Please ask me to be the emperor

"Come out, come out!"

"This traitor, this old dog of 'submissive thief', you must die a good death!"

"You really believe that a thief is your father!"

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As soon as Zhang Shenyan, the chief assistant of the cabinet, walked out of the Meridian Gate, he immediately aroused a lot of curses from the supervisors surrounding him.

Zhang Shenyan was mentally prepared for this, but when he heard someone scolding him for "advocating a thief as a father," he felt really uncomfortable.

Zhang Shun had previously called him "Yafu" in order to coax him out of the mountain.

Now, I don’t know how it was spread, but instead it turned out that he was seeking an official position, and in turn "recognized the thief as his father."

Zhang Shenyan kept a cold face and said nothing. He just ordered people to disperse the crowd, then set up tables and chairs and put up notices.

The supervisors were curious and couldn't help but rush up to take a look. They saw that it read:

Is it true that a king who has been appointed to rejuvenate the world since ancient times cannot be a wise man and a gentleman to rule the world with him? Today's world has not yet been decided, and this is the time when we are in urgent need of talents.

The king wishes to recruit more than a thousand people, measure their actual talents, and assign them to official positions such as censor and county magistrate in preparation for promotion.

At the end of the text, Zhang Shun's seal of King Shun and leader of the Thirty-sixth Battalion was stamped.

"Ha, there is no one anymore, no one will work for him anymore!" Someone had already heard this and said with a smile.

However, this time there were very few applicants.

When he looked back, he saw that there were only a handful of supervisors behind him, but most of them had already gathered in front of Zhang Shenyan.

"Don't be anxious, come one by one and line up to register first. After registration is completed, a simple assessment will be conducted. As long as you can pass, you will be awarded an officer!" Zhang Shenyan couldn't help but comfort everyone while asking the soldiers to maintain order.

"Shameless! Shameless!" This scene immediately made the supervisors who were still standing under the notice mocking the new dynasty for having no one available became angry.

"A loyal and good minister resigned from office to show that Han and traitors are not at odds with each other. Fortunately, the sycophant took the opportunity to occupy the magpie's nest. How shameless and shameless!"

"Uh... This dear friend, I can't say that to be honest... At present, compared to the lack of officials, the 'Shun Thief' is obviously more short of money. If we spend all his money with our salary, it will be worse. You can save the country through curves..." You already had a bright mind and said with a smile.

"Ah, yes, saving the country through curves, we call it curves to save the country!" The supervisors who were still embarrassed at first all agreed, "Go together, go together!"

It turns out that there were a lot of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and there were also a lot of officials. Even if they were successful, they could not be easily awarded official positions. It was even more difficult for these supervisors and students to want to be officials.

Therefore, when they heard that there was an official appointment, these people didn't care about their integrity and rushed forward one by one.

"Ma Da was born late, his courtesy name is Qianli, he is a native of Northern Zhili, and he is proficient in the Four Books and Five Classics..." Every supervisor who came forward to register nodded and bowed to please Zhang Shenyan, without any trace of the momentum of the previous insults to him.

Zhang Shenyan was angry and funny, but for Zhang Shun's big plan, he had no choice but to smile and nod, signaling.

Zhang Shenyan's nod didn't matter. After Ma Qianli wrote down his personal information, he couldn't help showing off excitedly: "Ming Gong nodded to me, ha, Ming Gong nodded to me!"

However, this time no one laughed at him. Instead, everyone looked at him with envy.

According to Zhang Shenyan's status in front of Zhang Shun, even if she has a slight impression in front of him, it is inevitable that she will not have the opportunity to flourish in the future.

Regardless of what the supervisor was thinking, the news that "the chief minister of the cabinet, Zhang Shenyan, personally recruited thousands of talented people" quickly spread to the gentry's mansions, and even spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital.

"Recruit or not? Recruit or not?" Just as the city was in a storm, Li Zicheng was escorting a group of civil servants there for execution.

