There is a saying in China that is familiar to hundreds of millions of people: expose one and find out one, and catch one and tear out a nest.

Officials are guilty of crimes and corruption, and it is rare for them to commit crimes alone. There is always no shortage of 'like-minded' friends.

The same is true for Chen Mengyan, after his psychological defense line was completely smashed, a lot of facts were explained, and at the same time as the rocket leak case was solved, a string of moths was also dug up.

The total did not break through double digits, the number was still very small, and only six officials were pulled into the water. Then, according to the confessions of these people, the national security side quickly arrested the Englishman Ross Smith, the Portuguese Anthony Cedric, and the Frenchman Hugo Martial.

The three Europeans belonged to the same group as the Italian Leonardo Mastin, they were peripheral members, specialized in running errands, but their leaders were unpredictable, mysterious in their behavior, and even their names were unknown, except for the ambiguous code name J of Spades. Guoan tried to contact the mysterious J of spades according to the contact information given by the four arrested Europeans, but the other party did not take the bait at all.

After Chen Ming got the case report handed over by Chen Guang, Minister of National Security and Home Affairs, the code name 'J of Spades' had to remind him of poker, and when he thought of so many cards in poker, he had to open his brain, is this 'J of Spades' a member of a big intelligence group?

The Italian Leonardo Mastin, the Englishman Ross Smith, the Portuguese Anthony Cedric, and the Frenchman Hugo Martial did not have such code names.

They are just pure peripheral members, like doing a job, connecting with the moths on the line, and the final information has to be fed back to the jack of spades.

But if this foreign organization is really a deck of playing cards, then the scale is really huge.

"The intelligence services still need to work hard!"

Chen Ming said this after reading the report.

There is no need for a heavy hammer to ring the drum, of course Chen Guang knows what the emperor means when he says this, although next year he will step down from the position of Minister of the Interior, and it is Chen Liang's turn to sit up. But Chen Guang is in charge of national security, focusing on domestic affairs, and is the No. 1 in this regard, and the focus of this matter is still on him.

You know, now the intelligence services can't even tell which country this organization belongs to by using the information they have already detected. Britain is the most suspicious, but the evidence is only a few statistics that Robert popped up at the dinner at the consulate in Shanghai, and there is no more evidence besides that.

But this evidence alone is like 'conviction', it is impossible. Robert could have excused himself from the information he had paid for. He could casually assign this to someone who didn't exist.

Not all of the six spies who were found out were officials in Nanjing, but all of them had served as officials in Nanjing, and the six people compared their life experiences, either in the same year as the imperial examination, or worked together, or were friends in private.

Perhaps there is truth to the words of the previous life: everyone in the world can be connected by only six people.

Although they are not big officials, the highest official position is only one from the fourth grade. But the influence of these six people after the release is very great.

When some were exposed by "Zhongyuan Daily" and "Legal Daily", the shock caused by it spread throughout the country.

Now that Chen Han is prosperous, there are really many, many Chinese in this era who look down on Europeans. And now there are officials who are not allowed to live a good life, collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. In the eyes of many Chinese people, this is completely incredible.

"Kicked in the head by the donkey?"

So much so that even Chengtian's ten-year scientific expedition was robbed by this sudden incident.

Since Chen Han opened the imperial examination, to the present, the imperial examination has been held one after another, and officials have been continuously sent to it.

For the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, although the status of the imperial examination in the political society of the Chen and Han dynasties is gradually declining, it is only a short period of more than ten years, how can the imperial examination fall from the sky to the earth.

Even if it's a freefall, it will take a while.

Whenever the imperial examination comes, the city of Nanjing will be flooded with thousands of candidates one after another.

But the time of Chen Han's opening has been adjusted from the original late spring and March to the current Mid-Autumn Festival.

The aftermath of the treasonous officials gradually dissipated.

Only a few Nanjing residents with an overflowing sense of justice will occasionally launch a crusade against Chen Mengyan and other officials.

Now, the people of Nanjing are attracted by two things.

One of them is an edict issued by the imperial court to hold a court push before the Mid-Autumn Festival to determine the list of third-person cabinet ministers for next year;

This matter has attracted much attention, not only the people of Nanjing City have become 'organization ministers' one by one, but even the people who have come to Beijing to participate in this scientific expedition are also very interested in it.

You know, almost every one of them is an official.

