Walking out of the shed, there is a wooden plaque with "Flying Phoenix and Lingyun" hanging on the moon gate of the quadrimer in the west. When you gently pass through the moon gate, you will find the academy. The three houses inside are newly built with brick and wood structures, with blue bricks and red tiles, bright windows, and the small courtyard in the middle is also specially filled with flowers and plants. Under the reflection of the moonlight, this quiet academy gives people a sense of tranquility and comfort, and it seems that it is a good place for learning.

"Circle..." Zhou Lizai wanted to call his brother loudly as soon as he entered the door, but Fang Bingsheng next to him blocked his chest and signaled him to silence.

"Forgot, Master, you want to inspect." Zhou Lizai smiled softly, touched her head and retreated with embarrassment.

Seeing the yellow light in the glass of the academy's windows, this brightness cannot be lit by candles, so many foreign oil lamps must have been used. Fang Bingsheng nodded: The academy did not deceive himself, and was willing to promote enough light to the candidates according to the publicity.

He approached the window gently, as if he was catching a villain, and looked into the window as if he was catching a villain.

There were rows of Western single desks in the room, and the desks were filled with books, and they were neatly erected in a row. If the students were short and lying down, they would be like lying under the chest wall of a trench;

At the front is the podium and a large blackboard, and there are also slogans "God is so kind to serve the country" on the wall above.

On the wall inside, there are fashionable world maps, Far East maps, and under the map is a wooden shelf, just like a windowsill, filled with clay pots, bowls and chopsticks, which are the utensils for students to eat.

In addition, candles and foreign oil lamps illuminate the house. In short, these settings are exactly the same as ordinary Western-style schools, fully reflecting the slogan of "Western standards, Pedestrian requirements" that Qiufeng Church claims.

But after looking at it for a while, Fang Bingsheng felt a little angry: a few of the children in the room were not studying, but gathered in the front row and were talking about something.

Fang Bowen and Zhou Tianen sat in the front row. Fang Bowen was short, but Zhou Tianen inherited the characteristics of the big man in the family and was very tall. The academy specially allowed these two most powerful students to sit in the front row for easy learning.

However, after he took his glaring eyes back from his son, he exclaimed, and he understood a little bit what was going on.

There was one more person wearing Pedelan school uniform in the room, and there were three people.

Peide's school uniform was designed by the emperor, with a blue dress and a large school emblem embroidered on his chest. It is very eye-catching and is a symbol of alternate officials in the eyes of the people.

If many Pede candidates do not have a pass exam or have not found a job in a foreign company, but choose to continue to repeat the exam, no matter how many years they have graduated, they will not be willing to take off their uniforms, which means they are ambitious young people who want to be officials. Many wealthy cram school uniforms will also imitate Pede's style.

In order to advertise, Qiufeng Church specially invited Fang Bingsheng's son to go to school. Because his family collapsed, he had no money to repair old clothes or directly customized a new one. The Fang family used to be a wealthy family, so naturally his wife would not sew clothes, nor would her son put on sleeves to protect the clothes. As a result, Fang Bowen's school uniform cuffs were torn to pieces and he was still wearing the old clothes, but this was nothing. Even if the official uniform was patched, it was still the official uniform.

I heard that when Wang Xintai was leading his parents to visit his academy, he always pointed at two students in blue uniforms outside the glass window and said proudly: "What are you still worried about? Did you see that, two Pede graduates in our academy! Hurry up and send the children here. The officials will be released next year, and the price will be raised here."

But today there were three Peide school uniforms in the house. Fang Bingsheng pushed his glasses to see clearly what the third person looked like: he was a boy of the same age as his son, very fat, with flesh on his face; he wore a pair of myopia glasses, and even from the outside, he felt that the lenses were as thick as the bottom of a glass bottle, and myopia was so fierce. However, Peide school uniforms were new, and compared with others, his child's old school uniform seemed to be slid off the body of a dead soldier; and when he turned around, a silver bracelet on his chest flashed under the lights, and it seemed that he was the rich man in the family.

"Wang Xintai recruited new students again? I have never seen this child before. Could it be that he came to study somewhere else?" Fang Bingsheng was furious. He just now wanted to go in and grab Bai Yuanqing's collar and question it.

"You just let the evening self-study sheep? How did you become a teacher!"

Bai Yuanqing is also a teacher just hired by the academy. If Teacher Tan is not here, he will definitely be responsible for taking care of students' study at night. Now he is not only not sitting on the podium to supervise students' self-study, but on the contrary, he and his son stand in a circle, talking about something in full swing. This kind of thing will make any parent angry.

