My life skills in Daming Liver

The last time I came to Nanping County, Su Ze and Lin Xianyang came to pay the fine for fighting with Lin Xianyang in early April.

Today is April 15th, which is the day when Hai Rui agreed to go to the county school to study in the middle of the month.

After Su Ze dispelled Hai Rui's resignation with an article "The Story of Yueyang Tower" last time, he immediately started to reform Nanping County School.

There are three schools in Nanping County, one official and one private. Yanping Academy is a private school, but it has the most graduates, and it is well-known in Fujian. Scholars from other counties will go to Yanping Academy to study. The mountain leader Chen Moqun is also well-known in Fujian. Great Confucianism, although this gentleman has not been an official, he is also a Jinshi and a scholar. It is said that he is the same year as Xu Ge, the second assistant of the current cabinet.

Yanping Mansion is located at the foot of the West Mountain outside Nanping City, and the funding of the prefectural school is more than that of the county school, and it caters to all the scholars in the prefecture. In recent years, five people have been elected in succession, which can be regarded as a prosperous academic style.

Only in Nanping County School, rich scholars all went to Yanping Academy, and those from ordinary families tried their best to study in the prefecture school. Before Hai Rui came, most of the grannies didn't even come to study, they just paid their bills.

When Hai Rui rectified the county school, these grannie students were also afraid that they would not pass the clear examination and would be deprived of student membership by Hai Rui, so they left the county school voluntarily.

Hai Rui used the vacant tuition fees and his own salary to create a county-examination training class for local children from poor families.

On the 1st, 2nd, 15th, and 16th of each month, they come to the county school to study and answer questions. The county school bears the cost of writing and ink, provides accommodation and meals, and also gives these poor scholars a place to exchange reading experience.

Hai Rui donated all his salary. His salary is meager for this unworthy teacher. If Hai Rui's mother and wife didn't come with him to take up the post, they stayed in their hometown in Hainan to farm. not home.

In order to subsidize the county school, Hai Rui reclaimed three acres of wasteland behind the county school. The majestic teacher of a county planted his own food, which became the biggest news in Nanping County recently.

Chen Moqun, head of the Yanping Academy, complained about this, thinking that Hai Rui insulted the gentleness of the scholars.

However, Hai Rui didn't care about the evaluation of the outside world at all, and still went his own way while farming and teaching.

Students like Zhou Xiucai who stayed at the county school soon discovered that this Hai Jiaoyu was really serious and responsible in class.

The previous teachings all used this position as a stepping stone, and after just a little bit of water, they moved to other places to become officials.

They have no intention of teaching county schools at all, and one professor never even gave lectures to county students.

Although Hai Rui is only a candidate, it is enough to guide this group of scholars. These days, Zhou Xiucai also feels that he has made great progress, and he is not afraid of the upcoming Qing examination.

It's just that the poor scholars in Nanping County all hold a wait-and-see attitude towards Hai Rui's training class.

The news of Hai Rui's refusal to kneel down to welcome the new magistrate has already spread in the county. Some scholars are afraid that the magistrate will hate Hai Rui and hurt themselves.

After all, the teacher-student relationship is still very close. If you take Hai Rui's class, you are regarded as his student.

In addition, Yanping Academy itself also has a work-study program. Talented locals, but poor students who have no money to study at Nanping Academy, can also enroll for tuition-free admission.

So in the past half a month, including Su Ze, Hai Rui has only recruited four children from poor families who are willing to study.

Hai Rui was not discouraged by this result.

Su Ze had the guides of the Changning Guards and the guards, and the documents issued by the county school. When he entered the city, he was not exploited by the tax officials who guarded the city.

The county school reported in the afternoon that before noon, Su Ze first came to the sugar shop where he bought sugar last time.

The short boss is still holding a bamboo stick, driving away the bugs flying around the candy.

Seeing Su Ze enter the door, the boss put down the bamboo stick in his hand and greeted him warmly.

"My little gentleman, how about the candy you bought last time? The shop is innocent, and it's authentic Fujian-Guangzhou brown sugar."

Unexpectedly, in the past half a month, this store still remembered Su Ze.

Su Ze said: "Authentic and authentic, I don't know the name of the store."

"Miangui's surname is Ruan, so the young man is still here to buy candy?"

Su Ze smiled slightly and said, "No, shopkeeper Ruan, I'm here to sell sugar."

"Selling sugar?"

The shopkeeper squinted his eyes at Su Ze, only to see Su Ze untie the bag that he carried with him, opening the bag to reveal the white sugar he just made.

"Icing!"

The shopkeeper hurried forward, but when he saw Su Ze's white sugar, he shook his head and said, "This is not icing sugar, it turned out to be crushed rock sugar."

Su Ze asked, "Isn't this icing sugar?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "The icing is as light as dust, as fine as frost, and as white as snow, it's not like you."

Only then did Su Ze realize that the icing sugar of this era refers to the "powdered sugar" of later generations.

This is when the sugar is boiled, and the sugar-containing foam that precipitates on the surface is formed after it dries. In fact, the taste is not sweet, but it is sought after by literati and doctors because of its whiteness and flawlessness. Eating this sugar can improve your conduct.

Especially after the rise of Xinxue, those literati talked about "enlightenment" at every turn, and even developed a set of recipes for diet therapy to understand the way of Xinxue.

The white sugar that I grind with crystallized rock sugar is not the icing sugar that Fuzhou Prefecture can sell at a sky-high price.

Su Ze asked, "Master Ruan, how much are you willing to pay for this pack of rock candy?"

The shopkeeper calculated that generally speaking, the price of this kind of ground rock sugar is not as good as that of Fuqing rock sugar, but Su Ze's white sugar is dense, and the color is white with a slight yellowish color, but it is a high-quality product.

The rock candy in this era is not the single-crystal rock sugar of the later generations, but the old yellowed rock sugar. Su Ze's bag of crushed sugar is even better than the ones sold in the store.

Shopkeeper Ruan looked at Su Ze's scholarly attire, tall and handsome, and wanted to make a good relationship, so he said, "How about one tael a catty?"

Although the price in my heart is not as high as Su Ze expected, but since I don't make icing sugar by myself, and the cost of making a catty of white sugar by myself is less than three silver coins, there are four times the profit.

There are many places to spend money now, this time it is better to cash out as soon as possible, so Su Ze said:

"I have twenty catties, and the price is twenty-six taels of silver. How about it?"

Shopkeeper Ruan made some calculations, the sugar is of good quality and should be able to sell, so he nodded and said, "Then make a deal!"

After inspecting and weighing the goods, shopkeeper Ruan took out the silver, and Su Ze finally got the biggest sum of money since he traveled.

Thinking of his colleagues who are time-travelers, who are always talking about a big deal of several million silver, Su Ze is on the verge of tears. How can it be so difficult to make money these days!

After being escorted by shopkeeper Ruan, Su Ze left the sugar shop. He bought a piece of mustard pancake on the street to satisfy his hunger, and then walked directly to the county school.