Chapter 1133: Chen Lifu is going to be promoted again?
After having this level, he is basically the second-in-command of Jiangnan Province, and his level of political participation in Jiangnan Province is equivalent.
After the level of the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture is improved, Shanghai County can also be changed to Shanghai Special County. Two more words are added just to express specialness and facilitate arrangements.
The magistrates of the special counties in Shanghai are of the fourth grade, which is equivalent to the magistrates of Songjiang Prefecture after the reform!
Several other counties in Songjiang Prefecture remain unchanged!
County magistrates of the fourth grade can only appear in places like Shanghai. There is no way. Although the economy of this place is too concentrated, the official in charge does not have enough grade to control the situation, and it is also easy to cause turmoil.
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If a fourth-grade official is sent to Shanghai by the central government to take up a post, then all fools will know that they have a bright future, and they will not mess around like Zhou Lide before.
The previous Zhou Lide was only a sixth-grade official, and he was already over forty years old. Even if he had the resume of Shanghai County Magistrate, he could not expect to become an official of a fourth-grade or above in this life. There was no hope of promotion, and he happened to be guarding this position.
There is a huge golden river, and if you don’t make a big profit, you will be sorry for yourself.
Most of his predecessors thought the same way!
Therefore, Li Xuan's first step in reforming Shanghai and Songjiang Prefecture is to upgrade Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai's administrative level, and pay attention to it, and then he can make better arrangements.
Li Xuan has made such a decision. The people below naturally have no objections. If they have any opinions, they have to swallow them. Do you dare to object to the opinions of the Holy Emperor?
It's just that in this way, the many candidates prepared before can no longer be used. Those are all officials of the sixth grade. Now the magistrates of the special counties in Shanghai have become the fourth grade. Naturally, they do not match.
But in this case, those ministers did not complain much, but were even more happy!
It is a bit troublesome for them to choose a county magistrate who is at the sixth level, but it is not easy to choose a county magistrate who is at the fourth level!
First of all, there are probably only a few hundred candidates who are qualified for this level, and then after filtering based on ability and resume, there are probably only a few dozen left.
Then, although this poor place is a county, its economic size is larger than that of a province. Everyone must be a person of outstanding ability, and they must also be a member of the holy family. In this election, there are not many candidates.
In the end, the officials picked and picked, and finally a candidate list of exactly ten people was put together!
The ten people above are all mid-level officials with relatively high reputations in recent years. Behind each person's resume, there is an evaluation of "loyalty to the emperor". In other words, they are all members of the empire.
Li Xuan had more or less heard of the names of the people he planned to focus on cultivating.
Li Xuan did not leave the final decision to the imperial study room, and the official department did not have this authority. However, even if the official department had the authority, Ma Wei probably would not have the guts to make the decision directly.
Don't talk about him, even Liu Bagou is not willing to get involved in the bad things in Shanghai now!
Shanghai's special county is a fourth-level county magistrate, and it was created by Emperor Sheng. From this alone, you can see that this place is very sensitive. If something goes wrong, it will affect you.
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For example, if the person they recommended went to Shanghai to become a county magistrate, and then embezzled millions of taels of silver, even an important official like Liu Bagou would inevitably lose his skin!
Therefore, Liu Bagou and the other ministers on duty cleverly pretended that they did not know about this matter, and allowed the officials to directly send the list of the last ten candidates to the Holy Emperor, who made the final decision.
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Now, apart from the Holy Emperor making the decision himself, there is actually no good way to do this!
If it was the Holy Emperor who made the decision and the people he selected did a good job, then the Holy Emperor would naturally be wise and great, with a bright vision.
If the person chosen by the Holy Emperor turns out to be corrupt, then this person has failed the Holy Emperor's high hopes and deserves to be killed, and the Holy Emperor was deceived by this corrupt official.
In this case, only Li Xuan can choose people without any pressure.
When Li Xuan opened the list, he felt that the names on it were all familiar, and several of them were not only familiar, but also very familiar. The name of one of them aroused his interest: Chen Lifu!
Li Xuan was no stranger to Chen Lifu, he had met him several times, and he had heard of this young official many times in many previous incidents, so he also recognized this person in his heart.
But asking him to serve as the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai? Li Xuan was hesitant!
Chen Lifu, the person involved, did not know that his name was selected into the short list of ten candidates at first, but there is no airtight wall in this world, not to mention, this matter is not considered a secret, and the officials submitted the candidates.
When making a list of people, we always follow the formal channels, not the clandestine channels.
