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Chapter 32 The Mysterious Power That Helped Pass the Township Exam

It is not easy to come all the way to Ningyuan in person.In the future, the Shen family fleet will not let Shen Shuren personally escort the imperial court's military rations.

So this time, since Qiu Minyang and Wu Sangui were on the line, Shen Shuren didn't hesitate to spend a little more than two or three days resting for supplies and finding out more details.

Shen Shuren didn't spare the little money that should be spent, so soon everyone knew his reputation of generous and generous.

He also said that in the future, if the Shen family's grain transport fleet has enough capacity, they can also bring some extravagant private goods of silk and cotton to the generals of the Guanning Army, and the freight is only counted as cost.In this way, if General Guan Ning has a channel to ship goods, he can also earn some private money.

Of course, Shen Shuren is very measured in this matter, he will only sell luxury items for daily consumption in the south, and will never involve any strategic materials.In this way, even if it falls into the hands of the Tartars, it will only corrode the civil and military life style of a few Tartars, and will not increase the military potential of the Tartars.

After a few days, he was basically familiar with Wu Sangui's commanders and officers above the guerrilla level, and he also mastered a lot of military information that can never be understood only by reading history books.

Now Wu Sangui's generals are either unknown people who are not recorded in the history books, or they will be sent away by Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou in the Songshan and Xingshan battles in the next two years.

During the "San Francisco Rebellion" in later generations, none of the top ten generals under Wu Sangui's command, except for Zhang Guozhu, who was in charge of diverting water and food that day, had not yet appeared.

It is estimated that many of those people were not the original direct descendants of Wu Sangui, some were later surrendered by the peasant army, and there were also Ming generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty through other channels.

This fact made Shen Shuren calm down a lot, and he had to re-evaluate Wu Sangui's strength——

Before he came, he overestimated the size of the Guan Ning army, thinking that there could be [-] to [-] elite soldiers, plus the Shanhaiguan Gaodi soldiers, there must be [-] to [-].

He would think this way, and it was also reversed from the "one piece of stone war" a few years later.After all, according to historical records, during the Piece of Stone War, both sides claimed to have nearly 20 people. Even if there was a discount, Wu Sangui would always have 5 people.

As a matter of fact, there are now 1 troops in Ningyuan City, even if they are full of soldiers, and there are actually a little more than [-] left after eating empty pay, which has already included the Wu family members.

Counting all the regular soldiers in the cities outside the pass, it is estimated that they are only in the early [-]s.

Although there are still many people in Shanhaiguan Gaodi, considering that the Ming army in Liaodi will be sent by Hong Chengchou in the future, the two will offset the two, and finally there will be only 2 people who can be given to Wu Sangui.

It is estimated that more than half of the [-] Guanning troops who will fight against the stones in the future will be the strong man Xiangyong who was temporarily captured, and a few thousand will be recruited by Wu Sangui's seizing army when Tang Tong, the general soldier of Miyun, came to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender.

"Having been arguing for a long time, I worked so hard to design win-wins. In the end, the total number of targets to win was only 2 people. It's impossible to win them all away. It's a big loss. I thought there were 5 people."

Shen Shuren was a little depressed, but fortunately he quickly adjusted his mentality.

Well, if there are fewer people, be more flexible.As long as I reach the rank of governor in the next three and a half years, plus the wealth of the Shen family and the financial resources accumulated by crazy farming in the next few years, it is still possible to recruit 2 people.

If it is really 5 people, then they will have to share more profits with the Nanming court.

……

Staying in Ningyuan until the sixth day of February, the freeze in the shallow waters of the western Bohai Sea was basically gone.

Shen Shuren and his entourage also saved the trouble of traveling by land, and could return directly from Ningyuan along the coastline to Tianjin Wei, and then landed to Beijing by land.

Of course, most of the ships in the grain transport fleet had already returned to Jiangnan by the same route.Or buy some northern specialty goods near Tianjin and Denglai, and then return to the south.

The Shen family is a family of maritime trade, and it is impossible for more than a hundred large ships to return empty-handed.Fur, medicinal materials, and dried mountain delicacies in the north can be collected as much as they can.The high-priced goods are not enough to carry the load, and then dried mutton jerky and the like are used to make up the number.

Three days' journey by sea, two more days by land, arrived in the capital on February [-]th, and there are five or six days before the Chunwei test.

Candidates and supervisors who take the exam have to set aside a few days in advance to confirm the reference qualifications, so Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi rushed to the Gong Yuan and the Ministry of Rites to go through the formalities without stopping.

When the officials in charge of the Ministry of Rites verified their identities, they were surprised: "Nanzhili Xie Yuan Fang Yizhi? The exam is going to start in a few days. Why can't I wait so long and come to Beijing to handle it now? The war is chaotic. Yes, I don’t know how to leave early.”

Fang Yizhi also explained a few words politely, and when he learned that he went north to Beijing by sea, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were surprised again, and admired Fang Yizhi's courage.

Nowadays, there are not many scholars who dare to travel by sea, and the vast majority of those who have no hands to tie a chicken regard the sea as a way to be afraid of.

After Fang Yizhi finished, it was Shen Shuren's turn. The official from the Ministry of Rites checked a little bit, and suddenly found that the surprise just now was not worth it.

See you soon.

"Are you Shenlin Shenshuren from Suzhou? The first person in this dynasty to become an official of the seventh rank by relying on the supervision of students, but you want to take the Jinshi again?"

