Wei Bao was stunned, and secretly thought, why are you so excited? Don't you Miss Wu dislike me very much? I'm gambling, shouldn't you take the opportunity to make a fortune? What kind of anger is it?

Wei Bao shook his head, he didn't think about Wu Xuexia, in fact, after doing this step, he was also very weak-hearted.

Although he trusts Wang Tiqian very much, he mainly trusts Wang Tiqian's energy.

The third person in the imperial court, can this energy be small?

However, after all, it was something that was not realized, and it involved that I didn't know how much money I would make.

At this time, Wei Bao's whole body seemed to be congested with blood, and he was hot all over, just looking forward to ending all this quickly and knowing the final result quickly.

In the next few days, as Wei Bao expected, the rich people in the entire western Liaoning Province moved, and after hearing that the Tiandi firm had announced a notice and publicly absorbed bets, they bet that Wei Bao would not be able to show off their talents.

The minimum bet amount stipulated by Wei Bao is one or two silver, in fact, those who can afford to bet are at least five taels of silver!

Especially for the children and wealthy families who participated in the scientific examination, these children have basically taken the exam more than once, knowing the difficulty of the examination in western Liaoning, almost all the spare money of the family has been used to bet.

Anyway, when I saw Wei Bao's Tiandi business opening more than a dozen shops, and I heard that Wei Bao had thousands of acres of land in the township, I didn't worry that he wouldn't be able to pay the money.

The most important thing is to form a certain atmosphere, in the circle of the rich, the first sentence of people when they meet, often no longer ask whether they have eaten, but whether they have bet? It's as if if you don't bet is sick in the brain, and you don't know how to pick up money for nothing.

"Childe, it's already more than 200,000 taels of silver." The day before the exam, Wang Qiuya said to Wei Bao worriedly: "I estimate that before the exam starts tomorrow, there must be many people on the scene to bet, according to this trend, it is possible that the final total amount will exceed 300,000 taels of silver!" ”

On the one hand, Wei Bao was very excited, thinking that he could win so much silver at one time, could he not be excited? On the one hand, they are also very nervous, if they really lose, they will have to make things bigger, and even have to take the road of rebellion.

Throughout the ages, I haven't heard of anyone who failed the test and was forced to rebel, right?

Wang Lun, the white-clothed showman who first established Shuibo Liangshan in the Water Margin, doesn't know if it counts?

Wei Bao didn't remember whether Wang Lun was a talent or not, anyway, if he didn't win this trip, his Weijiazhuang would immediately be revised into a rebel gathering place of the Shuibo Liangshan type.

It's a pity that the city has only laid the initial foundation, and there is still a lot of time before it is built, and even if there is a city now, his rule over the local area is not stable, and he only has more than 10,000 people in his hands, mainly peasants, and it is impossible to compete with tens of thousands of heavy soldiers in the imperial court.

Seeing that Wei Bao didn't speak, Wang Qiuya thought that Wei Bao was starting to be afraid, and sighed faintly: "Son, why don't you hurry up and notify Wei Jiazhuang now, so that everyone can get ready?" ”

Wei Bao came back to his senses and said strangely: "Get ready? What are you prepared for? ”

"Everyone packed up their things together, and simply smuggled them to the gate by boat, if they couldn't hand over so much silver, they would definitely not be able to stay in the gate." Wang Qiuya said.

Wei Bao sweated, it turned out that Wang Qiuya had this idea, "Escape to the outside of the gate, can you hide from the government?" There are also heavy soldiers of the imperial court outside the gates, do you want me to take so many people to join Jiannu? ”

After Wei Bao finished speaking, he smiled, Jiannu definitely doesn't look down on people like him, Jiannu kidnaps Han people to be slaves every year, and those who don't obey will be killed, let alone kill tens of thousands of people a year, what are his tens of thousands of people?

"Everyone is dying, and the son is still laughing." Wang Qiuya sighed and said, "Don't read too late today, don't rest early, right?" Shall I go and bathe you in the water now? ”

Wei Bao nodded: "Go ahead." ”

In fact, he is not reading the Four Books and Five Classics every day, he has been reading all kinds of collected examples these days, and when he reaches the stage of taking the exam, the main thing is to take the Bagu essay, all kinds of model essays are overwhelming, what do you want, and there are a lot of sample essays on Liao Fuzi's exam.

