Chapter 68: Contributions can be used in this way
"no."
Wang Hezhi suddenly reacted and frowned at Xu Chong, "How long have you been the Dianshi? Why are you in such a hurry to get promoted?"
"I feel that my cultivation speed is a bit slow. If I can work in the government office, it should be faster."
Xu Chong told the truth.
"Still too slow?"
Wang Hezhi blew his beard and glared.
"Time waits for no one, so men should forge ahead while they are still alive."
Xu Chong looked at him calmly.
Wang Hezhi was stunned by this sudden seriousness, and then suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha..."
"Uh, why is the Master laughing?"
Xu Chong asked in confusion.
"Of course I'm laughing because I'm happy."
Wang Hezhi patted Xu Chong's shoulder vigorously. "I once thought about what would happen if you lost the imperial examination and wasted your life. Now it seems that there is no need to worry about this at all."
"Master Lao is worried."
Xu Chong thanked him with a bow, then shook his head: "It's a pity that the rules are like this. It seems that I am powerless to do anything."
"No, no, no."
Wang Hezhi stroked his white beard and smiled in an unfathomable way, "If you don't care about your rank and just want to work in the government office, I still have a way."
"Not considering the rank... a transfer to the same level?"
Xu Chongyi raised his eyebrows and suddenly lowered his voice: "You still have this method?"
"…What are you talking about?"
Wang Hezhi's face twitched, and he said unhappily, "You can only get promoted by working hard. If you are lucky, you will get a high-risk, high-reward mission. But if it is just a horizontal transfer, there is actually a most direct way."
"any solution?"
Xu Chong became serious.
"contribute."
Wang Hezhi said in a deep voice.
"Contribution...yes!"
Xu Chong suddenly remembered what Zhou Ze had said, "Since contributions can be traded privately for money, there is no reason why they can't be exchanged for something else."
"No, you are wrong."
Wang Hezhi shook his head. "It's no big deal if the court finds out that you use your contributions to exchange for money and property. But once it involves an official position, even if it's just a horizontal transfer, no one dares to have any bad intentions... The contribution I'm talking about is spending the contribution and directly applying to the court for a transfer."
"…Is it possible?"
Xu Chong was a little dazed.
"I have said that the matter of the spiritual land 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, then changed the subject: "But there are always exceptions. People like you who learned about it through accidental events are only a minority. Most of them are from high-ranking families."
"As for official positions, these people also have to endure to be promoted, but after all, they knew the secret of the spiritual land from the beginning. If they were still like you and me, and could only sit in the government office with thin spiritual energy, how could they be willing?"
"So naturally, the court formulated a policy of applying for transfers with contributions."
Xu Chong was a little shocked when he heard this.
Could such a powerful Qingting actually come up with such a flexible policy?
"Don't be happy too soon."
Wang Hezhi smiled and said, "If you want to be transferred this way, you have to meet two conditions."
"Appreciate further details."
Xu Chong's expression became serious.
"First of all, the government office you want to transfer to must have a vacancy."
Wang Hezhi pointed at Xu Chong, "There's a vacancy at the same level as you."
“As it should be.”
Xu Chong nodded.
If transfers can be made even when there are no vacancies, that would mean recruiting additional personnel or squeezing out the original incumbent, which is absolutely not a situation that the court can allow.
“Secondly, you have to have so much to contribute and be willing to give.”
Wang Hezhi continued, "Take you for example . You are in the same low-ranking position. You were transferred from the county magistrate to the prefectural prison warden. How much contribution do you think it would cost?"
Xu Chong's face tensed, "Three o'clock? Five o'clock?"
Wang Hezhi shook his head and said in a deep voice, "Exactly ten o'clock."
Xu Chong: “…”
Ten contribution points... If he only relied on the court to distribute them, he would need to accumulate them for ten years to save that much, which would be one year slower than waiting patiently for the examination.
"If you want to be transferred to the provincial government, then the contribution will be increased tenfold to 100 points."
Wang Hezhi laughed, "So, even those wealthy families would not do this unless they have talented descendants who are worth cultivating with great effort."
"I see."
Xu Chong pondered for a moment, then bowed and said, "Thank you, Master, for clearing up my doubts."
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The inner hall of the county government.
Xu Chong sat upright in the main seat, closed his eyes and thought.
"The imperial court has set the expenditure so outrageously, it really doesn't give the lower-class people any chance."
"To be honest, this has indeed avoided some chaos in the officialdom."
"How many people are willing to spend so much contribution just to change their position?"
Xu Chong knocked on the table, "But... I'm different."
"Others' improvement mainly depends on hard practice. The bonus of spiritual land level on the speed of practice is far less effective for them. It is naturally more cost-effective to keep their contributions to exchange for skills."
"But I am different. I can speed up the generation of spiritual energy by increasing the concentration of spiritual energy."
"Don't even mention a mere 10 or 100 contribution points. If I can be transferred to a government office at the level of a blessed land or even a cave heaven, 10,000 contribution points would be worth it."
"So……"
Xu Chong opened his eyes and called Zhao Liu in.
"Go get all the court reports from the past ten years, and all the bounties."
If one wants to gain contributions, the fastest way is naturally to arrest the rebels of 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 Wuxiangyi in hand, his tolerance rate has increased more than tenfold.
"Take it step by step. Just get promoted to the government office first. It's only ten points of contribution. It won't be too eye-catching."
that's all.
Xu Chong plunged into the vast amount of documents.
Arresting traitors can certainly gain contributions faster, but the targets need to be screened slowly.
This is not an easy thing to do.
The bounty issued by the Ministry of Justice is open to all citizens and does not even have a specific level of strength.
For example, the bounty poster for the water ghost only has a few lines about the deeds done.
Four years ago, he assassinated Mu Changqing, the Lord of Zhanghua Mansion. This year, he assassinated Wu Wenjing and killed hundreds of Blood-Clothed Guards.
Be it Mu Changqing, Wu Wenjing, or the hundred Blood-Clothed Guards, none of them have their strength levels marked, let alone Shui Gui himself.
Everything is just guesswork.
It is worth mentioning that of the two portraits on the bounty order, one is of the water ghost himself, whose facial features Xu Chong glimpsed that night, and the other... is of Zhou Ze.
And Wei Wuxie too, one picture is Wei Wuxie himself, and the other is the housekeeper Lao Li...
Xu Chong felt that this had something to do with him.
However, one of them was unable to defeat the other and one was dead, so Xu Chong threw them aside without any consideration and continued to screen the rest.
Just this step took Xu Chong a full half month.
It was not until his spiritual energy accumulated to 2 points that he was finally able to select a few suitable targets for arrest.
