Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1689 Shifang

  As the saying goes, a man has a face, a tree has a skin.

  There are also shameless trees in nature, such as the itchy tree, which seems to have no bark, and the whole body is naked, but in fact this tree still has bark, but it is so thin that it seems to have no bark.

  So people naturally have thin-skinned and thick-skinned people. Fei Qian doesn't know which one he should belong to, but he is sure that Cai Gu's cheek must not be the thin-skinned kind...

   No, Cai Gu sent a famous thorn to Hussar General Fei Qian, ready to come to visit, but the problem is that Fei Qian didn't want to see him at all. "People eat a hundred things, and things support a hundred people..." Fei Qian sighed slightly, and then handed it over to Xun Chen, "It's too much trouble for friends..."

  Anyway, the secretary has something to do, it’s okay... Ahem, anyway, Xun Chen is almost like Fei Qian’s secretary now, and if Fei Qian is not easy to come forward, he will naturally leave it to Xun Chen. Xun Chen nodded gracefully, took Cai Gu's name badge, turned around and went out, came back not long after, then took out a thick stack of name badges from his sleeve, and sent them to Fei Qian's with a half smile on his face. In front of him, he said: "This is the talent recommended by Mrs. Cai..."

"Oh?" Fei Qian glanced at Xun Chen, looked at Xun Chen's serious expression, and then took a look, hey, there are a lot of people, and everyone's descriptions are good, they are filial and talented "Cai Yuan, Cai Zizhong? Chen Bin, Chen Mengjie? Zhao... Who are these people? Could it be that we are left behind now?"

   Xun Chen smiled and said nothing.

   Fei Qian looked at it, oh, I see, he threw these famous thorns aside, and sighed. There may not be any leftovers, but bribery is true. Cai Gu estimates that such a character who brings goods has earned a lot...

   Some headaches.

"Perhaps Xu Qida is just..." Fei Qian waved his hand, "Besides, Cai's move is quite inappropriate...you might as well find an opportunity to warn you..." It's not good if it's really messed up, after all, Cai Yan is now There are not many elders, although this elder is indeed not very good.

  Xun Chen nodded silently, but Fei Qian didn't know if there was a numbness in his heart. But now in the market in Binh Duong, it is not just one person who speaks of orange hemp barley

   Dabi is about to enter the countdown, and this time is arguably the most important one! After all, the previous big competitions were presided over by the Grand Priest of the Academy, but this time it turned out that General Hussars was in charge in person, so it meant that once he entered Fei Qian's eyes, wouldn't he be able to achieve success immediately?

  So this time, not only the people in Pingyang, but also the surrounding counties and counties have issued an early notice to facilitate some students to prepare in advance. I heard that even Hanoi and others have come from afar...

There are too many people, so the price of goods will naturally rise, and among the students who come, they not only need to buy living materials, but also need to buy some learning tools, and the learning tools are often bulky, which makes many people feel naturally from the bottom of their hearts Emotion.

This time it can be regarded as a preview of the imperial examination, mainly for the reform of the previous system of filial piety and honesty. People from counties and counties didn't have time to come, but this time the number of people participating in the big competition has soared to more than 2,000, and there is still an upward trend.

  Of course, the most important thing is that this time the competition began to divide into subjects, especially the two subjects of "calculation" and "law" were listed separately, but among them, "classics" still dominated and accounted for the largest number of people.

   As for the scope of the exam, it goes without saying that the "classics" are basically all Confucian books, and the coverage is very large.

   "Fa" is not simple. The sixty chapters of Han law are the "Nine Chapter Law" set by Xiao He, the "Pong Zhang Law" set by Shusun Tong), the "Yue Gong Law" set by Zhang Tang, and the "Chao Law" set by Zhao Yu. Sixty articles are not necessarily much easier than scriptures...

  As for "calculation", it is biased towards real life problems, and to a certain extent covers some superficial problems and calculations in mathematics, physics and chemistry, so it is also very complicated.

  No matter which subject, the exam is divided into two sessions, the first session is for basic knowledge, and the second session is for specific application.

