Lin Qizong was one of the dozen candidates who first arrived in Beihai Town. Most of the poor scholars who participated in the Beihai Town imperial examination this time were hopeless scholars who had been in the exam for many years and had a difficult family life.

However, in the past two months in Whale Town, Lin Tongsheng's body size was like a balloon, and he had a sharp increase of more than ten pounds. His originally thin face also became much rounder. Three meals a day of white flour and enough fresh fish and fat pigs, which made him feel good. Not to mention nourishing his brain, he had enough to make up for everything on his body.

The Beihai Town Examination Committee gave a lot of care to these candidates who actively moved closer to the new regime. In addition to the ten yuan silver dollar allowance mentioned initially, they were exempt from food and accommodation in Beihai Town, and each person was given two sets of new clothes, shoes and socks, and another 30 yuan living allowance.

In addition, the examination committee also organized the candidates to go to the demonstration farm in Xingkai Lake, visited the steel plant and railway station in Boli Town, and visited the commodity trading market.

Before the tour began, Yu Deli asked all the candidates to write an "essay" on the things they are most interested in based on what they saw and heard during the tour, regardless of the subject matter. He planned to find out what these people were doing first so that they could arrange the subsequent training classes in a targeted manner.

"The Essay" is naturally familiar to those who take the civil service exam in another time and space. Its function is to examine a person's analytical ability to deal with problems and whether the issue is clear. Its origin is not "Zi's saying", but comes from Qianlong's words - "A gentleman goes forward and a villain retreats, and each other needs to be respected and gains recognition. Cai's propaganda has not been released, so it is discussed."

The ten-day tour made everyone feel the most shocking thing was the steel plant under construction and the train that was put into operation. Of course, whether it was a tractor, a motorboat running on Heilongjiang, or a million acres of wheat fields on the shore of Xingkai Lake, it also made people shocked.

The construction cycle of Boli Steel Plant is four years and is planned to be officially put into production in 1795. However, the 3,200 cubic-voltage iron-smelting blast furnace has been erected and trial production has also begun.

As the iron outlet was slowly opened, fiery red iron gushed out, sending out a dazzling stream of light, which shocked everyone who visited it. When they learned that the annual output of this steel plant after its completion was as high as 6 billion jin, Lin Qizong and other children's eyes fell all over the ground.

Not to mention them, Yuan Mei and Zhao Yi looked much better when they came to visit; the blast furnace that was more than 70 meters high alone made them feel dizzy.

It is said that since the blast furnace was set up, those Hezhe and Oroqen fishermen who were sailing in the middle of Heilongjiang would worship the iron-smelting blast furnace before the start of the fishing flood, praying for a good harvest.

In fact, from the moment Lin Qizong arrived at Whale Port, he felt that Beihai Town was not as mortal as the world. He felt that the books he had read could not explain everything in front of him. Many of the affairs of Beihai Town were different from Jiaodong. However, when he heard various accents of the south and north, he realized that this place was indeed a real world.

After the tour, all the candidates began to rack their brains to "do their homework". Unlike others who wrote about trains, steamboats, tractors, and wheat fields, Lin Qizong decided to find another way after repeated considerations, taking the topic of the big market in Boli Town as the topic.

The reason why I chose this direction is mainly because this guy is a greedy person, and the various delicacies and wild game sold in the Boli Town Market are delicious and cheap. In addition, his father-in-law opened a grocery store in Mouping City, specializing in goods from both sides.

Boli's large market originated from the "Trimming and Diao Awarding Wulin Conference" in the Qing Dynasty. The original annual festival evolved into a normal market three years ago. Except for the six months in winter and early spring, the remaining six months here are very lively.

Every year after the spring fishing season, the Hezhe people, the Feiyakha people and the Xibe people brought big and small bags of things, either drove their own fast horse boats or boarded the passenger and cargo flatbed in Beihai Town and came to trade.

After they arrive, they must first go to the Market Management Department to register with their identity card, then receive a document, and then they can go in to set up a stall to sell goods.

There was once a clerk who wanted to make a fortune in the registration process and take the opportunity to get a card. In order not to be discovered, the man specially found an honest man who couldn't kick the ball but blackmailed him. The other party swallowed his anger and gave him a piece of squid.

However, what the clerk didn't know was that the surveillance cameras had been installed inside and outside the house of the Marketing Management Department; he collected things on his front foot, and the police station came to him. Not only did he return the charges before, he was fined two months' salary, and the loudspeaker set up inside and outside the market informed the whole process of the matter in Mandarin and Mandarin languages.

