There are only two exams, but Liu Jun has already decided the first and third places in this year's exam.

For the emperor, the imperial examination was just a way for the imperial court to select officials, but the imperial examination was carried out according to the emperor's will. Liu Jun said that if there are 300 volumes, there will be 300, if 600 will be 600, if it is divided into two volumes, it will be two volumes, and if it is divided into three volumes, it will be three volumes.

As long as the scholars feel that there is a way out of the imperial examination, and only if it is relatively fair, then the scholars can accept it. For the emperor, the purpose of the imperial examination was to select officials, and since this was the case, it was natural to select the most suitable rather than the best.

Today's Fushe has completely sided with the imperial court, they take the salary of the imperial court, accept the organization and supervision of the imperial court, and even most of the members of the Fushe have become the mouthpiece of the imperial court, writing articles and commenting on various newspapers and magazines controlled by the imperial court.

For such a resumption of society, which has actually been controlled by the imperial court, Liu Jun must of course attach importance to it.

The exam is not over yet, and Liu Jun has already selected the top three in the first class. Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, and Chen Mingxia, the three leaders of the Restoration Society, are also the three leaders who are now leading the Restoration Society to completely stand on the side of the imperial court. For the three Jiangnan scholars who supported the imperial court so much, Liu Jun of course also reciprocated the favor, and he was ready to admit them as tributes after this meeting. When waiting for the palace examination, the three people will be selected as the top three in the first class, and they will be ranked as champions, top eyes, and tanhua.

Liu Jun not only booked the top three in the first class, but he has even booked a quota of 100 new scholars from the Fushe lifters who participated in the examination.

In order to ensure that his intentions are implemented, Liu Jun has spent a lot of effort. However, this group of scholars of the Restoration Society is really strong, they are worthy of being the most prosperous Jiangnan juzi, Liu Jun only needs to ensure that the examiners mark the papers fairly, then they can stand out in the examination with their real skills. After the entrance examination, when it comes to the palace examination, the ranking is completely determined by the emperor, so as long as the examiner does not brush Huang Zongxi and others during the examination. When it comes to the palace examination, Liu Jun wants to choose him as the champion, and there is no problem.

What Liu Jun wants to ensure is that Li Banghua, the president of the examination, and the examiners are all normal.

After a few days of trying, 600 tributes will be selected. In the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, the spring examination was held, and the palace examination was held the next month after the examination, and the ranking of the jinshi was finally determined.

However, this year's examination has been advanced, and the palace examination will also be advanced. The examination ends on December 15 and the examination a week later. That is, December 22.

During this period, local officials entered Beijing to gather, and the officials of the Beijing Division were all smiling happily, and a large number of local officials entered Beijing, not only to report their work, but also to accept inspections, and to ask for money, etc., and the officials of the Beijing Division held all kinds of inspections, audits, and other powers in their hands, and naturally became fragrant and sweet.

Time. Officials from various ministries and offices have many banquets to attend every day.

Although the imperial court forbade officials to drink alcohol during working hours, there were still people who disobeyed the law at this time.

Liu Jun has received a number of reports from the factory guards, all of which directly point to the recent violations of the officials of various ministries in Beijing. What made Liu Jun angry the most was not the gift-giving banquet or even bribery of local officials. Instead, many officials of the Beijing Division have begun to deliberately hold the power in their hands, so as to take the initiative to ask the local officials for cards.

As soon as it was dark, Liu Jun dressed up in disguise. After the master of Jinyiwei put on his makeup, he turned into a middle-aged man. Feng Sheng of the Jinyi Guard also put on makeup, and Liu Jun brought Tai Chi Grandmaster Chen Yuting and several imperial guard masters.

"Today I am a seven-grade petty official in Jiangxi Province. Remember, don't show your feet for a while. ”

Liu Jun decided to see the behavior of those bold Beijing officials for himself.

