When this woman got up to leave, she glanced at Lu Zhenjiang one more time, with a hint of disappointment in her eyes!
But Lu Zhenjiang naturally pretended not to see it. During the whole process, he actually didn't even ask the girl's name. Not only did he not ask her real name, he didn't even ask her her stage name.
Why should people who meet by chance ask questions?
Of course, Lu Zhenjiang would never admit that he was unwilling to continue spending money!
The cost of being a courteous person is not small. Drinking with him for a while and listening to a piece of music is fine, but if you continue to play and listen to it endlessly, the cost will be quite high.
Moreover, this kind of hustle and bustle can only be seen but not eaten. If you want to eat this kind of hustle and bustle, you don’t know how much it will cost.
Lu Zhenjiang's money was not brought by strong winds, so how could he fill it in a bottomless pit like the green small building.
While his mind was still stuck on the appearance and business of the young man, Lu Zhenjiang once again found Fengyun's manager and found a black-haired West Asian woman with a similar figure to spend the night together.
This West Asian woman is much cheaper. The cost of one night is not as much as the cost of listening to the poor man sing a song.
When he came out of the green small building the next morning, Lu Zhenjiang returned to the courtyard rented by Weilan Trading Company in the trading zone. There was still work waiting for him.
A few days later, although Lu Zhenjiang still occasionally went out to eat and drink with his colleagues, he was limited to this. He was not as lavish as Captain Sun and Accountant Li. They were not at all restrained in spending money.
At night, I spent every day in the small green building.
This is the difference between Lu Zhenjiang and his two colleagues. Lu Zhenjiang pays attention to being elegant rather than vulgar when it comes to this kind of thing. Even if it makes him feel relaxed and happy, he can still control himself and do it in moderation.
However, these two colleagues of his spent a lot of money. Just a few days after landing, they already spent dozens of yuan. Even though their salaries were high, they couldn't afford to spend such money!
But how should I put it? Everyone has their own ambitions, their pursuits are different, and their methods of doing things are also different. Lu Zhenjiang doesn't think there is anything wrong with what they do. On the contrary, sometimes he can understand the actions of these colleagues.
It is too dangerous to be a sailor these days. No one knows whether they can go back after going to sea. Even if they come back alive once or twice, if they happen too many times, sooner or later they will die at sea one day.
Many crew members think that they earned the money with their own lives, and no one knows when something will happen and they die, so most of them have the mentality of being drunk today and drunk tomorrow.
This is also the result. Although these crew members have high incomes and spend a lot of money outside, most of them have little savings. Many people have worked at sea for several years, but they still have not been able to buy any property or save much money.
If this situation is to be changed, I am afraid that it will have to wait until navigation technology further develops and navigation safety is greatly improved.
Because after the safety of navigation has been greatly improved, being a seafarer no longer has to risk your life, and it has become an ordinary profession. Without the worry of death, normal people's thinking will naturally return.
But then again, if the safety of navigation is greatly improved and seafarers are not so dangerous, the salary income of seafarers will not be as high as it is now.
Lu Zhenjiang accompanied the manager of the company and was busy with various things in the few days after landing, such as collecting and investigating the local market conditions.
With such a large shipload of goods arriving in the South African city, it is naturally impossible for a newcomer here to just sell the goods out of nowhere and then buy local goods back home.
This is goods worth hundreds of thousands. Before making a decision, they need to learn more about the market conditions in South Africa.
If you are in China, you don’t have to go to such trouble. You can collect relevant information directly from newspapers. Basically, the local edition of Datang Chao Bao in Datang will have corresponding business section reports.
Information, especially in important trading ports, such as Shanghai, not only has the business section of the Songjiangfu edition of the Tang Dynasty Daily, but also a professional business newspaper, namely the Shanghai Business Daily, which was newly established for more than a year.
This Shanghai Business Daily specializes in providing various types of local business information in Shanghai, and the price trends of various bulk goods are a key section.
In addition, there is a bulk cargo exchange in Shanghai, which specializes in brokering transactions of various bulk commodities.
But in the city of South Africa, there is no such commercial convenience. There are no newspapers here, only the Datang Dynasty Daily, or at most a local version of the Datang Dynasty Daily.
Unlike domestic big cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jinling City and Tianjin, local newspapers have begun to appear, and there are also extremely professional business newspapers.
For example, Shanghai Commercial Daily is currently the largest and most professional business newspaper in China. Although it has only been in operation for more than two years, it has gradually covered the entire Yangtze River Delta region, and its commercial influence is huge.
Speaking of the Shanghai Commercial Daily, it is not only the most influential local commercial newspaper in the empire, but also the first local newspaper in the Tang Empire. It is sponsored by the Jiangnan Branch of the Chaobao Department of the Ministry of Rites.
The emergence of the Shanghai Commercial Daily was also a by-product of the series of reforms in publicity, education, and imperial examinations promoted by Zhou Yiran after he joined the imperial study.
