The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 402 The Significance of the Imperial Examination

Zuo Wenkang was unaware that the direct descendants of the border town still wanted to restore their former glory.

In any case, these glories have nothing to do with the Kansai Zuo clan.

Fang Molin, the headmaster of Qingshan Academy, surveyed the environment of Ganluchuan and, after living there for half a month, his whole family decided to settle there.

They also want to reopen the academy in Ganluchuan New City.

To open an academy.

This was not the kind of military academy, but a proper academy for scientific research, an academy that trained talent for the country.

As soon as the news spread.

The Zuo family in Kansai knew that their next generation had another way out.

It's not that the schools in the garrison are bad.

The school uses a teaching model that combines military physical training with academic and skills courses.

After graduating from school, whether the children enlist in the army or work in the various workshops of the garrison, they have enough to support their families.

However, these are not orthodox Confucianism!

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce.

Warriors ahead!
This has been the general environment for thousands of years.

They are now in the military.

The descendants of military personnel are eligible to take the imperial examinations!

The children of the Zuo family had a better foundation in education than the children of military households.

Just like Zuo Chixia, who always ranked first in his grade.

Fang Molin's assessment of him is:
"He is a promising student, and his life experiences over the past few years have made him more resilient and open-minded, making him suitable for a career in government."

Not to mention that what Mrs. She was most concerned about was her son's future, as Zuo Chixia's teacher's wife, she was also happy to create better learning conditions for her child.

Didn't the headmaster want to open an academy?
The Gan family has all gone to Shangdu and will never come back to live there again.

So he simply gave the Gan family mansion next to the General's Mansion to Fang Molin.

The courtyard has three sections. The last section is for living, and the first two sections are used as an academy. That should be enough, right?
Fang Molin was flattered and surprised:
"That's enough, that's enough! My health is not what it used to be. Students should be of high quality, not many."

Fang Molin has been spending all his time at the school lately.

Afterwards, he visited hundreds of families at the health station.

He never expected that in such a remote garrison in Kansai, apart from the elderly, almost everyone, from adults to children, was literate.

Especially children.

Although in his eyes, the skills he learned in school had no direct connection with the imperial examinations.

But for ordinary people, it is really practical.

He was so practical that he was willing to send his granddaughter to an all-girls school to specialize in medicine.

The Imperial Medical Academy's top doctors personally taught the courses, and the content was easy to understand.

If you can study it for three to five years, it will benefit you and your family for life.

General Gan also allowed him to select the best students from the school.

After reviewing the exam results of all the boys' school students and talking with them, he discovered quite a few promising talents.

That's right.

To the astonishment of this highly respected headmaster in Daming Prefecture, most of the fifty students he selected in the first batch wanted to stay at the academy and were unwilling to go to Qingshan Academy to receive personal instruction from this great Confucian scholar!

Fang Molin was a two-time Jinshi (successful candidate in the highest imperial examinations), and no fewer than one hundred of his students passed the Jinshi and Juren examinations.

I was actually rejected by a bunch of little guys!

The old man was bewildered: Why is this happening?

The big-headed kid he had the highest hopes for, who had only been in school for a year and possessed a photographic memory, retorted, "What's the use of the imperial examinations?"

Fang Molin said calmly, "You can become an official through the imperial examination."

The little guy slurped his noodles without looking up: "So what if you're an official?"

Fang Molin immediately chose a famous quote, showing a broad perspective: "An official can establish a livelihood for the people, establish a heart for heaven and earth, continue the lost learning of the past sages, and bring peace to all generations."

The little guy shook his head.

He slurped up the noodle soup in the bowl, wiped his greasy mouth, and questioned the old man opposite him:
"Weren't the officials of the previous dynasty selected through the imperial examinations? They were well-versed in the classics, studying diligently for over ten years before finally achieving their goals. But before the peasant uprising, did these officials care about the lives of the common people?"

Fang Molin paused for a few moments, wanting to analyze the root cause:

"That was the previous dynasty. The old emperor was incompetent and trusted the eunuch faction, making good use of treacherous officials, which led to chaos and corruption in the court. When the young emperor ascended the throne, imperial power was usurped."

The little guy stubbornly asked:
"Whose fault is it that the emperor is incompetent? If the emperor is incompetent, why did the ministers elect him as emperor?"

Fang Molin: "."

Emperors are not actually elected!

This is someone else's ancestral property.

But clearly, this exceptionally intelligent child had no fondness for imperial power or officialdom.

A bright child with a photographic memory is a well-rounded person.

After the little guy came to Ganluchuan, he ate and lived with Fatty. When Fatty went to school, he went to school with him.

Senior Brother Yuanzhi taught the general's personal guards boxing, and he enjoyed it very much.

Green Dust, Reed Leaf, Tiger Head, and others all adored this leader who possessed extraordinary martial prowess yet the mind of a ten-year-old.

The two brothers were very successful in Ganluchuan.

Yuan Tong observed with his own eyes, and in his eyes, Ganluchuan was a paradise.

The people here are able to eat their fill, wear warm clothes, and live in good houses through the joint efforts of their family members.

Those who enlist receive military pay.

Those who farm can sell their grains and fruits directly to the garrison in exchange for silver.

The shops in Ganluchuan are doing very well.

Merchants from other garrisons would come here to purchase goods.

Families with sufficient able-bodied members.

Women could work in workshops such as cotton cloth workshops, brocade workshops, silkworm rearing rooms, and candied fruit processing workshops, earning wages no less than men.

Similarly, there were many places for men to work.

If you want to do manual labor, you can work in a brick kiln.

The blue bricks and gray tiles produced in Ganluchuan are inexpensive and of good quality. Not only do various garrisons in Kansai come to buy them, but local natives also line up to buy them.

Skilled craftsmen, such as master carpenters, porcelain makers, and brewers, earned more than five taels of silver per month.

For those lacking physical strength or skills, planting and grafting fruit tree seedlings is also a distinctive industry in Ganluchuan.

There are no poor people in Ganluchuan.

There are really no poor people!
He often heard the immigrants say that life here was better than that of the people of Shangdu before the war.

The people in charge were not civil officials who had passed the imperial examinations, but military men with only a rudimentary level of education.

Those squad leaders, platoon leaders, centurions, and commanders would probably not even pass the imperial examinations as children.

However, they still managed to manage the more than 69,000 people in Ganluchuan in an orderly manner.

Even when dealing with non-military immigrants, these military personnel dare not disregard human life, as military regulations govern their behavior.

The military regulations of Ganluchuan cover all aspects.

Every now and then.

The students from the school would go to the villages and read the texts to the people.

In the year he's been there, he's never heard of a single incident of Guan Jun bullying ordinary people.

and so.

Yuantong has reason to suspect that those who are only good at studying are simply incapable of being officials!

(End of this chapter)