Chapter 96: Starting

The shop inherited by Sun Dan's family is 70 square meters in size, with a yard behind, and a floor on the top for the house as a home for a shop. Now it is rented to a cloth shop, and some rents are paid every year. Although not much, the society has been stable and the business is booming recently, and the rent has also risen with the rise and rise.

After the Ming Dynasty, after nine generations of emperors, the country was not strong, but the people lived a wealthy life. The land price also went up like a few. After careful calculation, the store had now increased to more than 1,000 taels of silver. If it could be sold for silver, it would be possible to buy a small courtyard in the capital.

If this matter is done, the key point is to nodify Zhang.

Since ancient times, people have not been involved in the capital, but have been confiscated by the county magistrates and exterminated families. A county magistrate is just a seventh-rank small official, but he has the life and death of ordinary people in his hands. It can be said that if you want to live, you will live, and if you want to die, you will have no room for resistance.

After thinking about it carefully, Sun Dan is now a talented person and has already squeezed into the Shilin. Scholars all over the world are all family. They guide the country, speak inspirational words, hold the direction of social public opinion at hand, take the world as their own responsibility, and regard themselves as the pride of heaven. As long as they hear that scholars are so oppressed by a lowly butcher and have their property taken away, they will immediately become angry and wish they can beat the perpetrator to death.

Because scholars have a noble status, they read the words of saints and learn moral articles, so they naturally stand on the side of justice.

In this way, any person who decides the right and wrong of this matter will be judged to be Sun Dan.

Besides, County Magistrate Zhang is Sun Tan’s nominal teacher. If he doesn’t help his students, would he still help Wan Butcher Wan?

After thinking about this, Sun Dan felt at ease.

After changing his shirt, he took Feng Zhen to the county government office with his head raised.

Recently, the autumn tax has been collected, and County Magistrate Zhang has been idle. When Sun Dan came to pay his respects to him, he was fascinated by the "Chuan Qing Xiao Ji" written by Sun Dan. When he saw Sun Dan enter the house, he threw the booklet, pointed, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few months, Sun Dan's articles and poems are written more and more outstanding. The few articles in this collection are really mature and integrated, and there is no problem. As for the poems in it, although they are game works, they are also elegant."

He sighed, "You have only been studying for half a year and are of this level. You are indeed a rare genius."

Sun Dan bowed respectfully: "It's not just a teacher who has been trained by the teacher, Sun Dan dares not be content with it."

The magistrate Zhang Duan laughed loudly, touched his beard with relief, and said, "Did you call the word "Qing" by Mr. Xiao Yang for you?"

"No, it was the students who gave it to themselves." Sun Dan was a little ashamed. Now that I thought about it, I was a bit of a spoof about it, which was not appropriate.

"Oh, I'll just say that Bachelor Xiao Yang won't give you this kind of word. Doesn't it make sense at all?"

Sun Dan hurriedly said, "The students are talented and have little knowledge and have no elders at home, so they have one random group of people."

"Sun Dan, if you don't dislike me, you can help me." Zhang Duan looked at Sun Dan with a smile, looking expectant.

Sun Dan was worried about finding no opportunity to get closer to County Magistrate Zhang, so he was overjoyed when he heard this: "I would like to ask the teacher to give me a letter."

"Be indifferent to one's ambition, and be quiet to one's ambition. Just call it Jingyuan, do you think?"

Sun Dan hurriedly bowed again and pretended to be filled with joy: "Thank you for your teacher's words, Sun Dan...Sun Dan has no elders since his father passed away. Today I didn't expect to get a teacher...student, student..."

Zhang Duan was also moved and sighed, "Sun Dan, you have won the head of the current Academy of Sciences test case. I am honored to be the county. I am very happy to be able to have a talented man like you when I was in the magistrate. With your talent, if you work hard, you may not be able to get a juren to give this county a face. Now there are still two years before the next autumn examination. I wonder what your plans are for Sun Dan? Why didn't you go out? My brother just opened a college, so you can go to study. Then you go to take the provincial examination, your brother will take the juren exam, and the teacher and student will climb the Longmen at the same time. Wouldn't it be another story about the Shilin story?"

Sun Dan knew that it would take only two years to reach the next autumn examination, and Emperor Zhengde would not have a few months to live. Once Jiajing succeeded to the throne, he would have to open a tribute next autumn. He could go to Zhang Cong, the eldest brother of Zhang County, and have a good relationship with the future celebrity, the first cabinet chief of the Jiajing Dynasty. But now he is traveling thousands of miles away, and it is too late to go to Zhejiang.

He hurriedly thanked respectfully and said, "I'm afraid I'll disappoint my teacher. I just received an order from my head of the Sun family to move to the capital with my Sun family's children, and Sun Dan will also study in the Imperial College."

"Well, I know that the Sun family is moving to the capital. I also saw that Brother Meiting went to the Imperial College to be an official in the residence. It is a great beauty to be able to study at the Imperial College!" Zhang Duan was a little surprised. Seeing that Sun Dan was confused, he explained with a smile: "The Imperial College is very strict and has many rules. Most people are afraid of the name of the Imperial College. In fact, Sun Dan, you are serious in your studies and outstanding in your talents, so you don't have to worry. The reason why the Imperial College is strict in management is that most of the students who enter the Imperial College are children of the families of heroes and honors. These children rely on the power of their parents, study without hard work, and only know how to play all day long. Such students are naturally disgusted with the priests and teachers of the Imperial College, and they show no mercy when they hit the board." As he said that, Zhang Duan laughed.

Sun Dan was amused and laughed a few times with County Magistrate Zhang.

"In fact, there is another advantage in studying in the Imperial College, which is that you can meet many noble children. If you enter the government in the future, you will be more convenient to do things." County Magistrate Zhang said: "You and I have a relationship with teachers and students. I shouldn't have said this, but now you have achieved fame and fortune and are determined to follow the path of official career. I feel that my teacher has an obligation to remind you."

Sun Dan was moved: "The teacher's kindness is remembered by the students. In addition to picking up family members this time, he also wanted to say goodbye to his mentor before leaving. If the mentor had not named the first student in the county exam and gave the students confidence, the students would probably still be a humble servant in the Sun family."

Thinking of the upcoming parting, Magistrate Zhang was also a little sad: "After going to Beijing, study hard, it is difficult to live at the foot of the emperor. I wonder if there is still something mundane about you in Zouping, Sun Dan. Let's talk about it together, and I will give you a break."

When Sun Tan heard Zhang Duan say this, he knew that the opera meat was coming, and he raised his spirits, "There is nothing to do after the student's return to his hometown this time. However, the price in the capital is very high, and the monthly ingredient rice is probably not enough for the student. Although the student is a child of the Sun family, he is old and a child from a sidelines. He can no longer live in the yard and needs to find another residence in the capital. This time the student came back, and planned to sell his residence to see if he could buy a small house in the capital. But the housing prices in the capital are scary. What is the use of the money I have on hand? After thinking about it, there is still a shop at home, but unfortunately the shop was occupied by my old Taishan. If he asked him to come back, it would be enough for the expenses in the capital."

"Is this happening?" Zhang Magistrate was a little surprised, "What is the situation? Jingyuan, please tell me in detail."
Chapter completed!