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From the sixth rank and below, this power is basically handed over to the provincial personnel affairs department.
There is no other way to move power to lower levels, because there are more officials in the Tang Dynasty than in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and there are much more. Of course, this kind of increase only means that there are more registered officials.
, but for civil servants, the two are almost the same in terms of time.
In a county in the Ming Dynasty, there were at most a few officials with grades. In fact, the Ministry of Personnel was in charge of the county magistrate. As for the many office staff in the county government, except for a few who had grades,
Most of them are people hired by the county magistrate out of his own pocket.
The Tang Dynasty officially included these people who were outside the official establishment into the category of officials and gave them grades of eight or nine.
Under such circumstances, there are too many registered officials, which cannot be managed by the Ministry of Personnel alone.
Therefore, it is very important to allocate some power to local governments. Otherwise, it will be impossible to handle so many official appointment matters.
However, in order to prevent officials from dominating the local area for a long time, the Tang Dynasty still implemented a firm off-site appointment system even for low-level officials.
Among them, officials of the eighth and ninth grades are not allowed to serve in the county; officials of the sixth and seventh grades are not allowed to serve in the government; officials of the third, fourth and fifth grades are not allowed to serve in the province. Of course, there are exceptions, that is, those in the central government
Those holding positions in directly affiliated institutions are not included.
After all, we can’t say that officials with Jinling City citizenship cannot serve in various central departments!
For example, people like Chen Lifu, he is from Jinling, but he has always worked in Jinling City!
But this is only limited to central agencies. If he wants to serve as a tax official in Chengtian Prefecture, that will not work!
The characteristics of the official system of the Tang Dynasty are basically determined. The Ministry of Personnel almost holds the power of life and death for officials of the third rank and below. No official dares to neglect the summons of the Ministry of Personnel.
, the same is true for Chen Lifu!
A few days later, he arrived at the staff department and was ready to give his work report!
Speaking of which, he did a lot of this kind of thing a few years ago, because at that time it didn't take long for someone to be promoted to an official, and once he was promoted, he would come to the Ministry of Personnel to give a work report.
Now that more than three years have passed, doing this kind of thing is a bit unfamiliar!
After entering the Ministry of Personnel, he, the most powerful fifth-rank official in the world, was no different from other officials who came in a hurry to prepare their work reports.
The lowest level of these people is also a sixth-grade one, and Chen Lifu even saw a few big guys who are a third-grade one among them!
Not to mention that he is only a fifth-grade person, even those three-grade big guys, although their whole aura is obviously unusual at a glance, in this huge conference room, they are no different from ordinary people.
The difference is that they are still anxiously awaiting the summons from the Literary and Selected Works Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs!
After so many years of reform in the Ministry of Personnel, although the names of the various subordinate agencies may be the same as those in the Ming Dynasty, they are actually very different. For example, the Department of Literature and Selection, this agency was basically responsible for the appointment of all civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, but
In the Tang Dynasty, this institution was basically an evaluation institution. Its main job was to evaluate the performance of officials. As for the power to decide on appointments, it was not in their hands, but in the Organization Department.
Or to be more precise, it is the various offices under the Organization Department. The offices under the Organization Department basically correspond to the provinces and central agencies. For example, there is the Guangdong Office, which is responsible for the appointment of officials in Guangdong Province.
For example, the Taxation Department is responsible for the appointment of officials of the Taxation Department, as well as the Liaodong Division, Jiangnan Division, Overseas Division, Court Division, etc.
And the person Chen Lifu wants to meet is the person from the Literature and Selection Department!
While waiting in the lobby outside, Chen Lifu finally understood why outsiders would say that there are as many officials in Jinling as dogs!
Damn, you can't feel it outside on weekdays, but when I arrived at the Selected Works Department, I saw more than a hundred people queuing up in such a small waiting room for reporting. And I heard that in the same waiting room, the Selected Works Department was full of people.
There is...well, just one!
Basically, the waiting room is crowded all year round. People have to line up from morning to night. When they come back after giving a work report, they are all covered in the smell of sweat. Not only are they sweeping the floor politely, but they also have no authority at all.
Many people have a lot of resentment towards this waiting room of the Ministry of Officials, saying that there are two major moments in the official career that are uncivilized. It is unbearable and may even turn into psychological scars for a lifetime!
The first is the search when taking part in the imperial examination, which involves stripping off all clothes and searching, not to mention being polite!
The second was to go to the Literary and Selection Department to give a work report, which also had no official authority and no politeness.
For this reason, people often report to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, saying that after all, your Ministry of Civil Affairs is an important organization that holds real power. Among the imperial cabinet ministries, the real power is as much as that of the Taxation Department. You cannot make the waiting room where the work is reported larger.
Or simply create more waiting rooms to separate one and two, and get more chairs and tables to put tea, snacks and the like.
However, every time, they were directly criticized by the officials. They claimed that there was a shortage of funds. The land in Jinling was very expensive and it was impossible to build a large waiting room. The supply of tea, snacks, etc. was also very expensive and overwhelmed.
But behind the scenes, the people from the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said: "When you come to the Literary and Selection Department, no matter whether you are a provincial chief envoy of the third rank or a county magistrate of the sixth rank, you have to add your tail to me.
