On the street outside Xi'an Gate in the inner city of Daming Mansion, there were already crowds of people at this time, and there were no less than 30,000 to 40,000 people gathered. Looking down from a high place, it was a huge crowd!

Most of these people are poor people who fled, dressed in shabby clothes and holding the elderly and young, which looks very miserable. However, some scholar-officials wearing long clothes and various scholar-treasures or black hats stand near Xi'an Gate, holding their heads and chests, looking unique.

Standing outside Xi'an Gate, there are two or three hundred "green robes", among which there are many white-haired old men, who are either with crutches or with their descendants to stand in front. These white-haired and green-clothed civil servants are a major feature of the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, called "special titles" and Jinshi. The so-called "special titles" are those guys who have taken the exam for many years and failed every time, and the young talented man became an old man. Seeing that they were pitiful, the officials gave them a special Jinshi to comfort him.

Of course, the famous Jinshi and the serious Jinshi are incomparable in the career of the official career. The famous Jinshi is usually given a ninth-rank sesame official, and retires after a few years, which is considered an official. This person is invisible to the court of Kaifeng Prefecture, and usually becomes a small school official in the local area. However, here in Hebei, the "Special Jinshi" Jinshi is basically a representative of the gentry class.

Because the examination level of scholars in Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi in the Song Dynasty was relatively poor, and each imperial examination was the lowest. Moreover, these places were not far from Kaifeng Prefecture, which was enough to allow those landlords who had passed the examination to go to Beijing to take the exam again and again.

Generally, after failing the exam five or six times, you can ask for a special title, then go back to control the village and become a scholar-official!

Since the Song Dynasty did not have two fixed fame, namely Juren and scholar. In the Song Dynasty, even if the scholar passes the test, he is qualified to take the exam for one exam. Generally, he cannot be "exempted", so he can only take one exam for one exam after one exam, and after the exam, he will not have the status of a scholar. Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, Juren did not have any privileges of duty-free service, let alone so-called scholars... It is just a respectful title for scholars by the people, not an official fame.

Therefore, the various preferential treatments for scholars in the Song Dynasty also started with scholars becoming officials, and in fact they were preferential treatments for civil servants. Although the special report of Jinshi had no future in the officialdom, they were members of the noble scholar-official class.

In Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi, where there are not many genuine Jinshi, they are even the backbone of the scholar-official class! But even those who were able to pass many exams and finally became famous Jinshi were mostly from aristocratic families. Otherwise, they would not have spent dozens of years on the exams, and local trials were not so easy to pass. If they were really poor students, it would be difficult to pass the trials many times.

Don’t think that the difficulty of the test is very low. Students from all states and prefectures are all staring at the number of places that have been over-executed! Moreover, the Song Dynasty court was very close to the test, and it was more difficult to engage in fraud. However, the local test is relatively relaxed, so there are more tricks in the middle!

If you can pass the test again and again, and go to Beijing to take the test again and again, it is best to turn yourself into a white-headed man and win some scholars who have consolation prizes for the imperial examination (special music and famous Jinshi). How could they not have wealth and background?

So when Cai Mao stood on the Xi'an Gate Tower and looked down, he felt a little guilty - so many "green robes" and scholars came. Is this going to expose the corruption and abuse of power to the king? But I am not greedy!

Zhao Kai also saw Cai Mao’s guilty look, and he immediately understood that those people outside came to sue the emperor and sue you for corruption in the Daming Mansion! Look, so many people came to sue, how much are you greedy! I can’t protect you, a corrupt official, and you must go and confiscate your home in person later!

"Come here!" Zhao Kai put his hands on his hips, his face was gloomy, and he had already pretended to be selfless Zhao Qingtian. "Go and invite all the officials in green robes to the city tower. I want to ask questions in person!"

"Here!"

"Get orders!"

There was no dynasty in Ma Han. Huang Wuji and Xiang Ke, who were receiving the order, both military officers pressed the hilt of the sword and swayed down. After a while, they led more than 200 green-robed officials to the city tower.

The gate towers in the inner city of Daming Mansion are very tall and wide, and can be ridden on them, which is enough for more than 200 green-robed officials to line up to salute.

Zhao Kaize was wearing a round neckline and narrow sleeves robe, wearing a fur-edged cloak, and a sword hanging on his belt. He sat in a big chair. Seeing that the officials in the green robe had bowed, he asked in a deep voice: "Are you here to sue the emperor? Who is the person who sued?"

Complaint?

The more than 200 green robes were stunned - they came to petition, not to complain. Although the two are not much different...

Seeing that the people below didn't say anything, Zhao Kai became more convinced that they were here to sue Cai Mao, so he glanced at the corrupt official with a pale face and said in a deep voice: "The lonely king is selfless. No matter who you sue, I will enforce the law impartially and will never be favored!"

Really?

I don’t believe these more than 200 green robes... If they were claiming to be suing the emperor now, then the person they sued seemed to be the Marshal of Hebei Military Marshal and Prince Yun Zhao Kai himself!

"Who do you sue? So you didn't say a word?" Zhao Kai was a little impatient when he saw that they didn't say anything.

At this moment, four younger green robe officials had already plucked up their courage and came out.

When Zhao Kai saw that he had already seen an acquaintance, "Hey, aren't you Zhang Deyuan? Why did you come to Daming Mansion? Did you know that I am the marshal of Hebei, so I came to serve?"

It turned out that the four of them stood up were Zhang Jun, Chen Dong, Hu Yin, Deng Su and others... Today's big petition was organized by the four of them.

However, because Zhao Kai's Daming Mansion was still short and his main energy was to rectify the army, and he did not intervene, nor did he send all his former marriage officers to be spies, so he did not know that several patriots from Kaifeng Mansion were inciting public opinion in Daming Mansion to oppose peace talks.

In addition, Zhao Kai and Zhang Jun had known each other for a long time. They were both Jinshi in Zhenghe for the eighth year, and they were about the same age. So they had already made friends in Zhenghe for the eighth year, but after Zhang Jun knew Zhao Kai's identity, he alienated Zhao Kai in order to avoid suspicion (making friends with princes is a taboo for ministers).

"The king, Zhang Jun, is the official of Kaifeng's personal crusade, and came to Daming Mansion to prepare military rations."

What? Come to Daming to get military rations? Zhao Kaixin said: Since the Yellow River flows north, Daming has been wading floods every now and then, where can there be surplus grains for Kaifeng?

When Zhao Kai was stunned, Chen Dong was already holding the petition document in his hand and stepped forward.

"My teacher Chen Dong is also an active officer in the camp commander's office. He came with Zhang Deyuan..." Chen Dong took a breath, "I am now joining the elders and gentry of Daming Mansion, and coming outside Xi'an Gate, the town officials came to petition the king!"

"Petition?" Zhao Kai glanced at Cai Mao, and saw this guy wiping sweat, and thought to himself: I'm wronged you, it turns out that you are a good official. But why are you wiping sweat? It's not hot...

Zhao Kai withdrew his gaze, looked at the people in front of him and asked, "What wish do you want?"

"We want to ask the king not to negotiate peace with the Jin thieves and concentrate on fighting against the Jin Dynasty!" Chen Dong said loudly.

Deng Su and Hu Yin on the side also shouted in unison: "We are willing to live and die with the King and Daming City! Please give up the idea of ​​peace and resist the Jin Dynasty!"

After they finished shouting, the more than 200 green robes behind them also shouted together: "We are willing to live and die with the King and Daming City! Please give up the idea of ​​peace and resist the Jin Dynasty!"
Chapter completed!