When can the gap be filled, and what kind of gap can be filled, Second Master Fei was worried that Han Xiufeng would not be able to hold his breath, and as soon as he walked out of the hall, he comforted: "Zhixing, this kind of thing is not urgent, and it is useless to be anxious." If it comes, it will be safe, and the only way to do it today is to wait. ”

"Second master, I know that the lack is not so easy to make up, besides, I just arrived in the capital and just submitted the offering, so I am not in a hurry to make up for it, I just think it is not a matter to sit in the hall and wait like this." Han Xiufeng looked back behind him, and said with a wry smile: "People are afraid of idleness, and when they are idle, they will not be steady." ”

"Who said you just sat in the hall and waited?" Fei Erye asked rhetorically, and said like a few treasures: "The Ministry of Officials summarizes how many vacancies are vacated in various ministries and provinces once a month, and the lottery is also once a month, which is called 'monthly selection'." The officials of the Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners are selected in the early part of each month, the pen is selected in the middle of the month, and the Han members are selected in the second half of the month. Every two months, the officials who are removed from work and promoted are selected; Every single month, the officials who make up the class are selected, but the leap month is not elected. In addition, because there are many officials who have been removed from work and promoted, the alternate candidates in Beijing are the most concerned, so the bimonthly election is called the 'general election'. ”

"Second master, you always say that I have to go to the ministry at the end of every month to listen to the letter?"

"Of course you have to go, otherwise you won't know if you're chosen."

"It's okay to go, at least there is a hope every month," Han Xiufeng thought about it, and asked curiously: "Second master, what class is the other class, what does it mean?" ”

Fei Erye said with a smile: "The removal class is the first or newly awarded official position of Manchu and Han officials, and there are many ways, such as those who are first awarded by the imperial examination, and Wen Jinshi is a first-class person except for revision; In order to exclude those who are examined, the professor of Manchurian Shuntianfu is a scholar and a scholar, and he is accompanied by the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Communication; In order to select and exclude, Taichang Temple, Mausoleum Yamen Manchuria read Zhu Guan, Zanli Lang, Honglu Temple Manchuria praise, each by the temple advisory department to send the minister to select and introduce; Divide by tribute students, prison students, official students, etc., and those who are removed by the expiration of the validity period, those who are removed by guarantee, and those who are removed by discussion, etc. ”

"What about me, which one am I?" Han Xiufeng asked.

"You belong to donations, and the Jingguan Lang below the middle and the outside official road are all removed according to the rules."

There are too many official positions and too many rules, Han Xiufeng seems to understand whether he understands or not, and he thinks that he is idle anyway, and he will listen to the letter when the officials draw lots at the end of every month.

When he returned to the Chongqing Guild Hall, he shouted that Datou and Pan Er, who had also just come back from outside, cleaned the hall and the east wing, and cleaned the four empty "champion rooms" to prepare for the group banquet at the end of the year and the reception of the children who were about to arrive in Beijing.

……

Ren He asked the fortune teller to count the days before he set off from Ba County, and he didn't know if the fortune teller and Han Xiufeng used the same version of the almanac, and the day he counted was also October 12th.

On the eleventh, I went to Bao'en Temple to make a wish, and on the twelfth day before dawn, I went to the ancestral hall to worship my ancestors, and after the ancestors, I took my younger brother to go to Baishiyi and Fengyi and the two who had made an appointment in the same year, and they did not go to the waterway, nor did they go straight to the capital, but they went to the provincial capital Chengdu to meet the school platform together, and filled in the personal confession (fill in the formalities such as age, nationality and other procedures that prove the identity of the person), and received ten taels of road fees and fire cards, and then took the dry road to turn over the Qinling Mountains, and entered Beijing through Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei provinces.

