The first thousand and ninety-fifth chapters add another burden to him
Nothing is complete without rules. Even in a small family, there are still many rules, let alone a huge empire!
Although the Tang Empire was founded only ten years ago, it had already unified China and became the Central China Dynasty. The Central China Dynasty in any period was a behemoth.
To make this behemoth operate smoothly, various rules are indispensable.
The empire's various and extremely complicated laws are the apparent rules of this empire.
Although various administrative regulations are not laws, they still have certain legal effect and have become one of the rules of the empire.
In addition to these rules on the surface, there are also some rules that are not known to outsiders. Although no one has said it, and they cannot take it out and put it on the table, countless people have unknowingly followed it.
obey.
Especially in the officialdom, there are naturally quite a lot of rules, explicit or implicit.
For example, officials from the three agencies of the Taxation Department, the Supervisory Yuan, and the Supreme Court can only be promoted internally and cannot be transferred to other agencies. At the same time, officials from other agencies cannot be transferred to the above three ministries. This has been the rule of the Tang Empire for many years.
However, there has never been an explicit law or administrative order that stipulates that tax officials must be promoted within the tax department and cannot be transferred from outside or tax officials can be transferred to other departments.
This is just like no one has ever stipulated that retired generals and professional officers are not allowed to serve in the Ministry of War or the Ministry of the Navy.
Although there has never been such a mandatory provision, in fact, over the years, there have been many retired officers who have retired from the military profession and then served in local areas, but there has never been one, not even a retired officer, who has entered the Army Department or the Ministry of War.
Served in the Admiralty.
Because this involves the principle issue of separation of military and political affairs, not just a game between the cabinet and the military!
On the one hand, in order to restrict the military, the cabinet firmly controls the War Department and the Navy Department, and refuses any official with a military background to serve in these two departments, let alone retired generals.
On the other hand, it is also due to the consideration of separation of military and political affairs, because almost anyone can do it. The Holy Emperor is extremely disgusted with the military's interference in local government affairs, or the local government's interference in military affairs.
Even in special places such as Ryukyu Prefecture and Luzon Prefecture overseas, the prefects of these two places have great authority, but even so, they do not have the power to mobilize the army.
Similarly, even if the military has great authority in some overseas and remote areas, for example, in Osumi Prefecture, Ryukyu Prefecture, the navy has great authority, but even so, the navy does not have the authority to directly intervene in local government affairs.
The separation of military and political affairs was a major taboo in the Tang Dynasty. Anyone who dared to violate it would be seriously politically incorrect and would be in serious trouble.
But this kind of thing is never said publicly!
But if you don’t say it publicly, the representative will break it casually!
But today, Chen Lifu saw the appointment letter from the Ministry of Civil Affairs appointing him to be the magistrate of Xingquan Prefecture. To be honest, he was a little stunned for a while.
How could something like this happen?
Could it be that there was a mistake on the part of the Ministry of Personnel? The person with the same name was confused with him, and it was actually someone else who was going to take up the post in Xingquan Mansion?
However, the official from the Ministry of Personnel who sent him the appointment letter said that he did not send it wrongly.
This appointment letter was given to him, Chen Lifu!
In order to express it more accurately, he also added the prefix Director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Taxation Department!
Of course, when he received this appointment letter, his position as director became a thing of the past. It should be said that he was the former director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation!
However, even if it was confirmed that there was no mistake, this situation still left Chen Lifu confused.
In fact, let alone Chen Lifu himself, even the people in the official department were confused!
Because according to past practice, if Chen Lifu wants to be transferred, considering that his director of the Inspection Division belongs to the fifth rank, but his actual status is higher than the fifth rank, there are generally three places where he can go. One is to be transferred to a local area.
The top leader of a certain local tax bureau or taxation department is either the director of the taxation bureau in a very important higher-level government, such as Songjiang Prefecture or Suzhou Prefecture, or he is the director of the taxation department in Zhili Fourth Road. One of these two positions is from the fourth place.
Grades, even the fourth grade, are more suitable for him. As for the director of the taxation department of each province, that is the position of the third grade, and he is still a little behind.
The second direction is that he is most likely to be promoted within the Grain Recruitment Department. It is natural for him to be promoted within the Grain Recruitment Department as the director of various divisions under the Grain Recruitment Department, but deputy directors and the like are
Don't count on it.
The organization of the Grain Recruitment Department is different from ordinary departments. Like the Inspection Office, it has not one but two deputy positions.
The director of the Grain Recruitment Department is a third-rank official, and his political status is not inferior to that of ministers in other ministries. Naturally, the deputy position of the Grain Recruitment Department is also very important.
The department has left and right deputy directors, a total of two deputy directors.
As for Deputy Director Zuo, he is the real second-in-command of the Grain Recruitment Department, starting from the third rank.
The deputy director on the right is a fourth-rank official, and the third-in-command of the Grain Recruitment Department is also a powerful person.
Due to the special status of the Grain Recruitment Department, the actual political status of the two deputy directors is not much weaker than that of the ministers of some weak departments!
As for the deputy director of such an important department, even if Chen Lifu was very good before, it is unlikely that he would be able to rise to the level of deputy director in one go.
