A good man should be self-improving!

This sentence is like a twilight drum and morning bell that woke up Yang Cong in a daze.

All along, he subconsciously thought that he was rich and didn't have to struggle.

All along, he was proud that he would spend money to be clever.

He has always believed that the people of this era are under control, because he has a vague impression of the development of history and the important figures of this era in his mind, and he thinks that with this vague impression, he can be invincible in this era.

Now, when he calms down and thinks about it, these thoughts are bullshit!

For example, Xu Jie, will he be willing to be used by himself, he is almost the same as being used by him, and as he becomes bigger and bigger, he estimates that his qualifications to be used by him will disappear.

For example, Yu Dayou, will he follow him all the time, once he becomes the commander of the army, he doesn't know how much responsibility he has to shoulder, will he disobey the orders of the court for his own sake, just kidding, it is impossible at all.

Xu Jie's other sentence is also very reasonable, no matter who it is, you must work hard, you must be angry, otherwise you will be slowly swallowed by this world.

Yang Cong originally thought that if he was rich, he would be able to live a chic life.

Now that I think about it, it's still bullshit.

Will people let him live a chic life, this year is rich and a fart, famous, and powerful to live a chic life.

For example, Zhang Yue, what kind of money does his family have, compared to the Yang family, his family's money is a fart, but as soon as he was admitted to the Jinshi Yang family, he posted it and sent money, and when he sent money, people still ignored it!

Another example is Chen Neng, if the Chen family in Fuzhou is more than money, it is definitely 108,000 miles worse than the Yang family in Hui'an, but people are facing you with their nostrils facing you, and they don't take you seriously at all, because he knows quite well that if the Yang family loses its asylum, a prefect, or even a county order can completely destroy your family.

The so-called "puffer is innocent and guilty", having money but not being able to protect it is the biggest original sin for merchants in this era.

Even if there is no Longxi Chen family, there will be countless corrupt officials staring at the Yang family's silver, once the Yang family loses the protection of the official gentry, the family will be ruined, and it will not be far away!

He has to work hard, he has to be angry and strong, so that he will not be swallowed up by this world.

A good man should be self-improving, once he passes the imperial examination, is admitted to the imperial examination and even a jinshi, and becomes a gentry, the situation will be very different, when the time comes, who dares to casually hit his family's idea, he will not go to other people's ideas.

Yang Cong sat there in a daze, the more he thought about it, the more he thought of himself, and even thought of Da Ming.

If you have money but you can't protect it, you will attract snooping and be robbed.

This is true of people, and so is the state.

He knew that at this time, the Ming Dynasty was actually not very peaceful, because the change of the civil fort caused the Ming Dynasty's national strength to be greatly damaged, coupled with the increasing prevalence of corruption in the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Ming Dynasty can be described as declining, and the splendid rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty are like a piece of fat, I don't know how many people salivate.

At this time, there are people who are fighting the idea of the Ming Dynasty, such as the Japanese in the south, and the Meng Yuan in the north.

That's fine, because the Japanese invaders plundered the southeast coast at most, and they were not capable of encroaching on the territory of the Ming Dynasty; Meng Yuan also plundered the northern provinces at most, and they also did not have the ability to completely defeat the Ming Dynasty.

The next enemy is terrifying.

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

Also, the great powers will gradually set foot in the East, the treasure island will bear the brunt, and will soon fall into the hands of the great powers, and then, the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty will be monopolized by the great powers, and the porcelain, tea, silk and satin produced by the Ming Dynasty will become the fertilizer for the great powers to seek huge profits, and the more the powers will be nourished, the fatter they will be.

There is also a vain attempt to invade the Ming Dynasty, once Toyotomi Hideyoshi dominates the East, he will watch the splendid rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming can repel it, but it will be greatly damaged.

There is also the natural disaster that is about to ravage the northwest of Daming, and now Daming has actually entered the period of the Xiaoice River, and the drought in the northwest has begun to become more and more serious, once it reaches the critical point, so that the people in the northwest cannot obtain the food they rely on for survival, the entire northwest will be full of displaced people, and smoke will rise.

There is also a fierce party struggle in the Ming Dynasty, these usually well-dressed, seemingly polite and polite official gentry, once they begin to unscrupulously fight for power and profit, the Ming Dynasty will be stormy.

At that time, the Jiannu of Liaodong will take the opportunity to go south, and the Ming Dynasty will .......

The more he thought about it, the more ugly his face became, and an emotion mixed with humiliation, unwillingness, and anger slowly filled his mind.

Is it just waiting for corrupt officials to bully?

Is it just to let the Ming Dynasty go to ruin?

No, I'm going to change all that!

A stream of enthusiasm rushed straight into his brain, and he seemed to have returned to the time when he was studying in his previous life, and turned back into the angry young man who was easy to be inexplicably impulsive.

Men should be self-reliant, and they can't go on in a mess anymore.

I want to take the imperial examination, I want the title of the gold list, I want to control the power, I want to change all this.

At this time, he only felt that his whole mind was beginning to boil, as if he had become a big hero to save this era.

Of course, this is just an illusion, that is, the so-called "brain heat", many people have a hot brain, there is no future, what to do after calming down, those thoughts that make people's brains hot will soon be dispersed with the wind.

However, he is different, the experience of two lives made him understand a simplest truth, it is really not easy for people to live, and it is even more difficult to live a wonderful life.

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

So is it difficult to take the imperial examination?

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

Because the college entrance examination in later generations covers too wide a range of knowledge, and it is not only the number of languages, but also politics, history, geography, biology, or physics and chemistry, what astronomy and geography, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign theories are not enough to describe the knowledge of the college entrance examination, and there are not so many disciplines in this era.

In this era, the imperial examination is one subject, ancient literature, and the textbook is "Four Books and Five Classics", which is not as many as the books of primary school students, and the question type is still fixed, but the topic is different.

How difficult will this kind of exam be if there are not many textbooks and the question type is fixed?

He estimated that as long as he found some imperial examination papers to analyze them well, summarize them, and find out the rules, it shouldn't be very difficult to take 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 top prize.

Is he crazy, or he doesn't take the test, and he has to take the test as soon as he takes the test, which onion does he think he is?

It's still a small goal!

It's not that he's crazy, and the goal he set for the top prize is not that he has to be admitted to the top score, he just wants to motivate himself and strive for the best results.

The so-called "a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier", if you go to be a soldier and think that you can only be a soldier, then you are estimated to be a soldier in this life, and there is even a high chance of becoming cannon fodder.

The same is true for the imperial examination, if you think at the beginning that you can only take the test for a show or something, then it is very likely that you will not be able to pass the show or something!

It's like those who shout "Long live 60 points, waste 61 points", and in the end, most of them are in their 50s, or even more than 50 points.

Either you don't do it, you have to do it and try to do your best, so that you can succeed, and if you don't start doing it, you just want to barely get through, so most of them will end in failure.

Of course, Yang Cong doesn't want to fail, he just wants to succeed, so either he doesn't take the test, or if he wants to take the test, he will take the test!