A barbecue night banquet for everyone to go home happily.

But after the revelry, it will eventually be calm.

On the second day, Gu Songyun did not continue to hunt in the mountains, as he said, but stayed in the academy to continue to study hard.

This student born in poverty really cherishes today's learning opportunities, and is desperately trying to improve himself, wanting to get ahead and change his destiny by studying.

Lu Yuan appreciated this very much. So he gave the furs he got from hunting yesterday to the other party, which was regarded as his own funding as an elder.

One sheepskin and five rabbit skins can be sold for a hundred dollars.

He couldn't look down on this little money, anyway, Gu Songyun also participated in hunting yesterday, and he told himself so much knowledge in the mountains, so he should be paid.

In this regard, it is natural to gain a lot of students, and the other party feels that his teacher's friend looks more amiable.

The students were busy studying hard, and Sun Siwen, as a teacher, was naturally not idle, and began to be busy with his work.

He was going to the county hall and have a small meeting with the prefectural magistrate and the priest.

It's the end of August now, and it's time for the autumn exams every year.

These days, the county magistrates and teachers of the county government are worried about arranging for those talents to take the examination this year.

The above county government inspected the political performance of a county, and in addition to the people's livelihood taxes, the proportion of culture and education is also very high.

Therefore, the county government has such a fixed requirement, how many talents should be cultivated in a county every year, how many talents should be recommended to be examined, and whether they can be successful in the examination, which are all important bases for evaluating the performance of local officials.

If you can cultivate a lot of talents and can produce a person during your tenure, it is naturally a superior evaluation and can be used as the basis for promotion.

On the contrary, it is naturally unfavorable to education and a serious dereliction of duty. Either he got a reprimand order, or he was demoted.

In the face of such a major event related to the future, the prefectural order and the edict in charge of education as the chief official naturally attached great importance to it.

However, Changning County is really congenitally poor, the style of writing is not prosperous, and in the past in the annual evaluation, it is a group of unqualified and criticized at the bottom.

Fortunately, the above also knew that their situation was special, so they didn't criticize them too harshly.

But that's no longer the case.

Since the arrival of Sun Siwen and the implementation of a series of educational reforms, the literary style of Changning County has changed.

Not only did the academy have more students, but even Xiucai had cultivated several of them, and finally broke through the 20 mark, with a full 21 students.

With this achievement, it naturally made the county magistrate and the master of the sect have a trace of ambition.

It's not that they think that in this year's autumn test, there will be a lifter in the line, which is too unrealistic.

What the two adults thought was, can there be a few more talents recommended to be examined this year than usual?

After all, although it is the biggest political achievement to raise people in the examination.

But there can be more talents to take the exam, which is also a political achievement.

In previous years, Changning County went to take the examination for talents, usually only four or five, belonging to the bottom group of all counties.

But this year, the county commander is going to make a big one, and he recommends twenty-one Xiucai to take the exam in one go.

That's definitely a big deal.

So after hearing this plan of the county order, Sun Siwen frowned suddenly, looked at his two bosses, and carefully reminded: "County Zun, teach to let more students take the autumn exam, which is of course a good thing."

However, many students are from poor families, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to raise funds for the examination, so they are forced to take the autumn examination, which is afraid of tragedy. ”

In previous years, there have always been more than a dozen talents in Changning County. But why are there only so many people who go to the scientific expedition every time?

It's not about money.

Take Sun Siwen as an example, in order to go to the scientific examination last time, he borrowed thirty taels of silver from Lu Yuan, so that he could make up enough funds for the examination.

Thirty taels of silver, in Changning County, is already equivalent to a normal family's income without eating or drinking for three years. But a family always has to eat and drink, and there are always all kinds of expenses.

Therefore, they wanted to make up thirty taels of silver, and it took almost ten years of accumulation.

Ten years, scraping together enough money to take the autumn exam, this is the norm for those poor students.

It is precisely because it is difficult to accumulate examination funds that many talents from ordinary families, even if they have accumulated enough travel expenses, will not easily go to the imperial examination until they are sure that they have passed the autumn examination.

is afraid that if you lose once, you will have to accumulate a few years and ten years in the future, which is really unbearable for students who are expected to act.

Therefore, the county government evaluates the performance of local officials based on the number of people who participate in the autumn examination, and in a certain respect, it actually makes sense.

If a place can have more students to take the autumn exam, isn't this a reverse proof that your local economy is strong and well-developed, and can support more students to take the exam?

It really can't be said that there is anything wrong with using this standard to evaluate political achievements.

Of course, if the magistrate forcibly forced those students to participate in the imperial examination for the sake of political performance, whether they lived or died, that would be another matter.

Sun Siwen was officially worried about this, so he reminded him at this time.

The county order was also passed by the imperial examination, how could he not know the meaning of the other party's words, so he smiled at this time: "I know that the students have a difficult scientific examination, and many people need to spend more than ten years in order to make up enough funds for the examination, and life is very hard."

This house is not a tyrannical person, and of course it will not force the students to go bankrupt for their own efforts.

The reason for this proposal this time is that it is planned to be funded by the county government, and the county is asking for donations to raise enough funds for all students to take the autumn exam.

This is what I have already told Liu Jiaoyu, and he thinks it is feasible. I don't know what Sun Xueyu thinks? ”

Having said that, how could Sun Siwen have an opinion, after all, if there are more people participating in the autumn exam, as the person in charge of education, it will also be meritorious.

So at this time, he immediately bowed: "If this is the case, then all the students in the county will be grateful for the kindness of the county, and Sun Mou has thanked Mingzun for them." ”

Being complimented, naturally happy, the county commander laughed, then looked at Sun Siwen, and said sincerely: "I can solve it in terms of money." But since so much money has been paid, there is still something to be done.

Sun Xueyu is a new imperial examination person in the past two years, and he knows more about the imperial examination than us outdated old guys.

Now there are two months left before the autumn exam, and there is still one month left to rush in January.

So in the following month, I will ask Sun Xueyu to pay more attention to teach the talents in the first school well, so that they can learn more things, so that they can shine in the autumn exam. ”

The county order is to give money again, and it is to find someone to attract investment, of course, it is not here to do charity.

He is now in his three-year term, and it is time to evaluate promotions and demoties.

But the previous two terms of this county magistrate have done too poorly, and if there is no more success this time, it is likely that he will be removed from the position of the county magistrate.

How does this work?

How can he, who has already tasted power, accept that he has lost power.

Therefore, this time, the hope of keeping the official position was put on this autumn examination. I want to rely on my achievements in culture and education to bring back negative points in other aspects.

And this requires the help of Sun Siwen, a scholar with outstanding teaching ability and deep love among students.

In this regard, Sun Siwen naturally gladly responded.

After all, he also has merit for his good grades.

Our Sun Xueyu has long been eyeing the position of the above teaching, and he is counting on raising the grade in the past few years.

It's just that I didn't expect the opportunity to be delivered so quickly.

In the face of the ducks sent to the door, there is no reason not to catch it.

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