Tonight, he will be a petty official of the Jiangxi Provincial Chaoji Mission, ostensibly on behalf of the governor of Jiangxi Province, who has visited a member of the Department of Communications and asked for the Department's help in the construction of a road through Jiangxi.

This project is real, and the name of that official is also true, but now Liu Jun is pretending to be the identity of this official and personally going to meet the officials of the Department of Transportation for a while.

Qianmen Street, the lights are still brilliant in the dark night, and the lanterns illuminate the door of the General's Restaurant.

A director of the transportation department of Zhengliupin walked down from the carriage, and several officials were already waiting at the door.

"The people over there in Jiangxi haven't arrived yet?" He frowned.

"Not yet." It was the officers of the charge who replied, and they arrived one step earlier.

The principal immediately showed dissatisfaction, "Hmph, there are no rules, please invite this official to come, but I am still late." ”

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. The carriage broke down on the road, and it was delayed for a while. ”

Liu Jun had actually arrived a long time ago, but he had been parking the carriage not far away to watch the reaction here. He took the displeasure of the master completely in his eyes, and only then did he pretend to rush over.

"Liu experience, you guys have a big shelf." The king snorted coldly.

Liu Jun is pretending to be a petty official in Jiangxi today, with seven product experience.

"I'm really sorry, Lord Wang." Liu Jun said as he took out a stack of silver dollar coupons from his sleeve and stuffed them to Director Wang.

The stack of silver dollar coupons is not much, fifty dollars. Just reached the standard of sentencing and conviction for bribery, Liu Jun thought that Director Wang would definitely have to resign a time or two, but who knew that Director Wang would accept it directly.

Even after receiving the silver dollar coupon, he may still feel that it is too little, and snorted coldly.

I finally entered the restaurant, which was a box that had been booked in advance.

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

"Director Wang, our province is ready to widen the provincial highway from Nanchang to Ganzhou, and we still need the Department of Transportation to approve the project, in addition, our province has raised some funds, but there are still some gaps, and I hope to get the support of the department."

Director Wang was very dissatisfied, "How can there be someone like you, it's not office hours now, you have to talk about business, and you will talk about it in the department tomorrow." Tonight, we won't talk about business. ”

"Master Wang, aren't you too busy during the day, we've been there several times, but we can't see anyone every time. After sitting on the cold bench for a few days, there is really no way. Please also ask the king to be tolerant and do me a favor. ”

"Liu experience, seeing that you are not young, how can you still be like a showman who has never experienced the world. Let me tell you the truth, now the imperial court really attaches importance to transportation, or why has a new transportation department set up to be in charge of the world's road and bridge transportation. The imperial court also had plans to build several major roads to connect the world. Of course, the imperial court also supported the construction of roads at the local level. In this way, the national highways of the imperial court are connected to the provincial roads built in the local provinces, and they also complement each other. ”

"However, the funds of the imperial court are also limited, and this silver has to be repaired first, and as for the provincial road, it is okay to repair it, and you have to raise your own money."

The king is very good, and people who don't know the details still think that he is a Shilang, at least he should be a layman.

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

The imperial court deliberately set up a new department of transportation. The purpose is for transportation. The empire was so large, especially after the expansion of so many new frontier territories, the requirements for road traffic became more and more great.

It is said that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

In fact, if the policies and decrees of the empire are to be universal, roads are also crucial. The imperial court has now set up a new transportation department, and has drawn up a road construction plan. It is planned to build several main lines to connect the provinces.

In the imperial court's road construction plan, local road construction was also supported. Each province should be on the old road system. Open up a provincial highway that runs through the whole province, and in the future, it will have to be connected to counties and counties, and even to townships and townships.

In order to support local road construction, the imperial court has long had a policy. For the construction of provincial roads in local provinces, it is necessary to actively assist, and financial and technical support must be given.

For example, the Jiangxi Provincial Highway Construction Plan proposed by Liu Jun's impersonation of Liu Shishi, the Department of Transportation should not have pushed back and blocked it in this way. They should actively review, help with project development, and provide funding and technology. And not the current situation.

