Considering that more people will buy "An Jiang Collection of Essays" this month than in previous years, Director Fang Shan specially printed more copies of "An Jiang Collection of Essays".
But even so, the August edition of "Anjiang Collection of Essays" was sold out within two days.
There are two types of printing in Da Qi. One is woodblock printing. Some books with high demand, such as the Four Books and Five Classics, are basically printed by woodblock printing. Many bookstores will store the woodblocks of these books and can print them whenever needed.
But An Jiang Collection of Essays is published once a month, and it is impossible to use woodblock printing. It has always been printed with movable type.
Printing books with movable type is much faster than printing with woodblocks. If "Collection of Qi Du's Works" was printed with woodblocks, the blocks would definitely not have been carved yet.
But movable type printing also has a problem - once a certain number of copies are printed, they are only printed once. If you want to print again, you have to start all over again and re-typeset.
Anjiang Academy has already started printing next month's "Anjiang Collection of Essays". It is impossible to reprint this issue of "Anjiang Collection of Essays" and "Qiong Du Collection of Essays". Therefore, those who failed to buy the books can only buy them everywhere, or borrow books to copy.
These books were also sent by people from the provincial capital to various places, such as the capital.
All this has little to do with Li Qingzhi.
Li Qingzhi did not think that a feudal dynasty could be changed by just a few articles.
In his previous life, some emperors had talked with foreigners, learned about foreign situations, and seen foreign weapons, but they didn’t want to change, and their countries remained the same...
It is not easy to change a feudal dynasty.
Now, he should focus on the present and do well in the college entrance examination.
The process of the academy examination is similar to that of the county examination and the prefectural examination, except that the person presiding over the academy examination has changed and become the provincial education commissioner.
There were quite a lot of examiners for the academy examination, and Cheng Xuezheng invited quite a few people to mark the papers, including Dean Fang and Dean Zhou.
Early in the morning on August 20th, Li Qingzhi gathered all his things and lined up outside the examination room.
There are two entrance examinations in Da Qi, each lasting a whole day.
After entering August, the weather was much cooler than June and July, but still a bit hot. The candidates taking the college entrance examination only wore a single layer of clothes, which made it convenient for the people in charge of searching at the door.
Li Qingzhi carried his examination basket and followed the crowd into the examination room, found his seat and sat down.
The college entrance examination has begun.
When Li Qingzhi took part in the county examination and the provincial examination before, most of the candidates were not very old, but it was different for the academy examination.
Among the candidates who were taking the college entrance examination with him, Li Qingzhi saw several people with gray hair, wrinkled faces, and who were at least in their fifties.
Taking the examination for the title of scholar at such an old age... Li Qingzhi felt that it was meaningless.
In fact, for those who are not suitable for this path, it might be better to give up the imperial examination and take another path.
However, some people have wealthy families, so it doesn't matter if they take the exam, and just treat it as a trip to the provincial capital for fun.
Li Qingzhi is still a little thin now, and gives people the impression of a weak scholar.
But he's actually in very good health.
After a day of exams, some people felt listless, others had back pain from sitting for too long, but Li Qingzhi was fine.
He walked out of the examination room in high spirits, took the food box prepared for him by Jin Xiaoye, and took out some rice dumplings from it to eat.