Someone said worriedly: "If the examination office is abolished, will our results count?" ”

Minister of Officials: "Don't worry, it counts." ”

Deputy Minister: "It's too big. If it really doesn't count, it's okay to say a few hundred people, but what about a few thousand candidates? What about tens of thousands of warriors? What about hundreds of thousands of first-time test students? What about millions of scholars in the world? What about tens of millions of readers? How did it end up? Therefore, the imperial court did not dare to change. ”

The director of the service department said: "The imperial court destroyed the examination department, but refuted the rumors that everything is normal, which shows that the imperial court has to deal with this matter internally." ”

Someone asked, "How to deal with it?" ”

Commissioner: "Pretend to deal with it." ”

Oh...... People...... I see......

The Minister of Officials snorted and laughed.

Deputy Minister: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Minister: "I'm wondering, how is the Minister of Officials going to be distributed?" Grades don't count! ”

Deputy Minister: "Haha! ”

Commissioner: "It's none of our business. ”

The head of the royal officials sighed, looked into the distance, and said faintly: "For a long, long time...... There is only the emperor in the palace, and the emperor does nothing, and the twelve departments govern the world......"

The officials and members of the Ministry of Officials were silent.

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If this meeting is as normal as before, the process of assigning people is as follows:

125 of the 250 went to the inner court and served as officials in the palace; 125 people went to the outer court and served as officials in the localities.

Among them, twenty elites of the Inner Court went to the Royal Roads University for further study, and after graduation, they became assistant ministers - future ministers; Twenty elites from the Outer Dynasty went to the Imperial University for further study, and after graduation, they became assistants to the provincial governor - the future governor.

However, since the power of the inner court is greater than that of the outer court, the actual distribution process is as follows:

The first 125 of the 250 went to the inner court and served as officials in the palace; After 125, he went to the outer court and became an official in the local area.

Among them, twenty elites of the Inner Court went to the Royal Roads University for further study, and after graduation, they became assistant ministers - future ministers; Twenty elites from the Outer Dynasty went to the Imperial University for further study, and after graduation, they became assistants to the provincial governor - the future governor.

But...... This is only theoretical......

You have to understand that there is a terrible gulf between theory and reality......

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The officials of the imperial court were divided into two factions, the inner court and the outer court - of course, this is not absolute, the imperial court has countless factions, and they change repeatedly! The inner court was from the Wenju people, and the outer court was from the scholar clan - in general. Generally speaking, the leader of the inner court is the head of the inner court, and the leader of the outer court is the prime minister of the outer court. The so-called leader is only the person who is recognized as the principal, and there is no explicit right to appoint - the power of appointment is only with the emperor.

The inner court is very small because they have no descendants in the first place! Since there are no offspring, there must be less power. The inner court is all from a civilian background, they first go to the scholar's family to join the scholars, and then take the literary examination, and the middle court is the inner court. From this point of view, they were both commoners and scholars, so the competition between the inner court and the outer court against the Wenju people was fierce.

The power of the inner court was significantly higher than that of the outer court, not only in the King James Law, but in fact as it was. Some people say that because they are traitors and deceive the emperor. But I think it's unlikely. The real reasons may be: first, the emperor secretly supports. Do you think that the emperor could trust those scholars of the foreign court? Second, the forbidden army. The Inner Court controls the Forbidden Army, and the Forbidden Army is so terrifying. Airplanes, tanks, artillery, warships...... How the are other armies fighting?!

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I hesitated, where should I go?

The inner court has great power, fast upgrades, and a lot of knowledge, but it is trapped in the palace and not free; The power of the foreign court is small, but it is an official in the local area, and it is more free to do so.

I remembered a joke. This joke has been told many times, but each time there is something new. The old beggar in the west of the village said, if I become an emperor, I will eat hemp balls every day, eat one and throw one away, dip it in brown sugar for a while, and dip it in soy sauce for a while!

I felt like I was an old beggar.

I'm just a puppet. I am not in control of my own destiny. Wherever they divide me, I will go.

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People quietly await their fate.

In addition to lifting people to talk nonsense to each other, there are also many eunuchs and palace maids and imperial doctors who come and go.

One of the little eunuchs was very impressed. His name is Li Zhibing, known as "Little Plum", and he is one of the countless "Little Plums" in the palace. I dare say that if you shout "little plum" in the palace anytime and anywhere, at least a dozen people will turn around and agree. Of course, his surname is not Li, he is a certain Li family who doesn't know where to buy it and send it to the palace.

This man is quite clever, and of course only a clever person can see that he is clever. After a period of conversations with him, whether intentional or not, we became quite familiar and became good friends who talked about everything.

