The reason why Shi Wuyan was furious was because he felt that he was going to be tricked by Gong Wenbao!
This bastard, he just wanted to investigate the case, but when he was investigating the case, he was so careless that he was able to let go of such a major clue, and even came to him to give him an order.
Yesterday, I personally issued the order to arrest people. Fortunately, Gong Wenbao discovered something was wrong after he returned and slowed down the arrest of the Chen family. Otherwise, the trouble would be even greater now.
Once that step is reached, regardless of whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not, he, Shi Wuyan, for the sake of his own career and the authority of the Supervisory Office, will probably have to bite the bullet and carry out the investigation forcefully and use all his strength to convict Chen Lifu.
Once it reaches any step, it will be a war, a war between the Inspectorate and the Department of Taxation. Although Shi Wuyan will be at the center of the war, even the boss of the Inspectorate, Zuodu Yushi,
Song Tieshu, the minister on duty in the Royal Study Room, may not be able to avoid it.
Fortunately, it has not reached its worst state yet. Even if the current situation has deteriorated very much, there is still a chance to save it!
After scolding the person, Shi Wuyan looked at Gong Wenbao, and he had already made up his mind that if this matter could be resolved safely, he would remove Gong Wenbao later, and he was not going to let him lose his job comfortably.
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If you want to resign and return to your hometown to enjoy the blessings, I will send you to Da Yuan Mansion, Qiongzhou Mansion or a remote area in the southwest!
No, those places are still too good for Gong Wenbao. I heard that Datang Western Company has established a colony in Luzon. The Immigration Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has already begun organizing immigrants, and the Ministry of Personnel is also planning to go to Luzon.
Officials have been dispatched, and when the time comes, I will stuff Gong Wenbao in and let him take up a post in Luzon.
When his term in Luzon is over, he will be transferred to other overseas colonies. Anyway, the Tang Dynasty Western Company and the Ministry of Agriculture are very active in the colonies, so they are not afraid that there will be no place to arrange Gong Wenbao.
Damn it, if Gong Wenbao returns to the Central Plains again in this life, I will just write his name upside down!
If this matter cannot be resolved safely, it goes without saying that Shi Wuyan will be unlucky, and Gong Wenbao will be even more unlucky. At that time, Shi Wuyan does not need to worry about how to punish Gong Wenbao.
But although he was very sure of these thoughts, he didn't say them out because now, he still needed Gong Wenbao to do something. He had to settle the matter first, otherwise he would just push it out as a scapegoat.
At this time, if the director of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate is inexplicably changed, it will be difficult to evade his own guilt in the future.
Of course, although the Dean of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate is a government-level position, he is a very special third-level official. If he wants to replace him, Shi Wuyan is sure of it, but he needs to do it.
some time.
Because Chengtian Prefecture is directly under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet, the grade of its prefect is much higher than that of ordinary prefects. The grade of the prefect of Chengtian Prefecture is second grade, which is equivalent to governors of provinces and ministers of various cabinet ministries.
It has a higher level than other state capitals directly under the cabinet. Currently, Datang has multiple state capitals directly under the jurisdiction. For example, Xingquan Prefecture is directly under the jurisdiction. This is because this place is the land of Longxing and has special political treatment. However, except for
Except for the higher political salary, there is basically nothing else.
Then Zhaoqing Prefecture in Guangdong, Youzhou Prefecture in Hebei, and Chang'an Prefecture in Shaanxi are also directly under the jurisdiction. The reason is very simple, because the above three places are all legal capitals of the Tang Dynasty.
However, the grades of these directly governed prefectures are the third grade, which is two grades higher than the ordinary fourth grade prefect. They are basically the same as the governors of various provinces, but lower than the second grade of Chengtian Prefecture.
The administrative level of Chengtian Mansion is very high, which is equivalent to that of a province. The prefect is from the second rank, and the director of the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate is the third rank position. In fact, in the political system of the entire Tang Dynasty, it is also the eighth rank.
Already a senior official.
But this person was not enough to be seen in front of Shi Wuyan. Although Gong Wenbao was the president of the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate and was a third-rank official, theoretically speaking, he was only lower than Shi Wuyan's second-rank Zuo Fudu Censor.
It's just a level.
However, in the officialdom, a higher level is overwhelming!
Moreover, in the political system of the Tang Dynasty, there were actually many positions below the third rank, such as directors and directors of some central ministries, chief envoys of various provinces, presidents of the provincial inspectorate, presidents of courts, and taxation departments.
Directors, etc., if you really want to count them, there are at least several hundred people.
But from the second grade, the number of this group of people has been reduced sharply. There are only left and right ministers of various ministries, governors of various provinces, left and right deputy governors of the Supervisory Council, left and right vice presidents of the Imperial Academy, and the prefect of Chengtian Prefecture.
Well, no more!
If Gong Wenbao wants to climb to the second rank, he has to go through several hurdles. First, he has to sneak into the Central Supervisory Office, serve as the minister of the important departments within the Supervisory Office, be awarded the title of censor of the right capital, and then be promoted to the censor of the left capital.
History, and this series of appointments will not change in grade, but they are real promotions.
Only after he becomes the censor of Zuo Qiandu can he be qualified to aspire to become the censor of the right deputy capital. Only after he becomes the censor of the right deputy capital can he hope to become the censor of the left deputy capital.
