This paper is designed to look into the officialdom as well as the mentality of the intellects in the Ming dynasty by means of an investigation of the criticisms of the bureaucracy by the candidates in their tests in the government examination. Confronting with the corrupted officiadom of the late Ming dynasty, the candidates of the government examination presented their diagnoses in the essay on the current political topic as a part of the examination. They usually called for a severe punishment on the guilty ones. However, no matter how vigorous their criticisms of the officialdom would have been, the corruption of officialdom of the late Ming continued. That meant those successful candidates who became the officials eventually acted not as clean-handed as they had claimed to be. Once they themselves became the officials, they corrupted no less than their predecessors. Owing to the deliberate control of ideology by the rulers in the Ming dynasty, the candidates of the government examination withheld carefully their own points of view. In order to be successful in the examination, their arguments were frequently conducted in accordance with the royal policy. As a result the tests by those candidates betrayed habitually the similar view on the current political issues. In fact the poor salary of the Ming officials, not enough to support a household, was conducive to the plight of corruption. The candidates of the government examination knew this state of affairs fairly well, but they never expressed their true feeling in the tests, neither would they have a sympathetic understanding of the hardship of the officials, This specific mantality of the intellects is the central point to be dealt with in this paper.