He took a deep breath.
He closed his eyes in prayer and stated the exact details:
"If I become team captain, I can get one recommendation slot. Also, I roughly understand the entire system for selecting Shadow Bureau members through civil service examinations—the old method of entry."
"If I remember correctly, you got in through the civil service selection, didn't you?" Ye Xin asked.
"Yes." Shi Jing nodded inwardly. "But I didn't understand the Transcendent structure of the entire Kingdom of Order before. What I know now is far more detailed than it was in the past."
"Mm, tell me."
"Yes." Faced with that pleasant young girl's voice, Shi Jing felt even more energized than usual as he spoke in his mind.
He slowly explained the specifics.
In short, the entire structure of the Kingdom of Order was divided into upper and lower levels.
The lower level encompassed the entire administrative and judicial systems. Both selected talent from society through examinations, and the entire official system consisted of ordinary people chosen from among the commoners—those below Black Iron Rank.
All officials, from top to bottom, received fixed salaries and performance bonuses.
They were more like workers employed by the Kingdom of Order. Their so-called power actually came with enormous responsibility. Officials within the system were, in truth, no different from ordinary people and were completely equal in status.
Therefore, in this country, commoners did not need to bow even before the highest-ranking leaders of those two systems. There was no essential difference between them.
So what was different?
The upper level.
The upper level included the king, all nobles, and the military. Its core members were basically all Transcendents.
They directly controlled only two departments: the Department of Property and the Department of Inspection. They possessed the right to intervene