One word comes to mind: Nirvana.

This is a Buddhist term. I don't believe in Buddhism, but people in my hometown do, and they always say, Nirvana is reborn. However, they always pin the hope of nirvana rebirth in future lives.

But now, I have been reborn in Nirvana.

This is my freshman.

My new world.

The old world has zero effect on me.

I control me.

I am me.

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I thought as I walked to a small room on the second floor of the main building.

There are: Dongfang Chengping, Dongfang Yongwu, Dongfang Yongbai, Dongfang Yongde, Dongfang Qi, two eunuchs, and there is also a newcomer who has seen but does not know what it is called.

Those two eunuchs looked like eunuchs, greased and powdered, delicate, and feminine. They said, "Congratulations, congratulations, great joy!" Congratulations, congratulations! ”

Dongfang Chengping said with a smile: "With the promotion of Father-in-law Lao, the Dongfang family is grateful!" ”

Dongfang Xing stepped forward and handed over three envelopes.

Dongfang Chengping: "There are two communiqué letters, please smile at this little filial piety money." ”

The eunuchs smiled and said, "We must tell Director Kong." ”

The two twisted their butts and walked away.

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There is a red piece of paper in the center of the table.

It reads:

Wuju people:

Dongfang Qi, No. 410, Hebei Province;

Dongfang Guang, No. 320, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Wen Juren:

Dongfang Ju, No. 31, from Central Plains Province

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I heard and felt my own heartbeat – "plop", "thump", ......

No. 31, so high, can you almost blend into the "core of the imperial court", right?

Dongfang Chengping looked at me and said, "Yes, well, Wenju people, well, our family can still produce Wenju people, and there are dozens of them!" ”

He looked at the two newcomers and said, "Dongfang Guang, Dongfang Qi, you go first." ”

The two of them looked at me and left.

Dongfang Chengping: "Yes, thirty-one, in a few years, it will be at the ministerial level." ”

I didn't say anything because I didn't know what to say.

Dongfang Chengping: "You kid has some ability." I've heard that this essay exam is particularly difficult, the hardest in decades. ”

Me: "Exams are all relative, they are either difficult or easy, and it makes no difference if they are easy. ”

Dongfang Chengping: "Your ranking is too high, it is estimated that you will enter the inner court." ”

The imperial court is divided into an inner court and an outer court. The inner court has always suppressed the outer courts, so the inner court must choose first, and choose the rest before the outer courts.

Dongfang Chengping looked at me: "Hmph, Inner Court!" ”

Dongfang Chengping, as a scholar family, is naturally a foreign dynasty.

I know the Inner Court has a bad reputation - but what does it matter to me? I haven't been in yet!

He looked at me: "Do you want to be a member of the inner court or a member of the Oriental family?" ”

Of course, I can say "I was born as a member of the Oriental family, and died as a ghost of the Oriental family, and I only have the word 'heartfelt' in my dictionary", but this kind of thing has long been said rotten!

Me: "I will never do anything to be sorry for the Oriental family." This is my commitment, my responsibility. If a person can't do what he wants to do, how can he count himself? ”

Dongfang Chengping nodded: "You can follow the inner court, but don't fall into it." Those guys kill people without blinking, you have no idea what they're thinking! Don't eat from the bowl and look at the pot, or you won't get anything! ”

I nodded solemnly.

Dongfang Yongde: "Father, this person thinks evil and rebellious. We can go and talk to the court......"

Dongfang Chengping interrupted him: "What do you know! ”

Dongfang Yongbai looked at him with a sneering look - he even laughed out loud.

Dongfang Yongde: "I'm all for the sake of the court!" ”

Dongfang Yongwu said to him: "Okay, don't say it! ”

Dongfang Yongde: "Big brother, don't you ......?"

Dongfang Yongwu: "Now this matter is not something we can control, you should have less to do." ”

Dongfang Yongde was about to speak, but Dongfang Chengping said: "This incident should not have happened." That's all, don't say it! ”

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On the way back, I said to myself in my heart, don't think blindly, don't think blindly, don't be happy with things, don't be sad...... Still, I was so happy that I couldn't help but think about it......

I took the exam 31! And Pork Rong is only the last few. That's inevitable, because I taught him, and the master is better than the student after all.

Alas, I'm proud again, it's going to be bad, I can't do that.

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Dongfang Lu flashed over and said to me, "You come here." ”

I passed, and under the wall stood Dongfang Yongde.

Dongfang Yongde: "You know what kind of person you are. ”

Me: "You don't know! Because, even I don't know what kind of person I am. I've changed it many times and will change it many more times in the future. ”

Him: "I won't let you go." You villain! You remember me. ”

Me: "Third Young Master, you remind me of an incident from the past. ”

I ignored his curious expression and continued: "Once, my next-door neighbor was beaten by a soldier, and he was beaten so much that he vomited blood all over his face, and even his wife and daughter were insulted. He was beaten to the ground, and he said to the onlookers, "I will secretly kill him, and I will take advantage of the darkness to stab him to death with a knife, either you will die or I will die." My dad hugged him and said, don't say stupid things and do stupid things, you must hold back. In the evening, my father said to me that what a person says and what he does must be different, and what he does must not be said or done. A few days later, my father went out at night and secretly stabbed the soldier to death. ”

He looked at me strangely and said, "What about later?" Does the government know? Has the government caught it? ”

Me: "It doesn't matter who catches you, what matters is what I want to say today is that what a person should do, what he says, and what he does is something completely different. It's a pity you don't understand. I'll give you a word from my father: don't say what you think, don't do what you say, don't say what you do. ”

But...... What am I doing? It's a paradox! I'm saying what I shouldn't be saying, I'm doing what I shouldn't be doing! I still can't control myself!

