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Zhang Xuan disembarked from the boat, carrying a simple wooden box containing two paper bills of exchange, which could be easily exchanged for silver coins from the state-owned money bank in the capital.

One comes from the love of parents, and the other comes from the love of friends.

Zhang Xuan didn't know where his friend Chen Jian got 200 silver coins to give to him as a coil, but he couldn't refuse, so he happily accepted it. Chen Jian told him that it is not easy to live in the capital, and it is always good to have more money.

In addition to these two paper bills of exchange, there was also a small wooden box in the wooden box, which contained bottles filled with water and sealed with wax, as well as several pieces of paper, which Chen Jian had brought to a gentleman in the palace.

Zhang Xuan's name is slightly known, and his name appears many times in some pamphlets, and he is also the person who left his name on the Temple of the Sages.

In Zhang Xuan's opinion, such a character is too far away from himself, and since friends are friends, there is always not much difference between him and himself, and he is naturally far away from his friends.

However, even if it is entrusted to help, it cannot but be done.

My friends have become extremely eccentric over the past year, but it seems that these eccentricities are good, neither stupid nor crazy, they are just acting weirdly, not to the point of worrying. 、

Compared to this, at this moment, we should think about how to get to the capital.

There are many people on the pier and many cars, all waiting for guests to rent and ride.

It is still about eighty miles away from the real capital, and it is impossible for the capital to be built too close to the sea, after all, the Qi country is still there, and the Qi country's navy is still there.

At this time, the country of Qi was still stable, and the two sides were negotiating for annexation, and they could not fight for the time being, so it became much more prosperous, but there were still many soldiers and warships.

From here to the capital, there are a bunch of small star forts, four large fortresses, and three forts, which serve as arch guards.

If necessary, the entire capital can be mobilized to pile up a deer breastwall on the coast in case of a possible landing.

An elaborate gravel road winds its way from here to the capital, passing through several fortresses and a long journey.

Of course, there are also waterways that can be accessed, but with sails as a power, they can easily become targets for batteries along the river in inland rivers.

The arithmetic students observed the wind, calculated the angles, and built the forts in some dead corners, so that even if the ship came in, it would be burned clean by the arsonist in a narrow place, which was much easier than in the wide sea. Unless there is a ship that does not need sails and oars to go around the dead end of the battery, which is obviously not possible.

Zhang Xuan sat on the boat for a long time, and finally got tired of the waterway, so he hired a carriage with change and walked on the smooth gravel road.

The people who drove the car kept chatting with him, but Zhang Xuan was not interested, and only answered a few times perfunctorily. The driver only thought he was tired, and he didn't say anything more.

Sitting in the car, alone, in addition to loneliness, there is also a faint sense of loss.

Zhang Xuan felt that he was still a figure in Mincheng, at least some people knew who his father was, and he also had a reputation for being a good student.

But now that he has arrived in the capital, none of this exists, he is no longer the son of a tax official, just a young man named Zhang Xuan, and he doesn't even have a friend to play with.

This loneliness, loss and caution reached its peak after arriving in the new summer the next day.

Compared with Fujian, Xinxia is much bigger and more prosperous, and there are no beggars on the street because they are all caught in the workhouse, and the people and vehicles passing back and forth interpret this prosperity into the feeling of flowing water.

This kind of prosperity is what Zhang Xuan knew in Mincheng, if it was just these shocks, it would stop here.

But when the carriage entered the city, it only turned two squares, which made Zhang Xuan understand why the capital was the capital.

In the first square, a large number of people gathered, and two people gave speeches and debated on whether to abolish the five-year enlightenment education for all. On the one hand, it is believed that abolition can save a large part of the money, and the state can reduce taxes, which is beneficial to everyone, and there is no need for so many literate people, and all schools can collect money for enrollment, so that those who have no money do not need to take up the money of those who pay taxes; The other side strongly opposes it, arguing that it is a rule that has existed since ancient times.

The former angrily scolded the latter for being conservative and rigid, and was a force hindering the progress of the times; The latter angrily scolded the former for lacking humanity and only having money in his eyes.

There is a similar controversy in the second square, which is relatively simple, that is, if a criminal with leprosy is caught, he will be killed and burned directly, regardless of the crime, and he will not be imprisoned; The other side tried to convince people that it would be better and more human-like to set aside a portion of the budget to set up a special isolation prison, but the audience was less interested when they heard that they might have to pay an extra copper tax.