I asked him, "Brother, you have been in the palace for so many years, you should be very familiar, right?" ”

Him: "Of course! ”

Me: "Tell me, what's going on in the court lately?" ”

Him: "The Imperial Court? I'm from the harem, how do I know about the court! ”

Me: "Oh, what's there to do in the harem?" ”

Him: "It's not fun...... But ......"

He smiled mysteriously.

Me: "What's wrong?" Let's talk about it. ”

He: "The queen blows pillow wind in the emperor's ears every day, and wants to abolish the crown prince and make her son the crown prince." ”

The current queen's name is Zhao Yishu, less than thirty years old, and she has a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. Her father is the prime minister of the dynasty, and he is also the head of the Zhao family of Zhao County, the first scholar in the world-Zhao Guangxin.

I thought, "Devil believes!" You don't stay under the bed of the emperor and queen at night, how do you know?! ”

I said, "Interesting! What else? ”

Him: "That's it! All right! Do not say! My mouth! Palm! ”

You guy! As soon as it piqued my interest, I won't talk about it!

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I looked out the window at the palace towering into the clouds and asked, "I've never been to the palace, I wonder what's going on inside?" ”

Xiao Lizi: "The palace is much stricter, only the emperor and a few princes can come and go at will, and even the prince has to be driven out to live when he becomes an adult." ”

Me: "I've always wondered, how many people are in this building of the palace, 10,000 people, right?" ”

He laughed: "Ten thousand? I tell you, this number! ”

He stretched out his hands, separated his five fingers, and put his palms in front of my eyes: "More than 100,000!" ”

Me: "One hundred thousand? More than 100,000 people are crammed into one building, are you bragging? ”

He pursed his lips and said, "I can forgive you for not believing you, for when I first came, I didn't believe either." But then I saw it with my own eyes. You listen carefully, I'll speak slowly, and I'll do the math for you. ”

He said: "The palace has a total of 200 floors, more than 100 meters long and wide, and 1,000 meters high. There are twelve buildings next to it, all of which are ancient departments, but they are useless now. Now the entire imperial court is in the imperial palace, the first hundred and twenty floors are the imperial court, and the last eighty floors are the harem. ”

He looked at me smugly.

I was wheted by him and said, "Say it! What about the back! ”

He continued: "I'll give you an estimate of how many people there are in the palace. Floors one to one hundred and twenty are the imperial court, and each floor includes the inner court, the forbidden army, the eunuchs, and so on, and there are about two hundred people on each floor. The 120th to 200th floors are the harem, some floors are empty, such as gardens, theaters or whatever, some floors are crowded with people, no less than a thousand people, and even some dormitories can live in more than a few thousand people on the first floor, with an average of no less than 500 people. It is recognized that there are no less than 100,000 people in the entire palace. ”

I asked, "So many people! So how do these people get in and out? ”

He said, "In and out? You're thinking too much! Permission is required to enter and exit the palace, understand? Most of these 100,000 people are second-level permissions, and they can't even go out of their own floors! So many people, eating, drinking, sleeping, moving, sitting, lying and walking, all settled inside, hundreds of truckloads of things were delivered from the ground every day, and there were several years of reserves guaranteed by the royal storehouse. Most people can't go out after entering the palace, and many people only live on one floor for the rest of their lives, and only after they die are cremated in the crematorium on the 144th floor before they can come out. I am a subordinate of Gonggong Li, the head of the inner court, and now I have been temporarily transferred to serve you, and it is good that a high-ranking eunuch like me can come out to breathe. ”

I felt a suffocation: "I'm out of breath. ”

He said, "Just get used to it." The palace is a small world, it has its own rules, and there are many things that cannot be controlled above. It's so chaotic in the palace that even the stewards don't know who is inside, and there have even been many times when the palace maid raised an illegitimate child without anyone knowing. ”

I said, "And this kind of thing?" Whose son is this? ”

He said, "Alas! Who knows who! That's okay, I haven't even said anything about throwing the child in the toilet and flushing it away. There is a lot of chaos in the palace, all kinds of forces, all kinds of strange things! You'll understand when you've been inside. Think about it, 50,000 eunuchs, 50,000 palace maids, only revolving around one man, what kind of scheming can become? 100,000 people crammed into one building, what kind of mentality can become? Intrigue every day, harm each other, and do useless things! Ay! ”

He sighed, tucked the quilt for me, and left, leaving me stunned.

I thought: "Damn, try not to wade into the troubled waters of the palace, just like Dongfang Rong to mix with a magistrate, it is not bad to return to his hometown, and he can also be powerful everywhere - don't divide me into the imperial court officials!" ”

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A few days later, the assignment came down:

The first 125 of the 250 went to the inner court and served as officials in the palace; After 125, he went to the outer court and became an official in the local area.

I am a total of 31, actually 16, therefore, I want to enter the palace as an official.