The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

Chapter 440 Task, Yang Juren
"Master, Zhu Weicai from the Bliss Paper Shop has already rescued the grieving ghost we sent there, and successfully sent it to Netherworld."

Inside the spiritual space.

Li Wulang, the captain of the underworld, reported to Ling Yaodong.

"I got it!" On the chief seat, Ling Yaodong nodded, expressing that he got it, and then said, "Keep working."

"Yes!"

Li Wulang retreated.

But Ling Yaodong opened the attribute panel:
God Lord: Ling Yaodong
God's name: Tianguling Digong

Divine Grade: Nine Grades
Divine power: 90000/1000
Handle: Earth/Ghost
Divine spells: arresting spirits, keeping houses under control, earth escaping, exorcising diseases, fertilizing land, entrusting dreams
Talent: [-]-fold increase

Merits: none
Task: 1. Resentful ghosts in the supernatural space (1/24)

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For more than half a year, the system has only inspired this task, which is to save those obsessed ghosts who were caught by the evil spirits.

Most of them died with hatred, and they turned into ghosts and demanded their lives from those who persecuted them.

After some ghosts take revenge, their grievances dissipate, which is better.

But more ghosts, after taking revenge, their grievances continued and they killed innocent people.

Yin badly caught it back.

Ling Yaodong is not good at killing them all.

After all, there is still a difference between them and the Black Wind Thieves.

Ling Yaodong recklessly beat him to death. The method was too cruel, which is not good, and there may be retribution.

In other words, karma is entangled!
This is Ling Yaodong's spiritual reminder after he was promoted to the ninth rank land lord.

Being a god is such a hassle.

The best way is to send it to the underworld, and let the ghosts and gods of the underworld deal with it. It should go up the mountain of knives, go down into the sea of ​​fire, go down into the sea of ​​fire, the one who should be a cow and a horse, and the one who should be reincarnated!
However, Ling Yaodong is just a land lord, even if he is a land lord of the ninth rank, he still does not have the ability to open the gate of ghosts or the passage of yin and yang.

In the past, when the land lords caught such ghosts, they would send them to the City God's Spiritual Realm.

There is a department of the underworld under the seat of Chenghuang, which can judge them and have the ability to send them to the underworld.

But Ling Yaodong doesn't have this ability, so he can only cooperate with human Taoist priests.

Zhu Weicai is his chosen partner.

From the current point of view.

What Zhu Weicai did was very good.

Ling Yaodong nodded secretly in his heart.

After a while.

Ling Yaodong calmed down and began to deal with the people's prayers, fulfilling their wishes!
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A cemetery outside Dongsheng Town.

The burial ceremony of Ma Linxiang is going on here.

The ceremony was similar to what the second uncle Zhu Weicai did last night.

It's just that the link of transcendence is missing.

After all, according to what Li Yueying said, Ma Linxiang died of illness.

If you don't have so much resentment, there is no need to overcome it.

Maybe Ma Linxiang's soul has been attracted away by the power of reincarnation in the underworld.

The second uncle Zhu Weicai only needs to open the yin and yang gap, send paper figurines and other things used by ghosts into the netherworld, and send them to Ma Linxiang, and that's it.

This is much easier than last night's [Work].

Therefore, although the mana of the second uncle Zhu Weicai has not fully recovered, it is relatively easy to deal with it today.

Soon, the last link came.

The second uncle Zhu Weicai pinched the spell and recited the mantra, his hands formed a seal, pointing at the black stone slab.

The black slate remained motionless.

"Could it be that I'm too tired?" Second uncle Zhu Weicai's face changed slightly.

As soon as he thought about it, he concentrated his mind and once again broke the seal.

The black slate remained motionless.

The second uncle Zhu Weicai frowned, only to hear that Yang Juren, who was drunk next to him, had finished reciting the sacrificial oration, "... Fu Wei is still here, so sorry."

Seeing that the time had come, the second uncle had a thought and made a decision, "Come on!"

Seeing the second uncle Zhu Wei muttering a mantra, he stretched his hands back, drew out the mahogany sword, and stabbed violently at the black stone slab.

The black slate shattered in two.

Zhu Da, who was assisting at the side, saw the situation and sang loudly, "Lift the coffin!"

Ming money sprinkled the road.

Coolies carry the coffin.

Eighteen invited dutiful sons wept bitterly.

With Ma Linxiang's coffin buried in the ground.

The filial son held Ma Linxiang's spiritual tablet, led Li Yueying and others, and began to return to the Ma family ancestral hall.

Ma's relatives who surrounded him also left one after another.

Only the second uncle Zhu Wei was left with a mahogany sword, his face full of disbelief, "Impossible!"

"impossible!"

"Impossible!"

"Second Uncle, what's impossible?" Zhu Dachang walked over and asked worriedly.

Zhu Weicai looked back at Zhu Dachang, hesitated to speak, and then said, "You practice hard!"