Now this situation makes it clear that this king wants to use the power in his hands to 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 pulled down, and before the Beijing division was released, it was already less than three or four percent.

At that time, Liu Jun had personally experienced this kind of corruption. At that time, the official positions of the Ming Dynasty were all clearly priced, from the governor and governor to the governor and the county. It is even detailed to the same official position in different places and different price codes.

For example, 5,000 gold to buy the governor, but the qualifications are too shallow, directly add 2,000 gold, and immediately get your wish. There is also a ministry lang who seeks to release the platform, and the seller asks for 5,000, and the buyer is reluctant, so he is only willing to give 3,000, and says that he will give the remaining 2,000 after he takes office, and it is actually done.

Not to mention, there was a rule that no one could pay in Beijing at that time.

The border army asks for salary, and before the military salary leaves Beijing, at least 30% must be deducted. After the salary was sent out of Beijing, it had to go through layers of deductions from various yamen and generals, and finally it arrived in the hands of the soldiers, but there was not much money.

Kickbacks, drifting, all kinds of corruption are commonplace.

When it came to Liu Jun Lihan, there were severe sanctions for corruption. On the one hand, Liu Jun raised the salaries of officials, and on the other hand, he also strengthened the punishment of corruption.

For example, it is clearly stipulated that 50 silver dollars has already met the conviction and sentencing standards for the crime of offering and accepting bribes. As for the corrupt officials, once they are verified, they will be exiled to the frontier to reclaim the famine.

They even paid high amounts of incorruptible silver to those officials in charge of the yamen at all levels, as well as officials in important departments such as finance and taxation.

Under all kinds of means, it is indeed much better.

But now it seems that the corruption of officials is not entirely due to too little salary and not enough money to spend. At the first opportunity, they will still be greedy.

Nowadays, these Beijing officials regard the local officials who have entered Beijing as fat sheep to slaughter, and regard their right to review and approve projects and withdraw funds as the capital for interest exchange and power rent-seeking.

"Lord Wang, I don't know how much is needed, can you help us facilitate this?"

The king was dissatisfied, how could he just get straight to the point. It's really a local bun, and I don't know the rules at all. But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but since he has already talked about this, he will no longer hold it.

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

"Say how much!"

"Ten thousand!" The king gave a number.

Liu Jun's eyes flashed with murderous aura, this little master really dared to shout. As soon as it is exported, it is 10,000 silver dollars, and 50 yuan is enough to take bribes, and now asking for 10,000 yuan in bribes means that the circumstances are particularly bad and the amount is particularly huge.

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

The king's face remained unchanged, but his heart was excited. Originally, he just wanted to ask for a high price, and he thought that he would always have to bargain, but he didn't expect this Jiangxi soil bun to agree, and he would have shouted more if he knew it, and the king thought with remorse in his heart.

Liu Jun took in the little change in the expression of Director Wang, and continued with a sneer, "Don't say 10,000 yuan, even 20,000 yuan, I can give it, I'm afraid that Director Wang doesn't have the ability to take it!" ”

Director Wang's face changed greatly, "Presumptuous! ”

Feng Sheng next to him couldn't stand it, stood up and shouted angrily, "You are presumptuous!" ”

Several Ouchi guards shouted together, "Kneel! ”

The second monk was confused all of a sudden, and he was frightened by the momentum, and stammered, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Presumptuous, don't kneel yet, this is His Majesty the Emperor!"

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

"Master Wang, you are so bold, you openly ask for bribes, and you dare to ask for 10,000 silver dollars as soon as you open your mouth, are you not afraid of death? Congratulations, you've managed to earn yourself a good chance to exile yourself to Yunnan Reclamation! ”

The king only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and then his knees weakened and he sat down on the ground.

"Take down this corrupt official and put him in prison for interrogation. Carefully intersect, find out all his past, and trace every stolen money he embezzled! (To be continued.) )