Chapter 678: New Imperial Examination Tutorial Class
Lin Qizong was one of the first dozen candidates to arrive in Beihai Town. Most of those who took part in the imperial examination in Beihai Town were poor scholars who had been in the exam for many years and had no hope of becoming a scholar, and whose family life was in embarrassment.
However, in the past two months in Whale Town, Lin Tongsheng's figure was like a balloon he had blown up. He gained more than ten pounds, and his originally skinny face also became much rounder. Three meals a day of white bread and water were enough.
The fresh fish and fat pig made him feel good. Not to mention it was a supplement for his brain, it was a real supplement for his whole body.
For these candidates who actively moved closer to the new regime, the examination committee of Beihai Town gave a lot of care. In addition to the initially mentioned ten silver dollar allowance, their food and accommodation in Beihai Town were free of charge, and each of them was also given two sets of new clothes.
and shoes and socks, and a living allowance of 30 yuan.
In addition, the examination committee also organized the candidates to visit the demonstration farm in Xingkai Lake, visit the steel factory and railway station in Khabarovsk Town, and visit the commodity trading market.
Before the tour started, Yu Deli made a request to all the candidates, asking them to write an "essay" on the things they are most interested in based on what they saw and heard during the tour, regardless of the subject. He planned to give these people a
Get a feel for it first so that you can plan subsequent training sessions in a targeted manner.
"Shen Lun" is naturally familiar to people who took the civil service examination in another time and space. Its function is to test a person's analytical ability to deal with problems and whether the discussion of the problem is clear. Its source is not from "Confucius said", but from Qianlong's words -
- "The gentleman advances and the villain retreats. They need each other and complement each other. Cai Chuan cited it but did not publish it, so I will comment on it."
During the ten-day tour, what shocked everyone the most was the steel plant still under construction and the train in operation. Of course, whether it was a tractor or a motorboat running on Heilongjiang, or a train on the shore of Xingkai Lake
The millions of acres of wheat fields are also jaw-dropping.
The construction period of the Khabarovsk Iron and Steel Plant is four years, and it is planned to be officially put into operation in 1795. However, the 3,200 cubic volume iron-making blast furnace has already been erected, and trial production has also begun.
As the taphole was slowly opened, the fiery red molten iron spurted out, creating a dazzling stream of light. This shocked everyone who came to visit. When they learned that this steel plant was completed after it was completed,
The annual output is as high as six billion catties. Lin Qizong and other children's eyes suddenly dropped to the ground.
Not to mention them, Yuan Mei and Zhao Yi didn't look much better when they came to visit; the more than seventy-meter-high blast furnace alone made them feel dizzy.
It is said that since the blast furnace was erected, Hezhe and Oroqen fishermen who go boating in the middle reaches of Heilongjiang River will pay homage to the iron-making blast furnace before the start of the fishing season to pray for a good harvest.
In fact, Lin Qizong felt that Beihai Town was not like the human world from the moment the ship arrived at Whale Port. He felt that the books he had read could not explain everything in front of him. Many affairs in Beihai Town were different from Jiaodong, but when he
When I heard various southern and northern accents, I realized that this was indeed a real world.
After the tour, all the candidates began to rack their brains to "write homework." Unlike other people who wrote about trains, steamships, tractors, and wheat fields, Lin Qizong decided to find another way after repeated consideration, and wrote about the big town of Boli Town.
market as the theme.
The main reason for choosing this direction is that this guy is a glutton, and the various delicacies and game sold in the big market in Khabarovsk are delicious and cheap. Also, his father-in-law opened a grocery store in Muping City.
Shop, specializing in goods from the north and south.
Khabarovsk's big market originated from the "Gong Mink Shopping Festival" in the Manchu Dynasty. It was originally an annual festival and has evolved into a regular market three years ago. Except for the six months of winter and early spring, the remaining
This place is very lively for half the year.
Every year after the spring fishing season, the Hezhe people, Feyaka people and Xibo people who had harvested a lot of things would either drive their own fast-horse boats or take the passenger and cargo flat-bottomed boats in Beihai Town with their large and small bags.
Let’s trade.
After they arrive, they must first go to the market management department to register with their ID cards, and then get a receipt, and then they can go in and set up stalls to sell goods.
There was once a clerk who wanted to make a fortune during the registration process and took advantage of the opportunity to get a card. In order not to be discovered, the clerk even found an honest person who could not be kicked out to blackmail him, and the other party gave him a card without hesitation.
mink.
However, what the clerk didn't know was that surveillance had been installed inside and outside the market management department. After he collected the items, people from the Public Security Police Department came to look for him. He returned the items he collected before and was fined.
Two months' salary, and loudspeakers installed inside and outside the market announced the entire incident in Mandarin and Manchu.