  With such a huge test market, it is naturally impossible for Fei Qian, as a future generation, to let go of such a blue ocean.

  Among them, the most important one is a set of new annotations on Shuowen Jiezi, which is divided into five volumes, and the price is very high. As for the selection of previous editions, the compulsory real questions and so on, they are still in the future, and they have not been published for the time being.

Although the official script is popular these days, there are still many people who like to write some small seal characters in an unconventional way, and even some characters invented by themselves. Even in later generations, there will still be Kong Yiji who will study the four writing methods. In the Han Dynasty, there were no inscriptions on the imperial examination regulations to stipulate what kind of calligraphy should be written. Coupled with the problem of many people's writing habits, they often use common holidays, or even write wrong radicals, which is nothing more than normal.

  As for what this character has met, ah, I recognize it, and when I want to write, I scratch my head, no matter how I write, it is not uncommon, so it is naturally very important to have a special Shuowen Jiezi to standardize my writing. The original book "Shuowen Jiezi" was written between Emperor Hanhe and Emperor Han'an. The original book is huge, with fifteen volumes in total, and each volume is divided into two chapters. There have been many changes from before to now, and some characters are rarely used. Therefore, Fei Qian asked Cai Yan and Sima Hui to take the lead to recompile "Shuowen Jiezi", and then deleted the seal script part and other fonts. , using only one style of official script, while deleting some basically unused characters, and finally streamlining it into five volumes, which is a lot more convenient.

To promote this book "New Notes on Shuowen Jiezi", naturally we cannot let go of such an opportunity as Dabi. Therefore, since last year's Dabi, Linghu Dajiu of Shoushan Academy has repeatedly emphasized that all written texts must be This book "Shuowen Jiezi New Notes" is the standard, if you write any random characters with different characters and lonely characters, they will all be regarded as typos, and points will be deducted and downgraded!

A few years ago, Dabi was important, but not as important as it is now, so even if you don’t have the money to buy the published "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu", you can put it together and look at it, but this year is so important Naturally, it is impossible to borrow such an important thing and then lend it out...

The Chinese people, no one snatched it, it was not a rare commodity, so once the snatching started, they even bought out the stock in the bookstore, all "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu", whether it was a collection or Divided into volumes, one volume counts as one volume, and all are sold out!

But what's interesting is that the "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" belonging to the official bookstore, or in the bookstore belonging to General Hushi, was sold out without a single copy, but in other channels, some books that originally seemed to sell rice, oil and salt Yes, there are actually "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" goods...

Theoretically speaking, all noble families must have some money at home, or to put it another way, those who can read were all rich in the Han Dynasty, and those without money could not afford to read at all. The name of the class, that is the name that did not appear until the books were widely popularized.

Now that the Han Dynasty has almost come to an end, the old eunuchs have fallen, the new rich have risen, and the aristocratic families have also experienced ups and downs. However, no matter whether it is the new rich or the old eunuchs, the desire for knowledge is still beyond imagination. In fact, the children of the gentry are still the main participants. As for the ordinary poor people, they can't even see where the threshold is, let alone try the carp jumping over the dragon gate.

  The poor family, but compared with those big families and noble families, it is more shabby, and there is at least one family.

  So in fact, this set of "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" has become a threshold invisibly.

  Whether it is printed privately or copied by others, there are some know-how, and those who don’t have the know-how can only sigh and curse at the soaring price of books...

What?

  Compulsory education?

  Being half a step ahead is a genius, and one step ahead will be a stepping stone. Using big competitions to select talents, this is the mindset that Fei Qian has cultivated over and over again and again after so many years of hard work after he established the academy, and only today has he made half a step forward and started to move towards the imperial examination system...

If there is no such financial and material resources, in the Han Dynasty under the state of small government, there is really no ticket to enter the upper class. Now Feiqian can only expand the circle of gentry, establish a martial arts upstart class, and break the original narrow big The aristocratic family and the big land class have become the model of small landlords. As for the equality of everyone, the five insurances and one housing fund, that is simply nonsense.

