Central, Hong Kong, Editorial Department of Ching Stream Daily.

Editor-in-chief Li Zongxi is frowning with an advertising draft of New Oriental Specialized Education Group. Bai Enming, the boss of "Qingliu Daily", is gushing about brainwashing Li Dajunzi.

"Brother Yuting, of course our "Qingliu Daily" has to speak for the world's scholars, this is the purpose of our newspaper, and it can't change for 10,000 years, otherwise Qingliu will not become Qingliu!"

"However, there is no conflict between speaking for the world's scholars and advertising for New Oriental Specialized Education Group...... Yes, they want to recruit scholars to learn practical learning, but scholars first study for the sake of being officials. But it's not easy to take the exam. Even if there are Xiucai as officials now, not counting officers, there are four or five hundred thousand officials in the Ming Dynasty, and many of them are for Wu Xiucai, how many can really be given to scholars? But how many scholars in the whole world read the books of the sages? I'm afraid it's not less than 10 million, right? ”

"Yuting, you have been a prodigy since you were a child, 26-year-old Zhongju, 27-year-old Zhongjinshi...... Naturally, I don't know what it's like to study hard for half a lifetime and not even be a showman. Wouldn't it be nice to learn something else, to have an errand to make a living? Do you know the truth? What is the salary my foreign firm now offers to a fluent Englishman to be? 200 silver dollars per month, which is higher than a county master! But even so, I can't hire a person who speaks English well. As for lawyers, accountants, and physicians, the salaries are higher, and there are many people who get three or five hundred a month, more than you, the editor-in-chief! ”

"I don't know what those lawyers, accountants, and physicians are learning, but I know what to say in English. It's not hard to learn. Brother Yuting's brain is guaranteed to speak as fluently as foreign devils for a year. Those who can get the show. It will be two years too. Why bother looking for a short view! No way. This is a life-saving deal that we must do! ”

Li Zongxi was stunned by what he said, and after thinking about it carefully, he also felt that Bai Enming's words made sense. It is certainly wrong for Zhu Jishi to deprive scholars over the age of 28 of the right to participate in the imperial examination. 28 years old and not old, why can't you be an official? Not to mention Jiang Ziya or anything, Zuo Zongtang and Luo Zenan, the two right-hand men of Zhu Jishi, were over 30 when they came out, and Luo Zenan was over 40! Didn't they still assist Zhu Jishi and become a great cause? At that time, why didn't Zuo Zongtang and Luo Zenan be too old? Is Emperor Zhu taking a scholar or a concubine?

But what New Oriental Specialist Education Group did was right. Those who didn't even get into the exam should find something else...... If Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan could be a general manager that day, with a salary of 200 yuan a month, they would not have rebelled.

"Okay. Let's go for this ad. Li Zongxi nodded. The boss of "Qingliu Daily" is Bai Enming, but it is Li Zongxi who has the final say. After all, the main readers of this newspaper are scholars—China's current literacy rate is at most 15%, and ninety percent of those who have spare money to buy newspapers are scholars, so under the name of Li Zongxi's "Six Gentlemen", this newspaper sells very well.

"Not only do we have to advertise, but we can also run a school ourselves...... How about naming it after my Lanxiang Building and calling it Lanxiang Academy? It mainly recruits scholars who cannot pass the imperial examination and teaches them some decent skills to earn a living. First, three courses are opened: English, lawyer, and accountant. The textbook is copied from New Oriental, the teacher ...... I know a few students from Jese University who I can get them to work part-time. ”

Bai Enming admired his ability to do business more and more. It was possible to come up with such a genius idea. I knew that he was so good at doing business, so he shouldn't be a Qing official. should follow Zhu Jishi to do business together, maybe he has a net worth of tens of millions now.

But it's not too late to switch to business!