Wei Bao is looking at these, and entering them into the mobile phone one by one, and building an index.

Wei Bao is not sure whether the article can stand out from the crowd, but he is sure that he can make an article that is decent and can pass the scientific examination, and it depends on what means Wang Ti is doing.

Not only did he enter them all, but Wei Bao also specially selected a few examples written by Liao Fuzi and worked hard to memorize them!

I can't memorize a lot, 300 words a piece, seven or eight articles, it's not a big problem.

In fact, Wei Bao memorized a total of nine example texts, and selected one from each of the four books and five classics.

Wei Bao is worried that if the hospital tries to catch it strictly, it will be troublesome if it can't be plagiarized directly from the mobile phone.

In this way, he is also a lot more relieved, even if the example text and the question are slightly deviated, but the exam question must be from the scope of the Four Books and Five Classics, and the deviation will not be very large, anyway, this kind of language test, it is all the wisdom of the benevolent and the wise, and it is hard to say that it is passed, how can it be passed, but it is hard to say, how can it not pass, the knowledge in this, Wei Bao has already been taught once.

Wei Bao got up early, let Wang Qiuya serve him to wash and change clothes, meditate, eat breakfast, and then go to the mansion full of energy.

The college examination is still taken at the government office.

If it is a regular place, it should be placed in the Gongyuan or something, the school administration here in Liaoxi belongs to the direct management of Beizhili, and it was originally going to go to the Gongyuan of Jingshi Shuntianfu to take the exam, but it has always been placed in the Yongping Mansion to study, and it also saves the students in Liaoxi and Liaodong the pain of running between the two places.

However, the township examination must go to the Shuntianfu Gongyuan to catch the examination, and the hospital examination will be specially sent by the Ministry of Rites to lead a 'working group' to preside over the entire examination process.

Wei Bao had previously imagined how Wang Tiqian would help him, and Wei Bao came to the conclusion that Wang Tiqian wanted to 'do the work', which was nothing more than to start from two aspects, or all the candidates who participated in the college examination in Liaoxi and Liaodong passed the test!

It's just too difficult!

Either that, it's a special one, and let yourself pass.

Of these two, no matter which one you choose, most of the head of the ceremonial department who leads the team is the key person, because this person can directly control the admission situation of this college examination.

Wei Bao and Wang Qiuya went to the examination room under the covert escort of more than a dozen entourage.

As soon as he came out of the Maritime Chamber of Commerce, he met Liu Chunshi and Fan Datou coming over with a few entourage.

"Meet Childe." Several people were very excited, especially Liu Chunshi and Fan Datou, who had not seen Wei Bao for more than a month, and they missed it very much.

Wei Bao smiled: "Why did you come back at this time?" I didn't say hello beforehand. ”

"I'm a good day, and at this time, Childe should be going to take the entrance examination, so I'll rush back." Liu Chunshi replied: "Didn't Gongzi let us stabilize the business of the businesses in various places in Beizhili and come back?" ”

Wei Bao nodded and said with a smile: "It's just right!" However, how do you know that I can pass the previous prefectural and prefectural exams? ”

Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi heard this, and glanced at each other, in fact, they were talking about this topic all the way here, and neither of them thought that Wei Bao would be able to pass the county and government examinations and get the fame of Tongsheng.

In fact, Liu Chunshi rushed back, also for the entrance examination, although he was born to an old boy, but every time he took the college examination, Liu Chunshi would participate, but he was embarrassed to say this to his son.

Wei Bao is so clever, he guessed when he saw the expressions of the two people, and said with a smile: "By the way, I almost forgot, Chunshi, are you going to take this college exam too?" Have you registered? ”

"It's been reported, and I asked someone to carry a letter a few days ago." Liu Chunshi said. The academy he studied is a very small academy in Shanhaiguan, and it can't even be called a academy, it should be a private school that is too small to be small, this kind of private school is half-open and half-open, and Mr. Private School himself is just a child, specifically so that the children of the poor family have the opportunity to receive some education, and help them go through a little reference procedures or something, but it is a bit like a consulting agency, or a small intermediary agency.

