Youlan said: "According to the current formula, the cost of one tael is estimated to be about five wen, so wouldn't it be sold for fifty wen if it is delicately packaged?" ”

He Zhiyuan shook his head and said, "No! It must be sold for at least 100 Wen, and glass bottles should be used for exquisite packaging, so the cost of glass bottles must be added, so it must be sold for at least 100 Wen. Porcelain bottles for ordinary packaging, each bottle is one tael, so it will be sold for at least 30 wen. ”

"Isn't the glass bottle too extravagant?" Youlan asked in surprise.

"That's what the wealthy and aristocracy want." He Zhiyuan replied, in fact, he was thinking that the cost of this kind of glass bottle and porcelain bottle is about the same, and even the cost of glass bottle is lower. But now glass is a luxury, and condiments in glass bottles may also be bought and repaid. Thinking of this, He Zhiyuan decided to use green glass bottles, because green glass is glass that does not remove iron-containing impurities, which is lower in cost and different from colorless transparent glass.

After that, Youlan asked some things about raw material procurement, management personnel arrangement, worker training, etc., He Zhiyuan helped him answer them one by one, seeing that Youlan was busy alone, and one person was really too busy, so he transferred a few people from the soap factory as her helpers.

He Zhiyuan helped Youlan plan it, and Youlan and her helpers did the rest. Even if He Zhiyuan is confident, it is time to prepare for the autumn exam, at least he must memorize the answer sheet given by Liang Yuesong well. It was He Zhiyuan who began to really read at home in Juzhou City.

Time flies like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of July, and there is less than a month before the time of autumn. At this time, it was time for He Zhiyuan to leave for Jinan, the provincial capital. Now Yan Jihai has completely become a wild horse, observing wheat and rice in the experimental field every day, and the autumn season is the season when rice flowers and pollinates, He Zhiyuan knows that he will definitely not give up the opportunity to only have so many days a year, so he didn't even ask him, and simply took his new apprentice Yin Lifu to set off on the road.

At this time, scholars from various provinces poured into Jimian, and the inns and inns in the provincial capital increased in price several times, but they were still full of people regardless of distance or nobility. In this way, there are still many candidates who have to stay in private houses, of course, the price is only expensive. Zhou Fuliu originally planned to let him live in the backyard of Jinan Zhouji Department Store, but He Zhiyuan thought that the store was noisy, so he refused her kindness and asked Zhou Fuliu to book a first-class inn very close to the Gongyuan in advance.

There were no words all the way, He Zhiyuan and Yin Lifu walked for seven days without hurry before arriving at the provincial capital Jinan. At this time, walking on the streets of Jinan, your eyes are full of people wearing square scarves and straight jackets, if you don't know how to speak official language, and you don't have "Zhihu also" in your words, you are embarrassed to speak. For a while, the city was full of texts, sour and sour, and there was no need to be vinegar to eat dumplings.

At this time, the scale of the literary meeting was naturally much larger, and there were also some old-timers who had achieved extremely high rankings, who would come to the stage to give lectures at the invitation of the governor and the student, and the number of scholars who listened to the lecture reached as many as 1,000, which was spectacular.

Of course, this is not a small talk, this kind of literary meeting is actually a place for those who have come to pass on their experience to the candidates. From how to prepare for the exam to what you have learned when taking the exam, it is a popular topic for candidates.

Naturally, the discussion of the content of the exam is the top priority of the cultural association. Compared with the children's examination and the annual examination, the scientific examination, the amount of questions and examination subjects of the township examination have been greatly expanded, and many candidates who take the township examination for the first time often cannot adapt to the intensity of the examination, and the body and mind collapse.

Therefore, before the exam, you must fully understand the subjects and forms of the exam, and be fully prepared for production. The examination lasted for nine days and was divided into three sessions of three days each, including the first session on the ninth day of August, the second session on the 12th, and the third session on the 15th.

In the first test, there are three questions, each with more than 200 words. There are four ways of righteousness, each with more than 300 words. If you can't answer the answer, you can subtract one each, but don't expect a good ranking.

The second trial is a one-piece argument, more than 300 words. There are five judgments, one for the edict, the table, the inside, and the department.

The third test of scriptures, history, and strategies is more than 300 words. If it fails, it is allowed to subtract two.

Obviously, the first session of the Four Books and Five Classics is to test the candidates' familiarity and knowledge of the Confucian classics. The second session is to examine the students' ability to distinguish right from wrong and write a kind of official document administration. The third session was to examine the students' knowledge of ancient and modern political affairs.

This set of examination contents and regulations has been in use since the reopening of the course in the 17th year of Hongwu. If the examiner can treat the three examination papers strictly and comprehensively examine the students, there is no doubt that most of the people selected are educated, knowledgeable and capable administrative talents. In order to avoid the selection of literate scholars, Emperor Taizu also canceled the "trial poems" that the Tang and Song dynasties attached great importance to, and clearly stipulated that only applied literature should be examined, not poetry and songs.

But alas, in the actual marking process, this is almost impossible. Because the township examination papers are notoriously short in time and heavy in tasks, gods and men cannot complete the work with quality and quantity.

The Daming Law stipulates that after the first test is completed on August 12, the examiner will sign the papers in the room, and then each room will start to mark the papers separately. The admission and release time shall not be later than the end of August, and it will only be ten days before the start of grading. After deducting the middle banquet and laughter, the real marking time is only three or four days.