From then on, the border residents said that King Zhao placed a three-eyed Ma Wangye in the market to watch for good and evil. Anyone who dared to do bad things would be arrested by the security police. When Zhao Xin learned about it, he just smiled.
I don’t want to explain this, it’s just right to keep it a bit mysterious, so that those who try to take advantage of the fire will be even more afraid.
Lin Qizong noticed that the border residents who traded in the big market were very trustworthy and friendly in dealing with others, which wiped away the "barbarian" impression in his mind. Not only was there a dazzling array of rare goods in the market, but every stall owner had sold out everything.
Afterwards, he would take the initiative to go to the tax office to pay taxes, and the taxes were exactly the same, and some even paid more. This made him very puzzled.
However, when he inquired with a stall owner from Hezhe who was fluent in Mandarin, he learned that this tax was really insignificant compared to what he had to pay tribute to when he participated in the "Wulin Appreciation".
During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, it was said that one household was required to pay tribute to one mink skin, but in addition to mink skins, each village and family also had to pay tribute to various rare mountain goods including seaweed, which had to be divided among the heads of each border villager.
Among the things rewarded by the imperial court in the past, apart from grain, cloth, needles, thread, and brains, there were very few iron items. If anyone had a small iron pot, it would definitely be the envy of the people around them.
Lin Qizong asked Nahe Zhe at that time: "What about now?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The stall owner smiled and said: "Buy whatever you want now, a big silver dollar a piece. Not to mention my family, every household in our village has a big iron pot weighing eight kilograms."
Lin Qizong was shocked when he heard this. A person like him who has been immersed in fame all year round should have no idea about prices. But because of the business his father-in-law is engaged in, this guy often comes to visit Qiufeng. He comes and goes and knows a little about the sales price of ironware.
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The private smelting and casting industry during the Qianlong era was mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Taking Xingguo, Jiangxi as an example, the wholesale price of the source of wrought iron was one cent of silver per kilogram of wrought iron, and it was at least 3 to 4 cents for shipping to the north.
The cost alone for an iron pot weighing one or eight pounds is 3 taels of silver. If a blacksmith shop or grocery store makes a little more money, it will cost 56 taels of silver in the hands of ordinary people. When converted into money, it is about 550 to 700 taels of silver.
It's really not cheap.
The "essays" of more than a dozen candidates were sent to Yu Deli's desk three days later, and Lin Qizong's article quickly attracted his attention.
When this guy was at home, he made a living by writing letters for others. First of all, his handwriting was very good, and his handwriting was very pleasing to the eye. Furthermore, he was investigated for extorting money through the marketing management department personnel, which shows what it means.
"If his body is upright, he will not be able to do it if he is not told; if his body is not upright, he will not obey even if he is told." Then he pointed out the theme and praised Zhao Xin's merits.
Yu Deli felt that Lin Qizong's writing was pretty good. After all, most people wrote about steel plants, and only he wrote about the big market. However, in Wang Zhong's view, all the candidates' articles were nonsense, even if
Even if you flatter me, you won't be able to get it right.
How fresh! Wang Zhong's articles ranked among the top ten in the entire Qing Dynasty, and his writing style was especially similar to that of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. He is the kind to look up to.
When almost all the candidates who took the exam arrived in Beihai Town, the exam committee had already started the training class that had been prepared for a long time.
The training course lasts for ten days and is located at the Beihai Town Administrative College. Every day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., the content of the training class includes the Four-Book Essay and Essay Courses of Wang Zhong, Duan Yucai, and Jiao Xun.
, the Administrative School also sent several teachers to explain the subjects corresponding to various departments in Beihai Town, as well as administration, industry and commerce, justice, military, industry and mining, science and technology, finance and taxation, and trade.
Lin Qizong was confused and received a large and thick tutoring textbook. After listening to the first introductory class, he realized that Beihai Town not only used eight-legged essays to discuss heroes, but even if he passed the imperial examination, he had to go to the administrative school to take the exam
After one year of study, you will become proficient in one or more professional subjects. Then you will start from the lowest level and work for at least three years before you can become an official. To become a parent official in a county, there is no one who has been at the lowest level for more than five years.
Don’t even think about it due to experience and multiple trainings.
The courses in the training class are very intensive, with one class after another from morning to night, which makes Lin Qizong's eyes wide open when he eats every day. Fortunately, the food in the training class for breakfast, lunch and dinner is still good, so he can skip it.
The worry of “brain supplementation”.
In fact, the imperial examinations in the Qing Dynasty also had pre-examination training and tutoring institutions, and as far back as other dynasties, academies of various levels, including government and private, were spread across rural and urban areas across the country, with the total number reaching more than 4,330.
Among them are the earliest one in Chinese history, Lizheng Academy, which was opened during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and the four world-famous academies. In addition, it also includes Zhengyin Academy, which was opened for scholars from Fujian and Guangdong.
