Lin Yi ranked second in the provincial examination. From now on, he has a full official status. The imperial examination does not require candidates. At worst, he is from the same background as the Jinshi. But he is already at the level of Lin Yi, who ranked second in the examination. So what?
It may be possible to only take the exam for a fellow Jinshi. It should not be difficult to be a second-class Jinshi. It is even possible to be among the top three No. 2 picks in the first-class. The future is unlimited.
to be honest,
Lin Yi was also a little surprised by this ranking. He guessed that the top 20 or 30 would not be a big problem, but he did not expect to be ranked second.
Cui Niannu was overjoyed when he heard that Lin Yi had passed the exam.
"Congratulations to Lin Lang for passing the exam. You have a bright future ahead."
Lin Yi smiled and patted Nian Nu's red cheek.
Go outside,
There are many people standing outside,
The brothel girls, servants, maids, and even the cooks all came, and many customers also came to watch the fun.
Seeing Lin Yi coming out,
Congratulations to these people.
Lin Yi laughed and said, "Everyone in Huaju Yashe is lucky to have money." Everyone cheered immediately when they heard this.
Lin Yi called the servant who reported the news, and took out a five-guan note from his sleeve. The servant was overjoyed when he saw it. This was his month's salary, and he couldn't help but bow to express his thanks.
The excitement is not over yet.
Friends from Enzhou, who were candidates for the same subject, knew that Lin Yi was at Huaju Yashe, so they all came over to congratulate him.
Lin Yi received them in Cui Niannu's courtyard. Cui Niannu was also sensible and pretended to be a hostess to entertain them. This was the first time for these scholars to meet Cui Niannu. Only when they really met did they know how many courtesans in Bianjing were famous.
beautiful.
According to rumors,
The oiran is so arrogant.
But now,
But he entertained them because of Mr. Lin.
These people couldn't help but be envious. Lin Yi was really proud of his official career, and he was even more proud of his love life. He took advantage of all the good things.
Lin Yi chatted with these people.
There were fourteen people from Enzhou. Only Lin Yi and Enzhou Xie Yuanqiu Gu were on the list. The others all fell behind Sun Shan. Everyone lamented that they could only fight again in three years.
Now everyone's identities have been clearly revealed. Lin Yi and Qiu Gu are destined to be officials, and they can only go back and sprint again. No one knows what the future will be like. Failure is the norm. People who can be officials after all
Very few.
In fact, entering the officialdom of the Song Dynasty,
The imperial examination is not a path.
To obtain scholars through the imperial examination,
Enyin complements the official,
A subordinate official takes up his post,
Supplementary award of military merit,
Paying a bribe to buy an official position.
But everyone knows that the next four are not at the same level as those who passed the imperial examination, and their future development is also very different.
Officials who came from the imperial examination can be promoted by jumping up the ranks, but officials outside the imperial examination can only be promoted one level at a time. Senior officials can only be done by people who came from the imperial examination. Even particularly outstanding officials who came through other channels can only be promoted by people who came from the imperial examination.
It is also necessary for the emperor to grant "Jinshi origin" to hold high-level positions.
They may have other ways to enter the officialdom in the future, but Lin Yi's development is definitely beyond their reach, and the height he can reach is much higher. Not surprisingly, it is very possible to become a minister or even a minister. Now there is a hint of it.
The friendship of the same age may become their supporter in the future.
Afterwards, of course, there was a drinking celebration.
At the wine table, everyone talked about the grand opening of the ranking, and the most interesting thing about catching a son-in-law under the ranking. Someone smiled and said to Lin Yi:
"Brother Dongyang, you don't know that as soon as a lot of people call out the high school students after the rankings are opened, a large group of people come around to ask for the price. This one says that my master runs a silk and satin shop in his home. There is a girl in her twenties, young and beautiful, who is willing to dowry.
There is a house in Bianjing, 200 acres of fertile land, and several maids and servants.
The other one immediately shouted, my master runs a mining and quarrying factory, and his dowry is extremely generous, which is only much more than his family."
This is a beautiful scenery of the Song Dynasty,
Catch your son-in-law under the list.
Someone next to him said with a smile: "Brother Qiu was almost arrested too."
Qiu Gu laughed and said: "I saw my name and cheered happily, but as soon as I shouted, I was surrounded by a group of people and almost took me away. I knew what they were going to do at the first sight, so I quickly shouted for me
Only after I am married and have a wife at home can these people let me go."
The people in the room burst out laughing after hearing this.