If he is not the deputy director of the left and right, he is most likely one of the left and right doctors who was transferred to the Grain Recruitment Department, or more accurately, the left and right doctor. This is not a question of rank, because both positions are from the fourth rank.
There is no high ground issue, it's just that one is the deputy of the left deputy director and the other is the deputy of the right deputy director.
That's because the right doctor has just been transferred, and it is impossible to transfer the job again in a month or two. The only possible position is the left doctor.
If it is not within the Grain Collection Department, it may be in other agencies of the Taxation Department. Although this kind of thing happens relatively rarely, it does not mean that it does not happen. Many tax inspectors in the Inspection Office have been transferred to other departments of the Taxation Department.
, but in this case, the range of choices will be wider.
Chen Lifu's transfer, if he stays in Gyeonggi Province, he can only be promoted to one level at most. If he wants to be promoted to two levels in a row and become a full fourth grade, then he can only go to a local post.
Going to work in a local area was also within Chen Lifu's expectation!
But what he expected was that he might go to a certain local taxation bureau to serve as the deputy director or to serve as the director of the taxation bureau in a certain government. However, he did not expect that the superiors would directly transfer him to Xingquan Prefecture as the prefect.
It's strange enough to go to a local place to serve as a prefect, but it's even weirder to go to Xingquan Prefecture, the land of Longxing.
Xingquan Mansion, this place is different for the Tang Empire. This place is considered to be the land of Longxing. In the early days, Xingquan Mansion was still the capital, and it was also the companion capital for a long time.
After the capital was moved to Jinling, the political status of Xingquan Prefecture was quite high. For a period of time, the grade of the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture was from the third grade.
However, in recent years, Xingquan Mansion has returned to normal, and its prefect level has also returned to the fourth grade.
But even so, the prefect of this place is also a fragrant steamed bun in the eyes of many civil servants!
Because this place is the land of Longxing, it has received a lot of attention. At the same time, although this place is the land of Longxing, it is a serious lower-class government with a relatively bad economic environment.
If it was just an ordinary lower-level government, it would definitely be regarded as a tiger by many officials, and naturally they would not be willing to serve. However, Xingquan Mansion is different.
It's a difficult place, but it also receives a lot of attention. If you can make some achievements here, promotion will be a matter of minutes.
Although quite a few of the military and political bigwigs in the court are from Xingquan Mansion, and everyone hopes that their hometown will become better and better, and if you achieve good results, a large group of big shots in the court will remember you.
What about the results?
Therefore, many civil servants hope to work in Xingquan Mansion!
In the empire, among the many prefectures, the only political prime positions comparable to Xingquan Prefecture were Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Guangzhou Prefecture, and a few other high-class prefectures that were well-known throughout the world.
As for Chengtian Mansion, that doesn’t count. This is not an ordinary service, but the capital of the empire, the prefect of Chengtian Mansion. He is on the same level as a second-grade official, the governor of each province, and the minister of each ministry, and is higher than the Taoist priests of Jiangnan Dao.
Level 1.
The Taoist priests of Zhili Fourth Road were only from the third level when they were first established. Last year, they thought that the importance of Zhili Fourth Road was becoming more and more important, so they changed it to the third level!
Under such circumstances, Chen Lifu was honestly very surprised that he could serve as the magistrate of Xingquan Prefecture!
It’s even a bit confusing!
It doesn't matter if he can't figure it out. Anyway, the arrangements have been made this way, so he can only hand over the work and prepare to go to Xingquan Mansion in Guizhou to take up the post.
Logically speaking, many people should be happy that Chen Lifu, the traitorous minister, has left the inspection office. In fact, many people are indeed happy, but there are also many people who are unwilling to accept it.
Although Chen Lifu left the inspection office, he went to Xingquan Prefecture to serve as the prefect!
That was the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture, and even a fool knew that Chen Lifu was going to be promoted!
Why can such traitorous ministers continue to be reused and promoted?
This makes a group of people confused!
Why Chen Lifu was promoted was naturally because of Li Xuan's words!
Li Xuan told Qian Zuili that he would put an extra burden on Chen Lifu and let him go and try it out somewhere.
Emperor Sheng said that Chen Lifu would be given more responsibilities, so it would not be as simple as a promotion. He would have to give him a stressful and challenging job, and go to the local area to take charge of taxation work. This was also impossible. Chen Lifu had previously been in the Inspection Department.
As for the director, he has already proven himself in the field of taxation.
The Holy Emperor obviously wanted to see something else!
Qian Zuili of the Tax Department also discussed with his staff in private. They felt that the Holy Emperor still valued Chen Lifu very much. It was hard to say whether Chen Lifu would be able to enter the Imperial Study Room as the minister on duty in the future, but
Since he is in the emperor's heart, it will not be a big problem for him to serve as a minister in the future.
And Chen Lifu is from the Ministry of Taxation. Chen Lifu's emergence means that the faction of the Ministry of Taxation has a stronger voice in the empire.
Therefore, Qian Zuoli made a lot of moves and got Chen Lifu to take up a post in Xingquan Mansion!
The road has been paved for Chen Lifu. As for whether he can achieve results in a special place like Xingquan Mansion, it depends on Chen Lifu himself.