God Weird Fairy

Chapter 63: Sixty-three Journal of Nantian University takes first place

"Nantian Xuebao" is a newspaper produced by the Mingwen Supervisor of Nantian City, and it is also a daily publication.

There is a column dedicated to publishing essays by students taking annual exams.

During the annual examination marking, although the marking officials will give scores, these scores will not be announced to the public. They will only give the ranking of students in each county's school building.

Then, the top students in each school's annual examination can go to the branch of Wuxiang Academy in Nantian City, that is, Nantian Academy.

In this way, there is a problem.

Everyone is number one in their respective schools. After gathering in the county town, who is the real number one?

The Correctional Supervisor does not announce the specific scores of each student to the public, but the Mingwen Supervisor, which belongs to the same Ministry of Education and Culture system as the Correctional Supervisor, has a "Nantian Academic Journal", which will publish the literary articles of students who took the last year's exam starting from No. 11 every January. .

The original intention of this approach was to disseminate the questions on the annual Wenfu examination papers widely among the people, and to invite the common people to participate in discussions on the articles and arguments of the students.

But daily magazines publish an article every day, and the order in which they are published is a ranking in itself.

The candidates who took the exams over the years did not know their overall score ranking, so they had to rank them based on the order of publication in the "Journal of Nantian University".

After all, people will get tired of seeing the same test questions too many times.Although it is only one of the columns of a journal, articles published a few months later are certainly not as strong as articles published in the earliest issues.

This year, the article published in the first issue of "Journal of Nantian Science" was written by Nan Yi.

But when Nan Yi saw it, his expression was dull.

He has already officially joined the Immortal Sect, so he doesn't care about ordinary students' pursuit of fame.

Even if he won the first place, he still treated it with a normal attitude.

However, Song Zhong smiled and said:

"I heard that the order in which the articles on Sui Kao and Fu were published in the newspaper was decided by the county magistrate himself. Then, Brother Nan, guess whose article is in the second issue?"

Nan Yi didn't know anyone, so he didn't know how to guess. He went directly to read the signature of the second issue article.

Song Zhong placed three issues of "Journal of Nantian Xue" on the table.

In the second issue, the author of the article was signed by Chu Tianxing.

"Chu Tianxing, who is this person?"

"The son of County Governor Chu Kuangsheng, Chu Tianxing." Song Zhong spread his hands and said.

Hearing that it was the son of the county governor, Nan Yi became a little more serious and looked at the content of the article.

Unlike Nan Yi, who wrote a novel and answered the questions from the side with the story of poor villagers in the county, Chu Tianxing answered the questions head-on.

He deduced how the introduction of steam technology would evolve the industry.

Dali's current industrial industry is still mainly in the form of handicraft workshops, but relying on the skills of craftsmen passed down from generation to generation to achieve hand-made industrialization has also allowed Dali to have a primitive degree of industrialization - Nan Yi got it From the "Wuxian Treasure Book", I just learned that the so-called secret skills of these craftsmen families are essentially inherited by blood.

However, with economic development and population growth, it is the general trend to introduce steam technology and achieve true industrialization.

By then, traditional industries will definitely be impacted.But Baigong is not a fool. He will quickly embrace the new era and choose to join forces with big businessmen to open factories.

For this emerging force formed by the cooperation of hundreds of industries and wealthy businessmen, Chu Tianxing called it industry and commerce, and deduced a lot about the expansion of industry and commerce.

After reading it, Nan Yi felt that Chu Tianxing's reasoning was very good and in place.If we can go one step further and replace the word "business" with another word, it will make more sense.

Nan Yi realized that even if Chu Tianxing's article was ranked first, there would be no problem.After all, the time for composition in the examination room was limited, so his Luotuo Xiangzi was too concise and seemed to have lost its polish.However, ordinary people don't seem to think so.

Behind the column of articles on literary works in the Journal of Nantian Studies, there is also a column for letters from readers, which publishes readers’ comments and thoughts on articles on literary works, etc.

In the second issue, letters from readers were all discussing Luo Tuo Xiangzi, the protagonist Luo Xiang, the pseudonym changed by Nan Yi.

This is normal.Because the contents of these letters were originally published at the same time as the articles in the second issue.

But by the third issue, letters from readers were still discussing Luo Xiang, and no one was discussing Chu Tianxing’s article at all.

No, not at all.

Nan Yi found a few passages in the readers’ letters column of the third issue:

[The businessmen and businesses deduced by Chu Tianxing are indeed very likely to appear. He is worthy of being the son of a county governor, and he has a very vicious vision.Unfortunately, Nan Yi's article tells us one thing: We, the common people, will only become Luo Xiang, not industrialists and merchants. 】

[After reading the first issue, I felt angry and afraid, but it was difficult for me to explain why I was angry and afraid.After reading the second issue, I finally understood.It turns out that the saddest thing is that the reason why Luo Xiang fell to his final stage is precisely because of the disorderly expansion of industry and commerce, which made Luo Xiang a talent - a kind of person who tried his best to burn his whole life, but could not leave even a trace of warmth to himself. Figure consumables. 】

[I checked Nan Yi’s identity and found that he is a villager.Then, I suddenly realized that when the son of the county governor set his sights on the businesses and industries that might shake up the power of the government in the future, only Nan Yi, who was born in the countryside, could see through the businesses and businesses and see the poor people at their feet. . 】

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Nan Yi fell silent after looking at it.

He finally realized why Song Zhong was in trouble for him.

If he simply won the first place and beat Chu Tianxing, it would not necessarily lead to Chu Tianxing's hostility.

After all, he is the son of a county governor. Nan Yi believes that Chu Tianxing is not too well-educated and will not be resentful of a title that can be called a false reputation.

Not to mention, this ranking was decided by the county governor.Instead of being hostile to Nan Yi, Chu Tianxing might as well complain about his father.

But the feedback from readers' letters is equivalent to sending Chu Tianxing to Nan Yi's feet and becoming Nan Yi's stepping stone.

Now, even if Chu Tianxing is well-mannered, he will definitely not have a good look towards Nan Yi.If his character were a little more domineering, it would be normal for him to complain about Nan Yi and even make Nan Yi feel unhappy in various ways.

In other words, Nan Yi inexplicably won the first place in the "Nan Tian Xue Journal", but instead made enemies for no reason and angered Chu Tianxing, the son of the county governor.

However, Nan Yi didn't take Chu Tianxing to heart at this time.

He thought a little deeper.

Why did the Mingwen Supervisory Committee do this?
In the third issue of "Journal of Nantian University", when Editor Ming selected and published the content of readers' replies, why didn't he care about Chu Tianxing's face?
Is it because Mingwen Supervisor officials did not take Chu Tianxing seriously and did not intend to give Chu Tianxing face?
Or were they doing it on purpose, to deliberately embarrass Chu Tianxing?

Or maybe it's not Chu Tianxing they want to target, but Nan Yi?

Nan Yi was silent for a while, and sighed quietly: Maybe, it's both.

He suddenly thought that if these officials had their own families in the county, they might encounter some problem reflected behind Luo Tuo Xiangzi.Therefore, it seems not impossible that the officials were dissatisfied with him and secretly wore small shoes.

They may not go out of their way to praise Nan Yi.

But it is perfectly normal to take the initiative to step on others, cause some trouble for Nan Yi, and secretly have fun.

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(End of this chapter)