"After reading the Four Books and Five Classics in more than a month and learning to write eight shares, this is not difficult for me, but in ancient times, it was shocking, and I don't know how much limelight I will have in the future!" Sun Dan couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Thinking of this, I felt my nose and pondered for a long time, and decided to find a school first to see if I could find a nominal teacher.

In general, the education system of the Ming Dynasty was divided into two types: official schools and private schools, and the so-called official schools, which are easy to understand, are government-run schools. In the Ming Dynasty, there were three types of local government credits: prefecture, prefecture, and county, which were initially set up in the third year of Hongwu. As far as the schools in Zouping County are concerned, the instructors have one instructor and two instructors, all three of whom are Guozi Jian students sent by the state school, and they also have real talents in their stomachs, and the teachers are very strong. Famous teachers produce high apprentices, with these three capable people, Zouping County has also produced several talents in recent years. Therefore, it is also a good choice to study in the county.

There is also an advantage of going to the county to study, as long as you can get the student status, you can receive six buckets of rice per month, and there is a living allowance of four taels of silver at the end of the year. Therefore, the students of the official school are also called the students. To be honest, these six buckets of rice are a great temptation for Sun Dan, who is already exhausted, if he can see the county school, relying on this subsidy is enough for him and the fiancée who suddenly came out of the family not to starve to death.

However, there is a problem here, you need qualifications to enter government schools.

According to the regulations, only Xiucai can enter the official school and receive state subsidies. In other words, even if Sun Dan has some official studies, he has to wait until he passes the county, state, and hospital level children's examinations.

And now, he is just a white ding, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to enter the government and learn to mix three meals. Besides, there is a fixed quota for government and student members, and there are only twenty in each county, so you can't just get in if you want to. As far as Sun Dan knows, the number of students in Zouping County is also full.

Besides, Sun Dan didn't want to learn anything in school. He has thousands of eight-strand model essays in his stomach, and when the time comes, he will be admitted all the way, and the quality of the teacher will be secondary. Anyway, he is now sixteen years old, and even if he studies hard, he can't learn anything, and he can't learn the same thing as the ancients who have been immersed in the Four Books and Five Classics all his life. Learning is like a brick, as long as you knock on the door of the imperial examination and blend into the system, you can throw it aside.

Since there is no way to enter the official school, then you can only study in a private school.

In any era, reading a book is a very expensive thing. There are not many private schools in Zouping, most of them are the clans of major families, such as the Hou Sun family of Huichang, although the family has moved to Beijing. But because Zouping is the ancestral home, there are also many clansmen, so they set up a private school in Zouping's hometown, in which there are more than 30 children of their own clan who stayed in Shandong.

Although this kind of private school is a family school, it is sometimes open to children with foreign surnames. It's just that the children of their own clan are free, and if the children with foreign surnames want to go to study, they have to pay a certain amount of tuition every year. Although the Hou family of Huichang is domineering, it is not bad for the villagers in Zouping's hometown, if the children with foreign surnames want to study in the Sun family, they only need to pay 30 yuan per month for tuition, and it is only four dollars of silver a year.

This tuition fee is still within the tolerable range for Sun Dan at present, maybe you can try it there.

Anyway, I just went to mix for a few months, and when the boy's test was over, I didn't have to go.

But after thinking about it, I just ran to the door to study, but I was afraid that I would be blasted out immediately. Moreover, the identity of his grandson has not yet been determined, and now he will run to the door, which will inevitably be looked down upon.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a rumbling in my stomach. Sun Dan then remembered that he had come to buy rice this time, the world was big, and the meal was the biggest.

Touching his shriveled belly, Sun Dan quietly smiled bitterly. Regardless of the matter of studying, it will take more than a year to lift people by yourself. For more than a year, the two members of the family have to eat and drink, which is the top priority in front of them.

Zhiniang is nominally her fiancée, but Sun Dan doesn't see it that way. He can't talk about any feelings for such a sudden woman, and he doesn't admit this marriage in his heart, so he naturally refuses to owe anyone any more affection.

Books have to be read, money has to be earned, and if a woman supports herself, her self-esteem can't stand it. I am a man, and I have to be self-reliant.

I was not in a hurry to buy rice, so I turned around in the county town with twenty yuan to see if I could find a job first.

Originally, as far as Sun Dan's heart was concerned, he still wanted to find a job with a little technical content. For example, helping people keep accounts, or teaching or something. After all, in later life, he was also a college graduate, and later worked in an agency for a few years, so it was naturally very easy to do writing work.

But the problem is that now this Sun Dan is a big illiterate person in the eyes of the world. Now I'm suddenly literate, and it's strange not to be seen as a monster. Besides, he was going to go to a private school. Nowadays, you are not a showman, and no one has asked you to be a private school teacher.

It is true that knowledge is power, but now his current illiteracy status has cut off his way of relying on knowledge to eat.

Then, it's not bad to be a buddy in the store and do sales.

"Yo, it's the little brother of the Sun family." The first place Sun Dan went to find a job was a pharmacy, and the boss was very kind. Zouping County is not big, they all know each other, and they speak very directly: "Brother Sun is sixteen this year, cough, it is just right to work at this age." Don't worry, work with me for three years, and you will become a qualified little shopkeeper. What, wages, hehe, the little brother said with a smile. Our guys here don't get paid. At the end of the three-year apprenticeship, if you can really learn it, you will pay three pieces of silver per month. Well, you start by cutting the decoction pieces, first cut for two months and wait for two months to become proficient, and then I will teach you to recognize and dispense medicine. This thing is quite simple to say, the key is to have a good memory, I am your age, and I have memorized hundreds of prescriptions...... Brother Sun, why did you leave? ”

……

"Boss, do you want someone in this longevity shop, how much is it a month?"

"If you want someone, you can do it for a penny of silver a month?"

"Okay, I'll do it."

"By the way, the old man Beimenji has been dead for almost a month, he is a lonely old man, no children and no daughters, and he was not found until the corpses were rotten and stinking. You immediately go over and put on his shroud, and then carry it to Yizhuang. ”

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm in the wrong place."

"I'll add another thirty dollars."

"I'm going home."

The owner of the longevity shop kept shouting behind him, but Sun Dan ran faster under his feet.

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The depression of the ancient small county town exceeded Sun Dan's imagination, after all, ancient China was still an era of small peasant economy, and there were not so many employment opportunities. There are only two or three streets in the county town, there are few shops, and even if they do, they only accept apprentices who do not pay salaries, which is very different from Sun Dan's employment orientation.

Walking around the city in a gloomy way, Sun Dan, who was so depressed that he suddenly remembered that there was a wharf in Xishuimen, which was one of the most prosperous areas in the county. Since there is nothing to do in the city, why not go there to touch it, it really can't be done, and you can mix a meal with buns on the dock.

But when he came to the dock to understand the situation, he was dumbfounded.

That's right, the wharf porter's salary is indeed very good, he can get a penny for every sack he carries, and a strong porter can get him dozens of pennies a day when he works until the dark in one day. After a month, there is no problem with mixing one or two or five dollars of silver, which is enough for a family of three to live a good life. But as soon as he saw his thin arms and legs, Sun Dan immediately dispelled this thought. Don't make no money at that time, but be so tired that you vomit blood and hang up. He was only sixteen years old, and his body was not fully developed, and he could not compare with the muscular porters on the docks.