Buying and selling officials

Buying and selling officials

Buying and selling officials, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m ǎ IJU é f à NGU ā n, which means buying and selling officials. It comes from "on salt and iron · Cifu".

The origin of Idioms

Huan Kuan's "on salt and iron: stabbing and recovering" in Han Dynasty: "buying knights and peddling officials, getting rid of punishment and crimes, making more public use of them, while those who do things for personal gain, have no demands from the upper and lower levels, and the common people are unbearable."

Idiom usage

As an object or attribute; used in officialdom.