Cannon fodder Gong Just Wants To Take The Imperial Examination [MTL]

Chapter 54

With the feeling of embarrassing Shen Ming, Shen Chenyu went out early the next morning. He changed into unremarkable clothes, and then dressed up specially, and then found a beggar's nest with money in his arms.

Because of the snowstorm and bandits the year before last, people in many places became disaster victims. Later, for unknown reasons, some people became beggars in Fucheng.

Most of these beggars are children. It is estimated that the adults in the family died during the disaster, leaving a group of children without the ability to survive, so they had to become little beggars.

Shen Chenyu looked at the beggar's nest in front of him, and selected a few clever ones from it. He first gave them ten taels of silver and asked them to go to Shen Minglian's shop to make trouble from time to time. After he was sure that they would not take the money and then not do things for him properly, he would come back and give them twenty taels of silver.

I heard that Shen Minglian's new teahouse will open in the next two days, and the items sold there are some milk tea and pastries from later generations. Shen Chenyu also has this idea of ​​doing business, and Shen Mingxian only relies on his knowledge of later generations to be able to make a name for himself in this world.

Shen Chenyu found a few more hooligans, and planned to ask them to give each other a big gift when Shen Ming's new teahouse opened. Whether it's Shen Mingxian or the Shen family in Qingcheng County, what they like to do most is sneaking around to disgust people, this time it's Shen Chenyu's turn to disgust them.

Shen Chenyu in her previous life also worked in the shopping mall. The shopping mall is a place where soldiers never tire of fraud. He has seen all kinds of despicable methods. Since they all want him to die, how can he do it if he doesn't pay them back.

After Shen Chenyu arranged things, she went into the space and changed her disguise, and began to wander the streets aimlessly.

To be honest, he has always been very puzzled. Everyone knows that the status of merchants in ancient times was not even comparable to that of peasants. Why do many protagonists in time-traveling novels choose to be the lowest class of merchants without hesitation.

Once entered into the Shang nationality, the descendants will be the Shang nationality for generations. In this era, merchants are very lowly. Small businesses are looked down upon by those around them, and family money is easy to cause trouble when they do big businesses.

Even if a big businessman like Shen Mingxuan finds a reliable backer behind him, he is just the pocketbook of that backer. Once the other party dislikes Shen Ming's title, or if Shen Ming's title is useless, he will be dismissed and killed.

As for why Shen Ming's title is still good, the main reason is because he is the protagonist. If it weren't for the fact that the other party has the aura of the protagonist, based on the other party's ruthless behavior in doing things, it is estimated that he would have died of tricks a long time ago.

Not only that, but the business tax in ancient times was very heavy. It is estimated that the author of the original text felt sorry for the protagonists, so he slightly changed this setting. Otherwise, Shen Ming and his husband would be busy, and nearly half of the gold and silver would have to be taxed after a year of hard work.

Because of scholars, farmers, businessmen, most people in the world are after scholars. Take catching a son-in-law under the list as an example, some rich and noble families can marry their daughters who are loved by each other just because the other party does well in the exam.

Although most of the ancients favored sons over daughters, the daughters of wealthy families are still different from those of ordinary families. Even if they are also patriarchal, they are all their own flesh and blood after all, and there are still some who love them more or less.

They were able to marry their daughter to a stranger just because a scholar did well in the exam, and then set up an in-law who didn't know how good or bad it was, which proved the ancient people's pursuit of scholars.

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Because there were more snakes in the room before, Shen Chenyu worried that she would be killed in the middle of the night, and she has been sleeping in her own space for the past two nights.

The next day, when the rankings were released in the second government test, Shen Chenyu went out early in the morning with his seniors to watch the rankings. When a group of people went to see the red list, a group of beggars discussed among themselves, and then they rushed towards the shops under Shen Ming's name.

When Shen Chenyu gave the money, she only said that they were going to make trouble for the shop, but she didn't specify how they were going to make trouble. The way to make trouble needs them to think for themselves, but everything is more important than their own safety. Shen Chenyu is just for disgusting people, and she doesn't want anything to happen to these children.

These little beggars are not stupid, they are as clever as little monkeys. Every time they came to the door of a shop, they either urinated outside the shop or threw a few stones into the shop. Anyway, it's all small troubles, even if they are caught, nothing will happen to them.

In addition, the magistrate of Fucheng is quite benevolent, and he has always been kind to these young beggars. Even if they were turned away and sent to the government office, the magistrate would not punish a group of ignorant children just for this matter.

What's more, now is the time for the government examination, and the magistrate has no time to care about such trivial matters.

When the dozen or so shops under Shen Mingxian's name were being pranked one after another, Shen Mingxian almost laughed angrily when he received the news.

"So he not only escaped the catastrophe, but also found a group of bastards to make trouble? He is still as naive as before, and even the means of revenge are so mentally retarded."

A thin middle-aged man carefully glanced at Shen Mingxian glance. "Then... lord, shall we continue to fight?"

Shen Ming chuckled when he heard the words, and his dark eyes were tinged with sternness. "Of course you have to do it. You go and arrange people now." The

middle-aged man responded, then took the order and walked out quickly. After the middle-aged man left completely, Shen Minglian suddenly dropped the teacup, his whole person now looked gloomy and terrifying.