Since then, the border residents have said that King Zhao has set three eyes on Prince Ma in the big market, focusing on good and evil. Whoever dares to do bad things, the security police will catch him. When Zhao Xin learned about it, he just smiled, and he didn't want to explain it. It's just right to keep a little mysterious, making those who try to get the sir from the fire even more afraid.

Lin Qizong noticed that the border residents who traded in the big market were very trustworthy and kind to deal with people, which wiped out the impression of "barbarians" in his mind. Not only was there a wide range of rare goods in the market, but each stall owner would take the initiative to pay taxes after selling the goods, and no one was bad, and some even paid more. This made him very confused.

However, when he asked a stall owner of Hezheren who was familiar with official language, he learned that this amount of tax was really insignificant compared to the things he had to pay tribute to participate in the "Reward Wulin".

In the Qing Dynasty, it was said that a household tributed a piece of marten fur, but in addition to marten fur, a village and a surname also had to pay tribute to various mountain treasures, including Haidongqing, and all had to be distributed to each neighbor. Furthermore, the things that the imperial court used to reward were very few, except for grain, cloth, needles, threads and brains. If anyone had a small iron pot, it would definitely make people around him envious.

Lin Qizong asked Nahezhe at that time: "What about now?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! The stall owner smiled and said, "Buy it casually now, one big silver dollar per one. Don't talk about my family, we have eight pounds of big iron pots in our village."

Lin Qizong was shocked when he heard this. People like him who have been devoted to fame and fortune for many years should have no idea about prices; but because of the business his father-in-law is engaged in, this guy often comes to the door to make a fuss. After a while, he also knows a little about the sales price of ironware.

The private smelting and casting industry in the Qianlong era was mainly concentrated in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi. Taking Xingguo, Jiangxi as an example, the wholesale price of the source of goods was one cent of silver per kilogram of cooked iron, and at least 3 to 4 cents per kilogram to transport it to the north. The cost of an eight-kilogram iron pot is 3 cents of silver in terms of cost. If it is made by blacksmiths and grocery stores, it will cost five or six cents of silver when it comes to the hands of ordinary people. If it is converted into money, it will be about 550 to 700 cents, which is really not cheap.

The "composition" of more than a dozen candidates was sent to Yu Deli's desk three days later, and Lin Qizong's article quickly attracted his attention.

When this guy was at home, he made a living by writing letters on behalf of others. First of all, he wrote very well, and his fly-headed calligraphy looked pleasing to the eye. Furthermore, he used the blackmail of the Market Management Department staff to extort the investigation and explained what it means to "If you are upright, you will not be able to do it; if you are not upright, you will not obey even if you are not upright." Then he pointed out the theme and praised Zhao Xinge.

Yu Deli thinks that Lin Qizong wrote pretty well. After all, most people write about steel factories, and only he writes about big markets. However, in Wang Zhong's opinion, all the articles of the test takers are nonsense, and even if they flatter, they can't even get some.

How fresh! Wang Zhong's articles were ranked among the top ten in the entire Qing Dynasty, and his writing style was especially the one that he wanted to look up to.

When all the candidates who arrived in Beihai Town arrived almost the same, the Examination Committee had already prepared a training class for a long time to start.

The training course lasts ten days and is located at the Beihai Town Administrative College. Every day from 8 am to 8 pm, the lectures include the four-book text and essay courses of Wang Zhong, Duan Yukai and Jiao Xun. The administrative school also sent several teachers to explain the corresponding disciplines of various departments in Beihai Town, as well as administration, industry and commerce, justice, military, industry and mining, science and technology, finance and taxation, and trade.

Lin Qizong was confused and received a large tutoring textbook. After listening to the first introduction class, he realized that Beihai Town not only judges heroes by eight-legged essays, but even if he passed the imperial examination, he had to go to the administrative school for a year to study and understand one or several professional knowledge. Then he started from the bottom-level official and worked for at least three years before he could become an official. He wanted to become a parent official in a county, without more than five years of experience as an official and multiple trainings at the bottom of the school, so he would not even think about it.

The courses in the training class are very close, and one class after another from morning to night makes Lin Qizong's eyes straight when he eats every day. Fortunately, the meals for the training class are good for the morning, noon and evening meals, which saves him from the worry of "replenishing his brain".

In fact, the imperial examinations in the Qing Dynasty also included pre-examination training and tutoring institutions, and were far superior to other dynasties, including government-run and private-run. Academies of different levels were spread across the countryside and cities, with a total of more than 4,300. Among them, there are the earliest Lizheng Academy in Chinese history, which was opened since the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, and the four famous academies. In addition, the Zhengyin Academy opened for the scholars of Fujian and Guangdong.