According to Chen Han's system, if you pass the exam, you have to come in as a public servant. They are already lifters, and many of them have been in officialdom for sixty, seven, eighty, or ninety years.

As early as more than ten years ago, "Zhongyuan Daily" published the rules of the game of Chen and Han officialdom, using the 'success' ratio of the first branch jinshi to promote the theory of high-ranking officials and low ability of the "jinshi", lowering the grade of the new science and technology jinshi, learning from the old Tang Dynasty, and letting the jinshi start as a petty official. Step by step, so that 'the prime minister starts from the state department'.

This is called 'focusing on the tempering and practical training of the grass-roots units', and it is also called 'talent is cultivated from the grass-roots level.' ’

Over the years, the gold content of Jinshi has been declining little by little.

The official award is still seven grades, but can Chen Han's seven grades be compared with the seven grades in the Ming and Qing dynasties? This seventh grade is far from the fifth grade of the county master. Moreover, the source of the students who participated in the Jinshi scientific examination, the people, had already entered the officialdom, and some people with outstanding abilities had already become county masters, and even crossed this hurdle.

In addition to the attractiveness of the name, the actual value of Jinshi has been greatly discounted.

During the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court took the imperial examination as the main source of officials, so the relationship between the teacher, the same department, the same year, the same classmate, the same villager, etc., weaved a big net in the officialdom.

But now it's different. Chen Han's officials are much more than those of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is famous for its 'redundant officials'. Although the imperial examination has sent a large number of officials and public servants to Chen Han year after year, although the relationship between the same department, the same year, the same classmate, and the same township still exists, there is no such relationship as a 'seat teacher' above them.

Moreover, the talents and talents are all selected locally and nearby. They may have a friendship with each other, but they also face rivalry.

Some people quickly lifted up and soared; Some people have been stagnant all year round, and it is difficult to look back.

Nowadays, many of the people who come to Nanjing to participate in the imperial examination are still coming for the seven-rank officials, because their positions are so far away from the seven-rank officials. And such a person, even if he is admitted to the Jinshi and becomes a seven-rank official, how much future can he have in the future?

Chen Han did not have the Hanlin Academy, but the tradition of 'Hanlin Academy, Shu Jishi' was retained in another form. A group of Jinshi who are at the top of the imperial examination will be selected to study at the Central Political Academy, which can be regarded as an added layer of buff.

There is no difference between this year's scientific examination and previous years, and the vast majority of the jinshi in the examination still have to start from local petty officials, and there are always a few people who can enter the Central Political Academy and stay in various ministries and commissions in the capital.

However, the scale of this admission will be unprecedentedly huge.

According to the grapevine, in this scientific expedition, the emperor will admit more than 1,000 officials in various departments. It is used to enrich the land of Nanyang, Nanmingzhou, and North America.

An obvious sign is that not long ago, the cabinet issued an order to exempt all localities from the target of 'supporting the border'. This so-called 'branch' is to go to a newly expanded land thousands of miles or thousands of miles away to become an official.

But the latter always has to be someone, isn't it?

Who goes?

Obviously, that is the Jinshi of this subject.

Therefore, in the ten years of the imperial examination, many people are afraid to avoid snakes and scorpions; There are also many people who rush to heaven as if they have seen it.

The former came for the new starting point brought by the 'Jinshi', and few of them were willing to go to the wilderness thousands of miles or thousands of miles away to become officials.

But for many people who can't get it, for those mortals who have no foundation, no background, and no support, and for those who have been hesitant and unwilling for a long time. As long as you can get to the seventh grade and be the head of the township, it will be good.

Wupin, Cong Wupin is the county, Liupin, Cong Liupin is the deputy county, as well as the three key departments of finance, public security and justice, then the seventh product is the number one in the township.

What's so bad about being a township mayor or town mayor? The war is over, what's so scary?

What's wrong with thousands of miles away?

Didn't there also be a recusal system for officials in the past? Even now, when you climb down the county, you have to be transferred out, and it is not necessary to go out of the province, but it is certain to go out of the province. And if you climb to the sixth grade, you must go out of the county.

It's all about leaving home, what's the difference?

What else to pick and choose?

……

This is the 'self-ridicule' of many 'mortals', and of course there is a difference. But they don't have a choice, do they?

Anyway, today's Nanjing City can be described as overcrowded.

