Yun Xiyan felt unwell!
This Mr. Sima is not kind!
He hurriedly patted Sima Che's shoulder, but Sima Che dodged and missed him.
"Brother Sima, can you please spare me a moment to talk?"
Sima Che smiled cunningly and followed Yun Xiyan to the place where the literary sacrifice was being held.
"Brother Sima, please stop teasing me. I earn a little money, and you, the young master of the Sima family, are interested in me. But I'm really short of money! So, tonight I'll treat you and Mr. Fu to hot pot. I think you and I will definitely get into high school, but I'm afraid Brother Fu will fail."
"Brother Fu is a good person and worth making friends with. Don't disbelieve me, trust my eyes."
Sima Che immediately laughed. It seemed that this person really didn't know Fu Xiaoguan's identity.
"Aren't you afraid that Earl Ding'an will find out and remove your name from the gold list?"
Yun Xiyan chuckled, "Big shots, big shots like Ding'an Bo are concerned about national affairs. They are like eagles in the sky. How could they possibly even look at an ant like me?"
"You are quite self-aware..."
Before Sima Che finished speaking, there was a thunderous roar from the front of Lanting Pavilion. She looked over and saw that the crowd was separating to both sides and several officials were walking towards the lake.
"It's posted!"
"Oh, I'll go and see if Master Fu is here."
After saying this, Yun Xiyan ran away. However, he was not in a hurry to see the results, but was worried that this Mr. Sima would bring up the issue of dividing the money again.
Sima Jue looked at the figure disappearing into the crowd and asked, "Sister, who is this?"
"Yun Xiyan from Chengdu Prefecture is a talented person."
"This collection of poems costs thirty taels of silver..."
Sima Che was stunned, her eyes fell on Sima Jue's hand, Sima Jue was holding a book.
"You bought it?" Sima Che couldn't believe it.
"Yeah, I almost got it. It's Ding Anbo's poetry collection. Don't you like it very much? This is for you."
Sima Che slapped his forehead and thought, well, thirty taels of silver was wasted.
She put the poetry collection away and stuffed it into her sleeve pocket. "Let's go check the results and see where I rank."
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The results of the Lantingji exam were announced today, and Wang Sun Wuya, Lu Xihui, Zhong Jitang and Yu Xingjian also came together.
The people on this list were personally selected by Earl Ding'an and will be the main officials of Wofeng Road in the future.
These names are important to the family who are about to set up their business in Wofeng Road.
Although Your Majesty has elevated the status of merchants, they are still subject to the supervision of local officials. If they knew who the local officials were in advance, they might be able to make arrangements in advance to avoid being bullied by local officials after the workshops were established.
It was really painful at that time. You spent a lot of money, but became someone else's meat on the chopping board.
"So many people?" Zhong Jitang felt incredible when he saw the dense crowd in Lantingji Square.
"Brother Zhong, this special examination is of great significance." Lu Xihui stretched his neck to look, and then said, "Every year in the autumn examination, about three to four hundred people are selected as Jinshi. Even if you pass, unless His Majesty's thorough investigation of corruption has vacated many positions, it is common to wait three to five years."
"But this year's imperial examination was presided over by Earl Ding'an to select officials for the Wofeng Road. It is said that over 1,200 officials were selected!
I did a rough calculation and found that these are basically the chief officials of each prefecture, county, and county in Wofeng Road."
He shook his head and said with emotion, "Ding'an Earl is so bold that he actually fully recruited new people. In the Yu Dynasty, only Ding'an Earl has such courage."
The other three nodded in agreement. Wang Sun Wuya said proudly, "My cousin Wang Sun Wuji once said in a letter home that when the Ministry of Commerce was newly established, Ding Anbo only asked for a senior official from the Ministry of Revenue to take charge of the work. The remaining thirty or so people were all directly selected by Ding Anbo from the Imperial Academy. They didn't even take the imperial examination..."
He turned to look at the three of them, spread his hands, and said, "You've all read those business laws, right? They were created by the Ministry of Commerce, written by a group of young people like that, under the guidance of Earl Ding'an."
"So... Earl Ding'an has a lot of ambition and a lot of knowledge! Who else could handle this?"
Yu Xingjian laughed and jokingly asked, "What's the matter? Brother Wangsun, have you changed your mind? Is that small landowner from Linjiang really that powerful?"
Wang Sun Wuya blushed, "Brother Yu, please don't mention that matter again. I'm sorry for not recognizing you."
"Hahaha……!"
Everyone laughed and walked forward together.
Under the maintenance of hundreds of guards, order in front of Lanting Pavilion gradually became orderly.
All the students were perhaps afraid of the ferocious looks of the guards, or perhaps they were worried that the shining sword would really fall on their necks. They stopped crowding and looked around anxiously.
Shangguan Wenxiu had already arrived at Lord Lanting at this moment. Two guards behind him were holding an imperial edict and standing behind him.
Shangguan Wenxiu stroked his long beard and glanced at the students with great authority. Silence fell. He announced loudly, "The auspicious time has arrived. Post the notice!"
Two guards carried the imperial edict and flew up, hanging it on the wall of Lanting Pavilion. With a swish, it opened and the imperial edict appeared before everyone.
A burst of surprised voices was heard, and the students were in an uproar again. Shangguan Wenxiu shook his head, turned around and walked into Lanting Pavilion.
The guards did not try to stop them, and the students rushed forward, each looking at the list with great anticipation.
"I got it! I got it! Hahahaha!"
"Ah, I got in too! Ranked 250th!"
"Help me check if my name is on it?"
"Those who won in front, go rejoice over there, those who didn't, cry over there. Let us go over and take a look!"
"Second... I'm second! God has mercy on me! Mother, I really got second place!"
A young man looked like a madman, he was crying, laughing, running and jumping. The other students looked at him and thought, the second one... He Shengan, this kid is amazing!
The young man named He Sheng'an frantically squeezed out of the crowd. He ran straight to the edge of Weiyang Lake, knelt down, and kowtowed three times towards the south. Then, his eyes widened in shock...
What he saw was a pair of feet wearing blue cloth shoes!
He looked up and saw a boy of the same age as him gnawing on a chicken leg and looking at him with a smile.
I'm kowtow to my mother, what do you mean by standing in front of me?
The young man was Yun Xiyan. He chewed a chicken leg and said with a smile: "Get up, did you get it?"
"Brother, what you did is not very decent." He Shengan stood up and glared at Yun Xiyan angrily.
"Oh, I was worried that you were possessed by a demon. It's just a demon, isn't it? What's the big deal? This is just the starting point of life. The future is the real path."
He Shengan was startled and bowed, "Sir, what you said makes sense."
"What place did you get in the exam?"
"second."
“…Who’s number one?”
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