Anjiang Academy.
Anjiang Academy is located on a mountain in the provincial capital. The academy is very large, with many buildings and many students, numbering several hundred.
There is also a special printing workshop in the academy, which prints some common books that students need, and also prints "Anjiang Collection of Essays".
Anjiang Academy published the "Anjiang Collection of Essays". Initially, it just wanted to collect some good articles and print them out for the students in the academy to read.
But because the articles selected by the gentlemen in the college and included in the "Anjiang Collection" were so good, as time went by, the "Anjiang Collection" became more and more famous and began to be recognized by the readers in Jiang'an Province.
Even some people from other provinces would come to buy "Anjiang Collection of Essays".
This book was not sold outside at the beginning. Only a hundred copies were printed for the students in the academy to read. But now... every month, "Anjiang Collection" will print 5,000 copies. In addition to being read by students in the academy, it will also be sold outside, which actually brings additional income to Anjiang Academy.
Printing a book takes time. Generally speaking, as soon as this month's "An Jiang Collection of Essays" is printed and sold, next month's "An Jiang Collection of Essays" will start printing.
Director Fang and his colleagues will select the articles one month in advance.
Because of this, if you send your articles or poems to Anjiang Academy, even if they are selected, they will most likely not be published until the next month, or may even be pushed to the back of the list.
When Governor Zhang gave Li Qingzhi's two articles to Director Fang Shan, a new issue of "Anjiang Collection of Essays" had just been printed, and the next issue of "Anjiang Collection of Essays" was about to be printed.
Today is the day when the editors of "Anjiang Collection of Essays", including Director Fang Shan, will conduct the final review of the "Anjiang Collection of Essays" to be sold next month.
Director Fangshan is getting old, and recently he has handed over a lot of work to his subordinates. He is not doing much reviewing work on the "Anjiang Collection of Essays" now, and only takes a look at it at the last minute.
At this moment, he started to look through it.
After seeing this... Shanzhang Fang pointed at one of the articles and asked, "Is this article not good enough?"
What was pointed out by Director Fang was a policy paper.
In Fang Shanzhang's opinion, the policy papers written by Li Qingzhi were not that good, and this policy paper was far inferior to Li Qingzhi's.
"This article is flawed, but the author of this article is a student who has not yet passed the college entrance examination and is no more than twenty years old." A teacher in the academy said: "We don't have any other good articles, so we chose this one."
"Anjiang Collection of Essays" is published every month, but there are not so many good articles every month.
Sometimes there are not enough good articles, so we will select some articles of lower quality to supplement them.
This article is the one they selected to be added. As for why they chose this article... the person who wrote this article is Du Yongning, the top scorer in the prefectural examination in Yonghe Prefecture, Jiang'an Province. He had already won the top spot in both the county examination and the prefectural examination, and he was determined to take the first place in the academy examination and get a small third place.
If you want to get the first place in the college examination, in addition to your own talent, your reputation cannot be too weak, otherwise... If several similar papers are placed together, the examiner will most likely give the first place to someone he is familiar with.