Everyone is familiar with this young man, commonly known as "Xiaobai", who also lives in that row of wooden buildings, and is still a neighbor with Fang Bingsheng's family. He is very white and handsome, and has two beards. He looks like a cultural person at first glance. He is 24 or 5 years old, and his wife and children are in his hometown in Hunan. He is single in Haijing, and he is studying the imperial examination while working.

This is an old imperial examination candidate. He has never attended a foreign school, but he has passed Haisong's middle school qualification assessment in Shaoguan City. After coming to Haijing to take the national exam, he never went home. He has been taking the exam for six or seven years and has been taking the exam.

He is considered self-taught and a little smart.

This young man is self-aware and feels that he will definitely not be able to get into the professional talent from a new school like an immigrant. He goes to the wrong way: his target is not the kind of high-sounding hot official shortage, but the gap in skilled officials.

After all, some officials are very technical, so you can't just know mathematics, physics and chemistry. For example, medical assistants need medical examinations, ship surveyors need drawing skills, water conservancy technicians need earthwork engineering examinations, finance and taxation may require extremely fast abacus, etc.

There are additional professional exams for this type of official lack of official positions, so it is more difficult and not everyone can apply for it. You can appropriately avoid some competitive intensity.

So Xiaobai learned how to learn how to abacus and failed the exam; he learned how to learn how to learn how to learn how to fail; he learned how to learn how to learn how to pass the exam; he learned how to learn how to pass the exam; later he found that the scope of the art exam was wide. Moreover, the cost of getting started was not high, so he changed his course and went to a teacher to go to a cram school to change to art majors.

Although I haven't learned it thoroughly, this person knows everything. Since he has been reviewing the cultural courses for many years, he has also been well-versed in the "fighting" stage in the past two years. Although he has been defeated by the competition, he is also considered a famous "talented man" in Shiligou;

Xiaobai used to be unable to work as a worker because he had time to study and review, so he was so poor that he relied on his wife to borrow money everywhere to send him. However, in the past two years, he had the skills of painting and began to make a living by selling paintings by sketching, which made him a little money.

Because poor people can't afford to take photos, Shiligou does not have a luxury item like a photo studio. At this time, someone used Western technology to draw sketches similar to photos for you. The price is only one-fifth of the photo and one-tenth of the photo. Do you like it or not?

The photos of weddings and funerals, portraits of houses, and children's birthdays, everyone went to him to draw. The faster he painted, the better he painted. The more he painted, the better he made money, and just like playing. Not only did he move from the shack to the wooden building and be neighbors with Fang Bingsheng, but he heard that he was saving money and wanted to buy a small wooden building, which was all among the petty bourgeoisie of Shiligou.

It was not until recently that Qiufeng Church was taken to be a teacher and he was willing to be hired. Everyone said that he saw that there were Teacher Tan and Peide talented students in the academy. He had always wanted to take the exam and put down his "Shiligou High-income" job and came to teach, in fact, to study and review with the top students.

Xiaobai basically only talks about some basic knowledge, algebra, geometry, physics, chemistry, and geography; but if you encounter difficulties, you still have to think about it with Zhou Tianenfang Bowen and others, or even ask for advice.

Of course, if you still need to learn basic knowledge in the imperial examination cram school, it only means that you are not good at old age. Don’t expect to take a look this year. Although Teacher Tan also graduated from a prestigious university, he is not in the cram school. I heard that Wang Xintaiqiang has a title of director of the academy. Except for the excellent theology lectures, he does not study any other imperial examination courses. He often is not here and goes to preach.

So this kind of class is actually led by Xiaobai, Fang Bowen and Zhou Tianen, and the other students are also graduated from the "country examination" - they have high school education and are all ambitious and talented. Therefore, everyone just does questions, memorizes questions, and studies test test simulation questions every day. Therefore, this academy does not need Xiaobai to teach, but it just needs him to maintain a good learning order: for example, being late and leaving early, running and leading a team, talking about the hardships of his imperial examination, encouraging morale, or just waking up classmates who are disturbing others because of snoring, etc.

So he and other students are considered half-teacher and half-friendly, and are considered pure friends with Pei Desheng - exam friends.

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Now Xiaobai didn't know that there were eyes staring at him outside the window. He just cursed himself in his heart. He was looking through a 64-open book in his hand, full of pictures and text underneath. Xiaobai was watching it with full concentration.