Someone looked at Lin Yi and said: "Dongyang, you are young and unmarried, and you are second in high school. Your future is limitless. Fortunately, you didn't go. If you had gone, those people who wanted to catch your son-in-law would probably eat you alive."
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At this time, someone shook his head and said: "Those who are trying to catch my son-in-law are mostly businessmen. They are not qualified enough to catch my son-in-law, Brother Dongyang."
"Brother Dongyang has profound attainments in poetry, calligraphy, and painting. He is an unparalleled talent. How can these people be worthy of Brother Dongyang? Those who have the nerve to propose marriage must be the prime minister, the granddaughter of a grand master, and directly related to the Duke of the county."
"Yes, yes, only someone like this can match Dongyang. I guess it won't be long before someone comes to propose marriage."
They talked about the girls from the prime minister's royal family, but no one mentioned marrying a princess, because from ancient times to the present, marrying a princess is not a good thing.
At the very least, for a person who is successful in studying, has unlimited future development, and can be crowned a prince or prime minister, marrying a princess is not a good choice. Not only is it not a help, but it will be imprisoned and there will be no future. Therefore, no one with the ability can do it.
Willing to marry the princess.
The banquet is over.
Everyone dispersed.
Lin Yi was slightly drunk.
Lying on Cui Niannu's lap, Cui Niannu gently stroked and massaged the man's forehead, never leaving his eyes.
"Lang Lang, you should move back to the inn." Cui Niannu said.
"Why?" Lin Yi said with his eyes closed.
"Your classmates are right. With your current status, there will definitely be countless dukes and princes who want to win over you and marry their noble daughters to you. If you marry a girl from their family, it will be very difficult for you to gain a foothold in the officialdom in the future.
It's also a great help. You always live here with me. It won't be good if word spreads, and it won't be easy for people to come to the brothel to propose marriage."
Cui Niannu laughed after saying this.
Lin Yi chuckled, "How did you know that I'm not here to avoid those people who bother me?"
Cui Niannu was stunned.
"But you will also lose a lot of opportunities this way. Although I am a young woman and don't understand officialdom, I have heard a lot about the complicated forces in officialdom. Although Lin Lang is talented, it is difficult to be promoted without the influence and the driving force behind him.
Are there many people who have great talents but are wasting their time in officialdom?" Cui Niannu said.
Lin Yi disagreed.
"I have my own plan. If I get married to those noble ladies, I will encounter more chaos. I won't be as happy as being with Nian Nu."
Lin Yi got second place in the exam.
Entered the sight of many big families.
There were really people plotting to take him in to train him as a relative. Fortunately, Lin Yi hid with Cui Niannu, but many people stopped thinking.
After the provincial examination is the palace examination. The palace examination is usually held in early April, which is still more than a month away.
Those who failed the exam left Beijing one after another.
Those who passed the exam stayed in the capital to wait for the imperial examination. At the same time, they secretly sought out people to gain connections and even took the initiative to submit invitations to join certain big families.
Lin Yi ignored all this.
In the room, Lin Yi turned on the system and was studying the system tasks. It was still too far to make money and open new products.
He is mainly studying the anti-thief value of side missions.
What is a rebel?
To put it simply, anyone who returns to the imperial court or returns to the emperor should be called a rebel. Lin Yi previously collected bandits' copycats and Water Margin characters to prepare for future rebellions, so he can gain anti-thief points. Now he stays in the capital and collects copycats.
It’s impossible, so can I do other things to gain anti-thief points?
He felt there must be.
these days,
In fact, Lin Yi was not idle. He visited all places in Bianjing, including all streets and rivers, as well as officials' mansions, big and small, and investigated them clearly.
In the name of buying real estate, he went to several dental shops to inquire. These dental shops all had city maps. After Lin Yi read them, he wrote them all down. In some places, he even asked questions. Now he had a complete picture of Bianjing in his mind.
map.
Cui Niannu's side.
Lin Yi doesn't hang around every day, but comes here every now and then, so he has plenty of time to do his own thing.
During this time, Lin Yi had some new equipment in his space.
Cai Jingfu.
On a rafter somewhere.
There was a figure in gray lying on his back, and in the courtyard, a group of servants were carrying large and small boxes to the warehouse. Lin Yi simply counted, there were sixteen boxes, and looking at the pace of the servants when moving, he knew
Very heavy.
In the original works of Water Margin and Jin Pingmei, Cai Jing's craziness in accepting gifts was recorded, and the birthday program is the most famous one. After robbing the birthday program, there was a scene where Chao Gai and others went to Liangshan.
