Although Wu Kongjia was very polite, Wei Bao still didn't want to have any deeper contact with him.

Wei Bao wasn't afraid of revealing what he and Wei Zhongxian had in private.

In fact, since he secretly sent a letter to Wei Zhongxian, in order to pass the exam, Wei Bao was out of the way.

Since then, Wei Bao has not been afraid that people will know that he has a leg with Wei Zhongxian!

Wei Bao believes that if people don't know, they can't do it unless they do.

But if you can not be exposed, it is better not to be exposed.

Although it is said that if people don't know about it, they can't do it unless they do it, but there are some things that are hidden for a few years, more than ten years, or even decades.

President Wei does not pray to hide the fact that he has a leg with Wei Zhongxian forever, as long as he can hide the fall of Wei Zhongxian and the historical intersection of Chongzhen's ascension.

Judging from the complexion of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse today, Wei Bao estimates that Zhu Youxiao is very likely to die or when he should die according to the time in history.

The longer it takes to be reborn, the more Wei Bao discovers that he has not brought any butterfly effect at all, what should I do, history is basically still following the original track.

It's as if he now controls such a large piece of land in southern Liaonan, as well as the Gyeonggi and Hwanghaedo regions of North Korea!

Add to that Weijiazhuang, and he actually controls more than 5 million people!

Add to that the two most populous regions of North Korea, and he has actually controlled more than six million people.

But so what?

The rest of the Ming Dynasty has almost no impact at all.

Not to mention other places, Liaodong, which is next to it, has no impact at all.

Liaoxi also had no influence at all, let alone Northern Zhili.

Although Wei Bao has opened a lot of business in the capital, he has also opened a lot of business in Beizhili.

But what he integrated was small business, which did not hinder the business pattern of Daming.

Because of this, the Jin merchants no longer put the Heaven and Earth Society in a hostile position, and acquiesced in the development of the Heaven and Earth Society in the Guan.

Wei Bao doesn't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that has no impact, it should be a good thing logically speaking, but he has done so many things, and he has no influence on history, and he can't help but be lonely.

After Wu Kongjia left, Fan asked with a big head: "Childe, why do you talk so much to this kind of person?" ”

"People talk to us, do we ignore it? In officialdom, you have to go left and right, whether you like it or not, you can't easily turn your face. Wei Bao said: "It's not good for anyone." ”

Fan nodded with a smile: "What Childe said is true." However, I'm just afraid that I'm too wronged by the son. ”

Wei Bao also smiled, "If you can't stand this grievance, don't mix with officialdom." ”

In fact, Wei Bao himself doesn't know if he can stand the dirty things in officialdom.

Although he knows very clearly what he wants from officialdom, what he wants is power and power, not to loot the people's fat and people's cream!

At least, Wei Bao is now very confident that with his own ability, while completing a local tax with quality and quantity, he will greatly improve the local economic level, and it is not a problem to make money!

With power, money will come naturally, and similarly, if there is more money, power will follow, and the two are complementary to each other, as has been the case since ancient times.

Back at the mansion, Wu Xuexia and Wu Sanfu, Wang Qiuya and Princess Zhenming were all waiting for him.

However, this time, the four of them did not wait dryly, but waited while playing mahjong.

Mahjong has been popular in the Ming Dynasty, and the wisdom of the Chinese people cannot be underestimated, especially in these inventions.

Wei Bao doesn't like to play these, although he knows a little about almost all gambling methods, but Wei Bao doesn't like gambling in modern times, and feels that it hurts money and hurts his body.

He himself knows that he is not the material to make a living from gambling, and those who can make a living from gambling must at least be ruthless, and he knows that he is not so ruthless.

It's not the end of the ruthlessness, you still have to have a big heart, you have to get used to living a life with today and no tomorrow, gamblers and people who make a living from gambling are usually like that, obviously, Wei Bao can't do it either.

"I'm back." Wu Xuexia was about to stand up as she spoke.

Wu Sanfu hurriedly said: "Sit down, sit down, you can still talk when you sit down." I'm about to win here. ”

"Childe is back, how can you not stand up? Don't you have to behave? Wu Xuexia knocked down the cards with a smile: "I'll play later." ”

Wu Sanfu shouted: "I'm going to be Hu Qing." You've lost it. ”

Wang Qiuya and Princess Zhenming had already stood up and covered their mouths and laughed together.