In other words, he has to be promoted five more times before he can reach the political status of Shi Wuyan!
Moreover, the three institutions of the Supervisory Office, Courts, and Taxation Department are more special than other institutions, because they can only be promoted internally. In other words, if Shi Wuyan does not fall, if he becomes an official, the people below basically cannot expect to become the Zuo Deputy Capital Censor.
Yes, because he occupies this position.
Unlike those ordinary civil servants who want to be promoted to the second rank, there are so many provinces in the country where they can become governors, or they can become right ministers of various ministries. Of course, don't expect to be left ministers of ministries.
According to the practice of the country, the left minister of each ministry can only be transferred from the governor of each province, and the right minister of each ministry can not be directly said to be the left minister as soon as he becomes the second rank.
Because the Zuo Shilang of each ministry is actually the second-in-command of each ministry, and his real power is second only to the Minister of each ministry!
In the same way, the ministers of various ministries are either promoted by the ministers of each ministry, or they are promoted from the left minister of each ministry.
In other words, if you want to be the minister, you must first become the minister of the left. Before becoming the minister of the left, you must become the governor of the provinces or the minister of the right. However, if you go further, there will be more positions, including the chief envoys of the provinces and some central ministers.
Chief, director, etc.
Nowadays, the official system of the Tang Dynasty is very complete, and all kinds of rules and regulations are very clear. It is already difficult to have a situation in the early days of the dynasty where anyone can serve as an important minister in the cabinet.
Of course, the appointment of local officials is still relatively bold now. For demoted officials and new scholars, as long as you have the ability and are promoted to the fourth rank or below, basically except for the top positions in local yamen such as magistrate, magistrate, county magistrate, and town magistrate, other positions
The duties are basically relatively casual.
The premise is that you have to be capable. Well, of course, if you have no skills and can't even write an article, it's not impossible. As long as you can work hard and convince others, then you can go.
After all, the country is so big and there are so many messy things. As long as you are bold enough and can hide well enough, you can even intercept and kill the local officials who are about to take office, then steal his seal and seal, and then point him to
If the model is preserved and your appearance is similar to the description in the text, then you can completely replace this official and take up the post!
Of course, as time goes by, they will definitely be discovered, and if they are discovered, they will end up confiscating their homes and exterminating their clans!
But before you are discovered, you may want to enjoy the sense of accomplishment of serving as an official and benefiting the people!
The official system of the Tang Dynasty was relatively complete, which meant that it was impossible to temporarily replace the president of the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate. Even for Shi Wuyan, this would take a while.
time to operate.
So now even if Shi Wuyan is furious and tired, Gong Wenbao can still keep his position, but he doesn't know how long he can hold on to this position!
After saying goodbye, or rather being kicked out by Shi Wuyan, Gong Wenbao looked at the gloomy sky above his head. It seemed like it was going to rain that day!
It rains in the winter, this is not normal, just like Chen Lifu’s case!
In front of Shi Wuyan, he could clearly feel that he was about to lose Shi Wuyan's trust!
It was precisely because of Shi Wuyan's recommendation that he was transferred to Gyeonggi Province and served as the president of the Chengtian Prefecture Inspectorate. His career path would have been impossible without Shi Wuyan's trust.
But now, he felt that Shi Wuyan's trust in him was quickly passing away!
He had to do something, he couldn't just watch himself fall into the abyss!
To change the current situation, he felt that he needed to clear away the fog and find a breakthrough point from Chen Lifu!
So as soon as he returned to the Chengtian Mansion Inspectorate, he went directly to Chen Lifu!
To be honest, this was the first time he had seen Chen Lifu. Although Chen Lifu was the protagonist of the case and had lived in the guest house of their Inspectorate for seven days, he, Gong Wenbao, had never come to see him.
Pass him.
That is not in line with the practice of handling affairs within the Inspectorate. Generally speaking, except for the censor in charge of the case, other officials of the Inspectorate are not allowed to meet with those suspected officials at will.
Because it’s easy to get burned!
However, Gong Wenbao couldn't care much anymore. He went directly to the room where Chen Lifu lived and saw the man who was at the center of the storm and who was pulling him into the whirlpool!
When he saw this man, he was a little surprised. This man's appearance or image was different from the image described by outside rumors or words.
He clearly remembered that the internal investigation report of their Inspectorate said: This officer joined the official position in the first month of the fifth year of Xuanping and worked in the Inspection Department of the Ministry of Taxation. He served for a total of one year and eleven months, during which time he was promoted from the seventh grade
The tax inspector was promoted from the deputy director of the fifth-grade inspection department. It is rumored that he is very likely to serve as the new director of the tax inspection department next year. If true, then he will set a record for the fastest promotion since the establishment of the tax collection department.
During his inspection of local taxation, this officer ransacked a total of 183 houses. He commanded the tax inspection team to annihilate more than 2,800 armed tax resisters. After the various tax criminals he arrested were transferred to the judiciary, more than 670 more were arrested.
People were sentenced to death, and more than 10,000 others were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or exile.
But such a man who should have a fierce look was actually dressed in Confucian robes. He was a little thin and had a fair face. When he first came in, Gong Wenbao saw this man holding a copy of "The Analects of Confucius".
Reading with head shaking!
This is clearly a thin, fair-skinned scholar with a bookish look on his face. How could he possibly be the Chen Rentu who has made countless Zhili gentry and tax officials tremble with fear? u