Chapter 217 No matter how bad they are, they can always improve

Yuanruan: [Ah? Tonger, when did you ever support beating someone up?]

System: [That woman is not considered a person.]

Yuan Ruan: [What? She’s a monster?]

Manchu civil and military officials: !!!

System: [No. She is a woman, but her behavior is extremely bad. This woman used to work in a brothel. She cheated people out of money and offended a noble. Before she died, she was saved by an orphan hunter from a nearby mountain village. This woman deceived the hunter, saying that she would repay him with her body in exchange for saving his life. The boy believed her and went out to work as a boatman to pull a cargo ship during the day and went hunting in the mountains at night. He ate only coarse food and bought gold, silver and jewelry for the woman as a dowry. As a result, after the woman recovered, she became a fisherman in a small merchant in the next village.]

Yuan Ruan was shocked when she heard this: [Ah? Isn't this an ungrateful person?! She was saved.]

The court officials also frowned.

System: [Yes! She also teamed up with small merchants to deceive the boy that they were siblings, and lured the boy to their village, where he worked as a shop assistant, worked as a thug, and exploited him. Three years later, the boy became seriously ill, and the woman saw that the boy could not make money, so she kicked him out. The boy went to seek justice and his legs were broken. He felt that there was no point in living, so he hanged himself.]

Manchu civil and military officials: !!!

What?! Are you trying to kill me?! I have seen many bad people, but it is rare to see someone so cruel.

Yuanruan's pupils trembled: [Oh my god, this is so outrageous?!]

System: [Yes. Or his neighbors couldn't stand it anymore and reported to the police to seek justice for him. When Wang Yalin went to help, he found that the woman just said that the man was stupid and that she didn't kill the man. Wang Yalin hit her on impulse.]

Yuan Ruan: [No wonder Wang Yalin couldn't help it.]

The court officials clenched their fists: He shows no remorse at all, well done.

The Junior Secretary glanced at the troublemaker and was suddenly stunned because he heard the scholar muttering in a low voice, "Why wasn't he beaten to death?"

Soon, Yuan Ruan found a random excuse and spoke up to save Wang Yalin.

The emperor gave the prince a look.

The prince stood up and said, "It's not that Wang Yaling abused her power to bully others, it's that woman is too abominable..." The prince said the system's words in a concise way, highlighting a justifiable reason.

The emperor no longer pursued Wang Yalin and arranged for him to handle the imperial examinations together with other officials and the prince.

When the arrangements for the imperial examination were almost complete, the emperor announced the end of his court session.

The emperor left first.

The prince stayed and had a brief conversation with the official from the Ministry of Personnel. Before he was about to leave, he was suddenly surrounded by the officials from Daxia who were waiting nearby.

The prince raised his eyebrows: "What advice do you have, my lords?"

The officials bent their backs even lower: "No, no!" "Your Highness, I am terrified."

The prince softened his tone and said, "Speak."

An official stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, we have some concerns about the participation of officials below the sixth rank in the imperial examination. May I ask, Your Highness, what kind of results do they need to achieve in order to satisfy Your Majesty?"

The prince practiced Tai Chi and said, "Regarding this point, of course the higher the better." He paused and asked, "Did you guys just make random recommendations at the beginning?"

The court officials waved their hands repeatedly, and were almost about to raise their hands to swear to the sky that they would definitely do their best to select talents for the country.

The prince said, "Then why should you worry?"

The official shook his head and replied, "Of course not. But people are always lazy. I am worried that the person I recommended was very talented a few years ago, but now he is lazy and will fail the exam."

The prince's face turned cold: "Then such a person should be demoted immediately."

The official shut up instantly.

The prince looked at the others and said, "Gentlemen, there is no need to surround me. Please disperse."

The court officials immediately bowed and said, "Yes, Your Highness."

After His Highness left, some court officials were still sighing.

At this time, Prime Minister Wang said: "Instead of torturing yourself, why not encourage those who bother you? Since they were once talented, half a year is enough for them to regain their glory. In half a year, no matter how bad they are, they can always improve a little."

Courtiers: !!!

Yes! Instead of wasting time on internal issues, it is better to solve the problem itself!

The court officials stopped talking nonsense and hurried home.

Soon, almost all officials below the sixth rank in Daxia were invited to the residences of various high-ranking officials.

Officials below the sixth rank were very excited at first, thinking that the spring of their official career was about to begin. Especially the minor officials who were related to high-ranking officials by marriage, they felt like they were about to soar to the sky while waiting.

As a result, their faces turned green after they entered the mansion, because what greeted them was not beauties and banquets, but piles of books and a group of old scholars with gray hair.

Open mouth: "study". Close mouth: "exam".

Those with poor grades have to stay overnight for tutoring.

For a time, there was no complaint in Daxia...

In any dynasty, officials of a higher rank could crush people to death, let alone those who were so many ranks higher than them.

Officials below the sixth rank could only grit their teeth and swallow the knowledge, while pretending to be grateful for this vast ocean of knowledge.

Oh, no, except for the officials in the Ministry of Rites, everyone in the Ministry of Rites, from the Shangshu to the ninth-rank clerks, are collectively busy as hell.

Now, the Queen Mother's carriage and guard of honor had arrived at the city gate, but suddenly stopped.

Because the Queen Mother said that a unicorn, a good omen that was neither an ox nor a horse, was lost in front of the city gate, and she hoped that the Imperial Master could come in person and find the unicorn back, because the unicorn was the good omen that the Queen Mother brought to Daxia.

In response, the emperor gave a five-star review.

--fart!