, if we continue at this pace, going from Lv5 to Lv10 will require 15,000 experience points. At this rate, it will take 1,500 days, which is five years.
Then this time is really too long, it takes five years to win the exam, and the experience will increase after level 10, so how can you win three yuan in a row in this life?
After listening to Hai Rui's lecture today, Su Ze finally found a way to gain experience faster. Listening to Hai Rui's lecture for an hour can gain 10 experience points. If he can listen to lectures every day in the future, wouldn't he be able to gain dozens of experience points in a day?
Moreover, Hai Rui is not yet a famous imperial examination teacher. If he listens to the lectures of famous imperial examination teachers from Yanping Academy, will he be able to advance faster?
Thinking of this, Su Ze couldn't wait to come and listen to Hai Rui's lectures every day.
After resting for a while, Hai Rui was about to continue teaching when he suddenly heard a disciple from the county school come in and hurriedly said to Hai Rui:
"Master Jiayu, the county magistrate is here!"
As soon as they heard that the county magistrate had arrived, Chen Chaoyuan, Xiong Yue and Lin Qingcai immediately stood up uneasily and looked at Hai Rui who was still sitting still.
The doorman urged: "Sir, the county magistrate will be here soon. You have to go to the door to greet him!"
Hai Rui had no intention of getting up. Now not only his disciples were restless, but the other three scholars from poor families were also restless.
Hai Rui is a civil servant and has an official position, so he is not afraid of the county magistrate, but they are ordinary people who do not even have the qualifications to be a student, so how can they not be afraid?
Hai Rui sighed, put down the book in his hand and said:
"Just come and meet me in front of the school building."