Chapter 654: Ye Luzi (Three Changes)
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Binh Duong!
April day on earth.
The river is clear and the willow branches hang low.
The sky was drizzling, and there would be a while, and there would be no more.
It's a hazy pair of smoke and rain, and during the walk, it is like a fairyland.
The eldest girls and little daughters-in-law walked on both sides of the river embankment with oil-paper umbrellas and clogs, imagining that they were also beautiful fairies, and went down to the mortal house to find the beloved.
The vendors had the sharpest sense of smell, carrying their burdens and pushing carts, and followed them up the embankment.
and do not sell, so as not to spoil the Yaxing of the "fairies".
The stall was set up like that, and someone came forward to inquire about the purchase.
There are also people with strong financial resources, who ask people to build thatched houses in a wide area as a tea room.
If you put a few pots of flowers, a few pairs of calligraphy and paintings, and a small thatched tea room, the grade will come up all of a sudden.
Literati and writers, especially the students of Songshan Academy on the mountain, love this artistic conception the most.
Drink tea, enjoy flowers, and admire beautiful people......
Life is fast!
"In this year's imperial examination, if you can win the championship in one fell swoop, it will be the real joy of life."
"Brother Wu is talented, nine out of ten in the college exam, and the fame of the show is within reach. Wait until the autumn season, win the championship in one fell swoop, and win the fame. Next year, I will strive to win the Jinshi merit in one go. As a jinshi, you can directly seek an official and a half-position in the county guard mansion and be a colleague with Mrs. Yan. After three or five years of training, you can go out to Bo County and Dongyang County to be a parent official. Brother Wu has a bright future, a certain toast to you. ”
"Well said, well said! Everyone is a classmate, and when they enter the officialdom in the future, they must help each other. ”
"Without Brother Wu's words, we also know this truth."
"We are students from the Songshan Academy, and we are by no means comparable to that wild road. However, you should not take it lightly, and you must be wary of those wild people. ”
The wild road in the mouth of these students refers to the group of students who have read from free literacy classes.
Especially in the past few years when Ji Ping was a county magistrate, he vigorously promoted literacy classes.
The requirements for the completion of literacy classes have been repeatedly raised.
From the first 500 words, to the next 800 words, and then to the current 2,000 words.
Of course......
The 2,000-word completion standard is for students who are top students.
Ordinary people, who know 500 words, can write and count, can graduate from the literacy class.
The literacy class is free, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone do not cost money, and of course the coarsest pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are used.
For example, the yellow surface paper is so rough that it is too hard to wipe the little fart, and there is still straw left on the paper.
The students of Matsuyama Academy were dismissive of such paper.
Serious students are equally dismissive.
If you look at it, you are afraid that your eyes will be blinded.
But it is the favorite of the students in the literacy class.
However, this kind of paper is indeed rough and hard to wipe a small fart, but it is cheap and durable.
A knife of paper is only two or three cents, even if the family is poor, you can afford to save a penny.
This was unthinkable in the past.
In the past, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were monopolized by the family.
At that time, the cheapest paper cost eight or nine hundred yuan for a knife.
The general price of paper is in one or two dollars.
Paper is expensive, books are expensive.
Books are expensive, and the cost of reading them becomes extremely high.
It means that only children above the landlord family can afford to read.
Until......
Pingyang County opened a paper mill and made the coarsest yellow table paper, which directly suppressed the price of paper to the point that one or two pennies could buy a knife, so cheap.
It's a little better, it's not so hard, it's still very qualified to wipe a small fart, and the same rough paper only needs a dozen pennies a knife.
This amount of money, working for a few days and saving a little, ordinary people can also afford it.
Paper prices have been suppressed, who is convenient for whom?
Naturally, it is convenient for the majority of small people and poor children.
In the past, I could only hold a branch and learn calligraphy on the sand.
Nowadays, you can use a serious brush to learn words on serious paper.
With cheap paper and brushes, you can write and practice uncontrollably, even for poor children, writing is also advancing by leaps and bounds.
Perennial perseverance and writing, may not be incomparable with those children of the family who have been studying since childhood.
Of course......
These take time to accumulate.
All in all, cheap paper gives a broad possibility to the majority of children who can't afford to pay the shackles and want to study.
In the past, in the countryside, one village, hundreds of households, perhaps only the Lizheng family could afford to use paper.
Nowadays, in a village, I dare not say that every household, at least more than ninety percent of the people can afford paper.
Suppress the price of paper and start small, so that the lives of small people have undergone a qualitative change.
At least, the little fart doesn't have to continue to suffer!
Of course......
Cheap paper, pen and ink books, fundamentally harmed the interests of the family.
Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone have been in the hands of the family for hundreds or thousands of years.
The Maison is in a monopoly position.
It's not about how profitable this line is.
No matter how high the profit is, it can't compare to the profit of table salt. Salt is the real money-making tool.
The family's monopoly of pen, ink, paper and inkstone is equivalent to monopolizing the inheritance of knowledge and culture, and monopolizing ideas.
This world, this dynasty, can only move forward according to their will.
Because only they, the children of the family, are eligible to enjoy cultural education and have the ability to govern the world for the emperor.
