Two days later, the Imperial City of Nanjing.

Lu Zhenfei and the other five cabinet elders were discussing a major event in the duty room - increasing the number of admission posts for prefecture schools, state schools, and county schools.

Today, it is imperative to increase the number of students in prefectures, counties and counties, and the reason is very simple, as of this year, more than 40,000 students have been admitted to Nanjing Guozijian in four phases and become Guozijian.

This has led to vacancies in the schools of each prefecture, the state of each state, and the county of each county.

The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to culture and education, and has always attached great importance to the imperial examination, so after the continuous vacancy of the prefecture and county schools, the prefects and counties in various places have written to the imperial court, asking to increase the proportion of Xiucai, because the number of Xiucai cultivated in the prefecture and county is also one of the achievements of the local parents.

Liu Lishun said: "It is imperative to increase the enrollment of prefecture schools and county schools, otherwise, the number of students in all prefectures, states and counties will no longer be enough to meet the enrollment needs of the fifth phase of Guozijian. ”

Xiucai is not enough to recruit students from Guozijian, which is of course an exaggeration.

Because there is actually a quota for the number of talents in the Ming Dynasty.

There were more than 1,400 counties in the Ming Dynasty, so the number of people was about 37,000, plus about 100,000 epiphytes and epiphytes.

However, after the fall of the north, the number of Xiucai decreased sharply, but there were still 60,000 or 70,000 students.

Moreover, after Nanjing Guozijian recruited students from the prefecture and county schools, the counties will immediately carry out the county examination, and the prefectures will also carry out the provincial examination, followed by the provincial examination, and soon the vacant students will be filled in by the vacancies, so the number of students in the Ming Dynasty is basically constant and will not decrease.

Because Xiucai has a huge group of children to support it.

Before the child is not exhausted, Xiucai cannot be exhausted.

The reason why the provincial school administration, the prefects of the prefectures, the governors of the prefectures, and the magistrates of the counties are clamoring to increase the number of records is that one is for their own political performance, and the other is that the admission rate of students to the national sub-prison examination is too high.

Of the 60,000 or 70,000 people, 10,000 were admitted, nearly one out of six.

This is so far from the previous admission ratio of their Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi exams, that Liu Lishun was not angry, how could it be so easy to take the exam?

Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of talents in the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Liu Lishun's voice fell, Wu Linzheng followed and said: "I also think that the government and state schools must be added, and the scale must be expanded to more than three times the current one, that is, 200,000 people. ”

"200,000 talent posts?" Zhang Shenyan lost his voice and said, "The number of children in the country is only 600,000!" ”

"What's so hard about this?" Meng Zhaoxiang also said, "Xiucai can be added, children can be added as well, and there is no shortage of readers in Daming, if you let go of it, 6 million children will also have it." ”

Zhang Shenyan said angrily: "Yes, if you let go of the take, there can indeed be 6 million children, not to mention 200,000 Xiucai posts, but such a large-scale increase in the number of children and talents, pen, ink, paper, and field labor all cost money, if all the Xiucai are distributed according to the rice of the Dian, each person will support six buckets of rice per month, 200,000 people a year is 1.44 million Shiqiao rice, according to the current price of rice in Nanjing, that is 2.16 million, where does this money come from?" ”

Lu Zhenfei frowned and said, "How can everyone be a good student." ”

Zhang Shenyan said: "Even if you subtract seventy percent, it will cost 650,000 yuan, and counting the pen, ink, paper, space and labor costs required for the exam, 1 million yuan may still be insufficient." ”

As soon as it came to money, Liu Lishun, Wu Linzheng and Meng Zhaoxiang immediately fell silent.

Now that the household department has begun to borrow to get by, how can it still have so much spare money?

Lu Zhenfei sighed and said: "The revitalization of culture and education has been difficult since ancient times. ”

Originally, if it was easy to promote culture and education, Xiucai would not be able to walk all over the ground?

The five pavilion elders were relatively speechless, and at this moment, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the duty room.

Immediately, Wang Yingxiong, the political envoy, rushed in with a telegram and shouted urgently: "Five pavilion elders, great victory, great victory in Beijing!" The new army of the Ming Dynasty destroyed more than 400,000 troops of Jiannu in the battle of Bali Bridge! It's a big deal! ”

"So, you won?" Lu Zhenfei was stunned for a moment, with a somewhat dazed expression.

Zhang Shenyan was already in tears at this time, and said while wiping his tears: "Jingshi has finally recovered." ”

Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng and Liu Lishun were even more emotional, recalling the panic and helplessness when they fled from the Beijing Division with the Holy Master, as if it was just yesterday, and they didn't intend to recover the Beijing Master today, just like a different world!

……

An alley on Daping Street.

Qian Qianyi picked up his burden from the sewage, shook his head and sighed: "It's insulting to Sven, it's really insulting to Sven." ”

A fat woman immediately walked out of the door with a number of plates, crossed her waist and scolded: "I, bah, I still think I am the old man of the pavilion today?" I can't even afford to live in a two-cent silver one-night shop, it's a shame! ”

"The tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs, and the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs, which is a pity."

"Who are you scolding for being a dog?" The fat woman came to chase after her, and Qian Qianyi was suddenly frightened and fled.

