Chapter XXXVIII

Zhou Yu, who was pushed to the end, completely became a jobless vagrant, although the prince Liu Xie did not let Zhou Yu enter the palace in order to vent his anger to his little uncle, but he still sent someone to send some more strange things to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu, who was already a little resistant to Liu Xie, saw from this incident that he was a ruthless and unrighteous person, but looking back, he was still a little excited when he thought that he could finally leave Luoyang and start his own journey.

Zhou Xian took sick leave on the grounds that his mother was critically ill and left Luoyang early, and before he left, he followed Zhou Yu's advice to take all the relatives in the mansion away, leaving only Zhou An and a few subordinates to Zhou Yu, and the huge Zhou Mansion was suddenly much deserted. Zhou Yu asked Dian Wei to take a hundred guards in Mangdang Mountain to secretly protect the safety of his father Zhou Xian, and the 100 people left behind packed up their belongings and prepared to evacuate together when Zhou Yu was ready to stop in Luoyang.

"Young Master, where are we going today?" Zhou An trotted behind Zhou Yu, while Zhou Yu swayed down the street. Walking and walking, I came to an official office, which had two big characters hanging on the outside, but the guards at the door were wearing eunuch clothes.

"Stop coming—this is a vital place, and idlers are not allowed to approach." There were four eunuchs guarding the door, two of them were holding spears in their hands, and two of them were hanging knives from their waists.

"Excuse me, is the buyer here?" Zhou Yu stopped calmly and said.

"Yes—since you're here to buy officials, please come with me—" Although the eunuch said this, his body was motionless and looked at Zhou Yu and Zhou An.

Zhou Yu nodded and motioned for Zhou An to take out four golden beans from his cuffs, he stepped forward and handed them to the four guards at the door, and as soon as they took the golden beans, the four of them immediately put away the dead face, and immediately beckoned Zhou Yu and Zhou An to go in with a smile on their faces. Zhou Yu knew that the Han Dynasty had decayed to the point of hopelessness, but such blatant bribery was rare, so he sighed secretly and followed a sword-hung eunuch into the gate of the official office.

"This son, are you going to the Civil Officials Hall or the Military Attaché Palace? Or is it the Hall of Titles? As soon as he entered the gate of the official office, the eunuch with a knife suddenly stopped and asked.

"Uh-" Zhou Yu was a little blindsided, why did he still divide so much in the place where he bought and sold officials? He looked up and found that the eunuch with the hanging knife had a smile, knew what this eunuch meant, and took out a golden bean and handed it over: "Father-in-law, please smile - please explain to me what is the civil official hall, the martial arts hall, and the title hall?" Much appreciated, much appreciated! Please accept it from your father-in-law! ”

"Thank you, Childe! Then I'll take you to the nearest military attache hall first-please-" The eunuch who received the golden beans began to lead the way, and a large hall appeared around the corner, and a large sign of "Military Attache Palace" was hung on the door of the hall. There were two little eunuchs standing at the door, and they were napping! Hearing someone approaching, he hurriedly straightened up.

"Father-in-law Zhang, there is a deal today?" A little eunuch said with a smile.

"Hmm~ You're not lazy, are you? Be careful to let your Commander know what will be done to you! Take a good look, I'll take someone in to have a look first, and you'll be indispensable for a while! The eunuch surnamed Zhang pretended to be a little eunuch who guarded the door, and walked into the hall proudly.

The inside of the main hall is very empty, except for the pillars, there are some walls, on which are written in large letters about the official position, grade, and selling price.

Zhou Yu looked up, Mom! I was suddenly taken aback, how can this Liu Hong sell everything!

The list of sales is as follows: the price of a general is one million gold; The second-grade hussar general, the chariot general, and the Wei general (the above are the three public-level generals), with a price tag of 800,000 gold; General of the Fu Army, General of the Chinese Army, General of the Shang Army, General of the Town Army, General of the National Army, General of the South and Central China (the above is the general of the second grade), with a price of 700,000 gold; The generals of the expedition to the east, the south to the south, the west and the north are collectively known as the four expedition generals, with a price tag of 500,000 gold; General Zhendong, General Zhennan, General Zhenxi, and General Zhenbei are collectively known as the Four Town Generals, with a price tag of 500,000 gold.