Wei Bao was slightly jealous, feeling that Wu Sanfu was quite popular among his women, but he had a smile on his face.

"How's the president? Did you do well in the exam? Is it easy to take the test? Princess Zhenming asked.

"These two are actually the same problem, right? It's a good test. Wei Bao smiled slightly: "Anyway, the exam is over, so I won't talk about it." ”

"Don't, tell me, can you point the champion?" Wu Sanfu asked.

"Where do I know where to go? The point champion is something that the emperor has to decide. Wei Bao laughed.

"I feel like it's something that nine thousand years old decide!" Wu Sanfu said.

"If that's the case, it's something that the nine thousand years old decided with the ministers. It is estimated that the nine thousand years old first came up with a list plan to the emperor, and the emperor should approve it, and then pass it to the cabinet, and the ministers will issue it, right? Wei Bao said.

"Well, it seems like that." Wu Xuexia said: "The normal process of the Ming court deciding things is to draw up a ticket from the cabinet, and then the emperor approves it, and then sends it back to the cabinet. The time for the palace test list is not accurate, if it is fast, it will be released tomorrow, if it is slow, it will be normal for one or two months. ”

"You know a lot." Wei Bao laughed.

"Well, Childe went to the exam, and I wasn't idle, I learned more about it." Wu Xuexia smiled and said: "Childe, take a good rest, don't think about it, you will know the result, does Childe want to play cards?" ”

"No, you guys can play." Wei Bao smiled and said to Lin Wenbiao: "Take ten taels of silver to Brother Sanfu, the one just now is mine." ”

Wu Sanfu was overjoyed when he heard this, they didn't fight as big, and they couldn't win or lose more than one hundred and eighty taels of silver a day, "Thank you, Xiaobao." ”

Wu Xuexia patted her brother: "Happy now?" If you get all of them, you can win a few bucks of silver at most, right? ”

Wu Sanfu smiled, took out five taels of silver from the ten taels of silver and put them in Wu Xuexia's hand: "It's okay now, right?" ”

Wu Xuexia put the silver tattoo on the table in front of her with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "It's about the same." ”

In the next few days, there was no news in the palace that the palace trial list was released.

President Wei rested in the house for several days, read books, slept lazily, and learned martial arts with Wu Xuexia, but he was also comfortable.

Wu Sanfu occasionally went outside to play, and every time Wei Bao would arrange people to protect Wu Sanfu closely.

Although Wei Bao was reborn and traveled to ancient times, he still did not change the character of the otaku, even if he was engaged in the sales industry in modern times, but Wei Bao's personality has always been the character of an otaku and likes to stay at home.

Wei Bao was not very anxious about the results of the palace examination yet, but Wu Xuexia was a little anxious.

"It's been so many days, don't you really have to wait a month or two this time?" Wu Xuexia said.

"Wait, there's nothing going on anyway, the news from southern Liaoning, Jiannu didn't continue to attack this spring, as long as Jiannu is honest, it's fine." Wei Bao crossed Erlang's legs easily, and admired the spring color of the garden in the mansion for a while.

"Yes, Jiannu is honest and easy to do, Liaodong is peaceful, and our southern Liaoning is also peaceful! Liaoxi is also peaceful. It's best to have peace in the world! Wu Xuexia said with a smile: "Jiannu sees that the city walls of southern Liaoning have been connected, even if they can attack it, they don't have a strong castle in their hands, and they can't attack it for a long time, so they don't dare to start a large-scale war." Also, the small guerrilla force we sent behind Jiannu is still active, so that Jiannu is overwhelmed. ”

"Yes, the soldiers and horses in southern Liaoning are good, it's been so long, and they can still hold out in the rear of Jiannu, it's amazing." Wei Bao said: "But there are not many free Han people in the rear of Jiannu, and they are not rich, their supplies cannot be obtained from the local area, and Jiannu is completely blocked, every time we send a little supply by sea, we are either captured by Jiannu, or lose a lot along the way, and the cost is still very large." ”

"Then remove the guerrillas sent to the rear of Jiannu," Wu Xuexia said.

