When he came back from the Literary and Selected Affairs Department, just as he had expected before going there, he was already covered in sweat, hungry and drunk.
Chen Lifu originally brought snacks and tea, but as fate would have it, he brought them, but no one else did. In addition, he met a shameless fat man, and then this shameless fat man also
I called my three or five friends.
As a result, he only ate one piece of the whole box of snacks, just one piece!
All the others were taken away from those people...
What's even more irritating is that after they finished eating the snacks, a group of people were still not satisfied, asking why Chen Lifu didn't bring more. Chen Lifu was so angry that he wanted to shout: Someone is coming, ransack the house!
I thought that Chen Lifu had ruled the officialdom for tens of thousands of years, but he didn't expect that he would stumble in front of these foodies in the waiting room of the Literary and Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It was really annoying and hateful!
When Chen Lifu returned home, he was depressed about this for several days.
As for the work report, who is in the mood to care about that now? Anyway, he gave a work report that day. As for whether the work report was recognized or not, that is someone else's business, and Chen Lifu has nothing to do.
Anyway, the Ministry of Personnel is a bit special. They have a set of internal rules for the appointment and promotion of officials. To the outside world, he may be a corrupt official, but in the eyes of the officials in the Ministry of Personnel, he may still be a pillar of talent.
In short, the evaluation standards for officials within the Ministry of Personnel are too complicated, and even Chen Lifu himself cannot understand them.
But he is very clear about one thing, that is, no matter how many evaluation standards change, the basic things of being loyal to the emperor and having the ability to do practical things will not change.
He believed that he had worked as the director of the Inspection Division for three years, and even if he had no merit, he still had to work hard, and even if he endured hard work, he could earn a fourth-grade title.
Therefore, Chen Lifu is not too worried about the work report. What he is more worried about is that he is going to be promoted, but where will he be transferred to and what department will he work in?
Although it is said that promotions of officials in the tax department are generally internal promotions, even if Chen Lifu is promoted, he will basically be promoted within the tax department, but this tax department is also very big, isn't it?
Even though the Taxation Department has been split once, it is still one of many organizations in the Tang Empire. Apart from the largest organization outside the military, every department under the Taxation Department is almost a giant.
For example, the Grain Recruitment Department, Budget Department, and Industry and Commerce Department are actually quite large internally, at least no smaller than other departments.
So even if it's just a promotion within the tax department, there is a big difference where you go.
For example, if he, the tax inspector, is within the tax department, he belongs to the Grain Collection Department, and he is in charge of tax collection.
But in the Department of Taxation, tax collection is only part of the work. Fiscal budget and financial management, and even regulating the development of the national agricultural, industrial, commercial and economical affairs are also the affairs of the Department of Taxation.
Otherwise, the Tax Department would not be called the largest department, and even the personnel department, which is in charge of personnel power, would have to bow down.
Chen Lifu felt that if he wanted to be promoted, it would be best to work within the system of the Grain Recruitment Department, so that he would be familiar with the job and be more likely to achieve results.
If he is transferred to another department, he will be very passive. As a tax collector, if he goes to the Finance Department to manage banks or the like, he will definitely be blinded.
After all, he can't play finance by killing people and ransacking homes!
In addition, they may also be sent to local governments. The tax department does not only have one central tax department. The tax offices and tax bureaus in various regions also belong to the tax department. Many tax officials were sent to local governments after serving in the central government.
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But judging from Chen Lifu's qualifications, it is not easy to arrange the place below.
Because Chen Lifu’s grade is too low!
That's right, it's not that he is too high, but that he is too low!
Chen Lifu is the director of the Inspection Division. This position is only the fifth rank, but it is almost the most powerful fifth rank position in the world. In the past, when he went out on inspections, he would always sit with those provincial officials.
The kind where we discuss work together.
So even though his rank is the fifth rank, no one actually treats him as a fifth rank official. Many people actually regard him as an official of the third rank or above!
But no matter how you look at it, he is really a fifth-level man. No matter how powerful he is, he is only a true fifth-level man!
In recent years, the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty has become extremely mature, and almost all types of promotions have explicit or implicit rules. Those who have been in office for less than three years are not allowed to be promoted from the sixth rank.
In addition, there are also some unspoken rules behind the scenes. For example, the several ministers promoted in the past two years are all from provincial governors. And the newly appointed provincial governors are all from the Hanlin Academy. And the officials in the Hanlin Academy, in addition to the annual examination
Except for the three first-class students, the Hanlin officials who were transferred from local areas all had experience in serving as county magistrates, prefects, prefects and other local top leaders.
What this means is that if you want to enter the ministry and serve as a real high-ranking official in the ministry, you must first be a governor of a province. Now if you want to be promoted to a governor of a province, you must have entered the Hanlin Academy. Otherwise, you will not even be nominated.
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At the same time, if you want to enter the Hanlin Academy, you must have experience in serving as a leader, such as a county magistrate or a prefect.
Basically, this is to regard the Hanlin Academy as a transition point between prefects and governors. Those potential leaders of local state governments are transferred to the Hanlin Academy for two or three years to hone their skills, and then they are sent out to serve as chief envoys.
, and then stayed for a few years before serving as governor.
In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of later generations, Li Xuan actually regarded the Hanlin Academy as a training school for high-level officials. He did not teach these officials how to deal with things. Since people can climb to the Hanlin Academy, few of them are fools.
They all require talent, talent, and background.
What Li Xuan wants more is to brainwash them, provide them with political training, and establish correct concepts, such as 'serving the emperor' and the like.
However, this situation is limited to the ministries, and the three institutions such as the Taxation Department, the Inspectorate and the Supreme Court are not included in this.
Because these three institutions are all internal promotions, the Minister of Taxation, the left and right censors in the Supervisory Council, and the left and right justices in the Grand Court are all internal promotions and have nothing to do with the local area.
Therefore, there has never been a situation where a tax official has served as a local leader. At least, this has not happened in the many years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this situation was made an exception for Chen Lifu!
After giving his work report, Chen Lifu had been speculating about which agency he might go to in the Taxation Department, but he received an appointment from the Ministry of Personnel!
When he saw this appointment, Chen Lifu himself was dumbfounded...
Let yourself go to Xingquan Prefecture and serve as the prefect? How is this possible...