After only two exams, Liu Jun has already selected the third place in the first place in this year.△↗,.

For the emperor, the imperial examination was just a way for the imperial court to select officials, but the imperial examination was based on the emperor's will. Liu Jun said that the recording of three hundred was 300, the recording of six hundred was 600, the recording of two volumes was 2 volumes, and the recording of three volumes was 3 volumes.

As long as the scholars feel that there is a way out for the imperial examinations to study, it is enough. Only when it is relatively fair, the scholars can accept it. For the emperor, the purpose of the imperial examinations is to select officials. If that is the case, it is naturally to choose the most suitable one rather than the best one.

Today, Fushe has completely stood on the side of the court. They took the salary of the court and accepted the organization and supervision of the court. Even most of the Fushe members have become the mouthpieces of the court, writing articles and commenting on various newspapers, magazines and magazines controlled by the court.

Of course, Liu Jun should pay attention to such a Fushe that was actually controlled by the imperial court.

Before the imperial examination was over, Liu Jun had already selected the first three in the first class. Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Chen Mingxia, and the three leaders of Fushe are now the three leaders who have led Fushe to stand completely on the side of the court. For the three Jiangnan scholars who supported the court, Liu Jun was of course also reciprocating his favor. He planned to admit them as tribute scholars after this meeting. During the palace examination, he would select the three people as the top three in the first class, ranking first, second, and Tanhua.

Liu Jun not only booked the top three in the first class, but he has even booked 100 new Jinshi places from the Fushe Juren who participated in the examination this time.

In order to ensure that his intentions are implemented, Liu Jun spent a lot of effort. However, the group of scholars in Fushe are indeed very capable. They are worthy of being the most popular Jiangnan scholars. As long as Liu Jun ensures that the examiners can match the paper fairly, they can stand out in the imperial examination with their real skills. After passing the imperial examination, the ranking will be completely determined by the emperor when they arrive at the palace examination. Therefore, as long as the examiner does not defeat Huang Zongxi and others during the imperial examination, then when the palace examination, Liu Jun will choose him as the top scorer. There is no problem.

What Liu Jun wants to guarantee is that the president of the examination, Li Banghua and the examiners, should be fine.

The imperial examination ended a few days later, and then 600 tribute scholars were selected. The imperial examination system in the Ming Dynasty was the spring imperial examination. After the imperial examination, the palace examination was held next month, and the ranking of the Jinshi was finally decided.

However, this year's examination is ahead of schedule, and the palace examination will also be ahead of schedule. The examination will end on December 15th, and the palace examination will be held a week later, that is, on December 22nd.

During this period, local officials entered Beijing and the officials in the capital were all smiling. A large number of local officials came to Beijing and had to report their work, undergo inspections, and request payments. The officials in the capital naturally became popular with various powers of investigation, review, etc.

For a time, officials from various departments had many banquets to attend every day.

Although the court prohibits officials from drinking during working hours, there are still people who disobey this time.

Liu Jun has received multiple reports from the factory and guards in succession, all pointing out the recent violations of the officials of various departments in the capital. What made Liu Jun most angry was not the gifts and banquets from local officials or even bribes, but many officials of the capital department had begun to deliberately hold the power in their hands and take the initiative to ask local officials for it.

As soon as it was dark, Liu Jun disguised himself. After the master of the Jinyiwei put on makeup for him, he turned into a middle-aged man. Feng Sheng of the Jinyiwei also put on makeup, and Liu Jun brought Tai Chi master Chen Yuting and several imperial guard masters.

"Today I am a seventh-rank official in Jiangxi Province. Remember. Don't show off your feet for a while."

Liu Jun decided to go and see the behavior of those bold Beijing officials in person.

Tonight, he will be a small official of the Chaoji delegation in Jiangxi Province. On the surface, he is a person who is on behalf of the Jiangxi Governor to visit a Transportation Department and asks the Transportation Department to help build a road through Jiangxi to establish a project.

