There is a river in the northwest of Yunmengze that connects Hanshui and Yingdu, called Yangshui.

At the end of Yangshui, there is Jinglingyi.

It's just that the title of Jinglingyi has not been many years old, when Yunguo is still there, the southwest of Ganyukou is adjacent to the Han River, which is called "Tianmen", and the local clans mostly take "wind" as their surname.

However, with the expansion of the Chu State, the Feng clan has also become the head snake within the Chu State, which is not as good as the Ye clan, but also has its own way of survival.

Relying on Hanshui, Ganyukou, Yangshui, and Yunmengze, the Jingling Feng clan can be regarded as a prolific "fish and rice", and the transportation is developed, and it is one of the few local clans of Chu who can travel back and forth between the Yangtze River and Zhou Qin.

This is the height of summer, and the Jingling Feng clan is busy again, but unlike the previous peddlers of fish, rice and cloth, this time what is sold is a piece of paper with strange content.

The paper itself is not expensive for the Jingling Feng clan, what is more expensive is the content on the paper.

In the inner harbor of Ganyukou, the aristocratic young men of the Chu State wearing silk robes were all calmly moving forward with their swords, and after arriving at the dock, they suddenly walked like flying, sweeping away the previous calmness.

In a moment, someone shouted with a sword: "You can't wait for yourself!" Don't scramble! Otherwise, don't blame me for the sharpness of my sword! ”

"Your sword is sharp, isn't my sword unfavorable?!"

"Here's an exam syllabus!"

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"Look at what? I'm going to Huaishui to take the exam, how can I slack off! ”

One person out of the ranks, step on the run, not long to the Jingling Feng family's house, this is the front shop and the backyard pattern, after entering, is already crowded, one by one crowded sweaty.

The children of the wealthy family obviously won't come here like civilians competing for discounted fish and rice, but the young people who can come here are obviously not vulgar people, and their ancestors will not be too bad.

"The exam content is so rich?!"

A young man looked puzzled, and what he got in his hand was not paper, but silk cloth that had been translated into flower and bird seals.

After glancing at it, the young man couldn't help but stick out his fingers, where his teeth were biting his nails.

The syllabus of the exam is very detailed, and the schedule of the exam is staggered.

"Dare to ask the beloved, the Huaizhong City exam must be in the Chu language."

"I don't dare to be called a lover."

The manager of Feng's shop, who was also sweating profusely, arched his hand across the crowd and said, "Gentleman, please look at the 'remarks' below, the words used are 'Chinese characters'." ”

"That's really the case, this Wu Xie has a big tone, and the words dare to be called heavenly."

The stars and Han are splendid, this is the text in the Milky Way, and the people of Chu are the most profound.

They were so crazy that they asked Zhou Tianzi about the importance of Ding, but they didn't dare to say that their own characters were Chinese characters and Chinese books.

"Hugh has to care about the size of his tone, and the words used in this exam need to be re-practiced."

"Gentleman, rest assured, there is a comparison table of commonly used words in Huaizhong City."

After that, the manager of Feng's shop hurriedly asked people to set up a large silk cloth, on which a large number of commonly used words were arranged according to the side.

Each character has a contrast between "Chinese characters" and seal scripts, although the Chu State is a flower and bird seal, but the Central Plains seal book is also understandable.

As the children of nobles, the people who come here, even if the family is down, will not be slow in education.

"That's very good."

"Do you have a small book?"

"Yes."

Probably prepared, inside the store, two large boxes of scrolls were actually taken out.

Each scroll, after opening, is densely packed with text, and at first glance it is manually copied, which is quite difficult.

In addition to the scrolls, there are also a large number of bamboo slips and wooden slips, which are carved with carving knives, and the number is even more amazing, directly filling the two rooms, the bookshelves are not enough at all, and there are quite a few parts, which are piled directly under the eaves of the porch outside.

They are all reading experts, and when they saw so many bamboo slips and wooden slips, some people were very surprised and asked: "Feng has so many suitable books?" ”

"The gentlemen misunderstood, these simple books were not made by the Feng family, but imported from Huaizhong City. The simple slips produced by Huaishui Bofu have uniform specifications and suitable sizes, especially the surface grinding, with few burrs, which can be described as the top grade. ”

When the children of the nobles of Chu State heard this, they were full of taste, they were not stupid, since Li Xie had paper, it was obviously impossible to use more bamboo slips and wooden slips.

But it is still producing, and it has a large output and a high yield rate, so it is clear that it is a pit person.

