Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 681 Great Victory in the Capital
Two days later, Nanjing Imperial City.

Lu Zhenfei and other five elders were discussing a major matter in the value room - increasing the number of admissions for prefectural schools, prefectural schools, and county schools.

Up to now, it is imperative to increase the enrollment of prefectural, prefecture, and county schools, and the reason is very simple. As of this year, more than 4 students have been admitted to Nanjing Guozijian in four phases and become Guozisheng.

This has led to a shortage of shanshan students in the prefectural schools of each prefecture, the prefectural schools of each state, and the county schools of each county.

The Ming Dynasty has always attached great importance to culture and education, and has always attached great importance to the imperial examinations. Therefore, after the continuous shortage of shanshan students from prefecture schools and county schools, prefects, prefectures and county magistrates from all over the country have written to the imperial court, requesting to increase the admission ratio of scholars, because The number of scholars cultivated by the prefecture, the state, and the county is also one of the achievements of the local parents and officials.

Liu Lishun said: "It is imperative to add prefectural schools, prefectural schools and county schools. Otherwise, the number of students in each prefecture, prefecture and county will not be enough for the fifth phase of the Imperial Academy."

Scholars are not enough for the Imperial College to enroll students. This is of course an exaggeration.

Because there is actually a quota for the number of scholars in Ming Dynasty.

廪膳生每个县20人到30人不等，大明朝一共有1400多个县，所以廪膳生的数量大约为3万7千人，加上增广生和附生约10万。

However, after the fall of the North, the number of scholars dropped sharply, but there were still [-] to [-] students.

Moreover, after Nanjing Guozijian enrolls students from prefectural schools, prefectural schools, and county schools, the counties will immediately start county examinations, and each prefecture will also launch prefectural examinations, followed by provincial hospital examinations, and Zengguang students will be recruited soon. Epiphytes are supplemented, so the number of students in Daming is basically constant and will not decrease.

Because there is a huge group of children under the scholar as support.

Until the child's life is not exhausted, the scholar cannot be exhausted.

The reason why the school administrations of the provinces, the prefects of the prefectures, the prefectures of the prefectures, and the magistrates of the counties are arguing to increase the number of entries is because of their own political achievements, and the rate of admission to the Imperial Academy is too high.

7 people, [-] people are admitted, almost one of the six people is admitted.

This is so far from the ratio of their previous admissions for scholars, candidates, and Jinshi that Liu Lishun felt first-class resentment. How could it be so easy to take the exam?

Therefore, it is necessary to increase the number of scholars in Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Liu Lishun finished speaking, Wu Linzheng continued, "I also thought that the prefectural schools, state schools, and county schools must be added, and the scale must be expanded to more than three times the current size, that is, 20 people."

"20 scholar posts?" Zhang Shenyan lost his voice, "The number of children in the whole country is only 60!"

"What's so difficult about this matter?" Meng Zhaoxiang also said, "Scholars can be added, and children can also be added. Ming Dynasty has no shortage of scholars. If you let go, there will be 600 million children."

Zhang Shenyan said unhappily: "Yes, if the withdrawal is released, there will indeed be 600 million children, not to mention 20 scholar posts, but such a large-scale addition of children and scholars will cost money for pens, ink, paper, venues and labor. , if all scholars are given out rice as rice, and each person receives six buckets of rice per month, 20 people will get 144 million stones of rice a year. According to the current price of rice in Nanjing, that is 216 million. May I ask for this amount? Where did it come from?"

Lu Zhenfei frowned and said, "It's impossible for everyone to be a housekeeper."

Zhang Shenyan said: "Even if 65% is deducted, it will cost 100 yuan. Taking into account the cost of writing, ink, paper, space and labor for the exam, [-] million yuan may still not be enough."

As soon as money was mentioned, Liu Lishun, Wu Linzheng, and Meng Zhaoxiang immediately fell silent.

Now that the household department has started to borrow money to survive, how can they afford so much spare money?

Lu Zhenfei sighed and said: "Promoting culture and education has been difficult and difficult since ancient times."

Originally, if it was easy to promote culture and education, would it be impossible for scholars to raise people?
The five elders were relatively speechless. At this moment, hurried footsteps sounded outside the duty room.

Immediately, Wang Yingxiong, the general manager, rushed in excitedly holding a Tangbao, and shouted anxiously: "Five elders, great victory, great victory for the capital! The new army of the Ming Dynasty wiped out more than [-] Jiannu in the battle of Baliqiao Great army! Great things are coming together!"

"So you won the fight?" Lu Zhenfei was stunned for a moment, with a dazed expression.

Zhang Shenyan was already in tears at this time, and while wiping away his tears, he said, "The capital is finally recovered."

Meng Zhaoxiang, Wu Linzheng, and Liu Lishun were filled with emotion, recalling how panicked and helpless they were when they fled the capital with the Holy Master, as if it was just yesterday, but unexpectedly today they regained the capital, as if it had been a lifetime ago!

……

A certain alley on Daping Street.

Qian Qianyi picked up his own baggage from the sewage, shook his head and sighed: "It's an insult to the gentlemen, it's really an insult to the gentlemen."

A fat woman immediately walked out of the door with a signboard, put her hips on her hips and scolded: "Damn, why do you think I'm the old man of the present court? I can't even afford a two-cent a night shop, what a shame!" Throw me to death!"

"The tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs, and the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs. It's a pity."