After running for a short time, he met a servant girl coming to him, and handed him a bag in the crook of his arm, Qian Qianyi took it in a daze, and suddenly didn't react.

It wasn't until the maidservant girl walked to the alley that Qian Qianyi finally reacted.

"Ma'am? Madame, is that you? Madam! Qian Yiyi chased him out.

When he chased to the entrance of the alley, he happened to see that a carriage had gone away, and Qian Qianyi chased forward like crazy, but where could he still catch up? The last fell to the ground, and both burdens fell to the ground.

Qian Zhenyi was about to cry because both knees were broken.

At this moment, a newsboy rushed by from Taiping Street.

"Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, sell newspapers, Beijing is a great victory! Sell the newspaper, Beijing is a great victory! ”

"My great soldiers destroyed the 500,000 army of Jiannu in the first battle of Bali Bridge, and the Beijing division won a great victory!"

Hearing the clamor of the hawkers, the officials, gentlemen, scholars, merchants, and even peddlers and pawns who passed by the street gathered around the newsboy and rushed to buy the newspaper.

Qian Qianyi was stunned.

A great victory for the Beijing Division?

It's unreasonable!

……

Daming Mathematics College.

Pascal used a charcoal brush to write a line on the whiteboard:

When the integer n>2, there is no positive integer solution for the equations for x, y, z, x^n+y^n=z^n.

The dozens of students sitting in the classroom immediately took out quill pens and copied this line of words, and these dozens of students were selected from the first four batches of Guozi students who were talented in mathematics.

This class is equivalent to a Pascal Belt's graduate class in mathematics.

After 4 years of teaching, the students in this class have made great progress in mathematics.

"Students, that's what we're going to talk about today, Fermat guessed."

"Fermat's conjecture was developed by the French mathematician Fermat after reading Diophantine's Arithmetic, and no counterexamples have been found so far, so it is highly likely to be a theorem."

"So today, we're going to try to validate it."

As he spoke, a tsunami-like cheer suddenly sounded outside.

However, none of the students in this class were affected by the outside world, and they only focused on listening to the lecture.

Pascal, the dean of mathematics and a professor and lecturer, was even more unaffected by the outside world, and wrote another equation on the whiteboard with charcoal: x^3+y^3=z^3.

The substitution method is then used to perform the checks.

Just counting here, a student from the engineering college over there rushed in and shouted excitedly: "Stop going to class, all march on the streets, the Beijing division has won a great victory, and the Ming New Army has recovered the Beijing division, haha!" ”

"Get out of the way." One of the students who was checking the calculations scolded, "Don't disturb our class. ”

"Meaning, what a bunch of nerds, poisoned by math!" The students of the engineering college scolded disdainfully, turned around and ran away, and then there were tsunami-like cheers outside.

Pascal nodded with satisfaction, that's all it takes to do math.

If you can't put your heart and soul into it, you won't achieve anything.

……

Outside the upper gate of Nanjing's outer city, Shi Jiuke opened a new silk reeling factory.

The Shi family's silk weaving business is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems that it has become the largest silk producer in the Ming Dynasty, which is also because the Shi family has a hard relationship, and the big tree of Xu Yingwei is not counted, and the Zheng family is a strong support.

It is not easy for other families to get a loan from the industrial and commercial bank, but Shi Jiuke only needs one meal.

Of course, no matter how hard the Shi family's background is, the laws and regulations that should be followed must also be followed, and it is impossible for Zheng Zunqian to lend money to the Shi family's silk weaving workshop in violation of regulations.

Huang Zongxi's supervision department has been staring at it.

Let's just say that this newly opened silk reeling factory, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also accounts for seventy percent of the shares.

The Shi family only has the right to operate the silk reeling factory, and it is impossible to have a controlling stake.

However, the newly opened silk reeling factory is very different from the previous one.

In addition to the greater number of female workers and the larger scale of silk reeling, the biggest difference is the addition of two steam engines, which greatly improve the production efficiency of the silk reeling factory.

The shopkeeper in charge said hello to Shi Jiuke with a happy face.

"Owner, with the steam engine is different, not only the speed of the filament is faster, but also its quality is also high, I roughly estimated, at least two percent of the cost can be saved."

"And that's just the beginning." Shi Jiuke also looked forward to it.

"We are still not familiar enough with the steam engine, and many processes are not mature enough, and when the process level is raised and the workers' craftsmanship is skilled, the cost can be further reduced."

"Yes, what the owner said is very true, and the cost can definitely be reduced."

The shopkeeper is also looking forward to hearing this, the efficiency of the silk reeling factory is good, and his year-end dividend will be increased accordingly, and it is estimated that he can share a lot of money this year, and with this money he can start a mansion.

It's a pity that I can only go back to my hometown to start a house, and Nanjing can't buy land.

If you can build a big house in Nanjing, you will make a lot of money.

As he was talking, a guy suddenly came to report: "Master, shopkeeper Zheng is visiting." ”

"Brother Zheng? Why did he run up the door? "Shi Jiuke has some accidents, is there something wrong? Otherwise, they wouldn't have run directly to the upper door to find him.

[Qingming, go back to your hometown to sweep the tomb, these three days can only guarantee two watches, forgive me]