Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

Under Su Xiaobai's narration, Su Mulan also opened her eyes. The college Xie Chengan introduced to him was called Gaoyang Academy, but it was named after Gaoyang Mountain in Anlan County.

The academy admits twenty students each in spring and autumn, and ten special admissions. That is, a total of fifty students are enrolled per year.

Anlan is a major cultural and educational county, with more than 5,000 registered children alone. With this ratio of enrollment, those who can enter the academy will be the best.

No matter how unlucky they are, they still have to be extremely wealthy. For example, those ten special admissions students, as long as they rank among the top 100 in the examination, they can enter the college for a tuition fee of one thousand and one taels of silver!

No money? Only by ranking in the top twenty can you enter the academy with one hundred and one taels of silver.

If you can't even get a hundred taels of silver, then you can get into the top three and get free admission.

Of course, there are other ways to enter the academy, but this is not enough for outsiders.

For example, Su Xiaobai.

Su Xiaobai missed the enrollment period, but could still enter the college without taking the exam, while Li Fan had to make up the entrance exam.

The tuition fee of one hundred and one taels of silver already shocked Su Mulan.

You must know that in Qingsong County, even the best school only costs ten taels of silver a year. This Gaoyang Academy is ten times taller!

If you don't get into the top 20 in the entrance exam, it will cost you one thousand and one taels of silver, which is a hundred times higher!

This is not about choosing a wife from a hundred or a thousand.

Don't think it's too expensive. This is only half a year's tuition. In the fall, I have to pay tuition for the second half of the year.

However, you get what you pay for.

Gaoyang Academy has the confidence to dare to accept so much money.

After one to two years of training, most of the children in the academy can pass the examination as scholar and enter the county school. If a student fails to pass the examination in three years, the college will refund the three-year admission fee!

This is confidence!

The academy is located at the foot of Gaoyang Mountain, and most of the students in the academy are children. There are 150 people all year round, and there are 15 teachers. It is really a carrot and a pit.

A master teaches an average of ten people.

In addition to Tong Sheng, there are also fifty scholars, who are not actually official students of the academy. Because this dynasty stipulated that all talented people must study in the county.

These fifty scholars were originally students from schools in various counties of Qingyang Prefecture. Because the headmaster of Gaoyang Academy was famous, the best of these scholars could come to the academy every year to further their studies.

Each of the ten prefectures and counties in Qingyang Prefecture only has five quotas each year. It is said that scholars who have gone through advanced studies in academies often have a greater chance of winning the imperial examination.

Although Gaoyang Academy is located in Anlan County, it actually ranks first among the sixteen academies in Qingyang Prefecture. It even ranks among the top three among the major academies in the province.

There were more than a thousand academies throughout the country during this dynasty. An academy is an educational institution between government schools and private schools.

The official school is too goal-oriented and basically focuses on career development, and helping scholars win the imperial examination is the first priority. Private students generally have a limited level of masters, most of them are scholars, and a few have some qualifications.

The academies are more liberal and will teach more knowledge in addition to imperial examination studies. And the teaching level is much higher than that of ordinary schools.

It was a bit expensive, but Su Xiaobai and Li Fan entered Gaoyang Academy, which would be of great benefit to their careers.

This also made Su Mulan realize that scholars are not greedy for money, and the more scholars, the better.

Su Mulan calculated the accounts for the academy: of the one hundred and fifty formal students, thirty of them had to pay one thousand taels of silver, and the other one hundred and twenty had to pay one hundred taels of silver.

The tuition fee alone can earn you 42,150 taels a year! This is faster than robbing money!

This does not include the money those scholars need to pay. Su Xiaobai only learned about the situation of Tong Sheng entering the academy, but did not know about the scholar.

And this is only the tuition fee. How can the routine filial piety to the master and the mountain chief be missing during the New Year?

None of the students who can come to Gaoyang Academy are from ordinary backgrounds, and they might go out of their way to give gifts and money, for fear that their children will be left out by their master.

The academy's annual income is probably not more than one hundred thousand taels of silver!

The income of these masters must be quite high, both covertly and covertly. That's something even a county magistrate wouldn't even want to do.

Students with potential are selected through entrance exams, and students from poor families are eliminated through high tuition fees. It’s no wonder that students from Gaoyang College have a higher chance of becoming a scholar.

Su Mulan was not sure about Shan Changwen's talents. But his economic talent is not ordinary.

In addition to arranging the academy for Su Xiaobai and Li Fan, Xie Chengan also bought a three-bedroom courtyard for Su Mulan. Su Xiaobai brought the house deed and land deed.

Su Mulan wanted to rent a house. After all, renting was cheaper than buying. She didn't have any long-term plans, but since Xie Chengan had already bought it, she had no choice but to leave it at that.

As for the shop, Xie Chengan knew that Su Mulan had her own ideas, so he didn't interfere. He only asked Xiaobai to tell him which shop he liked, and he would pay for it.

Su Mulan laughed when she heard this. Xie Chengan really looked like a domineering president.

But Su Mulan was new here and wanted to keep a low profile. Still starting from braised vegetables and kimchi. After you have integrated into Anlan County and become familiar with the local customs and customs, you can find other ways to make money.

Su Xiaobai added that Xie Chengan and Jiang Ruiyan were very busy these days, and they would meet each other at the house in casual clothes in a few days.

Su Mulan smiled, she was very busy. The previous magistrate was murdered, and just the handover would be a fuss for several days without even being able to figure it out.

Then we will start investigating the murder of the former magistrate.

Presumably, the murder case at the inn has been reported to the county government today, and the theft case of Tie Gu and others may also be a concern. If Xie Chengan hadn't been busy for a few months, he might not have been able to sort out the myriad of things.

However, when she learned that Xie Chengan and the two were actually stationed at the county government office, Su Mulan couldn't help but admire their courage.

You know, the former magistrate died in the back hall!

County government offices are generally divided into main hall, second hall and third hall. The lobby is where the county magistrate issues decrees and hears cases. This place is also called the public hall and the front hall.

The second hall is a place where the magistrate can rest or analyze the case with his staff during the review of the case. Equivalent to a small conference room. This is the so-called back hall.

The third hall is where the county magistrate’s daily office is. Often some special cases involving women or other secrets will be heard here.

The former magistrate died in the second hall, that is, the back hall.

According to common sense, the county government has a large number of people, so it is a bit strange to want to kill the county magistrate silently.

Even in the dead of night, it is not easy to think of the back hall. Because the county government office has watchmen, patrol officers, prison guards, strong squad night government officials and other patrols. Each gate is guarded by a prisoner.

And the magistrate will go home to rest at night. The magistrate's residence is also within the county government office. The former magistrate did not go home to rest at night, so even if he worked overtime, he should be in Santang.

Then why did he go to the second hall?

If it wasn't someone with particularly strong martial arts who assassinated him, then there was someone inside the county government!