Chapter Seventy-Nine: Director of the Pig Factory

Hearing this, Huaping glared at Li Yuan angrily, the blush climbed from her fair neck to her face, and she lowered her eyebrows. Although she is already a wife, her face is already thin, how can she have the true character of Li Yuan as a naked "old Jianghu"?

"Daojun, build a pigsty in Qujiang Pond, and the concubines can still be obedient, but the eunuchs are ...... Pigs, this thing really can't be done, not to mention those who read, even the cooks in the dining room don't want to do it, after all, most of the people who do this kind of thing are the swineherds in the market. When the time comes, those students refuse to come, and the establishment of this medical school is a joke! ”

Most of the scholars have arrogance in their hearts, and it is harder to castrate them than to kill them. Even if you are willing, you can't get past the criticism of the public. Sometimes rumors are bloodier than facts, and this first assessment of admission may make many people retreat!

Li Yuan shook his head with a smile, shook off the dust, and walked towards the pigsty being built next to Qujiang Pond.

Qujiang Pond has been a prosperous scene of Chang'an since ancient times, and was established as a royal garden during the Sui Dynasty. Rows of willow trees are planted by the pool, and in the spring breeze of March, they are like dancing palace ladies, and the dancers are singing one by one. Since ancient times, Chang'an has an allusion to the Baqiao folding willows to say goodbye, not only the Baqiao, Qujiang Pond and Furong Garden also have delicate willows, which add three points of poetry and painting to the rather rugged Guanzhong.

In the south, the tall city wall of Chang'an City can be faintly seen, and the pond bank can be seen in the bamboo forest in the faint three or two small pavilions, strange rockery......

The rather sleek pigsty was built behind the medical school to the north, almost near the Tonji Square to the west.

The Emperor Taishang even thought with a lot of wickedness, a hundred years later, when Xuanzong took the Liyuan team to babble and sing opera in Furong Garden, I don't know if there were a few pigs with musical cells humming a few paragraphs.......

As he walked, he said: "The treatment of the Royal College of Medicine is so good, and the conditions are not harsh, the lecturer can be qualified as long as he has been in the profession for twenty years, and the student is even simpler, as long as he is familiar with the scriptures and meets the requirements."

There are too many scholars in this world, although there are imperial examinations to be promoted, but for those who are poor, it is almost the same......"

Speaking of this, he paused, thinking of the great poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu can barely be regarded as an official eunuch family, and his great-grandfather Du Yiyi was also the commander of Gong County.

When he was thirty-five years old, with the idea of becoming a benevolent person if he failed in the imperial examination, his family migrated to Chang'an, and began a more miserable life, and even witnessed his children being starved to death during the Anshi Rebellion.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were more than 50 kinds of subject examination subjects, such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, and Ming Calculation. Among them, the subjects of Ming Law, Ming Calculation, and Ming Characters are not taken seriously. Junshi and other subjects are not held often, and Xiucai is a subject, which was very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, and later gradually abandoned.

Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi became the main subjects of the Tang Dynasty. The two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi were originally just trial strategies, and the content of the examination was Jingyi or current affairs. Later, although the subjects of the two examinations changed, they were basically Jinshi heavy poetry, Ming Jing heavy scripture and Moyi. The so-called scripture is to open a page of the scriptures, cover the left and right sides, only open a line in the middle, and then cover the three characters with paper stickers, so that the test can be filled. Moyi is a simple written test of the words of the scriptures.

As long as you are familiar with the scriptures and commentaries, you can pass the test, and the poetry needs to have literary talent. It was very difficult to get the first Jinshi, so there was a saying at that time that "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi".

However, the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty has not yet been perfected, and there is no vague name, and most of the assessment results refer to factors such as family background, after all, almost all the people in power in the court are from big families.

Therefore, for the poor scholars, the imperial examination is almost blocked, which is equivalent to a closed door leaving only a thin crack under the threshold, even if someone can squeeze in, but only the morning star is few.

"But the Royal College of Medicine is different." Li Yuan's expression became a little serious, and he casually said hello to the servant who built the pigsty, patted the dust on the pile of bricks with his hand, sat down, and then spoke: "The social class of the Tang Dynasty has been solidified, and the Royal Academy of Medicine seems to be only related to medicine, but this is one of the channels through which the poor can rise, and when the enrollment starts in early April, I am afraid that Chang'an will already be full of scholars who have come to apply......"

The painting screen nodded as if he didn't understand, what the emperor said is so tall, what kind of social class, rising channel...... The Lun family doesn't understand!

But it feels so powerful!

"Daojun is wrong." Wei Ziyang wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, bowed his hand respectfully to the emperor, took a few breaths, took out the sheepskin pouch on his waist, drank a sip of water, and then said: "Chang'an's inn has long been crowded, in recent days, when Ziyang was purchasing piglets in Chang'an, he saw a lot of foreign scholars, speaking lame Chang'an dialect, some southern scholars, it seems to be Yangzhou people......"

When he said this, his eyes showed a little disdain, and he spat on the ground fiercely, and scolded: "Those pampered and expensive southern scholars actually asked the store to make sweet stuffed 'flat food', and they even had to add sugar to eat bean curd...... It's completely a approach, it's really hateful tight! ”

Of course, the sugar required to be added is not white sugar, but starch syrup, which is not considered a luxury in Datang.

Wei Ziyang, a northern man, did not hide his disdain for the sweet party, in the hearts of northerners, bean curd and flat food are salty, and the practice of southerners is simply heretical, and the people in Huaiyang are simply mad, eating so sweet......

"Alright, alright, Director Wei." Li Yuan was a little happy, it was not the first time he had seen the north and the south hack each other in Chang'an.

It's just that the southerners feel quite unfortunate that Chang'an is the home of the northerners, and those southern scholars who complain that the store doesn't give sweet soup to drink are often thrown a bowl of salted noodle soup by the disliked shopkeeper, so that he can eat it slowly and feel the power of the salty party.

As for Wei Ziyang's dislike of southerners speaking "confused", he will silently want to tell him in his heart the helplessness of Fujianese and Cantonese people to tell you Lingnan accents.

Wei Ziyang was a Turkic exile who fled south to Chang'an, and then Emperor Tai Kaien settled in Cuihua Mountain.

But the savings of the displaced people themselves have long been washed away by the Turks, and the family is also tense, Li Yuan thought that the pig factory could not be without a factory director, so he ordered him to be recruited to Chang'an to sit in the logistics staff of the medical school, and by the way to manage the pig factory.

In Li Yuan's plan, part of the expenses of the Royal Academy of Medicine needed to be allocated by the imperial court, and the other part needed to be self-sufficient, and pig raising was one of the open sources.