Chapter 44 Rushing to Beijing for the Exam

After Xu Qingfeng set off, Liu Qing did not leave Liuzhen immediately.

There is a distance of hundreds of miles from Gyeongju to the capital, and Xu Qingfeng is a rich child, even if he goes out on horseback, he can't run fast, so he can let him go for a few days.

He also has one more thing to do, which is to mobilize some families who are unwilling to send school-appropriate children to Deshan School to send their children to school.

Letting the children of poor families read some books may not help them achieve a class jump, but at least it will make their future more likely.

Persuasion is also a meritorious thing.

In addition, mobilizing more children to go to school can also make his incense more vigorous - the school rules he set for Deshan School are like this, you have to bow down with incense every morning, noon and evening.

That is a stable source of divine power.

Before the Chinese New Year, the Liu family had already publicized this matter to all poor families in Liuzhen, persuading them to send all children who met the admission standards to Deshan School to study.

I also registered how many people have such a willingness, so that they can make some follow-up arrangements.

Most families can figure it out, they take advantage of this matter, and the Liu family is paying for good deeds, so most families are willing to send their children to school.

However, there are a small number of people who do not have that will.

Some people think that their children are stupid and can't learn anything, so there is no need to waste money and time.

Some people feel that their children can already do some work for the family, let them come to school, and the burden on the family is heavier, so they are reluctant to send them to school.

Not all children have the same talent as Zhu Qijia's Zhu Lizhi to be admitted to Xiucai, most people may not even be able to pass the exam, and reading doesn't seem to have much effect on them.

There are dozens of such families in Liuzhen, involving nearly 100 students.

In order to mobilize those families to send their children to school, Liu Qing frequently used dream-making techniques for several nights in a row, making them believe that their children are not the kind of stupid people who can't read books, as long as they study seriously, even if they can't get into the show and can't be an official, they can have a better future.

After studying, you can not only change your own destiny, but also your own destiny.

If you don't study, you can only be a poor person for the rest of your life.

As a result of this mobilization, many parents who had already decided not to send their children to school changed their minds and were ready to send their children to school after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Of course, there are still a few families who say that they can't move, and they think that it is good for their children to follow them from elementary school farming, and there is no need to go to school.

For such a family, Liu Qing has no choice but to let them.

According to the last statistics before the start of school, there were more than 500 people who were willing to come to study, all of whom were boys between the ages of six and twelve.

In this world, there is no custom of allowing girls to go to private schools, and co-educational schools will be regarded as immoral.

In particular, Deshan School has also built student dormitories for students who are far away from the school, and those students are allowed to live on campus.

In this case, if the co-educational school can't be run for a month, it will be destroyed by the government, and even the Liu family will be promoted.

Even if Liu Qing had become a god, he would not dare to go against such a tradition.

Although it was indeed a large source of students, he did not dare to fight that idea at the moment.

He is a god, but he is just a god who can only lift dozens of catties of weight because of the addition of divine power, and his strength is not as good as that of a healthy adult, and he has no ability to change this world at present.

After this matter was completed, he left Liuzhen and went to find Xu Qingfeng, who had entered Beijing to take the exam.

Before leaving Liuzhen, he released the black starling.

Then this starling couldn't speak, but he could only speak because he was possessed.

He wants to go to the capital, so there is no way to cast a séance on this starling, and in order to avoid goofing, he can only let this starling fly away.

When he comes back again, he can just find another black starling, and others may not be able to recognize whether it is the previous one.

Now he moves very fast, and he can fly high in the air, without considering the barriers of mountains and rivers, and can fly straight to the capital.

It's just that he doesn't know much about the geography of this world, and after reading Daqian's map, he can probably know which direction the capital is in Gyeongju, and it is no problem to fly straight to the capital from a high altitude.

But if you find Xu Qingfeng who is still on the road, it is impossible to walk in a straight line.

The map he saw was not standard or detailed, only some large place names, on which he could not even find the county of the museum, let alone Liuzhen.

Although Xu Qingfeng would report his location to Liu Qing at the fixed incense prayer time every day, Liu Qing could not find Xu Qingfeng's location based on the name of the place.

If he wants to catch up with Xu Qingfeng, he can't fly from a high altitude, he can only follow the road Xu Qingfeng has walked.

Fortunately, Xu Qingfeng took the official road to the capital, just follow the official road, don't worry about those forks, and won't get lost.

Xu Qingfeng set off on the eighth day of the first lunar month with an old slave, and both of them rode horses.

Liu Qing set off on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Set off in the afternoon of the same day, and found Xu Qingfeng's master and servant in a market town along the official road in the evening.

In six days, they traveled more than 300 miles.

Some people can't walk more than this distance.

At this speed, Xu Qingfeng still felt that he was very tired from running.

When Liu Qing found him, he had already checked into an inn.

At this time, he was no longer accompanied by an old slave assigned by his father, but also a dozen scholars and their servants.

The dozen or so scholars were all from Gyeongju and were all going to participate in this year's imperial examination, so they went together.

These people go out together, and they can't go fast.

However, with these lifters, you can exchange ideas along the way, and every day when you stay at home, you will come up with a topic, like homework, everyone will write an article, and circulate reviews to each other at lunch the next day.

This still has a little effect on improving their level.

They will also analyze who the examiner will be this time, what kind of questions will be asked, and what style of essay they prefer.

It's all important to them.

Those who have done it have a bit of a backstage background and know some news in the officialdom.

After Liu Qing arrived, he met them eating and chatting together, and when he heard them talk about those things in the officialdom, he knew more about the court of Daqian.

At this level, the Liu family, a traditional landlord and old wealthy family, does not care much about this, and does not know much, so Liu Qing has no way of knowing.

These people are considered to be the reserve of officials, and they should be concerned about these in the first place.

While they were chatting, Liu Qing heard news that the northern barbarians, who had been at war with Daqian all these years, had the intention of stopping the war, and would send an envoy to the capital this spring to negotiate peace.

If we can negotiate well, there is a high probability that there will be no war in the future.

Hearing the news, Liu Qing was a little relieved: "Without the war, the imperial court would not have levied so many taxes, and the lives of those ordinary people would be a little better." ”