You cannot become a sharp blade in the hands of the emperor, killing your colleagues arbitrarily, and you cannot harm everyone's interests.
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Since ancient times, even if a lonely official is not corrupt, he will rarely end well, not to mention you are still a corrupt official.
You've touched most people's cake, do you still want to live?
This is He Shen's second way to die.
The last one is that He Shen accumulated wealth through corruption, bribery, and business, which made him rich enough to rival the country.
Since ancient times, even the emperor cannot eat alone, let alone you are just a minister.
People, the more prosperous their family is, their wealth is as great as that of a country, and they are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the more they are remembered.
These three items are enough to make everyone have murderous intention towards He Shen.
When more than 99% of the people in this world want to kill you, how can you not die?
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Therefore, the current Heshen does not intend to follow the path of the original Heshen. He wants to find his own way.
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Fortunately, He Shen has not yet entered officialdom and has the opportunity to change himself.
Now Heshen is ready to study hard, first get a good name, and then use the Niu Hulu family's connections to join the civil servant group of noble lineage and grace lineage.
The reason why He Shen went through so much trouble was entirely because he wanted to better stand out in the officialdom.
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The officialdom of the feudal dynasty has always been determined by birth.
He Shen was born into a noble lineage, a family of military generals, and he was born to be an official of the noble lineage.
Although this kind of background can bring him great innate benefits, it also means that he is only suitable for the path of the noble lineage.
Whether he is a civil servant or a military general, as long as he steps into the officialdom, everyone will assume that he is an official of the honorable system.
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If He Shen, who was born in a noble family, wants to change his identity and not join the officials of the noble family, that's okay.
But the consequences are quite serious, and you basically won't be able to get ahead for the rest of your life.
Officials who originally came from the same family as you, from the noble lineage, will feel that you look down on them and that you have betrayed them.
In the officialdom, officials of the noble line will do everything possible to deal with betrayers.
Even if you miss your old feelings and don't trample the traitor to death, you will be dismissed from office.
And the other side.
No matter how much you prove that you passed the imperial examination and sat in this position one after another, those officials from the Qingliu line, that is, the officials from the first line of Jiangnan Shixiangmen, will still not accept you.
Because this is the unspoken rule of officialdom.
Therefore, in officialdom, family background determines the lineup, and butt determines the head.
The position of the butt is more important than the shrewdness of the head.
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Let’s get back to the point!
It is quite difficult to pass the orthodox imperial examination and become a high-level civil servant.
It's like thousands of troops crossing the single-plank bridge, and only one person can cross it.
If a child from an ordinary scholarly family wants to take the imperial examination, he must first pass the children's examination.
The children's examination is hosted by the county magistrate. There are generally five examinations, including eight-part essays, poems, classics, rhymes, and policy theory. One person is selected from a hundred people, and the escape rate is 99%.
After passing the child examination, you can be considered to have the lowest level of fame. Although there are no big benefits, at least the social status is quite high.
After a scholar becomes a child, even if he cannot go further in the future and has no business acumen, he can still teach and copy articles and books for others to make a living.
As long as you are willing to put down some dignity, your life will be much easier than that of ordinary people.
If Tongsheng wants to go further, he needs to take the college examination. After passing the examination, he will be a "shengyuan", and the common people call him "xiucai".
In the Qing Dynasty, as long as you passed the examination as a student, that is, you had the title of scholar, you would be completely separated from the ordinary people and you could have some practical privileges.
For example, he is exempted from the Dingtian grain tax, and does not have to kneel down in court, etc. These are real rights.
Scholars who have passed the scholar examination, as long as they are not stupid scholars, can usually make a living in the local county government and become rich people.
The third level of the imperial examination is even more powerful.
The rural examination is also called Dabi and Qiuwei.
It is held every three years in a province. In the end, only a few dozen scholars can be recruited in a province.
The total number of admissions from all provinces in the country will not exceed 1,000.
The rural examination can be said to be the most important among the imperial examinations, and it is also the test that has the largest number of people passing it.
After all, after passing the provincial examination, you have the qualifications to be an official and can be called a great man.
The fourth level after the provincial examination is the proficiency test.
It is often held from the 9th to the 15th of February in the following year after the provincial examination. It is presided over by the Ministry of Etiquette of the Capital. It is also called Chunwei and Liwei.
Although passing the examination as a monk does not bring any practical benefits, it does provide you with the qualifications to enter the next level of the palace examination and the opportunity to meet the emperor.
The palace examination, which is the last stage of the imperial examination, is often referred to as "jumping through the dragon's gate".
