A barbecue banquet brings everyone home happily.
But after the carnival, things will eventually calm down.
On the second day, Gu Songyun did as he said, instead of continuing to hunt in the mountains, he stayed in the academy and continued studying hard.
This student who was born in poverty really cherishes the learning opportunities he has now and is working hard to improve himself. He wants to get ahead through learning and change his destiny.
Lu Yuan appreciated this very much. So he gave the furs he got from yesterday's hunting to the other party, which was regarded as his support as an elder.
One sheepskin and five rabbit skins can be sold for hundreds of dollars.
He looked down upon this small amount of money. Anyway, Gu Songyun also participated in hunting yesterday and told him so much knowledge about the mountains, so he took it as payment.
In this regard, I was naturally moved by the good student, who felt that his teacher's friend seemed more amiable and approachable.
The students were busy studying hard. As a teacher, Sun Siwen was naturally not idle and began to be busy with his own work.
He was going to the county government to have a small meeting with the county magistrate and the Master.
It's already the end of August, and it's time for the annual autumn exam.
These days, the county magistrate and the ministers are worried about arranging those talents to take the imperial examination this year.
The above county government inspected a county's political performance. In addition to people's livelihood taxes, culture and education also accounted for a high proportion.
Therefore, the county government has such fixed requirements. How many talents a county should cultivate every year, how many talents should be recommended to take the exam, and whether they can pass the exam are important basis for evaluating the performance of local officials.
If you train many talented people and can produce a successful candidate during your term of office, it will naturally be a high-quality evaluation and can be used as the basis for promotion.
On the contrary, it is naturally a failure of education and a serious dereliction of duty. Either he would be reprimanded or demoted.
Faced with such a major event related to the future, the county magistrate as the chief official and the instruction of education naturally attach great importance to it.
However, Changning County was born with poor congenital qualities and poor writing style. In the past, in the annual evaluation, they were all unqualified and were criticized at the bottom.
Fortunately, the superiors knew that their situation was special and did not criticize them too harshly.
But things are different now.
Since the arrival of Sun Siwen and the implementation of a series of educational reforms, the writing style of Changning County has changed.
Not only did the college have more students, but it also trained several scholars, finally breaking through the twenty mark and having a total of twenty-one.
With this achievement, it is natural that the county magistrate and the teaching minister have some ambitions.
They don't expect to be able to produce a candidate from this line in this autumn's examination. That's too unrealistic.
What the two adults are thinking is, can there be a few more talents recommended to take the imperial examination this year than usual?
After all, passing the exam is the greatest political achievement.
But it is also a political achievement to have more talented people take the exams.
In previous years, Changning County usually had only four or five scholars who took the exam, and they were among the lowest among all counties.
But this year, the county magistrate is planning to do something big and recommend 21 talented people to take the examination.
This is definitely a big deal.
So after hearing the county magistrate's plan, Sun Siwen frowned immediately, looked at his two superiors, and carefully reminded: "The county magistrate, please let more students take the autumn exam. This is of course is a good thing.
However, many students come from poor families and may not be able to raise the funds to take exams. Forcing them to take exams in the autumn may lead to tragedy. "
Changning County has always had more than a dozen scholars in previous years. But why are there only so many people who take the scientific examination every time?
It's not about money.
Take Sun Siwen as an example. In order to take the scientific examination last time, he borrowed 30 taels of silver from Lu Yuan, and this was how he collected enough funds for the examination.
Thirty taels of silver, here in Changning County, is equivalent to the income of a normal family without food or water for three years. But a family always needs to eat and drink, and there are always various expenses.
Therefore, they wanted to collect thirty taels of silver, which took almost ten years of accumulation.
In ten years, it is normal for those poor students to collect enough travel expenses to take the autumn examination.
It is precisely because it is difficult to accumulate the qualifications for the examination that many scholars from ordinary families, even if they have saved enough travel expenses, will not take the imperial examination until they are sure that they are sure to pass the autumn examination.
The reason is that if you fail once, you will have to accumulate years and ten years in the future, which is really an unbearable burden for students who are promising.
Therefore, it makes sense for the county government to evaluate the performance of local officials based on the number of people who participated in the autumn examination.
If more students in a place can take the autumn exam, isn't this proof that your local economy is strong and developing well and can support more students to take the exam?
There is really nothing wrong with using this standard to comment on political performance.
Of course, if local officials force those students to take the imperial examination for the sake of political performance, regardless of whether they live or die, that is another matter.
Sun Siwen was officially worried about this, so he gave a warning at this time.
The county magistrate also came from the imperial examination. How could he not understand the meaning of the other party's words? He smiled at this time and said: "I know that it is difficult for students to take the imperial examination. Many people need to spend years and decades in order to raise enough funds for the examination. , life was very hard.
I am not a tyrannical person, and of course I will not force the students to go bankrupt just for the sake of my own efforts.
The reason for this proposal this time is that the county government will fund it and ask the big households in the county to donate to collect enough examination funds for all students and send them to take the autumn examination.
I have already told Liu Jiaoyu about this, and he also thinks it is feasible. I wonder what Sun Xueyu thinks? "
With everything being said, how could Sun Siwen have any objections? After all, if more people take part in the autumn exams, as the person in charge of education, he will also have merit.
Therefore, he immediately bowed his head and said: "If this is true, all the students in the county will be grateful to the county magistrate for his kindness, and Sun Mou will thank Ming Zun for them."
Naturally happy to be complimented, the county magistrate laughed loudly, then looked at Sun Siwen and said sincerely: "I can solve the financial problem. But since I have paid so much money, I have to make some achievements no matter what.
Sun Xueyuan is a new imperial examination candidate in the past two years. He knows more about imperial examination matters than us outdated old guys.
There are still two months left before the autumn test. After one month of traveling, there is still one month left.
So in the next January, I asked Sun Xueyu to be more attentive and teach the scholars in the First Education Academy so that they could learn more so that they could shine in the autumn examination. "
The county magistrate is providing money and looking for people to invest. Of course, it is not for charity.
He has now reached the three-year term, which is the time for promotion and demotion.
However, the county magistrate's political performance was very poor in his previous two terms. If he has no achievements this time, he will probably be demoted from the position of county magistrate.
How does this work?
How could he accept losing power after having already tasted power?
Therefore, this time, the hope of retaining the official position was placed on this autumn examination. I want to use my achievements in culture and education to regain negative points in other areas.
And this requires the help of Sun Siwen, a scholar who has outstanding teaching ability and is deeply loved by students.
Sun Siwen naturally responded happily.
After all, if the results are good, he also deserves the credit.
Our Sun Xueyu has long been eyeing the teaching position above, and he hopes to improve his rank in the next few years.
I just didn't expect that the opportunity would come to me so quickly.
Faced with the duck that comes to your door, there is no reason not to catch it.
Done.
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