This project is real. The name of that official is also real, but now Liu Jun pretends to be the official and goes to meet the officials of the Transportation Department for a while.

Qianmen Street is still brightly lit in the dark night, and lanterns illuminate the entrance of General’s Restaurant.

A sixth-ranked transportation department head walked down from the carriage, and several officials were waiting at the door.

"The people from Jiangxi have not arrived yet?" He frowned.

"It's not here yet." The person who replied was the officers in charge. They arrived earlier.

The head immediately showed dissatisfaction, "Hmph, there are no rules, please ask me to come, but I am still late."

"Sorry, I've been waiting for you for a long time. The carriage broke down on the road, and it took some time."

Liu Jun had actually arrived a long time ago, but he kept parking the carriage not far away to watch the reaction here. He completely saw the dissatisfaction of the head, and did not pretend to come over until this time.

"Liu experience, you are so arrogant." Master Wang snorted coldly.

Liu Jun pretended to be a small official from Jiangxi today, and had a seventh-rank experience.

"Master Wang, I'm really sorry." Liu Jun said, taking out a stack of silver dollar coupons from his sleeve and stuffing them toMaster Wang.

The stack of silver dollar coupons is not too much, fifty yuan. It just meets the standard of sentence for bribery and bribery. Liu Jun thought that the king must have to refuse one or two times, but who knew that the king would accept it directly.

Even after collecting the silver coupons, I might still feel that it is too little and snorted coldly.

I finally got into the restaurant, which was a room that I had booked early.

The host and the guest sat down, and Liu Jun went straight to the topic.

"Master Wang, our province is preparing to expand the provincial highway from Nanchang to Ganzhou. The Transportation Department also needs to pass the project approval. In addition, our province raises some funds on its own, but there is still some gap. I hope to get the support of the department."

The headmaster Wang was very dissatisfied, "How could you do like you? Now is not office hours. You have to talk about business affairs. You will go to the department tomorrow. I won't talk about business affairs tonight."

"Master Wang, aren't you too busy during the day? We have been there several times, but we don't see anyone every time. I've been sitting on the bench for a few days, and there is really no way. Please ask Master Wang to be a good person and help me."

"Liu's experience, judging from your age, why are you still like a scholar who has never experienced the world? Let me tell you the truth. Now the court does attach importance to transportation, otherwise it has specially set up a new Transportation Department to be in charge of the transportation of roads and bridges in the world. The court also has plans to build several major roads to connect the world. Of course, the court also supports local roads. In this way, the court's national highways are connected with the provincial highways built in local provinces, which is also complementary."

"But the government's funds are also limited. This silver must be built first. As for provincial highways, it is okay to build it. You have to raise your own money."

The king was very rude and did not know the details, and he thought he was a doctor, or at least a minister.

Liu Jun secretly wrote down the name of the king in his heart.

The imperial court specially set up a new transportation department for transportation. The empire is so large, especially after expanding so many border territories, the requirements for road traffic became increasingly greater.

It is said that if you want to be rich, you should build roads first.

In fact, if the empire's policies and laws are in the world, roads are also crucial. The court has now established a new Transportation Department and has formulated a road construction plan. It plans to build several main lines to connect various provinces.

In the imperial court's road construction plan, local road construction was also supported. Each province should open a provincial road that runs across the province in the old road system, and in the future, it will be connected to counties and even townships.

In order to support local road construction, the court has long had policies. It is necessary to actively assist the local provinces in building provincial roads, and also provide financial and technical support.

For example, the construction plan of Jiangxi Provincial Highway proposed by Liu Jun, which was pretended by Liu Jun, should not push back the situation like this. They should actively review, help with project establishment, provide funds and technology, rather than in this situation.

The current situation is clearly the case that the king wants to use the rights in his hands and ask for benefits.

Liu Jun also expected this situation, but he didn't expect it to be so serious.

