Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 9 High School Solution
"The messengers are out to announce the good news."

"The messengers are out to announce the good news."

"The messengers are out to announce the good news."

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The hourglass in the inn had just reached three quarters, and Wang Daoqiu was sitting in the lobby of the inn.I heard the crowd on the street outside, like the troops of later generations passing down commands, passing the words "The messengers of good news are dispatched" from far to near, group by group.

The police officers were dispatched to announce the good news, but the fat guy was still nowhere to be seen.Mader, my condolences to the class sisters, he really deserves it!I despise the fat man in my heart, but as a friend, I still have to help with some things that need to be done.

So Wang Daoqiu rushed to an inn clerk and raised his left hand.When the shop assistant saw Wang Daoqiu calling him over, he hurriedly ran over with a white towel draped over his shoulders and a smile on his face.

As soon as the shop assistant arrived in front of Wang Daoqiu, he bent down and asked with a smile: "Master, what are your orders?"

"Oh, second brother, do you remember the fat young man who was often with me?"

"Uh, Mr. Jiang, you are talking about Mr. Jiang, right? Mr. Jiang is a young man. Of the scholars and students living in the entire inn, Mr. Jiang is the richest one."

Damn, fat is just fat, how can you be rich?Complaining about the profoundness of Chinese language and culture, Wang Daoqiu continued to say to the waiter: "Look, little brother, the servants who announced the good news have been dispatched, but Mr. Jiang has not gotten up yet. Little brother is busy, please go upstairs and call me." Mr. Jiang. A mere five cents is not a sign of respect. Please treat me to some tea."

As he spoke, Wang Daoqiu handed the five cents he had prepared in advance to the waiter.It is the rule to send the waiter to run errands and give him some money for the errands. Generally, the waiter in the store will thank you and accept the money.

But what surprised Wang Daoqiu this time was that the waiter didn't reach out to pick up his copper coins.Instead, he pushed his hands outward together and refused Wang Daoqiu's copper coins. The waiter said: "Master, I am not lucky enough to earn this reward. Mr. Jiang went out before dinner last night, and he said a few words to him at the door. Mr. Jiang said that he would go..., Hey, I don’t dare to offend the ears of Mr. Jiang, it’s just a man’s business anyway! Later, the younger one reminded him not to forget the night prohibition time. But Mr. Jiang said that he had forgotten. I just forgot that if he missed the night ban, he would not come back. As a result, Mr. Jiang really didn’t come back last night.”

Damn, this damn fat guy is staying up all night. I hope you die on a bitch’s bed!Forget it, people are rich for n generations!This can be considered a contribution.

Shaking his head helplessly, Wang Deqiu said that he was fine, and sent the waiter away, sitting there quietly and continuing to drink his tea.

At this moment, time seems to have suddenly slowed down, making the wait very painful.The scholars and students in the hotel lobby were all staring at the door, looking forward to it.

Is the golden scale a thing in the pool, it turns into a dragon when it encounters wind and rain.

The final tragedy of Shen Yishi was that the Zhejiang officials at the time thought he was very rich and thought that by convicting him and confiscating his home, they could use Shen Yishi's property to make up for the financial hole.

As a result, Shen Yishi knew his ending in advance, so he committed suicide in advance because he did not want to be tortured by the government.Before he committed suicide, he left a suicide note and twenty boxes of account books.Shen Yishi's suicide note and twenty boxes of account books are a good illustration of how miserable a wealthy businessman is in the face of power in the Chinese dynasty.

Shen Yishi’s suicide note is as follows:

Yang Zhenghe and all the public were enlightened and Shen Yishi was

From the 21st year of Jiajing to the 40th year of Jiajing, in the 20 years, this was the last batch of account books submitted by Shen to the intertwining bureau and the Zhejiang government. In the past 20 years, four weavers and five governors were appointed, but Hu Zongxian, the only one who had no accounting transactions with Shen, and Hu Butang alone did not take any cents from Shen.Among the three bureaucracies in Zhejiang, only Hu Butang can be called a great official of the state, and the rest of the Gonggun princes are not worthy of mention.

Our Ming Dynasty has the world. If the court loves people, keeps the people in good times, officials at all levels are honest and self-responsible, and opens up trade routes for silk, porcelain, and tea, then only these three items can make the world rich. How can the national treasury be in deficit today?The people were squandered excessively, and the people's upheaval was imminent, so the merchants were plundered.

Shen's outcome today was all expected, but with the remaining wealth of Shen's decades of exploitation, can it make up for the shortfall in the national treasury?Everyone will be greatly disappointed when they see this account!

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There was a long paragraph in the suicide note. The central meaning was that I, Shen Yishi, only looked at the scenery and everyone thought I had a lot of money.But in fact, most of the money I earned was taken away by you officials, and I only got a small amount.

Thinking about these dirty things, Wang Daoqiu felt anxious about the future of his country and nation.I also made up my mind to change my life in this life.

"Good news in the rural examination! Congratulations to Mr. Jiang Lijiang, Huzhou Prefecture High School, who won the first place in the provincial examination."