"Who are you calling a dog?" The fat woman chased after him, and Qian Qianyi fled in fright.

After running for a short distance, he encountered a maidservant walking towards him, and even handed him a bundle in his arms. Qian Qianyi took it in a daze, and didn't realize it all at once.

It wasn't until the maid came to the alley that Qian Qianyi finally realized.

"Ma'am? Is that you, Ma'am? Ma'am!" Qian Shiyi chased after her.

When chasing to the entrance of the alley, he happened to see that a carriage had gone far away, Qian Qianyi chased forward like crazy, but how could he catch up?Finally, he fell to the ground, and both bundles fell to the ground.

Qian Shiyi was in so much pain that he was on the verge of tears, because both knees were broken.

At this moment, a newspaper boy galloped past on Taiping Avenue.

"Sell the newspapers, sell the newspapers, sell the newspapers, a great victory for the capital! Sell the newspapers, a great victory for the capital!"

"My soldiers from tomorrow defeated the Jiannu army of 50 in the first battle at Baliqiao, a great victory for the capital!"

Hearing the sound of selling, the officials, gentry, scholars, merchants, and even peddlers passing by on the street gathered around the newsboy, scrambling to buy newspapers.

Qian Qianyi felt lost.

Great victory in the capital?
No reason!
……

Daming Mathematics College.

Pascal wrote a line of words on the whiteboard with a charcoal brush:

When the integer n>2, the equation of x, y, z, x^n+y^n=z^n has no positive integer solution.

Dozens of students sitting in the classroom immediately took out a quill pen and copied down this line of words. These dozens of students were selected from the previous four batches of Guozi students with talents in mathematics.

This class is equivalent to Pascal's mathematics graduate class.

After 4 years of teaching, the students in this class have made great progress in mathematics.

"Students, this is what we are going to talk about today, Fermat conjectured."

"The Fermat conjecture was proposed by the French mathematician Fermat after reading "Arithmetic" by Diophantus. So far no counterexample has been found, so it is very likely to be a theorem."

"So today, we're going to try to verify it."

While speaking, there was a sudden tsunami-like cheers outside.

However, none of the students in this class were influenced by the outside world, and each of them only focused on listening to the lecture.

As the dean, professor and lecturer of Mathematics, Pascal would not be affected by the outside world, and wrote down another equation on the whiteboard with a charcoal pencil: x^3+y^3=z^3.

Then start checking with the substitution method.

This side is counting, and a student from the engineering college over there rushed in and shouted excitedly: "Don't go to class, let's all go to the street to parade, the capital is a great victory, the new army of the Ming Dynasty has recovered the capital, haha!"

"Go away." A student who was checking calculations cursed, "Don't disturb our class."

"Hey, what a bunch of nerds, poisoned by mathematics!" The engineering student cursed contemptuously, turned around and ran away, and then cheers like a tsunami sounded outside.

Pascal nodded in relief, that's what it takes to do mathematics.

If you can't put your heart and soul into it, you won't achieve anything.

……

Outside the upper gate of the outer city of Nanjing, Shi Jiuke opened a new silk reeling factory.

The Shi family's silk weaving business is getting bigger and bigger now, and it seems to have become the largest silk producer in Ming Dynasty. This is also because the Shi family has a strong relationship. It is not worth relying on the big tree of Xu Yingwei, and the Zheng family as a strong support .

It is not easy for another family to get a loan from an industrial and commercial bank, but Shi Jiuke only needs one meal.

Of course, no matter how strong the Shi family's background is, the laws and regulations that should be followed must also be followed, and Zheng Zunqian would not be able to lend money to the Shi family's silk weaving workshop in violation of the regulations.

Huang Zongxi's supervision department has been watching.

For example, in this newly opened silk reeling factory, the Ministry of Internal Affairs also holds [-]% of the shares.

The Shi family also only has the right to operate the silk reeling factory, and it is impossible to have a controlling interest.

However, this newly opened silk reeling factory is very different from the previous ones.

In addition to the larger number of female workers and the larger scale of silk reeling, the biggest difference is that there are two more steam engines, which have greatly improved the production efficiency of the silk reeling factory.

The shopkeeper in charge congratulated Shi Jiuke with a happy face.

"Boss, it's different to have a steam engine. Not only is the silk produced faster, but the quality is also superior. I roughly estimated that it can save at least [-]% of the cost."

"This is just the beginning." Shi Jiuke also looked expectant.

"We are still not familiar enough with the steam engine, and many processes are not yet mature enough. When the level of technology is improved, the workers' skills will also be proficient, and the cost can be further reduced."

"Yes, what the boss said is very true, and the cost can definitely be reduced."

The shopkeeper also looked forward to hearing the words. If the silk reeling factory's efficiency improved, his year-end dividends would increase accordingly. It is estimated that he will be able to distribute a lot of money this year. With this sum of money, he can build a big house again.

It's a pity that I can only go back to my hometown to build a house, and I can't buy land in Nanjing.

If you can build a big house in Nanjing, you will make a lot of money.

Just as I was talking, suddenly a guy came to report: "My lord, shopkeeper Zheng is here to visit."

"Brother Zheng? Why did he come to the upper door?" Shi Jiuke had some accidents, did something serious happen?Otherwise, he wouldn't have run directly to the upper door to look for him.

[It's Qingming, I'm going back to my hometown to visit the grave, I can only guarantee two changes in these three days, forgive me]

(End of this chapter)