Taixue's entrance exam is scheduled for the first day.

In other words, it is the first day of the first month, which is the Spring Festival.

However, now that the Han Dynasty has not changed the calendar, this day is naturally not the beginning of the year.

In order to conform to the sense of ritual in his heart, and in order to make Du County more lively before and after this day, Zhang Yuan selfishly set this day as the day of Taixue's entrance exam.

As early as half a month ago, Du County gradually began to be lively.

The students who did not pass the entrance exam were not considered to be students of Taixue, so Zhang Yuan did not occupy the place in Taixue for these students from other places to live.

Instead, let them find a place to live in other parts of Du County on their own, all the way to the time when the list is released and the admission quota is confirmed.

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

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

Later generations and the current children of the Han family are two concepts at all, a level below the family is the Han family, and then there are the upper households, the middle households, and the lower households, these are all free people, that is to say, they are not vassals of some people, and they are not slaves or anything if they are ugly.

These people accounted for less than half of the population of the Han Dynasty, and there were tenants, slaves, craftsmen, and so on.

There are also wild people who hid in the mountains because they couldn't even pay the thirty taxes.

Those who can buy books to read or even send their children to government schools must at least be a household, saying that they are a household, saying that they are a household does not mean that they have more money, maybe there is at most a cow or a chicken in the family, and the assets in the family that can be exchanged for money add up to more or less thousands of dollars.

As for the poor family, there is no 10,000 yuan in the family, how can I be embarrassed to say that I am 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 of Du County richer.

You must know that most of the people in Du County were craftsmen, or forced servants who were brought in, and these people were the lowest class of the Han Dynasty.

Of course, if there is really a case of being able to read without a penny, Zhang Yuan also made two preparations.

The post station in Du County was opened for students to live for free, but regardless of food and drink, there was a room for every ten people, and it was no better than that of slave servants.

In addition, some vacant warehouses were also packed, beds were prepared, the environment was worse than the post station, a warehouse put more than 50 beds, and free rice porridge was distributed every day.

In the end, it was no different from what Zhang Yuan thought, those free warehouses were not inhabited at all, and there were only dozens of people living in the post station.

Compared with the 4,000 candidates, dozens of people can reach 1 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 30,000 or 40,000 people, and more than 4,000 candidates can easily accommodate it.

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

His Majesty the Emperor was very generous this time, and he didn't think that Zhang Yuan would use these 100 palace guards to do something rebellious, so he directly waved his hand and approved it.

Then there were more than 100 Taixue officials and more than 50 lecturers who had recently joined Taixue.

More than 4,000 sets of tables, cushions and bamboo slips have indirectly created wealth for the people of Du County.

Zhang Yuan is not generous enough to prepare for the exams for students who have not enrolled in the school, although he is not short of the money now, but it also depends on where it is spent.

Princess Pingyang is still strictly controlling the price of paper for sale, and until there is no paper of the same quality as Zhang Yuan's paper mill on the market, Princess Pingyang plans to sell it at a high price.

Zhang Yuan was a little helpless, but there was nothing he could do, now the two of them belonged to the same economic community, and Princess Pingyang was the leader, Zhang Yuan couldn't say anything if he had resentment in his heart.

can only wait for an appropriate time to spread the papermaking technology, as for waiting until the market is saturated and then reducing the price, Zhang Yuan has never thought about it.

From ancient times to modern times, when has the paper thing been saturated?

In order to make Du County prosperous, Zhang Yuan used a lot of thoughts, but he did not let some special industries enter Du County.

Students who study too much can go to Chang'an to play, go to Maolingyi to play, go to Yanglingyi to play, and go to Changlingyi to play, but they can't play in Du County.

Catch one and expel one, Zhang Yuan also said hello to Du County Commander Mei Gao, if the family does this in Du County, they will be ruthless, they should be fined and fined if they arrest people, and Zhang Yuan will bear whatever happens.

The literati at the time of the founding of the Han Dynasty were not bad, and the literati at that time only studied scriptures.

Now that Fuxue is rising, King Shou of Meigao Wuqiu and Sima Xiangru are among the representatives, and Sima Xiangru has an extraordinary status in everyone's minds.

Sima Xiangru doesn't need to say that, I don't know now, when I was young, I must have stayed in the land of flowers and willows all day long.

It can be seen clearly from his endowment, and Dongfang Shuo, the matter of changing a wife a year is not a rumor at all, this is especially true.

Zhang Yuan was stunned after understanding it, that envy, jealousy and hatred, he also wanted to leave the foolish opinion in his heart and play like this.

These people are all new literati, and they don't have their share in governing the country, but they have played a huge role in promoting the progress of literature, and these guys are still high-spirited, and Liu Che still likes these people.

Of course, although Taixue is mainly based on scripture education, it is impossible to completely exclude these new literati who are not good at scripture.

It can be seen that Liu Che still hopes that Taixue can cultivate some scholars for his personal preferences, if he can really cultivate another Sima Xiangru, the effect will definitely be better than cultivating a thousand good officials in Liu Che's mind.

Because these new literati are not very familiar with the scriptures, and there are also those virtuous and square, filial piety, and other people who come to Taixue to take the exam, Zhang Yuan specially set all these people as special students.

According to their way of coming to Taixue, an additional assessment will be added, and some additional points will be added according to their respective grades.

This extra score is very high, because Zhang Yuan is afraid that it will be low, and these people will really be brushed down, and if they are brushed down, they will be slapping the face of the county government.

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

Does Zhang Yuan dare to do this?

Can't!