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When it comes to getting things done, my father is still the best. There has been no movement from Sima Qiu. Li Guan has already told his father that he has already said hello to the official office. He can ask Wang Xian to register at the county government office. As long as he can pass the test of the chief registrar, he will
No problem anymore.
Wang Xian also felt that Sima Qiu, that old bastard, was probably going to let him go, and there was no other way to wait any longer, so he agreed to go to the county government to sign up.
In fact, with a scheming father and a domineering mother, he couldn't help but refuse to agree...
My mother took this matter very seriously and specially found my father's robe for Wang Xian to put on. When he got up in the morning, she made noodles and two poached eggs for him. After all, my son had lived for more than ten years, and this was the first time he wanted to go to see him.
I am running a business, and I still work as an errand in the government office. I may not see the benefits for a while, but it is decent!
On this point, the views of this era are obviously very different from Wang Xian's cognition. In the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the officials were really decent...
Personnel in the government are divided into four categories: officials, officials, subordinates, and subordinates. In the Yuan Dynasty, people were divided into ten grades. Among them, under "one monk and two Taoists", there were "three officials, four officials, five subordinates and six subordinates", which is the most clear manifestation of this.
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The first class is naturally officials. But the number of officials is small, and in line with the principle of avoidance of place of origin, except for monks, doctors, yin and yang and other miscellaneous officials who do not receive salary, they are all from other provinces and have left their posts at the end of their term. Therefore
In the eyes of ordinary people, their sense of existence is not even as strong as that of officials and subordinates.
The second class is the officials, which is a group of people between the officials and the people. The government selects people from the local area who are virtuous, talented, and have a clean family background. "Virtue" means having no faults, and "talent"
The standard is to be able to write and calculate, because the responsibilities of civil servants are to assist officials in handling government affairs and managing local areas. In fact, they perform the duties of officials, but they are still civilians in their status.
That’s why we have the saying “officials, the people are in the official position”.
The third class is Zao. Zao people are also public servants in black. They are divided into Zaoban, Kuaiban, and Zhuangban, the so-called third class of yamen servants. This class is the minions of the government, and they are responsible for oppressing the people.
Naturally, they will take the blame. It is estimated that Zhu Yuanzhang was bullied by these people a lot. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he issued an order with a stroke of his pen, saying that the three generations of outstanding Zaoli and their descendants were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination...
The last class is Li, that is, those who work as sedan bearers, horsemen, cooks, watchmen, gatekeepers, etc. in the yamen... These people are divided into two types, one is civilians who work as slaves, and the other is people who work as slaves.
industry, but are often lumped together.
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In the eyes of ordinary people, the green shirt and official scarf worn by an official are a symbol of the official's status. If Wang Xian can be hired, although it is not a formal establishment, he will at least be able to support himself, and he will also become an official in the eyes of the neighbors.
After becoming an official, how can I ask for more?
Under his mother's numerous warnings and instructions, Wang Xian followed his father out of the house. The neighbors had heard about it a long time ago and opened the door to encourage him: "Behave well, little two, and you must pass the test."
"If you come back as an official, I will find a wife for you."
"But don't be like your uncle, who gets nervous when meeting officials."
Wang Xian was quite relaxed at first, but when they did this, he became a little nervous.
After exiting the alley, passing through several streets, we came to the most prosperous Yaqian Street in the county. Yaqian Street, as the name suggests, is the street in front of the county government. In addition to the county government, there are also patrol shops, medicine, yin and yang
Schools, pharmacies, hotels, teahouses, restaurants, banks, rice shops, pawn shops, fruit shops...the various shops and the crowds of people were a bit surprising to Wang Xian, who didn't often go out on the streets. He didn't expect that such a small person
Fuyang County is actually so prosperous.
At this time, Wang Xian did not know that almost all the businesses on this street were related to the destination of his trip - Fuyang County Government.
After passing the "Shenming Pavilion", which is dedicated to exposing evildoers and their bad deeds, the father and son came to the eight-character wall of the Yamen. They saw that the wall was covered with notices, verdicts and the like. There were also several prisoners in shackles squatting under the wall.
, this is the shackles showing to the public.
After walking past the eight-character wall, Dad took Wang Xian straight into the Yamen. If you want to enter this door without waiting for someone else, you must be filial. But although Dad Wang is no longer in the Yamen, this point
I still have face.
Entering the gate, there is a spacious front yard with a corridor in the middle and two cross-courtyards on both sides on the east side. I don't know what they are for.
The corridor leads directly to the second gate - Yimen. After entering Yimen, you will see a pavilion in the middle of the corridor. There is a stone tablet in the pavilion with three characters "Gongshengming" written on it, and sixteen characters on the back:
‘Your salary is your salary, your people are rich and your people are anointed, it is easy for the people to abuse you, but it is difficult for God to bully you’!
This was written for the superior of the hall. The county magistrate was asking questions in the lobby. When he looked up, he saw these sixteen words. It was really exciting. I guess this is because the county magistrate always queued up in the second hall to ask questions and would not sit down when nothing happened.
reason for the lobby.
Between the lobby and the Yimen is the main courtyard. There are several rows of corridors on the east and west sides of the main courtyard. This is where the six-room scribes work. The state and county government offices are called "tangqian" and "menshang", which means
.
