Liu Boxing had nothing to compete for. After he returned to Beijing, Kong Xun arranged him to the Kyoto City Defense Camp and became a general there.

Now the entire capital's defense forces are in his hands.

After the turmoil in the palace, Kong Xun found it difficult to trust the former guards for a while, so he promoted Chen Qibao to be the commander of the imperial guards.

His current rank is not as high as others, but since he can be by the emperor's side, even those arrogant ministers dare not offend him easily.

Chen Qibao doesn't need to compete for a job or fight for a better future for himself.

This time when Kong Xun ascended the throne, even some people who had worked with him for a short period of time, like Feng Yujue and Liu Huai, were arranged to suitable positions, and these people have now become his confidants.

An Xin saw that these older students and disciples had already planned their futures. In response to the wet and expectant eyes of the younger ones, he said earnestly, "Go and take the exam this year. You have never learned Kung Fu since childhood, so you cannot take up a military position. If you want to pursue a career in government, you must first take the imperial examination."

Feng Yuxiu, Shan Yongzhen, and Chi Lan looked at a group of senior brothers who were in such a good position. Their envious eyes greatly satisfied the vanity of superficial senior brothers like Jiang Zhou and An Rui.

Jiang Zhou opened the folding fan in his hand with a snap. "Don't be obsessed with my brother. He is just a legend."

Chen Qibao raised his chin and said proudly: "If you want to be as successful as us, you must follow the footsteps of our senior brothers."

An Rui relied on Kong Xun, a new boss, to get a job as a priest in the Imperial College. He pretended to be a role model and said, "As long as you study hard, you can be as powerful as us in the future."

"Yes," Liu Boxing said, "With Xiaoshan here, you can become a high official if you pass the imperial examination."

"He's in a high position and has great power, he can be a high-ranking official!!" An Xin narrowed her eyes dangerously and glanced at a few people, holding her forehead. She had a headache.

Then he gritted his teeth and said to Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai and Zhu Shijing: "When you guys have free time, take these pieces of information that are floating around and don't know where they are.

I’m afraid if I’m not careful they’ll float up to the sky and become immortals.”

"Yes." Li Ziyu and the other two smiled and raised their lips to answer.

Jiang Zhou reacted and glared at An Xin, "Are you calling us stupid?!"

After being reminded, the others also looked at An Xin with grievance.

A few of the younger ones covered their mouths and laughed.

When Jiang Zhou and Chen Qibao and other senior brothers glanced at them, the smiles on the three little ones' faces froze and they quickly restrained their expressions. They didn't want to be beaten like dogs by their senior brothers later.

However, they were still called to the study room by Jiang Zhou and his friends, who held a grudge, in the name of tutoring to help the three of them pass the exams as soon as possible.

In the next period of time, Jiang Zhou, An Rui, Liu Boxing, Chen Qibao and others were taught a lesson by Li Ziyu, Leng Xiang, Bai Zhu and Shijing.

The abused people then turned around and abused Feng Yuxiu, Shan Yongzhen, Chi Lan and others below them over and over again.

The three little ones made rapid progress in their studies during those days of complaints, and in the following imperial examination, they passed all the tests and became scholars.

Several people have officially stepped into the threshold of the imperial examination.

A new emperor has new ministers.

Moreover, Kong Xun heard Emperor Sheng'an say before his death that Li Ziyu and his fellow apprentices and some other officials loyal to the royal family were his trusted ministers whom he had trained for his ascension to the throne.

Li Ziyu was the person who was trained to succeed Prime Minister Xiao when Emperor Sheng'an was alive. He had served in one of the six ministries, and was then sent out to serve as a governor to gain some training in the local area in the following years.

He is a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister this time.

In the subsequent competition for the position.

The other senior brothers have successfully reached the positions they desired through their own efforts and means.

Only the position of prime minister, the head of all officials, has quite fierce competition.

Officials vying for the position of prime minister were either those with extensive experience or those with strong backgrounds, or those with extraordinary abilities who had been trained by the emperor like Li Ziyu.

These people are not like officials competing for other positions. They just try to trip up their rivals, and few of them want to take their opponents' lives.

Ever since Li Ziyu entered the competition for the position of Prime Minister, the ministers have been dismissive of him, thinking that he has little experience and is ignorant of his own limitations.

However, in the days that followed, these officials who were competing for the position of prime minister received the affairs assigned to them by Kong Xun.

The pedantic and old-fashioned ideas displayed by those old ministers formed a sharp contrast with Li Ziyu's clean, neat and decisive approach.

The young king did not like ministers who procrastinated and dithered, or who relied on their seniority and experience to bully him.

In the end, the only ones left in the competition for the position of Prime Minister were Li Ziyu, Lord Gao who had once provoked An Xin in the hall, and Lord Taiwei.

6◇9◇Book◇Bar

After Zhu Shijing took office as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

With real power in the Ministry of Revenue, I was exposed to more affairs of the Ministry.

After this turmoil in the court and several waves of embezzlement by those in power, the Ministry of Revenue actually does not have much silver left.

At this time, Minister Hu, who was sitting in the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, perhaps because he was old and had no fighting spirit, handed over most of the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue to several vice ministers under him.

When Zhu Shijing was sorting out the various inflows and outflows of the Ministry of Revenue, he discovered that over the years many powerful families in Daqian had borrowed money from the Ministry of Revenue with various excuses.

He reported the matter to his superior, Minister Hu, but the other boss narrowed his wrinkled eyes and seemed to be asleep and did not hear anything.

Zhu Shijing was such a shrewd man that he knew at a glance that the Shangshu didn't want to get involved in this mess.

So one morning at court, Zhu Shijing reported the matter to the new emperor Kong Xun.

Kong Xun looked at the Minister of Revenue who was pretending to be ignorant with his head down, and he knew very well that this old fellow would rather play dead than go and collect debts because he did not want to offend the wealthy and powerful families in the capital.

He did not do his job and took the court salary without doing anything. Kong Xun really wanted to fire him and let him go home to eat his own food.

However, when he looked at Zhu Shijing, who had just taken office as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Kong Xun swallowed his words again. At this moment, his thoughts were surprisingly similar to those of the deceased Emperor Sheng An.

Just keep the old fellow Minister Hu for the time being to hold the position for someone more capable.

After Zhu Shijing gained a firm foothold in the Ministry of Revenue, he would then pull down the Minister Hu who was standing in the toilet without doing anything. The Minister of Revenue was in charge of the national finances, and the position was so important that it should be occupied by capable people.

Kong Xun: "Regarding the fact that the treasury is empty and some families have borrowed money from the Ministry of Revenue and have not yet repaid it, do you have anything to say, my dear ministers?"

In such a situation where whoever stands out will get into trouble, the officials below who are experienced in the officialdom will certainly not rashly raise opinions.

If debts should be repaid, those powerful and wealthy families should pay back the money to the national treasury. This will only bring hatred upon themselves. They are not stupid and certainly will not come forward and say such things.