Good men should strive for self-improvement!

This sentence is like a dusk drum and morning bell waking up the confused Yang Cong.

He has always subconsciously thought that he had money and no longer had to struggle.

He has always been complacent about his ability to spend money to be smart.

He has always believed that everyone in this era is under control because he has a vague impression of the development of history and important figures of this era. He believes that with this vague impression, he can achieve all kinds of disadvantages in this era.

Now, he calmed down and thought about it carefully, these thoughts were bullshit!

For example, Xu Jie, would he be willing to be used by himself? It is almost the same for him to be used by him. Moreover, as his official position becomes bigger and bigger, his qualifications for being used by him will disappear.

For example, Yu Dayou, will he follow him wholeheartedly? Once he becomes a general in command, he doesn’t know how much responsibility he has to shoulder. Will he violate the court’s orders for himself? Just kidding, that’s impossible at all.

Xu Jie said something very reasonable. No matter who it is, you must work hard and work hard, otherwise you will be slowly swallowed by this world.

Yang Cong originally thought that if he had money, he could live his life freely.

Thinking about it now, it's still bullshit.

Will others let him live a free and easy life? It’s not a big deal to have money these days, and only by having fame and power can he live a free and easy life.

For example, Zhang Yue, what money does his family have? Compared with the Yang family, his family’s little money is nothing. However, as soon as he passed the Jinshi exam, the Yang family was eager to post money to give it. After giving it money, they still ignored it!

For example, Chen Neng, if the Chen family in Fuzhou is compared with money, it will definitely be 100,000 miles away from the Yang family in Hui'an. However, if the nostrils are facing you, they will not take you seriously at all, because he is quite clear that if the Yang family loses shelter, a prefect or even a county magistrate can ruin your family.

The so-called "any man is guilty of having no sin and possesses a treasure." Being rich but unable to protect is the biggest original sin for merchants of this era.

Even without the Chen family in Longxi, countless corrupt officials will stare at the Yang family's money. Once the Yang family loses the protection of officials and gentry, their family will be destroyed and their people will be destroyed, and it will not be long!

He must work hard and strive to be strong so that he will not be swallowed by this world.

A good man should strive for self-improvement. Once he passes the imperial examination, passes the imperial examination, or even becomes a Jinshi, and becomes a gentry, the situation will be very different. At that time, whoever dares to make a random plan for his family will be good if he doesn't make any decisions about others.

Yang Cong sat there in a daze, thinking more and more. He not only thought of himself, but also thought of the Ming Dynasty.

If you have money but cannot protect it, you will be spyed and robbed.

This is true for people and so is the country.

He knew that the Ming Dynasty was not peaceful at this time, because the Tumubao Incident greatly damaged the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the corruption in the Ming Dynasty became increasingly prevalent, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty was declining, and the Ming Dynasty's beautiful rivers and mountains were like a piece of fat. I wonder how many people were salivating.

At this moment, someone was trying to make the Ming Dynasty, such as the Japanese pirates in the south, and the Mongol Yuan in the north. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was so enfeoffed by the Japanese in the north, and was in a panic.

That's pretty good, because at most, the Japanese pirates plundered the southeast coast, and they had no ability to invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty; at most, the Mongols and Yuan plundered the northern provinces, and they also had no ability to completely defeat the Ming Dynasty.

The next enemy is terrible.

If he remembers correctly, in the near future, the Jiannu of Liaodong will rise, and the Ming Dynasty will soon moan under the iron hooves of Jiannu!

In addition, the great powers will gradually set foot in the east, and the treasure island will be the first to be hit and will soon fall into the hands of the great powers. Immediately afterwards, the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty will be monopolized by the great powers. The porcelain, tea, silk, satin and so on produced by the Ming Dynasty will become fertilizers for the great powers to make huge profits, and the more they raise the great powers, the fatter they become.

There is also Japan that attempts to invade the Ming Dynasty. Once Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he will spy on the beautiful rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty can repel it, it will be greatly damaged due to it.

There is also a natural disaster that is about to rage the northwest of the Ming Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty has actually entered the Little Ice Age, and the drought in the northwest has begun to become increasingly serious. Once the critical point is reached, the civilians in the northwest cannot obtain the food to rely on for survival. The entire northwest will have refugees everywhere and wars are everywhere.

There is also the Ming Dynasty that is about to set off a fierce party struggle. Once these officials and gentry who are usually well-dressed and seemingly gentle, they will inevitably be in turmoil when they start to fight for power and profit unscrupulously.

At that time, Jiannu from Liaodong will take the opportunity to go south and the Ming Dynasty will be in power.

The more he thought about it, the ugly his face became. A feeling of humiliation, unwillingness, and anger slowly filled his mind.

Are you just waiting for corrupt officials to bully them?

Did you just let the Ming Dynasty go to destruction like this?

No, I want to change all this!

A stream of passion rushed straight into his mind. He seemed to have returned to his previous life when he was studying, and turned back to the angry young man who was prone to inexplicably impulsive.

Men should be self-reliant and can no longer live in a daze.

I want to take the imperial examination, I want to be the first to be a gold medal, I want to take control, I want to change all this.

At this time, he only felt his whole mind start to boil, as if he had become a great hero who saved this era.

Of course, this is just an illusion, which is the so-called "brain heat". Many people have no future after their brains are hot. What should they do after calming down? Those thoughts that make people feel hot will soon dissipate with the wind.

However, he is different. His two-life experience has made him understand the simplest truth. It is really not easy to live, and it is even more difficult to live a wonderful life.

If he wants to survive in this world, he must work hard, struggle, and participate in the imperial examination.

So is it difficult to take the imperial examination?

He calmed down and thought for a while, and felt that the imperial examination seemed, probably, not very difficult, at least it should not be as difficult as the college entrance examination in later generations.

Because the college entrance examinations in later generations covered too wide knowledge, including Chinese, mathematics, foreign and Chinese, political, historical, geographic, biology, or physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, and various theories in ancient and modern times, China and abroad, are not enough to describe the knowledge of the college entrance examinations, and there are not so many disciplines in this era.

The imperial examinations in this era were all subjects, including ancient literature, and the textbooks were "Four Books and Five Classics". There were not as many books as primary school students, and the questions were still fixed, but the questions were different.

How difficult is it to have such exams with few textbooks and fixed question types?

He estimated that as long as you find some imperial examination papers to analyze them carefully, summarize them, and find out the rules, it shouldn't be very difficult to get into the exam, right?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he could do it, so he set a small goal for himself: to take the No. 1 pick.

Is he crazy? He either doesn’t take the exam, and he will be the top scorer as soon as he takes the exam. Which onion does he think he is?

A top scorer is still a small goal!

This is not his crazyness. He set the goal of the top scorer in the exam, nor does he have to get the top scorer. He just wants to motivate himself and strive to get the best score.

The so-called "a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier." If you go to the army and think that you can only be a soldier, then you will probably be a soldier in your life, and you may even have a high chance of becoming cannon fodder.

The same is true for the imperial examination. If you think from the beginning that you can only take a scholar or something, then it is very likely that you can't even pass the scholar!

It’s like those who shouted “Long live sixty, sixty points, 61 points were wasted”, and most of them ended up being over fifty points, or even over fifty points.

Either don’t do it, and if you want to do it, you have to strive to do your best, so that you can succeed. If you just want to just get through before you start doing it, you will mostly end up in failure.
Chapter completed!