People with ability deserve respect, and also deserve better platforms and higher positions.
With this idea in mind, Yu Zizhen not only had someone help Chen Nianzhi fabricate an impeccable and perfect life story, but also gave her a position as a fifth-rank doctor in the Ministry of Works, and asked her to specialize in craftsmanship and manufacturing.
As soon as the imperial edict was issued, the whole court was in an uproar.
According to past conventions, even if it was a newly crowned top scholar, it would be impossible for him to sit in the position of a fifth-rank official with real power within the six ministries right away. The fact that the emperor could give him a sixth-rank position as a Hanlin Academy editor was already a sign that he liked the new top scholar.
If there was an unlucky number one scholar who was not to the emperor's liking, the emperor might be stingy and only give him a seventh-rank editor in the Hanlin Academy, and then send him away to slowly gain seniority.
To rise from the sixth or even seventh rank to the fifth rank, a normal person would have to endure for at least ten years if he did not get the opportunity to make great achievements.
Even if they have less luck and ability, those officials may find it difficult to reach this position even if they work hard all their lives.
But this Chen Nianzhi who suddenly appeared arrived directly at the end of other people's careers.
What qualifications does she have?
Many people are curious about this question, but only a few dare to ask it in person to Yu Zizhen.
They are all the people that Yu Zizhen trusts and relies on the most, and naturally they know Yu Zizhen the best, so they don’t doubt Yu Zizhen in any way, they are just simply curious about Chen Nianzhi.
Yu Zizhen did not tell anyone other than Xiao Yuanjin about Chen Nianzhi's true identity, so apart from Yaoguang, who had been guarding Yu Zizhen and listened to the entire conversation between Yu Zizhen and Chen Nianzhi, only Yu Zicheng, who sent the Princess of Beiyan in but ended up taking Chen Nianzhi out, knew Chen Nianzhi's true identity.
Yu Zicheng, who overestimated himself, immediately became very proud after exchanging secret signals with Chen Nianzhi and confirming that she was indeed still his sweetheart and had not been replaced by someone else by Yu Zizhen. He attributed the fact that Yu Zizhen helped Chen Nianzhi change her face to himself.
He had a preconceived notion that Yu Zizhen must have thought that because he was obedient, he wanted to help him resolve the huge disagreement between him and Princess Zhenbei on his marriage.
He said to Chen Nianzhi happily, "Although Her Majesty always deliberately distances herself from our family, it seems that she still cares about us in her heart and hopes that we can live in happiness and harmony."
Chen Nianzhi glanced at him, his expression difficult to describe.
She hesitated for a while, but in the end she couldn't bear to tell the truth to the naive Yu Zicheng.
Never mind, just let him be happy for a while.
As she advised herself in this way, she couldn't help but look forward to her bright future in China.
As a once very outstanding modern woman, Chen Nianzhi was really not used to the world in the book when she first came to it.
But her starting point was too low at that time. The only upward path she could plan for herself was not to make herself shine and achieve great things, but to escape from the tiger's den and avoid falling into a deeper level of hell on earth.
She did it, and then she had the relatively peaceful, free, safe and dignified life of a businessman in the North.
If she had not met Yu Zicheng and fallen in love with him, she might have been a well-fed and free merchant girl all her life.
It was Yu Zizhen's passionate pursuit and his determination to never give up that gave her the idea to continue climbing up.
She wanted to use her own excellence to offset her shortcomings in family background so that Princess Zhenbei would recognize and accept her.
If it were in the original book, she would have married into the Zhenbei Palace through her own efforts by now, but who can blame her for the different environment she is in now?
Before Yu Zicheng could tell the Zhenbei King and his wife about their affairs and try to persuade them to agree to let him marry a girl from an unremarkable family, Yu Zizhen had already quickly dealt with her two competitors.
With the mysterious intelligence skills demonstrated by Yu Zizhen, Chen Nianzhi believed that as long as she dared to use this thing as a bargaining chip, Yu Zizhen would definitely get wind of it in the shortest possible time.
By then, she would not be helping the Zhenbei Palace to turn the tide, but would be dragging herself and the Zhenbei Palace into the abyss.
By then, if not all the members of the Zhenbei Palace were completely wiped out, it must be because Yu Zizhen was an emperor who still cared about family affection.
Chen Nianzhi could not do this kind of behavior which was no different from suicide. In other words, the biggest bargaining chip she had - thermal weapons of mass destruction - was no longer useful.
At this point, Chen Nianzhi could no longer offer anything that the Zhenbei King and his wife could absolutely not refuse.
And she was obviously also very clear that if she could not provide sufficient value, Princess Zhenbei would definitely not accept her as her daughter-in-law.
As the absolutely weaker party, Chen Nianzhi had actually already thought that it would be better to suffer a short pain than a long one before Yu Zizhen came to her.
She felt that instead of going to great lengths to marry into the family, only to end up being despised and criticized by her mother-in-law every day, it would be better to separate from Yu Zicheng and live in complete isolation from then on.
Poor Yu Zicheng, who was blinded by love, had no idea that his sweetheart had actually decided to part ways with him because of his mother's strong opposition.
He was very happy at the moment that Yu Zizhen had helped and "accomplished" him and Chen Nianzhi. "With His Majesty's intervention, my mother will definitely not oppose our marriage anymore. After I send you back, I will go back and tell my mother about preparing the gifts and proposing marriage."
Chen Nianzhi was silent for a moment, "I think you should not tell the princess about this for now."
Yu Zicheng was surprised, "Why? If we don't strike while the iron is hot..."
Chen Nianzhi rubbed her brows with a headache. She regretted it. She should have corrected him directly just now. "Because you misunderstood. Her Majesty helped me change my identity not so that I could marry you, but so that I could work for her."
Yu Zicheng was struck by lightning. He stared with his eyes wide open and his mouth open, his face full of the emotions of "shock" and "confusion".
Chen Nianzhi lowered his eyebrows upon seeing this, "I will be serving as an official in the court in the future. I'm afraid the princess won't be able to accept me if I travel outside."
She loves Yu Zicheng, but this love is not enough for her to throw herself into the fire pit.
Knowing that marrying Yu Zicheng would mean she would soon fall into a vortex of misfortune, it was difficult for Chen Nianzhi to choose to throw herself into the fire for love.
She sighed, "If I don't become an official, I'll just be a lowly merchant's daughter, and even flattery won't be able to match you. But if I become an official, I'll become a heretic in the eyes of most people. The more caustic ones will even say that I don't observe the virtues of a woman, that I have no womanly virtues. The princess is a very traditional lady, and she will definitely look down on me for 'mingling with men.'"
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