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This time, except for Shen Chenyu, the four senior brothers all went in to read the list. It's not that Shen Chenyu likes to be independent, it's mainly because the previous experience of watching the list was too tragic, Shen Chenyu no longer wants to be carried away by the crowd.

Just as Shen Chenyu was looking forward to it, silently waiting for Chen Youli and the others to come out. From a blind spot in his line of sight, a crazy old scholar suddenly appeared. Because there were people coming and going around, and there was a row of yamen guards next to him, so Shen Chenyu didn't find him immediately.

When the other party was about to run in front of him, Shen Chenyu realized that something was wrong. Fortunately, Shen Chenyu's physical reaction ability is very fast, and every time she finds danger, she will quickly resist with her brain.

So when the old scholar stabbed Shen Chenyu with a knife, Shen Chenyu raised his foot and put his foot on the opponent's body fiercely. The other party was obviously too old, and the old scholar immediately fell to the ground after being kicked, and then the knife in his hand was also thrown out by him.

Many people on the side saw this scene, and a group of frail scholars fled in all directions. During the escape process, you pushed and shoved, many scholars either bumped into someone, or were directly pushed to the ground, and the surrounding scene lost control for a moment.

Fortunately, there were not only yamen servants outside the Gongyuan, but also a group of hardcover soldiers guarding the periphery. The chaotic scene was quickly controlled by the soldiers, and then the old scholar was also arrested.

Chen Youli and the others came back with pale faces, and touched Shen Chenyu up and down all the time, and they were relieved only after making sure that Shen Chenyu was fine.

Chen Youli asked with lingering fear: "What's going on? Why did that person kill you?"

Another senior brother also said: "Could it be that you offended someone, otherwise this journey will be too thrilling. It's gone." When the

other party mentioned offending someone, he immediately thought of Shen Chenyu's complicated identity. Shen Chenyu didn't hide her identity from a few people, so everyone present knew the grievances between Shen Chenyu and Shen Mingxian.

Chen Youli figured it out all of a sudden, he slapped his palms together hard, and said with a look on his face that he could see through everything: "So... it is Shen Mingjian who is playing tricks, right? This Shen Mingjian is too vicious. It's too scary to kill you even if it doesn't matter over there."

The youngest brother among them looked at Shen Chenyu with a look of worry in his eyes. "There are such people in the world, even if you avoid him, he will not let you go. This kind of thing happens again and again, brother Yu can't continue to endure, otherwise I don't know what will happen in the future."

Shen Chenyu heard Yan nodded, so he didn't continue to back down, and planned to fight back after the last exam, but unfortunately the other party didn't even want him to take the last exam.

Because it involved such a major matter as murder, even though the magistrate is very busy now, he still took the time to find out the situation. When he saw Shen Chenyu, he found the master and the two of them bowed their heads and whispered a few words. After he confirmed that Shen Chenyu was the flower presenter, he asked him to go back with only one sentence.

The magistrate said: "Go back and take the exam with peace of mind."

The implication of this sentence is that the rest will be left to him, which can be regarded as fulfilling his previous promise. Shen Chenyu didn't want to come to him before, because he didn't want to fulfill this promise so quickly. He always felt that the person with the halo of the protagonist couldn't be taken away so easily. If this promise is accidentally wasted, it will be difficult to make the prefect owe you favors in the future.

But tomorrow is the last exam, even if Shen Chenyu is still a little uneasy in her heart, she still has to put this matter aside for the time being.

What I forgot to mention is that Shen Chenyu and the others still passed the second round of the house test. However, since two of the senior brothers are at the tail of the crane, the emotions of the two of them are inevitably a little anxious.

The third round of the government examination is about Shiwuce, which is also a question of policy. In addition to policy questions, there are some other questions, but the amount of questions is very small, and it took Shen Chenyu an hour to finish the questions.

The third test will take two days, that is to say, they will have to stay in the No. 1 room for one night. Room No. 1 is actually a simple model room, and it can be said that there are air leaks on all sides. If it weren't for the warm weather now, such an environment would simply kill people.

Before Shen Chenyu, in order not to go to the stinking account, she always drank less water and ate less, but she was unwilling to face that kind of place. But now it takes two days to take the exam, no matter how reluctant Shen Chenyu is in her heart, she finally went in twice with a face of embarrassment.

In addition, when resting at night, there is no condition to take a shower and change into clean clothes, Shen Chenyu feels very uncomfortable all night.

This time, the current affairs policy of the government examination was the one that happened in the Liangzhou government in a century. Although the overall situation in Liangzhou Prefecture was stabilized under the active allocation of food and disaster relief by the imperial court, there were still many problems left over.

Although the current affairs strategy needs to be based on some major events, let the test takers contribute strategies according to the actual situation. But in fact, the candidates who participated in the imperial examination had no way to let go of their hands and dictate to the current court. In addition to giving some of their own ideas, most of the writing is a tribute to Shangfeng.

Under this kind of feudal system, people in this era will be divided into three or six grades, and few supreme rulers will really be willing to hear the common people criticize themselves.

Therefore, most candidates who take part in the imperial examination must be very cautious when answering such policy questions. In order to avoid losing their lives because of a question, most of the candidates would choose to praise the imperial court fiercely, and they were unwilling to take risks to contribute any good ideas to the imperial court.