The harem of the Chu Imperial Palace.

Emperor Chu lay beside Empress Chen.

Empress Chen was originally a poor family, and her brother Shen Xi was originally a broken talent in Shenjiagou, Dongyang County, Chu State, and Shen Xi's grandfather was originally a dizhu of Shenjiagou, but then his father gambled and finally lost, from his great-grandfather's family, to his grandfather's generation, to his brother's generation to be completely defeated.

However, the Shen family has a bit of ancestral merit after all, even if the family is in the middle of the road and dilapidated.

But in Shen Xi's education, his father is still very willing to spend, the head of this generation of the Shen family, when he was young, he was prodigal and gambled all his family property, but when he reached middle age, he woke up, even if he farmed land for others as a tenant farmer and earned some meager family property, he was willing to invest most of it in education.

Many children in the countryside of Shenjiagou have come out early to work to make ends meet. And Shen Xi was able to study comfortably in the school because of this.

Originally, the Shen family didn't have much hope that Shen Xi would be able to pass the top prize, and the villagers in the mountain nest never had the luxury of hoping that the golden phoenix could come out of their own house.

But later, in the year of Shen Xi's exam, it coincided with the rectification of the imperial court and the cleaning of the government.

Shen Xi has been studying hard for more than ten years, and this moment came in handy, and he was the champion in high school.

Later, he was seconded to Beijing and arranged for an idle job.

After Shen Xi high school, the Shen family's dilapidated family had a faint momentum of revitalization, and later Shen Xi's father, that is, the contemporary head of the family, took out all eighty percent of his savings to hold a banquet.

Ten days later, the local county magistrate arranged a vehicle to send Shen Xi's family to Yingdu. Before leaving, he also gave Shen Xi's family a million snowflake silver.

Before leaving, Shen Xi was about to excuse himself, but was stopped by his father. The old man was over half a hundred years old at this time, but he also knew some about the situation, and said with a smile after getting in the car: "If you go to the city of Kyoto, it's not good to have no money after all." This county gave money, in order to let you speak for him more in Kyoto, and it was born in the same place, and it should be carried out. ”

Shen Xi is young after all. "Hmph, when I was broken, I was afraid to avoid it, but now I am the top student in high school, but I am so flattering. It's really snobbish. ”

Shen Xi's father smiled but said nothing.

Later, when Shen Xi's family arrived in Yingdu, his father Shen Bai used the money given by Shen Jiagou County to make the new champion Shen Xi's road a little better than before.

But Shen Xi is also a young man after all, and he has been reading the sage books for more than ten years, and he is still childish. During his tenure as an official, he contradicted his superiors and arranged some things without authorization, which led to the paralysis of the zhengzhi system.

At this point, Shen Xi was relegated to an idle position. Because he is the champion, even if he creates a catastrophe, the court will save face for the champion and inspire the world's scholars, even if the champion is useless, he can enjoy his old age.

After Shen Xi was demoted, he was also open-minded, and he really became a carefree official. This idle official is very comfortable, holding the court money, eating, drinking and having fun. Don't worry about anything, you can basically eat and drink without worry.

But people are strange after all, after eating and drinking, Shen Xi is unhappy, the reason is very simple, there are no young children in Kyoto to play with him, he is alone all day. It seems to be a unique existence.

Later, Shen Xi looked at those high-ranking children of the family, and many people looked at him with a kind of contempt. In Shen Yu's view, this is a natural sense of superiority.

Even if he is the champion, he will not be able to break this barrier.

After being idle for half a month, Shen Xi felt that he couldn't go on like this, boiling frogs in warm water, and studying hard for more than ten years If he was just to live this kind of life, then he would still work hard!

People need a sense of accomplishment to live, and now Shen Xi doesn't feel any achievement at all. Rather, it's like a moth.

That night, Shen Xi sat alone for half the night, and he couldn't sleep. He was young, competitive, and energetic. He was not willing to be so confused.

That night, he came to his senses. Horizontal and vertical are decades, if you don't do something vigorous, is it worthy of his life?

Thinking of this, Shen Xi fell asleep, and after opening up a certain joint in his heart, he slept soundly.

The next day, of course, Shen Xi was still the same. As the saying goes, there are thousands of ways to go at night, and a way to get up early during the day. However, the trajectory of Shen Xi's life has quietly changed, and at this moment, he will pay more attention to all kinds of things in life, wanting to find opportunities, or want to create opportunities.

Shen Xi felt that he needed power to do something of his own, and at the same time, he also saw that this title of champion was just a stepping stone in Kyoto, where there were many masters. Since it's bricks, after the house is built, it's just bricks. How to become more valuable still needs to be cultivated.

In this Kyoto, there are many champions from all over the world who have accumulated over the years, and there are not a few who are unpopular.

Shen Xi felt a sense of crisis in his heart. Nothing else, the title of champion only worked a little bit in the first few months of his tenure, but after a long time, who recognized him as the champion? And now he lives in a place, an idle person. What kind of merit? It is also lying on the merit book and eating the old book.

And his Ben is as thin as a piece of paper than the champions who have been piled up with great business and resources.

Shen Xi, who figured out this joint, only felt a cold sweat. Boiling a frog in warm water, reality leaves him with little chance. If he doesn't do something to come out, then what awaits him is mediocrity.

Thinking of this, Shen Xi jumped to his feet in a hurry, but he didn't know what was valuable.

Fight for money?

Shen Xi shook his head, it's too vulgar, if this is a valuable thing, then the rich man, Gao Guan would have been satisfied a long time ago, but throughout the ages, how many rich people, how many Gao Guan, not even a name has been remembered by the public.

Therefore, unless there is an infinite amount of money, and there is no infinite amount of money, it has become the peak of the era that cannot be bypassed in the same era in history, and it is basically still in the long river of history.

Thinking about this, Shen Xi suddenly saw himself clearly, his current achievements are too far behind those of celebrities in history. The gap between people can really reach the difference between clouds and mud, and he was complacent in the first stage of his life before, thinking that he was already strong. It was really carried away by a short-lived victory.

At the same time, Shen Xi felt that making money and fighting for quan were all old routines. If you pass this top-notch, it will be more difficult than the top student in high school, so Shen Xi's first thing is to eliminate these two options, nothing else, if you want to go down in history, these two are too vulgar, and the risk is too great.

You may distort your heart and be spurned because of the struggle for fame and fortune. Of course, these are all minor problems, and the most important thing is that if you pay too much, the return is too low.

So what kind of career can be regarded as a career that can be fought for a lifetime, and can leave a clear name in the world?

At this moment, Shen Xi's mind was confused when he thought about this question. After all, he has seen all the routines in history, but they are all too hypocritical. The hypocrisy of the upper echelons of celebrities. Climb the powerful, be the grass on the wall, climb high and step low. He didn't want to. This is detrimental to personality! Although as a person, Shen Xi also has desires. But he was able to restrain himself.