If you know martial arts and can't write, then it won't work, so Yang Shiqi asked.

When Zhu Chen heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Although I am a hunter, I also want to cultivate myself and rule the country and the world." ”

When you come to Daming, you can't just be a butcher for a lifetime, right?

Even if he is an orphan, Zhu Chen wants to make a career on his own.

When Yang Shiqi heard this, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, the royal bloodline is different, and he can actually say such a thing as cultivating the Qi family from the perspective of an orion.

You know, even the princes in the court don't have his awareness.

Zhu Chen did not exaggerate this.

He also yearns for the pride of establishing a life for the people and for heaven and earth, but it is difficult to display it for a while.

Yang Shiqi smiled: "That's a good point, but if you want to govern the country and level the world, then you have to be an official, little brother, are you preparing for the imperial examination?" ”

When it came to the imperial examination, Zhu Chen was interested, he nodded and said, "I have already signed up for the college examination, and the examination will start in two months." ”

The imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty is not to get a jinshi when you come up, but to take the talent test first, then to raise people, and finally to get a jinshi.

After the hospital examination, Zhu Chen was a talent and had the qualifications to continue the scientific examination.

Yang Shiqi heard that Zhu Chen had signed up for the college examination, and couldn't help but be full of relief: "I like you motivated teenagers the most in my life, from now on you don't have to hunt, you can read the Four Books and Five Classics with peace of mind, how about I fully fund your scientific research?" ”

During the Ming Dynasty, many businessmen would also sponsor poor students to take scientific examinations, and once they were admitted, the investment was successful.

Zhu Chen also knew this, so he didn't feel strange.

In Yang Shiqi's thoughts, he never thought about investing in Taisun, let alone thinking about the problem from the perspective of a businessman.

Because he is an auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he is a former subordinate official of the Prince's Mansion, he does not ask for anything in return, he just wants to help Zhu Chen, so that he will not have such a difficult time.

Not only him, but also the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty after learning of Zhu Chen's identity, they were afraid that they would help Zhu Chen if they smashed the pot and sold iron, and the civil official group was firmly on the side of the prince.

If they learned that the grandson wanted to take the imperial examination, it would definitely be released all the way!

Unexpectedly, Zhu Chen shook his head and arched his hand and said: "Thank you, old man, how can I take your funding, I have my own hands and feet, and I can rely on myself." ”

Self-reliance, good.

Yang Shiqi's face was full of relief, this is the grandson, not arrogant or impatient, and has good moral character.

I wanted to take this opportunity to see what Taisun lacked, and Yang Shiqi would make up for it, but Zhu Chen didn't want anything, so he had to rely on himself.

In this way, Yang Shiqi didn't have much to say, he bowed his head and said: "That's okay, I won't bother you, but if you have any difficulties in the future, you can come here to find me." ”

After that, Yang Shiqi handed Zhu Chen a note, which said an address, which was Yang Shiqi's private residence.

Zhu Chen took it and arched his hand: "Then thank you old man." ”

Yang Shiqi smiled and bowed his head, and together with the coachman, turned to the carriage.

Zhu Chen watched the carriage leave, and after putting away the note in his hand, he looked at the book on the ground and smiled dumbly: "This old gentleman is also a particular person. ”

It's all at the foot of the mountain, Zhu Chen definitely can't go home with the book, so he just takes the book with him to hunt.

……

After the carriage turned.

Yang Shiqi asked the coachman outside again: "Who is the chief examiner of this year's college exam?" ”

"It seems to be Shangyuan Zhixian." The coachman recalled.

Shangyuan Zhixian, although the official position is small, but it is the status of a jinshi, Yang Shiqi bowed his head, and suddenly looked forward to it: "I am looking forward to the examination papers of my grandson in two months." ”

Taisun, it is very likely that he will inherit the throne in the future.

Even if someone blocked him on the way, the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty would clear some obstacles for him and try their best to push him to ascend to the throne.

Therefore, Yang Shiqi is also very concerned about the academic problems of the grandson.

"Go back and tell Shangyuan Zhixian to ask him to add a place for me in this year's hospital test." Yang Shiqi said with a smile.

"Yes." The coachman nodded hurriedly.

On the way back from the carriage, an official suddenly came in a hurry and said in a loud voice: "Lord Yang, that young man named Zhu Chen, my experience in the past eleven years has been fully investigated, I have collected it into a book, and I invite Lord Yang to look at it." ”

Taisun's identity is top secret, so Yang Shiqi didn't say it.

It is difficult to find out what happened before Zhu Chen was four years old, but the experience of the past eleven years has not been erased, and it is not easy to find out?

Yang Shiqi took the pamphlet and thanked the official, who was flattered: "Don't dare, don't dare, my subordinates will go first." ”

Yang Shiqi nodded, and was also a little curious about what Zhu Chen had encountered in the past eleven years, so he couldn't help but look at it.

The booklet is not big, and the number of pages is not much, but Yang Shiqi is flipping through it, but his eyes are gradually red.

