Nan Yi was invited by Li Taihua to go to Bai Yujing and asked Song Zhong to go back to the inn first.
Song Zhong knew in his heart that the academy was the gate of immortality, and it was inconvenient for a few of them to discuss it in detail in public, so he immediately agreed and left without any delay.
But he did not go back to the inn directly, but went shopping.
Not far from a bookstore, Song Zhong suddenly remembered the "Journal of Nantian Xue", so he went to the bookstore and bought the recent issue of "Journal of Nantian Xue".
"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.
As a result, 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 Jiaohua Superintendent does not announce the specific scores of each student to the public, but the Mingwen Superintendent, which is part of the Ministry of Culture and Education system like the Jiaohua Superintendent, has a "Nantian Academic Journal", which will publish the literary articles of students who took the last year's exam starting from January 11th every year. .
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.
Song Zhong bought the latest three issues of "Journal of Nantian Xue".
He flipped through it casually and saw that the first essay published in "Journal of Nantian Xue" this year was written by Nan Yi.
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It was already afternoon when Nan Yi returned to the inn.
He knocked on the door of the guest room where Song Zhong lived and said apologetically: "Brother Song, please forgive me for being delayed today. I have to go to the prison with you tomorrow."
"It's okay, just report in. It doesn't make much difference whether it's one day earlier or one day later. Brother Nan, on the other hand, got to compete with the academy today, which really made him a lot of limelight." Song Zhong also received the influence of "inviting his name to the world" and became interested in the academy competition. The incident left a deep impression on me.
However, he just mentioned it casually, and while saying this, he waved to Nan Yi to come in and read the newspaper.
On his desk are the latest three issues of "Journal of Nantian Xue".
Nan Yi approached suspiciously, took a closer look, and saw in one of the newspapers, there was a poem he had written in the annual examination, that is, the story of Luotuo Xiangzi in Dali.
He recalled for a moment, and also recalled the order in which the academic journals published the essays on annual exams, which in disguise was equivalent to the ranking among the new students without any form.
Looking again, I saw that my article was published on January 11th, which was the first one this year.
However, Nan Yi looked calm and didn't care about it. Compared to those who worshiped in the Immortal Sect and were taught the skills, Nan Yi would only treat these empty names with a normal heart.
Song Zhong smiled and said, "I heard that the order of publishing the Fu in this year's annual examination was decided by the county magistrate himself. Then, Brother Nan, can you guess who wrote the second issue of Fu?"
Nan Yi didn't know many people, so he didn't know how to guess. He went directly to read the signature of the article in the second issue of Wenfu: Chu Tianxing.
"Chu Tianxing, who is this person?" Nan Yi looked at Song Zhong in confusion.
This is the first time he has heard of this person's name. Could it be that this person is famous?
Song Zhong spread his hands and said, "He is the son of the county governor Chu Kuangsheng, Chu Tianxing."
Nan Yi raised his eyebrows when he heard this.
He did not expect that Chu Kuangsheng would rank his son second.
Nan Yi became serious and looked carefully at Chu Tianxing's poems.
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 secret skills passed down from generation to generation by a family of craftsmen, it can achieve hand-made industrialization, which has also allowed Dali to have a primitive degree of industrialization.
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 writing in the examination room was limited, so his Luotuo Xiangzi was too concise, but it seemed to have lost its polish, like an outline essay.
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 specifically asked him to read the newspaper.
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's self-cultivation is not too bad and he will not be resentful of his 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 become unhappy with Nan Yi.
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