To get rich quickly, you need to be simple and rough

An old man who refuses to die is a thief. Shen Fu also produced a batch of six-foot-wide cotton satin cloth, which was dyed into the same complicated patterns designed by his grandson. Shen Fu secretly took it to exchange for silver from foreigners.

This kind of cloth costs eight taels of silver per piece, and after deducting the cost, the Shen family made a profit of 120,000 taels of silver from this batch of goods. Although the Shen family is honestly farming at home, it is easy for him to make money if he wants to.

The Shen family is only simple on the surface now. In fact, the meat in the buns is not in the folds. The cornmeal outside is full of oil when you bite it.

Shen Fu has been in the business world for many years, and the most important thing is not his family's money, but his various channels. Zhu Yuanzhang actually did something that killed the chicken to get the eggs.

As long as Zhu Yuanzhang can tie Shen Fu down and make him make money for the country, he will get more! Shen Fu's business acumen is revealed in every pore of his body.

Even though he has become an old farmer now, he still has the ability to make money. Rather than saying that the cornucopia made the Shen family successful, it is better to say that Shen Fu, a shrewd man, made the Shen family glorious.

Now Shen Fu, who is eating pork and making a fortune in silence, is like a slimy loach. No one can catch his tail!

The Shen family was thriving, and Shen Yujin was also working hard, waiting for a big breakthrough in April. Although the title of scholar might not seem great, it was the starting point of his official career.

Shen Yujin did not dare to slack off at all and reviewed his lessons intensively. In the blink of an eye, it was the ninth day of the eighth lunar month. The Imperial Examination Hall, not far from the Hangzhou government office, was bustling with people. Clever vendors were selling snacks such as cakes, pastries, and tea eggs nearby.

The examination for the scholar lasted ten days. With so many people, wouldn't they have to eat and drink? This also provided some families with income. From spring to autumn, when the crops in the fields were harvested, the autumn examination began!

First of all, the government gave very few places to local colleges and universities. At the beginning, it was stipulated that the number of students in the prefectural school was 40, the number of students in the state school was 30, and the number of students in the county school was even fewer, only 20. The number of people stipulated at the beginning was called "Lianshan students", because the government would give them some stipends, money and food, and they also enjoyed the privilege of exempting two people in their family from labor service. Obviously, this number of places was still not enough. For a county, there were only 20 places, and the difficulty of competing for them can be imagined. Therefore, under the strong request of the scholars, the same number of places was added, that is, 40 people in the county school, 60 people in the state school, and 80 people in the prefectural school. However, this part of the increase no longer enjoyed the treatment of money and food, so it was called "Zengguang students". It was really miserable!

At dawn on August 9th, candidates began to enter the examination hall. They were not allowed to bring anything except their required writing materials, such as pens and ink. They were subjected to a body search by yamen runners, from head to shoe. Any cheating was disqualified. After passing the inspection, a "staff member" led the candidates to a separate room and placed them under guard. All they could do was wait for the exam to begin.

The exam wasn't a single, decisive one; rather, it involved three rounds of selection. The first round focused on the Four Books and the Confucian Classics. Students were required to write three questions on the Four Books, each with a minimum of 200 words, and four questions on the Confucian Classics, each with a minimum of 300 words. This first round was relatively basic, testing students' memorization skills.

It takes a lot of effort to pass the exam to become a scholar. The threshold for becoming a scholar is not low, so there are old scholars but no poor scholars.

In ancient times, don't look down on any scholar. They were all well-educated people who had made it through thousands of hardships.

Shen Yujin has always had good luck. The position he was assigned was neither a bad number nor a missed number. He even had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the position during the many days of the exam. It really killed Shen Yujin.

Some people are not clear about what is a bad number and what is a missing number. A bad number is the one next to the toilet, and a missing number is the one with missing tiles on the ceiling.

No matter how brilliant your writing is, if it rains, the papers with missed numbers will be soaked into pieces. No matter how quick-witted you are, if you smell the pungent smell of feces and urine every day, you will not be able to write a good article.

The imperial examination was a real pain in the ass. The yamen runners had torn the dry food Shen Yujin brought into pieces, and Shen Yujin tossed the broken food into the space in batches. After finishing the papers during the day, he would sleep on the wooden board that served as a table in the examination room at night. A few bricks and Shen Yujin lay on the bed in his clothes.

He didn't dare to steal any food with a strong smell, so he just made do with the bread and milk in the space. When Shen Yujin came out of the Imperial Examination Hall, he looked like moldy pickled mustard greens.

Shen Rong felt so bitter from the inside out that he was almost in tears. His son was just young. If he were at his age, he would easily have died in the Imperial Examination Hall.

Who the hell said that studying is easy? Just study it every day. Anyone who has taken the test knows that it is a torture that no human can endure.

Shen Yujin was relatively lucky. Some people who were a little fat would get a lot of prickly heat during the autumn examination. The rooms in the Imperial Examination Hall were poorly ventilated, and the autumn heat was quite severe. Many people were carried out due to heatstroke.

Shen Yujin walked to his own mule cart, and Tongxi and Tonghe helped Shen Yujin onto the cart. They arrived home in just a few minutes.

Aunt Zhang at home boiled the bath water, and Shen Yujin almost fell asleep while lying in the bathtub. Tongxi and Tonghe were washing Shen Yujin's hair.

Shen Yujin's long hair looked like a bird's nest after spending a few days in the Imperial Examination Hall. Tongxi poured the remaining shampoo in the porcelain bottle on Shen Yujin's head, kneading it into rich foam. Tonghe used a gourd ladle to pour warm water on Shen Yujin's head.

After rinsing it clean, he applied the unclogging ointment and smeared it thickly on Shen Yujin's head. He massaged it for a while and then washed it with clean water.

Shen Yujin rubbed his chest, thighs and back, and the two of them rubbed them very clean.

Shen Yujin dried his hair, changed into pajamas, went to his room and fell asleep. Shen Rong was so scared that he hurried to Yong'an Hall on the street to ask a doctor to take Shen Yujin's pulse.

The old doctor stroked his beard and shook his head. "Your son has just lost a little too much energy. Judging from his pulse, he's fine. He doesn't need to take medicine. He just needs to recuperate at home for a few days and he'll be fine."

Shen Rong felt relieved when he heard that his son was fine. His son was his life. How would he live if anything happened to him?

After a full day and night of sleep, Shen Yujin finally woke up feeling relaxed. The seventeen-year-old boy was in his prime, with a face as white as jade and a noble temperament.

After Shen Yujin finished washing up, Aunt Zhang prepared a table full of delicious dishes: braised lion's head, salt and pepper shrimp, stir-fried kidney, pickled pork belly, fried eel shreds, and blanched dried bean curd strips. A bowl of glutinous rice was also served.

Shen Yujin ate without raising his head or opening his eyes. He had been eating milk bread these days and almost vomited. When he saw the sumptuous meal, Shen Yujin ate and drank heartily.

Shen Rong was so distressed that he burst into tears. His son had never suffered such a great suffering since he was born!