The spread of new things often encounters a variety of difficulties.

For example, the briquette business promoted by dogs is much more convenient and clean than using firewood as fuel, and if it is paired with a tin stove and tin chimney, it can be said that it can greatly improve the safety and comfort of people to make a fire for heating.

The common people also know the convenience of this thing, but the high price is still prohibitive, especially a briquette sells for 20 yuan, except for those rich outsiders and businessmen who do small business, ordinary families are really not willing to buy it.

After all, there are cheap firewood to choose from, and the people who are used to saving money and using it are still making do with the most of their lives.

"It's all because of poverty!"

Su Fatzi, who was sitting on the soft chair, looked at the little adult-like dog, snorted, laughed and said, "You know the reason, why do you have to try it again?" Now it's okay, let's be completely convinced! ”

The dog nodded and said embarrassedly: "Enxiang, the kid admits defeat, so I came here this time just to talk to you about the briquette business." ”

As he spoke, the dog gave a salute and said: "This business has to be handed over to the boy, it will take five days, three things plus one piece, and it is only sold for thirty yuan, from labor to capital, and a lot of money has been lost inside and out, so the boy wants to hand this business back into the hands of the general judge, and then choose a capable person to take care of it!" ”

Su Fatzi saw that the dog was picking and quitting, and he couldn't react for a while, after all, his impression of the dog was that he was a very persevering person.

"Huh, admit defeat with such a little difficulty? This doesn't look like your 'little God of Wealth' style! ”

The dog waved his hand again and again and said: "Don't boast about the judgment, where is the kid worthy of the word 'God of Wealth', if this business lets the kid mess around again, it has to be completely yellow, after this incident, the kid also got a lesson." ”

Su Tongju stared at the dog for a while, and when he saw his calm appearance, he praised him in his heart.

There is no loss for doing business, and besides, the business of this briquette has only just begun, and it has not lost much money, for the wealthy Su Tongju, one hundred and eighty taels of silver is like losing a hair.

"It's not terrible to lose the deal, but it's terrible to not know where it was broken, you come and tell me, what lesson did you realize this time?"

The dog said: "The kid mistakenly thinks that the small trader is an ordinary household!" ”

Su Fat Man laughed and said, "This is a point, what else?" ”

"Well, what's more? Nothing else! The dog replied with a frown.

"Looks like you still haven't figured it out!"

Well, is there something more esoteric? The dog arched his hand and said, "Teach me a good sentence!" ”

Su Fatzi nodded, and said: "People are rich and poor, and the same is true for business, for the rich, the more expensive things are, the more they buy!" As for the poor, they will only pick up cheap ones and buy them, this is their nature, and they can't change it by nature! So when you do business in the future, you have to look at the right crowd, I will teach you a formula, outside the staff, the common people, three dollars and five dollars are hawkers, and thousands of officials are officials. ”

Lead, this time I really understood, why do some people make a lot of money in the same business, while some people lose all their pants.

Not all businesses can be sold cheaply, and not all businesses are expensive and no one buys them, after all, the world of the rich is unimaginable for the poor.

The joke that the emperor took a golden hoe to hoe the ground, and my father also told it to himself.

"Eun Xiang, the kid really understands this time."

"Hehehe, okay, just get it! If you don't want to do this business, then let it go, it happened that Wu Shuai wrote to me, and the letter said that someone will come here to negotiate with me about the briquette business in the near future, and then see how this business is done! ”

The dog arched his hand and said: "That's the best, please arrange someone to take it over from the workshop!" ”

Su Fatzi glanced at the dog and said, "You don't have to do business, but the workshop, you better continue to manage it!" Some of this business is done, I will allocate some more people to you when I go back, and you urge them to make more, and when the business is reopened, the goods must be guaranteed to be sufficient! ”

The dog didn't want to toss this matter anymore, and besides, he had to devote himself to the great cause of the imperial examination next, and deal with black briquettes all day long.

"Back to the judgment, the kid wants to calm down and read the book, so this workshop is ...... Well, by the way, the kid wants to recommend another talent for Eun Xiang! I think the workshop can be taken care of by him alone! ”

"Well, somebody said let me hear it!"

"This person is not an outsider, he is the third son of Tie Lao Hammer, called Tie Xin, who used to study in the county, and later followed his father to learn to make iron, and by the way, he managed the blacksmith shop, and he has some skills!"

"Really? Then you go back and bring it to me to see, by the way, you want to study, have you found a good gentleman? ”

The dog rubbed his head, "Well, not yet!" I'm going to look for it these days! ”

Su Tong snorted and said, "If you are looking for a gentleman, you must find a knowledgeable person, so as not to mislead people's children!" I do know a gentleman, oh, by the way, he happens to run a academy, and the teachers in it are also Xiucai who participated in the imperial examination, why don't I write you a letter to introduce me? ”

There are many things to learn in the imperial examination, especially the Jinshi department, which is broken, and it is difficult to learn, if there is no good gentleman, I am afraid that there is no hope of winning the emperor list in this life.

"Thank you for your cultivation, the kid is grateful!"

