Chapter 799: Full-level Boss Dressed As a Peasant Girl
Chapter 799: His Plan to Open a School
"Why... suddenly so eager to learn?"
Meng Yunzheng smiled and his expression became more serious. "Ah Yu, I want to participate in the imperial examination."
Shu Yu was taken aback. "You want to become an official?" After speaking, she furrowed her brow and shook her head. "No, considering what you are doing now, if that person really ascends to the throne, you could become an official based on your merits. There's no need to climb up step by step."
In at most a year, the Fifth Prince would become the emperor.
Meng Yunzheng's talent and abilities were excellent, and the Fifth Prince was well aware of that. As long as he accomplished several practical matters, Meng Yunzheng would still be able to rise in rank and become a statesman.
For some people, passing the imperial examinations might be the only path. But for Meng Yunzheng, this path was complicated and slow.
After all, he would have to start from the position of Tong Sheng, and even if he passed every time, it would still take several years. It was simply unnecessary.
Meng Yunzheng nodded. "Yes, I never thought about becoming an official, but I want to achieve academic recognition."
Currently, he wasn't even a Tong Sheng.
When he was young, he excelled in his studies, and his tutor had once told his parents that he should participate in the Tong Sheng examination when he was nine years old, confidently claiming that he would definitely pass.
At that time, Meng Yunzheng was full of self-confidence as well. However, his parents were very hesitant and rejected the idea, citing his young age and unstable foundation.
Later, they privately told him to wait a few years before taking the exam, so as not to stand out too much. Furthermore, if he passed the provincial-level examination and became a scholar, there was no need to continue pursuing higher ranks since the family's escort business still needed him to inherit it.
At that time, Meng Yunzheng didn't fully understand, but he vaguely knew that his parents must have had their reasons.
When their family was destroyed and his parents passed away when he was ten years old, he understood.
If he passed the provincial-level examination and the metropolitan-level examination, he would definitely go to the capital, where he would undoubtedly encounter Gong Qiu.
His true identity would be exposed, and unfortunately, Gong Qiu was powerful. Even if their family of three joined forces, they wouldn't be a match for him.
If he stopped at the scholar level and didn't stand out or go to the capital, that level of academic recognition would be sufficient in the small local county like this.
Unfortunately, his parents didn't live to see that day.
Later, Meng Yunzheng followed Gong Qiu back to the capital and pretended to have a brain injury, making it seem like he had become mentally dull and found it extremely difficult to study. Under these circumstances, it was naturally impossible for him to take the exams. Since then, he has remained a blank scholar.
But in these years, Meng Yunzheng hadn't neglected his studies. He rapidly absorbed knowledge and became the hermit scholar that Gong Qiu and the others were unaware of, his paintings alone worth a fortune.
The knowledge he acquired was all his own.
Now, wanting to participate in the imperial examinations was not a difficult task for Meng Yunzheng.
He didn't want to become an official. He knew what the officialdom was like, and he wasn't interested.
However, having academic recognition was necessary. It would make things easier for whatever he wanted to do in the future.
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