Taking the dry road is not exactly walking, you can hire a car from Chengdu to Qinling, and you can hire a car when you cross the Qinling Mountains into the boundary of Shaanxi, and you can hire a car if you have a fire card in hand, and you don't need to spend money to hire a car to go to the post war. The bus is planted with the flag of "the Ministry of Rites will try", which is the so-called "bus into Beijing"!

The car is faster than the boat, and the distance is closer, so although Ren He went to the provincial capital first, it took no more time than Han Xiufeng on the road, and after nearly two months of bumps, he finally arrived in Beijing.

I thought that when I arrived at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I should pass unhindered as before, but as soon as I arrived at Chongwenmen, I was stopped by several tax collectors. The "fire card" did not work, and the flag of the "Ministry of Rites will try" did not work, and a group of seven people, including their accompanying families, were extorted forty-five taels of silver before entering the city.

The more Ren He thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but say, "Brother Junjie, why did you pull me just now?" These officials are so hateful, they dare to blackmail our silver in broad daylight, I don't believe in unreasonable, even if this lawsuit reaches the front of the emperor, I am not afraid! ”

This is the second time He Heng has entered Beijing to take the test, and he is more familiar with the capital, so he persuaded with a wry smile: "Brother, these officials are hateful, but there is really no place to reason about this matter, you and I can only consider ourselves unlucky." ”

"Why!"

"Although the Chongwenmen tax customs is the tax customs of the household department, in fact, from the superintendent to the committee members, from the committee members to the tax collectors, are all appointed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the tax money collected also belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In other words, they are collecting taxes for the emperor! Not to mention our actions, even if the provincial feudal platforms and Zhentai enter Beijing, they dare to stop and collect taxes. ”

Ren He gritted his teeth and said: "But there are regulations for taxation, and they not only do not collect taxes according to the regulations, but also set up a name for extortion!" ”

"yes, it's so lawless!" The other man also said angrily.

"What can lawlessness do with them? I can't even control the imperial history of the city patrol of the Five Cities Procuratorate, you and I can only suffer this dumb loss. ”

"It's not that you can't manage the imperial history of the city, but you don't want to manage it." Ren He took a deep breath and said coldly: "Wait for the title of the gold list in the coming year, see how I Ren He will clean them up, and not read a book of sages in the past few decades!" ”

"Then it will have to wait until next year," He Heng said with a smile while leading everyone in the direction of Xuanwumen: "The top priority is to go to the guild hall to settle down first, and I don't know if those people from Qijiang, Dazu and Rongchang have come." If a few of them come and arrive before us, then we will have to find a place to live near the Gongyuan for our own sake. ”

"Why, don't we have a guild hall in Chongqing Mansion?" Liu Juren from Jiangjin County asked puzzled.

"We have a hall in Chongqing, but the scale cannot be compared with those mansions in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huguang.

"Brother Junjie, why didn't you say such a big thing earlier!"

"I thought you knew."

"Let's go, let's go faster, we can't let those Qijiang and Dazu take us ahead."

……

The three lifters carried their luggage and beckoned their families to hurry up, and finally arrived at the Chongqing Hall before dark.

He Heng came for the second time, so he didn't let him go to the ground and shouted for the door.

The big head was busy making supper, Han Xiufeng was in the west wing room with Qian Junchen to consider how to write an invitation to the businessman, Pan Er had nothing to do, and hurriedly ran out to open the door.

"May I ask who are ...... of you" Seeing a familiar face behind the person who shouted the door, Pan Er was stunned for a while.

"Who are you?" He Heng, who was a lifter from the fourteen prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Prefecture and the scattered hall, almost recognized it, and seeing that Pan Er was not a lifter from Chongqing Mansion and didn't look like an official, he subconsciously asked: "What about Second Master Fei, is Second Master Fei here?" ”

"Second Master Fei just went out," Pan Er reacted, quickly let go of his body, and while beckoning them into the courtyard, he looked at Brother Ren He and smiled: "Isn't this Master Ren and Second Master Ren, why did you two come to the capital too, you really meet everywhere in life!" ”