I want to be emperor

Chapter 370 Merely Pink Skull
Sun Qinian and three friends from the same hometown returned to Suzhou by boat with Mr. Fang, and drinking and having fun were naturally inevitable on the way.

Everyone Fang treated the four of them equally as they did when they came here, and did not treat Sun Qinian differently from the other three friends just because he was Tanhualang.

At least the money is charged as much!

It's just that the charge is much less than when I came here.

Everyone Fang also made it clear that on the one hand, it was a friendly discount for the sake of being acquaintances.

On the other hand, most of the money collected last time went into her adoptive mother's pocket, and what she got herself was only a small amount.

But now, everyone Fang has nothing to do with her adoptive mother lying on her body to suck blood. The money received is all her own, so part of the price has been reduced accordingly.

Business, small profits but quick turnover, and by the way, get a repeat customer.

Even so, she got much more money than before.

That's why Mr. Fang also said that they can look for her when they return to Suzhou. After that, she will not hang out with Qinhuai anymore, and of course she doesn't plan to go home from Liangliang, but will place an order at a painting boat in Suzhou.

She was sold to her adoptive mother by her parents since she was a child, and her biological parents didn't know where she went.

Since she was in elementary school, she has been playing the same tricks on the Qinhuai River. It is very reliable for you to let her play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but I am sorry that she does not know how to make a living.

Although she lost her lowly status and her contract of selling herself, but considering her future life, she still planned to continue to engage in this business.

The reason why they left Qinhuai River was purely because there was too much competition in Qinhuai River, and there were several oirans of all kinds popping up every day, and many of them became free men because they had no contracts of prostitution.

Even if they are still placing orders for certain painting boats, they are still free to come and go, and earn more than before. Everyone is very active, and they can't wait to pick up ten or eight enkes a day.

Everyone Fang said that he was already old, and he was getting old and fading. He went to Suzhou to work for a few years while he was still young, and saved some money before retiring.

Sun Qinian was not interested in everyone's invitation.

He himself is not good at this way, and everyone on the other side has no special feelings, and they have played together many times in the two rounds. To be honest, the only freshness at the beginning is gone.

So when we arrived in Suzhou and disembarked, although we were perfunctory saying that everyone would go to join us if they had the opportunity, they had already made up their minds: they were determined not to go.

It's just a pink skull!

Returning to Suzhou City and arriving at home, it is natural that there will be some celebrations.

His family had received an official notification a few days ago, saying that Sun Qinian had passed the Juren examination, and the Sun family had already made arrangements to welcome Sun Qinian back home and have a banquet for the guests in the past two days.

Sure enough, after Sun Qinian returned home, the Sun family invited a group of relatives and friends, and set up a three-day feast.

Afterwards, he went to visit nearby local officials with three of his friends who won the exam. Sun Qinian was free after all these busy tasks were over.

He still has a lot of time, he can stay at home for about a month, and then return to Jinling City before leaving for his post.

During the period, he repeatedly shied away, but was still dragged by a few friends to go to the boat where everyone placed the order. To be honest, he really didn't want to go, but his friends invited him again and again, so he really couldn't save face, so he went Seven or eight times.

Otherwise, even if Mr. Fang wrote several times, saying that some of his best friends had also come to Suzhou to place orders, and they happened to be in the same boat as her, he would not have gone.

It's just a bunch of pink skeletons, I'm really not interested!
In addition to these irresistible human contacts, he also taught his newly enlightened eldest son to read at home during this period, and also taught several nephews by the way.

In addition to teaching the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, he also focuses on teaching Gewu subjects, especially mathematics.

This time when he came back, he brought back more than 20 textbooks and books on Gephysics.

Since in the imperial examinations of the Great Chu Empire in the future, even Jinshi subjects will have to pass the content of physical subjects, he naturally needs to pay attention to it, so that his children and the children of relatives and friends can get in touch with and learn early.

Especially his elder brother's eldest son, who is 15 years old this year, has achieved some success in Economics and Economics, and this year, he is about to start his exams.

This elder nephew's Confucian classics is good, but he is going to be blind in all subjects. Sun Qinian also knows that when waiting for this year's imperial examination, even if it is the county examination, he will have to add arithmetic and other subjects in various subjects, even if the proportion is not the same. It will be very big, but it is always a test.

I let this elder nephew study for a few months first, even if he memorizes some by rote, he can remember some. When the county exam comes, when other students are confused by a group of Gewu subjects, my nephew will be able to calmly Answered.

In this way, the chances of passing the county examination and even the subsequent hospital examination are 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 one who had this idea and did it. In fact, before this, many well-informed people in Suzhou were already doing it.

They either sell or copy all kinds of new subject books from various channels, and then use them to study or teach their children and nephews.

