Chapter 164: Entering Taixue for the First Time

On the first day of opening, the whole Bianjing was a sensation, tens of thousands of young women gathered in Xinqiao, the rouge shop was almost squeezed out of the door, the five prostitutes hired by Baoyan Zhai were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, and the voice was dumb at the end of the day, and even the business of the surrounding shops also improved, and the net profit of the rouge shop alone reached 300 on the first day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although women may not want to be prostitutes, but no one does not want to have the appearance of Master Li, when Master Li confessed that he used the rouge of Bao Yan Zhai, the women of Bianjing were crazy about it, and everyone hoped that their face could become as beautiful as Master Li after using the fat powder of Bao Yan Zhai.

Moreover, under the persuasion of Master Li, Alum Lou accepted Baoyanzhai Rouge Shop as a rouge supplier, which invisibly added a halo to Baoyanzhai.

But only with Master Li's endorsement can not form a permanent reputation, Bao Yan Zhai must have its own characteristics and good goods, just like Zhang's ancient rouge and the Wang family's fragrant ink.

The women soon discovered the surprise, Bao Yan Zhai's Lauder perfume only sells for two dollars a bottle, which is not only much cheaper than the imported big food rose water, but also has a better quantity and quality, the big food rose water has a strong fragrance and lasts for a long time, but the Lauder perfume is not only rich and long-lasting, smellable through the bottle, but also has a faint fragrance that rose water does not have, which is more in line with the preferences of oriental women.

The news spread quickly, for more than ten days, the women who bought perfume in Baoyan Zhai every day lined up for two miles, in an endless stream, and bought perfume and gave a bunch of small packages of rouge and eyebrow ink for free, if you buy more than two perfumes, you can also enjoy the discount of buying other rouge, which is to meet the psychology of women who like freebies.

In just half a month, Bao Yan Zhai became famous and became the most powerful competitor of the old rouge shop, and was praised as one of the three major rouge brands by Bianjing people, but its background also aroused great interest from many people, especially after the rumor that the proprietor's surname was Li, everyone speculated that Li Shishi was the proprietor of this rouge shop.

After the success of the rouge shop, Li Yanqing basically left it alone, and the time entered March, and Taixue was finally about to start school.

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The rise of Taixue in the Song Dynasty has profound political and cultural factors, on the one hand, the original Guozixue, Guangwenguan and Zongxue have not been able to cultivate high-level politicians, they face the younger brothers of the powerful, the source of students is narrow, and they are completely unable to meet the needs of the new dynasty.

Especially after the Song Dynasty entered the civilian society, the moderation of the imperial court and the importance of the ruling class to the rights of ordinary people gave more opportunities for the rise of poor scholars.

However, the Song Dynasty was strong in reading, and a Taixue alone was far from meeting the needs of the Great Song Dynasty scholars, and the four major academies appeared, and they became a supplement to Taixue, but the emergence of the four academies did not weaken the main position of Taixue, but promoted the development of Taixue even more.

Wang Anshi's reform of the law, strongly advocated the replacement of the imperial examination with long-term education, Taixue officially entered the heyday, the three-way method was born, the establishment of state schools, county schools, with the imperial examination, layer by layer to cultivate higher-level talents, Li Yanqing is in this context, from a rural boy step by step into the door of Taixue.

Taixue carried out an expansion after Cai Jing took office, and the number of students increased from the original 2,400 to 3,800, of which 3,000 were born in the outer house, 500 were born in the inner house, and 300 were born in the upper house.

But this is only a theoretical time, the real excellent scholars do not need to spend such a long time, many scholars enter the Taixue two or three years after being admitted to the imperial examination, and directly confer official careers.

And as long as the person in the examination is eligible to enter the Taixue study, it is not required whether he has studied the state school, if he is admitted to Xie Yuan or even directly into the inner house, this kind of loose and flexible policy gives many outstanding scholars the opportunity to overtake in the corner, it is for this reason that fifteen or sixteen-year-old students abound in Taixue, but young scholars like Li Yanqing who directly enter the upper house to study are extremely rare, not that there is none, but the probability of various factors getting together is too small.