However, six rooms are not six rooms, but several rows of houses. The affairs of a county are complex and far beyond what six rooms can cover. Therefore, in addition to the "officials, household rituals, military work, punishment", there are also contracted houses and pavilions and warehouses.
Others generally refer to the internal medicine ward as the six wards.
Dad took Wang Xian to the second row of rooms on the east side, and saw a stone plaque embedded in the lintel of the first room, with the word "Li Fang" written on it. After entering, there was a suite, and a clerk in a white shirt sat outside.
He was wandering around Jiuzhou. When he saw his father and son coming in, he came back to his senses and said, "What business do you two have?"
Obviously this man is new here, and he doesn't even know the famous Wang Xingshu. The father coughed awkwardly and said: "I'm looking for your Zhang Lishu, tell him that Wang Xingye is here."
Before the clerk could answer, laughter came from inside and said, "When did your brother become so polite? Come in quickly." As he spoke, a man wearing a blue collared shirt and a black official scarf... that official scarf
It is similar to an old man's scarf, but there is a pair of black gauze wings behind it, which is a symbol of official status... The middle-aged man opened the curtain with a smile and welcomed him out.
The middle-aged man was chubby and kind, with a pair of small eyes showing shrewdness, but he was the head of the county officials, named Wang Ziyao.
Wang Xingye smiled and stepped forward to greet him, then asked Wang Xian to salute Wang Ziyuan, and scolded him with a smile: "I'm so short of a man. For the sake of this bastard, brother, I have to behave myself."
"If you can't write two characters for "王" in one stroke, why are my brothers so polite?" Wang Ziyuan said with a smile: "Please come in quickly."
After entering the inner room, the two pushed around for a long time. Wang Xingye insisted on sitting on a chair along the wall. Wang Ziyao did not sit down, but sat beside him.
Naturally, there is no place for Wang Xian to sit here, so he can only stand next to his father.
The two of them were not in a hurry to talk about business, but talked about their farewells. Wang Ziyuan smiled and said: "Brother has turned a bad thing into a good thing, and there will be good fortune in the future. Don't forget about my little brother."
"What kind of fate?" Wang Xingye said with a bitter smile: "After this ordeal, I have taken it lightly. I will be content if I can live a stable life for two days."
"But the imperial court will not let go of you, a 'good official'." Wang Ziyuan smiled and said: "The appointment is certain, I just don't know whether it is a classic or something else."
"As long as I am not a Yi Cheng, I will be grateful." Wang Xingye smiled bitterly and said: "What's the benefit of getting an official position? I have left my hometown and am unfamiliar with my hometown. How can I feel as comfortable as a native of my hometown?" Then he glanced at Wang Ziyao:
"With your ability, brother, you can get a top grade in the exam and have to report yourself without any effort. Why haven't you been promoted? You have seen it through and don't want to be such a sesame and mung bean official."
"Hehe..." Wang Ziyuan was told what he was thinking and said with a smile: "Old brother knows what I am thinking. It's ridiculous that a bunch of young people always scold me behind my back for being stupid and standing in a pit..." Seeing Wang Xian standing aside,
He didn't go on: "It's a pity that your brother is so enlightened this time that no one dares to do anything. How about I give you activities and we brothers can continue to be together, how happy it would be!"
"That's good..." Wang Xingye sighed.
"By the way, why didn't you go to Nanjing to clear things up?" Wang Ziyuan asked.
"Oh, it's really a big headache to mention it." Wang Xingye scolded: "I let this lawsuit drag on and bankrupt the whole family. Those guys in the government and the capital, even though they call you brothers, in fact they only care about money. I will find out clearly.
I can't move anymore, so I just don't care."
"Well, these days, you can't do anything without money." Wang Ziyao was afraid that he would ask to borrow money, so he didn't dare to talk further. He changed the topic and said, "But we brothers don't have this kind of thing. The waiter's knot has already
Issue it, brother, have you brought the guarantee letter?"
Since the Ding Dynasty, the country has been committed to replacing the long-corrupted old officials of the Yuan Dynasty with high-quality officials. Therefore, the recruitment and selection of officials is very strict. Although it is only a "non-official" clerk's office,
It's not something you can do just because you want to.
According to the rules, this is a top-down process, with the county magistrate selecting from good citizens. Therefore, even if an old yamen official like Wang Xingye wants his son to be a clerk, he must first obtain a certificate of innocence from the yamen.
, and then ask the neighbors to jointly guarantee the person in the guarantee letter, and then pass the county magistrate examination to be qualified to be an official.
According to the regulations, the official officials who were appointed by the government were tested by the county magistrate, and the officials who were not made by the government were tested by the chief clerk. What Wang Xian wanted to see was the latter.
After getting the guarantee letter, Wang Ziyao asked Wang Xingye to have tea and wait in the room. He took Wang Xian into the main office from the concierge on the left side of the lobby. The main office is a separate courtyard, separated from the county magistrate's office on the left and right sides of the lobby.
, it is the portrayal of his two statuses.
Wang Ziyuan asked Wang Xian to wait at the door. He entered the main hall and found out that Master Diao was free. After letting someone know, he went in and saluted: "Third Master, the person I told you yesterday has arrived. If Third Master
If you have time, please give him a try."
Master Diao, who had a fair complexion and three long beards, nodded and said, "Bring it in knot form."
Wang Ziyao offered it with both hands. Master Diao glanced at the man's name and couldn't help but frown and said, "Wang Xian..."