The dignified Sanjia Yuci is actually nameless! No wonder the violent Emperor Zhu was furious.

One morning in the fourth year of Hong Wu, in a low-end inn in the capital, a few people waiting to be listed were full of pride and ambition to "be born with my own talents and be useful". Two brocade-clothed guards suddenly rushed into the door and couldn't help but catch a young man who called himself a scholar from a poor family and dragged him to the palace.

As the saying goes, if the culture can rule the country, the martial arts can secure the state. Zhu Yuanzhang seized the world by force, but to govern the country, he knew that he had to rely on these scholars who were familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. So as soon as the state power was stabilized, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to restore the imperial examination system, clearly ordering that "non-imperial examiners should not be allowed to join officials."

After the scientific examination, the local students have all scattered back to their hometowns, leaving only some outsiders stranded in the capital to wait for the list. Most of these people have no relatives or friends in the capital, either gathering for drinks and chatting, giving advice on the country; or they go to Huaxiliu Alley to pass the boring time. Only a few candidates from poor families are worried that they will run out of entanglements, so they work as handymen in small shops nearby. Many shops are also happy to hire these students, hoping that any of them will be able to make a name for themselves in the future, which is also the capital of the store to show off.

The underprivileged scholar is one of those scholars who stayed in Beijing.

According to the custom, the files of the top three candidates in the imperial examinations were submitted to the emperor's imperial calendar, and the emperor hand-selected the top one, the top spot, and the candidates for Flower Exploration before publishing the list. At that time, in order to prevent cheating, the names of the candidates on the test papers were sealed. After the Minister of Rites, who was in charge of the imperial examinations, opened the test papers of the top three candidates in front of the emperor with his own hands, he found that one of the candidates had no name on the test paper, only the words "humble scholar."

Not only were the members of the examination hall surprised, but even the emperor was confused and decided to meet this person in person. Although there was no name, the emperor opened his mouth and it was not difficult to find a candidate.

The Jinyi Guards brought the underprivileged scholar into the main hall. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the young man, although he was dressed shabby, he had a good look and asked gently, "Why don't you write your name and surname for such a major event as the imperial examinations?"

"Long live the report, it's not that the villain doesn't write his name, but the villain has no name and surname, so he can't fill it in." Shu Sheng hurriedly defended.

"Bold, long live the questioning, still not honest, beware of treating you for the crime of bullying the king!" Before the emperor could speak, a minister scolded him sharply.

"The villain doesn't dare, it's because the family is poor and has no name. I hope the long-term master will find out."

Zhu Yuanzhang almost laughed out loud, poor can have no property, not no name. When I was a child, Zhu Zhongba herded cattle to others, and people said that I was so poor that I only had a "Zhu Zhongba" name left. They were all raised by their mother's biological father, how can there be anyone without a name?

"Then where are you from, and what are your parents' names? They don't have names, do they?" Obviously, Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood today and asked patiently.

But this scholar only said that he was from the north, and he was tight-lipped about his parents' names.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little annoyed, even those heroes who fought the world together through life and death did not dare to treat his questions like this. A small act actually blatantly deceived him. Where is the royal majesty?

At this time, a minister went to Zhu Yuanzhang's side to remind him that this scholar did not dare to reveal his identity. Could it be a foreign spy or the son of a former court official? At this time, there was friction on the northern border, and the ministers were still afraid of foreign spies. Zhu Yuanzhang's face suddenly sank, and he had no patience. He shouted: "National affairs are like child's play. This person cannot be used for great purposes. He will lose his reputation and be thrown into prison. If he doesn't tell the truth, he will be beheaded after autumn."

The scholar was thus imprisoned.

Zhu Yuanzhang has read countless people, and he naturally understands that this young man will not be a spy, and even a spy will not be able to turn over any big waves. He also wants to scare this young man who does not know the sky and the earth, so that he can tell the truth obediently.

Who knew that after the scholar was imprisoned, he still did not change his mind. Seeing the day when the list was released, the yamen asked the emperor to ask the fourth place in the imperial examination to make up for the flowers, and hastily convicted the scholar of defying the examination system and deceiving the emperor, and was sent to death row.

Zhu Yuanzhang killed like a horse, killing those ministers who made great achievements without blinking an eye. To kill such a poor scholar, he would naturally not be a mother-in-law.

In the blink of an eye, on the day of the execution of the criminals, this poor scholar will also be tied to the execution ground. Many people feel sorry for the scholar, but this is the iron case sentenced by the emperor with golden words, and no one dares to say half a word. At that moment, an old man in ragged clothes came to the palace and kept telling the imperial court to plead injustice to the scholar. Emperor Zhu also remembered the scholar's matter and decided to try the case himself.

It turned out that this scholar not only had a name and surname, but was also born into a scholarly family in most of the previous dynasties. Due to the war, the scholar's family property was looted, and his parents were frightened and both passed away. To make a living, the scholar worked as a private school teacher in the countryside.

The emperor resumed the imperial examinations, and the scholar left his hometown to take the examinations. How could he not follow his wishes? In an inn, the scholar could not afford to be sick, spent all his money, and his condition did not improve. He was kicked out of the door by the inn owner, and finally, on his deathbed, he fell in front of a pawnshop. It was the kind pawnshop owner who took him in, took medicine for him, and healed his health. The boss also had the heart to sponsor the scholar to take the exam in Beijing.

The scholar said with a heavy heart: "I am a scholar, I am precarious, and I am unable to repay my life-saving grace. How can I accept your favor again." The pawnshop owner hesitated for a moment and said: "I run a pawnshop, and of course I can't do loss-making business. Just give me the most valuable thing on your body."

"Apart from half a box of broken books, I have nothing left, only the body that my parents gave me." The scholar smiled bitterly.

The boss smiled and said, "Besides your body, you still have a name. Just give me your name."

The boss was joking, but the scholar took it seriously, insisting on pawning his and his parents' names to the pawnshop, and vowed that before redeeming his name, he would not mention his and his parents' names or the pawnshop.

The owner of this pawnshop was originally a famous man from the previous dynasty. After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor and local officials asked him to go out as an official many times, but he was unwilling to do things for the new dynasty and always declined. Later, I heard that the local officials were going to forcibly detain him into the dynasty. The old man knew the temperament of the emperor of the Zhu family. If he did not cooperate, he was afraid that the whole family would be doomed, so he packed up and fled to a remote town overnight. He settled down incognito, fearing that he would eat nothing, so he opened a pawnshop. He was really afraid of revealing his identity from the bottom of his heart, so he repeatedly asked the scholar not to reveal anything about himself outside, so as not to bring disaster to his family.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world. A nameless man in the top three was put on death row and talked about in the streets. This matter soon spread all over the country. As soon as the pawnshop owner heard it, he understood that this nameless scholar was the descendant who pawned his name to him.

His original intention was to help others, but he ended up harming them. This later life is a promise, and he would rather die than break his promise. The old man felt that the latter life was stupid and cute, and he was really moved, so he disregarded his own safety and came to ask for the scholar's life in person.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also very touched when he heard the statement of the pawnshop owner. The Zhu regime had just been established, and it was necessary to set up such a model of integrity to govern the country. He immediately passed a decree, restored the reputation of the scholars, acquitted them, and personally named the "Nameless Champion" and appointed them local officials. The first thing the Nameless Champion did after taking office was go to the pawnshop to redeem his and his family's names.