Of course, it is everyone's dream to be the top student in the imperial examination in this era......

No matter what the origin.

Whether it is a peasant businessman, or even a military general, or some half-black and half-white gray guys, a smuggler who doesn't want to be a champion is not a good citizen, the name Xiucai is very sacred, and it is simply vulgar to buy Xiucai with his mouth closed like Yang Xin.

But Xiucai can really buy it.

Although it is true that the system is not good, spending money cannot donate the fame of Xiucai, and spending money can only be spent on prisoners, or the most unpopular routine prisoners, and it depends on the opportunity, and it must be when the country needs disaster relief or the court has serious difficulties, can it be opened for the people to donate to prisoners. This kind of routine prison is different from the orthodox promotion of people into the country, Gongsheng into the country or relying on the ancestral shadow to enter the country, it can be said to be the lowest, even the right way can be despised. It's just that he avoided the single-plank bridge where he got Xiucai in the third-level examination of the county government, and he could directly participate in the township examination, but it was still useless if he failed the township examination. Theoretically, the inmates can indeed be officials, but in practice it is extremely difficult, after all, there are a bunch of jinshi waiting to be assigned, and there are more people below the jinshi waiting.

Routine supervision is even more impossible.

In front of them, there are also eunuchs who have the dual identities of both eunuchs and prisoners, as well as people like shadow eunuchs, and local talents like tribute eunuchs.

Routine supervision?

With the lament of a regular eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, he spent thousands of taels of silver and got nothing, and even his wife couldn't face it when he went home!

This is not as good as our Ming Dynasty.

From fame to official position, all of them are clearly marked with prices, Tong Su is not bullied, there is nothing that cannot be donated, that is, Xiucai is not valuable, and this still retains a pair of pants. As long as there is silver, starting from the prison students and going all the way up, Li Wei, a feudal official, is a role model, and finally survived the White Lotus Sect by selling officials, survived the Taiping Army, and supported the cutting and sucking blood of the great powers. If Chongzhen could pull his face down, sell his official position in the late Ming Dynasty, and then allow the gentry from all over the country to hold group exercises, maybe he really wouldn't have to go to the coal mountain.

Li Zicheng?

Can Li Zicheng compare to King Hong?

However, even in the Ming Dynasty, which has always been the same as elm pimples in this regard, there is also a way to get Xiucai, and it is true that you can't buy it, but you can give it as a gift, and you can smash five hundred taels for the provincial school administration, and there is no college test that you can't pass.

It's only three hundred taels to buy a regular supervisor.

However, it is obvious that Huang Ying's family can't come up with five hundred taels of silver, and with her father's mind, if she can rely on gifts to let her son be admitted to Xiucai, she will definitely not spare this money. Since you don't do this, you can only have no money, after all, there must be a way to give gifts, and as a flat-headed person, this way also requires a huge amount of money. Fang Congzhe: Is his brother really trying to teach and educate people? Just kidding, it's a money box that collects money, worship under its door, basically go to the exam with an aperture everywhere, since this is the case, of course, everyone has to hold the silver to apprentice. The people who were also admitted under his elder brother's entrance examination all carried the brand of the Fang family's party, and Fang Congzhe was continuously promoted as the first assistant, and a political group with him as the core was born.

Then even if he is not the first assistant, the protégé can still guarantee the interests of the Fang family.

That's what politicians are.

This is politics and the monopoly of the family.

"Okay, don't be melancholy, one day I'll go to find Little Sister Hexiang, and then ask her young lady to peel me and cramp, maybe I'll be in a good mood and give your brother a chance to apprentice!"

Yang Xin patted Huang Ying on the shoulder and said.

The latter glared at him......

"Where did you touch her just now?"

Then she raised her eyebrows and asked with murderous aura.

"Huh?!"

……

The next morning.

South of the Liangshui estuary.

"It's all in charge!"

Yang Xin waved warmly to the old butler.

The latter looked at him with a shocked expression, and it was obvious that Yang Xin's sudden appearance, especially when he suddenly appeared in front of him in this way as if he had changed his body, still made him a little dazed.

"Sister Huang!"

Immediately after that, Miss Wang came out.

Huang Ying waved at her.

By this time, the canal had been replaced by a strong southeast wind, and the slender men had been sent back, and there were no other slender men in sight on the slender road on the bank of the canal, and all the boats and civilian boats were racing forward towards the terminal of this long voyage. There are thousands of sails competing for the river channel a few hundred meters wide, and thousands of sails that are not adjectives, within the reach of Yang Xin's vision, are all large and small sailboats, crowded and stretching in the canal, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are a thousand. Most of the civilian boats docked directly at the wharf on the west bank, and the passenger ships entered the Empress Dowager Xiao River, while the official ships continued to cross the wharf crowded on the shore at the mouth of the Empress Dowager Xiao, unloading heavy goods and carrying them to the city to the west by coolies......

Zhangjiawan City.

A city with a circumference of six miles, even more than most county seats.

