Vientiane Academy manages food, clothing, housing and transportation, and everything should be, but it is not a lip service.

All items, tableware, clothing, bedding, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for studying, are provided.

When Zhang Junping arrived at the academy, Master Liu had not left, and after settling the account, Master Liu took the initiative to take someone to move the furniture to the room, put it neatly, and cleaned the room and the yard.

The simple craftsman used this way to thank Zhang Junping for his reward.

The area of the academy is very large, there are hundreds of houses on the left and right, the front yard is more than 20 classrooms and the dormitory of Mr. Teaching, the middle yard is larger, Zhang Junping arranged for people to build a row of houses, now there are more than 40 houses, here is the dormitory of students.

There are also two small courtyards in the east and west, the east courtyard is where the great Confucian scholars lived, and the west courtyard has been converted into a canteen.

There is also a large back garden at the back, but now, the back garden has been converted into a playground by Zhang Junping.

Zhang Junping walked around the room and looked at it.

There are thirty desks in the classroom, and these desks are not bookcases of this era, but desks of later generations.

Throughout the history of the development of ancient furniture, it will be found that the Song Dynasty was a dynasty that underwent major changes in furniture.

The Song Dynasty completed the transformation from kneeling to a chair.

It is now the beginning of the Song Dynasty, although there are chairs, tables, desks and other furniture for studying.

However, in the early stage of the change, there was still a big problem, that is, the table was too low and the case was too high, which did not conform to the human body structure, and to put it bluntly, it was uncomfortable to use.

The Song Dynasty has not yet considered the relationship between the size of the furniture and the structure of the human body, the bookcase is too high, sitting on a chair, having to hold the arms, after a long time, people are very easy to get tired.

The table is too low, and people lie on it to write, and for a long time, it will cause deformation of the spine, such as hunchback.

Therefore, Zhang Junping designed a set of tables and chairs for students to use according to the ergonomics.

"Mr. Xie, have you ever used this chalk? Is it easy? Zhang Junping stood in the classroom, picked up a piece of chalk, and asked Xie Kan, who was following him.

"This chalk invented by the mountain chief is really a sharp tool for teaching, writing on the stone slab with chalk, at the beginning, I was somewhat unaccustomed, and after a little practice, I will get used to it!"

In this era, there must be no blackboard, Zhang Junping asked people to buy large pieces of bluestone, spliced it and inlaid it on the wall, and used it as a blackboard.

Not only that, but each student was also given a one-foot-square bluestone to practice writing.

Not only that, the ground in the front yard and the middle courtyard are all paved with bluestone, which is not only for pomp, but also for students to practice calligraphy.

Practicing calligraphy is still very expensive in this era, but in this era, fonts are very important, and the quality of handwriting is directly related to the fate of readers to some extent.

Poor literature and rich martial arts is just a very broad description, and the real poor cannot afford to read at all.

Zhang Junping is not short of money now, but he can't afford to be a loser and take good rice paper for students to practice calligraphy.

After going around the academy, Zhang Junping saw that all aspects were almost ready, so he said to Xie Kan: "Inform those students that they will be admitted to the hospital tomorrow!" ”

"Understood! I'm going to arrange for someone to inform! Xie Kan agreed.

There are not only gentlemen who teach, but also miscellaneous servants who are in charge of sundries.

Xie Kan arranged for the miscellaneous servants to go separately to inform the students who signed up to be admitted to the hospital tomorrow.

A simple admission notice caused waves in Kaifeng Mansion.

"Did you hear that?" In the restaurant, someone asked loudly like the people around him.

This is a routine of passing gossip, first shouting to attract everyone's attention, and then wanting to catch the truth, want to tell you the news, first ask you do you know?

Wait until you say you don't know, that's easy!

He began to tell you what he knew, artistically processed gossip.

"What's the matter?" Sure enough, someone next to him asked rhetorically.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and the people who drink in the restaurant at this point are basically idlers, and the ones who are most interested in gossip are this kind of idlers.

"Then Vientiane Academy will officially open tomorrow!"

"Opened? Then I hurried to inform my sister-in-law's aunt, her boy was lucky to sign up! ”

"You don't need to be informed, the academy has already arranged for people to go door-to-door to notify!"

"You don't understand that, do you? For such a big event, you have to congratulate you in person! The man arched his hand and got up to leave.

"Leave him alone, congratulations, Li Er is going to beg for a drink!" A person next to him who knew Li Er broke the mechanism in one word.

"I'll just say it! The son of his sister-in-law's mother-in-law, still uses him to say goodbye?

Speaking of which, I really envy those who can report their names!

My family went a little late, and I couldn't report my name, so my mother-in-law complained a lot! I don't know, when will Vientiane Academy re-enroll? ”

"I heard that the officials of the Zhang family are planning to build a larger academy outside the city, which can accommodate thousands of students at the same time, and I don't know when it will be completed?"

"A college of thousands? That's bigger than Taixue! ”

"Who's to say it isn't! The officials of the Zhang family have money and are willing to take out the money to support the scholars! This is the true house of goodness! ”

"Brother Tai's words are wrong, that Zhang family is not a plain sponsor for studying, it costs 300 yuan a year, and ordinary academies can't spend so much money even for ten years! It can be seen that the Zhang family is more black-hearted than the loan shark! "A book-reading man with oily hair and a powdery face, shaking a folding fan, put forward a different opinion.

"Nonsense! The Zhang family made it clear in advance, and also signed a contract, and only after the entrance examination did they receive money! If you don't pass the exam, you won't receive a penny!

The Vientiane Academy only admits 300 people, of which 100 are Mengxue, how many Jinshi can 200 people pass the exam?

It would be great to have three or five!

Three or five jinshi are only more than 1,000 yuan a year, which is enough to support a college?

If you don't understand, don't bark here! Disturb the mood! Suddenly, a middle-aged scholar dressed as a scholar in his thirties took the case and reprimanded the oily-haired scholar.

The imperial examination system of the Song Dynasty was divided into three steps, the first step was the government examination, also known as the continental examination, and after that, it was to raise people. In the spring of the second year after the government examination, the provincial examination was held, also known as the hospital examination, and the academy examination was the jinshi, and finally there was the palace examination, which was hand-picked by the emperor.

After passing the second level, he was awarded the Jinshi, and he could become an official no matter what the results of the palace examination were.

The prefectural examination is that students from a prefecture take the exam together and are admitted according to the quota.

In the provincial examination, tens of thousands of students from all over the country gathered in the capital for a unified examination, and only three or four hundred people were finally admitted. It can be seen that the competition is many times greater than the national examination in later generations.

Therefore, the middle-aged scholar just now said that three or five jinshi in the first examination of Vientiane Academy is a very powerful thing.