The Datang Chaobao is the official mouthpiece of the Tang Dynasty. Most of the contents published on it are various important policies, laws, etc., and the above contents basically announce the policy direction of the Tang Dynasty to the whole world.
Its importance is self-evident, so this newspaper is also a must-read newspaper for all officials and even gentry of the Tang Dynasty. From this Datang Dynasty newspaper, they can learn from numerous official reports,
To analyze the policy direction of the empire and even the high-level political ecology.
For example, in the last issue of Datang Dynasty, there was a notice about Wang Wenhua's appointment and dismissal. The question was very brief. It just said that Wang Wenhua was old and frail. Because of his health, he resigned from the post of bachelor and minister of the Ministry of Agriculture.
After repeatedly trying to persuade him to stay, the emperor reluctantly agreed to his request.
It was also said that the Holy Emperor sent an imperial doctor to nurse Wang Wenhua back to health. At the same time, in order to reward Wang Wenhua for his many years of service, he was given the title of earl.
It seems from this passage that Wang Wenhua was in poor health and could not bear the heavy official duties, so he resigned.
But smart people can see that this is the result of the hard work of many ministers in the court, and it is the victory of the loyal ministers in the court!
Wang Wenhua, a jester, does nothing but relies on Cong Longzao, and then gives women to the Holy Emperor every day when there is nothing to do. This way he has been firmly sitting in the position of Minister of Agriculture and Bachelor. This naturally makes many people have opinions.
Yes, in the past few years, they have been working hard to impeach Wang Wenhua, and now, they have finally removed this jester from the court.
But they also saw from the announcement that the Holy Emperor approved Wang Wenhua's resignation instead of dismissal, and also gave Wang Wenhua an earl title. This shows that the Holy Emperor still left Wang Wenhua with dignity and treated Cong Long favorably.
Minister.
I am also telling many ministers that this matter is over now. Stop fussing about it. If you keep fussing about it any longer, I will get angry!
The many articles in the Tang Dynasty Newspaper are definitely not simple articles. Even if they are advertisements, they are all positive and positive advertisements. It is impossible for those messy advertisements to pass the review and then be published, even for those businessmen.
No matter how much advertising money you give, it will be useless.
Similarly, in this latest issue of the Tang Dynasty Daily, in addition to the front page report on immigration and settlement matters, there is a very brief article at the end of the sixth page, which is dedicated to disclosing the appointment and dismissal of important personnel in some economic ministries and local areas.
, but it is an appointment that has attracted the attention of countless people!
As the director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation was transferred to another position, Deputy Director Chen Lifu took charge of the work of the Inspection Division on an acting basis.
This appointment only contains a dozen simple words, and there are many important appointments in Gyeonggi Province before and after it, but this appointment is very conspicuous among a group of appointments!
Why is it so conspicuous? Just look at the personnel appointments in the row in front and you will know. So-and-so was appointed as the director of the Planning Department of a certain ministry.
Political envoy.
And these appointments are either at the level of directors of various ministries in the capital, or at the level of provincial government officials, and the lowest grade is from the third grade.
However, what is Chen Lifu's rank? He is only a fifth rank. He is now only acting as an agent in charge of the work of the Inspection Division, and is not yet the director, so he is still a fifth rank.
Even if he is promoted to director, he is only a fifth-grade official.
However, a fifth-grade appointment appeared openly on the sixth page of the Tang Dynasty Daily, which is specially used to announce high-level personnel appointments. This shows that the Inspection Office of the Grain Recruitment Department is unusual!
Well, it’s not that Chen Lifu is unusual, but that the Inspection Office is unusual, because not only Chen Lifu, but also the appointments of several previous directors of the Inspection Office were also on the sixth page of Datang Chao Bao
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Therefore, the Inspection Office is too important, very important. Although it is only a fifth-rank position, it actually attracts more attention from the government and the public than many third-rank positions. Such an important job change was carried out in the Datang Chaobao
Announcements are normal.
Chen Lifu's appointment as acting director of the Inspection Division naturally caused an uproar in Gyeonggi and even on the ground!
Chen Lifu, who was put under investigation some time ago, not only was not pulled down, but was promoted a step higher and became the acting director. Even though the director has not been regularized yet, according to the political practices of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of agency situation
, often when an official's grade or qualifications are still slightly lacking, and the superiors want to promote him, a method is adopted to keep the grade unchanged, and then preside over the work on an acting basis.
In this way, as long as the acting official does not have any affairs, the word "agency" will basically be removed after a period of time, and the rank will be naturally raised.
In other words, after Chen Lifu visited the Inspectorate, instead of losing his position and losing his family, he was promoted. This made countless people angry.
Is there any reason for this? People like Chen Lifu, known as Chen Rentu's executioner, can still be promoted continuously, and he has also set the fastest promotion discipline in the system of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation.
God, what happened to this world!
For a time, there were countless people getting drunk on the Qinhuai River, and many gentry indulged themselves with a desperate attitude.
