The new emperor was in a bad mood and his temper was not very good.
He had a bad temper and obviously wanted to take it out.
The imperial court had just changed a group of people in civil and military affairs, and he couldn't get angry at these new officials, but the new emperor found some good punching bags.
Such as Dongfang Shuo.
"Come on, put up all the bamboo slips used to bribe those seeking office!"
The new emperor ordered.
After a while, twenty stout eunuchs began to carry bamboo slips into the palace.
The new emperor took a glance and saw that these bamboo slips were either wrapped with half a tael of money, or sandwiched with half a tael of money, and there were also some with scraps of gold and silver.
"He hid it well!"
Twenty eunuchs carried ten batches of bamboo slips into the palace. Among them, nine batches of bamboo slips were mixed with money. Another batch of bamboo slips was large, thick and tightly tied, but there was no gold or silver hidden in it.
The new emperor complained, and for a moment he didn't know how much money Zhang Xuezhou had mixed in.
However, Zhang Xuezhou bribed a lot of bamboo slips, accounting for almost one-tenth of the bamboo slips that bribed those seeking official positions.
"Count all the money mixed in those bamboo slips, and then write down the amount and name of the money!"
"only!"
The eunuchs all agreed, then divided the bamboo slips there and pulled out the money from the bamboo slips.
Once you become an official, there are corresponding laws and regulations that restrict every abnormal behavior. For example, the new emperor sent a second batch of officials to participate in the westward mission plan.
But it is not easy to punish people who are not officials.
As Li Guang said, there is currently no law in this area, and the new emperor is not willing to block his own way of making money.
"But the people should hate these people very much!"
The new emperor thought for a while and thought that he could put up a big list and write down all the names of those who were not suitable for office, so that these people could bear the scorn of the common people.
This method can serve as a warning, and the court did not do anything out of the ordinary.
Of course, the new emperor has no carrots to trap people in official positions at the moment.
It seems that the imperial court rotated many officials from Sangong and Jiuqing, but many officials were transferred back and forth in this circle, and no one was beheaded. Correspondingly, there was no need for a large number of officials to be replaced, and a group of novices could not take over immediately. item.
"Your Majesty, this Tianyuepi bribed forty-eight and a half taels!"
"Tian Yue Pi? This is Wu Yue Po. You can't just read half of the words. Go and call Han Yan and Sang Hongyang over. One of them can read and the other can do arithmetic. It will be easier for them to do this little thing!"
When the eunuchs began to read their names and calculate half a tael of money, the new emperor personally inspected them and felt that these people could do some physical work.
He waved his hand, and the eunuch who had done something wrong immediately ran out of the hall to find someone.
"The sky and the earth are clear, the sun and the moon are clear. My heart goes to Your Majesty, and I am willing to serve you as a filial dog and horse. Wu Yuepo is good at controlling animals...controlling animals? This is an amazing talent. If you have real ability, I don't mind being an official. If you have a chance, take this bamboo slip to Jingzhaoyi Mansion and ask them to find this Wu Yuepo and see how good he is at controlling animals?"
The new emperor took the first bamboo slip and arranged for people to investigate.
Whoever put money in the bamboo slips broke the rules and who didn't? This was obviously his decision.
If you have real ability, it will not be considered a violation. If you have no real ability, you will definitely violate the rule.
After reading the first bamboo slip, he felt a little better, but after reading the second bamboo slip, the new emperor said "ignorant and ignorant", and then gave up the idea of continuing to check.
He walked back and forth, and from time to time he went through the piles of half a tael of money, and pinched pieces of gold and silver.
When the sound of footsteps came from outside the hall, the new emperor saw two young people almost entering the hall.
One of the two young men has a handsome face, and the other has a shrewd look.
The former is as gentle as jade and is deeply liked by him, while the latter has outstanding talents, at least among his peers, few people can match him in mental arithmetic and other abilities.
"Han Yan, please remember these names for me, Sang Hongyang, please count these belongings!"
"only!"
The two young men agreed in unison.
Han Yan took the bamboo slips to write down his name, while Sang Hongyang began to count the belongings according to the location of the bamboo slips.
He glanced around and couldn't help but see a group of eunuchs untying knots not far away.
Those bamboo slips were all tied together, and the knots were so complicated that it was a headache, especially the knots the other party tied were all dead knots. If you want to untie them smoothly, you can only use a needle to pick them out.
"Why does it look like Brother Dongfang's bamboo slip seeking an official position? Could it be that he didn't follow my reminder and really stuffed a lot of money in it?"
Although Sang Hongyang glanced at the other side, he was not slow and quickly reported the amount of half a tael to Han Yan.