And those birthday cards were just one year's birthday gift from Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Zhongshu to his father-in-law Cai Jing, gold and jewelry worth 100,000 yuan.
Ximen Qing once gave Cai Jing a gift.
It is recorded that eight boxes were given for the first time. The book states that this time they gave 300 taels of gold and silver, four silver-bearing figures more than one foot tall, two gold longevity pots, and jade peach cups in various colors.
Splendid python clothes, Nanjing satin, etc.
Then Ximen Qing found a job as a fifth-grade official at the Jinwu Weiyi Zuo Station, Deputy Qianhu, Shandong and other places to handle punishments.
It's so damn easy.
The next year, Ximen Qing received even more gifts, twenty boxes in total. This time Ximen Qing went to Beijing to celebrate his birthday in person. The gifts included gold, luminous pearls, various silverware, jade belts, various precious fabrics, python robes, etc.
Worth tens of thousands of dollars.
Ximen Qing was just an insignificant person in front of Cai Jing, so he gave so many gifts. Cai Jing had been an official for many years, and had been prime minister for some years. He promoted countless officials, big and small, so you can imagine how much money he made.
This is not Lin Yi's first visit to Cai Jing's Mansion. He has been here three times, and each time someone gave him a lot of gifts.
The imperial examination is coming soon, and those tribute students who have passed the examination are already destined to be officials. Who is the most powerful in the entire Song Dynasty now? The first is naturally Zhao Ji, the emperor's official, and the second is definitely Cai Jing. It is impossible for these people to ask the emperor for gifts, so they naturally target Cai Jing
This big tree.
Cai Jing is greedy, but he has one advantage: he really gets things done when he receives money.
During the exam, as the prime minister, he has a great say. In addition, the arrangements for work after the exam will have a great impact on his future life. Whether he is thrown into a remote state or county, or whether he stays in the six yamen of Huahua Bianjing, he is not an official.
It’s a matter of just one word from the Ministry, and the Ministry of Personnel is now completely under the control of Cai Jing. Who else can he look for if not Prime Minister Cai?
Why did Lin Yi come three times?
In fact, his purpose was to observe more and find out where Cai Jing's wealth was hidden. He was sure that Cai Jing had more than one warehouse, so he observed it for three consecutive days.
After several days of observation,
Lin Yi has found four places.
A treasure building mainly contains rare calligraphy and paintings, and ancient books. Because these are afraid of getting wet, they are placed in a high building so that Cai Jing can play with them at any time.
A treasure pavilion mainly contains antique jades, pearls and gems.
A treasure room mainly contains precious silk fabrics, python robes and brocade clothes.
A treasure house is an underground secret room. This treasure house is the simplest and is only used to store gold and silver.
Those people placed the gold, silver and jewelry, locked the door of the underground secret room where the treasure was hidden, and left two people in the room above to guard it.
The two people were sitting on chairs chatting. There was a charcoal stove in front of them. There was a copper kettle of hot water on the stove to make tea. It was late at night, and both of them couldn't stand it anymore. One of them said: "I'll sleep for a while, and the other
Call me after an hour."
"Okay, I'll call you when the time is up."
The two of them have been on duty together for many years, and have become accustomed to watching one sleeping while the other is sleeping. This is the prime minister's house, and they don't believe that someone is coming to steal. Besides, even if they come in, the thief may not be able to open the vault door.
The man wrapped himself in a large cloak and fell asleep leaning against the back of the seat. The other man picked up a handful of tea and took a sip of refreshment.
He didn't notice that a very faint smoke drifted in through the gap in the window. After a few minutes, this guy's eyes became heavier and heavier, and he fell asleep with his head tilted.
The door opens.
The masked man in gray clothes walked in and fed the two of them another pill. The smoke made by Lin Yi had a quick effect, but the duration was short. It would take about half an hour to recover, while the sleeping pill he made,
But it can make people sleep deeply for more than 8 hours.
Arriving at the door, Lin Yi checked the door lock, took out a leather package from the space, spread it on the ground, revealing dozens of various tools.
There are filaments, iron sheets, and various twisted-shaped tools.
I took two kinds and poked them in, tried them out, then picked out two more from the tool pile and poked them in again.
Click.
The door lock is unlocked.
Lin Yi has lock-picking skills. As long as he has the tools, there is no lock that cannot be opened in the world. Even modern precision locks cannot help him, let alone those in ancient times.
open the door,
Below is a staircase passage.
Lin Yi lit a big stick of butter wax and slowly walked down the steps.