There were soldiers maintaining order nearby, and Zhang Xuan asked if the people who knew what was going on were from some parties, and they were all fighting for their own votes for the National People's Assembly in three years. This kind of atmosphere is much lighter in Mincheng, and those who want to be fair to the vast majority of the people are reprimanded as conservatives, because this was the case in the old era five hundred years ago, so the reputation of conservatism naturally falls on those who desire more fairness, but strangely enough, most of these conservatives are young people or people who don't have much money at home.

After all, this ethnic group has a history of civilization for hundreds of years, and it is childishly tight, and many roads are completely opposite to the normal path, strange and naïve, but they are taken for granted here.

Just walked through the square at the two corners, Zhang Xuan's heart was already warm, and in the future, his father's instructions not to involve these parties were lost, and he felt that this was the place for young people to display their ambitions.

Now that I don't have a friend from my classmates, I may be able to find a comrade's henchman.

He couldn't figure out what he wanted, but he felt that he should do something, and as for what he should do, maybe someone would make him understand what he should do, otherwise life would be a little too light.

With a warm heart and a hint of shyness from a small place, I found an inn to live in at random.

I opened the wooden box, imagined what my friend had entrusted me to do, and just wanted to see the best school in the whole country, which was said to be extremely exquisite, so I left the inn.

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In a room in the palace, a few people are sitting on their desks sorting out a large pile of papers, on which are all kinds of strange articles written by young people who want to become famous overnight.

From time to time, someone frowns, or laughs, or shakes their heads.

This is a chemical naturalist, which is quite good, and at least there are some new mineral discoveries.

In the arithmetic department next door, it is often said that they use rulers to divide arbitrary angles into thirds, and various algorithms emerge in an endless stream, which also causes a huge workload for those who choose: no one proves that it can't, so everything that says it can be true may be true.

The Department of Chemistry and Natural History has received a lot of things over the years, and now that those Hou Bo kingdoms in the north have gradually settled down, many young nobles who should have inherited their bloodlines are no longer sacred, and they have a lot of money and nothing to do, and there are always a few people who want to be famous, so they devote themselves to these disciplines.

Copper and iron smelting is boring, arithmetic geometry is complicated, carpenters and blacksmiths are too troublesome, but hydrology, astrology, ores, plants, trees, fish and insects require more money and more time, and it is easier to get started.

So these people receive a lot of samples of all kinds of ore every day, and sometimes some of them have been made of lead and mercury, and some of them can be tougher by quenching them with urine, and so on, or they are weird or real or nonsense, and these people are drowsy every day.

June is the hottest time, the cicadas outside the window are all hot and weak, and the sweat beads of people inside the window are dripping down.

One of them looked at the things on the table and threw a few pieces of paper aside, indicating that they were meaningless.

Until he turned over a small wooden box, he felt a little heavy when he picked it up, and he thought it was some ore or something.

When I opened the wooden box, there was a pile of sand with a piece of paper pasted on it, and on the paper was written in ink some very scribbled words.

"Sand?"

He froze in his heart, and inevitably had some doubts, which fool sent the sand here for what?

Then he noticed that there was a small glass bottle buried in the sand, and then he realized that he was worried that the bottle would break.

I pinched the bottle and pulled it out, but I didn't know what it contained.

When I got it in my hand, I found that there was a piece of paper on the glass bottle, on which was drawn a skull with the word poison written on it.

The glass bottle contained a yellowish wax-like solid, and it was clear that the poison was referring to what was soaked in the bottle, not the bottle itself.

He has seen a lot of highly poisonous things, and every few years the chemistry naturalist will make several new poisons, according to some rumors, the heirs of some small countries died violently, and the fact that the heirs of some small countries died violently were also related to the chemistry class of the school palace back then, and many poisons could not be found in other small countries at that time.

He thought it was another poison, and he thought that this thing might be useful, but it was the first time he had seen someone clearly write the word poisonous, and draw such a ridiculous skull. But on second thought, it's a good thing, and it's a warning in case someone accidentally eats it.

Thinking of this, I became a little interested in what was in it, so I picked up the paper and looked at it, and then exclaimed in surprise.

It's not that the content on the paper makes him feel real or shocking at a glance, but that the format of the paper surprises him a little.

The words are concise and logical, and it is obvious that he came from a local school, although the way of writing is not quite the same as the format commonly used by everyone at this time, but the internal content is very real, and it is not like the difficulty of those who got the ore to write a bunch of excavation processes.

When a few people heard the man's cry, they gathered around and looked strangely at the wooden box filled with sand.

"What's wrong?"

The person who was looking at the paper did not speak, but read the words on the paper one by one, and then handed it to the person next to him.

Several people looked at the contents of the paper and said in unison: "If it is true, only let Mr. distinguish it......