So I heard that after a thirteen-year-old young scholar entered the Taixue dormitory, he immediately caused a sensation in Taixue, and many people speculated that he had a very deep background backstage, and some even suspected that he was a child of the royal family, but after all, they were Taixue, not ordinary people, and this sensation gradually faded into oblivion after only two or three days.

Li Yanqing is very adaptable, he only stayed in Taixue for three days, he adapted to the life of Taixue, Li Yanqing only now understands why Tangyin County School is so lax, it is because it completely copied the model of Taixue.

Taixue is more relaxed and free than county school, no one manages and supervises them, reading and learning completely depends on consciousness, Taixue has a variety of Confucian lectures, Taixue students can choose courses according to their own needs to listen to lectures, come or not come to the professors do not care, go out without asking for leave, no one cares about not returning at night, not only that, Taixue also allows students to go out to study for several months or even longer.

Although Taixue gives students absolute freedom, Taixue also depends on the results, and the annual exam is relatively easy, but the Taixue promotion exam is a nightmare for every scholar.

No matter how relaxed you usually are, the upgrade exam is a roadblock that no one wants to easily step over, its difficulty is no less than that of the imperial examination, the score must be on the top to be promoted, the score is allowed to repeat for a year, and the upper middle and lower are directly eliminated, which is why there are 3,000 students in the outer house, but it suddenly becomes 500 people in the inner house, and the six students in the outer house can only be upgraded.

Zheng Rongtai is the upgrade exam has not passed, with a lot of money at home to barely get a middle school, allowed to repeat a year, it is also his luck, happened to encounter the Taixue reform, allowed the results of the release test to be brought into Taixue, Zheng Rongtai ran back to Xiangzhou to participate in the exam, through the local government cheating test in the lift, this detour bypassed the extremely cruel upgrade exam, into the inner house to study.

"Lao Li, why do you live in this hellish place?"

In the afternoon of this day, Zheng Rongtai came to visit a friend in the upper house, and as soon as he entered the door, Zheng Fatzi shouted, "You are also a student in the upper house, why do you live worse than me?" ”

Li Yanqing lives in a standard upper house, with three upper house students living in one courtyard, each with two rooms inside and outside, which is actually very good, but in Zheng Rongtai's eyes, this house is still too simple.

He walked into the back room and walked around, his mouth muttering, "The outer study, the inner bedroom, where is the living room?" Where is the lower room? You don't plan to go without maids for a few years! ”

Li Yanqing was sitting at the table practicing calligraphy, Zheng Fatzi broke in like a fat green-headed fly and buzzed, Li Yanqing couldn't write anymore, he simply put down his pen and smiled: "I haven't heard that Taixue is still allowed to bring maids?" ”

"That's how strange you are, don't say it's a maid, it's okay to bring a lady to accompany you, don't look at me and I can't read, but I'm better than you in terms of drilling loopholes in Taixue, you look at what Taixue says in the supplementary terms? The inner house is allowed to take one scholar, and the upper house is allowed to take two scholars, but it is not said whether it is a male scholar or a female scholar; Married persons are allowed to live with their wives. ”

"But I didn't see any students with a scholar or a wife? I don't have a single one around. ”

"The Crane Garden where you live, this is where the children of the poor family live, of course not, you go to the Plum Garden and the Chrysanthemum Garden, there are no such two rooms inside and outside, they are at least three rooms, and there are four houses in a single courtyard, just spend one or two dollars a month, you are not so poor that you jingle loudly, why do you live in this kind of broken house."

When he said this, Li Yanqing was a little tempted, not that he was greedy for enjoyment, but that his two roommates were too close, although it could not be said that they were friends with broken sleeves, but the two were inseparable all day long, Qingqing and me, which really made Li Yanqing uncomfortable, thinking that he would have to face these two people in the next few years, he had the heart to change rooms.

"Alright! I'm fine, you can take me to see it. ”

Zheng Rongtai smiled mysteriously, "Not now, I'll take you to meet someone." ”