1novels Chapter 2040
Chapter 2040
08244 - Acquiring knowledge
Ah, yes, this is a world with royals, and technology and culture are somewhat primitive. They don’t know how to use electricity. It's just a small fine, and even the law clearly stipulates that "slaves are equal to goods."
The only thing that is slightly less primitive is that there is a path for commoners to become nobles: the imperial examination.
However, this imperial examination system is still far from perfect and is in a period of trial and adjustment, like a young bud that may die at any time, mixed with the nobility's recommendation system and inheritance system.In the imperial examination questions, there are often knowledge that only the nobles can have access to. If ordinary people only read books that their own class can read, they may not even understand most of the questions.
Therefore, usually a commoner must first attach himself to a certain nobleman, gain the trust of the nobleman, and be granted the right to read the books of the upper class before he can achieve better results in the imperial examination.In fact, they took the road of recommendation in disguise, and the initiative was still firmly controlled by the nobles. Disobedient civilians had no possibility of rising unless they knew it from birth.
However, it is clear that Zhong Sumen's disciples are not in the usual situation in acquiring knowledge, especially when this disciple is an assistant Confucianism cultivator and master swordsman, the acquisition process is not only deep, but also efficient.
I don't know what happened to Duan Yanzhou when he first entered this secret realm. Anyway, he has a very complete identity here.That is, there are family members, neighbors, playmates whom we have known since childhood, and classmates who went to school together. These people can say a few words about Duan Yanzhou’s clever mischief when he was a child. His life trajectory in the past 20 years is so clear that there is no doubt at all. The origin is unknown, but I'm sure that Duan Yanzhou's body is his own, and he didn't put on someone else's skin, let alone seize it.
So let’s skip the identity issue first, and talk about Duan Yanzhou’s acquisition of knowledge.
The imperial examination here is only divided into two steps, one is the autumn test, and the other is the spring test.The autumn test is conducted in the provincial capital of each candidate's place of origin, while the spring test is conducted in the capital.Only those who pass the autumn test can take the spring test.The aristocrats only control the spring test, because passing the autumn test is only to obtain the qualification for the spring test. After obtaining the qualification, except for the local rich man who may have a little friendship with him, make some investment in advance, and a few compliments from the local residents, there is no official level. No preferential treatment was given.
As long as commoners learn the top knowledge of their class, they will have a chance to pass the autumn exam and get the title of scholar.
08245-self-study
In fact, the education related to the autumn examination in various places is not too bad.Many schools have been built. Even those who have no intention of participating in the spring test can go to the school for a few years to learn literacy, arithmetic, etc., and meet some relatively promising classmates. After that, it is easier to find a job with a higher income.It is a small investment that ordinary people can afford even if they grit their teeth.
However, there are also many families, especially those with more children, who are unwilling to spend money to send their children to school.In these families, if the adults know a few words, they can teach the children; and if the adults are illiterate or write wrong words, then the children will have a high probability of being illiterate, or if they have a good relationship with nearby literate people If you do, you can learn to write your own name for free or at a small cost.
Duan Yanzhou lives here in such a family with many children, whose parents are illiterate and do not feel that literacy is very important.
The elders in the family and the elders of the elders all said: "What's the use of literacy? Are you going to work for the nobles? That job looks glamorous, but too many people go in standing up and come out lying down. The salt we have eaten You have eaten more than you have ever eaten, and you are right to listen to the old man. People, you have to accept your fate, since you have been reincarnated as a commoner, you should be a commoner honestly, and the farther you are from the life of the nobles, the safer you will be."
In short, I am unwilling to spend a dime on learning words and the knowledge carried by words.
Children who have no pressure to study and can't do heavy work often run around the village, and Duan Yanzhou follows the crowd and goes out to play whenever he has time, wherever he can see the text.The text in this secret realm is much more complicated than the contemporary text in the main world, but you can still see the similarities, and it is relatively similar to an ancient text in the main world, so when Duan Yanzhou collected some samples, he roughly understood text here.
Then he sneaked into the school closest to his home, observed the arrangement of the library for a period of time, and counted the rules, and then spent three days reciting all the books in the library.
It's hard to say whether this "three days" is fast or slow.
Just talking about the amount of books, adding up all of them would not even fit a piece of jade slip. For Confucianism cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Period, it would be a shame to use 'days' to calculate the time it takes to finish reading once——Duan Yanzhou can do it when he is concentrated It is equal to memorizing after flipping through, without using other recording tools.
But considering that it also includes correcting the guessing errors of the meaning of the words caused by the limited samples, adapting to the style of writing, analyzing the pattern of the autumn test questions, eavesdropping on the conversations of the school teachers, going home on time, and avoiding the attention of friends Until I disappeared and waited, three days seemed too tight.
Side Note: Sneaking into schools, library stacks, teacher chat areas, etc. and avoiding detection is effortless.Not to mention that Duan Yanzhou is now in the solid foundation building period, even when he was still a dazed real child in Yunxiazong, he could climb walls, hide on trees, and nest on the beams of the house, etc. Silent, so that mortals can't find it.