So there are quite a few people who know the specific list of candidates!
The first people to know were naturally the staff at the Ministry of Personnel, because they were the ones who chose Chen Lifu's name.
The people in the Ministry of Official Affairs naturally had their own reasons for selecting Chen Lifu into the ten-man list!
It is true that few officials in the Ministry of Personnel actually like people like Chen Lifu. In the officialdom, many people are too violent and murderous when doing things for Chen Lifu. Look at him in the Inspection Department of the Tax Department.
How many people did you kill when you were in office?
These officials, even those from the Tang Empire, whether they were left over from the previous Ming Dynasty or came through the Imperial Examinations of the Tang Dynasty, in the final analysis, they were still scholars.
And scholars are inseparable from the gentry and landlords!
Even the officials who entered university in recent years and became officials after passing the imperial examination have abandoned the Four Books and Five Classics and devoted themselves to studying new subjects. Then they passed the imperial examination and became officials of the Tang Dynasty. But in their bones, they are still
Scholars were integrated with the traditional gentry, landlords and merchants.
This situation will not change due to changes in dynasties or the reform of the imperial examination.
Therefore, many officials of the Tang Dynasty actually despised some of Chen Lifu's actions, but their inner thoughts were inner thoughts and their work was work.
Over the years, the Ministry of Personnel has already established a complete system for selecting officials, which even Ma Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, cannot easily change.
When selecting candidates, personal preferences are not important. What is important is the candidate's resume and then various ratings.
Very helpless, Chen Lifu's resume is quite perfect, and his evaluation is also very high. Among officials of the same level, he is almost a first-class existence. Even those who hate him cannot dismiss him based on personal preferences.
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Otherwise, if his political opponents casually impeach him and say why Chen Lifu was not selected, is there something fishy in the selection process? Then the career of this official in the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be over.
Anyone who is an official doesn't have many political opponents. Needless to say, the colleagues, subordinates, and superiors around him must all be on guard!
Subordinates want to pull you down and then take the position themselves.
Colleagues want to kill you to gain a greater competitive advantage and rise to the top.
Your boss is also suppressing you, fearing that you will cause trouble and bring him down.
It is very dangerous to become an official. If you make a wrong step, you will be doomed.
Therefore, as an official, you often have to control yourself. It often happens that no matter how much you oppose or hate a person in your heart, you still have to force yourself to smile at him.
Chen Lifu relied on his perfect resume as an official for many years, making the selection of officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs almost impeccable. In the end, they pinched their noses and put him on the list of ten people.
Of course, if he is included, the possibility of Chen Lifu becoming the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai is very slim.
This is because Chen Lifu has just been appointed as the right deputy director of the Department of Finance, which lasted less than three months. Before that, he served as the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture for a brief period of half a month. Although he did not take up the post, in the end
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This means that in just over three months, Chen Lifu has gone from being the director of the Inspection Division of the fifth rank to the prefect of Xingquan Prefecture of the fourth rank, and then to the right deputy of the Finance Department of the fourth rank.
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Under this situation, Chen Lifu's position and grade will basically not change in a short period of time, at least for a year. Otherwise, the unspoken rules for official promotion in the entire empire will be messed up.
However, this time the selection of special county magistrates in Shanghai was quite special. Emperor Sheng personally issued a decree to select outstanding talents from all over the country.
In this case, Chen Lifu fits this position.
But even so, it is unlikely that Chen Lifei would really want to become the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai.
Chen Lifu knew it himself, so when he heard that he had become a candidate for the special county magistrate in Shanghai, he just laughed!
Now he has established a firm foothold in the Finance Department. Although he has made some achievements, it will still be some time before he is transferred!
Besides, he himself has no experience in governing local governments. He went directly to become the special county magistrate of Shanghai. The superiors were not afraid that he would mess up Shanghai, but he himself was afraid!
According to his assumptions, the most likely possibility for him in the future is to be transferred to serve as a general informant. It would be better if he could be promoted to become a provincial inspector. As for being directly promoted to director in Gyeonggi Province, this possibility is unlikely.
If he, the deputy director, wanted to be promoted to director according to normal procedures, even though the gap was only one grade, it was actually several grades behind him. Even if he was promoted to the third grade, he would still have to be promoted to the third grade among other ordinary subordinates.
It takes a few years to practice for the third-rank position, and then it is possible to become a third-rank Beijing official with real power like Xie Yiwei, like a director.
Therefore, Chen Lifu felt that it was impossible for him to become the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai!