Chapter 365 Scientific Expedition

In a newly opened teahouse in Qiongzhou, Lingnan, Qu Xiujie said to his sons, "Write down the questions and answers. I'll help you check them."

In the end, he was unable to swallow his pride and participate in the newly established imperial examination in Lingnan.

Although he did not go, he asked several of his sons to attend.

At this moment, several sons had finished their exams and left the examination room. Qu Xiujie, just like he usually did when his sons took the imperial examinations, asked them to write down the questions and answers from memory to help them evaluate their exam results.

The Qu brothers looked at each other, all with troubled expressions.

Qu Xiujie's eldest son, Qu Siyuan, whispered, "Dad, please don't embarrass us."

Qu Xiujie looked at his eldest son with displeasure, "You are a Jinshi at least, and you have participated in so many imperial examinations. How can you not even recite a question?"

The third son of the Qu family, Qu Siyuan, said, "Dad, the topic of this exam is really different from the ones I've participated in before."

Qu Siyou also said, "Dad, you don't know that many of the questions are very strange and weird. I don't understand them at all."

"What's the topic?" Qu Xiujie felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would not care about his face and would have signed up to participate.

Qu Siyou lowered his head. He didn’t even understand what many of the questions meant, so how could he remember the content?

Moreover, there were simply too many test questions, spread over several pages. He was not as good as his two older brothers in academics to begin with, and after the test his mind was a mess, so how could he even memorize the questions?

Qu Xiujie looked at his other three sons and asked, "You don't remember either?"

Qu Xiujie had a total of five sons, the eldest, third, and fourth were born to his wife, and the other two were born to his concubines.

The eldest son is thirty years old this year, but the youngest son is only sixteen years old.

I heard that there was no age restriction for the imperial examination held in Lingnan this time. Anyone from fifteen to sixty years old could participate as long as they passed the screening, so I let my youngest son participate as well.

Qu Chang, Qu Xiujie's youngest son, said, "Son, remember a few questions."

He closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then picked up a pen and began to write.

Seeing this, the other brothers of the Qu family also calmed down and started to write from memory with their pens.

When all five brothers of the Qu family finished reciting the questions and handed them to Qu Xiujie, he found that almost all of them had written about the same question: how to lead the people to develop the economy of the north, make the refugees willing to move back to the north, and how to resettle the refugees and develop the economy of the north.

Qu Xiujie smoothed his beard and said, "It seems that Madam wants to select officials from this imperial examination!"

Qu Siyuan asked, "Then Dad, do our previous exam scores no longer count?"

Qu Xiujie sighed. Logically, this shouldn't happen. But the Lu family couple's actions were truly unconventional.

No one could guess what she would do next, and even these old ministers in the court were helpless.

Qu Xiujie said: "Let's go back to the inn and rest first, and wait for the list!"

In fact, this year's exams were held simultaneously in Bohai County, Cangwu, Lingnan, Baodao and other places.

But Qu Xiujie wanted to take advantage of the time of the imperial examination to get in touch with some meritorious families who had moved to Lingnan early on, in order to inquire about information and try to find some connections.

So they rushed from Bohai County to Lingnan for reference.

But Lingnan already has a dense population, and with the recent scientific expeditions, the flow of people is even greater.

The inn near the examination center was already full, and since they arrived late, it was impossible for them to book a room.

In the end, the family could only live in a temporary inn on the outskirts of the city. He had to pay three or four times the price to get the private room in the teahouse sold to him.

A few people left the teahouse and planned to drive back to the inn.

Although they had already seen the flow of people in Qiongzhou, the father and son still felt complicated when they saw the dense crowds of people and vehicles on the road.

It is really hard to imagine that the Lu family developed a barren land where criminals were exiled into such a large capital city.

And how long has the drought been going on?

Lingnan recovered its vitality in such a short time.

Qu Siyuan looked at the streets on both sides, then thought about what many students had said when they left the exam hall today, and suggested, "Father, why don't we walk along the street and stop by the study. I heard that many of the books in Lingnan's study are not available outside."

Qu Xiujie also heard about this, but when his sons were taking exams, he was busy arranging old acquaintances and had no time to go to the study to buy books.

He was also looking for an opportunity to visit the study.

A few people abandoned the carriage and walked slowly among the crowd.

I originally planned to visit a study, but I was often attracted by the shops on the roadside and couldn't help but walk in.

Every time they walked into a shop, the father and son were amazed.

The Ling sisters were also amazed by the prosperity of Qiongzhou.

This time, Ling Yanli's husband Qu Siyuan came to Qiongzhou for an imperial examination. Ling Yanli followed him in the name of taking care of her husband's meals.

Ling Yanzhu's husband also came to Qiongzhou to take part in the scientific examination, and she persuaded her husband to come with her.

The two originally thought that Lingnan was just a refugee nest and could not compare to the capital.

What they didn't expect was that the jewelry here was even more beautiful than those in Beijing. What woman doesn't like jewelry?

When they arrived at the jewelry store, they couldn't even walk.

Apart from the beautiful jewelry in the jewelry shop, there is also a large rouge shop with all kinds of ointments and perfumes.

There are also many new and fresh foods that they have never even seen before.

Of course, these are all Jiang Tangtang's work.

As soon as the drought was over, she was busy restoring the economy. Although there was a drought in the past two years, the workers in the rouge workshop were not idle.

Always working hard to learn and develop new products.

Jiang Tangtang also supported them by rewriting books such as "Cosmetic Formula Design and Production Technology", "Cosmetic Natural Ingredient Raw Materials Handbook", and "Plant Oil Encyclopedia" into language that people of this era can understand, and then printed them into books for them to study.

If the workers don't understand something, she will patiently explain it to them.

The workers’ hard work and study over the past two years have not been in vain, and they have come up with many new products.

It’s just that due to the drought, we didn’t do much production before.

In early winter last year, after the drought was lifted, Jiang Tangtang gave orders to the workshop to start producing new products.

Since the rain in early winter last year, many plants in Lingnan have gradually recovered.

In addition, Lingnan is different from other places. The climate in Lingnan is warmer. Jiang Tangtang occasionally uses spiritual springs to water the flowers and plants in the base, and many plants bloom.

The workers in the rouge workshop did not rest during the New Year. They were busy picking flowers and processing them. After the new products were made, they immediately asked Jiang Tangtang to set the price and then took them to the shop to sell.

In addition to various new ointments and perfumes, the Rouge Shop has also expanded and built a new VIP room specifically for receiving female guests.

(My dears, I have to apologize to you here. I originally agreed to make up for the word count in the next few days and update 6,000 words, but I found that there was a problem with the previous writing, so I have to go back and revise it. So today I can only update 2,000 words. After I revise it,

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