Besides, in a school in a small place, the total number of teachers and students plus odd jobs is only a few dozen people, and there are no valuables except books, and stealing books is not easy to resell, and if caught, it is still a death penalty. At best, say hello from a distance, the school has not established a sense of defense at all, maybe only the fire protection and water release of the library is relatively in place.
08246 - genius in disguise
After getting an idea of the content taught in a nearby school, Duan Yanzhou once learned that a woman married far away asked someone to bring a letter back to their village. The woman's family asked a literate person to help read the letter. Duan Yanzhou Leaned aside and listened.After listening, the literate person took the reward and left. The woman's family was happy for a while and then began to be embarrassed: "Ten catties of rice, five catties of sugar, what else is there?"
"No, it's four catties of sugar and five catties of rice."
"No, no, the rice must be ten catties."
"Hey, I have to ask Mr. Tang again..."
Duan Yanzhou looked at the letter paper and said: "Ten catties of rice, four catties of sugar, two catties of salt, and three bolts of cloth, on September 27, that is, five days later, in..."
The woman's family looked at Duan Yanzhou in surprise: "Are you a student at the school?"
Duan Yanzhou: "No, when Mr. Tang read it just now, I wrote it down according to the words."
The woman's family: "Have you memorized everything after listening to it once? It's amazing."
Duan Yanzhou corrected: "No, I wrote down the pronunciation of the word corresponding to the shape of the character." He pointed to a word on the paper and said, "This is 'five'." '."
The woman's family was dubious, so they went to find Mr. Tang, who was literate, and mentioned Duan Yanzhou to him when Mr. Tang read the letter again, and wrote down the "corresponding pronunciation and shape of the characters".
Mr. Tang first took out a few words from Duan Yanzhou who came with him, and then took out the book to test it carefully. He was very pleasantly surprised and went to Duan Yanzhou's house. He strongly suggested that Duan Yanzhou's parents send Duan Yanzhou to school.
Mr. Tang: "This kid is a genius, and he will definitely have great achievements in the future." After a pause, Mr. Tang lowered his words, "At least he can also be an accountant."
There are too many children in the family, and it is absolutely unaffordable to send them all to school, but when a scholar clearly guarantees that a certain child is a good study material, and the neighbors are full of praise for the child's previous performance, Duan Yanzhou's The parents still happily decided to let Duan Yanzhou go to school.
But you have to agree first: "You can only go for one year. If you have learned something after one year, you can go to the town to find a job and help the family; if you can't learn something, then there is no need to continue studying. Don Mister sounds good, but he is the kind of scholar who only participated in the spring test once and never dared to go again. He can't even make a living in the town. In the end, he just returned to the village to live on the land, which is useless."
Half a year later, Duan Yanzhou took part in the autumn examination, passed the examination, and became a scholar.
08247-funded
This is the shortest-studied scholar ever here - not the youngest.Duan Yanzhou started to act on the bright side when his physical age was nine years old. He was already ten years old when he became a scholar. The youngest scholar here is seven years old.
According to past experience, the younger the scholar, the more likely to get good results in the spring test.Or to put it more accurately: the more likely you are to gain the trust of the nobles and become the nobles' 'own people'.
So Duan Yanzhou had the travel and accommodation expenses to go to the capital, and someone promised to help him take good care of his family.
The autumn test is once a year, and the spring test is once every three years.The most recent spring exam was held in the spring of the year Duan Yanzhou took the autumn exam, that is to say, the next spring exam will have to wait another two and a half years.This should be a time deliberately arranged by Duan Yanzhou.
Investors who funded Duan Yanzhou to participate in the spring test also advised Duan Yanzhou not to worry:
"The spring exam is completely different from the autumn exam. The learning experience you have accumulated for the autumn exam is almost useless for the spring exam. So after you arrive in the capital, you have to find nobles who are willing to invest in you as soon as possible, and enter their family school to study. You won’t fail a single question in the spring exam.”
"Two and a half years, no, it will take at least two or three months on the road. After arriving in the capital, it will take time to resettle and find someone. You may only have less than two years to study, and you will be very nervous. Next spring exam If you fail, you can try again next time, we promise to subsidize you to take two spring exams."
"But the ugly thing is to say, if it doesn't work after two times, we don't want you to return the money we spent on you and your family these years, but we will definitely not continue to invest in you after that."
Duan Yanzhou: "Understood, I will work hard."
Before Duan Yanzhou was about to leave for the capital, Mr. Tang, a scholar, met Duan Yanzhou alone and said to him: "When you arrive in the capital, don't be blinded by the prosperity, and don't spend a lot of money relying on someone's funding. Their funding is in the capital." It seems like a lot in this small place, but it might not even be audible enough in the capital. And what they say you don’t have to pay back if you fail the exam is a lie.”
Mr. Tang: "They won't ask you to pay back the money clearly, but they will make you do a lot of things. If you don't do anything, people around you will accuse you of being ungrateful, and if you do everything... you will It’s painful. Can’t get rid of it for the rest of my life.”
Mr. Tang: "You'd better be able to pass the exam. If you can't pass the exam, you can find a way to stay in the noble family. If you can't stay...then you'd better be cruel enough, and you'd better not come back at all, forgetting that you still have family .”