The high cost of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and the high cost of reading are probably not affordable for small landlords in remote areas.
The threshold for reading is so high, the majority of small people have a lifetime, let alone contact with books, and they don't even have the opportunity to touch paper.
Until......
The yellow table paper of Pingyang County was born, and the paper was pulled down from the altar in an instant, and everyone could afford to use the paper.
It greatly harmed the interests of the family.
This is more angry and panicked than Binh Duong County's salt trading.
Yan Yunge is digging up the roots of the family!
What's in it for her?
With such cheap paper, no money can be earned, except for bringing convenience to the small people, so that poor children can also have the opportunity to study, there is no benefit.
The families are making small moves openly and secretly, but they can't help Yan Yunge.
Just because ......
Yan Yunge is playing by himself in the enclosure.
There is no family in Pingyang County, and they have moved many years ago, and they don't want to come back to grab land with her.
Her family's Xiao Yi is not an ornament, and the county soldiers are not ornaments.
The newly seized territory, Bo County and Dongyang County, is vigorously suppressing and dividing the family.
At present, cheap paper is only circulated in these three counties.
The paper sold to other counties is also a high-end proclamation, and it takes one or two dollars to buy a knife.
In addition, Pingyang County was selected as a scholar in the imperial examination, and he could not enter the court to be an official, or even step out of the territory of the three counties to be an official, which made the two sides not break out into a large-scale conflict because of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
If......
Yan Yunge dared to promote cheap paper all over the world, and all the families in the world would unite to defeat her.
Obviously, Yan Yunge also knew the risks involved.
So she played by herself, and played very carefully.
But......
Even if she plays by herself, she has become famous.
In this year's imperial examination, some students from the literacy class signed up to participate.
These people are the wild roads in the mouths of the students of Songshan Academy.
To study at Matsuyama Academy, you need to pay a bundle. The money is not much, and it is only about two dollars a semester.
But for most families, the shackles of two pieces of money are enough to overwhelm people.
More than ninety percent of families can't come up with two dollars.
What's more, it's just one semester's tuition.
It also costs pen, ink, paper, inkstone, socializing, clothing, food, housing, and transportation......
The paper used by Songshan Academy is not a yellow table paper with two or three pennies and a knife.
In the academy, the cheapest paper costs a few hundred dollars.
Although Songshan Academy has subsidies for students, pen, ink, paper, inkstone only charges costs, and also offers scholarships, which is still not affordable for ordinary people.
The small people of Binh Duong County have a good life.
But in Yan Yunge's eyes, it was only a preliminary solution to the problem of food and clothing.
It solves the problem of insufficient food and clothing.
If you want to say how much savings each household has, there really isn't.
Dozens of dollars, hundreds of dollars, buying oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, these money may be able to get it.
But most families really can't afford to pay for their children to study at Songshan Academy.
Studying at Matsuyama Academy, the county keeper has calculated an account, and the expenses for two semesters a year need at least ten yuan.
That's the minimum standard.
The standard is slightly raised, and at least 20 yuan a year is paid.
This is an expense that ordinary families cannot afford.
Therefore, the majority of small children can only study free literacy classes.
From beginner to intermediate.
If you have the talent to read, you can barely be considered a scholar, and you can continue to study, and the government will organize you to take the exam.
After passing the examination, they are eligible to participate in the imperial examination with the students of Songshan Academy, or they will be escorted to Songshan Academy for free.
The children of Xiaomin, who passed five levels and killed six generals, finally passed the official examination and obtained the qualification to participate in the imperial examination, so they naturally chose to take the imperial examination instead of entering Songshan Academy.
If you get fame as soon as possible, you will be able to enter the yamen as an errand to earn money and solve your family's financial difficulties.
At the beginning of this year, Pingyang County once again held the imperial examination, the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination......
Only by passing three exams can you get the fame of Xiucai.
It is obviously more difficult than last year's first imperial examination, and the number of examinations has increased, which has become more and more cruel.
The people who participated in the exam, in addition to the disciples of Songshan Academy, the young master of the Shang Jia family, and a group of literacy class students with really eye-catching identities.
There are not many students in this literacy class.
In the whole county, several counties combined, there are only seven or eight people.
But this group of people all have a talent for reading, and they can barely be regarded as school bullies.
Together with the students of Songshan Academy, they passed five levels and six generals together, and passed round after round of exams, which naturally attracted attention.
Everyone also gave this group of people a vivid nickname: Ye Luzi!
I didn't go to the academy to study seriously, so I relied on my own talent to fight hard in the literacy class and get to where I am now. It's really a wild way.
Shi Jiping, the head of the county guard, paid special attention to this group of wild people.
Because he himself was born in the wild road.
From being illiterate in big characters, to now writing articles with enthusiasm...... It can't be said to be full of flowers, but it can also be said and expressed clearly and clearly.
From the grange to the farmer, to the north and south miscellaneous soup shopkeepers, to the chief steward of Fugui Villa, and finally to the local county magistrate, and then to the county governor Shi ......
It took him more than ten years to go all the way.
He succeeded, and he is a role model for wild roads.