Sun Qinian and three friends from the same hometown took a boat back to Suzhou with Fang and others. Naturally, they drank and had fun on the way.
Everyone Fang treated the four of them equally as they did when they came here. They did not treat Sun Qinian differently from the other three friends just because he was the prostitute.
At least the money was charged as much!
It’s just that the fee is much less than when I came here.
Everyone Fang also made it clear about this. On the one hand, this was a friendship discount for the sake of everyone being acquaintances.
On the other hand, most of the money collected last time went into her adoptive mother's pocket, and she only got a little.
But now, everyone in Fang doesn't have the adoptive mother who sold her body to suck blood from her. The money received is all their own, so part of the price has been reduced accordingly.
It's business, small profits but quick turnover, and get repeat customers by the way.
Even so, she got much more money than before.
So everyone from Fang also said that they could go find her after returning to Suzhou. From then on, she would no longer hang out with Qinhuai. Of course, she didn't plan to rehabilitate herself and return home. Instead, she would hang out at a boathouse in Suzhou.
She was sold to her adoptive mother by her parents when she was a child, and her biological parents have long since disappeared.
She herself has been doing the same thing on the Qinhuai River since she was in elementary school. If you ask her to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, it is naturally very reliable, but I'm sorry to say that she doesn't know how to make a living in other ways.
Although she no longer has a low status, nor does she have to be pinched by others to sell her body, but considering her future life, she still plans to continue to engage in this business.
The reason why they left the Qinhuai River was simply that there was too much competition there. There were several courtesans of all kinds appearing every day, and many of them became free people because they no longer had the contract to sell themselves.
Even if they are still placing orders on some boats, they can come and go freely, and they are making more money than before. Everyone is very active and can't wait to pick up ten or eight Enke's a day.
Everyone said that he was already eighteen years old and was about to lose his luster. While he was still young, he went to Suzhou to work alone for a few years and then retired after saving some money.
"This star really wants to retire"
Sun Qinian was not interested in everyone's invitation.
He himself is not good at this, and there is no special feeling for the other party. Moreover, they have played together many times during these two trips. To be honest, the freshness that was there at the beginning is gone.
So when we arrived in Suzhou and got off the ship, even though we were perfunctory that everyone would come to support us if we had the opportunity, we had already made up our minds: we would not go.
It’s just a pink skull!
Returning to Suzhou City and arriving home, there was naturally a celebration.
His family had received an official notification a few days ago, saying that Sun Qinian had passed the exam. In the past two days, the Sun family had already made preparations to welcome Sun Qinian home and have a banquet for guests.
Sure enough, after Sun Qinian returned home, the Sun family invited a group of relatives and friends and held a flowing banquet for three days.
Then he went to visit nearby local officials with three friends who had passed the examination. After all this work, Sun Qinian was free.
He still has a lot of time. He can stay at home for about a month before setting off to return to Jinling City and then take up his post.
During this period, he repeatedly declined, but he was still dragged by a few friends to go to the boat where everyone had placed orders. To be honest, he really didn't want to go, but his friends kept inviting him, and he really couldn't save face, so he went. Seven or eight times.
Otherwise, even if everyone from Fang wrote to her several times, saying that several of her best friends had also come to Suzhou to place orders and happened to be in the same boathouse as her, he would not go.
It’s just a bunch of red and pink skeletons, I’m really not interested!
In addition to these unavoidable human relationships, during this period he also taught his eldest son, who had just become enlightened, to read at home, and incidentally also taught lessons to several of his nephews.
In addition to teaching the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, we also focus on teaching various subjects, especially mathematics.
This time he came back, but he brought back more than twenty textbooks on Gewu.
Since the imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire in the future, even the Jinshi subjects, would also require the examination of physical science subjects, he naturally needed to pay attention to it and let his children and the children of relatives and friends get in touch with and learn from it early.
Especially his eldest brother's eldest son, who is already fifteen years old this year and has made some progress in his Confucian studies. This year, he will almost start taking exams.
This eldest nephew's classics and literature are good, but he will be blinded in various subjects. Sun Qinian also knows that when waiting for this year's imperial examination, even in the county examination, arithmetic and other subjects will have to be added, even if the proportion is not It will be very big, but it still has to be tested.
I let my eldest nephew study for a few months first, so that even if he memorizes it by rote, I can remember some of it. When the county examination comes, when other students are faced with a group of questions from the Gewu subject, my nephew will be able to calm down. Correct answer.
In this way, the chances of passing the county examination and even the subsequent hospital examination will be greatly increased, and there is hope for gaining a reputation as a student.
But Sun Qinian didn't know that he was not the only person who had this idea and did it. In fact, before this, many well-informed people in Suzhou were doing this.
They either sold or copied books on various new subjects from various channels, and then used them to study themselves or teach their children and nephews.
Even in Suzhou Fuxue, the professors who teach have begun to teach the content of Gewu in a serious manner.