Similar to the small intermediary on the side of the road and in the alley of modern times, there is only a small table.

Wei Bao smiled and was not polite: "Okay, let's go together." ”

"I'm here to make a scene, I've been taking the exam for more than ten years, I'm used to it, and I can't get two coins of silver to apply for the exam anyway." Liu Chunshi said with a smile.

He came to the exam almost every time, except when he didn't save enough money, and he only missed one exam. It's a bit like a perennial lottery ticket buyer, whether you win it or not, and if you don't buy it again, you will feel uncomfortable.

Wei Bao glanced at Liu Chunshi, and from Liu Chunshi, he could clearly see the attraction of scientific research to people! Although Liu Chunshi has been mixed with the rank of steward under himself, or the level of chief steward, which is already a very generous treatment, he still has not completely broken the dream of the imperial examination, and has not completely broken the dream of becoming an official.

Fan's attention drifted to Wang Qiuya's face and body from time to time, not the idea of a woman who dared to beat Wei Gongzi, Fan's head was thirty years old, and he was already a mature man, so he naturally paid special attention to beauties.

Fan Tou was surprised by Wang Qiuya's changes, he hadn't seen her for more than a month, Wang Qiuya had completely taken off her previous local atmosphere, and even Fan Tou and Liu Chunshi, who had lived in a tall place like Beijing for a while, came back, feeling that the houses in Yongping Mansion were small, not as tall as the capital, and I felt that the people here in Liaoxi were generally rustic, but I felt that even if Wang Qiuya was put in the capital, others must think that it was a famous lady, a daughter and so on.

However, Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi were embarrassed to laugh at Wang Qiuya, but simply called Wang Qiuya by name, which was regarded as a greeting.

However, Wang Qiuya behaved generously: "Brother Big Head, Brother Chunshi, during the time you left, a lot of things happened in our Weijiazhuang, you all know it, right?" ”

"I probably know something, Gongzi has collected the land and land deeds for four miles, and now Weijiazhuang is really Weijiazhuang, and all the land and people belong to Gongzi. Gongzi also set up the head office of the Tiandi firm, which was placed in Shanhaiguan, and also contacted the local wealthy households, set up a sales joint-stock company, and also launched new products, soap, matches and kerosene lamps. When Fan saw Wang Qiuya asking, he said everything about pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

Wang Qiuyaqi said: "Do you know so clearly? ”

Fan said with a smile: "There is a briefing inside the Tiandi firm, don't you know?" What happens in our various businesses every half a month will be summarized and then published to the people of each business, so that everyone can clearly understand what happened during this period of time, what progress other businesses have made, and everyone can compete together, communicate with each other, support each other, and make progress together. ”

"Big head, do you remember the slogan very well?" Wei Bao laughed when he heard this.

Fan said proudly: "Childe, I don't want to take the test to be a showman, I just want to follow Childe for the rest of my life, every time there is a briefing, I read it word by word from beginning to end, especially the articles written by Childe, I will recite it." Childe, I can recognize most of the words now, and the words I know will never be much less than that of Chunshi. ”

"Good." Wei Bao nodded in approval: "The more you pay attention to supplementing all aspects of knowledge, the greater the future will be!" ”

Fan was overjoyed when he saw the child's appreciative expression, and he was stupid.

At first, Wei Bao didn't like Fan Lao's pimple and Fan's 'will come' character, so Luo Sanzi and Liu Chunshi were promoted, but Fan Tou's identity has always been Liu Chunshi's follower, not the level of stewardship.

After this period of experience, Wei Bao felt that Fan's head seemed to have improved, and thought about waiting for this period to mention Fan's head and get a deputy manager or something.

