Chapter 105: Qiushi
"Those are just a few pieces of Liuliu products. This exam will affect the future fate of dozens of students. How can I choose?"
"This exam..." Zhao Kuangyi smiled bitterly.
Don't take it seriously. Song Jiu didn't know the behind-the-scenes and had a long time ago. The accounts were chaotic, not only the various shops, but also the country. The current accounting method of the Song Dynasty will inevitably lead to chaos.
Song Jiu was in the internship class, and the students were put on the construction site together. As Song Jiu even saw the emperor several times, the students gradually became more courageous. Then, looking at the accounts of various officials, the better students spoke more tactfully, and the worse students criticized the officials as useless, picked up the small abacus, and re-do the accounts while calculating them.
Han Chongyun said, and the officials were very aggrieved and said, "We have never met a Western gentleman. This is how he has kept accounts and settled accounts for thousands of years."
Many people saw these things. The merchants below went directly to the Song family to ask for help. Before Song Jiu was released, the court actually asked for people, asking for them from the elder brother, from the three departments to the states and counties. They only studied for a year, and could only say that they understood some laws and the meaning of the scriptures, but there were not too many talents in this area. The key was arithmetic, accounting, and some material learning, and some knowledge of the scriptures and the laws. In combination, there were very few talents in this area.
It can be said that the entire Song Dynasty is just the students in the Song Jiu School.
Not only them, Zhao Kuangyi also implicitly asked his elder brother for one, otherwise the accounts of Kaifeng Prefecture would be quite troublesome. Lu Yuqing had the best appetite and asked twenty people for Bashu, otherwise it would be difficult to handle all prefectures and counties. I heard that Zhao Pu secretly asked his elder brother for one during a banquet. The business of his family's pile of timber business was even more chaotic.
As for the exam, as long as Song Jiu issued his graduation certificate, he could catch someone and go back. I don’t know how lucky he is.
Song Jiu said seriously: "The two kings must be cautious. For the time being, there are few talents in this area, and even in ten years, there will be few talents. But what if there are twenty or thirty years later?"
Zhao Kuangyi disagreed, but he only took twenty pieces of glass products and let the people disperse, and he would not bother Song Jiu and take Guo Da to Xiangguo Temple.
Guo Da started to shake the grade.
The brand was bamboo piece. A few days ago, Song Jiu asked a few barbarian young men to stamp Song Jiu's seal when they were idle. This became a brand, and many were issued to more than 9,700 numbers. That is, twenty number plates were drawn out from these more than 8,700 numbers and they bought the glass. But Zhao Kuangyi also knew another thing. Some merchants were treacherous and only one number was put in their hands, which was not easy to get. So they carved the numbers in the hands of the people, first one for one penny, then ten cents each, and finally increased to more than twenty cents each. If it weren't for the short time, they might have increased to one hundred cents each.
The Guo brothers made a living by selling fake medicine by playing hands. They were not afraid of seeing so many people and showed them to everyone. Ten glass balls made some people salivate. Then they started to draw the lottery, the first number was six, that is, six thousand and hundreds of numbers. The others lamented. Then they shook a two. The third digit was seven. The fourth digit was zero. Guo shouted: "No. 6,270."
A fat man couldn't help but run up and asked his servant to pay fifty taels of silver. He carried the screen down. As soon as he went down, countless people surrounded him and wanted to buy it from him. In the blink of an eye, the price rose to eight hundred guan.
Peng Renlian asked Guo Da blankly: "Dalang, why did the inspector sell it for fifty cents?"
How could Guo Da know?
Zhao Kuangyi secretly said that he could not sell his forehead, and he could sell it at a sky-high price. It was possible that thousands of guans could be sold. If that happens, he would suddenly drop to dozens of guans, and no one would convince anyone who bought it. But now he is not passing by Song Jiu. No matter how he makes trouble, he will not hate Song Jiu. Although Song Jiu is ignorant for some time, he is still in line with the rules of honest business of some merchants.
Although he knew the inside story, he still felt a little painful when he looked at the exquisite three-in-one screen and asked the fat man to take it away. Don’t say that he had fifty taels. Even though he knew the inside story, he would still be willing to buy it. When he put it home, he would be so elegant that he could not match any gems or agate!
The fat man couldn't leave and shouted, "I'm sorry, please help me."