In the previous dynasty, the officialdom was seriously corrupt, and all kinds of funds were removed, and before leaving the capital, the amount was reduced by 30 to 40%.

Liu Jun personally experienced this kind of corruption at that time. At that time, the official positions in the Ming Dynasty were all clearly marked. From the governor, governor, to the inspector, to the county magistrate, all the prices were all. They even went to the same official positions in different places and different prices.

For example, if you buy a governor for five thousand gold, but your qualifications are too shallow, you can directly add two thousand gold and you will get what you want immediately. There is also Du Lang who wants to release the Taoist platform. The seller of officials is 5 thousand, but the buyer is reluctant to give it, so he is willing to give it to three thousand. He agreed that the remaining two thousand left and then he will give it to him after taking office, and it will be done.

Not to mention, there was still the rule that the salary could not be left Beijing at that time.

When border troops ask for money, at least 30% of the money must be deducted before leaving the capital. After leaving the capital, they must pass through layers of deductions by various yamen and generals, and finally the soldiers have no money.

Kickbacks, no rebates, all kinds of corruption become popular.

When Liu Jun established the Han Dynasty, he had severe sanctions on corruption. While Liu Jun increased the salaries of officials, he also strengthened the punishment of corruption.

For example, it is clearly stipulated that fifty silver dollars have reached the conviction and sentencing standards for the crime of bribery and accepting bribes. For corrupt officials, once verified, they will be exiled to the border and reclaimed wasteland.

He even distributed high amounts of integrity-raising silver to officials at all levels and officials from important departments such as finance and taxation.

With all kinds of methods, it has indeed improved a lot.

But now it seems that officials embezzle not entirely because their wages are too small and they don’t have enough money to spend. When they have the chance, they will still be greedy.

Now these Beijing officials regard local officials who come to Beijing as fat sheep, and regard their right to review project approval and withdraw funds as exchange of interests and capital for rent-seeking.

"Master Wang, I don't know how much it is needed. Can you help us make this happen?"

The king looked dissatisfied, so he could not just go straight to the point. He really was a local bun from the place and didn't know the rules at all. However, even though he was dissatisfied, he had already put his words to this point, so he no longer controlled it.

"Of course it can be done, but it's not easy."

"How many do you say the number!"

"Ten thousand!" The king reported a number.

A murderous aura flashed in Liu Jun's eyes. This little in charge really dared to shout. One way to say 10,000 silver dollars, and fifty yuan was enough to accept bribes. Now, 10,000 bribes are sought, which means that the plot is particularly bad and the amount is particularly huge.

"Master Wang, 10,000 yuan is not a problem," Liu Jun said slowly.

The king's expression remained unchanged, but he became excited. He originally wanted to ask for a high price all over the sky, but he thought he would always have to bargain, but unexpectedly, the Jiangxi local bun actually agreed immediately. If he had known, he would have called more. The king said regretfully.

Liu Jun held the change in his eyes of the King of Lord Wang and continued with a sneer, "Not to mention ten thousand yuan, even twenty thousand yuan, I can give it, just because I am afraid that the King of Lord Wang will not have the ability to get it!"

The king's face changed drastically, "Rareless!"

Feng Sheng next to him couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and shouted angrily, "You are just arrogant!"

Several big guards shouted together, "Kneel down!"

The king suddenly became confused by the momentum, and stuttered, "What do you mean?"

"Being presumptuous, don't kneel down, this is His Majesty the Emperor!"

Liu Jun was still sitting there, but his expression changed completely, and there was a terrifying light in his eyes.

"Master Wang, you are so brave. You openly ask for a bribe. You dare to ask for ten thousand silver dollars as soon as you openly speak. Are you afraid of slaughtering? Congratulations, you have successfully won a good opportunity for yourself to exile in Yunnan to reclaim land!"

The king felt a sudden turn, then his knees softened and he collapsed on the ground.
Chapter completed!