These academies usually teach four days a month, two days of official classes and two days of teacher classes. Other times they are just playing tricks, but they are self-study.

In addition, well-known academies give preferential treatment policies for the imperial examinations, and the academic administration committee will give several admission quotas, otherwise no one will go there again. At least four admissions will be accepted for each subject, and the examination room will be set up.

In addition to tutoring in class, government-run and private academies will also issue "breasted fire silver" based on students' grades.

Paste fire refers to lamp oil. Since the rise of the Academy of Sciences and Yuan dynasties, it has become synonymous with student subsidies. It is natural that I have to study day and night, and of course I have no time to make a living by side jobs. The ancients have long and long ways to go to school. If there is no support for this scholarship, I don’t know how many students will stop, let alone those who are poor in their families.

However, the turmeric is not that good. In addition to the difficulty of enrolling in a good academies, they also have to survive the fittest when they enter the academies, and they have to rank them every month.

Taking the Bailudong Academy in Jiangxi as an example, in addition to the eight classes, including poetry classes, classical ancient classes, policy discussion classes, and homework classes, "internal regular classes" and "outside regular classes" were added; the top 20 "internal regular classes" children can get one tael and two cents of plaster and fire silver every month, and the 20 to 40 are "outside regular classes", and the plaster and fire silver are given six cents of plaster and fire silver every month.

Lin Qizong had also visited academies in Ninghaizhou to attend classes and tutoring. When he had the best grades, he received a subsidy of four cents. However, when he tried this kind of thing, he had to take the exam for talent and luck. It was useless for you to write a flower if you were not lucky. What's more, the admission ratio of students in Dengzhou Prefecture was originally low, and there were many people who wrote better eight-legged essays than him, so he simply stopped going there later.

When returning to the pre-exam cram school in Beihai Town, the scholars and students who participated in the new imperial examination for the first time were undoubtedly lucky. Whether it was Wang Zhong, Duan Yukai or Jiao Xun, they were all famous scholars in Jiangnan and even the world. Even Liu Taigong and Hong Liangji were invited back by Yu Deli to take two classes.

So in Lin Qizong's view, if you can get personal tutoring from these people, you will be gloomy when you fail the exam and tell others about it. Unfortunately, until the training class ended, Wang Zhong's comments on Lin Tongsheng's articles were "bad."

Speaking of the third day after Zhao Xin returned to Beihai Town, he arrived at the newly built examination house early in the morning. When he got off the carriage, he saw a circle of two meters high gray tiles and white walls in the huge empty field. Two lonely three-story buildings stood side by side on the north side. Although the appearance was snow-white, the style was exactly the same as the teaching building of the tube building that Zhao Xin had seen when he was a child.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! On the east side of the building, another red wall of more than two meters high was built, which looked like three or four acres. From the outside, you can only see the gray tiles on the ridge of the yard, and you don’t know what it is for. In addition, a white pine planted every five meters under the yard wall, which is finally a little green.

"Old Chen, why did you turn the examination institute into this kind of sling?"

Zhao Xin flattened his mouth and unconsciously looked back at the south. Next to the white wall is the planned Beihai Town Higher Science and Technology Institute. Because it needs to be carefully constructed, it will be built into the most beautiful and advanced university in East Asia. The foundation has just been dug there.

Unlike the tube building of the Examination Institute, all the buildings of the Higher Education Institute are specially designed for drawings, and use the Chinese design of the top of the Zanjiaoxie Mountain. The Ministry of Trade spent a lot of money on this. Even through the relationship of the Heshen housekeeper Liu Quan, a large amount of raw paint, tung oil, white marble and green glazed tiles were purchased from the pass.

Perhaps because he noticed Zhao Xin's dissatisfaction, Chen Qingsong, who rushed back from Furdan City the day before, whispered to Zhao Xin when Wang Zhong and others were not paying attention, "You can build this way in six months, so you can be content. Time is rushed, I specially transferred three construction teams to come over and work overtime to finish it. Besides, there are all radios, heating, fans, and lights in this building. Have you seen it before the ancients? Don't look at the appearance that is not conspicuous, this is called an inner show. Tomorrow's slogans and other slogans will be prepared. When the time comes, I will hang them and put some colorful flags in it, and live together!"

Zhao Xin said helplessly: "Have the surveillance monitor installed?"

"Of course! There are no blind spots in all directions."

Zhao Xin nodded, raised his hand and pointed to the separate yard and asked, "What is the use of that yard?"

"The main examination room and the examination room! The monitoring room is also inside."

"I'll do it! Come and take a look."
Chapter completed!