But half of the plaque hanging directly above the door was missing.
Then there are the two wooden doors of the main door, which look like two pieces of rotten wood.
Wang Lidong suspected that if he used a little force when opening the door, the two door panels would fall apart immediately.
"Sir, why is half of the plaque missing? This is the county government!"
Zhao Ligong was also a little puzzled. The last time he came here, it was still in one piece.
"Young escort chief, you are here."
Suddenly the door slowly opened, and then a person came out from the crack in the door.
Hearing this voice, he knew it was his servant Lin Jian.
Yesterday, Wang Lidong sent Lin Jian to arrive here in advance.
The main reason is to ask him to come over and clean up the inner house so that he will not have a place to live after coming here today.
"Lin Jian, why are you alone and no one else?"
"Young escort chief, Li Dagen and I are the only ones in the entire yamen today, and there are four or five people who haven't arrived yet.
Li Dagen, you haven’t met with the county magistrate yet.”
As Lin Jian finished speaking, another short and fat middle-aged man came out of the door.
This man named Li Dagen was wearing a black soap suit and had a big face with a pair of mouse eyes embedded in it.
As long as someone sees him, they will assume that this person must be a cunning person.
When Lin Jian came to the Yamen yesterday, Li Dagen was still a little unconvinced.
He knows the current situation of the county government best.
The officials have already found their own ways.
The government servants below also left one after another, and there were only six people left including him.
The main reason is that since the Japanese pirates invaded Rongcheng, their county government has never paid any food or salary.
Who can survive this? Everyone in the family is waiting for dinner.
If I hadn't had nowhere to go, I would have wandered off a long time ago.
There are people who come here to die.
Later, after learning some general information from Lin Jian's chat, Wang Lidong had the word "taken advantage of" on his forehead.
At this time, when he saw Wang Lidong, who was wearing a green official robe with an oriole painted on his chest, he became even more convinced of his guess.
Li Dagen hurriedly ran to Wang Lidong, knelt down directly on the ground, and then hummed his lines.
"Welcome to Mr. Lin. Wish you all the best for Mr. Lin. I have been looking forward to this day day and night..."
I thought he was just a slick person, but I didn't expect that now I have to add three words - shameless.
In the Ming Dynasty, when subordinates saw their superiors, they did not have to kneel down and bow. They usually just bowed their hands.
However, Wang Lidong has no prejudice against such people.
There are hundreds of people of all kinds, and these people are relatively well-informed. There is really no shortage of such people in a yamen.
It was beyond Wang Lidong's expectation when he learned that only 6 people were left in the entire yamen.
In his mind, all the officials had fled, but half of the government servants below should be left.
Fortunately, I brought about twenty people here, otherwise I would have been caught blind.
"Get up and show us the whole Yamen."
Although Wang Lidong spoke very softly, in Li Dagen's ears, it sounded like a thunderous explosion.
This move immediately blew away some of his little thoughts. He knew that although the man in front of him was young, his martial arts was very powerful and he was not easy to mess with.
So he stood up obediently, and together with Lin Jian, he and Lin Jian carefully opened the two doors made of broken panels.
Seeing this situation, Wang Lidong said to Zhao Ligong beside him:
"We'll find a carpenter to come over later and repair this door first.
Then find someone to make two new doors, remember to make them sturdy.
The gate of a county government office has only two broken panels, which is outrageous.
By the way, there is also this plaque, let’s make a new one too.”
Zhao Ligong hurriedly advised:
"My benefactor, you have just taken office, so you don't know what's going on inside.
I heard that this county government office has not been renovated since the Taizu Dynasty.
As long as it doesn't collapse, don't replace it with a new one. This is called 'officials don't repair the yamen'."
Although Wang Lidong had never been an official in this era, he had heard this sentence in later generations.
In the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court formulated a special law to prevent official corruption, which clearly stipulated that "officials (at all levels) shall not repair government offices." This was the first time that Sihai Kingdom stipulated in the form of law that officials were not allowed to repair government offices without authorization.