Leaving the editorial office of "Qingliu Daily", Bai Enming took a carriage and went straight to Jishi University. Today is a Sunday in the Western calendar, and Jeseki University is also closed, but most students are studying their homework in their dormitories or in the school library. After Bai Enming arrived at Jeshi University, he went straight to the building where the student union is located, Hong Kong Jeshi University allows students to build their own clubs, and each student club with more than 10 members can have a classroom in the student union building. At present, there are three more influential societies in Hong Kong Jishi University, namely the "Young China Association" of the pro-royalist society, the "Zhengqi Society" and the "Constitutional Research Association" of the pro-Zhengdao Society.

The three student associations all have many members, and of course, the influence is greater than the "Youth China Association" and the "Righteous Qi Society", and behind them are the two major political parties in the Ming political arena. If students want to enter politics in the future, they naturally want to join them. The members of the "Constitutional Research Society" are not very numerous, but they are very active and have a more radical point of view - they have anti-monarchical tendencies!

"Students, now the emperor has made a serious mistake! He went so far as to exclude all scholars over the age of 28 from the imperial examination system, and it seems that he has lost his head and forgotten the great role that the imperial examination system has played in stabilizing China's internal society. So he will soon be abandoned by the Chinese scholars, and there will definitely be a part of the scholars who will turn to the republican revolution because there is no way out......"

When Bai Enming arrived at the door of the "Constitutional Research Society," he heard someone giving a speech, and when he entered the door, he saw that it was Sun Wen, vice president of the "Constitutional Research Society," who was the student of Jishi University who had accepted Bai Enming's donation of a handful of gold rubles. He is a native of Jining Prefecture, Shandong, born in a family of former Qing officials, and his original name was Sun Yuwen. His grandfather was Sun Yuting, the former governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty, and his father was Sun Ruizhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. Before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked Beijing, Sun Ruizhen ordered his two sons to leave Beijing with their family property and go south to avoid trouble on the territory of the British, and also told his two sons not to become officials of the Ming Dynasty, while he himself went to the northeast with Yixin, and his whereabouts are unknown.

After arriving in Hong Kong, Sun Yuwen, who changed his name to Sun Wen, did not continue to read the Four Books and Five Classics, because he had to follow his father's precepts and not be an official of the Ming Dynasty. If he doesn't go to the imperial examination, it is naturally useless to study the Four Books and Five Classics again - in fact, his level of Confucianism is already very high, and he will definitely be able to go to high school if he wants to participate in the imperial examination. However, Sun Wen has not learned anything else in addition to the Four Books and Five Classics, and it is impossible to find a means of making a living in Hong Kong. After two years of preparatory studies, both brothers entered the first year of Jese University. Now Sun Zhu is studying law, and Sun Wen is studying basic medicine, and he is a doctor like Zhu Jishi......

"Laishan, Laishan, are you free?" Bai Enming beckoned at Sun Wen at the door of the classroom, shouting his name - fortunately it is not "Zhongshan", otherwise Zhu Jishi will suspect that there is a doctor named Zhongshan surnamed Sun who will make a revolutionary party and make a republic again.

"Students, that's all for today's speech, I have a friend I want to meet."

The relationship between Sun Wen and Bai Enming is good...... After donating to the "Constitutional Research Society" for the first time, Bai Enming donated money to them several more times, and also asked the "Constitutional Research Society" to publish articles in the "Qingliu Daily". Neither of them knew each other's true identities, though.

"What? Mr. Bai, do you want to set up a school in Hong Kong to recruit scholars over the age of 28 to study Western literature, Western medicine and law? Would you like to ask students from our Constitutional Studies Society to be teachers? ”

Most of the students of the Constitutional Studies Association are full-time students of Chi Shi University in Hong Kong, and they are fluent in English if nothing else. The most important course in the preparatory department of Jishi University is English, because many teachers at Jishi University are foreign devils and do not speak Chinese, so many courses are taught in English, so it is really not difficult to be an English teacher.

In addition, the medical level of Hong Kong Jeshi University is very high, and it is second to none in the world. It should not be difficult for the senior students of the Jishi Medical Department to teach the "barefoot doctor". I don't expect these people to learn any advanced medical skills, as long as they can deal with the small problem of headache and brain fever, they can get an injection, prescribe some common medicines, and bandage and suture a wound. (To be continued......)