Even in Suzhou Fufu School, the professors taught by others have already started to teach the content of Gewu in a serious manner.

Many people even used Sun Qinian as an example: Sun Qinian, you know, that man's writing skills are very average. If it weren't for the rush in the last provincial examination, many people didn't have time to apply for the exam, and Sun Qinian would not have passed the exam at all. .

But it was just such a half-baked guy, and in the end, he passed the Gongshi examination in the general examination, and passed the Gewuke Tanhua in the palace examination in one fell swoop, and was awarded the official seventh rank.

Can such scumbags pass the exam?

Why, isn't it because Sun Qinian sharpened his gun in front of the battle, learned the superficial knowledge of Dian Gewu, and finally passed the exam by luck. If he was allowed to go to 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 couldn't deny it.

They're just a group of envious, jealous and hated villains, why bother with him!

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When Sun Qinian was teaching his nephew Gewu at home, Jinling City also restored its former peace, and gradually restored its former prosperity.

The painted boats on the Qinhuai River are gradually returning, and the bright lights are the best proof.

However, Luo Zhixue didn't feel too much about Jinling City's restoration of prosperity. Most of the so-called prosperous businesses in Jinling City were tertiary industries, with some small-scale handicrafts added at most.

This city, like most ancient cities, is a pure consumer city, and Luo Zhixue doesn't pay much attention to these pure consumer cities.

What he values ​​more are industrial cities that can produce materials and provide power for national strength.

To unify China, he needs various materials such as food, as well as guns and ammunition.

And Jinling City couldn't provide him with these.

Relatively speaking, he paid more attention to the development of Dangtu, which is not far next door, and there, a large number of construction projects are underway, a large number of factories are being erected, and a large number of workers are pouring into it.

Dangtu County, Taiping Prefecture, was just a very ordinary small county in the past.

But since the Great Chu Empire occupied this place and discovered the large and easy-to-mine Ma'anshan Iron Mine here.

Immediately, Dangtu Mining Bureau was established here to mine local iron ore.

Now that there is a Bureau of Mines, an ironworks is naturally needed, so the Dangtu Ironworks was established.

It's just that although the Mining Bureau has also been established, and the ironworks have also been established, but because the time is relatively short, and the steel production capacity of the Great Chu Empire is currently sufficient, there is not much urgent demand for iron materials, so it is impossible Like in Daye, we will build factories quickly at any cost, and spend a lot of money in order to shorten the construction period.

The construction period of the two core factories in Dangtu is still at a relatively normal pace, so it will take a long time.

For the time being, the output 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, which is also located in the Dangtu Industrial Zone, is very fast.

After all, the current production capacity of iron materials in the Great Chu Empire is relatively sufficient. The annual production capacity of just one iron smelting plant is [-] tons, not to mention that the other iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry are several times larger. thousand tons of capacity.

This is not counting the production capacity of a large number of private iron-making workshops.

The Great Chu Empire did not implement an official system for the steel industry, but adopted an official guidance and supervision system that allowed private capital to participate to a certain extent.

Therefore, in the Great Chu Empire, many private iron-making workshops that were sneaky in the Ming Dynasty are now open for business, but private iron-making factories also need to obtain an official iron-making license.

In this way, in fact, the steel production capacity in the Great Chu Empire is more than the production capacity of several iron smelting plants under the Ministry of Industry.

The steel production capacity is relatively sufficient, and the construction of the Taiping Mining Bureau and the Dangtu Ironworks here in Dangtu will be done step by step, and they will not blindly spend a lot of manpower and material resources in order to quickly increase production capacity.

However, the arsenal is different.

The current Great Chu Empire has an extremely large demand for weapons, especially new guns.

Especially the flintlock guns that the Chu army has begun to equip in batches. The annual production capacity of the two-year-style sudden-fire rifles at the Hantian Arsenal is only [-] pieces, and this number is far from enough to meet the huge army, navy and guards of the Great Chu Empire. need.

After all, this production capacity will equip at most four divisions in a year.

If this is barely enough in peacetime, it will take about ten years to equip hundreds of thousands of troops.

But in times of war it is far from enough.

For this reason, a new flintlock production line is being built at the Hantian Arsenal, and a huge flintlock production line is also expected to be built at the newly established Dangtu Arsenal.

In addition to firearms, the Great Chu Empire still had a huge demand for artillery.

At present, all the units of the Chu Army, except for a few ace units, other units, even the main divisions, are not satisfied with the field artillery, let alone the garrison divisions, and now many garrison divisions only have a few guns The semi-field artillery supported the facade, and a large number of short-barreled artillery seized from the Ming army were used more, such as the general artillery, the French machine artillery and so on.

This is still a ground force. If the navy is added, the military of the Great Chu Empire currently has thousands of artillery gaps.

(End of this chapter)