Chapter 68 Contribution can still be used like this
"No."
Wang Hezhi suddenly reacted and looked at Xu Chong with a frown, "How long have you been a Dian Shi? Why are you so eager to be promoted?"
"Students feel that their cultivation speed is a bit slow. If they can work in government offices, they should be able to speed up."
Xu Chong tells the truth.
"Isn't it too slow?"
Wang Hezhi blew his beard and stared.
"Time waits for no one. Men should be determined to make progress in this world."
Xu Chong looked at each other calmly.
Wang Hezhi was stunned by this sudden seriousness, and then suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha..."
"Um, why are you laughing, Master?"
Xu Chong asked in confusion.
"Of course I laugh because I am happy."
Wang Hezhi patted Xu Chong's shoulder vigorously, "I once thought about it, what if you wasted your life without the help of the imperial examination? Now it seems that there is no need to worry about this at all."
"Master Lao is worried."
Xu Chong thanked him and then shook his head: "It's a pity that the rules are like this. It seems that the students are helpless."
"No, no, no."
Wang Hezhi stroked his white beard with an enigmatic smile on his face, "If you don't care about rank and just want to work in a government office, I still have a way."
"Irrespective of grade...should I be transferred at the same level?"
Xu Chong raised his eyebrows and suddenly lowered his voice: "Do you still have this way?"
"...What is this?"
Wang Hezhi's old face twitched and he said angrily: "Promotion can only be achieved through hard work. Only with good luck can you get high-risk and high-return tasks. But if it is just a horizontal transfer, there is actually the most direct way."
"What can I do?"
Xu Chong became serious.
"Contribution."
Wang Hezhi said in a deep voice.
"Contribution...yes!"
Xu Chong suddenly remembered what Zhou Ze said, "Since contributions can be exchanged for money through private transactions, there is no reason why they can't be exchanged for something else."
"No, you are wrong."
Wang Hezhi shook his head, "If you use your contribution in exchange for some property in private, it won't be a big deal even if the court finds out. But when it comes to official positions, even if it's just a horizontal transfer, no one dares to think wrong... The contribution I'm talking about is
Refers to spending contributions and applying directly to the court for transfer."
"...Can it still be like this?"
Xu Chong was a little sluggish.
"I have said that the matter of Lingdi is not a secret. The reason why it is not widely spread is that the court wants local officials to perform their duties."
Wang Hezhi said, changing the topic: "But there are always exceptions in everything. Only a few people like you know it through accidental events, and most of them come from high-ranking families themselves."
"In terms of official positions, these people also have to endure hardships if they want to be promoted, but after all, they have known the secret of the spiritual land from the beginning. If they are still like you and me, they can only squat in the yamen with thin spiritual energy. How can they be willing to do so?
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"So naturally, the imperial court formulated a policy of using contributions to apply for transfer."
Xu Chong was a little stunned when he heard this.
Could such a powerful Qingting have such a flexible policy?
"Don't be too happy too soon."
Wang Hezhi smiled brightly and said, "If you want to be transferred through this method, two conditions must be met."
"Want to hear the details."
Xu Chong looked solemn.
"First of all, there must be a vacancy in the yamen you want to transfer to,"
Wang Hezhi pointed at Xu Chong, "There is a vacancy at the same level as you."
"As it should be."
Xu Chong nodded.
If there are no vacancies and transfers can be made, it means adding additional staff or squeezing out the original appointees. This is definitely not a chaos that the court can allow.
"Secondly, you must have so much contribution and be willing to do so."
Wang Hezhi continued, "Take you for example. You are also in a low-level position. You are transferred from the county government office to the government office prison. How much contribution do you think it will cost?"
Xu Chong's face tightened, "Three o'clock? Five o'clock?"
Wang Hezhi shook his head and said in a deep voice: "It's exactly ten o'clock."
Xu Chong: "..."
Ten points of contribution... If he only relied on the imperial court to distribute it, it would take him ten years to save that much, which would be a year slower than waiting for the general examination.
"If you want to be transferred to the provincial government, then increase it ten times and contribute one hundred points."
Wang Hezhi chuckled and said, "So, even those from high-ranking families will generally not do this unless they have young people with outstanding talents who deserve great efforts to cultivate."
"I understand."
Xu Chong thought for a moment, bowed his hands and said, "Thank you, Master, for clearing up your doubts."
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County government office.
Xu Chong sat in the main seat, closing his eyes and thinking.
"The imperial court set the cost at such an outrageous level, and it really didn't give the people at the bottom a chance."
"One thing to say, this has indeed avoided some officialdom chaos."
"How many people are willing to spend so much contribution just to work in another place?"
Xu Chong knocked on the table, "But... I'm different."
"For others to improve, they mainly rely on hard work and practice. The bonus of the spiritual level on the speed of practice is far from that big for them. Naturally, it is more cost-effective to keep the contribution and change the method."
"But I am different. I can accelerate the generation of spiritual source by increasing the concentration of spiritual energy."
"Not to mention a mere ten-point and one-hundred-point contribution, if you can transfer to a government office at the blessed land or even Dongtian level, the ten thousand-point contribution will be worth it."
"So..."
Xu Chong opened his eyes and called Zhao Liu in.
"Go to Di's newspaper for nearly ten years and get all the reward orders."
If you want to gain contributions, the fastest way is to apprehend the rebels on Taiping Dao.
I didn’t dare to think about it before, but it’s different now.
With the strength of the sixth level of Tongmai and Wu Xiangyi in hand, his error tolerance rate has increased more than ten times.
"Step by step, just be promoted to the government office first. It's just a ten-point contribution, so it won't be too eye-catching."
That's it.
Xu Chong dove into the vast pile of documents.
Catching rebels can certainly help you gain contributions faster, but the targets need to be screened slowly.
This is not an easy task.
The reward order issued by the Ministry of Punishment is open to all people, and there is no specific level of strength.
For example, the water ghost's reward order only has a few lines of deeds.
Four years ago, Mu Changqing, the king of Zhang Huafu, was assassinated. This year, Wu Wenjing was assassinated and hundreds of blood-clad guards were intercepted and killed.
Neither Mu Changqing, Wu Wenjing, nor the hundreds of blood-clothed guards here have any indication of their level of strength, let alone the water ghost himself.
Everything can only be guessed.
It is worth mentioning that of the two portraits on the reward order, one is of the water ghost himself, which is the facial features Xu Chong glimpsed that night, and the other...is of Zhou Ze.
There is also Wei Wuxie, one picture is Wei Wuxie himself, and one picture is the housekeeper Lao Li...
Xu Chong felt that this should have a lot to do with him.
However, one of the two couldn't be defeated, and the other died. Xu Chong threw him aside without even thinking about it, and continued to sift through the rest.
This step alone took Xu Chong half a month.
It wasn't until the spiritual source accumulated to 2 points that he finally selected a few suitable targets for arrest.