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The officials of the North Coast Development Zone were already waiting for him. If Chen Lifu hadn't ordered him before, and they didn't need to do any face-saving things like greeting him, they would have all gone to the pier to greet him.
Chen Lifu asked them not to go to the dock to greet them, but it was not because he was considerate of his subordinates, but because the dust at the temporary dock was flying, a large amount of building materials were piled up, and construction was going on everywhere. If there were more than one person, he would easily get into trouble, and when the time came, he would
It is a must to give a speech at the dock and do some face-saving work.
He himself didn't want to stay at the messy temporary dock, so he simply told the North Shore Development Zone officials in advance not to come to the dock to greet him.
But despite saying that, in fact, the location of the development zone's Yamen is only more than a thousand meters away from the temporary dock. Even if they can walk, it won't take long, not to mention that they still take a horse-drawn carriage.
Now the entire development zone is a construction site, and the roads are temporarily flat. Not to mention the potholes, they are also dusty. Some roads are even mud pits. If he walks directly, I am afraid that Chen Lifu will really be dusty...
After arriving at the temporary wooden office building where the Yamen of the North Bank Development Zone is located, Chen Lifu summoned more than a dozen middle- and low-level officials from the Yamen of the Development Zone who had arrived to hold a small meeting, mainly to hear about the current construction situation of the Development Zone.
However, the dozen or so officials present at the meeting were all low-level officials. The highest-ranking one was only a deputy district chief from the sixth grade. As for the district chief.
Sorry, the official department has not decided yet.
After all, in terms of level, the district chief of the North Coast Development Zone is the sixth grade, which is already the same level as the ordinary county magistrate. And the position of the county magistrate, a local leader, has always been decided by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Even the chief envoy of a province has no power to make decisions.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs is usually very cautious in the appointment of local top leaders, especially the appointment of administrative officials in important areas.
After all, the district chief of the North Coast Development Zone is only a sixth-grade official, and his jurisdiction is only a few dozen square kilometers, but his importance is greater than that of an entire county.
The district chief did not take office so soon. Therefore, in the current development zone yamen, the highest official rank is only the deputy district chief from the sixth grade. This deputy district chief is still an agent. He previously served as county magistrate in Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, and was appointed by Jiangnan Road
The Department of Personnel Affairs selects and appoints people to serve, and if you want to remove the word "agency", you still need a formal approval from the Ministry of Personnel.
However, higher-level civil affairs departments usually will not reject job candidates recommended or arranged in advance by lower-level civil service agencies, especially the appointment of candidates for deputy positions.
Although there is no explicit regulation, this can be regarded as a tacit unspoken rule of decentralization between the central Ministry of Personnel and various departments as well as local civil affairs departments. In theory, the Ministry of Personnel is in charge of the appointment of all officials.
But in actual operation, the candidates for the third grade, the third grade, and the second grade are usually discussed and determined by the cabinet, and then reported to the Holy Emperor for decision. Apart from providing the candidate list, the Ministry of Personnel does not have any discretionary power.
For more senior officials or a small number of important positions with lower grades, such as the second rank and above, such as provincial governors from the second rank, ministers of various ministries, magistrates of Songjiang Prefecture, and magistrates of special counties in Shanghai, they are usually Sacred Heart.
Dictatorship is decided by Li Xuan himself.
Well, Chen Lifu's magistrate of this special county in Shanghai was personally appointed by Li Xuan.
As a result, the actual scope of power of the Ministry of Personnel is limited to officials of the fourth rank and below.
However, it is impossible for the Ministry of Personnel to be in charge of the appointment of all middle and low-level officials in the world. They simply cannot control it.
The Ministry of Personnel is generally only in charge of the affairs of the central agencies above the seventh rank and above and the local affairs of the fifth rank and above. However, if it is the position of a local leader, then it will be relaxed to the fifth rank and the sixth rank, that is to say, the county magistrate or the sixth rank
The district chiefs of the sixth grade are all under the personal jurisdiction of the Ministry of Personnel.
The duties of the seventh-grade and below the seventh-grade of various central agencies are basically the responsibility of the internal affairs department of each agency.
In the local government, the positions of top leaders from the sixth rank and below, and the ordinary positions from the fifth rank and below, are usually delegated to the Provincial Highway and Civil Service Department.
However, it is impossible for the Provincial Highway and Civil Service Department to be in charge of all the official positions in the province, so it is also responsible for the ordinary positions of the fifth and sixth grades, and all the duties of the sixth and seventh grades.
As for the civil affairs office at this level in the state capital, it is mainly responsible for the appointment of three levels of positions: the seventh rank, the eighth rank, and the eighth rank. The civil affairs department at the county level is in charge of the ninth rank, the ninth rank, and the ninth rank.
Two levels.
Only with such layer-by-layer management can we manage the extremely large team of officials in the empire. After all, in the Tang Empire, officials started from the ninth rank, and the number of officials far exceeded that of any feudal dynasty.
