Chapter Forty-Six: Exchanging Gold Coins for Honor

"You have a thousand honors in the Imperial City?" Hearing Fang Tianzheng say this, the guard was obviously taken aback, and then hurriedly looked Fang Tianzheng up and down.

"This brother didn't see it just now, you actually have a thousand honors in this city, it's no problem to come and mix up an official and a half-job, please come with me." After looking at Fang Tianzheng, the guard's attitude suddenly became enthusiastic.

"Then I'll thank the guard, big brother."

"Hehe, I don't dare to call this guard brother down." The guard then took Fang Tianzheng deeper into the depths.

After passing through three halls in a row, he finally came to the place Fang Tianzheng was looking for.

Luculent Palace, this is the place Fang Tianzheng is looking for on this trip, there are guards with knives standing in front of the door, which can be described as a strict access control.

"Okay, here, now you can go in by yourself, by the way, let me remind you, the adult here is our Lord Qianfu Patrol, he is in charge of the entire mansion, it can be said that this mansion is his biggest official." The guard told Fang Tianzheng another sentence before parting.

"Thank you, big brother guard, I understand." After thanking him, Fang Tianzheng walked in.

"Who is the hall, what is the so-called matter of coming to this official?" The man in the crimson official uniform at the top asked with his back to Fang Tianzheng.

As soon as he entered the door, Fang Tianzheng saw a man in a crimson official uniform standing alone next to the seat with his back to the door.

"I came here this time to apply for an official position, and I currently have a thousand honors in the city." Fang Tianzheng's tone was calm and he replied slowly.

"Oh, you have a thousand honors." After hearing Fang Tianzheng's words, the official turned his face to look at Fang Tianzheng. After carefully examining Fang Tianzheng, he said slowly, "Yes, there are indeed a thousand honors. ”

At the same time, Fang Tianzheng also looked at this person, the other party was an old man in his forties and fifties, with a face that gave people the feeling of a sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks, it seemed that this person was very likely to be a snarky person, Fang Tianzheng secretly made a conclusion about this old man in his heart.

"Come on, bring me the official position book, from the official position book of the eighth grade official."

Hearing the official say this, Fang Tianzheng also understood, with his own thousand honors, he could only mix with an official position from the eighth grade, although he felt a little disappointed, but he was relieved to think about it, anyway, this was also given for nothing, and he couldn't expect too much.

"With your existing 1,000 honors, you can only find an official position from the eighth grade, so I will directly take the official position from the eighth grade, as for what official position you will have, I can let you choose this by yourself, of course, the premise is that the official position is vacant." Then the official continued.

"Master Xie." Hearing the other party say this, Fang Tianzheng was really a little moved, the other party not only didn't seem to embarrass himself, but also seemed to have given himself the greatest discount within the scope of his authority.

"Thank me, I don't need to, in the future, as long as you are loyal to the king, work hard to serve the country, and contribute to the country, this is the best reward for me." The old man in the crimson official uniform seemed to say meaningfully to Fang Tianzheng.

"Be sure to keep it in mind in the future." Fang Tianzheng also pretended to be very respectful on the surface, but in fact, he was already scolded in his heart, old fox, old fox, no wonder he was able to mix with such a big official, this ability to slap horses has actually been practiced to such a high level.

After a while, the book that recorded all the official positions from the eighth rank was brought to Fang Tianzheng, and Fang Tianzheng picked it up and began to browse, but until he saw it, Fang Tianzheng didn't find a job that he could see a little.

"My lord, are all the duties of Cong Bapin here?" Fang Tianzheng asked cautiously.

"Well, it's all there, have you found the official position you want to hold?"

"Adults dare to ask if there are any tasks that can improve the degree of honor, and if you want to improve your honor degree and then choose an official position, these official positions from the eighth grade are really not suitable for the next." Fang Tianzheng asked out loud, after reading those official positions, Fang Tianzheng found that those official positions were all carved out of a template, all of them served as a squadron leader, leading nineteen subordinates to patrol everywhere, the only difference was that the patrol places were different.

This made Fang Tianzheng unable to accept it at all, could it be that he would be dangling around every day in the future to pass the time? This is obviously what Fang Tianzheng is unwilling to do.

"Oh? Don't you even look down on these official positions? It's not good for young people to be arrogant, down-to-earth is the most important thing, the official position from the eighth grade is actually not bad, you just need to take people around every day to inspect it, the danger is not high, and you can also get a gold coin every month, is this not enough? The old man seemed to be educating Fang Tianzheng seriously, but before Fang Tianzheng could say anything, he hurriedly continued: "But it's not impossible to say how to quickly improve your honor." ”

"Oh? Please give me your advice. Fang Tianzheng was overjoyed when he heard this.

"Ahem," the old man coughed a few times and said slowly, "This so-called honor is actually essentially a contribution to the city, and then a kind of thing that records its contribution and rewards its contribution, so as long as you can contribute to the city, then the city will definitely award you an honor degree." ”

The old man looked at Fang Tianzheng's eyes when he said this, and found that the other party seemed to be in a kind of confusion, so he continued, "Actually, this city is now under huge construction, and all aspects of construction need money, so as long as you are willing to donate gold coins, then you can get the corresponding honor reward." ”

"Donate gold coins in exchange for honor?" Hearing the other party say this, Fang Tianzheng was a little surprised, you must know that the amount of honor determines the size of the official position he can hold, and if he wants to obtain the honor degree, he can donate gold coins.

After all, isn't this an otherworldly version of a way to buy and sell official positions? He actually said it so implicitly and elegantly, saying that it was a contribution to the construction of the country.

"Then dare to ask your lord, but this gold coin is exchanged for honor according to the ratio of one to one, and the ratio of one gold coin to one honor?" Although Fang Tianzheng despised the hypocrisy of the old man in front of him in his heart, he still pretended to be very respectful on the surface and asked.

"How is this possible? You must know that we are an imperial city here, how can it be according to the one-to-one exchange ratio? If it's a state city, it's about the same, we are here to exchange it at a price of ten to one, ten gold coins can be exchanged for one honor, rest assured, the exchange rate of these honors and money is not arbitrarily specified by us, these are all high-level resolutions and final regulations, are well documented. ”

"In this way, please forgive me for being dull, and I want to ask if I can become a first-class official or even a higher official as long as the honor is enough." After hearing the other party's offer, Fang Tianzheng almost couldn't help but scold, digging grass, this is too dark, it can't be darker anymore.

After hearing Fang Tianzheng's question, the old man did not answer immediately, but after thinking for a while, he said, "Although it is theoretically like this, as long as the honor is enough, you can hold the corresponding official position, but in fact, all officials who exceed the third rank need to be appointed by the king, and there must be a vacant seat, so that they can be held." ”

After a pause, the old man continued, "But I think if you can really donate enough wealth to support the development of the country, I believe that the king will definitely see all this, so the promotion should be nine out of ten." ”

Hearing what the other party said, Fang Tianzheng completely dispelled the idea of spending money to buy an official. Not to mention that it is not of much practical use to buy this official, and it will cost a huge amount of capital, and I don't know how many thousands of years it will take to get back the original money.

So after thinking of this, Fang Tianzheng politely rejected his previous idea of wanting to spend money to buy honors.

Hearing Fang Tianzheng say this, Lord Qianfu Patrol didn't seem to feel any unhappiness, at least on the surface, Fang Tianzheng didn't see it, which made Fang Tianzheng feel surprised. You must know that this kind of work of buying and selling official positions can definitely make a lot of money, and the other party told himself for a long time, and in the end he didn't even buy the smallest official, according to common sense, the other party should obviously be angry.