Many people even used Sun Qinian as an example: Sun Qinian, you know, that person's performance in Shiwen was very average. If it weren't for the rush during the last provincial examination and many people didn't have time to apply, Sun Qinian would not have been able to pass the exam. .
But with such a half-hearted effort, he actually passed the Gongshi examination in the general examination, and passed the examination of Gewu Ke Tanhua in the palace examination, and was awarded the seventh rank.
Can such a scumbag pass the exam?
Why, it wasn't because Sun Qinian sharpened his skills in battle and learned a little bit about the Gewu Department, but he got lucky and passed the exam. If he was asked to take the Jinshi Department, he would be damned if he could pass the exam.
Some of these words reached Sun Qinian's ears, and Sun Qinian could not deny them.
They are just a bunch of envious, jealous, and hateful villains, don't care what he does!
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When Sun Qinian was teaching his nephew Gewu Ke at home, the city of Jinling also returned to its former peace, and gradually returned to its former prosperity.
The painted boats on the Qinhuai River are gradually returning, and the dazzling lanterns are the best proof.
However, Luo Zhixue is not too impressed by the restoration of prosperity in Jinling City itself. Most of the so-called prosperous businesses in Jinling City are in the tertiary industry, and at most are some small-scale handicraft industries.
This city, like most ancient cities, is a pure consumption city, and Luo Zhixue does not attach much importance to these pure consumption cities.
What he values more is industrial cities that can produce materials and provide power for national strength.
To unify China, he needed food and other materials, as well as guns and ammunition.
And Jinling City cannot provide him with these.
Relatively speaking, he pays more attention to the development of Dangtu not far away, where large-scale construction projects are underway, a large number of factories are rising from the ground, and a large number of workers are pouring into them.
Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture, was just a very ordinary small county in the past.
But since the Dachu Empire occupied this place and discovered the large and easily mined Ma'anshan iron mine.
The Dangtu Mining Bureau was immediately established here to mine local iron ore.
Since there was a Mining Bureau, there was naturally a need for an ironworks, so the Dangtu Ironworks was established.
However, although the Mining Bureau has been established and the iron smelting plant has been prepared, because the time is relatively short and the steel production capacity of the Dachu Empire is currently sufficient, there is not much urgent demand for iron materials, so it is impossible. Just like in Daye, we will quickly build a factory at any cost and spend a lot of money in order to shorten the construction period.
The construction period of the two core factories here at Dangtu is still at a relatively normal pace, so it will take a longer time.
For the time being, the production of iron materials here is not large, and the monthly production capacity is only a few hundred tons.
However, the construction speed of the Dangtu Arsenal, also located in Dangtu Industrial Zone, is very fast.
After all, the current iron production capacity in the Dachu Empire is relatively sufficient. The annual production capacity of just one large iron smelting plant is 50,000 tons, not to mention that the other iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry are several times larger in total. Thousand tons of production capacity.
This does not include the production capacity of a large number of private iron-making workshops.
The Dachu Empire did not implement a government-run system for the steel industry, but adopted a system of official guidance and supervision that allowed private capital to participate to a certain extent.
Therefore, in the Chu Empire, many private iron-making workshops that were secretly operated during the Ming Dynasty are now open to the public. However, private iron-making workshops also need to obtain an official iron-making license.
In this way, the steel production capacity in the Da Chu Empire is actually more than the production capacity of several iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry.
Steel production capacity is relatively sufficient, and the construction of the Taiping Mining Bureau and Dangtu Iron Works here in Dangtu will proceed step by step, and huge manpower and material resources will not be blindly spent to quickly increase production capacity.
However, the arsenal is different.
The current Da Chu Empire has an extremely huge demand for weapons, especially new guns.
Especially the flintlock muskets that the Chu army has begun to equip in batches. The annual production capacity of the second-year Suifa rifles at the Hantian Arsenal is only 50,000 pieces, and this quantity is far from being able to meet the huge army, navy and guards of the Chu Empire. need.
After all, this production capacity can only equip about four divisions in a year.
If this is barely enough in peacetime, it will basically be able to equip hundreds of thousands of troops in about ten years.
But in times of war it was far from enough.
For this reason, a new flintlock production line is being built at Hantian Arsenal, and at the same time, a huge flintlock production line is also expected to be built at the newly established Dangtu Arsenal.
In addition to muskets, the Chu Empire still had a huge demand for artillery.
At present, except for a few ace units, the Chu army's other units, even the field artillery of the main division, are not fully equipped. As for the garrison divisions, not to mention, many garrison divisions now only have a few two-pound guns. Semi-field artillery maintains a facade, but more of them use a large number of short-barreled artillery captured from the Ming army, such as general artillery, Franco machine artillery, etc.
This is still the ground force. If you add the navy, the Chu Empire's military currently has thousands of artillery gaps.