But I have to admit that even if I know that I am cheating people and making the last bit of money, those small and medium-sized families and Tu clans who can't afford to use paper have to jump into this pit.

It is a waste of time to produce and process qualified bamboo slips and wooden slips to cut them yourself.

After the Wu-Chu War, the intellectuals had already swelled on a small scale. To Li Jie, a wild dog that King Wu Wei didn't care about at all, wandered everywhere and bit the people of Chu all over his body, and the intellectuals of Chu suddenly discovered from the exchange that the amount of knowledge in the past was not enough.

The exchange produces not only the division of labor in the market, but also the dissemination of knowledge and the learning of technology.

The middle- and low-level elites of the Chu State know very well that the big car books handed down by their families in the past may be a small book in Huaizhong City.

Just by using the Chinese character comparison table, you can make a smart person imagine a lot of things.

For example, the literacy rate of "national people" has definitely increased, for example, the communication between "national people" has definitely become more frequent, and a large number of new words have definitely been added.

And these things, many times, improve production efficiency or reduce the overall management cost, and Li Xie is a neighbor, if they are too far behind, I am afraid that it will be very difficult to be a spy in the future.

Because as soon as the people of Huaishui Bofu opened their mouths, they knew what each word meant, and when they were put together, they were completely listening to the words of birds and beasts.

Let's not talk about the matter of seeking the rank of advancement, just from the perspective of loyalty and patriotism, the middle and low-level elites of the Chu State are very eager to learn.

"I don't know what the price of these two is?"

"A simple book is twenty yin coins, a silk book is a volume, and fifteen pieces of cloth."

"So expensive?!"

"Not expensive, not expensive......"

The manager of the Feng's shop smiled and waved his hand at many young people of Chu State, "There is a saying in Huaizhong City, saying: Knowledge is precious, knowledge is priceless. This is called a 'priceless treasure', only twenty yin coins, sackcloth fifteen, how can it be considered expensive? ”

With his hands spread, the steward was still very complacent, but when he heard a snap, there was a grumpy old brother from Chu State, and he was slapped when he went up.

"Profiteers!"

"Profiteers!"

"Profiteer—"

There was a commotion, but I saw a dexterous figure, touch a scroll, and then the whole person shrank and arched backwards.

After going out, he shouted to the Feng servants outside the door: "It's not good, there are thieves making trouble, and your family has been beaten beyond recognition-"

"Huh?!"

The servants outside the door were shocked and hurriedly entered, and one of them thanked him: "Thank you gentleman for telling me!" ”

"It's okay!"

After that, he hurriedly drove away, and in the inner harbor of Ganyukou, he got into a small boat.

Shake open the scroll, it is the comparison table of the commonly used words in Huaizhong City copied from the silk book.

"Hahahaha......"

laughed, put away the silk book, and hurriedly shouted, "Go back to Yingdu quickly." ”

"Hey!"

After the movement made by the Jingling Feng clan reached Yingdu through Yangshui, the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State were quite angry and extremely embarrassed.

There's no way not to be angry, and there's no way not to be embarrassed.

"Zhongqing, if the heroes of Chu State go to Huaishui to take the exam, in the long run, won't the good talents of Chu State be used by other countries?"

On the top of the main hall, the Empress Dowager of Chu had a solemn face, her son sat there, very serious and well-behaved, the king of Chu didn't have too many ideas, he was a very simple child.

Seeing the anger and embarrassment on the faces of the ministers, King Chu was also full of curiosity, looked up at his mother, but took care of the etiquette education on weekdays, and did not speak directly.

Probably knowing that her son wanted to speak, the Empress Dowager of Chu blinked her eyes, smiled, and asked her son softly: "If you have any questions, you are the king, and you can ask your subordinates." ”

"Hmm."

King Chu nodded, he was still a bear child, and he hadn't been weaned for a long time, blinking, and looked down at the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty: "If you have doubts, please ask the ministers to solve their doubts." ”

"I want to relieve the king's doubts......"

"May I relieve the king's doubts!"

The ministers of the Chu State are not ambiguous, since the boss has an idea now, let him say it.

Children, build a good relationship first, and then you will be harmonious. Now that you have an idea, what an exaggerated and strange question can you ask? Just find some allusions, deal with it, and you can get it, maybe it's still a good talk.

Seeing that the courtiers were so good at talking, the king of Chu was also happy, so he said: "The good talents in the country want to go to Huaizhong City, the ancestors have clouds, and the whereabouts of the phoenix must have sycamores." Chu is a phoenix, and there is a sycamore in Huai. I also want to go to Huaizhong City to see the Lic's plane tree ......"

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