"Being an official? Of course, I am participating in the imperial examination!" Jinshan replied almost without thinking about it when he heard Li Zhang ask about being an official. Even a child knew that if he wanted to be an official, he had to study hard before he could pass the imperial examination and enter the officialdom in the future.

"What about besides the imperial examination?" Li Zhang asked again.

"Why, do you want to go on a career in the future?" Jinshan finally reacted when he heard this and looked at Li Zhang seriously and said.

"I may not necessarily go on an official career, but through the last time when Mr. Xu made me realize that my status and status were too low. Anyone with some power could control me, so I wanted to have some ability to protect myself." Li Zhang said to the truth. Kingsoft is a smart person, and the two of them are very familiar with each other, so there is no need to beat around the bush.

Hearing Li Zhang say this, Jinshan also showed a deep thoughtful expression. After a while, Jinshan then said, "If you don't take the imperial examination, there are still two roads, but these two roads are not easy to walk!"

"Which two? Forget about the generals, you know what our army in the Song Dynasty looks like. And even if you make contributions, those civil officials will bully you as much as they want!" Li Zhang asked again, but he didn't want to go on the road of generals.

"If we apart from the road of joining the army, we will only start with the minor officials." Jinshan sighed again at this time. Everyone knows the benefits of being an official, but not everyone can be an official.

"Start with a minor official?" Li Zhang couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"Yes, although the minor official is not an official, he has entered the officialdom. And if he performs well and is promoted by noble people, he may be promoted to an official in the future." Jinshan explained again, "Of course, the imperial examination is the right way to become an official, so the officialdom is also relatively excluded in the officialdom, and his career will not be smooth, but as long as he has the ability, he may also reach a high position in the future."

"There are ten times more minor officials than officials, but how many people can be transferred to officials. Moreover, I heard that because there are too many candidates for the imperial examination, many officials are not really bad. In this case, it is probably even more difficult to promote an official from a minor official." Li Zhang smiled bitterly when he heard this.

"What you are talking about is the truth. Most minor officials become old officials and can only stay in their own position. It is impossible to get promoted. But for those who cannot get fame and fortune, the transfer of officials is the best way for them to enter the officialdom." Jinshan nodded at this time and said again.

"Then there is no other way besides the official being transferred to an official?" Li Zhang asked again without giving up at this time.

"That's not. There are other ways to become officials, but these ways to calculate are even more impossible for you than joining the army and becoming an official." Jinshan smiled bitterly again at this time.

"What kind of way, tell me!" Li Zhang asked again impatiently when he heard this.

"Yinxi, Imperial College and the Chief Executive!" Jinshan said with a serious expression at this time. He had thought of these things before, but he thought they were not suitable for Li Zhang, so he didn't say it. But now Li Zhang kept asking questions, and in order to make him give up, Jinshan said it.

"Yingxi is definitely not good. My ancestors don't have an official position. You know that my father looks like. It would be good if he doesn't drag him down." Li Zhang thought of his bad gambling father at this time, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Don't think about the Imperial College. Only the children of officials above the seventh rank are qualified to go in and study. Moreover, the Imperial College students in the East and West Beijings are only 300 or 400. Many children of officials cannot squeeze in, let alone you, you are white." Jinshan couldn't help but speak and attacked.

There were two Imperial College in the Song Dynasty, in Kaifeng, Tokyo and Luoyang, Xijing. Of course, when Fan Zhongyan was in power, he promoted Yingtian Academy to the Imperial College in Nanjing. However, this Nanjing was not later Nanjing, but Shangqiu, Henan. The students of an Imperial College never exceeded 200, so even qualified officials sometimes could not enter.

"Why haven't I heard of this before?" Li Zhang asked again with a last glimmer of hope.

"Oh, this is even more difficult. The system of recommendation originated in the Han Dynasty. You must have heard of the filial and honest candidates. Although our Song Dynasty had the imperial examination, in order to prevent talents from being buried among the people, the court gave some court officials the right to recommend, mainly to give those famous Confucian scholars scattered among the people a way to enter the officialdom. Therefore, if you want to become an inspector, two conditions must be met. One is that you have enough fame, and the other is to let the court officials recommend you as an official." Jin Shan did not give up when he saw Li Zhang and sighed again.

Li Zhang was completely discouraged when he heard this. This is even more difficult to prosecute officials than Yinxi and Imperial College. He did not have any of the two conditions. Compared with these three ways, it seems that the transfer of officials and joining the army is more reliable.