"How is it? Teacher Bai, is my set of "The God Emperor's War" great?" The fat man stood beside him and asked, holding a cardboard box in his hand, which was a neat stack of comic strips. He introduced it as a show-off: "This is a series of comic strips produced by the imperial court to commemorate the brilliant achievements of the God Emperor last year. Based on the God Emperor's war, it was drawn from the first episode of "The God's Bathing" when the Sea Emperor was baptized to the thirty episodes of "The Sea Wolf Pingbo" of the Song'an War. This is the first series! It was sent to me by the bookstore and booked half a year ago."

Xiaobai looked at the comic strip and smacked his lips in full admiration: "Awesome! This painter, this writing, this twists and turns...tsk tsk tsk tsk, a master level."

Fang Bowen, who was sitting in his seat, raised his head from the comic strip in his hand and asked with a smile: "Teacher Bai, can you compare what you painted?"

Fang Bingsheng's son inherited his genes, and he was also black and thin, but when he grinned, the wealth and white teeth brought by the Western school were flashing like shells, and they were no longer the yellow teeth passed down from their ancestral family.

Xiaobai turned the comic strip to the last page, looked at the publisher and smiled bitterly: "This is published by Haijing Christian Art Publishing House, which is the imperial publishing house. It is full of great painters. We must not be able to compare to those who have become monks halfway through the journey."

"If the newspaper publishes the official shortage in a few days and there are no painters from the publisher shortage, will you take the exam?" Zhou Tianen put the comic strip in his hand into the little fat man's box, then searched it again, muttering: "Where is the seventh book "A surprise attack on Shaozhou"?"

Xiaobai thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "No exam."

"Why?" All three Pede candidates were surprised.

Xiaobai explained: "I have long thought that I learned painting to strengthen the liberal arts, and I have to be like a tiger. If I have a shortage of art officers in the publishing house, there is no tiger. Just comparing wings with geniuses is to cut off my fingers and bring shame on myself. I must have applied for liberal arts, but I need art talents so that I can show my advantages." After saying that, I waved my hand and smiled indifferently: "Besides, this kind of position of imperial painter will never be released. It is all recruited internally in places like Haijing Academy of Fine Arts. My former teachers were students. People don't need to take the exam, they are talents specially trained by the court, just like the Boy Scouts officers in the military academy."

Fang Bowen was stunned for a while, then nodded fiercely and said, "Teacher Bai is worthy of being an experienced person in the imperial examination. When the applicant is missing in a few days, I will ask you for advice."

"Oh, I'm so sorry. You are all high-level talents who can pass the imperial examination in the first time." Xiaobai quickly became modest.

"Oh." At this time, everyone heard the little fat man next to him sigh heavily, and his voice was really loud.

【Comic Weapons】

With the introduction of Western painting methods, the art of Haisong comic strips has developed greatly. Due to the popular nature and storyline of the pictures, it has huge advantages of extremely small reading barriers, a large audience, and endless market communication potential.

The political genius Haihuang specifically proposed: comic strips should be used as an important weapon for the gospel missionary people.

Therefore, the imperial court specially formed a publishing unit for comic strips. Since then, the main publishing work was mainly created by the Academy of Fine Arts established by the imperial court and published by the Huangbao Publishing House.

Comic strips began to select topics, compile, and publish them in a planned and scale-based manner.

Not only does "court painters" create works that are popular among the public, but on the other hand, because the circulation of comic strips is relatively large and popular among the people, the rewards of painters are more abundant than those of other industries that make a living by painting, which has led many folk painters to devote themselves to comic strip creation, and the comic strip products on the market show a trend of blooming flowers.

However, because he was included in the category of "cultural weapons" by the emperor, all comic strip products must undergo strict review to ensure that there is no cultural factor in the Qing Dynasty, which also makes religious and war-related themes account for the vast majority.

As a genius artist, Haihuang also proposed his own creativity and was adapted into a large-scale infinity serial comic strip. The theme was that the young Sun Wukong was always looking for seven virtues. After collecting them, the angel would realize one of his wishes; the people could see passion, friendship and sacrifice. The Emperor's newspaper declared that the creative field of painters was strongly broadened by the genius' creativity; but after the sample was released, no one could understand it at the beginning, including the screenwriter Emperor himself, which led to the four main generals and painters being criticized by the publisher; as for sales, the Emperor's newspaper did not mention it, and the project was cut in half. From then on, the Emperor never cared about the comic strip writers again.

In that era, comic strips enriched the cultural life of the people. They were not only extracurricular reading materials for young people, but also important content for many adults to get rid of blindness and cultural entertainment. Comic strips shouldered the glorious mission of cultural attack pioneers and did a good job.
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