NOVEL NEXT Chapter 104 - II
Some people also looked at Jing Xingzhi.
Su Mingyuan glanced at his new disciple, lowered his head, and snickered.
The empress’s brother, Uncle Guo, also looked at Jing Xingzhi several times, feeling deeply that this number one scholar would grow up to be a capable minister in the future.
It was just a pity that he followed the wrong person. No one was willing to support a capable minister, so he would only have time to go fishing in the future.
Uncle Guo glanced at the crown prince who looked exactly like his sister, and he felt relieved, then he made up his mind to do as his sister said. This Jing Zhuangyuan was young, but he was too powerful. He would feel uneasy unless the second prince was eliminated.
When Jing Xingzhi heard this, he realized that he was the only one missing.
Others were starting from the second and third grades, but the fourth grade he wanted was missing!
It wasn’t easy for him to go to the north and bring his family with him. It wasn’t too much to ask for a fourth grade. Besides, the salary of the fourth grade wasn’t as much as the pocket money given by Xiao Fangfang.
‘I, Jing Xingzhi, did not go there for money, but to educate the border people, improve the educational environment of the border people, and improve the quality of life of the border people!’
Just when Jing Xingzhi was looking forward to it, Li Yunxi looked at him with a look of displeasure: “Jing Zhuangyuan, after you said so much, it doesn’t sound like you don’t want to go?”
Li Yunxi liked to take the initiative and give things to others. He didn’t like being chased by others.
Furthermore, because of Jing Xingzhi’s request, he had to spend more money, which made him even more unhappy. He didn’t want to hand over the official position to Jing Xingzhi smoothly.
After hearing this, Jing Xingzhi had a surprised look on his face.
His expression said: ‘Why do you think so?!’
Jing Xingzhi shook his head and denied, “It’s not that I’m unwilling, it’s actually very important. I’m afraid that I failed to implement His Majesty’s new teaching methods and wasted His Majesty’s good idea.”
“But if the Holy Emperor asks me to go, I have no choice but to go!”
Jing Xingzhi spoke with an awe-inspiring aura, as if he climbed a volcano without even blinking.
At this moment, Zhang Tong felt the threat of falling out of favour.
Like Zhang Tong, Li Yunxi was overjoyed even though he knew that his junior brother was flattering him!
Jing Xingzhi’s words were so beautiful, he could go wherever he wanted, with an indomitable momentum!
After being dissatisfied, Li Yunxi laughed and cursed: “You slippery man! It’s just two words. It has to go in such a big circle. How can I be a stingy person?”
“Because of the special circumstances of traveling to Anbei and Dingbei this time, except for the prime minister, the accompanying officials will be promoted to one level as usual, and their salaries will still be increased by 20% during the northward journey.”
Li Yunxi said one word, and everyone was promoted! And not only were they promoted, but their salaries were also increased!
Jing Xingzhi felt a little excited.
‘What about me?’
Li Yunxi finally looked at his junior brother, who had his head lowered and acted well-behaved, and said with a smile: “Since you are willing, I will let you be Minister Wang’s partner and set off in five days. If you don’t understand something, you can ask more questions on the way.”
“Yes.” Jing Xingzhi nodded obediently.
But he had some doubts in his heart. ‘Where is my official position? Why haven’t you told me yet?’
“Oh.” Li Yunxi seemed to have remembered, “I forgot to mention your official position, you must be a fifth-rank official.”
Jing Xingzhi: “…”
Cheapskate.
Jing Xingzhi scolded the second senior brother in his heart, but he knew that the misfortune he suffered just now was the fault of others, so now that others were better, he could only be satisfied.
“Holy Emperor is wise!” Jing Xingzhi started, praising Li Yunxi unwillingly.
Other ministers immediately followed suit.
“Holy Emperor is wise!”
“Holy Emperor is wise!”
“Holy Emperor is wise!”
Among so many compliments, Hong Jiyi, Wang Zikai, and Wen Changchao were the sincerest. At the same time, the three of them were filled with gratitude to Jing Xingzhi.
‘—Jing Zhuangyuan is really a good man, and those who come out to eat dust with him will all benefited!’
The other ministers also felt much more comfortable. The fourth rank was a threshold and it was difficult to get up. The lowest minister in the palace was the fourth grade and would not be jealous of a fifth grade.
Only Jing Xingzhi was a little discouraged and wanted to go back and brag to Little Ah Deng. Now it would be a while before he could brag about it.
In the end, the number one scholar received the fifth grade, and the second-place brother and third-place uncle followed the example and were both ranked seventh grade.
Immediately afterward, other Jinshi also began to be appointed as officials, just like cabbages in the field finally growing up. They began to go their separate ways.
Some of the juicy cabbages went to the Hanlin Academy; some of the fresh cabbages were taken away by various ministries; no one wanted the remaining wilted cabbages, so they returned empty-handed, waiting for the arrival of a new round of candidate by-elections.
Since they were divided into batches one after another, the little cabbages still didn’t know the results of the top three teams in the same year.
After leaving the palace, everyone asked the familiar ministers and found out that there had been a “traitor” among the cabbages this time!
Everyone was still hanging around in the seventh and eighth grades, but he had gone to a middle-level group like the fifth grade. Could he be a jade-carved cabbage? He was sneaking into their vegetable garden!
But thinking about Jing Xingzhi’s character, the little cabbages felt envious for a moment, and then sincerely lamented Jing Xingzhi’s good luck.
They believed that if they worked hard, they would have a bright future. Look at other people’s top picks. In the beginning, they had a harder time than them, but now they were not on the verge of success.
As long as they worked hard, there was no place they couldn’t go, and there was nothing they couldn’t accomplish.
The very existence of Jing Xingzhi was the most delicious motivation soup.
But at that moment, Jing Xingzhi, who was thought by the cabbages, was caught by Li Yunxi chatting.
In a gorgeous palace,
Li Yunxi asked with a smile: “Are you satisfied with the fifth-rank? It’s four levels higher than the third place.”
Between the fifth and seventh grades, in addition to the sixth grade, there were still two smaller grades.
To be honest, the fifth-grade official position was not low. But if he hadn’t wanted to bully his junior brother for fun, Li Yunxi would have been more generous.
Li Yunxi worked hard and explained to himself: “If you hadn’t given all the benefits to the accompanying officials, I would have given you a fourth-grade officer. After all, we are brothers and a family.”
Jing Xingzhi: “…”
‘Is this how you treat your family?!’
Jing Xingzhi wanted to hit the emperor, but he thought about it for a moment.
Because actually, if he thought about it carefully, the result wasn’t that bad.
Jing Xingzhi didn’t get the fourth-grade official he had talked about casually, but he “got” a lot.
At least those accompanying officials who went out to work hard, that is, the scalpers, could get more salary, so that the old and young in the family who were short of people could live a better life.
There wouldn’t be an embarrassing situation where they went out to work hard and didn’t come back for several years, but the lives at their hometown were embarrassing.