The exam is over, and it will take about half a month to try the list.

After the end of the exam, all the test papers are summarized, and then transcribed, and all the candidates are re-recorded, and then the counter-reader will re-compare the text to see if there are any errors or omissions, and then the candidates will be sorted again according to the number, and the transcribed test papers will be handed over to the inner curtain officer.

The internal curtain officials are just not right about the article, they can't see the traces left by the candidates on the test papers, and if they want to cheat for personal gain, they can only go through the style of the article.

The marking work will start on February 20, and the overall marking time will be about eight days, and there will be two more days to carefully check the examination papers, and pick out the papers of the candidates of the Zhonggongshi from all the examination papers, which will open the seal, and then record the names of the Zhonggongshi candidates in the list text, and then prepare to release the list and announce it.

Although the imperial court did not announce the specific release time, but in the past, the rules of the standing examination will generally be released on the last day of February, or the first and second days of the first month of March.

As for those candidates who have repeatedly participated in the examination and repeatedly failed the list, they may be disappointed in the examination, they have two choices, one is to stay in their homeland to find a low-level Confucian temple to serve, or to be a small official in the yamen, to be an official of the eighth rank or below, or even to be a small teacher in the local Confucian Education Department, to educate talents, even so, as a person, it is also very important in society.

On the day after the exam, Ji Ning did not go to the Wenhui to discuss the exam topics like other candidates, except for meeting a few friends around him, he stayed at home, not that he was preparing for the palace exam or the next exam, he was writing some articles with big seals and small seals, in addition to cultivating himself, he could also monetize these articles.

"Yuling, I am ready to buy a few pieces of land around the capital for a few thousand taels of silver, and in the future, we will have our own industry around the capital, whether we live in the capital for a long time in the future, or come over in a few years, it will finally give us a place to live in the capital!" Ji Ning said to Yu Ling.

Yu Ling blinked and said, "Young Master, although the slave doesn't know where you got the money, you ...... Why don't you keep the silver and buy more properties for us in Jinling City? ”

Ji Ning smiled: "You little girl, it means that your young master will be in Jinling City for the rest of your life, and there will never be a day to come out, right?" ”

"I didn't ...... The slave has no such intention, young master, you have wronged others! Yu Ling was very anxious at first and wanted to explain, but then she saw the smile on Ji Ning's face and knew that Ji Ning was playing tricks on him.

While she was talking, Lin Juan'er came in and said, "Master, my brother is here, waiting for you at the gate of the front yard!" ”

"Got it!" Ji Ning waved his hand and said, "You two go into the inner courtyard, I have something to do with Lin Er, this time I will buy some fields and come back, and then buy two more shops, I am going to open a three-flavor academy in Jingshi!" ”

Yu Ling was surprised: "Young Master, are you going to open a Sanwei Academy in the capital?" That...... Who's going to manage it? ”

"It's just an idea, the specific matters still need to be prepared slowly, isn't Jinling City well taken care of by Miss Mi? Perhaps, let me take care of the Sanwei Academy in the capital by myself, after the examination, if I am in the Jinshi, I will temporarily stay in the capital and wait for the Confucian Temple to be dispatched, or if I do not enter the Jinshi, I can also temporarily live in the capital and not go back, and take care of the Sanwei Academy in the capital first! Ji Ning put forward his own idea.

Yu Ling heard that Ji Ning didn't want to go back to Jinling, and he was still a little unhappy, and said, "Young master, people are homesick!" ”

Ji Ning touched her little head and said: "You are the same as me, now you are duckweed, now there is you, there is a place for me, even if it is our home, if we settle in the capital, we will let Uncle An also come from Jinling City, Jinling will be our hometown for the time being, and we will go back to see it when we have time in the future!" ”

When he said this, he was obviously a little emotional, he was tired of living in Jinling City, to put it bluntly, he felt that Jinling City was his bond, if he could marry "Su Pujia" back, he was not ready to live in Jinling City for a long time, because doing things in the Temple of Literature, he would not necessarily be sent to where he went, or he would be left in the capital by the Temple of Literature in the future, that is the future of the future, in his current life plan, it must be people to go to a high place, Jinling City as the place where he once lived, and did not intend to stay for a long time.

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Ji Ning came out to see Lin Yi, and Lin Yi took the specific information of several fields to Ji Ning, which was the second batch of land purchased by Ji Ning.

"Master, this time I found you a few hundred acres of land to choose, the tooth people in the capital, I heard that the master is going to buy more than 100 acres of land at a time, and they all hurry up to recommend good plots to you, there are more than a dozen shops here, all said, if you look like, the price can be discussed!"

Lin Yi is very attentive in helping Ji Ning do things, and he also treats Ji Ning as a backer.

Ji Ning read the information provided by Lin Yi, and after a long time, he raised his head and said: "Overall, I am very satisfied, there are so many alternative fields and houses in a short period of time, which also allows me to have a better choice from them, but there are some things that I have to make clear to you." The most important thing in the field is the ripe field, which can be rented out directly, 100 mu is only the minimum number, and it can even be increased to 500 mu or 1,000 mu. As for the house, what I need is to be able to open a academy, the corner is not too good, it is best to be close to the alley, the positioning of Sanwei Academy is not for the children of the rich in the city to read, but for the children of ordinary families to study! ”

Lin Yi was surprised: "Master, ordinary people, I'm afraid they don't have much money to let their children go to school!" ”

"Don't worry too much about this, Sanwei Academy will open a preschool, about a year or two of education, this preschool will carry out free or very low education, after a year or two, let the parents of the students decide whether they continue to study according to the students' grades, from which you can also select some children with excellent character and learning, do not charge their tuition!" Ji Ning said.

Lin Yi scratched his head, he couldn't understand Ji Ning's idea of running a school.

Ji Ning worked hard to earn the silver, and he didn't spend it himself, but it seemed that he wanted to invest it in those children, he wouldn't understand.

Ji Ning said: "These houses are spacious enough, but the problem is that they are too close to the downtown area, we are not for the sale of prosperous shops, but for the academy, it is not appropriate to use shops so close to the street, so we can directly find some relatively remote, but spacious enough places!" ”