"Don't do messy things every day!"

"Understood, Second Uncle!" Zhu Dachang pursed his lips and said, "I used the thing you gave me last night, and the effect was really good. I think I'm getting started soon."

"Hmm!" Second uncle Zhu Weicai was noncommittal. What Zhu Dachang said was nothing but the supernatural money provided by Ling Yaodong, the so-called incense money.

This incense money can most enhance the soul strength of a cultivator.

Zhu Dachang has practiced for many years, and he is already at the door.

Now the function of the incense money is to finish the job.

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A few nights later.

No one in the entire Dongsheng town talked about Ma Linxiang anymore, as if there had never been such a person in the town.

Holding the wine bottle, Yang Juren walked out of the restaurant and staggered down the deserted street.

Since the 31st year of Guangxu, when the Qing government announced the abolition of the imperial examination system and Yang Juren completely lost his qualifications to be an official, he has been in this frustrated state.

Because the imperial examination is gone, the preferential treatment for juren is also gone.

It's nothing to be a scholar in the exam, but to have the qualifications to lead to the ruling class.

But juren is different, it is a real ruling stage.

Juren has the following special treatment:
One is that the candidates who pass the examination are equivalent to officials and are eligible to become officials.

The second is that the imperial court exempted Juren from all taxes, and there was no need to pay taxes.

The third is that if a person commits a serious crime, he must be reported and expelled from the meritorious service before he can be sentenced, and the sentence cannot be punished by a doctor.

Fourth, common people must salute Juren when they see them, and Juren can sit on an equal footing with local officials.

The fifth is to obtain the qualification to go to Beijing for the test.

Sixth, the imperial court will provide necessary living expenses, such as living expenses and lamp oil subsidies, as well as special carriages and so on.

But these preferential treatments disappeared after the Qing court abolished the imperial examination system.

Although when the imperial examination system was abolished, the Qing court also formulated the "Regulations on the Prospects for the Discretionary Examination of Gongsheng Students", which was used to arrange for the middle-aged and older students who could not apply for the school. There are mainly six items.

The first is to "discretionally increase the premium tribute amount", which doubles the original amount of the tribute photo, quadruples the original amount of the gifted tribute photo, and increases several times the original amount of the annual tribute photo.

The second is "examination and use of scriptures", that is to say, all ministries and government offices can examine and use Juren and Gongsheng to test and supplement transcripts.After the expiration of the period, please switch to the seventh-rank Beijing official to walk in the department for the meritorious performance.

Three of them have been donated and distributed according to the Juren Juren Order, and they can be exempted from paying the fee for making up classes.

The fourth is to recruit candidates. Previously, there were only two ways to recruit candidates, county magistrates and teaching positions. Now the scope has been expanded to include two positions of ambassadors in Zhili prefectures and Yanku.Wugongsheng originally only had the position of Zhili prefectural judge, but now it has been expanded to include the inspector, the salt transportation department, the Sanzhou prefect, and the county magistrate.

Fifth, students do not need to go to Beijing to take the exam after the job examination, and are selected and sent to the province by the magistrates and instructors of each prefecture and county.One hundred candidates will be selected from large provinces, seventy candidates will be selected from central provinces, and fifty candidates will be selected from small provinces.The students taken are used for inspections and canonical histories in various provinces.

The sixth is to formulate various preferential measures, and try to give various preferential policies to the examination and appointment of the tribute students.

Of course, since it was the end of the Qing court at this time and the officials were corrupt, the policies of the Qing court could not be fully implemented.

Yang Juren, who has no power and no power, can't enjoy the last afterglow of Qing Dynasty's preferential treatment at all.

Although the Qing court did not abolish the imperial examination system, Yang Juren may not be able to be an official.

When it comes to raising people to become officials, the Qing Dynasty had three channels for becoming an official, roughly divided into three aspects: selection, interception, and big selection.

In the early Qing Dynasty, due to the constant wars, the imperial court was in urgent need of employing people.Therefore, the Chinese-style imperial examinations are awarded to the officials. At that time, the Jinshi was awarded the post, and the second-class was awarded the counselor (bu, according to the second-level official), and the third-class was awarded the magistrate. This is extremely rare in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, the appointment of Juren is also given preferential treatment, allowing Juren to be awarded officials such as Tuiguan, County Magistrate, and Tongju after failing the general examination.

These official positions are not low.

But it was only in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the ninth year of Shunzhi, the Ministry of Officials stipulated that those who fail to pass the three examinations can participate in the selection process, and they will be selected by pushing officials, magistrates, and magistrates.

In the 16th year of Shunzhi, due to the increase in the number of Jinshi, it was stipulated that those who failed to pass the five subjects could participate in the selection by the Ministry of Officials, and the award of magistrates was stopped, so as to promote officials and magistrates.