Su Fatzi waved his hand, picked up a page of stationery, wrote down a line of words casually, then buckled his own stamp, sewed the letter cover and handed it to the dog: "That, this person's surname is Jin Aijin, if he can be accepted by him and study carefully for two years, it will be no problem to pass the liberation test!" ”

The dog took it with excitement on his face, knelt on the ground and kowtowed seriously: "Then Grace is resting, the kid will go first!" ”

"Okay, you go!"

The dog arched his hand, said goodbye to Su Fatzi, turned around and walked out of Su Mansion, pinching the letter paper along the way and being excited, being able to take the imperial examination means that there is a chance to be an official, at this time someone asked, isn't the dog already an official, why do you still toss it?

Here I want to talk about how the official body of the Great Song Dynasty came about.

Since ancient times, officials have been divided into two categories: civil and military, and the same was true of the Song Dynasty after the Tang Dynasty.

If you want to be an official in the Song Dynasty, it is generally divided into five categories, the first is also the most golden, and the way to be regarded as a righteous person is to become an official by the imperial examination.

The second is that the ancestor is an official, and he was born with the qualification to be an official, and then there is a high-grade official who accumulates merits and enters the stream, and then there is a donation official who spends money to buy, and finally a dog who has military merits.

That is, "tribute, playing, regent, exile, military service, etc."

These five ways, with different degrees of difficulty and different methods, represent different treatment and status, similar to the difference between junior college and undergraduate in later generations.

In addition to the first-class tribute to enter the official path, the rest of the assessment and promotion are very slow, most people can only be the eighth grade, the ninth grade of the last petty officials in their lives, for the official for a year, no achievements, therefore, many people with lofty ideals, or in order to change their fate, to get better promotion opportunities, they will enter the imperial examination room again.

This is the imperial examination that the dog is about to take, that is, the locked hall examination.

Although the people who participated in the lock hall test were all officials, the difficulty of the procedures and questions was the same as that of the general tribute examination, but after all, these people were all "officials", so some of the treatment was better than that of the white-clothed jinshi who took the ordinary examination. Generally, it is one level higher, and the current official rank will be considered for promotion and award.

Especially after the reform of the imperial examination system in the fourth year of Qingli, the new system of participating in the trial of the locking hall and conferring officials stipulates, "There is no limit to the number of examples, and the order is allowed!" ”

Such preferential treatment and care attracted a large number of low-grade officials to rejoin the big wave of imperial examinations.

With the influx of a large number of children from the government and clans, the number of people participating in the locked hall examination has increased exponentially, but fortunately, the locked hall examination does not occupy the general examination quota, so this unique examination has been passed down, like the "on-the-job graduate degree" in later generations.

The official examination of the lock hall examination is a separate examination, and you only need to pass the examination of the prefect to be able to take the examination to the Ministry of Rites, while the ordinary examination of the imperial examination generally has to pass three major passes, that is, the local release examination, the provincial examination and the palace examination can obtain different birth identities such as "giving the Jinshi and the first, the Jinshi origin, and the same Jinshi origin", just like the undergraduate and junior college diplomas of later generations.

After the stability of Beiting Nandu, especially after the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" was reached, the imperial examination ushered in another "bumper harvest", among which the number of people who should be locked in the hall examination broke through the highest in history.

There is no way, the general environment of the officialdom of the Song Dynasty is "humanities and politics", whether it is the "subjects, martial arts" in the regular examination or the "system department, children's department, special performance name, special gift, etc." in the non-subject examination, the speed and influence of promotion are not as good as that of Jinshi Kedengdi.

It is said that the examiner at that time in order to pat his father Qin Hui's ass, he was determined to be the champion, and later Zhao Gou was hindered by the law of the ancestors and the leisurely mouth of the scholars in the world, and he was demoted to the second place, and Chen Chengzhi, who was selected as the champion of Qin Hui's fan "Monopoly and Peace".

Just when the dog was pondering what his chances of winning the liberation test were, a big chaos broke out in the Yamen of Youchuan County.

"Dog officer! Hurry up and release my village and the villagers! ”

"Let go! Let go! Release them! ”

Hundreds of mud-legged men with wooden forks with hoes surrounded the yamen and shouted angry curses.

At the entrance of the yamen, dozens of officials with knives out of their sheaths and arrows on the strings of arrows watched nervously at this group of "rebellious" people, behind them was a tightly closed gate, and behind the gate was a group of panicked officials running around.

Although the door was closed, but the cursing could be transmitted over the wall into the yamen hall, Li Xianling, who was sitting behind the public case, listened to the ugly cursing sounds, the corners of his mouth trembled, picked up the shocking wood on the board is a "bang bang" shot, and after the shooting, he stood up angrily, walked to the hall with his hands behind his back and turned around, scolding while turning his mouth.

"How can this be justified, how can it be justified! This group of bold killers actually dared to surround my county government and scolded me for being a toad and a corrupt official, which is really infuriating to me! ”

After chattering and scolding, the more he scolded, the more angry he became, and suddenly he said to County Lieutenant Liu, who was sitting in front of the hall: "County Lieutenant Liu, you are the acting magistrate of a county, and it is like this outside!" What don't you say? ”

County Lieutenant Liu glanced at Li County, who was blowing his beard and glaring, and said, "Hehe, Li County, you two have done a good thing, now that the matter has happened, what else can I say?" ”