Bachelor

Chapter 12
"After reading the Four Books and Five Classics in more than a month, and learning to write stereotyped essays, this matter is not difficult for me, but it is shocking in ancient times, and I don't know how much limelight it will be in the future!" Sun Dan couldn't help but smiled wryly.

Thinking of this, I scratched my nose and pondered for a long time, and decided to go to a school first to see if I could find a teacher in name.

The education system of the Ming Dynasty is generally divided into two types: government schools and private schools. The so-called government schools are well understood, and they are schools run by the government.The local government schools in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three types: prefecture, prefecture, and county. At first, they were generally set up locally in the third year of Hongwu.As far as the schools in Zouping County are concerned, there are one instructor and two instructors. These three are all Guozijian students sent by the state to learn Taoism.Famous teachers produce outstanding apprentices. With these three talented people, Zouping County has also produced several talented people in recent years.Therefore, studying in the county is also a good choice.

There is another advantage to studying in the county. As long as you can get a student status, you can receive six buckets of rice every month, and you will have a living allowance of four taels of silver at the end of the year.Therefore, students of government schools are also called gran students.To be honest, the six buckets of rice were a great temptation for Sun Dan, who was already so poor. If he could meet the county school, this subsidy would be enough to keep him and his fiancée from starving to death.

However, there is a problem here. You need qualifications to enter the official school.

According to regulations, only scholars can enter government schools and receive state subsidies.That is to say, even if Sun Dan enters the official school, he still has to wait until he passes the county, state, and court boy's exams.

But now, he is just a white man, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy if he wants to enter an official school for three meals.Besides, there is a fixed number of government students, only [-] in each county, so you can't get in if you want.But as far as Sun Dan knew, the quota for grannies in Zouping County was also full.

Besides, Sun Dan didn't want to learn anything in school.He has thousands of stereotyped model essays in his belly, and he will just pass the exam all the way, the quality of the teacher is second.Anyway, he is now 16 years old, even if he studies hard, he can't learn much, and he can't compete with the ancients who have been immersed in the Four Books and Five Classics for a lifetime.Learning is like a brick, as long as you knock on the gate of the imperial examination and get into the system, you can throw it aside.

Since there is no way to enter a government school, then you can only study in a private school.

No matter in any era, reading is a very expensive thing.There are not many private schools in Zouping, and most of them are the ethnology of major families, such as the Housun family of Huichang, although the family has moved to the capital.But because Zouping is the place where the ancestral home is, and there are many clansmen, a private school was set up in Zouping's hometown, and there are more than 30 children of the clan who stayed in Shandong.

Although this kind of private school is an ethnology, it is sometimes open to children with foreign surnames.It's just that the children of the same family are free, and the children of other surnames have to pay a certain tuition fee every year if they want to go to school.Although the Hou family in Huichang is domineering, they are also kind to the folks in Zouping's hometown. If children with foreign surnames want to study in the Sun family, they only need to pay [-] pennies a month for tuition, which is only four pennies a year.

This tuition fee is still within the tolerable range for Sun Dan, maybe he can try it there.

Anyway, I just go to hang out for a few months, and I don't have to go after the boy test is over.

But after thinking about it, if I just ran to the door to study, I was afraid that I would be kicked out immediately.Moreover, the identity of my grandson's family has not yet been confirmed, so if I run to the door now, I will be looked down upon.

Just as he was lost in thought, there was a rumble in his stomach.It was only then that Sun Dan remembered that he went out to buy rice this time, the world is big and the food is the biggest.

Touching his shriveled belly, Sun Danwei gave a wry smile.Regardless of the matter of studying, it will take more than a year for me to rely on the middle school to raise people.For more than a year, the two members of the family have to eat and drink, which is the top priority in front of them.

Zhi Niang is his fiancée in name, but Sun Dan doesn't see it that way.He didn't have any feelings for the woman who appeared so suddenly, he didn't recognize this marriage in his heart, and naturally he didn't want to owe her any more love.

You have to read books, you have to earn money, and let a Ruo woman support yourself, and your self-esteem can't bear it.I am a man, after all, I have to be self-reliant.

Not in a hurry to buy rice, I started walking around the county town with [-] Wen in my pocket, to see if I could find a job first.

Originally, as far as Sun Dan was concerned, he still wanted to find a job with a little technical content.For example, helping others with bookkeeping, or teaching or something.After all, he was also a college graduate in later generations, and after working in an agency for a few years, it was naturally very easy to do writing work.

But the problem is that Sun Dan is now a big illiterate in the eyes of the world.Now that I am suddenly literate, it is strange not to be seen as a monster.Besides, he was originally going to study in a private school.In this day and age, you are not born as a scholar, and no one asks you to be a private school teacher.

It is true that knowledge is power, but now his current illiteracy status has cut off his way of relying on knowledge for a living.

Well, it's not bad to be a buddy in a store and do sales.

"Hey, it's the little brother of the Sun family." The first place Sun Dan went to apply for a job was a pharmacy, and the boss was very kind.Zouping County is not big, everyone knows each other, and he speaks very directly: "Brother Sun is sixteen this year, heck, this is the right age to start working. Don't worry, work here for three years, and you will become a qualified My little shopkeeper. What, wages, haha, I’m joking. Our guys here don’t have wages. After the three-year apprenticeship, if you can really learn it, the monthly fee is three renminbi. Well, you start with cutting Start with decoction pieces, cut them for two months and wait until you are proficient in the technique, and then I will teach you how to recognize and prepare medicines. This thing is quite simple to say, the key is to have a good memory. I have memorized hundreds of prescriptions at your age. Oh... Brother Sun, why are you leaving?"

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"Boss, do you need someone in this longevity shop, how much is it a month?"

"Important person, one penny a month, will you do it?"

"Okay, I'll do it."

"By the way, the old man Beimenji has been dead for almost a month. He is a lonely old man with no children. He was not discovered until his body was rotten and stinky. Go over and put the shroud on him immediately, and then Carry it back to Yizhuang."

"Ah, sorry, I came to the wrong place."

"I'll add another thirty cents."

"I want to go home."

The owner of the Shoucai shop kept shouting behind him, but Sun Dan ran faster.

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The depression of small ancient counties exceeded Sun Dan's imagination. After all, ancient China was still an era of small-scale peasant economy, and there were not so many employment opportunities.There are only two or three streets in the county town, there are not many shops, and even if they only accept apprentices who don't pay wages, this is very different from Sun Dan's employment orientation.

Despondently walking around the city, Sun Dan was so depressed that he suddenly remembered that there was a wharf at Xishuimen, which was one of the most prosperous areas in the county.Since there is nothing to do in the city, why not try it out there, if not, you can earn a living by carrying buns on the pier.

But when he came to the pier and understood the situation, he was immediately dumbfounded.

That's right, the wages of porters on the docks are indeed very generous, and they can get a penny for every sack they carry. A strong porter can get him tens of pennies if he works all day long.After a month, there is no problem in mixing one, two or five renminbi, which is enough for a family of three to live a good life.But when he saw his thin arms and legs, Sun Dan immediately dismissed the idea.Don't make money at that time, but be tired enough to vomit blood and die.He is only 16 years old this year, and his body is not yet fully developed. He cannot be compared with those muscular porters on the pier.

(End of this chapter)