Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Among all the nobles in the capital, only the Liu family was supported by Emperor Jingfeng.On the premise that the Liu family and his son had no achievements, he made Liu Qingli a Marquis, promoted Liu Jingnan all the way to the position of deputy commander of the Imperial Army, and personally promoted the Liu family into an "upstart".

Emperor Jingfeng's move was to improve the status of Concubine Liu Gui's natal family, so that the second prince would "be more precious than his mother" and become the one with the highest birth mother among the princes.

However, "upstarts" are "upstarts", and their status has been raised, but their vision and knowledge have not been raised.The Liu family was spoiled and arrogant, and made a lot of troubles, disgraced Concubine Liu Gui, mother and son, and Emperor Jingfeng. Every time, Emperor Jingfeng would cover it up and wipe the Liu family's ass.

But there is a limit to human tolerance and patience. Even ordinary people can't bear to do it again and again, let alone the king of a country. Emperor Jingfeng helped them once or twice, but he might not help them three or four times.After the court brawl that year, Emperor Jingfeng appointed the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince. Although his love for Concubine Liu remained unchanged, his attitude towards the Liu family plummeted.

This time, if the Liu family father and son confessed about their gambling debts on their own initiative, it is still unknown whether Emperor Jing Feng would continue to help them cover it up, or deal with them directly in a fit of anger.

But apart from this road, Liu Qingli really couldn't think of any other way. When it came to the matter of the second prince's entry into the Wenhua Palace, he had no other choice: "Whether His Majesty will help us or not, the Second Highness will go to the Wenhua Palace to study. I'm afraid things are hopeless."

Liu Jingnan was a little unwilling: "At the beginning, His Royal Highness was not able to study with the prince, so he was already a step behind. If the prince was studying in the Wenhua Palace, but he went to the Imperial College, wouldn't the gap between the two be getting bigger and bigger? What else are you going to use to compete with the prince?"

Liu Qingli suppressed his anger, and his face was ugly: "I don't understand this truth? But if we don't tell His Majesty, what else can we do? In the final analysis, this is a disaster caused by you, but you can come up with a way for me to I can raise 6000 taels of silver overnight!"

Liu Jingnan couldn't think of a solution, so he kept his mouth shut.

At this time, the staff Jiang Yang rolled his eyes twice, and tentatively said: "Master Hou, I have a way to make money. Although it is not possible to raise 6000 taels in one night, it is still not enough to raise 6000 taels in a month." questionable."

Liu Qingli's heart skipped a beat: "What way?"

Jiang Yang said: "The new imperial examination is coming soon, scholars from all over the world are gathering in the capital, at least five to six thousand people came to take the exam. Now, any business that has something to do with the imperial examination will make a lot of money. Man? These scholars are rich in their hands, but their brains are stupid, and they are especially willing to spend money on the imperial examinations, so they can make a lot of money."

"Let's just say that we will try the test question sets and teaching aids over the years. Even the worst printed copies will sell for at least seven or eight taels of silver a copy, and the good ones will even cost ten taels of silver a copy. As long as they sell Didn’t the last six or seven hundred copies come out with 6000 taels of silver? It just so happens that we have a printing workshop under our name, isn’t this a ready-made business?”

Liu Qingli frowned, and said in a bad mood: "It's easy to say, there is no cost for printing books? If you sell a book worth 1000 taels, the net profit will only be 400 taels at most. According to this calculation, we need to sell at least [-] taels to pay back the money." Gambling debts. Besides, we are not the only ones who sell books in the capital, why should they come to us to buy them? We will be thankful if we can sell one or two hundred books by then!"

Jiang Yang smiled slightly, with a shrewd light in his eyes: "It's very simple, just increase the price. Others sell it for ten taels of silver, we sell it for 20 taels of silver."

Liu Jingnan looked at him with incomprehensible eyes: "Mr. Jiang, are you confused? We can't sell a book for ten taels of silver, but someone can buy a book for 20 taels of silver? It is said that scholars are stupid, but they are not What a fool! Who would pay twice the market price for our mediocre book?"

"Then what if there are exam questions for this exam in this book?"

"What?" Hearing this, the Liu family father and son were all taken aback, almost suspecting that they had heard it wrong, and stared at Jiang Yang in a daze.

Liu Jingnan swallowed his saliva, and said with some difficulty: "Mr. Jiang, don't be joking. The imperial examination is of great importance, and the test questions are secretly drawn up by the examiners. Before the start of the examination, the Feiyuwei guarded it closely. How did we know that?" ?”

"...Take a step back, even if we manage to get it, we don't dare to openly write it in the supplementary textbooks and sell it for money. For cheating in the imperial examination, you will be killed!"

Jiang Yang said unhurriedly: "Of course I know this. After all, our purpose is just to make money, and there is no need to risk our lives. We don't need to get the exam questions, just compile the supplementary books casually, and claim that there are some of them when we sell them." Maybe the exam questions will suffice.”

"Those scholars who failed in the examination repeatedly dreamed of passing the Gongshi examination, but anyone who had the slightest hope of passing the examination was willing to give it a try with the idea of ​​not being afraid of 20, just in case. Let alone 200 taels of silver, even It’s [-] taels, and there are plenty of people buying it.”

It's about the imperial examination, Liu Qingli is very hesitant: "But this is an imperial examination after all. If the leak of the examination questions is widely circulated, won't it alarm the court? Even if the court doesn't investigate, the Feiyuwei will investigate. Do you think we can escape?" The all-pervasive Flying Fish Guard?"

Jiang Yang obviously considered this, and smiled confidently: "Who said the exam questions were leaked? In our teaching aids, there are only 'maybe' and 'possible' information about the exam questions. As for whether there are, and how many, who knows?"

"When some merchants sell books, they are known as 'the masters of betting on the subject', and they will surely be able to bet on the questions of this year's exam. Compared with them, we are already very restrained. At most, we can only say that it is just chasing after the wind. Who can determine the illusory things? Our sin? After all, we didn’t really reveal the subject.”

Liu Jingnan wondered: "But in this way, the credibility of our news will also be reduced. After all, there are so many merchants who claim to bet on the winning title, and the candidates may be tired of hearing it, so they may not necessarily buy our book. "

Jiang Yang said: "They claim to bet on the subject, but they are just 'claiming', there is no guarantee, so they have no credibility. We can use the name of the first place in the previous imperial examinations to advertise to increase credibility. For example, in the last imperial examination , All the merchants in the capital are saying that Gu Yunji of "Lianzhong Sanyuan" used his products, did Gu Yunji really use it? It's nothing more than a means to attract customers."

"It's just rumors, so even if our propaganda is found to be false after the exam, those candidates can't do anything about it. On the one hand, the matter has passed and there is no way to be held accountable. On the other hand, it is only a matter of 20 taels of silver. It's not worth the trouble."

"Even if there is a problem in the end, we can still shift the responsibility to the people below and choose ourselves cleanly. Anyway, the court will never get to the bottom of this trivial matter."

Seeing that the two were still hesitating, Jiang Yang slowly raised his eyelids, and poked his heart out: "Maybe Hou Ye and Shizi can think of other ways to raise 6000 taels of silver openly, and then there is no risk at all."

Hearing this, Liu Qingli's precarious psychological defense was breached, he thought over and over again, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's do it like this."