Houses to prevent officials on duty from engaging in corrupt activities on the pretext of repairing the yamen.
Since the Song Dynasty, the custom of "officials not repairing yamen" has truly been formed. Once an official puts forward a request to repair yamen, it is not only easy to leave an impression of luxury and waste to the superiors, but also to be at a disadvantage in the assessment of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (repairing yamen is a political commentator)
points deduction items), it is also very likely to be labeled as corruption, bribery, and dishonesty by the patrol censor.
Wang Lidong said disdainfully:
"Those bad habits in officialdom don't apply to me, and I don't rely on evaluations for promotion.
If you change it, it will be bad if it breaks and hits someone. Even if it doesn't hit anyone, it will hit flowers and plants."
After speaking, Li Dagen was asked to lead the way and introduce the situation of the entire county government.
After seeing his benefactor's attitude, Zhao Ligong didn't say anything more.
And I think what Wang Lidong said makes sense. Even the official position under your butt is bought with money, so why do you care about reputation?
Next, everyone followed Li Dagen and took a look at the county government office.
The entire county government office is very large, estimated to be at least three to four thousand square meters.
It is divided into main hall, second hall, inner chamber and garden.
There were actually several houses in the small garden. Wang Lidong went in and took a look. There were two bedrooms and a study room. He didn't know which county magistrate ordered the construction.
After carefully looking inside and outside the house, he liked it more and more. The environment here was much better than that in the inner house.
So he said to Lin Jian:
"I will live in the small garden from now on. Please arrange for people to clean these three rooms immediately."
Lin Jian immediately felt bitter after hearing this. He didn't expect that the young escort leader couldn't live in a good house, so he had to live in a garden.
"Young escort, we may not have time to clean today. We don't have enough manpower, so we have to move it here tomorrow."
Wang Lidong then remembered that Lin Jian only brought one henchman with him this time.
What Lin Zhennan and his wife meant was that after going to the Yamen every day, they would stay at the escort agency.
Therefore, no manpower was assigned to him in this regard.
"Go find a tooth man and buy a few maids and boys. From now on you will be the butler of the backyard."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Thank you young escort, I will go find the tooth man right away and I will ensure that you can move in tonight."
At this time, Lin Jian's face could not see the distress just now.
With a small smile on his face, he thought he had picked up a few taels of silver.
Becoming a housekeeper means that you have become the confidant of the young escort chief.
And you won’t have to do chores anymore.
He hurriedly walked out of the Yamen.
At the end of the day yesterday, he had already walked around the area, and he clearly remembered where there was a dental clinic.
Then Wang Lidong held a small meeting with his four masters and three head catchers.
Although he had never been an official in ancient times, the government government issued a special "New Official Standard" to Wang Lidong. The content of this manual was actually a guide for new officials.
Let officials who take office for the first time understand what they should do after taking office.
Wang Lidong also read it and found it quite practical.
Of course, there were some procedures, but he didn't do them and just skipped them.
For example, on the first day of taking office, a new official needs to go to the Chenghuang Temple to worship, meet with local scholars, gentry, etc.
Wang Lidong arranged for several masters to investigate the thirty-one items that the new officials needed to hand over.
For example, how many houses are there? How much money and food are there? How many horses are there? How many prisoners are there? How many things are there in the warehouse?
After arranging work, Wang Lidong planned to go out to the Yamen for a walk.
Seeing that Wang Lidong was about to leave, Capt. Cai, the oldest of the three captors, spoke up:
"Young escort leader, there are a total of 12 brothers here this time, but there are not enough manpower at all. What should we do with the missing ones?"
Knowing that the Linjiang County Government Office was an empty shell, Wang Lidong asked Lin Zhennan for more than a dozen bodyguards. From now on, these people would become the various petty bosses of the County Government Office.