Get up and wait patiently!"
This waiting hall is actually a hint in my heart, that is, no matter how majestic you are outside, but when you come here, don't use your official prestige. It is the dragon that is coiled for me, and the tiger that is meowing. Otherwise
I make you queue up every day and I will kill you!
I saw those big guys in the fourth and even third grades sitting and waiting obediently. Then Chen Lifu also received his number plate and sat aside obediently. Several people also recognized Chen Lifu, with expressions on their faces.
A look of surprise flashed through.
Why were they surprised? Chen Lifu naturally knew that he had stayed in the position of Director of the Inspection Division for three years, which was very abnormal. Now that he had come to the Literary and Selection Department, no matter whether he was promoted or demoted in the end.
Or it may be a smooth transfer, but I will definitely leave the inspection office.
He can imagine it with his toes. It is estimated that in less than a day, the news that he has been transferred from the inspection office will spread throughout the capital, and if this happens, many people will probably applaud and celebrate!
But they don't have to think about it. Even if they are transferred, will the new director of the inspection department who takes over them let them go?
Nonsense!
No matter who you are, as long as you take the position of director of the inspection department, you will inevitably do what you have done, and may even be more cruel than what you have done!
Because if they are not cruel to others, they themselves will die!
In the eyes of outsiders, tax inspections are very prestigious. When they go to local inspections, they are equivalent to imperial envoys. They have great real power, but the risks of this position are also very high.
When you get to the place, if no problem can be found, then the career of the tax inspector will basically be ended, because if you can't find the problem, it is either because you are incompetent or you have been corrupted, no matter which one,
Don't expect to keep your career.
Therefore, even if it is for the sake of their own official status and their own wealth and life, those tax inspectors will basically not be very polite when they arrive at the place.
As the saying goes, one decides what one does in one's position, or one's butt determines one's head!
However, there are not many people who can see through this!
They thought that since they were transferred, they would be able to live freely, but is this possible?
Chen Lifu knew with the tips of his toes that the new director of the Inspection Division who would take over would definitely make every effort to achieve success. He would not know how many tax evaders he would have to investigate by then.
However, these have nothing to do with me!
He opened the bamboo tube he carried with him to drink water, then took a sip of the prepackaged tea, and then took out a snack from the food box and put it into his mouth.
Based on his experience of frequent work reports in the past few years, he would have to wait at least half a day, and he would definitely not be able to make it in time for lunch.
But the officials don't care about food, and there is no mention of keeping the number plate. If this person goes out of the waiting hall to have lunch, the number plate will be taken back, and then he will have to queue up again in the afternoon.
Nine times out of ten, we won't be able to get in line, so we have to wait until tomorrow to come back.
Even if it is drinking water, there is of course it, but Chen Lifu is sure that the people in the official department must have deliberately mischief. The tea is inferior and coarse tea, and together they are bitter.
Therefore, bring your own tea and snacks, this is a must for those who come to wait for the work report!
But there will always be someone who comes to report on his work for the first time, and there are no other well-meaning people to remind him, so he stupidly didn't bring tea or snacks.
For example, a middle-aged obese man sitting opposite Chen Lifu now frequently looked at the snacks in his hand. A moment later, he frequently drank water, but looked at Chen Lifu's food box more frequently.
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Chen Lifu pretended not to see it at first, but this official is so thick-skinned!
Chen Lifu pretended not to see him, but he ran over on his own!
This time, he said: "I have the same knowledge as Cao Sheng from Jinan Prefecture. Looking at my appearance, I think he is serving in the capital!"
While he was speaking, his eyes were still focused on the food box in Chen Lifu's hand.
What kind of person is Chen Lifu? He swept the sleeves of his broad official robe slightly to cover the food box, and then replied: "Yes, Chen is working in Gyeonggi Province!"
The man immediately said: "The capital is great. Brother Chen must be very happy to be able to live and work in such a prosperous place for a long time!"
At this time, he glanced briefly and saw that Chen Lifu had covered the food box with his wide sleeves. However, his expression did not change, and he immediately said: "This official department is really outrageous. Look, there are several people over there.
He is an elderly man who doesn't even have a seat. He just went to the staff to ask if he could get a chair, but guess what they said!"
Chen Lifu muttered in his heart: "What else can I say? I won't give it to you!"
If it weren't for knowing that it was not easy to get a seat, he wouldn't have come early in the morning. He didn't stand and wait all day like others!
However, he did not say anything, but said softly.
The man just said: "They didn't give it to them, and they said there were no chairs. But some colleagues saw that there was a row of stools in the room next to them! As soon as someone asked, the officials immediately gave it to them.
It’s too much to say that they moved away and said it was used for other purposes..."
"Moreover, the people in the official department didn't even prepare better tea and snacks. When the tea is good, even though it is coarse tea, it can barely quench the thirst. But not having these snacks is too much. You know, and I
There are quite a few people who go out so early in the morning and haven't even eaten breakfast. It's almost noon and they are already hungry and dizzy..."
When he was talking, his eyes glanced at Chen Lifu's sleeve robe for the first time. Under the sleeve robe was a food box, and there were snacks in the food box!