However, "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" is still a bit more expensive. If it is not bad in normal times, the official bookstore of Huqi General is also priced reasonably, but now the official bookstore is sold out, and the prices of various small channels Well, nature is different every day...

  For those big gentry, real local tyrants, Ma Jun is really a completely impoverished family, but Ma Jun is still able to study even though his family is poor, which has to be said to be the advantage of the gentry system of the Han Dynasty. It is inevitable that there will be ups and downs in a family, but a huge family can guarantee that the inheritance between generations will not be interrupted due to a family change. At least Ma Jun has food from childhood to adolescence. If you have clothes to wear and books to enlighten you, you will not become refugees like those ordinary people who have lost the pillars of their families.

This time I heard that Hussar General Fei Qian was going to hold a school competition in Pingyang, and there were Ma family members who wanted to come to Pingyang. Others, such as living standards, food and housing conditions, etc., are more frugal, but this "Shuowen Jiezi New Notes" always needs a set, so that you can know which words you write correctly and which words you are not used to, right? ?

  But when Ma Jun followed his clan brother Ma Fu to the market to inquire, he was naturally surprised by the price of "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu"...

When the shopkeeper saw this, he naturally understood it, and he didn't do anything like some kind of plot, making sarcasm at every turn, but complained to Ma Fu Ma Jun, expressing that his new sets of "Shuowenjiezixin" "Note" is so rare, and then so precious, not because he wants to sell it expensively, but because the original purchase price is so high.

  Of course, this kind of rhetoric of merchants has always existed, and it will have a long history.

Not only did the shopkeeper not sneer, but he even gave Ma Jun some advice, saying that he has a complete set here, and it has been carefully proofread by someone. In the past, there was another company that also sold this "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu", but there was a slight errata in that one, so the price would naturally be cheaper, and you can buy it in volumes, and you can buy it according to your needs...

Ma Jun in horse clothes naturally had nothing to say. Just as he was about to bid farewell to the shopkeeper, he suddenly heard the sound of a horse's hooves, followed by the sound of soldiers in armor, and a pair of inspectors broke into the shop. When he saw the "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" placed on the counter by the shopkeeper, he smiled coldly, pointed with his hand, and shouted: "Take it for someone!"

  The soldiers rushed forward, and immediately pulled the shopkeeper out from behind the counter, pushed him to the ground, and took the rope to tie him up.

  The shopkeeper shouted that he was wronged, saying that he was an innocent person, and he did not do anything bad at all, how could there be a crime, did he arrest the wrong person...

The leading inspector patted the "Shuowen Jiezi New Notes" on the counter with the palm missing the little finger and the ring finger, and said in a deep voice, "How dare you argue?! The physical evidence is here... the witnesses..." Glancing over Ma Jun and Ma Jun in horse clothes shivering to one side, "These two are also witnesses, take them away together!"

""Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu"?" The shopkeeper felt very wronged, and shouted loudly, "What is the crime of selling copied books? If this is a crime, then all the scholars in the world are guilty! Do all the books in the world are printed Is there no handwritten copy? If you judge the crime by this, I will not accept it, I will not accept it, I am wronged, I am wronged!"

  When the inspector heard this, he couldn't help but frowned.

Seeing that his boss was displeased, the soldiers under him stretched out their hands to slap the shopkeeper, but instead asked the inspector to stop, then walked up to the shopkeeper and said, "You refuse to accept? Are you wronged? Well, let me ask you, your shop What was it originally for sale? Huh? When did this "Shuowen Jiezi Xinzhu" become oil and salt? Can it be with these pickles and pickles?!"

   "This..." The shopkeeper was speechless for a while, his eyes rolled around twice, "It's my negligence, I will immediately set up a new cabinet for this..."

   "Haha, ahhahaha..." The inspector laughed and waved his hands, "This matter can't be counted at the counter! Stop talking! Take it away!"

Regardless of the shopkeeper with a mournful face, the inspector walked up to Ma Fu and Ma Jun, clasped his hands and said, "Are you pre-ordering this book? Why don't you go with a certain one... Today the general inspected these traitors, there must be many of them These things, the two of you can buy them at a fair price..."

  (end of this chapter)