Liu Chunshi listened to Fan's big head and compared himself with himself, and hurriedly defended: "Childe, I don't have any other thoughts about taking the Xiucai exam, but I've been taking the exam for so many years, and I can't even get into the show, so I'm unwilling." Even if I pass the Xiucai exam, I will do my best in the Tiandi firm, and I will follow Gongzi all my life. ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Don't be nervous, it's just a college exam, are you worried about how much I think?" Am I such a stingy person? After the exam, the list is released, let's go back to Weijiazhuang together, call the three stunned brothers, let's have a good drink, we haven't been together for a long time. ”

"Uh-huh! Childe, how many days ago I was worried about this wine, how many years, I and Lao Tongsheng, and the three stunned, the three of us have never been separated. Fan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Childe, as long as there is no problem with the grain in Weijiazhuang, the businesses in Beizhili don't have to worry about anything, we are fully capable of doing what Childe said, and we operate very well, even don't expect to make much money." ”

"Well, that's fine, just keep it running, and I don't expect you to make a lot of money to build a business network first." Wei Bao nodded with a smile and said approvingly, "You guys did a good job." ”

The group came to the outside of the mansion and had not yet begun to enter.

However, some of the sons and daughters with status, and their relatives, have already entered, and most of those waiting outside are children from poor families like Liu Chunshi.

Of course, there are also petty bourgeois children like Zheng Zhongfei, and children who are not big landlords and eunuchs like the Wu family and Wang Dongming's family, and they can only wait outside the door.

Zheng Zhongfei is tall and thin, with a flat head, which is very conspicuous from a distance.

Therefore, Fan Datou, Liu Chunshi, Wang Qiuya and others, who were familiar with Zheng Zhongfei, saw Zheng Zhongfei at a glance, and Wei Bao also saw it.

"Childe, this person is also coming to take the exam?" Fan's big head was strange, because he knew about the festival between Zheng Zhongfei's family and Wei Bao, so he said angrily: "It's not a small courage. ”

"What? Aren't people allowed to take the exam? Wei Bao smiled slightly, "The matter of my family and his family has been revealed, as long as he doesn't stab him in the back, let him go." ”

When Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi heard this, they looked at each other, they knew that the four li were now merged into Weijiazhuang, but they didn't know how Wei Bao brought down Zheng Zhongfei's family.

"Childe, this kind of person has to be guarded against, even if there is a holiday, even if there is a feud, the dog can't change the, once this kind of person has the opportunity, he will definitely not let the son have a good time." Fan reminded with a big head.

Liu Chunshi also nodded and said, "Try not to touch." The big head is a good saying that dogs can't change eating. ”

Wang Qiuya didn't say anything, and listened to Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi both say mean to Zheng Zhongfei, and she didn't like it a little.

Zheng Zhongfei also saw Wei Bao and his party coming, Zheng Zhongfei never took the initiative to greet Wei Bao, but he was different from Liu Chunshi and Fan's head.

Zheng Zhongfei felt that Liu Chunshi and Fan's heads were not taller than him, even if Wei Bao made a fortune, these two people followed Wei Bao, but in the end they were still inferior! Even if his family moves out of Jinshanli, he is still the owner in the end!

You were once the descendants of my family, and you will be the descendants of my family for the rest of your life!

Zheng Zhongfei still has such an advantage over Liu Chunshi and Fan's big head, so he walked over.

Wei Bao and a few people around him were very surprised that Zheng Zhongfei would take the initiative to come over, I don't know what this guy is going to do, along with Zheng Zhongfei came over there were other groups of rich peasants and children of small landlords who were about the same as Zheng Zhongfei.

"Hello Gongzi Wei." A group of rich children who flew over with Zheng Zhong are very knowledgeable about etiquette.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "Hello." ”

"Isn't this a big head and an old boy? Now they all wear long shirts, and they have a chance. Zheng Zhongfei did not slip away.

If it was left in the past, Fan Datou and Lao Tongsheng Liu Chunshi in front of Zheng Zhongfei might still feel inferior because of the disparity in status and status, but now there is no such feeling.

The two of them followed Wei Bao, and they were also in charge of a group of brothers, Liu Chunshi was in charge, and Fan's big head was actually equivalent to the deputy manager even if he was not in charge, and he was also the master who spoke in various firms.

"You're not bad, Zheng Gongzi hasn't seen him for many days, where did he get rich? Have time to go back to your home and play? Fan sneered.

"There is only one broken house left, which will be blown down by the wind at any time, where will I live when I come back?" Liu Chunshi said with a smile.

Zheng Zhongfei glared at the two people, he didn't expect that the mouths of the two of them were so good now?