After Zhou Yiran moved into the Imperial Study Room, he was mainly in charge of publicity, education, imperial examinations and other affairs, and was also responsible for some official administration work. The core of his work in recent years was mainly to rectify official administration, and also carried out education, imperial examination system and publicity.
reform.
There is no need to elaborate on the matter of rectifying the administration of officials. He, who is called a state official by outsiders, has a systematic approach to catching corrupt officials. In recent years, he has rectified the administration of officials, mainly targeting middle and high-level officials, and has gained a lot.
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The education and imperial examination reforms were linked together. The most significant feature was the complete abolition of Jinshi, Juren, scholar and other titles, and the reform of the joint examination system was also carried out.
Special recruitment will be carried out according to the vacant positions for the general examination. Among them, the Jinling General Examination mainly recruits for the job vacancies in the yamen of Gyeonggi Province, while the provincial general examination recruits for the job vacancies of the provincial yamen.
When there are vacancies in the yamen, they are compiled together, the number of people is determined, and then unified recruitment is carried out.
In order to prevent favoritism and fraud.
All yamen applying for new applicants can only declare job vacancies and cannot make any requests or other suggestions. Basically, they can only say that I need people, not who I need.
The Ministry of Rites counts the job vacancies in various yamen every year, calculates how many people need to be supplemented, and determines the number of candidates for the joint examination.
Whether it is the Gyeonggi examination or the provincial examination, it is directly handled by the Imperial Examination Department of the Ministry of Rites, and other Gyeonggi or local yamen are not allowed to interfere.
After the Ministry of Rites recruits a sufficient number of new officials through examinations based on the number and types of job vacancies, their work will be completed, and the files of these new officials will be transferred to the Ministry of Personnel.
Then the Ministry of Personnel will uniformly allocate the academic qualifications, majors and other specific conditions of these new officials.
The principle is that students are not allowed to work in their hometown (Chengtian Prefecture students are in a special situation, they can work in various institutions in the capital, but they are also not allowed to work in the Chengtian Prefecture magistrate's yamen and county yamen), and they are not allowed to work in the same yamen with relatives. In short, it is all kinds of ways to avoid suspicion.
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Such a complete new imperial examination system basically consists of three links. When there are vacancies in the specific yamen and apply for new ones, the Ministry of Rites summarizes the vacant positions, determines the number of vacancies in each subject, estimates the number of admissions in each subject, and admits new officials through the examination. Then the officials
The department will uniformly allocate new officials based on their specific circumstances.
Because organizations and positions are different, the requirements for newcomers are also different. Therefore, the examination is divided into several categories, namely liberal arts, science, engineering, law, medicine, etc. Candidates can choose to take the examination in a certain subject.
So if you want to take the Jinling Examination and work in the judicial system, you need to take the Jinling Law Examination. To take the Jinling Law Examination, you must first have a college degree or above, and you must also be a law student.
department major,
Students with insufficient academic qualifications and non-majors cannot apply!
If you want to take the Jinling College Entrance Examination, no matter which subject you apply for, you must have a college degree or above. You can apply for different subjects for different majors.
The provincial examinations have lower academic requirements. They only require a preparatory degree or a technical secondary school degree or above. The reason why they no longer require a college degree or above is because the provincial examinations are for new officials in the province and the number of people they recruit.
There will be a lot of them, and if the academic qualifications required are too high, there won’t be enough students.
After all, there are not many universities in Datang, even if you count junior colleges.
The reform of the imperial examination system also went hand in hand with the reform of education. Zhou Yiran's education reform was actually not a big move. It was basically to check and fill in the gaps in the existing education system.
After joining the imperial study, he did not advocate the construction of new comprehensive universities on a large scale. In terms of high-end education, that is, the education system above junior college, he advocated mainly expanding the scale of existing universities and increasing the number of school teachers year by year.
The expansion of scale will simultaneously expand the scale of enrollment to meet the needs of all aspects of the empire for high-end talents.
In terms of secondary middle and high-end education, that is, preparatory schools and technical secondary schools, he advocates the establishment of more technical schools that cultivate students' professional skills, that is, technical secondary schools.
As for preparatory schools, they will keep the same pace as the development path of universities. If the university does not expand enrollment, preparatory schools will not expand enrollment. They will just continue to maintain the existing scale and gradually expand the scale of the school and enrollment to gradually cultivate more preparatory schools.
students to meet the needs of the university’s gradual expansion of enrollment.
Because Datang's preparatory school was established purely to train college students, all courses were biased towards basic theory, even the early stages of university education, and the cost of education was high.
On the contrary, when it came to the secondary school level, Zhou Yiran advocated a large-scale expansion of enrollment, calling for every state capital to have at least two middle schools, which was equivalent to doubling the number of previous middle schools.
Middle schools have been expanded on a large scale, and primary schools are even more so. Zhou Yiran advocates that every big town must have a primary school, and a small county needs at least three primary schools.
Zhou Yiran's educational reform ideas are actually the same as before, which is to popularize basic education, focus on the development of technical education, and limit the development of higher education.