Since ancient times, this business is not a simple matter, how much is the cost of goods, how to ship, how to keep accounts, how to solve a lot of headaches and troubles will be waiting for you to solve, so in addition to having capital to do business, you must also have brains.

When you can only choose between the two, it is natural that the mind is the most important.

For example, the current dog is having a headache for the business of the academy, and when Jin Mugen talked to the dog, the dog didn't agree, but later the old master Jin gave the dog a tempting fruit.

That is to ensure that the dog will be allowed to study in the county this year, and it is also a quota for Longzhou County School.

Entering the county school is better than staying in this dilapidated little academy, not to mention anything else, the thousands of treasured books in the county school alone make the dogs drool.

Speaking of which, I have to talk about the books at this time.

In the Song Dynasty, the handmade papermaking technology was already very proficient, and the books were generally paper, and the use of engraving printing, but the books at that time were not thread-bound, and the current thread-bound will probably not appear until the middle page of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the engraved books, they are called Song Zheben, Shu Ben, Jianben respectively in editions, and the paper pages used are also different, Song Zheben is mainly white hemp paper or jute paper, Song Jianben printing paper is not as good as Zheben, and more use a kind of yellow, even blackened hemp sand paper, Shu Ben mostly uses white hemp paper.

However, in the middle and late Song Dynasty, especially in the south, most of them no longer use expensive hemp as a raw material for papermaking, and basically use local materials, such as mulberry bark, bark, and bamboo to make paper.

Song version of book paper, in terms of its material is mostly divided into leather paper and bamboo paper, this paper material than the previous jute paper, white linen paper is more tough and durable, not easy to be damp and deteriorated, more conducive to the long-term preservation of books, calligraphy and paintings.

But books are still very expensive, writing, engraving, printing, binding costs money and time-consuming, so the price of a book is very expensive, and idlers can not do it easily, so there is a popular industry, the name is "copyist", these people can read and write, can draw but do not understand the text and ink, many of the obvious errors on the sample do not know how to correct, will only be copied as they are, and even add a few more mistakes, back and forth, resulting in many different articles, so that future generations are confused, eager to pull their hair light.

Besides, the dog is young after all, I heard that Mr. Jin can let himself go to the county school, where is he not happy, he took the matter into his arms on the spot, and then patted his brain in the bedroom at night.

"Angry! Obviously, the top two in the academy competition can enter the county school, why should I deal with him for such a bad thing! Well, no, the top two, I don't know how many people participated, and I don't know how the others are studying? Will it be difficult to come out of the test questions, forget it, there is still a relationship to take care of it! ”

The dog muttered under the quilt, and as he was talking, the door creaked open, and Wang Hou and Hua Fourteen walked in together.

"Dog, are you asleep?"

The dog hummed and said, "Sleep!" ”

"Nonsense, you still talk when you sleep!" Wang Hou pouted.

The dog lifted the quilt and said, "Even if you sleep, you still don't come to me, and you still have to wake me up in the end." ”

Hua 14 smiled and said: "Dog, get up, we are learning the art of war, there are many questions I don't know, and there are many words I don't know, you can help us take a look." ”

The dog was so angry, and pointed at the two of them: "I've told you both three times, why can't you remember?" ”

"Don't blame us! Who knew that the martial arts examination still had to write a strategy and read the art of war, if we knew this, we might as well take the imperial examination directly! Wang Hou complained.

The dog sighed, and couldn't sleep, so he got up and got out of bed, put on his coat and walked out of the door.

"'Soldier, treacherous!' It's not 'soldiers, people, and sophistry!' This means that when you fight with soldiers, you are playing a conspiracy! You don't know such a simple question, what kind of martial arts are you going to test! The dog complained to the two of them.

Wang Hou is a person who loves horseback archery more than reciting the art of war, as for Hua Fourteen, well, at present, he is even more stupid, and he knows less than three hundred words, these two people put together, and the dog is very worried that the first level will be brushed down when they go back to Shuai Si to take the exam.

"Didn't you two please Mr., how can you still mispronounce it?"

Wang Hou and the others are both older than the dog, but now is the time to talk about learning, not the age, so the two of them can only be obediently reprimanded by the dog, and they really feel wronged and go back to the top two sentences.

"How do we know that this is what the gentleman pleases taught us! He said that soldiers and people must take dangerous and remote roads in order to be safe and sound, and not to be discovered by the enemy. ”

Dogs: ......

"You two are gentlemen invited from there, aren't you Hu Xiucai who writes letters for others at the gate of the City God Temple, right?"

Wang Hou and Hua Shishi glanced at each other, and gave a thumbs up to the dog in unison, "You're so smart!" He's what we're looking for! ”

The dog sighed, that Hu Xiucai is said to have just passed the enlightenment, I heard that once I copied the Buddhist scriptures for others and copied the wrong words, and asked him to be a gentleman, which was really self-destructive.