It was Shen Shuren's turn to ask this question, he said kindly with a smile on his face: "It's true that my subordinates are supervisors and enlisted as officials, but they are eighth-rank pawns in Susong River Road Yamen."

The official of the Ministry of Rites immediately laughed:

"You also came to Beijing by sea, right? No wonder the news is not well-informed. The Ministry of Officials Jingcha has reported your excellent academic performance. I heard that you have been reviewed by Datianting and the Ministry of Households. You have been promoted to be the seventh-rank river bank envoy.

When the candidates' resumes were delivered a few days ago, we were all amazed when we saw them. Your Majesty is really eclectic in employing people.If you advance a little further, you don't need to take this subject.The officials who can be conferred after the examination may be younger than the previous ones. "

After listening to Shen Shuren, a stone fell from his heart. The previous sacrifices were not in vain. It seems that Mr. Yang Ge still has great energy. If he has made a little contribution, he will be magnified and publicized immediately, and his promotion will be paid in full, so he doesn't have to worry about being ignorant up.

The official of the Ministry of Rites in front of him should not have to worry about his affairs, but Shen Shuren's deeds are so bizarre that the person in charge can hardly forget it just by looking at his resume.

In the system of the Ming Dynasty, even if one took the first place in the palace examination and won the number one scholar in the end, it was only awarded to the Imperial Academy for editing and writing, and it was the seventh rank.

Since Shen Shuren is now at the seventh rank, the most he can pass the exam is a mediocrity, and he can change to a more noble position, but it is impossible to upgrade, unless something unexpected happens.

……

After completing the formalities, there is not much time left before the exam, and Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi have no time to discuss with other humanities associations rushing for the exam.Just after adjusting his state and adapting to the water, soil and climate of the capital, the exam began.

The examination in the Ming Dynasty was divided into three sessions, and it was not three consecutive days and three sessions, with intervals in between.It's already late February after the exam.

In these three sessions, stereotyped essays were not tested in every session, and sometimes policy theory, official document writing, and understanding of scriptures were sometimes taken.It's just that the proportion of the policy theory score is kept relatively low during the exam, so as to prevent candidates from flattering the examiners by catering to the examiner's political stance.

However, the writing of official documents and the comprehension of the scriptures cannot close the gap for scholars who have reached this stage. Everyone can basically get full marks, which leads to mainly relying on stereotyped essays to widen the gap.

Those who pass the exam will have to take the palace exam in March. If there is no accident in the palace exam, they will not be rejected, and they will only be responsible for rearranging the rankings.The content of the exam is theory, sparseness, and poetry, and the proportion of theory has increased.

This was tested by the emperor himself. The emperor didn't have to worry about others "catering to the ruling political views", and he didn't care about subjective deviations.

Therefore, the quality of stereotyped essays can determine whether a person can be ranked among the top [-] in the country and become a Jinshi.
The perspective of current policy theory can affect how you rank after entering the top [-].

Many people who only study in high school all their lives and don't care about ranking can spend less energy on current policy theory.

It's like if you can't even ensure that you can enter Peking University in the college entrance examination, then you can just concentrate on brushing the questions within the scope of the college entrance examination syllabus, and there is no need to waste energy learning "After entering Peking University, the internal experimental class will be selected for additional tests."

That's not something ordinary people are entitled to worry about.

Shen Shuren's knowledge is all due to the past one month, following Nanzhili Xie Yuan Fang Yizhi's bad supplements, coupled with his understanding of "Ming History. Wei Zaode Biography", secretly polished the article in advance.

After entering the examination room, the basic questions are answered briefly, and the stereotyped essays are directly written down by memorizing the pre-polished ones, which is not troublesome.

The key is that Shen Shuren has a good mentality, anyway, he can do his best, and he doesn't expect to be promoted and become a real power in the local area by passing the exam.

After a few days, among other things, his graceful and leisurely attitude made the officials of the Ministry of Rites who invigilated the examination think that he was a good person.

In fact, behind Shen Shuren, there is a mysterious force behind him that he is not sure about——Yang Sichang Yangge, who is far away in Wuchang, has paid attention to him before. Write a letter to praise him and ask friends in Beijing and China to help.

It has been 13 years since Chongzhen, and everyone can see how chaotic the world is. It is not an exaggeration to say that the imperial examination system is full of rituals and music.

Those in the Ministry of Rites who have a good relationship with Yang Sichang, of course, know that serving the front line is the most important thing now, and since this Shen Shuren is something that Yang Ge wants to use, he will let go if he can.

……

Five days after the exam, it seemed to be the day to publish the list.

Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi went to see the list together, and found that both of them passed the test easily.

Fang Yizhi was quite surprised, he was the only one who knew the true strength of Shen Shuren's stereotyped essay, and he was speechless for a long time when he saw Shen Shuren's name.

"My virtuous brother, you are really a lucky star. I can pass this for you. Now, I will try it. With your hard work, the palace test will not be so difficult.

His Majesty's policy question, he likes to ask about the strategy of fighting the thief most. We other candidates can only talk about the big truth, but we don't have more practical insights than you. "

Fang Yizhi could only admire in the end.

"Thanks to Brother Fang for helping me sharpen my gun before the battle, otherwise, I would not have made it this far. Let's go, I have to thank the teacher well today, and I will be the host." Shen Shuren said, and invited Fang Yizhi to the best restaurant in the capital for a feast.

A group of people waited for a few days to rest, and in a blink of an eye, March came, and it was the day of the palace examination.

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