In the small room downstairs of Qi Feng, the atmosphere that was originally quite eager cooled down in an instant, and the three people in the room did not speak.

If you don't pay the offering, you will be expelled directly from the examination room?

What arrogance this must be!

Although anyone with a discerning eye can see that the officialdom of the Jin Kingdom is indeed extremely erosive, but it is not so much, after all, the people above still have to pay attention to a face to get by, everyone is a scholar, and they can't be too pretentious and ostentatious, otherwise they will not derive a series of elegant names related to bribery, even if they are all reaching out for money, they must be distinguished from the little people in the market, and outsiders must not find fault, but now this kind of behavior, what is the difference between it and Ming robbery?

The entire officialdom of the Jin Kingdom is controlled by the children of the family, if there is no reliable way, it is indeed difficult for the average poor scholar to get on the list, even if he wins the list, it is difficult to get an official and a half position, even if he is lucky enough to get an official and a half position, he will be suppressed by his colleagues, and he will never come out, so if he wants to mix well in the officialdom of the Jin Kingdom, it is necessary to worship a dock, and the Chen family where he Chen Jing is located is undoubtedly a big dock, so he is no stranger to this kind of thing, but it is so blatant, and it can even be said to be arrogant, it is indeed the first time I have heard of it。

After all, he came out of a scholarly family, and he still has to have a minimum face in life and work, how can he be so naked?

You can perform black-box operations, such as deliberately giving the other party a first-class evaluation, or directly changing the test papers, etc., but the exam room is not allowed to enter, which is a little too much.

Chen Jing and Zhu Fengxian glanced at each other, and they both read a hint of shock in each other's eyes.

The two of them, both of whom were born in wealthy families within the Jin Kingdom, are considered to be members of the family, if they want to be officials, they only need their elders to recommend them to the imperial court, and they don't need to participate in the imperial examination specially prepared for poor scholars, so even if they are in this kind of mixed market on weekdays, they have actually seen a lot of ugliness, but in the face of this kind of thing, they still feel a little unbelievable.

It's like the farmer in the village is used to being a crop man, and nothing is new in the field, but by chance he sees a girl from a rich family having sex at the edge of the field in broad daylight, which is really an eye-opener, after all, in their eyes, the rich family should not be like this.

Chen Jing stretched out his hand and picked up the wine glass and drank it all.

Zhu Fengxian, who was beside him, couldn't help but continue to ask, "Brother Yang, are they so rampant?"

Scholar Yang Ansheng's face was full of grievance and resentment at this moment, wiped away his tears heavily, sorted out his emotions, and then slowly spoke: "My appearance made the two of you laugh, but this examiner is too hateful, when we lined up to enter the examination room, because we had to take them to the hut one by one to search our bodies, they asked us for bribes at that time." ”

Although the imperial examination of the Jin Kingdom has developed to the present, it has been completely formal, but it is still very strict on the surface, the examination room is a huge venue like a platoon barracks outside the city, each person arranges a small room, there is a table inside, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are all placed, the test paper has been placed on the table in advance, and there is a bed next to it, and the mattress and pillow are laid out, each candidate can stay in it for three whole days, and the eating, drinking, and Lazar in the middle are carried out in it, if you leave halfway, it is considered to be completed, and you can not enter again after that, in addition, the three meals are served by special people, if you have an emergency illness, there are also doctors waiting in the examination room for diagnosis and treatment。

Generally speaking, there are three chief examiners in the examination room, in fact, in order to avoid one person being dominant, quietly do it, but the Jin Kingdom has been in the country for so many years, and it has long been rotten to the bones, and now these three examiners will discuss with each other about the matter of dividing the spoils.

In fact, it is not difficult to deceive the emperor, as the king of a country who is in the palace all the year round and barely leaves home, his understanding of everything in the outside world is actually based on the description of his subordinates, and they themselves have not personally experienced it.

To put it simply, the officials in charge of procurement in the palace often make indiscriminate quotations to the emperor in order to make huge profits from them, many emperors don't even know the eggs he eats every day, one is only worth a penny, but the palace is thirty taels to report, as long as the upper and lower points are good, the benefits are distributed, and no one dares to say anything.

This is also the reason why Gu Cang looks down on the Jin State so much, as a person at the top, if he doesn't go down to the bottom, he will never understand how to manage a country.