Although these civil servants are thin and weak, their bones are quite strong.

Li Zicheng gathered these "hard-core" people together and tortured them for a long time, but not one of them gave in.

Of course, in fact, by this time, it is almost equivalent to a famous brand, and everyone already knows each other's thoughts.

It's not that these "hard bones" have to be tough to the end, but that there are some things that never turn back.

Since they were on the opposite side of King Shun, they had to accept King Shun's counterattack.

Zhang Shun's countermeasure is very simple, which is to "copy stolen money."

They go door to door to "copy the stolen money" and then torture you to make you admit it.

Is it possible that among so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, there is not one whose family does not have "illegal money"?

Sorry, not really!

Not to mention that the whole world is like this, at least among the officials Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and Geng Zhongming tortured, there was not a single honest one.

Although "everyone has gained the stolen goods", the officials of the Ming Dynasty still had a good mouth, so naturally they refused to speak even if they were beaten to death, and the two sides ended in a stalemate.

Of course, Li Zicheng and others are happy to see this "stalemate" come to fruition.

If there is no stalemate, how can they have an excuse to continue to clamp down on these "corrupt officials" with sticks?

But on this day, Li Zicheng was tortured with great vigor, and even to the point of excitement, he took action himself and vented the evil in his chest.

At this moment, a group of common people suddenly ran over and looked at the officials who were being tortured. They pointed and said: "There are so many fools. Here they were beaten, and over there they lost their officials!"

"Why?"

"The chief minister of the cabinet has recruited more than a thousand new supervisors and students to replace these dog officials, hahahaha!"

As bursts of ridicule came into his ears, the civil servant of the Ming Dynasty, who was still gritting his teeth and persisting, felt his eyes darken and almost fainted.

"Nonsense. Nonsense. How can I, a scholar from the Ming Dynasty, be such a person with no moral integrity!" they said in disbelief.

"You have integrity, but how can you say you have no integrity? They gathered outside the Meridian Gate and cursed for several days, not even bothering to eat. As soon as the chief minister of the cabinet posted the notice, they rushed to the door one by one, for fear of being robbed. First!" The besieging people laughed one after another.

"No, it's not like that. You can't lie to me like this!" The official who was being pinched suddenly lost his temper on the spot.

What does it mean that we are tight at the front and you are tight at the back?

It turns out that there were about 500 central officials above seventh rank in the Ming Dynasty.

If you include other new and miscellaneous low-level officials, there are only more than a thousand people.

This time, only half of the protesters who resigned from office gathered together.

If the "Shun Thief" really recruits more than a thousand people, it means that these people can go home and sell sweet potatoes.

How can the mentality not collapse?

Not to mention that they had lived in poverty for ten years and finally managed to reach a high position. Now they have to fight the "rebels" to the end even if they have to risk their wealth and life. What's the point?

It’s not just to raise the price on the spot and pay back the money on the spot.

To tell the "obedient thieves" that without our help in governing the country, you are nothing!

Good guy, I didn't expect that if I persisted to the end here, someone would "steal" me over there!

"Stop it, stop it, please spare us. Why don't we go back and become officials?" Some people couldn't bear it any longer and quickly begged for mercy.

"Pinch, keep clamping!" Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng sneered when he heard this, "What do you think of the imperial court? Come when you want, and leave when you want?"

"To tell you the truth, King Shun has already issued an order that anyone who abandons his official position will be immediately dismissed from his post, demoted to a white body, and will never be used again!"

"Ah? No, don't!" Some people originally thought that they would be reinstated if they begged for mercy, but they never expected that they would end up like this.

"If you don't do it, some people will do it; if you don't do it, some people will do it, so you're stupid!" Li Zicheng grinned, looking at their annoyed and painful expressions, he couldn't help but smile happily.

I'm really sorry for being out of action for a few more days. The author did not expect that he would actually become positive again. Please forgive me.