Zhao Kuangyi sniffed, and several yamen servants walked over and separated the crowd. The fat man and his servants carried it into the distance like they were carrying their ancestors. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, so it is better to return home early.
Liu Yi couldn't help but feel funny and whispered: "Second King, don't worry about your money."
Zhao Kuangyi also laughed.
Liu Yi said again: "Why would I ask this kid to make a few pieces for you?"
"Don't worry, someone will ask him for it, I won't take the lead."
Liu Yi suddenly understood, could those yamen let Song Jiu go? If you ask them together, your highness will ask for them again, and the ministers will not gossip. Zhao Kuangyi said again: "There is no hurry. The first of his things is the main store. The main store requires a lot of exquisite glass. Will there still be a lack of glass?"
Guo Da began to shake the second glass product, the big vase where fish can swim. This is another treasure, but that one is not a treasure? The one who comes up was an honest middle-aged man. He was worried, knowing it was a treasure, but he didn't have to worry about it, but he didn't have to worry about it. He immediately surrounded a large group of merchants and raised the price to 1,100 coins in the blink of an eye. Listening to these merchants raising the price desperately, Zhao Kuangyi couldn't help but shudder in his heart.
No one bid, and the merchant asked the servants to go back to move money. It was unrealistic for copper coins, but there were gold and silver. The poor middle-aged man was still confused wherever he stood. He just bought a piece of calico for his daughter. He didn't expect this good thing. After a while, the merchant brought the money and took the initiative to pay the forty guan for the middle-aged man. If so much money continues, he still cares about the forty guan? Zhao Kuangyi looked at the middle-aged man and said to the yamen runners beside him: "Escort him home."
This is not a small amount of money. With this middle-aged man's confused appearance being hit by a big gold brick, if he doesn't handle it well, something will definitely happen.
But this is a new standard, one thousand and one hundred stakes of money.
Many ordinary people began to scold Song Jiu for his family again.
The third number started to shake, but he didn't expect that no one came up.
Song Jiu also thought of this situation at home that most of the people who shop were the people near Xiangguo Temple. The trouble was too big, and most of them came. But a few thought it was the future of lottery tomorrow, and there were a few that did not take it seriously. A small number of them would fail to sell.
After shouting several times, no one came up. Someone said to shake it again. Guo Dada said: "No, this number is for justice. Those who hold the number will get this thing tomorrow night. If there is no one at that time, it will not be too late to shake it again."
There is no doubt, it is very fair, so I shook the fourth one.
At this time, two words suddenly appeared in Zhao Kuangyi's mind: Auction!
But this country is not his, it is his elder brother. What Song Jiu said doesn't work, and what he said doesn't necessarily work either.
Eight pieces of glass were taken away, and the remaining two pieces were left, and countless stories happened. The most was a glass-inlaid golden peony flower bowl, which was indeed a golden peony made of gold. However, the gold was very thin, less than one or two, but it was extremely wealthy, so it was sold for 40 guan. It was also earned by a civilian, but it turned out to be more than 1,300 guan and was taken away by a merchant.
This incident caused a big sensation.
The next day, some glazed products began to appear in major luxury shops, including the screen of the first fat man. When I went home at night, I was forced to sell it, and it was unknown how much it turned into. But the screen appeared in a gold and silver silk shop, and the price was 3,000 guan. Don’t ask whether it’s expensive, people don’t sell it. It’s just a price to attract business.
But another strange thing happened in the evening, and it was Guo Da and Song Jiu who were changing the papers with two doctoral students and brought the two glass products. This time, I was not afraid that no one would recognize it, but there were too many, and more than a dozen bamboo cards appeared in one number.
It was too quarrel, but he was also prepared for Song Jiu. General Guo brought the bamboo cards to identify them for the barbarians. After only a while, he found the two real bamboo cards. They were all carved by themselves, and although they were grass, they made some subtle marks. It is unknown where the fake bamboo cards came from. The people watching laughed and called the Second King, you should send someone to arrest them. But more people cursed Song Jiu, who was a prodigal son. If ten pieces of glass sold well, they could sell for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. Now they have not got a thousand yuan! This is the number one prodigal son in the Song Dynasty!
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The morning in Tokyo in June is cute, with a faint layer of dawn covering the sky like a layer of gauze. The morning breeze is cool and the air is fresh.
Song Jiu got up and brushed his teeth with a toothbrush. Under his guidance, Yuping and the others also brushed their teeth with a toothbrush, sprinkled some spices into the green salt, and their mouths were filled with fragrance. I don’t know if it was harmful to people. Many villagers and students were surrounded outside.
