69novels Chapter 215
Chapter 215
Three days passed in a flash...
Today is the second day after the examination. One hundred and sixty-five candidates who failed the autumn examination came to the manor for six days of training.
Two candidates failed the examination, perhaps because they were naturally insensitive to pinyin.
There are also twelve candidates who are not interested in this and plan to leave the manor.
Su Chen did not try to persuade them to stay. As promised, they were all voluntary. He also asked the housekeeper Jin'er to give each of them a copper coin as travel expenses.
But it is obvious that the twelve candidates who plan to leave.
Even if they get good grades in the imperial examination next year, they will not have much prospects for their careers in the future.
After all, when they first came to the manor, His Majesty the Emperor personally encouraged everyone.
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"Ma Zhou, from now on, you will be in charge of the newspaper and the printing of books. You will be the editor-in-chief of the newspaper.
You can select several outstanding talents from the candidates this time to be your subordinates.
Or if you are familiar with them, you can directly find them.
As long as they are capable, there is no need to deliberately avoid suspicion."
Su Chen, Li Tai and Ma Zhou discussed the next personnel allocation in Su Chen's study.
"Yes, Lord!"
Ma Zhou stood up and bowed.
"I said you should not be so surprised all the time. Why are you so serious?"
Ma Zhou suddenly stood up, which scared Su Chen.
"By the way, Ma Zhou, you should improve the responsibilities of the publishing house and the Ministry of Education.
When you are done, I will take it to the palace for His Majesty to review, and it will be implemented if there is no problem."
Especially for publishing houses, if papermaking and printing become popular in the future, everyone will publish and print books by themselves, which will be a mess.
So relevant policies must be introduced first.
Ma Zhou bowed again: "Yes, Lord!"
"Since there is a newspaper, should we arrange a few reporters? Forget it, let's talk about it later."
"What books are being printed at the printing house now?"
Su Chen looked at Li Tai and asked.
"Focus on classics, history, and collections. We plan to print 2,000 copies of the reorganized elementary Chinese and mathematics." Li Tai replied.
Su Chen nodded to show his understanding. At present, it is still difficult for people who are illiterate in Chinese and mathematics to learn without a teacher.
The most important thing is that everyone may not be able to accept new learning at once.
"What are classics, history, and collections?"
Su Chen suddenly asked.
Li Tai opened his mouth to answer, "The so-called classics..."
Suddenly, he looked up at Su Chen, and then at Ma Zhou.
"Ma Zhou, now you know what I said is true, right? Come and tell Lord Su what classics, history, and collections are." Li Tai said to Ma Zhou inexplicably.
"Okay, King Wei." Ma Zhou bowed.
"My Lord, the so-called classics, history, philosophy, and anthology are the four major categories of classics throughout history, and are also the required scope of the imperial examination.
Classics refer to Confucian classics and the annotations of the classics by the ancient sages.
History refers to historical books; philosophy refers to the works of the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period, and anthology refers to poetry, lyrics, and fu."
Ma Zhou explained to Su Chen in detail.
Su Chen nodded after listening, "Do the Four Books and Five Classics count?"
"My Lord, what are the Four Books?" Ma Zhou asked puzzled.
Li Tai, who "looked down on" Su Chen, also became interested.
They only knew the Five Classics, which originated from the Han Wu period, and they had never heard of the name of the Four Books.
"Hmm? Didn't the Tang Dynasty have the concept of the Four Books and Five Classics? That shouldn't be the case!"
Su Chen was a little confused and said, "The Four Books are: [University], [Doctrine of the Mean], [Analects], [Mencius]"
"What are the Five Classics?" Su Chen asked back.
"My Lord, the Five Classics include: Book of Songs, Book of History, Book of Rites, Book of Changes, and Spring and Autumn Annals."
Ma Zhou told Su Chen about the Five Classics.
"My Lord, the Four Books you mentioned are what all students in the Tang Dynasty began to study when they were first enlightened. But no one has ever collectively called those four classics the 'Four Books'."
Ma Zhou added at the end.
"Hahaha, Su Chen, you use the 'Four Books and Five Classics' very well!"
Li Tai was very puzzled after listening to the Four Books Su Chen talked about.
Why did Su Chen learn different things from what they learned?
No wonder Su Chen has so many advanced manufacturing technologies, because the knowledge he learned is more advanced than theirs.
From this moment on, Li Tai no longer dared to say that Su Chen was uneducated.
Instead, he admired Su Chen even more!
Ma Zhou had the same idea in his mind. What Su Chen had learned was far more profound than theirs.
For example, the pinyin, punctuation marks, and lowercase numbers that they had just learned in the past few days.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. Have you made the alcohol?"
Su Chen waved his hand and didn't want to continue talking about poetry and classics because he was a poor student.
"I did extract some stronger liquor according to the method you gave me, but I don't know if it is the alcohol you mentioned."
Li Tai finished speakingHe stood up and walked towards the living room.
After a moment, he held a small wine jar in his hand, which was much smaller than the jar used to hold the imperial wine.
"This is a small bucket of alcohol extracted yesterday. See if it is the alcohol you want."
Li Tai handed the wine jar to Su Chen.
"You will know if it is alcohol if you try it."
Su Chen ordered someone to get a fire starter and a small bowl, unsealed it and smelled it. The smell was similar, but the specific purity was unknown.
"Did you only make this little yesterday?" Su Chen asked.
"Try first to see if this alcohol is as you said, so as not to waste it."
Su Chen nodded, and what Li Tai said made sense.
The servant brought a fire starter and a small bowl, and Su Chen poured out some alcohol.
Light a piece of paper and bring it close to the small bowl of alcohol.
Instantly, a blue flame ignited in the small bowl, and the alcohol burned.
"This..."
Li Tai and Ma Zhou looked at Su Chen in shock.
Su Chen smiled triumphantly.
"Don't understand?"
Most of the wine they drank before was sweet wine like rice wine, and fruit wine was like wine in later generations.
The alcohol content was very low and could never be ignited by fire.
Then Su Chen stretched out his index finger and dipped it into the burning alcohol bowl.
Blue flames also floated on Su Chen's finger.
"Is it beautiful? Brother knows magic."
Li Tai also followed Su Chen's example and dipped his finger into the bowl.
Then his finger also ignited blue flames.
"Why didn't my finger feel burned?" Li Tai asked curiously.
Su Chen extinguished the flame on his finger and watched the burning state of the alcohol in the bowl.
After a while, the flame in the bowl went out.
"It should burn for more than 20 seconds, and the effect is good." Su Chen nodded with satisfaction.
"In the future, alcohol cannot be stored in this wine jar, but in a glass bottle.
The most important thing is to seal it well, from the extraction to the storage process, it must be sealed well.
Otherwise, the alcohol will not play its role."
Su Chen looked at Li Tai and explained seriously.
"Okay, I know. Answer my question just now, why the flame burned on the finger, but there was no burning sensation, but a little coolness."
Li Tai nodded and answered, and then asked again.
Glass bottles are easy to solve. He went to the glass manufacturing workshop yesterday.
Just describe the purpose to those masters, and they quickly made a glass tube that can be bent at will.
As for the bottle cap seal, it takes time to improve it.
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