"Only Jinshi can enter the Hanlin Academy, and only Hanlin can enter the cabinet. Who can be selected as a Shujishi is not outstandingly talented. Yunlan is young and has never married, and he has no concubines. How can he not be worthy of her?!"

Li defended herself, "This wasn't my daughter-in-law's idea. It was Aunt Lin who didn't want Qian'er to suffer. Her intentions were good."

She thought: Since they believe that I, as the mistress, will not find a good marriage for Sun Qianer, I am too lazy to worry about it.

Aunt Lin knelt on the ground in fear: "Yunlan doesn't even have a decent place to stay in the capital. I, I'm afraid that Qian'er will suffer with him..."

"Short-sighted!" Lord Sun said, "Don't underestimate him now. Factional strife is fierce these days, and people are being dismissed every month. In three years, he will most likely stay in the academy and become a close minister to the emperor, a candidate for the cabinet.

Your Majesty appoints people based on their merits and does not discriminate against their backgrounds. The current Minister of Revenue and Minister of Rites are both Jinshi graduates of the Hanlin Academy.

Don't look at me as a fifth-rank official, I will live like this for the rest of my life. The court situation is changing rapidly, so marriage should be treated with caution. You can't just blindly choose a side. Yunlan is a good person, marrying her will help me avoid the limelight."

He is in poor health and can only hold on for another three years at most. After three years, he will retire and return home. His sons are all unsuccessful, and most families with similar official ranks are not interested in marrying him. After all, no matter how much Lord Sun helps, it will only be for a few years. Why not find a relative who has been in office for a longer time?

The remaining few families did not despise them, but their targets were those who indulged in drinking, gambling, and whoring and had no knowledge or skills. Not to mention official positions, they could not even pass the examination to become a scholar. How could they compare with the Jinshi who passed the "Xuanguan" examination?

Instead of marrying someone and having to please others, it is better to find someone with real talents and practical abilities to be the mistress of the house.

Sun Qianer bit her lip. She knew this truth, but Yun Lan's background was indeed low.

"Granddaughter... Granddaughter has a lover, Xia Yan, the second son of the Ministry of Personnel..."

The scene was so chaotic that you could hear a pin drop. The official was from Zhao Yu's faction, while Lord Sun was a staunch royalist. Sun Qian'er had stepped on a landmine.

In the silence, Sun Pei'er, the third daughter of the family who had been silent, stood up.

"Grandfather, grandmother, and granddaughter want to try it."

Sun Qian'er was disdainful. She had broken off the engagement twice. How could a legitimate daughter who was still unmarried at the age of 19 have the nerve to mention marriage?

What happened next was beyond her expectations. Yun Lan and Sun Pei'er got married successfully and moved out of Yun Yuan's house.

Sun Qian'er also got married two months later, but her husband was not Xia Yan, but the illegitimate son of another fifth-rank official.

At first, the illegitimate son treated her as his principal wife, but later, seeing that she always had a cold face and looked down on him in her words and deeds, he came less and less often, took in two beautiful concubines, and seldom stayed in the principal room except on the first and fifteenth days of the month.

Qi Sheng worked as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy for a year. Under the emperor's guidance, he met his confidants and made friends with many royalists. He then asked to return to his hometown to be a county magistrate. It happened that the previous county magistrate had been promoted and transferred to another place for his meritorious service in catching illegal mining.

Those who originally doubted Qi Sheng's identity put aside their doubts and just thought that he was disliked by the emperor. The emperor fell ill from time to time, but in fact he sent people to collect evidence of Zhao Yu and Ming Wang's crimes.

He watched coldly as the two forces fought each other, each accusing the other. The one with conclusive evidence would step down and his own people would take over, thus injecting a lot of fresh blood into the court.

Yunlan caught the emperor's eye with an article on land annexation, and was appointed as a reviewer in the Hanlin Academy in advance, in charge of compiling national history.

Upon hearing that Qi Sheng had become the county magistrate, Qi Han laughed out loud, thinking that Qi Sheng had been driven out of the capital. He inexplicably regained his fighting spirit. He married the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the county as his second wife, and instead of going to the provincial capital, he stayed in the county school and studied hard.

Because of Yun Lan's reputation, Yun Qiao married a scholar as his second wife and took care of the two children left by his father. Her life was busy, and when she had some free time, she would stare at the sky in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

Yun Yuan became the wife of a county magistrate. In order to alleviate poverty and create income, she vigorously promoted mushroom cultivation in the county. According to the geographical environment of each village, it was divided into snow ear village, bamboo fungus village, shiitake mushroom village, hericium erinaceus village, morel village, tea tree mushroom village, etc.

Due to the limitations of transportation conditions and preservation technology, Yun Yuan was careful and only cultivated those that could be dried and easily preserved. For mushrooms like oyster mushrooms and enoki mushrooms, which lacked freshness after drying, they would be planted after the mushroom industry chain matured.

The first batch of fungus strains were distributed by the government. Later, Yun Yuan accepted several apprentices and established a fungus strain research and development team. Fifty percent of the profits were retained by the county government to support local construction, thirty percent was handed over to the national treasury, ten percent was left to the village, and the remaining ten percent belonged to Yun Yuan personally.

When the news reached the capital, many people laughed at Yunxian's wild idea. Only the emperor, who knew the inside story, silently wrote the word "approved" on the memorial.

When the first batch of mushrooms came out, Yun County held an investment promotion conference. Because of the emperor's secret support, merchants from all corners of the country came to the conference and guests gathered.

The cultivated mushrooms were of good quality, fresh and tender with a unique aroma. Qi Sheng invited the chef to prepare a mushroom banquet and gave mushroom gift packages to every businessman attending the conference. Both the host and the guests were delighted. Not only the existing mushrooms, but also the distribution rights of mushrooms that had not yet reached the harvest season were sold.

The people got their first pot of gold, and their support for the county magistrate reached an unprecedented high.

When they heard that the mushroom strains were cultivated by Yun Yuan, they were eager to make a statue of her, but Yun Yuan stopped them. However, her deeds in cultivating mushrooms were recorded by scholars and recorded in history.

In addition to growing mushrooms, Qi Sheng, at Yun Yuan's suggestion, led the people to grow sugarcane and build a sugar factory. He also produced soap, glass, and cement, which were essential for time travelers.

Qi Sheng was not a time traveler and did not know the wisdom of the ancestors on Earth, but he was good at civil administration, and he tried cases, educated the people, and helped the poor. In addition, he built bridges and roads, developed water conservancy projects to prevent floods, established a special team of craftsmen to go to the countryside to load water trucks for free, and vigorously developed farming.

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