"Good news in the rural examination! Congratulations to Mr. Jiang Lijiang of Huzhou Prefecture..."…………

Just when Wang Daoqiu was making his vows for the rest of his life to the heaven and the earth, there came one after another, loud and clear announcements of good news from the door of the inn.

As soon as he understood what the messenger was saying, it was the fat man's good news. Wang Daoqiu hurriedly shouted "Here he comes, here he comes" and ran towards the messenger who announced the good news.

As soon as Wang Daoqiu ran in front of him, the messenger who brought the good news was busy delivering various official congratulatory messages to Wang Daoqiu while smiling, and at the same time handed the good news to Wang Daoqiu.

The messenger who announced the good news mistakenly identified Wang Daoqiu as the fat man Jiang Li.And Wang Daoqiu couldn't tell Wang Daoqiu about such scandalous things as the fat man Jiang Li helped the class sisters with poverty alleviation last night and didn't return home all night after working hard.So he made a mistake, accepted the good news, rewarded the good news with a piece of silver, and sent the person away.

As soon as the messenger who announced the good news left, not a single scholar or student in the hall came up to congratulate Wang Daoqiu.After all, after the first round of the last provincial examination, Wang Daoqiu and Fatty fought with more than a dozen scholars and students in the lobby of this inn, and Wang Daoqiu and Fatty became the top people in this inn.

Especially Wang Daoqiu, his boyhood test record of Xiao Sanyuan in Huzhou Prefecture made him known to everyone in this inn.So now the scholars and students in the lobby of the inn all know that Wang Daoqiu just helped the fat man to death and received the good news on his behalf.So no one went to congratulate him.

No one congratulated him, so Wang Daoqiu took the fat man's good news and returned to his seat to continue drinking tea and waiting for the news.

Not long after Wang Daoqiu sat down, another loud sound of good news came from the door of the inn.

"Success in the rural examination, congratulations to the No. 70 fourth place in the rural examination of Master Hong Qinghui Hong in Taizhou Prefecture."

"Congratulations to Master Hong Qinghui of Taizhou Prefecture on the successful report of the rural examination..."

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This announcing officer is the same as the one who announced the good news to the dead fat man just now, and it still replays a sentence repeatedly and loudly.Accompanied by the repeated rebroadcast of the announcement, a scholar jumped up with a voice of "oh", and he was still shouting out of control, "I've won, I've won...".

The scholar who passed the exam was extremely excited, and the group of companions around him were hugging him, cheering and cheering...

After this group of people celebrated, they all looked at Wang Daoqiu with burning eyes.Yes, these scholars were the ones who fought with Wang Daoqiu and Fatty a few days ago, and then made a bet that any group of people who did poorly in the provincial examination this time would go to pay the overturned nine tables of wine and food bills.

To be honest, Fatty Jiang Li had good luck just now and won the last place in the provincial examination list. They were still under a lot of pressure.After all, for this Zhejiang Provincial Examination, more than 2 students from all prefectures and counties in the province came to Hangzhou to take the exam.Later, more than 1 candidates were eliminated from the scientific examination, and finally more than 800 candidates entered the formal provincial examination.

More than 800 candidates took part in the formal examination, and according to the Ming Dynasty's regulations on the number of candidates for provincial examinations in each province.The North and South Beijings and the Zhili Province have the largest number of seats, 130 for each term.The fewest is Yunnan, with only twenty or thirty students in each session.Zhejiang, as a province with a large population and a large taxation in the Ming Dynasty, had a quota of [-] successful candidates in each rural examination, second only to the North and South Beijing and Zhili.

Looking at the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang already had too many places for the provincial examination, but there were only a hundred more!What's the acceptance rate?Therefore, the group of people who had made a bet with Wang Daoqiu and the fat man when Fatty Jiang Li won the election just now were panicking.But now it's fine, someone on my side has won the lottery, what about this bet?

So the look they were looking at Wang Daoqiu now was full of gunpowder and provocation.

Faced with the provocation of this group of people, Wang Daoqiu did not come up and say "What are you looking at?", but turned his head disdainfully, not looking at those people.Ma De, Ming Dynasty's eight-part essay selection, rote memorization of things can account for more than [-]% of the points.If you take the open-book test with a minimum score of [-]%, will you still lose to you?
Wang Daoqiu was a villain in his heart. He was not ashamed of cheating in the exam at all. Instead, he was proud of it. He had fallen, fallen!

Thinking about it this way, about another half an hour passed. During this half hour, among the dozen or so scholars, another one won the 38th place, becoming a dead "[-]".

"Congratulations to Mr. Daoqiu Wang of Huzhou Prefecture, No. 1 in the high school provincial examination."

"Congratulations to Mr. Daoqiu Wang of Huzhou Prefecture, No. 1 in the high school provincial examination."

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There were high-pitched and loud announcements of good news again, but this time it was not one but two guards who came in, and they also held ribbons and "big red flowers" in their hands.

(End of this chapter)