You must know that in the pre-Ming Dynasty, there were actually only six grade-level officials in most counties. The others were civil servants and were not counted as officials and were not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
But what about the Tang Dynasty?
A county has four parallel agencies: the county government office, the county supervisory office, the county court, and the county taxation bureau. There is a county magistrate of the sixth grade, a county prime minister of the sixth grade, the director of the supervisory office of the sixth grade, and the court.
There is one dean and one director each.
There are more than ten people who are in the seventh grade. Several section chiefs in the county yamen are all in the seventh grade, and the mayors of each town are also in the seventh grade. At the same time, there are also many people in the other three major yamen who are in the seventh grade.
Position.
As for lower-level officials, there are even more.
The number of officials (formally established, from ninth grade and above) in a county ranges from two to three hundred to as many as thousands!
Don't think that if there are too many people, the financial pressure will be very great. In fact, the Tang Dynasty only included the officials from the pre-Ming Dynasty into the scope of officials. Although there were only a few officials in a county in the pre-Ming Dynasty, there were many officials.
Few, casually there are hundreds of people.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Ninth Rank and the Ninth Rank were usually just ordinary clerks, patrol officers, etc., and their salaries were only ordinary salaries. They were usually responsible for local finance, and the Central Finance Department only set salary standards and reviewed them.
Local finance is not responsible for paying salaries to local officials, otherwise so many officials would not be able to pay...
The appointment and promotion of so many officials cannot be managed by the central government alone, and power can only be delegated to local governments.
However, although power is decentralized to local governments, this is just a default rule. If the Ministry of Personnel is too free one day, it would be reasonable to directly intervene in the appointment of officials from the ninth grade.
All the above-mentioned appointments in the local civil affairs departments are temporary and acting appointments. They need to be reported to the superior civil affairs office for approval afterwards, and then a formal appointment is issued before it is considered a formal appointment.
However, this kind of filing approval is usually only a one-step process and is generally not rejected.
Because of the current official appointment system in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, the district chief of the sixth grade has not yet taken office. The Civil Affairs Department of the Shanghai Special County cannot make a decision. The Civil Affairs Department of Songjiang Prefecture and the Jiangnan Province Civil Affairs Department cannot decide either.
Maybe he was waiting for the officials to send someone over.
The deputy district chief from the sixth grade falls under the jurisdiction of the Jiangnan Province Public Affairs Department, so an acting deputy district chief was sent over early.
If it weren't for the fact that the district chief had not yet taken office, Chen Lifu himself would not have had to take charge of the development zone's affairs personally.
There were few people in the meeting, and they spoke naturally and quickly. Meetings were not popular in the official circles of the Tang Dynasty. Basically, after briefly introducing the situation, Chen Lifu took people on an on-site inspection.
Now the development zone has just been established and is in the stage of infrastructure construction. According to Chen Lifu's experience, the first few months are very important and no mistakes can be made, otherwise it will cause big trouble in the future.
Because once the current infrastructure is determined and the construction is completed, it will not be easy to change it in the future. Even if you want to change it, you won’t have the money to change it.
Along the bumpy road along the Yangtze River, Chen Lifu browsed the entire development zone as if on a horse. When he reached the northernmost edge of the development zone, he discovered a very interesting scene.
That is in the north of the development zone, which is not part of the development zone. There is also a lot of construction work.
You can see hundreds of workers, busy leveling the land base and building a road. The road being built is actually connected to the Yanjiang Avenue in the development zone.
He remembered very clearly that the edge of the development zone was right here, and the design of Yanjiang Avenue only extended to the edge of the development zone and did not extend further north.
Moreover, he did not get any report from the local government that the government organized a road opening here!
"What's going on up front? Why are they building roads? I remember there's no such project, right?"
Chen Lifu asked doubtfully.
The deputy director of the development zone on the side quickly stepped forward and replied: "Sir, this is the Feng Company building roads. They are not just building roads, they are also building piers, right in front. Look, sir!"
"
Following his instructions, Chen Lifu looked north. Sure enough, about a hundred meters ahead, there were dozens of people working on the river beach. It looked like they wanted to build a pier!
Feng Company? I have never heard of this name. There are so many companies in Shanghai from all walks of life. There are at least tens of thousands of companies registered in the business district alone. Chen Lifu can only remember those large companies and important companies.
Apart from his name, he doesn't know anything else.
But Chen Lifu didn’t know, so someone would naturally explain it to him!
"This Feng Company is mainly engaged in inland shipping, and it is also a relatively strong inland shipping company here in Shanghai. After the news came out that we were going to develop the North Bank, they acquired a piece of land along the river here, saying that they would
Build a shipyard!”
Shipping companies set up their own shipyards? This is a bit out of line!
And in recent years, although the shipbuilding industry is still hot, the competition has become more and more fierce, because now everyone knows that shipbuilding is profitable, and with more people coming in, the competition will naturally become more and more fierce.