"Li Zhang, you shouldn't be looking for me as an official, but you should find a more suitable person to discuss this matter!" At this moment, Jinshan suddenly turned his head sneakily and looked around, then lowered his voice.

"A more suitable person?" Li Zhang showed a puzzled expression when he heard Jinshan's words.

"Lu Bantu, I can only give you some advice, but with your relationship with Lu Bantu, as long as he is willing, he may help you enter the officialdom!" Jinshan whispered again at this time.

"Uncle Wu? Stop joking. Uncle Wu is just a small squad leader. His status is not as good as a minor official. How could he help me enter the officialdom?" Li Zhang thought Jinshan was joking with him, and he couldn't help but smile helplessly.

"I didn't joke with you. Lu Banto's origin is extraordinary!" Jinshan said with a serious expression.

"Not ordinary? Why is it extraordinary?" Li Zhang also felt aroused his heart at this time. When he arrested the spy of the Dangxiang, Lu Wu's performance was not like an ordinary team leader. Could it be that his guess was correct?

"Hehe~" Jin Shan laughed dryly at this time, turned his head to look around again, and then said again, "Last time you were bullied by Butler Xu, my father-in-law has four daughters and one son, and three of them were married to officials. One of them is a casino. Although I am his son-in-law, I am an outsider after all, but I can catch Butler Xu and deal with it at will. Do you know why?"

"You have someone above you, so your father-in-law wants to flatter you!" Li Zhang understood the joints after a brief thought.

"Yes, I'm not boasting. In the territory of Tokyo, Jinshan dare not say that I am going sideways, but no one dares to bully me. Some time ago, Ding Xiang's nephew lost money in my casino and cheated. I didn't pursue Ding Xiang's face. But the day before yesterday, after Ding Xiang learned about this, he not only made people beat his nephew, but also asked his nephew to take the money to my house to apologize!" Jinshan proudly introduced his energy.

"It seems that the person above you is quite famous. Even the prime minister wants to give you some face!" Li Zhang couldn't help but look at Jinshan in surprise when he heard this.

Ding Xiang is Ding Wei, who is a ruthless man. He is called the Five Ghosts with Wang Qinruo and other five people. Kou Zhun is such a domineering and smart person, and he was finally excluded by Ding Wei. Moreover, the emperor is sick now. Although Empress Liu can handle government affairs, the major affairs of the court are generally decided by Ding Wei and Li Di. It can be said that half of the political affairs of the Song Dynasty are now taken by Ding Wei.

"Hehe, the person behind me doesn't have such a big face, but Ding Xiang now asks him, so he is so polite to me, otherwise he wouldn't worry about this little thing." Jin Shan said with a embarrassed smile at this time.

However, when he said this, Kingsoft suddenly changed his subject and said solemnly again: "I said these things are not to praise the forces behind me, but just to use this to make you understand that even a person like me is unwilling to provoke Lu Banto. It can even be said that the bigger the person, the more he is concerned about Lu Banto!"

"Uncle Wu really has such a great power?" Li Zhang said in disbelief when he heard this.

"Of course, let's talk about your father. He has been betting for so many years and owed a lot of debts to the casino. If it were another person, he would have been hacked to death long ago. But don't he live well now? If he wants the debt, he will be debt-to-debt, but no one dares to touch his finger. This is for the sake of Lu Banto!" Jinshan saw that Li Zhang didn't believe it, so he directly took Li Yonghe to give an example.

"Hiss~" Li Zhang finally believed it, but then he asked anxiously, "Who is Uncle Wu? Why do you care so much?"

"This..." When Li Zhang asked about Lu Wu's origin, Jin Shan couldn't help but show a hesitant expression. After a while, he smiled bitterly, "Li Zhang, we are friends, I will tell you the truth. Although I know some of the origin of Lu Bantu, I dare not say it!"

When Li Zhang heard that Kingsoft dared to tell him the origin of Lu Wu, he became even more curious. However, he also knew that Kingsoft dared to say it, he must have his concerns, so he didn't want to make Kingsoft embarrassed anymore, so he had to suppress his curiosity in his heart and not ask.

"That's all, if you really want to know, Li Zhang, might as well ask him yourself. Anyway, I see that he treats you as his nephew, and maybe he will tell you!" Jinshan saw Li Zhang silent, stood up and said again, and after that, he was about to say goodbye and leave.
Chapter completed!