Wang Hou and Hua Shishi said that they were also sworn brothers, and the dog didn't want them to be deceived again, so he said: "Forget it, from tomorrow, you two will also follow me to study in the academy!" ”

Hua Shishi's brows furrowed, and he whispered to the dog: "I think Hu Xiucai teaches very well, and many things are reasonable." ”

"yes!" Wang Hou also hurriedly said: "Besides, how expensive it is to enter the academy, Hu Xiucai can teach the four of us with that money." ”

The dog looked at them for a while, this is the imperial examination, and I will go to the Shuai Division and the Ministry of War to take the exam in the future, and I followed Hu Xiucai to learn the art of war, and it is strange that I will not be beaten out of the examination room by the examiner when the time comes.

"You two will listen to me, go to the academy tomorrow, at least you have to learn these military books! As for the money......"

The dog patted his head and said, "You don't need to pay for it, just study!" ”

There was no need to pay to enter the academy to study, so the two of them were naturally happy, so they walked away mocking each other, leaving only the dog laughing at the flickering fire candles.

The weather in August was already sultry, and the dog couldn't wait to take off his shirt and jump into the small lake next to him to swim twice, but today was a big deal, so he had to endure it.

Listening to the sound of a gong in the distance, the dog stopped his steps, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and glanced enviously at the old master Jin who was sitting on the pole, and then looked up from a distance at the students of Cui's College who came to greet everyone under the shade of the trees in the distance.

Today, Gou'er and his entourage were invited by Cui's College to get together, and at the same time as the students of the two academies competed, they talked about the matter of investing in the "martial arts course".

"Martial arts course" is the dog to the Luyuan Academy to offer a clever plan, first let the old master Jin go to the state to find the state and the general judgment, fiercely criticized a martial arts people actually don't even know the word, how to do "resourceful, Wen Tao Wu strategy", just a few books of the art of war are learned in a mess, how can such a move pass the military provincial test held by the Ministry of War, how can it be the important task of cultivating generals for the imperial court, it will only be dark for the state.

Lu Zhizhou and Su Tongju, who were originally inappropriate to say this, hurriedly sat down and listened to Old Master Jin's clever plan.

In this way, Luyuan Academy was classified as the designated academy for Longzhou Wuju people to learn the art of war, if you want to take the martial arts exam, you have to enter the academy to study six volumes of the military book, and also have to write a copy of your own understanding and perception of the art of war and the current situation of the Song and Jin countries, borrowing the official language is the "current affairs and border defense policy", only after the academy pass, this martial arts student will have the qualification to apply for the martial arts examination.

At this time, Luyuan Academy became famous in Longzhou, many Wuju people came to visit, and the academy also changed from the original 30 people to more than 300 people in an instant, and the backyard was originally idle for many years, and it was full of people for a while.

Although these people are martial artists, they only came to study the art of war during this time in Luyuan Academy, so there was no noisy martial arts practice, only the sound of reading loudly.

The scene of hundreds of people reciting the art of war together was very spectacular, and it attracted many people who came to study for a while.

Mr. Jin, who tasted the sweetness, took advantage of the situation and opened the "Mengtong Course", "Arithmetic Course" and "Poetry Painting Course".

These three schools attracted nearly 100 people, and Luyuan Academy was overcrowded for a while.

However, there are more than 100,000 people in Longzhou City, and there are many people who participate in the imperial examination every year, and there are not many people who learn to read and write, and four or five hundred people are nothing at all.

In this exchange, the dog handed over a satisfactory answer as a matter of course, but the old master Jin did not fulfill his promise to send the dog to the county school to study, because there were more people in the academy and there were many things, he sometimes couldn't manage it, and he didn't worry about others, so he had to let Jin Mugen deal with it, where can Jin Mugen be a servant, so Gou'er, a "young talent", was entrusted with a heavy responsibility.

At first, the dog didn't want to agree, but then the old master Jin patted his chest and promised the dog that he would be escorted to the liberation test.

Familiar promises are familiar people, but the dog accepted it again, not why, because Mr. Jin has a letter of recommendation in his hand, which is addressed to a certain member of the Ministry of Rites, as long as the dog takes this letter and knocks on the door of this foreign man's house, at least the Ministry of Rites test will not be inexplicably brushed down, even if the dog takes the test in the locked hall.

Can dogs not want this protection?

So I had to accompany this old man to various colleges to participate in the "college exam" on a hot day.

When they arrived at the gate of Cui's Academy, Dean Cui Liu of the Academy welcomed a few dogs into the academy.

Walking through the long corridor and through a grove of willow forests, the dogs arrived at a hut made of thatched huts, surrounded by more than a dozen servants dressed in brand new clothes waiting to set up their seats, and the seats of the students were preceded by two soft chairs, which were naturally the seats of Master Jin and Dean Cui.

A few students from Luyuan Academy and Cui's Academy sat on both sides, first recognized each other's names, and then reported their current progress in their schoolwork, and then they were divided into three piles.

These three groups of people first do the same test and then compete with each other.

Pairs, poems, calligraphy, and some of the various scripture questions in the "Four Books and Five Classics", and at the end of the day, you have to write a 300-word policy topic, and the title is called "If you dare to specialize, you must divide people"