Because they knew that after Chen Lifu took the position of acting director of the Inspection Division, it would become more difficult for him to evade taxes. In other words, he would pay more taxes.
Paying an extra penny is like taking a knife to cut their hearts one more time!
Heartache!
Not to mention the gentry, even within the official circles, there are many people who have strong opinions on Chen Lifu's promotion. Not to mention the opposition of ordinary officials, even within the tax department, there are also objections to Chen Lifu's promotion.
sound!
This Chen Lifu is too young, only thirty years old. How can he bear such an important responsibility as the director of the Inspection Division? Of course, when they said this, they directly ignored it. The youngest of the previous directors of the Inspection Division was only
Twenty-six years old, the oldest is thirty-four years old.
This Chen Lifu's qualifications are too young. It only takes two years to reach full service. The promotion speed is too fast. From the seventh rank to the fifth rank, the span is too big.
Is Chen Lifu junior? Certainly, the Tang Dynasty was not just established for a year or two. This year it has been Xuanping for seven years. To be more precise, there is an Anjian year before Xuanping, and the second year of Anjian
Adding in the seven years of Xuanping, that’s nine years!
Counting from the beginning, the Tang Dynasty spanned nine years!
Even counting from the period when they occupied Zhengtai County and Xingquan Prefecture, the Tang Dynasty had spent a full six years!
In fact, this period of time is not short. It is not a new dynasty. Many officials in it have been in office for more than several years.
Among officials with five or six years of service in Yipiao, Chen Lifu's two years of service is naturally relatively short.
However, the various discussions about Chen Lifu from the outside world naturally could not affect Chen Lifu's taking office.
Jinling City, Chen Mansion!
Chen Lifu, served by his wife, put on his own Confucian official robe, and then pinned on the badge of the fifth rank. After looking carefully in the dressing mirror, Chen Lifu walked out of the room and prepared to take the first step.
Days of career as director!
When he went out, Chen Lifu's thin and upright figure made Mrs. Chen who saw him off feel a sore nose!
As a pillow person, and also from a scholarly family, Mrs. Chen, who came from a boudoir background, is naturally not a country woman. She can clearly feel her husband's loneliness and disappointment in recent times!
The case last winter made Chen Lifu feel a lot, and the biggest feeling was disappointment!
Yes, disappointed, disappointed with the gentlemen of the world!
Why don't they understand themselves?
Why do they insist on putting themselves to death? Don't they see the humiliation and burden they bear at all?
Why did they only see that they were forced by the overall situation to deal with some of the tax evasion gentry, but they could not see that they had worked hard to rectify the tax department institutions?
Why did they only see some of the gentry's families being destroyed, but not see that he drove away a large number of green-skinned gangsters who had sneaked into the tax system, formalized the tax inspection teams in many places, and no longer disturbed the people at will as before?
Benefit!
He endured the humiliation and did his best to benefit the people of the world within the framework of his own power. However, outsiders only saw his helplessness, but did not see the many efforts he made?
Before I rectified the two tax systems in Jiangbei and Wanbei, the local tax system, especially the tax inspection team, ransacked homes if they wanted, fined them if they wanted, and were filled with many young gangsters, and countless gentry and common people were deeply affected by them.
Harmful.
Now, the two tax systems that have been rectified by themselves have already implemented tax collection in accordance with the law. It is rare for tax officials to randomly raid homes without any reason, or simply because they want to make money.
But why can't they see their own efforts and results and only focus on the small group of persecuted gentry?
Those gentry sacrificed their lives for the sake of peace and prosperity, for which they should feel honored!
Chen Lifu was very disappointed with the performance of many gentry!
In addition to being disappointed, he also felt a sense of loneliness, as if he was the only one working hard on everything, and he couldn't see his peers who were working together.
During the few days he stayed at the guest house of the Inspectorate and when he was released back home, he spent his free time reading and drawing bamboo.
He likes to draw bamboo.
The study room is filled with bamboo pictures he painted in recent years, and yesterday he made a new picture of snow bamboo: snowflakes are flying, and among the white snow on the ground, a green bamboo stands proudly in it, and the snow bends one piece after another.
There are green bamboo leaves, but the green bamboo still stands proudly on the snowfield!
Mrs. Chen is a smart woman. She can see her husband's inner world from Chen Lifu's words and deeds, especially the bamboo pictures that almost fill the entire study.
Because she knew that her husband was essentially a literati. He read, wrote, and painted, which often reflected his state of mind!
From the snow bamboo picture he drew yesterday, we can see the loneliness and pride in his heart: he was the only one left in the land covered by heavy snow, and everyone else was covered by snow, but he was still proud.
Standing on the snowfield.
Today, when she was sending her husband off, she looked at his thin and erect figure. Her nose felt a little sour, and she even had an impulse to run up to Chen Lifu and say, "We are no longer officials. Let others worry about this world. We
Just live a good life.
But she can't!
Because she knows that the ideal of peace and prosperity is her husband's ideal. For this ideal, he has paid too much. If he gives up now, he will not be able to bear it and his whole person will collapse! u