Pool Water [Three Volumes]

The world is difficult and dangerous, and the officialdom is ups and downs. Water has no permanent shape, and its clarity and turbidity depend on the heart; history is like a mirror, where loyal and nefarious people distinguish themselves! In March of the 47th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, just before the palace examination, Nurhachi of Jianzhou defeated the Ming army in Sarhu, Liaodong, which shocked the government and the public. Zhang Yu, a son from Licheng in Shandong Province, went to Beijing to take the examination and ranked second in the first class of high school. Because Zhuang Jichang, the top scholar, submitted an incorrect test paper, he made an exception and awarded the second place to Zhang Yu, compiled by the Hanlin Academy. Later, Zhang Yu accidentally met two women in the capital, and unexpectedly got involved in a treacherous fight... This article is a semi-fictional historical novel about the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the protagonist of the novel is a fabrication.