In addition, the two main examiners do not directly mark the papers, they just check the test papers recommended by the six same examiners, and decide whether to take them or not, so all the marking tasks are pressed on several same examiners. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was barely competent, because after years of war, the population has dropped sharply, and there are fewer scholars, for example, in the four years of Hongwu, only a few hundred people should take the Shandong Township Examination, and today, this number has reached more than 3,000 people.

Moreover, the workload of marking the paper is not only determined by the number of test papers, but also depends on the amount of answers to the test papers. On average, a student has to answer more than 2,200 words in the first game, 3,500 words in the second game, and more than 3,000 words in the third game, with a total of nearly 10,000 words in the three games. The heavy task of marking more than 30 million words is all on a few fellow examiners, and for these test papers, they must be careful with every word, and they must not be like the children's examination and scientific examination.

Because the township test is a ceremony for the country's talents, those who are selected are qualified to be officials, and its importance is not to mention the degree of the rise and fall of the country. Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of marking, after the public admission list, the provinces also need to send the test papers of the selected candidates to the Ministry of Rites for review of the examination papers, which is called "grinding and surveying".

The "grinding survey" is generally completed by the Ministry of Rites in conjunction with the Hanlin Academy, and those noble and boring officials will review each test paper to check whether the examiner is cheating in the marking process, and whether the examiner is serious about marking the papers, such as typos in the test papers, sentences that do not make sense, etc., and whether the examiner has marked them. For the mistakes and omissions in the process of marking the papers with the examiner, once they are found out, they must be severely punished. According to the regulations, if there is no "sentence reading" in the process of marking the paper with the examiner, there will be a penalty of downgrading one level, and if the "sentence reading" of the same examiner is wrong, it will be fined for one year. If the circumstances are serious, they will be demoted by several levels and fined for several years. Those fellow examiners are petty officials of six or seven grades, who can stand it?

Making a fuss about "sentence reading" to let fellow examiners read the papers is simply perverted to the extreme. Because there is no punctuation for writing articles at this time, when grading with the examiner, you must carefully read every sentence of each article, otherwise you will not be able to break the sentence circle at all.

Therefore, it is impossible for the examiner to read ten lines at a glance, they must read it word by word, not only to pay attention to whether the text is smooth or not, but also to write comments on each test paper and state the reasons for whether to recommend the paper.

Just imagine, there are so many test papers, the time is so short, and there are so few graders, and if there is a mistake, you will be impeached, demoted and punished. And the content of the exam is so complex, involving so many genres, and the articles are thousands of faces, there are differences between ordinary and real, complex and simple, even if the same examiners are all gods, it is impossible to read all the test papers on time with quality and quantity.

Therefore, after hundreds of years of change, the examiners gradually formed a tacit understanding, and the marking only focuses on the first seven articles and eight strands, and for the next two games, only the text needs to be smooth and there are no typos.

Why do you only focus on eight strands? Because this is a very strict format, it is easier for the examiner to grasp the advantages and disadvantages of right and wrong. Therefore, it can greatly improve the speed of marking, facilitate the evaluation of the suitability of the test papers, make all the test papers read one by one as scheduled, and minimize the subjective factors of the examiner, so as to ensure the seriousness and fairness of the official selection examination.

For example, the stylistic rules of Baguwen stipulate that only two sentences can be used to solve the problem at the beginning, if the meaning of the topic is not solved in two sentences, or although the meaning of the topic is solved, the sentences used are more than two sentences. or the names of sages such as Confucius and Mencius are involved in the problem, and the pronouns are not used, this article is suitable and can not be taken. You can read the rest directly.

Each of the following "Undertaking Topic", "Original Topic", "Beginning Talk", "Entering the Topic", etc., has strict format and chapter requirements, right or wrong, clear at a glance, and there is no dispute. If one of them fails, the volume can be deposed, saving a lot of time.

Basically, through this completely no-brainer method, more than half of the exam papers can be eliminated. For the remaining small half of the whole text, see whether it has achieved the beginning and end, whether the context is clear, and whether the level is clear. If you do a good job in these aspects, you can add comments from the same examiner and recommend them to the two examiners for final decision.

Therefore, although its rigid procedures and rigid constraints are criticized, it is true that candidates can only follow the trend and dare not go beyond half a step. However, it is precisely because it has strict regulations on the beginning and end, and even strict regulations on the number of words and sentences, so that the examiner can check each test paper at a glance, which greatly saves the time of subjective thinking, improves the efficiency of marking, and increases the objectivity of marking, and minimizes the subjective factors of the examiner, so as to ensure the rights and interests of the candidates to the greatest extent, so that the truly outstanding can obtain fame. It is the most objective and fair way to acquire talents in this era.

How to write a good eight-strand essay requires years of hard reading and training that can be tempered, and now it is too late to improve the level at this time. At such a time, the senior famous teachers mainly taught the candidates the problems that should be avoided in writing, such as the need to avoid the royal name, not allowed to describe oneself, etc., and always avoid these careless Jingzhou is.

In general, the township is much stricter than any previous exam, but there are also less strict, that is, the font requirements for candidates are not high. Because all the exam papers will be transcribed by someone with the same handwriting, as long as you write the words clearly, it will not affect the score, and the same is true for the exam.

But this does not mean that a dignified and good character is useless, because in the palace examination, the method of on-site marking will be adopted, and there is no need to transcribe, as long as the handwriting is not good, don't think about entering the second class and entering Hanlin. You say that the weight of a good stroke is not important?