章節 406: Chapter 214 The Heart's Desire

After pondering for a moment, Yan Wangqiu said, "As far as I remember, there are over six thousand people in our country who have obtained a Scholar's Degree or higher, right?"

The minister below immediately answered, "Indeed, your Majesty. Across our ten government offices and hundred counties, there are five thousand six hundred and thirty-one scholars and eight hundred and twenty-three Jurens."

"Hmm, eight hundred and twenty-three Jurens, that is a bit too much," Yan Wangqiu slightly frowned.

In the entire Nanhai Country, even considering all government vacancies created since the founding of the Kingdom, we only have about two thousand positions.

Of these two thousand positions, more than seventy percent are occupied by the Nanhai Sect's trusted pioneers.

The remaining over five hundred positions need to be allocated to the local gentry and influential magnates of the South Sea Prefecture.

Therefore, only about three hundred vacancies are left for those Jurens.

Obviously.