Now it would be great if Li Shi took over the Ministry of Personnel. Even if the emperor did not completely listen to his words, the people in the Ministry of Personnel would not dare not listen.
It can save Xiao Chen a lot of trouble.
He always carries the appointment list with him, because he never knows when Li Wanjiang will get mad and want to see him, so he must be prepared in advance. As soon as the emperor asks, he will take it out and show it to him.
Even if he doesn’t ask, you have to take the initiative to mention it to him.
Now that Li Shi has asked, it's also a good relationship.
Li Shi took the list and looked at only one name before he smacked his lips, "Chen Jisheng? He was the one who was personally dismissed by the emperor and ordered not to be hired. You listed him first because you wanted to go against the emperor, right?"
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"I didn't say that I would hire him or give him a real job. I just asked the emperor to grant him a rank. I think it is quite suitable to receive the title of second rank minister." Xiao Chen said with a smile.
In fact, Xiao Chen knew that the emperor would never give Chen Jisheng any official position under any circumstances, but he insisted on listing the old man first, which was actually intentional.
Anyway, Your Majesty, you must also know that Chen Jisheng is with me now. Instead of waiting for you to question me first, why don't I be more generous and tell you first.
Let’s see what your emperor will say?
Are you saying that my employment is unclear?
Chen Jisheng is an upright and good official, and everyone in the court, including you, the emperor, knows this.
If it’s not that I don’t know who to hire, then it’s that you, the Emperor, don’t know...
Although I reused Chen Jisheng, I did not appoint him to any official position. This is not considered disrespectful at all, right?
Because the old man has made great contributions with me in Yanyun County, so it is not too much for me to come here to help him seek a rank to show my vanity.
As for whether you agree or not, it depends on how big your empire is.
Li Shige was quite powerful, and he admired Chen Jisheng very much, but his power was not strong enough, and he could not give him the title of Minister.
I won’t give it even if I can.
Next.
Liu Congshu? Xiao Chen, please correct me if I am wrong. Is this Liu Congshu the magistrate who opened the gates of Changshan City to welcome the Xianbo cavalry?
Xiao Chen said yes, that's him.
Li Shi sighed and skipped the next one.
The next Wen Chengxu, a scholar of the former Han dynasty, plans to appoint Yanbei Prefecture as magistrate, with the fourth rank of magistrate...
"Xiao Chen, are you kidding me?" Li Shi threw the list heavily on the table, "You plan to show this list to the emperor. The emperor asks you a ridiculous crime, do you think you can afford it?"
"Haha, what I do is always ridiculous. If the emperor punished me for this, then I would have been punished by death." Xiao Chen smiled playfully.
"Yanyun's eighteen prefectures, what do you mean you only listed two prefectures?" Li Shi asked, "Didn't you take back the other sixteen prefectures?"
"My lord, you are asking this question knowingly." Xiao Chen smiled meaningfully.
"Hmph, you kid is full of evil intentions!" Li Shi also laughed, paused and said, "Actually, I think the Yanyun County Shibazhou organization is too bloated, and the staff of this organization are too bloated.
It is obviously insufficient, so it is better to reduce the eighteen states to nine states or even six states, which will also facilitate the court's management."
"Your Majesty, this is really a wise idea!" Xiao Chen clapped his hands and exclaimed, "I think so too, Your Majesty, you don't know, the situation in Yanyun County is really messy, there are eighteen prefectures, and there are only seven or eight prefectures.
They are county magistrates and agents, and the jurisdictional scope between some states is unclear."
Streamlining the organization is something that Xiao Chen and Chen Jisheng have discussed, and they also want to ask Li Wanjiang for his consent this time.
This is a good thing, and Li Wanjiang should agree.
Now that Li Shi has taken the initiative to propose it, that's the best thing.
As for Xiao Chen only putting forward two candidates for Zhizhou in the list, there is naturally a reason.
Changshan Prefecture and Yanbei Prefecture are currently the two most important prefectures in Yanyun County, so Xiao Chen must use his own people.
As for the remaining candidates for governor, they have to be left to the emperor and the officials.
Otherwise, it seems like he is too authoritarian...
The emperor will definitely place his people in Yanyun County, but this will not actually affect the order of Yanyun County.
Chen Jisheng once said that there is no distinction between good officials and bad officials in the world, only talented ones and mediocre ones.
But even if a mediocre person is in charge, as long as the rules are clearly formulated and strictly implemented, nothing will go wrong.
For example, the magistrate is more than just an official in a state, right? If he dares to act recklessly, the officials below also have the right to dismiss or even impeach him!
In this case, no one would dare to act recklessly, and no one would be able to act recklessly.
This is called institutional justice.
In other words, no matter who the emperor sends down, as long as he is disobedient, Xiao Chen can deal with him at any time.
There were only two candidates for prefecture magistrates on his list, but there were more than a dozen candidates for county magistrates. These were all talents carefully selected by Chen Jisheng and others who had passed numerous examinations.
In fact, for local governance, the county magistrate is the most important position, because he is the person who directly deals with the people and has the best understanding of local people's conditions.
No matter what strategy Xiao Chen, Chen Jisheng and others devise, they will be the actual executors in the end.
"Xiao Chen, you have great power in Yanyun County now. This governor is truly responsible for managing the army and the people," Li Shi said again.
"I understand the prince's intention. When I meet the emperor again, I will definitely resign from the post of General Zhengbei. I will also give up the post of General Zhengbei, the other Xichang factory company, the chief ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and the first-grade eunuch. I will do my best.
My governor got it." Xiao Chen said.
"Are you serious?" Li Shi said with a smile.
"It's not true, but it's also loyal." Xiao Chen also smiled.
"Just keep this list of yours for now. I'll discuss it with Wang Anbang later... By the way, should I pay back the money you owe me? I heard that you do quite a lot of business with the northern Xinjiang tribes.
Not bad." Li Shicha changed the topic.
"I've made a lot of money, but I can't even make enough money! Hundreds of thousands of people in Yanyun County are crying for food. As the governor, I can't just watch them freeze to death and starve to death, right? And the salaries of those officials
It's been many years since I've had my hair, and I have to make up for it. I can't just let the horse run without feeding it, right?" Xiao Chen cried bitterly.
"In addition, military expenditures are quite large. The pensions for the fallen soldiers alone cost more than ten thousand taels of silver. I also bought food and grass with my own money. The amount given by the court was not enough!
I also ate half of the food I bought from Burma and didn’t even finish it when I got to Yanyun!”
After crying about suffering, we cry about poverty; after crying about poverty, we cry about injustice.
I'm so wronged, I tell you!
"You can tell the emperor this, not me!" Li Shi said with a smile, "Anyway, the money you owe me must be repaid!"
"I still have to pay it back. Your Majesty, if you allow me one year, I promise to pay you back twice as much." Xiao Chen has this confidence.
Wait until his factories start operating and make a profit, hey!
One million and eight hundred thousand dollars is nothing. This chapter has been completed!