These academies usually have four days of classes a month, two days of official classes and two days of teacher classes, and the rest of the time is for fun, bah, self-study.
In addition, well-known colleges have preferential treatment policies in the imperial examinations. The Academic Council will only provide a few admission quotas, otherwise no one will apply. At least four students will be admitted in each subject, and there will be separate examination halls.
In addition to tutoring, government-run and private academies will also issue "tuition money" based on students' performance.
Tuition fees originally referred to lamp oil. Since the rise of academies in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it has become synonymous with student subsidies. Studying naturally requires working day and night, and of course there is no time to engage in side jobs to make a living. The ancients had a long way to go to school.
, without the support of this scholarship fee, I don’t know how many students would be stopped, let alone those from poor families.
However, tuition fees are not that easy to get. Not only is it difficult to get into a good college, there is also the survival of the fittest after entering the college, and rankings are done every month.
Taking Bailudong Academy in Jiangxi as an example, in addition to eight classes including poetry class, classical classics class, policy theory class, and career class, there are also "internal main courses" and "external main courses"; among the top twenty "
Students in the "Neizhengke" class will receive one or two taels of tuition money per month, while those in the 20th to 40th grade will be given the "Wai Zhengke" class, and will receive six taels of tuition money each month.
Lin Qizong once went to the academy in Ninghai Prefecture to attend classes and take tutoring. When he had the best grades, he once received a subsidy of four yuan. However, for a boy to try something like this, it requires both talent and luck. If you have bad luck, you can write whatever you want.
It was useless to come. What's more, the enrollment ratio of students in Dengzhou Prefecture was already low, and there were many people who could write eight-part essays better than him, so he simply didn't go there in the end.
Returning to the pre-examination cram school in Beihai Town, the scholars and students who participated in the new imperial examination for the first time were undoubtedly lucky. Whether it was Wang Zhong, Duan Yucai or Jiao Xuna, they were all famous Confucian scholars in Jiangnan and even the world.
, even Liu Taigong and Hong Liangji were invited back by Yu Deli to give two classes.
Therefore, in Lin Qizong's view, being able to get personal tutoring from these people would make him look good even if he fails to pass the exam and then tell others about his experience. But it is a pity that until the end of the training class, Wang Zhong gave Lin Tongsheng
The article I wrote was still criticized as "bullshit".
It is said that on the third day after Zhao Xin returned to Beihai Town, he arrived at the newly built examination institute early in the morning. When he got off the carriage and took a look, he saw that the empty field of Nuo University was surrounded by a circle of two-meter-high gray tiles and white walls.
, there are two lonely three-story buildings standing side by side on the north side. Although the exterior is painted white, the style is exactly the same as the Tongzilou teaching building that Zhao Xin saw when he was a child.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! On the east side of the building, a red wall more than two meters high was built, covering an area of three or four acres by visual inspection. Looking from the outside
, I can only see the gray tiles on the roof ridge in the yard, and I don’t know what they are used for. In addition, there is a white bark pine planted every five meters under the yard wall, which is still a little green.
"Old Chen, why did you turn the Examination Yuan into such a mess?"
Zhao Xin pursed his lips and unconsciously looked back to the south. Next door outside the white wall is the planned Beihai Town Institute of Technology. Due to careful construction, it will be built into the most beautiful and advanced university in East Asia. Now it has just been built there.
Dig the foundation.
Different from the Tongzi Building of the Examination Yuan, all the buildings of the Polytechnic Institute were specially drawn by someone, and adopted the Chinese design of the top of Zanjiao Xieshan. The Ministry of Trade spent huge sums of money on this, and even through its relationship with Shen Butler Liu Quan,
A large amount of raw lacquer, tung oil, white marble and green glazed tiles were purchased from Guan Nei.
Perhaps sensing Zhao Xin's dissatisfaction, Chen Qingsong, who had rushed back from Fuldan City the day before, took advantage of Wang Zhong and others not paying attention and whispered to Zhao Xin: "You can be like this in six months, so be satisfied. Time is short,
I specially mobilized three construction teams and worked overtime to finish it. Besides, there are radios, heaters, fans, and lights in this building. Have the ancients seen this? Even though it doesn’t look conspicuous on the outside, we call it an internal show. Tomorrow
The slogans and other things are ready, and when the time comes, hang them up, put in some colorful flags, and let’s get started!”
Zhao Xin said helplessly: "Have all the surveillance cameras been installed?"
"Of course! There are no blind spots in all directions."
Zhao Xin nodded, pointed to the separate courtyard and asked, "What is that courtyard used for?"
"The main examination room and the examination room! The monitoring room is also inside."
"I'll wipe it! Go over and take a look."
After Zhao Xin said that, he raised his feet and walked over there.