Fantasy: Starting out as a gigolo, born a Confucian sage

"you……"

The empress' eyes widened, and when she raised her hand, a whip made of condensed spiritual energy appeared in her hand.

"Since it's your own request, then I'm a natural beauty and will definitely hammer you to death today!"

"hammer."

Shen Wuming said seriously: "Tomorrow, all the four countries in the Central Plains and the grasslands will know."

"During the palace examination, the candidates of the Han Dynasty were beaten to death by their emperor himself."

"When the time comes that I am dead, it will depend on the face of your empress, do you still want me?"

"you……"

The empress suddenly became furious, raised her whip and was about to take action, but suddenly thought of something and smiled.

"Okay, forget it if you don't agree, but I won't choose you to be the number one pick. What do you think?"

"If you don't get the first prize by then, your wife won't let you hug you."

"Let's see how you end up telling that girl from the Cao family!"

"Why?" Shen Wuming stared, "What I write is definitely better than them."

"Yes."

The empress nodded, "It can be better than them!"

Shen Wuming's face was expressionless, "Then if you don't choose me to be the number one pick, wouldn't you be calling a deer a horse? I'll see how you convince the crowd."

"I want you to be the third most beautiful girl."

The empress smiled like a fox, "Anyway, there have been such cases throughout the ages."

"Normally speaking, the person with the highest talent will definitely be chosen as the top pick."

"But if you are still very handsome, it cannot be considered as humiliation if the emperor chooses you as a beauty."

"On the contrary, it is recognition and praise."

"I see that you also look like a human and a dog. Is it not too much to ask you to be the third most beautiful girl when the time comes?"

Shen Wuming:......

"Okay, okay, this is how you play, right?" Shen Wuming's head was full of black lines, "Tell me, what are your conditions?"

"Hey hey hey."

The empress laughed evilly, and then her face gradually became serious, "Don't worry, I won't treat you badly."

"Recently, there have been constant frictions on the Han-Yan border. Many people thought there was going to be a war, even the northern barbarians!"

"According to the information I have received, the northern barbarians seem to have no abnormality, but in fact they are secretly deploying troops."

"Be prepared to wait for Han and Yan to start a war, and then send out troops to attack by surprise. The snipe and the clam will fight, and the fisherman will benefit. Do you understand?"

"Got it."

Shen Wuming nodded and said, "Then what do you need me to do? To help you fight the barbarians?"

"right."

The empress said seriously, "Didn't Li Guozhong and Zuo Xiang promise to give you a fourth-grade official if you won the first prize?"

"Everyone's expectation is that there will be six departments, nine temples and five prisons, but I don't want you to stay in the capital!"

"I can appoint you as a governor to take charge of the state's affairs and guard against the northern barbarians!"

"This..." Shen Wuming fell into thinking. Isn't this impossible?

A governor's history is equivalent to the second-in-command of the governor's office, second only to the governor, and his salary is very good.

It's just that relatively speaking, for the same grade, the local official has to cut off a bit.

He lost a little, but not much.

"And I will transfer the governor away and let you perform the duties of the governor as the chief governor, okay?"

The empress said seriously.

Shen Wuming was secretly surprised, this woman was so generous.

The governor of Yizhou is a second-grade official. Although he is a local official, he is far less noble than the officials in the capital.

Just like when Gao Qian, the governor of Dingzhou, was polite in front of Pei Mao.

Pei Mao, on the other hand, was holding it.

But no matter what, it is still a second grade.

"You're not kidding?"

"You have no joke."

"OK."

Shen Wuming nodded and agreed. No matter what, this is a long history.

And he also acted as the top leader.

As long as he works for three to five years, he might be able to become a full-time official directly, cross two levels in a row, and become the governor.

If you enter Beijing then, let alone competing for the six ministers, you can at least become Zuo Shilang!

At that time, I was only in my twenties, and I was a prime minister in the future.

"Let's go, it's time to wake up."

When the empress saw that he had agreed, she was secretly happy, but there was no expression on her face.

With just a snap of his fingers, the dream was shattered in an instant. Shen Wuming shuddered, opened his eyes again, and returned to the Golden Palace.

The candidates around are still writing furiously.

"call……"

Shen Wuming slowly exhaled a breath, his eyes fell on the strategy in front of him, and he came back.

The empress was still on the dragon throne, but she looked at him from time to time, becoming more and more surprised.

"Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing!"

The empress murmured to herself, "There must not be so many dynasties in this world."

"But what if... it's not in this world? As far as I know, there is a world called the Tang Dynasty."

“And there’s a lot of history that matches this world!”

"Is it possible... that he is also a pawn of those gods and Buddhas? But this is not right!"

"According to the rules of each world, a world can only raise one chess piece!"

"The chess pieces in this world have been killed by me. Logically speaking, I have become the new chess piece."

"Why is there another one?"

The empress frowned involuntarily and didn't relax for a long time. She didn't know what she was thinking.

An hour passed quietly.

"All candidates stand up!"

Cui Taifu ordered, and after everyone stood up, he quickly ordered the examiner to put away the test papers.

However, they were not allowed to leave. Instead, they waited on site while the emperor reviewed the test papers on the spot.

"Invite some prime ministers to come over."

The empress looked at the test paper in front of her. She did not seal the names, but read them one by one.

Cui Taifu went to invite the prime minister.

"If you want a tree to grow long, you must strengthen its roots; if you want a tree to flow far, you must dredge up its source..."

The test paper at the top was Shen Wuming's, and the Empress had actually read it several times just now.

But I am still reviewing it carefully at this time.

Most of the content raised are commonplace.

Everyone understands what it means to care for the people and what it means to increase their well-being.

However, below, there are more detailed methods. To put it bluntly, we still need to promote reforms.

For example, reducing the vassal status, or building the Embroidered Clothes Envoy on the Hundreds, these policies were mentioned again by Shen Wuming.

There are also listed the reform strategies to eliminate redundant officials and redundant administration, as well as the policy theory of the last autumn trial.

The empress looked at them one by one, and after the prime minister arrived, she handed them to them as well.

When Li Guozhong saw Shen Wuming's test paper, he couldn't help but exclaimed and stood up.

"This grassland has a good balance of power."

Li Guozhong subconsciously thought of Murong Qianshan before. He had always had this idea.

However, it has not been put into practice.

But Shen Wuming made it very clear in his policy discussion at this time, calling it the balance of power on the grassland.

This is a strategy proposed by Shen Wuming based on Britain's "continental balance of power" to combine vertical and horizontal forces.

The so-called balance of power on the mainland——

Britain's diplomatic goal, which has not changed in 500 years, is to create a divided Europe.

What Shen Wuming put forward was the Han Dynasty's goal for the grassland, which was to create a divided grassland.

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