marquis of jingan

Chapter 194 Question Sea Tactics!

In the afternoon of the same day, Shen Yi found a carpenter's shop on Dongshi Street, and bought a bed that was ordered by someone else but was no longer needed.

Most of the furniture in this era is custom-made. Carpenters will start working after receiving the order. If you want to buy the finished product directly, you can only buy this kind of furniture that is ordered by others and returned.

The bed is not very expensive, and the cost of finding a laborer to deliver it will cost four taels of silver.

After buying the bed, Shen Yi bought a small cabinet for the two of them to store their clothes, which was also bought in the carpenter's shop along the way, and together with the bed that was bought later, Shen Yi spent a total of five taels of silver.

Of course, although the quality of the furniture bought at this price is acceptable, it cannot be any precious wood, it can only be said to be ordinary furniture.

After working all afternoon, Shen Yi made the beds for the two little girls. In the evening, Shen Yi took the two little girls to a restaurant on the roadside for dinner, and asked the two little girls a few questions. of origin.

The two little girls are both from the capital city. Although their families are not in Jiankang, they are not far from Jiankang. They both entered the palace together when they were selecting maids in the palace a year and a half ago. One of them lives in Beijing. In the suburbs, the other is a little farther away, in Runzhou Mansion, only a few dozen miles away from Shen Yi's hometown, Jiangdu Mansion, which is half of Shen Yi's hometown.

The two girls' family backgrounds are not very good, so they were entrusted to Jiankang to participate in the selection of court ladies, on the one hand to find a way out, and on the other hand to subsidize the family.

Because the ladies in the palace are paid.

According to the level of seniority, the monthly salary is about one tael to seven taels of silver. Even in Jiankang City, this income is not very low. Food and housing are included in the palace, and some money can be left to subsidize the family.

Shen Yi asked about the specific income of the two people in detail. These two little girls had just entered the palace not long ago. Theoretically, it was one or two and a half silver coins a month, but because they were "newcomers", most of these people would not be able to reach their own hands. In the past few years, most of the maids in charge will take them away. Generally, it will take three to five years after entering the palace before these maids can become financially independent and then start to subsidize their families.

After asking about the salaries of the two, Shen Yi set a salary of 20 taels a year for the two during dinner that night, and allowed them to come and go freely, and they could go home when they wanted to go home.

The two court ladies were so overjoyed that they almost kowtowed to Shen Yi.

Because they did not enter the palace to work, theoretically speaking, they would not have freedom in life. If the emperor rewarded them, they would most likely become domestic servants. However, Shen Yi's attitude now does not regard them as servants, but rather Became a long-term worker.

There are many rules in the palace, if you do things carelessly, you may lose your life. Now that you can leave the palace confinement, and your income has increased instead of falling, the two of them are naturally happy.

After the three of them ate a meal, they went home together. Shen Yi sorted out the three papers in his room, read them from beginning to end, and went back to bed to sleep.

Early the next morning, when the sky was just dawning, there was a knock on the door of Shen Yi's room. The maid Qing'er called Shen Yi to get up for dinner in a soft voice.

There are no entertainment tools in this era, and Shen Yi is also used to going to bed early and getting up early, so he got up from the bed after saying yes, and found that the two little girls had prepared three or four small dishes, and they had prepared hot water for Shen Yi, ready to serve him for dinner .

Shen felt uncomfortable. After washing up, he sat on the dining table.

The two little girls stood beside them, watching Shen Yi quietly, not daring to sit down.

Shen Yi went to move two chairs by himself, and said: "In the future, when there are no outsiders in our family, we don't have to care too much about the distinction of superiority and inferiority. We will sit down and eat together after cooking."

The two little girls were reluctant to sit down at the same table with Shen Yi at first, but Shen Yi's attitude was firm, so the two little girls sat down timidly, eating carefully.

After finishing breakfast, Shen Yi explained to the two little girls that he was going out, and then rushed all the way to Dayifang with his own ideas.

At this time, Shen Yi already knew Mr. Gu's temper. He bought a whole jar of good old wine in a wine shop at the entrance of Dayifang and held it in his arms. Then he came to the gate of Mr. Gu's private school and knocked on Not long after the gate of the private school, Mr. Gu came over to open the door for Shen Yi himself.

Seeing Shen Yi holding a large jar of wine, old man Gu smiled happily, and said with a smile: "I didn't see it, you are quite generous."

Shen Yi also showed a smile, and said: "I didn't bring wine to my husband twice before, this time I made up for it."

After Shen Yi entered the private school, he found out that there was no one in the private school. After asking, he found out that Mr. Gu's private school has two days off for bathing every ten days, which means that there are six days off in a month, and today is the day for bathing.

Mr. Gu was very happy to see a large jar of wine, and led Shen Yi directly to his study, where he took the three policy papers from Shen Yi.

Compared with essays, these three essays have a longer word count. Old man Gu read them while stroking his beard for nearly half an hour before he read all three essays. The old man nodded slightly and smiled. : "Yes, it can be seen that it was written with care, but some allusions are not accurate, and there are one or two places where the allusions are wrong."

The old man pointed to the mistakes and omissions in Shen Yi's essay, and after correcting them one by one, he continued: "Shen Qi, using allusions and showing off knowledge can sometimes please the examiner, but if there are some inaccurate allusions, I would rather not use them." Do not scribble."

Shen Yi nodded: "The teacher taught, and the students wrote it down."

After the little old man finished correcting Shen Yi's theory, he took out a brush and took a piece of white paper from the table. Shen Yi was very discerning and immediately rubbed the old man's ink.

Old man Gu's handwriting is very beautiful, vigorous and unconventional. After a while, he wrote a dense sheet of paper. After Shen Yi glanced at it, he found that all the paper was written... the title of the book.

After filling a sheet of paper, the old man stopped writing, looked up at Shen Yi, and said, "There are still four more months until the township examination. During these four months, try to read all these books. During the four months, every time you come to me, I will give you a topic of policy discussion, when you finish writing, and when you come to see me again, I will give you another policy discussion."

Old man Gu said quietly: "It's best to write a theory every day, and write essays and the like."

More than four months, more than 100 days, that is, more than 100 policy papers.

Shen Yi's scalp tingled when he heard that.

To be honest, these three theories have already killed many brain cells in him.

but…

Being able to have a famous teacher give advice is something that other scholars can't wait for.

Shen Qilang took a deep breath and bowed his head deeply: "Sir, the students have written down the words, and the students must try their best to complete the strategies and theories assigned by the sir."

"Ah."

The old man Gu looked at Shen Yi, and said lightly: "You follow the old man's method, and there is no guarantee that you will win the solution, but this year, there is at least a [-]% to [-]% chance that you will be able to pass the test. You are young and your accumulation is not deep enough. If you want to take the pilot test this year, there is only one way."

He said earnestly: "Four months are too short, if you slack off for a day, you may lose the ranking."

Shen Qilang made up his mind and lowered his head slowly.

"Don't worry, sir, the students will never slack off!"

(End of this chapter)