The leading general of the Sanpin Praetorian Guard, with a price tag of 500,000 gold; General Anton, General Annan, General Anxi, and General Anbei are collectively known as General Si'an, with a price tag of 400,000 gold; General Pingdong, General Pingnan, General Pingxi, and General Pingbei are collectively known as General Siping, with a price tag of 400,000 gold; General Zhengshu, General Zhenglu, General Zhenjun, General Zhenhu, General Anzhong, General Anyi, General Anyuan, General Pingkou, General Pinglu, General Pingdi, General Pingnan, General Fuguo, General Huya, General Qingche, General Champion, General Duliao, and General Henghai are collectively known as Sanpin Miscellaneous Generals, with a unified price of 200,000 gold.

The Guardian Army and General Wuwei in the four products are the Praetorian Guards, with a price of 300,000 gold; Tun Cavalry Captain, Yue Cavalry Captain, Infantry Captain, Changshui Captain, and Shooting Captain are called the five field captains, with a price tag of 200,000 gold; The backbone generals, the cavalry guerrilla generals, and the generals of the Left Army are the four permanent generals, with a price tag of 200,000 gold; General Jianwei, General Jianwu, General Zhenwei, General Zhenwu, General Fenwei, General Fenwu, General Yangwei, General Yangwu, General Guangwei, General Guangwu, General Ningshuo, General Zuoji, General Zongji, General Zongji, General Qiangwu are four-grade miscellaneous generals, with a price tag of 100,000 gold; East Lang General, South Zhong Lang General, West Zhong Lang General, North Zhong Lang General four directions of Zhong Lang General, the price of 80,000 gold; Zhenwei Zhonglang General, Jianyi Zhonglang General, Fengyi Zhonglang General, Pingyu Zhonglang General, Dianjun Zhonglang General, Fujun Zhonglang General, Wuwei Zhonglang General, Sijin Zhonglang General, Silu Zhonglang General, Hun Zhonglang General, and Rateshan Zhonglang will be the four miscellaneous Zhonglang Generals, with a price of 50,000 gold; Captain Wuji, Captain Pingyu, Captain Qiukou, Captain Jianzhong, Captain Huqiang, Captain Hudongqiang, Captain Hukarasuma, Captain Huxianbei, Captain Xiyu, Captain Xirong, and Captain Dongyi belong to the generals sent abroad, with a price tag of 8,000 gold.

General Wupin and General Pi are standing generals of Wupin, with a price of 20,000 gold; General Yingyang, General Zhichong, General Hulie, General Xuanwei, General Weiyuan, General Ningyuan, General Fubo, General Huwei, General Lingjiang, General Dangkou, General Zhaowu, General Zhaolie, General Zhaode, General Zhaode, General Rebellion, General Poku, General Xuande, General Weilu, General Xuande, General Weilu, General Xuanli, General Wu, General Yiyi, General Yanglie, General Jianzhong, General Liyi, General Huaiji, General Yokono, General Lou Chuan, General Futu, General Zhongyi, General Jianjie, General Yiwei, General Qiuyi, General Huaiyuan, General Suibian is a five-grade miscellaneous general, with a price tag of 8,000 gold.

The six-product Anyi Protector and the Fuyi Protector are the six-grade protectors, with a price tag of 3,000 gold; The Herong Protector and the Prisoner Protector are miscellaneous guards, with a price tag of 1,000 gold.

There are no soldiers left below the sixth rank of military attachés, and there are no military petty officers such as captains, only Yulu has no grade.

The price of the military attache list shocked Zhou Yu a little, according to the calculation of money at that time (for the convenience of everyone's calculation, there is no need to use historical counting): one hundred wen is equal to consistency, one hundred guan is equal to one tael of silver, and one hundred taels of silver is equal to one tael of gold. According to the consumption level of Luoyang City at that time, an ordinary family only needed ten taels of silver a year to live. It is conceivable that if you pay for an official position, it will cost a lot of money, especially a high-powered general position.

For such an astronomical figure, think about it, the son of heaven Liu Hong is not a fool, the duty of the military attache is to protect the family and defend the country, if the price of the military general is too low to be bought by some rich and incompetent people, then the army is led by these people is not far from the country, there is not enough strong force to deter, maybe one day he, the emperor, will be sold to others.

Zhou Yu was already frightened by such a high price when he saw this, if it was at this price, then his money would definitely not be enough to buy a county guard. He regretted that he had been too generous just now, and threw several golden beans in vain.

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Due to the needs of the later plot, I will roughly explain the division of official positions!