People of Use

"This is outrageous! This is nothing less than a group bribing their way into office!"

Zhang Xuezhou and the others were smugly promoting their ideas about holding office outside the Office of the Jingzhao Intendant.

But more than a hundred meters away, a young man watching from a carriage felt himself trembling slightly.

If the court's officials were all this sort, the court could not go on.

If everyone focused on making money as an official, the nation would not be far from ruin.

Those in power loathed such things.

"Very... very good, Dongfang Shuo!"

After thinking for dozens of seconds, a name finally came to mind.

Whatever the fellow had done before, when it was time to make an example of him, he would be made an example of.

"This fellow's run right onto the point of a blade trying to get an official post!"

The top expert Li Guang was still accompanying the new emperor.

His eyes fixed from afar on Zhang Xuezhou in his copper-coin robe. He felt the fellow was in for trouble: the new emperor wanted to make an example of someone as a warning, and this fellow was clearly the most obvious choice.

Though such a crime did not warrant death, his path in officialdom would inevitably be cut off. He would also be beaten and fined.

"Marquis, should we make a law against this sort of thing, so anyone who dares do it in the future will be sentenced to death?" Li Guang asked the new emperor casually.

"That... that would be going too far!"

The new emperor pondered for a few seconds, then waved his hands repeatedly.

The new emperor simply detested those who bribed their way into office because they were ignorant and incompetent. Once in power, they would inevitably be