However, Shen Lie cleared his throat and shouted at the top of his lungs: "I'm asking you a question... What rank are you in?"
Isn't it just to compete with someone with a louder voice?
Shen Lie looked at the censor from the corner of his eye and thought to himself that when I was in Hengdian, I was known for being loud, so I wanted to see who could outshine whom!
The censor was stunned by the roar and could not react for a moment...
Wang Hu hurriedly stepped forward and bravely said: "Sir, he is in the seventh grade!"
Shen Lie responded: "Oh."
Then Shen Lie suddenly took a step forward and walked towards the censor. He walked three steps in front of the censor and shouted at him with a louder voice.
"You are in the seventh rank, and I am in the fifth rank. How dare you bare your teeth at me?"
For a while.
The Tongzhou Pier suddenly became quiet, and the water transportation officers and soldiers, tax collectors, accounting clerks, and the long queue of merchants waiting for customs clearance were all stunned.
I don’t know how many pairs of eyes looked over.
A deep roar echoed in his ears: "Do you know this imperial bullfighting uniform? You are a seventh-grade sesame mung bean official, but you don't bow to your superiors when you see him, and you don't kneel when you see the bullfighting uniform... What crime do you deserve!"
Finished yelling.
Shen Lie felt much more comfortable.
He had long been displeased with these censors, but all of them had their nostrils turned up and wandered around the streets relying on their power of impeachment.
Looking for trouble everywhere.
Patrolling the city, patrolling the river, and inspecting smuggling should be the responsibilities of the factory guards, the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, and the Water Transport General Military Office, but it happens that the seventh-rank censor has the greatest authority.
It doesn't matter the size of the official position. Whoever has the loudest voice has the final say.
Isn't this a mess?
In the ninth year of Wanli, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, the civil and military imbalances were unbalanced, and party strife was on the rise. It was this group of officials who were as big as sesame seeds and green beans.
Why were civil servants in the Ming Dynasty generally of low grade?
Because the Ming Dynasty was based on military force. When the country was founded, the two emperors Taizu and Chengzu were immediately emperors, and their military exploits were the most important thing.
Both generations of emperors used martial arts to open up borders and split the soil, determined to expand the Ming Dynasty's territory outwards and uproot the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty!
Both generations of emperors deliberately suppressed the civil servant group, so that when they went out to conquer the world, this group of civil servants stood by and stood in the way.
Therefore.
When the Ming Dynasty was founded, the grade of civil servants was intentionally set very low.
"explain!"
As Shen Lie roared again, the censor was caught off guard. He stumbled back a few steps in fright and sat down on the ground.
The censor looked at Shen Lie blankly, apparently frightened.
On the Tongzhou Pier.
Suddenly there was a burst of laughter.
The laughter was so mocking that the censor's handsome face turned red. He quickly got up on his hands and knees and walked away in despair.
This made the laughter even louder...
Shen Lie then wiped his mouth with satisfaction, shook his bullfighting uniform, walked carelessly to the customs on the pier, and sat down on a chair in full view of everyone.
There was a moment of dead silence.
Under the gaze of countless eyes.
Shen Lie looked at the account book on the table, crossed Erlang's legs, and said displeased: "What are you doing here in a daze? Keep going!"
The tax collector with a dull look on his face woke up in the accounting room, one by one as if from a dream, he hurriedly lowered his head to calculate the abacus, and continued to collect taxes...
As the blocked fleet on the canal began to move slowly again.
Shen Liecai said with satisfaction: "That's right, hurry up... don't delay other people's business."
The tax collectors and officials didn't know what to do.
Ying Ying had no choice but to panic.
So Tongzhou Shuiguan lost a seventh-grade censor and gained a fifth-grade Dongchang Qianhu, but it looked the same as usual.
After a while.
Wang Hu bravely walked over, with a grimace on his face, and said softly: "Sir, are you trying to establish your authority?"
Shen Lie nodded: "Yes."
But when Wang Hu looked at the direction in which the censor was escaping, his sharp-mouthed and monkey-cheeked face immediately started to cry, and he muttered in a low voice.
"If you want to establish your authority, you can't attack the censor... Now... we are going to be impeached!"
Shen Lie dismissed it.
Impeach?
I won't come to Tongzhou for fear that the imperial censor will impeach me!
same time.
Water Transport General Army Yamen.
Amidst the silence and peace, Xinjian Bo Wang Chengxun, who had just received the imperial decree and was promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief, was holding a cup of hot tea.
At this moment, he was receiving a distinguished guest with a smile on his face.
This is a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a brocade uniform, with a thin figure, but there is a bit of elegance between his eyebrows that is difficult to conceal.
Judging from his behavior, style and Wang Chengxun's respectful attitude.
This must be a high official of the imperial court.
There is another person standing behind this low-key official.
Li Rusong.
now.
Mr. Li, who had always been arrogant, didn't even dare to sit down in front of this person. Instead, he stood behind the official in a dignified manner.
His expression was like a mouse meeting a cat.
Some pleasantries.
When Wang Chengxun was about to speak, a deputy Qianhu suddenly walked in hurriedly from outside. Judging from the bitter face and panicked steps of the deputy Qianhu.
On the dock.
Something unexpected must have happened.
Wang Chengxun, who had just been promoted, was a little unhappy and shouted: "What are you so worried about?"
Deputy Qianhu quickly walked up to the Commander-in-Chief, bowed his head and said, then Wang Chengxun's eyes widened and he froze while drinking tea.
Not long after.
The commander-in-chief seemed to have been frightened. His hand shook and the blue and white porcelain tea bowl in his hand fell to the ground and shattered into pieces with a snap.
"Cough cough cough."
Then the Commander-in-Chief choked on his own saliva again, coughed violently, and hurriedly stood up while coughing.
muttering.
"Go, go, have a look!"
As Wang Chengxun rushed out of the Yamen in a hurry, the court official and Li Rusong were left stunned.
The two looked at each other.
Li Rusong said curiously: "This..."
The fifty-year-old court official was also slightly stunned. He slowly put down his tea bowl and pondered for a while before saying, "Come on, let's take a look too."
As the officers stood up and walked out of the General Military Office with Li Rusong and a few capable guards, the Governor's Office not far away became noisy at the same time.
Following the flow of people towards the customs office, I watched the quarrel taking place at the customs office.
The two of them widened their eyes at the same time.
On the dock.
Shen Lie was sitting carelessly on a chair, arguing with an old man. His voice was so loud that it could be heard from far away.
"What official rank are you in?"
The old man's face turned red and he roared: "I am the censor of Tongzhou."
The words are not finished yet.
Shen Lie yelled back: "The patrol censor is also in the seventh grade, you are in the seventh grade, I am in the fifth grade... what are you yelling about?"
The old man was very angry and shouted angrily: "Bold maniac... I am the censor of the patrol, in charge of inspections, and patrol the world on behalf of the emperor!"
Shen Lie grinned and sneered again and again: "On behalf of Tianxun, do you have an imperial edict? Why don't you know that I, Xunshou on behalf of Tian, don't know? You... dare to pretend to be an imperial envoy!"
The quarrel went on and on, and when the veins on the old censor's forehead popped out, the whites of his eyes rolled up and he slowly fell backwards.
