Straight man of steel

Chapter 329
The entrance examination for Taixue is scheduled for Zhengdan.

In other words, the first day of the first lunar month is also the Spring Festival.

But now the big man has not changed the calendar, so this day is naturally not the beginning of the year.

In order to conform to the sense of ritual in his heart and to make Du County more lively around this day, Zhang Yuan selfishly set this day as the day of the entrance examination for Taixue.

As early as half a month ago, Du County gradually became lively.

Students who have not passed the entrance examination are not considered students of Taixue, so Zhang Yuan did not appropriate the place in Taixue for these students who came from other places.

Instead, let them find a place to live in other places in Du County until the announcement of the list confirms the number of admissions.

Therefore, a large number of private inns and restaurants have sprung up in Du County in a short period of time, and many ordinary people have also opened their unoccupied private houses in exchange for some remuneration.

There are no poor people who can study in this era, Zhang Yuan can directly conclude that.

The later generation and the current poor family are basically two concepts. The lower level of the aristocratic family is the poor family, and then there are upper households, middle households, and lower households. These are free people, which means that they are not vassals of certain people The ugly point is that it is not a slave or something.

These people accounted for less than half of the population of Dahan, and there were tenants, slave artisans, and so on.

There are also savages who hide in the mountains because they can't even pay the thirty taxes.

Those who can buy books, read, or even send their children to government schools must at least be registered households. Being registered does not mean that they are rich. Maybe there is at most a cow or a chicken in the family, which can be replaced in the family. The assets that become money add up to more or less thousands of dollars.

As for the poor family, there is no ten thousand yuan in the family, so how dare you say that you are a child of the poor family.

The rich and the poor are compared, and Zhang Yuan doesn't mind exploiting these poor children to make the people in Du County richer.

You must know that most of the people in Du County were craftsmen, or they were dragged into corvée. These people are the lowest class of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, Zhang Yuan also made two-handed preparations if there was a case where he could study without a penny.

The inn in Du County was opened to let students live for free, but regardless of food and drink, every ten people have a room, which is no better than slaves and servants.

In addition, some vacant warehouses were booked and beds were prepared. The environment was worse than that of the post station. There were more than 50 beds in one warehouse, and free rice porridge was distributed every day.

In the end, it was no different from what Zhang Yuan thought. There were no people living in those free warehouses, and only a few dozen people lived in the posthouse.

Compared with the [-] candidates, dozens of people can barely reach one percent.

Because of the large number of people, Zhang Yuan decided to place the examination room directly on the square in Taixue, which is the square in front of the front hall.

It can accommodate 4 to 4000 people, and more than [-] candidates can easily accommodate it.

In order to meet the exams and to be strict with them, Zhang Yuan borrowed a hundred palace guards from Chang'an City, directly from Liu Che.

His Majesty the Emperor was very generous this time, and he didn't think about whether Zhang Yuan would use the hundred palace guards to do something rebellious, so he approved it with a big wave of his hand.

Then there are more than 100 Taixue officials and more than 50 lecturers who have recently joined Taixue to make continuous inspections.

More than 4000 sets of tables, cushions and bamboo slips indirectly created wealth for the people of Du County.

Zhang Yuan is not generous enough to prepare papers for the exams for students who have not enrolled. Although he is not short of the money now, it depends on where it is spent.

Princess Pingyang is still strictly controlling the selling price of paper. Until there is no paper of the same quality as Zhang Yuan's paper mill in the market, Princess Pingyang plans to keep selling it at a high price.

Zhang Yuan felt helpless, but there was nothing he could do. Now that the two belonged to the same economic community, and Princess Pingyang was the leader, Zhang Yuan couldn't say anything if he felt resentful.

He can only wait for an appropriate time to spread the papermaking technology. As for waiting until the market is saturated before lowering the price, Zhang Yuan never thought about it.

From ancient times to modern times, when did paper become saturated?
In order to make Du County prosperous, Zhang Yuan used a lot of thought, but he controlled that some special industries did not enter Du County.

Students of Taixue can go to Chang'an, Maoling, Yangling, and Changling, but they can't play in Du County.

Catch one and fire the other. Zhang Yuan also greeted Mei Gao, the magistrate of Du County. Zhang Yuan is responsible for everything.

The literati when the Han Dynasty first founded the country were not bad, but the literati at that time only studied Confucian classics.

Now that the study of Fu is on the rise, King Meigaoqiu Shou and Sima Xiangru are the representatives of it, and Sima Xiangru has an extraordinary status in everyone's minds.

Needless to say about Sima Xiangru, I don't know now, when he was young, he must have been hanging around all day long.

It can be seen clearly from his Fu, and Dongfang Shuo, the fact that he changes his wife every year is not a rumor at all, it is so fucking true.

After Zhang Yuan knew about it, he was stunned. That envy, jealousy, and hatred, he also wanted to put aside his humble opinion and play like this.

These people are all new literati, and they have no role in governing the country, but they have played a huge role in promoting the development of literature, and these guys are still high-spirited, so Liu Che still likes these people.

Of course, although Taixue focuses on Confucian classics education, it is impossible to completely exclude these new literati who are not good at Confucian classics. The family of Wuqiu Shouwang still sits in the position of Taixue Cheng, and the county magistrate of Du County is also Mei Gao.

It can be seen from this that Liu Che still hopes that Taixue can train some masters of Fu for his personal preference. If he can really train another Sima Xiangru, the effect will definitely be better than training a thousand good officials. In Liu Che's mind good.

Because these new literati are not very familiar with Confucian classics, and those who are virtuous and upright, Xiaolian, and other people who came to the Imperial Academy also have to take the exam, Zhang Yuan specially set these people as special students.

According to the way they came to Taixue, an additional assessment was added, and some extra points were added according to their respective scores.

This extra score is very high, because Zhang Yuan is afraid of being low, and these people will really be dismissed. If they are dismissed, they will slap the county government in the face.

If the new literati go down, it will be slapping Liu Che in the face, which is equivalent to telling Liu Che indirectly that these literati you like are actually useless at all, except to cater to your preferences.

Does Zhang Yuan dare to do this?
dare not!

(End of this chapter)