The vast majority of the boats that could not compete for the wharf had to continue upward, and there were two other wharves in the upper and lower reaches of Zhangjiawan, and there were more wharves in Tongzhou across the Zhangjiawan area. Tens of thousands of boats and countless civilian ships on the Grand Canal carry at least four million stone of grain every year, as well as almost all the goods that can be transported from wood to silk, from tea to porcelain. With the result that the city relied on the canal, which stretched for thousands of miles, balanced the economy of the north and maintained the empire's rule over the north.

This is the main artery of the entire empire.

And in order to ensure that during the only nine months of navigation every year, all transportation is unimpeded, and from here to the north of Tongzhou are full of large and small terminals.

However, the vast majority of the general cargo transported by civilian ships and officials is in Zhangjiawan.

Because the upstream river channel is obviously narrowed, the downstream section has the Liangshui River and the Empress Xiao River confluence river widened.

Zhangjiawan is in this era, even until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the most important civil ship wharf at the north end of the Grand Canal, is the North Canal in the Jiaqing period due to the flood diversion to the east, and finally formed the modern North Canal, so that the channel away from Zhangjiawan City, so that the north of Tongzhou became the most important wharf.

But at this time, the canal still passed close to the east of Zhangjiawan City.

For private travelers, this is the end of the canal journey.

The Wang family's ship will not continue north.

"This brother is alive!"

The old butler said with a smirk.

"I'm her cousin!"

Yang Xin pointed at Huang Ying very calmly and said.

"Ah, cousin!"

The old butler smiled and said meaningfully.

The little girl behind him continued to be dazed, she must have recognized Yang Xin, after all, this guy's crazy singing voice impressed her, and he was also a lifesaver. Although there are some changes now, if you look closely, you can still recognize him, but he and the old butler opened their eyes and said nonsense, which once again shocked this little girl who always showed a bit of stupidity.

"Boss, please!"

Yang Xin made a gesture of please.

The latter nodded, and the boat under his feet sailed past Yang Xin, Yang Xin raised his head and showed a bright smile at Miss Wang, Miss Wang snorted proudly, and their boat bypassed Yang Xin like this.

Then there was Hwang-jin's boat.

"Virtuous nephew!"

Huang Zhen nodded meaningfully as well.

Then his ship also bypassed Yang Xin.

Huang Ying turned his head and followed the two big boats to squeeze into the special civilian boat wharf between the Liangshui estuary and the Empress Dowager Xiao's estuary. The two ships thus crowded through the numerous sailing ships, and then lowered their sails, and the sailors carried the long pole up to the pier little by little. On the shore is the Nanguan Xiang of Zhangjiawan City, and countless merchants have turned this peninsula from the parallel Sandwich of the Empress Dowager Xiao River and the Liangshui River into a prosperous commercial area, also known as Changdian. And in the middle of this business district, a big road to the north, straight to the Tongyun Bridge on the Empress Dowager Xiao River, and the north end of the Tongyun Bridge is the south gate of Zhangjiawan City, the regular passenger terminal is also there, both sides of the Tongyun Bridge, but there is now a blockage of ships.

"Zhangwan thousand-year-old canal head, ancient Lei Lincao victorious trails!"

Yang Xin pretended to be in the middle.

"Zhangjiawan City was obviously built during the reign of King Sejong Jiajing, where did it come from for thousands of years!"

Miss Wang next to her despised it.

Her nickname is Wang Wanqing.

"It's just rhetoric, Li Bai still flies down 3,000 feet, and the Lushan Waterfall is only a few dozen feet, where can it get 3,000 feet?"

Yang Xin said.

"Have you been to Lushan?"

Miss Wang tilted her little head and said suspiciously.

Yang Xin turned his head to search, and suddenly saw a Confucian student holding a folding fan next to him, he unceremoniously snatched it, and then opened it very chicly......

"Of course!"

He said proudly.

Then under the dumbfounded gaze of the Confucian scholar, he hurriedly stuffed it into the hands of others, and Miss Wang woke up and couldn't help laughing, and her slightly childish smile bloomed extremely brightly. The Confucian was just about to get angry, but when he saw her smile, he immediately changed it to a warm smile, and took the opportunity to open his mouth to say something. An armed domestic slave of the Wang family next to him immediately stretched out his hand in front of him, and another domestic slave pointed to the lantern of the left attendant of the ship's military headquarters.

The scholar flinched.

"But there is really a waterfall that flows down 3,000 feet in this world, but it's a pity that it's not in Daming."

Yang Xin said.

"Nonsense, how do you know if you don't know in Daming?"

Miss Wang said disdainfully.

"Wang, Wang, how can you know that the world is so big that you can know a little girl, that waterfall is indeed not in Daming, but overseas, in a place called the Americas by the red-haired people, falling from a height of three hundred zhang, that is the real flying stream straight down three thousand feet!"

Yang Xin said.

"What do you call me?"

Miss Wang said gloomily.

"Uh, shouldn't your character be stupid?"

Yang Xin was stunned.

"Throw him into the river!"

Miss Wang gritted her teeth and said.

Although she didn't understand the meaning of stupidity, it was impossible for her not to understand that stupid word.

(Thanks to the book friend Chiba Zen Sichen, smuggling aircraft carriers, towering green mountains to the dock, backup59, perfect track, I am a fan of Caonima, Kasinier, Juventus and others for their tips).