The things recorded in this booklet are even harder and pitiful than ordinary peasant boys, and even some things made Yang Shiqi look at it, leaving only a stomach full of sadness.

Yang Shiqi was not born in the aristocracy, on the contrary, he was a son of a poor family, so he could understand the sadness, loneliness, and hard work.

"Taisun, Taisun, you are of royal blood, why is this so, you have such a hard time, it is not as good as that ordinary people."

"This ...... If the prince sees this, I'm afraid my heart will be broken, right? ”

Yang Shiqi couldn't help but think of the smile on Zhu Chen's face, if he was a different teenager and encountered such a miserable life experience, he was afraid that he would have to commit suicide.

But he can still laugh and say the words of self-reliance, which is enough to show the strength of his heart.

Yang Shiqi was sad and relieved in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Go to the Prince's Mansion." ”

This is something that the prince wants to see, and he can't hide it.

Soon, the coachman walked to the prince's mansion, and when he arrived at the prince's mansion, Yang Shiqi was greeted by the eunuchs.

"Prince, Lord Yang is here." The old eunuch shouted into the study.

"Oh, Lord Yang is here? Come in, come in, come in. The door of the study was opened, and Zhu Gaochi's fat face was smiling.

Yang Shiqi bowed deeply to the prince, and then walked into the prince's study.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't wait to ask: "Lord Yang, how did you inquire about the matter?" ”

Yang Shiqi's eyes were slightly red, he took out a booklet from his sleeve, and handed it to the prince with both hands: "Please also ask the prince to take a look, the eleven years of experience are here." ”

"The efficiency is good, hehe, thank you for your hard work." Zhu Gaochi patted Yang Shiqi on the shoulder, and then took the booklet intently and flipped through it.

Yang Shiqi sighed deeply, and couldn't bear to look at the prince's expression anymore.

Zhu Gaochi turned the first page, looked at it carefully, and read while reading: "In the first year of Yongle, I was hungry for three days and three nights, and I was so hungry that I was found by my adoptive parents from a mass grave. ”

This is the person who investigated, and went to ask Zhu Chen's neighbor about the news he got.

"When he was six years old, he followed his adoptive parents to work in the fields, but he couldn't afford to buy cattle, and his adoptive parents were old, so he walked in the fields with the plough on his back."

"When he was eight years old, his adoptive parents were seriously ill, and he went up the mountain every day to chop firewood in exchange for money to buy eggs for his adoptive parents to eat."

"In the same year, I had no money to buy medicine, so in order to save my adoptive parents, I knelt outside the pharmacy and begged the doctor, but was driven away by the medicine boy."

"At the age of nine, his adoptive parents both died of illness, and in order to live, he went up the mountain to chop wood, but accidentally fell down the mountain, broke a leg, and dragged the broken leg home."

"When he was ten years old, the villagers wanted to occupy his house, but he resisted to the death and smashed the villager with a stone to the point that his head was bleeding."

When the prince read these out one by one, the smile on the prince's face froze.

He read sentence by sentence, page by page, but the tears could not stop falling, wetting the pamphlet, unable to turn the page, the prince was stained with spittle, and continued to turn the page.

While reading, the prince's eyes were already blurred.

Zhu Gaochi couldn't imagine how a person could live, without friends, relatives, or anyone who loved him, he just relied on himself and lived tenaciously for eleven years.

finally had an adoptive parent, but they were old and sick, not to mention that they helped Zhu Chen, but dragged Zhu Chen down a lot.

After the old couple died, Zhu Chen was completely alone, even if he broke his leg from the mountain, he had to get up alone and walk home tenaciously.

This center is sour, hard, and who does the Tao say to?

After reading it, the prince's eyes were already red, and his eyes stared at the booklet in his hand in a daze, and the words in it seemed to poke his heart fiercely.

"This child is filial, great filial piety, his adoptive parents are sick, but he can still insist on taking care of him for so many years."

"I just regret it, why did I lose him in the first place, he is the grandson, the old man likes this child the most, but the royal wealth, he didn't enjoy it at all."

"For so many years, how could he suffer such a crime when he was alone."

Zhu Gaochi held on to the table, his eyes were distracted: "Thousands of mistakes, it's all my father's fault, it's my father's unkindness, it's hurt you, all these years of hardship, my father is cold when he sees it, and he can't make up for it in this life." ”

Yang Shiqi knew that this would be the case.

The prince is kind-hearted, and he usually feels distressed when he sees a civil official being tortured, but now he has changed to a grandson, how can he not feel distressed and sad when he sees this?

If you can stabilize your emotions, you can already count the prince's city mansion as very deep.

"Prince, don't be too upset." Yang Shiqi was relieved: "Taisun is very sensible, I met with him today, I asked him what he wanted, I can fund it, but he said that he didn't want anything." ”

"It's fake not to be sad, if the crown princess knows about this, his mother is afraid that she will cry so much that she can't sleep." Zhu Gao said sadly.

Before the words fell, the voice of the crown princess suddenly came from outside the study: "What is it talking about?" What are you hiding from me? ”