He was even more strange: "What do you mean? ”

Me: "I don't know. ”

He had a solemn expression: "I won't let you go." ”

Me: "It's late. I'm not someone you can control anymore. ”

I turned and walked away.

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Been packing up in the evening because it's time for a new room. I seem to have become the master of the Dongfang family, and the master can't live in the same room with a servant like Dongfang Yue.

But there was nothing worth packing, for they were all servants' belongings, and they all carried the memories of servants.

Dongfang Yue lay on his bed, looked at me, and didn't say anything.

The door opened, and it was the moon in the east!

She said to Dongfang Yue, "You go away." ”

Dongfang Yue's face turned the color of pig liver - gone.

Dongfang Mingyue sat on the bed opposite, leaning against the wall, Erlang's legs were cocked.

She: "I can't think of it, I can't think of it, you talk nonsense all day long, and you can actually be lifted." Innocent and eyeless! ”

Me: "That's the head of the family and the court." I will do my best to serve the master of my family and the court! ”

Her: "So you scavenged a life from my father?" ”

Me: "My life was originally from the Oriental. ”

Her: "They said you would go to the inner court?" ”

Me: "Everything is up to the arrangement of the imperial court." ”

She: "The inner court is all bad people. ”

Me: "I'll do my best to make it better." All for the court and the people. ”

Her: "Why are you...... Telling lies? ”

Me: "Because...... I came back to life. ”

Her: "So you're covering yourself...... It's like two people. ”

Me: "Like everybody. ”

Her: "Which do you think is the real you?" ”

I said, "I...... I don't know. No one knows what will happen to them, and no one knows what will become of them. ”

I thought about it for a moment and said, "I don't know anything about myself. ”

Dongfang Mingyue: "Okay! Open the window and say something! Tell no one what I say to you. ”

Me: "Did we say anything?" ”

She looked at me.

She looked me in the eye and tried to see my mind through my eyes.

But I have a knack for fooling myself! I've never been confided in by her like a tree hole! Because, I forgot everything!

Dongfang Mingyue took out three books from her bag and handed them to me: "This is your book." I snatched it from my eldest brother. ”

Me: "I don't know what to say." Wait a minute...... It's not mine! ”

Her: "I confiscated the original. I had a copy of it, and the manuscript was given to you. ”

Me: "You...... It's so unreliable! If you let someone copy it, he won't know! ”

Dongfang Mingyue said unhappily: "You dare to complain about me!" No matter how much nonsense you have, I won't even give you this book! ”

I took the book and said to her, "You want to read it too?" ”

Her: "Blind looking." ”

Me: "Don't look. ”

Her: "Why? ”

Me: "Bad book. ”

Her: "Ha, then why do you watch? ”

Me: "Because I'm a bad person." ”

Her: "Why are you going to be a bad guy?" ”

Me: "Because I have to be the bad guy." ”

Her: "Why are you...... That's enough! I'm not going to talk nonsense! Good bye! ”

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It's been a cool few days.

The whole world is different, the way others look at me, the attitude of others towards me, I don't know if it's really different, or if my mentality has changed.

Yesterday no one paid attention to me, but today I have become the protagonist of all the attention.

Not to mention anything else, I went from a poor egg to a rich man in an instant - Dongfang Chengping gave me a "small meaning" of 1,000 gold yuan.

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Let's talk about the currency of the Ming Dynasty.

The currencies of the Ming Dynasty were copper dollars, silver dollars, and gold dollars. The exchange rate varies from dollar to dollar and varies from place to place over time, but no one knows how. Each court wanted to control the exchange ratio, for example, the ratio was 1:10:100, but none of them succeeded, either the silver dollar collapsed or the gold dollar collapsed, and finally a few people had all the money in the world, and the rest had nothing. So the thieves swarmed, the nobles betrayed, and finally lost their country. As a result, later dynasties had two ways to control money:

The first is that currency was only allowed to be used by the nobles, and the commoners had to go through the imperial court to barter.

The second is the issuance of banknotes. The imperial court ordered the exchange of one banknote dollar for one metal dollar. However, the imperial court has issued too many additional shares, and the exchange rate on the black market is no longer this one, and it is currently a few paper dollars for one gold dollar.

These methods are just replacing death hunting for death with waiting for death, because the price is still chaotic and changing.

The imperial court set up an agency – the Royal Price Department – to be responsible for these matters. They made it possible to sell a hundred eggs for one silver dollar, or half a pig for two silver dollars, and the penal department was responsible for executing anyone who did not buy or sell things at that price. Frankly, I've always wondered how they ruled, like why not one hundred and one or ninety-nine eggs for one silver dollar, why big eggs, small eggs, good eggs, and rotten eggs are all at this price. This policy is full of loopholes, and the royal family, the nobles, and even the common people are opportunistic, and it is impossible to manage it.

Civilians are forbidden to use money, they are not even allowed to exchange in kind. They can only give things to the people of the township and county governments, and then the imperial court gives them what they need. But the court can't control it. As a result, private transactions are common – this is called private gangs – and some wealthy people use money secretly.

The currency was reserved for the nobles, who exchanged it for buying and selling and paying tribute to the royal family.

Theoretically, the royal family doesn't use anything, they can requisition it at will, but they still like the feeling of spending money.

If a commoner goes to the black market to buy something, then one gold dollar is enough for the expenses of a family of seven or eight people for a month, and even the paper gold dollar, which has been depreciating, is enough for one person's expenses.

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In the midday sun, I looked at my passbook and was happy like a daydream.