But in the later period of Kangxi, the threshold for the selection of candidates was raised again, and only county magistrates and teaching positions could be selected.

In the first year of Yongzheng, the juren interception system was implemented.

Interception is one of the methods of employing officials in the Qing Dynasty, that is, to select certain qualifications and conditions (such as the number of years of food and salary, rank in the imperial examination, etc.) and select them in order according to the number of recruits.

The specific implementation is that according to the regulations of the Ministry of Officials, select those who are strong and worthy of great use to serve as county magistrates and teachers, and let the governors of each province compile a general book according to their rankings and submit them to the Ministry of Officials for selection.

Although Juren can be appointed, there is still a clear gap compared with Jinshi.Regardless of whether it is selection or interception, it is only registered first, and there is still a period of time before the actual commissioning.By the sixth year of Qianlong, the candidates for Jinshi had been ranked in the first year of Qianlong, but the candidates for Juren had been ranked in the 53rd year of Kangxi.In other words, in the sixth year of Qianlong, there were still candidates for the 53rd year of Kangxi who had not yet been appointed.

Yang Juren has no power and power, if he wants to enter the official career through selection or interception, then he really has to wait until the year of the monkey.

As for another way to become an official—big challenge!
The big challenge is held once every few years. For three, six or even 12 years, it is presided over by the Ministry of Officials, and a dozen or dozens of candidates are selected from the participating candidates to give actual teaching.

However, the form of the big challenge is quite strange. The candidates who participate in the big challenge are not compared with articles and actual ability, but with body shape and appearance as the main criterion.If popularly understood, it can be regarded as a "beauty pageant".

Yang Juren looks so shabby, if he wants to become an official through the "beauty pageant", it must be because the relevant officials are blind.

But whatever.

As long as the imperial court does not abolish the imperial examination system, Yang Juren will eventually have a chance to become an official.

But now that the imperial court has abolished the imperial examination system, Yang Juren has no chance.

Yang Juren felt that life had lost its meaning, so he drank his worries all day long!
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Dongsheng Town, which was noisy during the day, has already fallen into silence.

Only the sound of dogs barking and cats barking from some corner from time to time added a bit of creepiness to the night.

Oh, Yang Juren is already a drunk cat.

The sound didn't affect him at all.

forget about it.

Seeing Yang Juren stumbling around, taking a sip with the wine bottle, he said drunkenly, "Everyone is drunk, why should I wake up alone!"

"Everyone is awake, why not get drunk alone!"

As he spoke, Yang Juren took another sip of his wine, hiccupped beautifully, and then accidentally fell, hitting his head on a sharp stone.

Yang Juren fainted, a lot of blood flowed from his forehead, staining the floor red, and his body gradually became cold and stiff.

a while.

Yang Juren stood up from the ground in a daze.

"Where's my wine?"

As expected of an alcoholic, the first reaction to regain consciousness was to find alcohol.

The bottle in his hand was gone.

Yang Juren looked around, and finally found his wine bottle stained with mud beside the stinking ditch in the front left.

The wine flows out from the mouth of the bottle and flows into the ditch.

"Oh, my wine!" Yang Juren cried out, seeing the wine flow away, feeling more distressed than his own dead father.

He reached out to get the bottle back.

But he didn't want to, his hand passed lightly from the middle of the wine bottle.

Yang Ju was taken aback for a moment, he looked at his hands, then at the wine bottle, "Could it be that I'm old?"

He didn't believe in evil, and stretched out his hand again to get the wine bottle.

But his hand still passed through the wine bottle like passing through the air.

"This..." Yang Juren was completely stunned.

He looked around and finally found the corpse not far from his feet, "Ah! Dead man!"

Yang Juren looked at the clothes of the corpse and felt very familiar, but he couldn't recognize them for a while.

Because the corpse is lying on its stomach.

So Yang Juren walked carefully in front of the corpse, and finally saw the profile of the corpse clearly.

"Isn't this me?" Yang Juren backed away in fright.

The disappearing memory also quickly rolled in his mind.

"Ah... so I'm already dead." Yang Juren finally remembered the scene before his death, couldn't accept it, and said in disbelief.

"It turns out that I'm already a ghost!"

Yang Juren looked around, feeling confused and sad.

While living, drinking all day long is almost the same as dying.

But now that he is dead, he looks forward to being alive.

But there is no regret medicine in the world.

Yang Juren stood there dumbfounded.

At this moment, a majestic voice came, "Here is a new ghost!"

"New ghost? Take him back to be judged by the land master!" Another deep voice sounded.

Yang Ju was stunned for a moment, looked up and saw two soldiers in black armor, with long knives on their waists, and a faint scent of sandalwood walking over.

They were extremely fast. When Yang Juren first saw them, they were still at the intersection, but within a few seconds, these two [soldiers] arrived in front of Yang Juren.

"Come with us."

(End of this chapter)