The door did not open, only two doctors were put in.
Before the results were released, the three of them had to count the test scores. Song Jiu took the transcript and the three of them modified the test, the classics were 200 points, the arithmetics were 200 points, the accounting was 160 points, the object size was 140 points, and the Minglu was 100 points. Song Jiu was responsible for the three courses of arithmetic accounting and object size. The remaining two courses were responsible by two doctors.
But when the score is passed, the meaning of the classics is at least 170, and several of them are over 200 points, and the same is true for Minglu. Song Jiumeng, he was very smart when he was in school. He often took arithmetic tests in elementary school, but he never got a hundred points in Chinese. Besides, there are even more tragic fu, poetry, theory, and strategy.
Taking this score, Song Jiu said: "Dr. Zhang, Dr. Yan, you are not helping them, but harming them. It doesn't matter if you can't graduate. The situation in Hezhong is getting better. There are more people in the second half of the year. Don't rush to do this year."
"It's not easy. You have to learn to be a human being first. I am very satisfied with these students," said Dr. Zhang.
The protest was invalid, and the test papers were taken home and could not be checked.
Yuping's mother prepared breakfast, small yellow rice porridge, and a few salted duck eggs. At the same time, she learned from Song Jiu and roasted a few egg cakes. Dr. Yan said: "Xiao Jiu, it's better for you to eat. My yellow-faced woman is not talking about her temper. It's hard to swallow her cooking."
Yuping covered her mouth and chuckled. Song Jiu suddenly said, "Yuping, after the results are released, follow me to go to Hezhou."
Yuping nodded, and a hint of blush appeared on her face.
"Okay, I'll like vixen," said Dr. Zhang.
"What!" Song Jiu cursed with laughter.
There were more and more people outside, more than when the Zhu family sent dowry, but together they made the Guo brothers block outside the door. Three inside were writing the list. Although two doctoral students gave away points, eleven people still did not meet the graduation score passing line. If they did not give away points, there would be more people.
This was what Song Jiu expected.
There were 134 students, these eleven people could not be counted, and those twenty-one students of Song Jiu could not be counted. Song Jiu marked the eight-person list, not because his grades were not good, but because he was too young, the oldest was only fifteen years old, but when the grades passed, he had to negotiate and stay.
In fact, only ninety-four people were able to graduate, and the court booked another sixty people. Let’s grab the rest.
The three of them wrote the list and did not post it immediately. Song Jiu then opened the door completely and said to the person outside the door: "Students come in with their families, and other idle people should not enter."
The students and their families were put in, and the door was closed again. Song Jiu took them to the backyard. There was no way to the front yard. Someone climbed up to the wall to look at it. Then he said to them: "Your studies are over. I want to say a few things. The first thing is a few young people who have passed the exam. Among them, two of them will get married in the second half of the year. But you are too young and it is not easy to go out to be independent. I want you to continue to stay and study. Although you have to endure it now, you will have a greater future prospect, including your marriage. It is best to push it until next year. Look at me, I am twenty years old and have not yet gotten married. Mr. Zhu has to go back to get married this year. I read the name and you and your family want to make a decision."
He pronounced the eight names and said, "Then 11 people failed the exam. There is a way out. I will give them a certificate of graduation. Although I believe you can find a way out, they have a smaller chance. Therefore, I also hope that you will stay and study with Qin Wazi and several younger brothers. At the same time, I also said one thing. The main store will start to be built in the second half of the year. You will not only study deeply, but also my right-hand assistant. I will also give you some compensation. Although it is small, it can make up for the family. You can also consider it yourself."
Of course, this salary is much less than outside, but it is better than not, and this is a learning subsidy.
Then read the list of passing the exam and read the last name. Song Jiu said, "I will say a few more words. First, without the support of the court, you will not be today. In the future, you cannot let the court down. The family and the country are also important. Second, when I set up this bookstore, I just wanted to teach a few students who can settle accounts. However, the people in the Hezhong didn't care and squeezed out money from their difficult living expenses bit by bit. It was them that made the prototype of the bookstore. Please don't forget the parents and villagers in the Hezhong. The last sentence, you can let go now!"
It was originally a happy event, but suddenly some students burst into tears and sobbed, bringing more students to sob together.
Chapter completed!