For example, Cao Zhenyong, who has a deep background and is staring at the position of the Central Political Academy, is satisfied with being able to mix with a seven-grade official position, even if it is a good grassroots class to be assigned to the edge of the world to be an official, they have gathered in Nanjing.

For a while, the city of Nanjing was a little crowded.

The streets are full of crowds. Shoulder to shoulder, busy traffic.

Horse-drawn carriages shuttled back and forth. The signboards of each store are displayed in the wind.

Throughout Nanjing, there were policemen and soldiers who maintained order, as well as patrolling troops.

Yes, who doesn't want to take a good stroll around Nanjing?

It's the same as going to Yanjing and the Great Demon Capital in the later life, even if you don't have any money in your pocket, it's good to just have an addiction.

People from all over the world shuttle back and forth, pull relationships and pull relationships, and go through the back door.

For example, Cao Zhenyong, who was most relied on by Emperor Daoguang in this original space-time plane, was an official for fifty-two years during his lifetime, and his career was a horse and a river, a river and a spring water, rising step by step, the chief military minister without disasters and difficulties, and the Han officer who was called 'Wenzheng' after his death, but now his career is a little unsmooth.

His father is Cao Wenyun, who passed on in the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong (1760), elected Shu Jishi, and served as an official in Beijing for nearly ten years. But with a long-term vision, although he did not serve Chen Han early, he also resigned early and returned to his hometown. When Chen Han set off the general trend, he was put into the command of Chen Ming, and successively served in the Supervision Yuan, the Ministry of Culture and Education, and the Shuntian Mansion, and then transferred to the Ministry of Finance. It is very likely that after the cabinet change in the coming year, it will take a step forward and step into the level of the waiter.

But that was his father Cao Wenyun, and Cao Zhenyong's career was not so smooth.

Cao Zhenyong, who was born in a family of imperial examinations, was determined to be admitted to the Jinshi, although because of Chen Han's regulations, he entered the officialdom early, but he was idle. He needs to have more time to replenish his knowledge.

So his position hasn't moved much over the years. Among the people who entered the officialdom with him at the beginning, some of them sat in Zhengxian from Wupin. He is still an eight-rank sesame official.

What's even more tragic is that Chen Han's imperial examination is completely different from that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and Cao Zhenyong's proficient Four Books and Five Classics are not of much use. And he himself is bent on taking the most promising and bright political science among all subjects.

Cao Zhenyong, who had been lurking at home for many years because of the changes in the world, had already delayed some time, and Cao Zhenyong, who had participated in the Jinshi scientific examination twice before, fell in the examination room, and now he is thirty years younger.

Therefore, Cao Zhenyong can't retire anymore. Of course, his expectation was to standardize the Political Academy, but he failed to rank among the best, and he admitted that he was assigned to become an official overseas. It's better than not being selected. If Sun Shan is named again, Cao Zhenyong will have no face to see.

Cao Zhenyong's literary style is not without it, and the defect is in the handling of general affairs and judgment and analysis. Chen Han's country is stable, the scientific examination is more and more formal, and the difficulty of the test questions is constantly improving, which can be compared to 'one examination theory, five judgments, edicts, edicts, and tables; It is much more difficult to examine the scriptures, history, and current affairs.

The overall gold content of the title of 'Jinshi' is declining, but the political literacy of the new Jinshi is several times higher than when Lu Shan took the Shi.

This is also a 'joke' that is not funny.

And the 'mortal grassroots' have their own way of survival, no matter whether they take the road or not, they all lick their faces and brush their faces. During this time, the taste is 'endless', some people persevered, and some people chose to give up. But in the end, it is still up to the heroes to be discussed in the field.

For many, many Chinese, the examination is a beautiful dream, an opportunity to change the future of their lives.

For thousands of years, since the moment the 'imperial examination' appeared on the land of China, a bright road that broke the lintel and changed life appeared in front of thousands of low-level Chinese people.

It's a road to heaven!

It is a low-status road to heaven for the children of the poor to leap above the green clouds.

How many poor students with no surplus wealth have entered the officialdom through the imperial examination and dominated one side?

Its positive significance needs not be said.

"The land is thin and the pines and cypresses are planted, and the poor children are studying." Chen Junqing, a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, replied to Song Gaozong's duet in the hall, which is the most perfect interpretation of the 'scientific examination system'.