"It's not easy to withdraw, withdraw now, Jiannu will have no worries, they are angry now, I'm afraid they will still hit Liaonan desperately." Originally, I planned to build a slave to formally recognize our southern Liaoning, and privately strike with us to sue for peace, and we happened to get off the donkey. Wei Bao said.

"Jiannu has always been very arrogant, the battle of Salhu, hundreds of thousands of Ming elites were defeated by them, where is it so easy to admit us, willing to make peace with us in private," Wu Xuexia said: "Besides, we occupy southern Liaoning, and the threat to Jiannu is too great as time goes by, they will have to face the threat from Mao Wenlong, from Liaodong, and from our southern Liaoning, and it is quite difficult to enter North Korea and completely rule Korea, if they can't clear the rear, they will never be able to covet the pass." Alas, anyway, no matter what, Jiannu will never be able to reconcile with us. ”

"That's right, then you can only keep consuming! Although we bought more than 30 million stone of grain this time, and the food pressure this year has eased a lot, we can't bear it if we continue to consume it like this for a long time! Without sufficient food and wealth, Liaoning and Weijiazhuang will not be able to develop, day after day, year after year, this dilemma of lack of food, the dilemma of not being able to develop, will not be able to change! Wei Bao said.

"Don't worry, take your time." Wu Xuexia said: "As long as we can get an official position in a rich land as soon as possible, preferably in the area of Nanzhili, and preferably by the sea, it will be of great help to us, we are still relatively rich in silver now, as long as we can carry out maritime trade as soon as possible, everything will be fine." ”

"You still know my mind." Wei Bao smiled: "That's what I think, relying on everyone to grow old, relying on the mountains to fall!" Only you are the most reliable. Nanzhili is still a little far away, and it is already very good to be able to get the territory of Jiaodong! ”

"Ah, I know, although Jiaodong is deserted, it can connect Weijiazhuang and the maritime trade of southern Liaoning, right?"

"Not bad!" Wei Bao's eyes lit up: "So, it's best to get a Jiaodong prefect!" Moreover, it is better to use this place as our base, and the successor prefect must also be our own people! ”

"I'm afraid it's a little hard, right? If you seek to be released, you will start with the prefectural ordinance just after you go out. If you want to be promoted to prefect, you will have to wait at least a few years! Besides, there is a political envoy in charge of the prefect, and it is not possible to do whatever you want at the local level, it is too troublesome, don't think too simply. Wu Xuexia said.

"I know, so, it's best to serve in the political envoy department as soon as you go out, and hug the political envoy's thigh! Make the prefect of Jiaodong Mansion our own, or let the original prefect obey us! Wei Bao said.

"Then this is manipulating officialdom, it's too difficult. You've just gotten a jinshi, and you haven't entered the officialdom yet, so don't think about it so much. Wu Xuexia covered her mouth and smiled, almost telling Wei Bao not to be whimsical and unrealistic.

"Actually, I want to enter the gold list!" Wei Bao said: "Whether it is the champion, the list eye, or the Tanhualang, if you can enter the gold list, the starting point is higher than others, and you will be faster in the future!" Some exceptional promotion conditions can be met! ’

Wu Xuexia put down her hand, covered her mouth again and smiled: "Son, have you forgotten that you are only 15 years old now?" No matter how exceptional it is, I haven't heard of anyone being promoted to a fifth-grade official before the age of twenty! Not to mention being an official in the political envoy department, it must be at least four grades or above. Childe, let's see if I can be on the gold list this time. If it's just a sub-list jinshi, it's even more impossible. ”

Wei Bao pursed his lips and said with a smile: "That's what I said." ”

In fact, Wei Zhongxian had already figured out the top five exam papers.

Yu Huang, Hua Qifang, Weng Hongye, Wu Kongjia, Wei Bao.

The champion, Bangyan, and Tanhualang were produced among these five people.

Yu Huang and Hua Qifang's positions as champions and leaders have actually been decided.

If you want to change, at most, you can kick Weng Hongye, who is in third place, and let one of Wu Kongjia or Wei Bao make up for it.

Judging from the situation of the Wen Ring in the mansion of Shoufu Gu Bingqian that day, Wei Bao should be helped up and put in the position of Tanhualang.