Those who pass the exam will be named on the gold list. They are considered to have a Jinshi background and can be said to have unlimited potential.
The top three are called No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3. They are regarded as Jinshi and are ranked among the first-class students. Then there are the second-class students and the third-class students. Anyway, they are all from Jinshi background.
These are the formal imperial examination system, and they are also the various examinations that normal scholars must pass if they want to become an official.
But since everything is normal, there are also abnormal things.
There are normal imperial examinations, but there is also the grace of skipping the imperial examination and being able to enter the court as an official and directly gain fame, which is called enke.
This kind of great grace is not something that ordinary people or ordinary wealthy people can expect. It is a test specially set by the emperor to disturb the noble family.
If you want to participate in Enke, you must obtain the status of a child student of the Imperial College, and if you want to become a child student of the Imperial College, what matters is not your personal efforts, but how you were born.
Because the original purpose of establishing the Imperial College was for the unlearned and unskilled children of the noble lineage and some favored relatives.
These wealthy and aristocratic families have to compete with each other to get the quota for the Imperial College. How can they be allocated to ordinary people?
As it happens, the Niu Hulu family, one of the eight major families, has this kind of privilege.
Of course, this kind of privilege will not fall on a child like He Shen who has no father or mother.
Therefore, even if He Shen wants to take shortcuts, he is not qualified.
He Shen, who had almost handled everything here, went to He Mansion in the capital.
A martial arts training ground.
Four years later, a young man whose body had grown out was holding an iron sword without a blade. He stood in the middle, surrounded by ten tall and strong soldiers.
These strong and powerful guards were all wearing armor and holding spears and knives. Of course, the weapons in their hands were not sharpened.
Four years have passed.
In the past four years, He Shen has gained the reputation of a scholar through hard study and careful management.
Of course, although most of his thoughts were spent on studying, He Shen did not abandon other aspects, especially martial arts.
In the current world, although people who practice magic are prohibited from appearing, it does not prohibit the practice of internal energy.
Now, at the age of fifteen, he is over 1.85 meters tall, and his martial arts skills have reached the level of a top-notch martial arts player. He can defeat one against a hundred without any problem.
"It's still the same old rules."
He Shen glanced around, his gaze several times scarier than that of a tiger.
"As long as you join forces to defeat me, each of you will receive one hundred taels of silver!"
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"clear!"
"Master, be careful."
"Hahahaha, brothers, let me show you our strength."
These master guards were roaring one by one. They were all second- and third-rate masters in the world. They had rich combat experience, and all of them could block ten with one.
And these masters in the world were all hired from outside by He Shen at a high price to look after the homes and homes.
One hundred taels of silver was a huge amount of wealth in the Qing Dynasty, and it was real hard currency.
One hundred taels of silver can buy a large house in a small city, more than ten acres of land in a town, and several wives.
In short, these one hundred taels of silver are attractive enough for these ten nursing home masters.
However, none of them dared to be careless when facing He Shen, because they had already seen He Shen's martial arts with their own eyes.
Even if ten second- and third-rate masters join forces, it will be difficult to defeat He Shen, but it is still possible.
He Shen held a blunt sword without an edge and silently scanned the surroundings.
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Ten martial arts masters were walking around He Shen, each of them staring at He Shen as if staring at a prey.
But He Shen was motionless, as motionless as a mountain.
"Prin!" "Prin!" "Prin!"
The ten masters of martial arts who were walking around suddenly rushed forward. The spears and knives in their hands were slashed out at the speed of wind, and they were in front of He Shen in an instant.
He Shen, on his side, took the lead and pulled out the blunt sword in his hand as fast as he could.
A black blunt sword, as if it had no weight, came in silently, and the sword light flashed, as fast as lightning, strange and terrifying.
I saw a line of sword light, but I couldn't see where the sword tip was.
The swords and spears in the hands of these ten martial arts masters were still an inch away from Heshen's body, but they could no longer stab him.
Because that blunt black sword had already knocked ten martial arts masters away.
After a circle, He Shen changed from holding the sword in his right hand to holding the sword in his left hand, because after one blow, the ten martial arts masters changed from a circular siege to a ladder-like 2, 3, 2, 3 siege.
The two martial arts masters at the front were holding long knives and moving forward with great momentum. When the long knives were swung out, they made bursts of air explosions, with a faint sound of breaking through the air.
Seeing this, He Shen was also unwilling to be outdone. He did not dodge or evade, but just stepped forward and drew his sword. With one strike of the sword, the inner family's true energy burst out.