"Why are they tied so tightly? Could it be that there are gold bars hidden inside?"
Sang Hongyang was a little curious, and he couldn't help but join in the fun while the new emperor was waiting.
"No need to untie it, I will use my sword to cut it open for you!"
The ropes tied to more than ten rolls of bamboo slips were almost as dense as fishing nets. The new emperor felt that Zhang Xuezhou had demonstrated a talent for knotting, but the court department did not need anyone to tie knots. This kind of talent was of little use and he could not be an official.
He stretched out his hand and swung his sword, cutting dozens of knots. When he asked the eunuch to pull out the bamboo slips, he still had to draw two more swords.
"Your Majesty, this man's knot-tying talent is quite good." Han Yan, who was waiting for Sang Hongyang to count, said with a smile.
“Good for mending fishing nets!”
The new emperor nodded and indicated that this was the only use for those who were good at tying knots.
"The knot he tied is a dead knot. This kind of dead knot is not stretchable when used in fishing nets, so it is difficult for the fish to tie up tighter and tighter the more they struggle," Sang Hongyang corrected.
"If you put it that way, then he really showed a useless talent!"
If the knots tied cannot even be used in fishing nets, Xintei feels that there is really no way to think of a use for such people's talents.
But after he cut it several times with his sword, the roll of bamboo slips could finally be opened normally to search for money.
"No money?"
A roll of bamboo slips was unfolded, and the new emperor saw that it was densely packed with various characters, and there was not even a shadow of half a liang of money.
"Maybe hidden in other volumes?"
The new emperor frowned slightly. When he saw the bamboo slip, he glanced over it and saw that it seemed to describe a story of love and hatred, but at the end of the writing, it was replaced by horizontal and vertical bars, which seemed to be replaced by the characters of the evil country. .
"what is this?"
It doesn't take long to read hundreds of words. Although I won't say that I glanced at them, it certainly didn't take long.
But seeing words you don’t recognize is another matter.
The new emperor had previously disliked the eunuchs for being illiterate, but when he saw it himself, he couldn't help but feel a little bit big-headed.
It is obvious that this official-seeker showed off his talents by tying up the bamboo slips, and the contents of the bamboo slips also showed corresponding talents.
"Is this man's entire bundle of bamboo slips like this?" the new emperor asked.
"Your Majesty, there are five bundles of bamboo slips with the characters set by our Han Dynasty, and there are twenty-three bundles with half-and-half bundles, and some incomprehensible line characters, and there is no money in them," the eunuch said.
"It's twenty-four bundles!"
"No, I just counted twenty-five bundles!"
"Don't argue. I counted only eighteen bundles, so I'd better count them on my fingers!"
"Then you broke your fingers wrongly!"
All the eunuchs murmured.
If the family's birth conditions are good, few people will be sent to the palace to be eunuchs.
The corresponding eunuch's knowledge level is indeed very insufficient, and he cannot even do things like counting well.
Only some older eunuchs have more knowledge.
But the new emperor doesn't like to use old eunuchs. The eunuchs who can live to old age in the palace are all well-rounded. If he asks the old eunuchs to do something today, the news will be spread to the ears of the empress dowager or the empress dowager tomorrow.
On the contrary, these little eunuchs were replaced by the new emperor one after another, and at least they avoided leaking secrets when they were not doing well.
It's just that some minor troubles caused by it are inevitable.
For example, I can’t even count the number of people in this group right now.
If Sang Hongyang and other donor officials hadn't come to help, the new emperor would have had to do this himself.
"What is written on it?" Han Yan asked with interest: "I have never seen someone who is seeking an official write so many words!"
"That's true of you!"
The new emperor originally wanted to identify the person clearly and check the person's name, so he removed the person from the published list, so that the matter was over.
But Han Yan's words made him a little more interested.
Regardless of who the person seeking an official position is and whether he has money in it, he seems to be very good at writing in long and short sentences.
But even if you are a verbose person, it is difficult to fill these bamboo slips.
Many people have spent their whole lives exhausting their vocabulary, but perhaps there are not as many words as the other person wrote on these bamboo slips.
"Han Yan is very literate. Why don't you find the first volume and read it to see how he asked for an official position?"
It was difficult to determine who was asking for an official before the bamboo slips were unfolded, but when the bamboo slips were opened, how could Sang Hongyang not recognize Zhang Xuezhou's handwriting.
He just felt a little bad in his heart. He felt that Zhang Xuezhou couldn't do this, and there was a high chance that he would be relegated to the cold palace for the third time.
Thinking that Zhang Xuezhou was in no mood to solve arithmetic problems when he was melancholy, he couldn't help but chime in to help.
(End of chapter)
