Although he has been in the officialdom for a long time, to be honest, Chen Lifu has really encountered this kind of high-level fight in the officialdom for so many years.
It's not that I haven't seen high-level struggles, but that in the past, such struggles were all high-level and had little to do with him. At most, they were affected by some insignificant things.
But this time, the war between Song Ruangao and Qian Zili was fought directly in the Finance Department. The Finance Department was in turmoil, and he, the right deputy director of the Finance Department, instantly became the only high-level person in the Finance Department!
The Director of the Department of Finance was demoted to Yunnan, and Deputy Director Zuo was an old man. He just wanted to spend the last few years of his official career in peace and security, and then return to his hometown with dignity. When he saw the fight among the top officials, he came directly and said he was ill.
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He said he had contracted the cold and needed to recuperate, so he took a long leave of half a month!
This man is hiding, but Chen Lifu can't hide!
He just took office, and he took a leave of absence right after he took office?
Moreover, the director was demoted, Deputy Director Zuo took leave, and he was the only deputy director left in the entire Finance Department!
If he really asks for leave under such circumstances, and really thinks that the officials are freeloaders, it is estimated that within a few days, there will be such a comment on his file: "ignoring the overall situation!"
After all, he is the only senior official left in the entire Financial Department as the right deputy director. If Chen Lifu still doesn't care, then it can be said that the entire Financial Department will fall into chaos.
What's more, the director of the Securities Department he was in charge of was arrested, and the entire Securities Department was in chaos. The censors in the Supervisory Yuan, as if they had smelled the prospect of promotion and wealth, had been conducting a major attack on the entire Securities Department in the past two days.
During the search, every middle- and low-level official in the Securities Department was in panic, fearing that one day they would be arrested.
This is not a blind worry, it is a fact!
If the director of the Securities Division has a problem, will the other people in the Securities Division not have a problem?
Not to mention that the censors of the Inspectorate did not believe it, even Chen Lifu himself did not believe it.
In this situation, what else can Chen Lifu do besides gritting his teeth and resisting?
What made Chen Lifu even more speechless was that even if he stepped in at such a difficult time, there was absolutely no way he could take advantage of the director's demotion to give Deputy Director Zuo a chance to take leave.
The empire has its own official training system, and Chen Lifu was originally trained, so he was promoted beyond the level. It is impossible to say that he was given the position of acting director as soon as he took office.
And even if there was such a possibility, Song Ruangao would not agree!
Even ordinary officials in the officialdom know that Chen Lifu is the person Qian Zuili likes. Maybe the right deputy director was recommended by Qian Zuili. Well, in fact, it is true.
As soon as Song Ruan Gao took down the director, Qian Zili's people immediately climbed up and took the position of director again. What does this mean? It means that Song Ruan Gao was completely defeated.
But will Song Ruan Gao be defeated so easily?
Just kidding, they are not easy to mess with!
Even though he was only a fifth-rank official before and was equivalent to Chen Lifu in terms of rank, Song Ruan Gao and Chen Lifu had two completely different paths.
Song Ruan Gao has never taken the path of a traditional official. He has always been in the royal family's assets department. He is said to be an official, but in fact he is more like an employee of the royal family. His rank does not mean much to him.
You must know that when Song Ruan Gao was the president of the Royal Bank, he was not an official and did not even have a rank.
But who dares to say that the political status of the president of the Royal Bank is weak?
Damn it, many of the economic reports that Li Xuan saw were produced by the Royal Bank. This person has been corrected more times than an ordinary minister!
The Hanlin Academy is known as a small cabinet. Although the officials in it are not of high rank, and because there are many departments, some departments are indeed not very strong, but a few are special.
One is the Secretariat, because the secretaries in the Secretariat are actually the group of people who have followed Li Xuan the longest. For example, the four first secretaries who take turns on duty are the ones who are qualified to participate in cabinet meetings and even strategic meetings.
Even if you just sit in and do some meeting discipline things.
The director of the Secretariat is held by a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. Although the bachelor of the academy is only a third-rank official, he is one of the nine ministers on duty in the imperial study room and is a veritable important minister.
In addition to the Secretariat, there are two other departments that are very important and cannot be seen simply with ordinary eyes. One is the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy. Needless to say, there are famous Hantong Eagle Dogs throughout the empire.
That's them.
And the section chief of the Survey and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy is only a fifth-grade official.
Of course, no one cares about the grade of the Hantong Eagle Dogs, because they don't play with other people in the Hanlin Academy. They have their own system. Even the selection of Hantong officials is not handled by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, nor from the imperial examination.
When selecting people, they select people individually, and the funds go directly from the royal family's funds. Therefore, the rank in the officialdom is just a dispensable symbol for them, so no one takes their fifth rank seriously.
Otherwise, the most powerful fifth-rank official in the entire empire would not be the director of the Inspection Division of the Taxation Department, but the chief of the Hantong Section.
In fact, the Royal Assets Section and Hantong are very similar!
Hanlin Academy and Imperial Assets Division, these two institutions are only affiliated to the Hanlin Academy. Not to mention that the Ministry of Personnel cannot control their personnel, even the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy cannot control these two institutions.
Therefore, although Song Ruangao was only a fifth-rank official in the past, he was actually far from a fifth-rank official. Although he was not well-known in the officialdom before, it was because he did not hang out in the officialdom before, but it does not mean that
Their political skills are poor, or their power is poor.
Otherwise, someone could just kill the Director of the Department of Finance with a memorial?
Qian Zuili is the opponent of such a person. As for Chen Lifu, he can't even hide, so how dare he provoke him?
But now, Chen Lifu found that he couldn't even hide!
I sat in the position of right deputy director of the Department of Finance. There was a blazing fire below, but I couldn't jump away. I could only be roasted by the fire, and more importantly, it was okay to be roasted by the fire, but...
This kind of thing is of no benefit to him.
Want to take advantage of the opportunity to get promoted and eventually become the Secretary for Finance?
This is almost a challenge to the imperial officialdom order and Song Ruangao's IQ!
So Chen Lifu found himself in a situation that was unlucky no matter how he looked at it!
Sitting in his office, Chen Lifu was not in the mood to read the reports sent by his subordinates, but was thinking hard about how to protect himself.
Just this morning, the Inspectorate came again with arrest warrants and patrol police to arrest people. This time, they took away more than ten people from the Financial Department, including the Director of the Internal Affairs Division of the Financial Department and