The eleventh year of Wanli is the year of the trial.

In the past, no matter what happened in the year, the imperial court would not change the date, but this year was different, and the imperial court met two conditions.

One is centered on Beijing, and everyone from top to bottom has enriched their understanding of the plague; The second is that the telegraph network extending in all directions has increased the ability of the imperial court to plan major events in a unified manner.

This made the meeting postpone for a month and a half to avoid the aftermath of the Tongzhou plague.

The canal turnover is thousands of boats, Huai'an Mansion is in superior location, military ships, merchant ships, civilian ships come and go endlessly, both sides of the city outside the city are full of tourists watching the boats, this is the grand occasion that must be there in every year, it coincides with the time of going green, the children on the bridge of the tourists are holding newspapers and selling the latest telegram on the railing on the bridge, and the farmers on the shore have already set up stalls to sell fresh fruits, vegetables and meat for the boat passengers to choose.

In the ship coal yard outside Huai'an Prefecture, in the harbor of the empire's latest 400-material offshore river steam warship, the sunlight hit the bare backs of the workers pushing coal carts along the small track on the dock, reflecting the bulging muscles under the bronze skin black.

Next to the wharf, a group of shaved children, led by the old gentleman, looked at this new warship with iron armor and a big chimney from afar, telling something.

"Iron can float in water because it is thin; The boat can move without sails, because it has a propeller at the tail; The power of the propeller is not in the wind, but in the fire engine in its belly, the fire engine is burned by coal, there is a boiler to hold water, the water boils into gas and rises, the top piston moves forward, there is a small mouth in front of the piston, and one left and one right teach it to cycle back and forth, which is to push the propeller to rotate like the wind...... Do you know who made this steamer? ”

The children are young and bald, the oldest is just beginning to grow hair, all dressed in various colors, some people are hiding in the sleeves behind their backs and holding a cross wood, the four corners of the wood are hung with hanging silk puppets, listening with relish, at this time I heard Mr. ask questions, most of them are at a loss, some say Lu Ban, some say that the Jade Emperor did it, for a while twitter, anyway, it is a bit outrageous.

There are also answers that are very close but not accurate, like what the God of Wealth Zhao Gongming did, and the Dragon and Tiger Daojun appeared.

At this time, you can see how important the experience brought by age is, and among the more than a dozen children, only the slightly older child is the most calm, and replied: "It's the Oriental Minister Jing Haibo Chen Gong." ”

"Yes, the steamer was made by Jinghai Bo Chen Gong, which was first used by the Ordnance Bureau to build ordnance and textile mills to weave cotton, and later improved the confidential work of the Steam Bureau of the Ministry of Industry.

"All students should remember that if you are interested in the imperial examination in the future, this is to be examined."

After saying this earnestly, the old gentleman continued to shake his head behind his back and introduced: "Can the students see the closed window on the side of the boat?" The old man has never seen four guns placed on a ship when he was in his prime, and now there are four gun windows on one side, such ships are the foundation of the country facing the north to restore the Wuliang Sea, and the south to deter the West and Portugal to control the four oceans. ”

As soon as the words fell, a young man applauded and reconciled not far away, and before the old gentleman could blame, the man had already stepped forward, a young Confucian scholar, and apologized with a smiling face: "Please don't blame the students for being rude, just passing through here, listening to the teacher's lecture easily makes the students look at it, and the students can't help but shout." ”

"The student Ye Xianggao, a native of Fuzhou, has not yet asked Mr. for his name?"

"You are polite, high-minded, and have a good name. The old man is the professor of Huai'an Mansion, seeing that you look young, you came here from Fuzhou Mansion, and you are a move to enter Beijing to take the exam? ”

For example, Hai Rui was appointed as the teacher of Nanping County, Fujian Province after the earliest middle school, and later it was from this position that he was promoted to the county, which belonged to the official but had no grade, which was equivalent to the director of the Education Commission and the principal of the county No. 1 Middle School.

The prefect of the school is a professor, who needs to be born as a jinshi, and is directly appointed by the imperial court, from the nine grades.

In fact, whether it is a professor or a higher-level professor, the power is not small, that is, the grade is low, the treatment is poor, and the officials are expected to be frugal, and the officials are humble and honest.

As soon as the old man Shi Yinchang said, Ye Xianggao understood, this is a court official in front of him, and he is an old jinshi.

The official position is only from the ninth grade, but he is probably the most respected person in the entire Huai'an Mansion.

The distinction between officials and the government is not to be honest and clean, and to be turbid or dirty, but to say that the official positions such as the county governor and the prefect are high and powerful, and it is natural that they are counter-examples to teach and teach such jobs as having high knowledge requirements, too many things to do, and little money to pay.

Even if the whole world is looking at money in this era when silver is flowing into the country unprecedentedly, there will be no one who does not respect their professors and education, and it can even be said that it is precisely because everyone is chasing silver that they respect them more.

"I don't know that the grandmaster is here, the student ......"

"Okay, you don't have to be so polite, and the old man is not wearing an official uniform."

Shi Yinchang lowered his head and gave a few instructions to the slightly older students, asking him to take care of his classmates not to go into the water, and then walked a few steps to the side, and smiled at Ye Xianggao's beard: "Actually, the teaching is not very good, right?" The old man himself knows that most of these things are known to young people, but now the dying old court wants to build new schools in various places to teach students these unheard of things, but it is too difficult. ”

"Grandmaster's words are wrong, your words are right, although there were no steamships in the world when the dynasty established the Four Seas, but when such a child grows up, the steamship must be the foundation of the Ming Dynasty to deter the four seas and the four seas to control the world."

Shi Yinchang knew that he was wrong, sighed and said: "These are actually not known to the old man, all with a lifetime of teaching experience, the earliest is Xiuwu County instructor, and later as a teacher in Pinglu County, and then he became a professor in Huai'an Mansion when he was admitted to the Jinshi, and thanks to the fact that the old man is a Jinshi in the second year of Wanli, there are many people on the same list who have done overseas affairs in the military government, so there are people to ask, but their officials are big, so they are not willing to deal with the old man, who was at the bottom of the list." ”

"I had to guess from a few words, Hou Sheng, do you think it will be useful for me to let the students learn these things in the future? The old man doesn't doubt these new knowledge, the old man doesn't understand this knowledge but also knows that it is useful, but the old man can't trust himself, he is old. ”

Ye Xianggao didn't know what he saw in the eyes of the unwilling old man in front of him, maybe he saw it but he didn't want to be sure - this old professor felt that he was abandoned by the times.

Without waiting for Ye Xianggao to answer, Shi Yinchang had already pulled his beard and laughed: "There are a lot of old words, finally teach students, today I have been chatting with you for a long time, I don't delay your efforts, I hope you can enter Beijing to be named on the gold list, and the old man will also take the children to the official ship over there to ask, can I take the students on board the ship to have a look." ”

"Don't look at this Huai'an Mansion guarding the canal boats coming and going, and the steam ships have also come a few times, but the old man has never been up, these ships are all from the Nanyang Army, and the soldiers are too strict, but - the old man should always let the children see."

Ye Xianggao turned his head to look at the official ship and raised his hand to the old man: "It's better to let the students ask for the seniors." ”

He got off that boat.

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