After going down about two floors, there was another large iron door in front of me. This iron door was thicker, and the keyhole was on the iron door.
Lin Yi repeated his old trick again and opened the iron door.
Enter the treasure house.
Lin Yi discovered that the basement was quite large, estimated to be two to three hundred square meters. There were countless boxes piled on the floor, some of which were stacked together.
Open any one.
Silver collar.
Neatly stacked silver collars.
Lin Yi picked up one and weighed it in his hand. One box was worth twenty taels. How much is this box?
"Take it~!"
Lin Yi muttered silently.
The silver collar disappeared.
His system wallet increases a little balance.
Lin Yi smiled. He liked the feeling of making money. He looked at the piles of treasure boxes and started collecting them like crazy.
cashier collar,
Collect gold cakes.
Then Lin Yi disliked the slow speed and started collecting boxes one by one. After putting them into the space, he collected them for just a moment, and then spit out the boxes the next moment, saving space.
Even so,
The piles of gold and silver treasure chests in the treasure house still kept Lin Yi busy for twenty minutes.
Finally finished,
Lin Yi looked at his results.
From this treasure house alone, he gained more than 20 million taels of silver. There is a lot of gold here, and gold is more valuable than silver.
That’s why it’s called the Golden Belt for Murder and Arson.
The number in Lin Yi's wallet increased from 110 million taels to 130 million taels.
By making money on your own, when will you be able to earn 20 million taels? Now just a visit to the Prime Minister's Mansion can increase your assets by one-fifth.
All the money I spent in the early stage was earned back, and I am much richer.
Lin Yi left the treasure house.
He quickly locked the treasure house door.
When they got to the guard's room, the two guys were still sleeping soundly. Lin Yi locked the door above and left the room.
Now that I'm here,
Lin Yi had no intention of letting it go easily.
He carefully came to the treasure pavilion where antique jades, pearls and gems were kept. There were also guards in the treasure pavilion, but they couldn't stop Lin Yi's Mi Yan, so Mi Yan still knocked him down and gave him pills.
While doing this, Lin Yixin said that if he were to be a flower-picking thief, he would definitely be the most powerful flower-picking thief in the world.
This is still a secret room. When he opened the iron door, Lin Yi began to absorb it crazily. Pearls, gems, antiques, and jades cannot be converted into money and can only be placed in the space.
Because there are too many things, part of the space that was originally occupied is now filled up, which is a happy worry.
what to do?
give up.
Lin Yi is not someone who gives up easily. Now that he has money, he can just buy space. According to the rules, one cubic meter of space is 100 million yuan, which is equivalent to 100,000 taels of silver per cubic meter in this world.
"System, purchase 50 cubic meters of space."
This time Lin Yi spent a lot of money.
He just collected more than 20 million from the treasury, and spending a quarter of it was completely acceptable to Lin Yi. His space suddenly increased.
"Collect it, keep collecting it. Tomorrow the old traitor will find that the treasures he has worked so hard to search for for more than ten years have been lost. I wonder if he will bleed, haha."
Lin Yi thought happily while collecting his things.
Lin Yi was shocked as he collected them. This old thing had really collected a lot of things. There were so many extremely precious treasures that Song Huizong might not even have.
do not care,
Collect them all.
After collecting the jade and jewelry warehouse, Lin Yi used half of the space. Lin Yi was cruel and bought another 30 cubic meters. This time, his total space reached 100 cubic meters.
Money cannot be spent in vain.
Lin Yi raided the Treasure House of Calligraphy and Paintings again.
There are pens, inks, paper and inkstones in the treasure building, which are specially used by Cai Jing to copy famous calligraphy and paintings here. Lin Yi picked the largest and thickest pen, dabbed the ink with water, soaked it with ink, and wrote a line on the white wall of the treasure building.
Large characters.
"Ill-gotten wealth, take it today, if you do evil again, I'll take your head!!!"
The writing style is vulgar and has no sense of beauty. At first glance, it looks like it was written by a rough man who doesn't know much about calligraphy. Moreover, the sentences don't have any rhyme or rhyme. It's just a scolding.
Sign.
"Dayu-kun!"
Finally, Lin Yi visited the last warehouse, swept away all the precious silk fabrics, released his flying claws, lightly jumped to the top of the wall, and turned out of Cai Jing's Mansion.
When Lin Yi returned to his room from the hotel backyard window, a system prompt sounded in his mind:
"Ding~ Loot the Prime Minister's Mansion and gain 265 anti-thief points."