Yang Ansheng then explained the ins and outs of the whole thing in detail, and Chen Jing and Zhu Fengxian were amazed when they heard it.

Unexpectedly, he opened a casino, opened a green building, and collected taxes from all parties, but it was not as fast as this official of the DPRK and China who casually opened his mouth to make money.

Even if it is a casino Qinglou, the benefits in it are only one hundred and ten times, and in order to be able to operate for a long time, you have to use the hard-earned money to deal with all parties, even if he is the son of the great Sima of the dynasty, you have to abide by this unwritten rule, after all, you eat and drink spicy, then at least you have to give the people below a drink of soup, right?

But this is an official, it is really a business without capital, a white wolf with empty gloves, and a thousand times or even ten thousand times the profit.

Chen Jing couldn't help but say loudly: "It's so rampant, and no one will report it?"

He knows that if this kind of handle falls into the hands of political enemies, how can he easily let it go, the people who are officials in the DPRK and the central government are also divided into different parties, either friends or enemies, in order to seek greater power and interests, they will do everything they can, in the officialdom, where are the good old people who are exquisite, and the examiners in this examination room naturally have factions themselves, how can the people in the Yushitai let go of this great opportunity to attack political enemies?

It's okay if he doesn't ask, but when he asked, Yang Ansheng lowered his head and wept continuously, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

Chen Jing was a little annoyed when he heard this, and scolded loudly: "Okay! A big man is crying and crying, what kind of system has he become, but he just fell off the list, the world is so big, where can he go, three hundred and sixty lines, which line can't survive? There are more people who are worse than you, I haven't seen you like this!"

Zhu Fengxian knew this small character the most, and hurriedly persuaded the good man beside him: "Brother Chen, there is a way that men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't reached the sad place, this kind of thing, even if anyone encounters it, it will be like this, why bother to criticize Brother Yang so harshly?"

Chen Jing was helpless, so he could only wave his hand and say, "Alas, forget it, drink, drink!"

But he didn't want Yang Ansheng to suddenly raise his head at this time, and said with tears in his eyes: "Yes! I am a wreck, I dare not report it! Do you know that a few days ago, after our people were directly expelled from the examination room because they couldn't afford to pay the offerings, some of the soldiers who went to the yamen to report were killed, and the corpses were directly thrown into the moat!"

"Huh?" Even Zhu Fengxian was frightened at this moment, and he couldn't help but slap the table and said angrily, "What a kingless law this is!"

However, Chen Jing, who was on the main seat, was much calmer, and asked with a calm face: "What you said, but it is true?"

Of course, in fact, with his power and family background, if he wants to find out this kind of thing, it is easy to find out, but in order to avoid exposing his identity in front of this unknowing foreigner, he still chose to ask directly.

At this question, Yang Ansheng lowered his head again, just nodded lightly, his voice was very low and weak, revealing the sadness and blood and tears of a poor scholar.

"It's true, but the yamen all say that it is a few ruffians and hooligans, killing people for robbery, and now the murderous ruffians don't know where they are, the government just pretended to send someone to search for it, and then it was gone, and it didn't even take a person out to make a show, but I knew the deceased, when I was studying in the temple before, he lived next door to me, he was a jealous and hateful character, and no more than our helpless friends, he learned some martial arts when he was a child, knew some tricks, and his body was strong, where would the average ruffian hooligan be his opponent, not to mention that he was going to rush to the yamen to report, how could it be that there was a conflict with some ruffians again. ”

These foreigners who came to the capital to take the exam, some went to relatives, some directly stayed in guest houses, and even richer, directly rented or bought a small courtyard, but more of them were so poor that they couldn't even afford to live in an inn for ten cents a day, these people generally went to the temple outside the city to spend the night, the temple hosts outside the capital were extremely kind, even if the direction of practice was different, but they were still happy to provide a shelter for these poor scholars, these people were also regarded as self-formed parties, and the relationship between them was good.

Chen Jing chewed the bland but umami-flavored steamed fish meat in his mouth, and commented seriously: "It should be the one who commanded the ruffians under his command to take advantage of his unpreparedness to kill the killer, this technique is good, although there are traces to follow, but as long as the above does not seriously investigate, even if the East Window incident occurs and shirks the responsibility, there is nothing they can do." ”

Zhu Feng first glanced at Yang Ansheng, who was extremely depressed on the other side, and reluctantly turned his head and feigned anger: "Brother Chen, you are still talking these cool words!"