Wei Zhongxian knew that if Wei Bao was helped up to replace Weng Hongye, the cabinet would definitely have no objections, especially those Donglin Party ministers would not get in the way.

But Wei Zhongxian can't judge Wei Bao, Wei Bao is a disciple of Sun Chengzong, although he secretly handed himself a prayer post, but in his own place, he can only be regarded as a halfway monk, how binding does the worship post really have, who can say clearly? Not to mention the relationship between teachers and students, is there less of a son killing Lao Tzu in this world?

If you don't help Wei Bao up, you will help Wu Kongjia to go up, of course this is good, but Wei Zhongxian knows that if you help Wu Kongjia to go up, the Donglin Party ministers in the cabinet will definitely oppose it! Because of the literary ring that day, Wu Kongjia was compared to Wei Bao.

This makes Wei Zhongxian very nerve-wracking!

Wei Zhongxian thought about it, first helped Wu Kongjia up, forcibly helped him up, and saw how Zhu Yanxi, Zhou Rupan and Ding Shaoshi dared!?

But once it was dismissed, his face was very damaged, and he would go to the emperor to play a copy of himself, saying that he was nepotistic or something.

Moreover, once it is presented to the emperor, the emperor listens to himself in everything, and he will definitely do it according to his own will, and when the time comes, he will not only slap himself in the face, but also the emperor's face.

Wei Zhongxian knew very well that the minister of the Donglin Party could really do this kind of thing.

Also, if the final support for Wu Kongjia is rejected by the cabinet, it is not only his own face with the emperor that will be beaten, this matter will also be known by Wei Bao, and when the time comes, Wei Bao will not think about his good, won't he lose even more than he gains?

After thinking about it, on the fifth day, Wei Zhongxian couldn't sit still.

He had almost thought about it, since the resistance to Wei Bao was small, and the resistance to Wu Kongjia was too great, he simply pushed the boat down the river to do a favor and let Wei Bao go up.

But you Wei Bao also have to know what to do, you have to get me another sum of money before you go up, right? Are you really stupid, or are you pretending to be stupid? How many days has it been? No movement at all?

Wei Bao and Wei Zhongxian had privately agreed to go to the place designated by Wei Zhongxian at the end of each month to 'exchange news', so that the two could have met logically.

But now that it is far from the end of the month, Wei Zhongxian doesn't want to summon Wei Bao, as if he is asking Wei Bao for money.

It should have been Wei Bao begging for himself!

In fact, Wei Bao also thought about it, and took the initiative to find Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Bao definitely doesn't care about sending silver, he only gave 100,000 taels before the Jinshi, and this trip will send a 200,000 taels of silver quilts at most, and if it doesn't work, it will be 400,000 taels of silver!

After so many twists and turns, I finally came to this last step, the last step of the scientific expedition.

The gold list and the sub-list are very different, no matter how many tens of thousands of taels of silver, there is a number, and it is something that cannot be made up for in the future.

Wei Bao didn't send the silver, the main thing was that he was too tight during this time, how many pairs of eyes were staring at it, he was afraid of leaking the news, this was one of them.

Second, Wei Bao felt that there was little point in giving silver, and it stands to reason that he could only let him go, unless Wei Zhongxian didn't want to let him go.

If Wei Zhongxian didn't want to let himself go, what was the use of giving silver?

Third, although Wei Bao has his own intelligence network, his intelligence network has also extended to the palace, and a real eunuch has been sent into the palace, but his intelligence network has not yet developed to the point where he can transmit news from the palace at any time.

Besides, the current position of that real eunuch is still very low, and he has not yet penetrated into Wei Zhongxian's side, and he has not entered the side of the important eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, so he can't get such useful information at all!

That real eunuch was a member of the original Liuzi Gang, and his family was originally poor, so he was ready to cut it himself and send it to the palace as a eunuch, but the palace confiscated it.

Because Wei Bao couldn't get specific information, he didn't know if the official ranking had been decided, so he delayed it for a while and didn't send money to Wei Zhongxian.

Because it's already decided, wouldn't it be more useless to give silver? Wait for Wei Zhongxian not to return the silver, and it will be wasted!

Wei Bao is very aware of Grandpa Wei's virtue, and when the money reaches Grandpa Wei's pocket, the possibility of returning it is very small.