Chapter 297: The Power of the System

The person who came was not very old, only in his twenties, and he said to Fan Hongdao very concisely: "Chen Gong asked the villain to sue you, and he has already recommended you." In the future, every morning of the second and eighth days, you can go to the palace to teach poetry, if nothing else, you can't go wrong. ”

Fan Hongdao almost forgot about this, it turned out that Chen Ju and Chen Gonggong didn't joke at the beginning, and really let himself go to the inner study hall to be a teacher? Fan Hongdao has never reported any hope for this, thinking that it is just a matter of talking, but he didn't expect Chen Ju to actually do what he said.

Fan Hongdao raised his hand and said, "Thank you Chen Gong." ”

Later, the young man who came to deliver the message gave Fan Hongdao a wooden tooth plaque, which was engraved with Fan Hongdao's name and position, and also added the words "Teaching in the Inner Library". With this tooth card, you can enter and exit the noon gate and Xihua gate of the palace, otherwise it is too inconvenient for Fan Hongdao to enter and exit the palace.

If it was placed a few days ago, in the face of the eunuch's invitation, Fan Hongdao said that he would have to take a few literati shelves, but now the situation is not good, and teaching in the inner study hall is also another way out. In case the wheels of history roll on the wrong road, and Shen Shoufu will stop doing it this year, then he Fan Hongdao will still have an occasion to settle down.

Therefore, Fan Hong and the others happily accepted the invitation, and agreed with the man to lead him into the palace city next time, so as not to violate any taboos.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Fan Hongdao had breakfast in the dining hall, so he took the official document out of the Nancheng Branch Office and walked to the Nancheng Procuratorate, where Guo Shengming, the imperial historian of the city, was stationed.

Although the southern city is vast, the streets in the main built-up areas are concentrated near the southern city wall of the inner city, that is, the area of Chongwen Gate, Zhengyang Gate and Xuanwu Gate, so the distance between the yamen is not far.

Within a quarter of an hour, Fan Hongdao arrived at the place. According to the rules, it was passed in, and then a small official led him inside, directly bypassing the lobby and coming to the second hall in the backyard.

The lobby is a place where the officials of the main hall of the people openly handle official affairs and cases, and deal with the people, so it is also called the public court. The second hall or the back hall is the place where officials usually work and receive guests.

Contrary to what he imagined, Fan Hongdao was not subjected to any difficulties. He handed over the name thorn very normally, was taken to the side room normally, and then waited for a while normally, and finally was led into the imperial history mansion very normally, and there was nothing to find fault with.

Seeing Guo Shengming and Guo Yushi, Fan Hongdao made a salute, presented the official document, and said: "I came here today to do the backlog of civil cases in Nancheng." ”

Guo Shengming is not very old, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, the position of imperial history is generally not used by old guys, it is a special case of Shanxi Patrol Salt Imperial Shi Gao Inspectorate.

Hearing Fan Hongdao's words, Guo Yushi asked lightly: "What's wrong with the civil case in Nancheng?"

Fan Hongdao replied truthfully: "All civil disputes, the procuratorate has shirked all the cases to the Nancheng Branch, and more than 300 cases have been accumulated so far, and the branch office is overwhelmed. ”

Guo Yushi asked again: "Don't just talk about the problem, but also talk about how to solve it! What do you want to do?"

Fan Hongdao thought for a while and said: "The Nancheng Branch Office is newly established recently, and at the beginning of its establishment, there were many things to be done, and it was still impossible to handle so many cases efficiently. Therefore, I thought that for the time being, according to the old law, it would still be handled by the procuratorate. ”

Although the level of the imperial history and the Nancheng branch office are the same as the seven grades, the status is far different, and the supervision of the imperial history that inspects the local area has the effect of seeing the official at the first level, and is generally treated by the local officials as superiors. Therefore, when Fan Hongdao spoke to Guo Yushi, he could only report to his superiors according to the tone of his subordinates.

Guo Yushi was noncommittal, took a few sips of tea, and then said, "You really can't handle it?"

Fan Hongdao replied: "At the beginning, the imperial court set up five cities in addition to the county government of Jingxian County, and the imperial history of the five cities was divided to suppress the ground and deal with the case, because the affairs of the county government in Jingxian County were numerous and could not be taken into account. Since then, the county government of Jingxian County has been biased towards civil affairs, and criminal cases have been taken over by the procuratorate, which has been the rule for a hundred years. So the lower officials don't understand, why all the cases in Nancheng have accumulated to the Nancheng Branch?"

Guo Yushi slammed the tea bowl on the table, his face changed from relaxed to stern, and he raised his voice and scolded: "Whether you are good, I am good, whether it is the branch office, or the procuratorate, they are all just serving the country!

The words in the officialdom are not the same as the daily arguments, Fan Hongdao is not skilled, and he was stunned for a moment after being suddenly reprimanded, and then replied: "My lord's words are wrong, of course, the intention of the lower officials is how to handle the affairs of Nancheng." ”

Guo Shengming's words then reprimanded: "The matter of eating the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, such the most basic affairs, your Nancheng branch office must also find ways to shirk it, is it worthy of the black veil on your head?"

Fan Hongdao defended: "The procuratorate sent the case to the Nancheng Branch, but the branch office is really unable to take care of it at present, if it can't complete the examination, what should it do?"

Guo Shengming sighed, and suddenly said seriously: "With the age of this official, I can still call you a young man." Young people should not be afraid of the heavy, so what if they work hard? Do not be afraid of difficulties, regard this as an opportunity to temper themselves, and have the courage to take on heavy responsibilities so that they can live up to what they have learned!"

Fan Hongdao was almost speechless when he said this, and hurriedly said: "It's not that I'm afraid of doing things, I'm just afraid of taking care of one thing and losing the other, and making mistakes in my busyness." ”

Guo Yushi's face changed again, and he shouted: "You can't do anything! Before you do something, you think about making excuses and retreats for yourself?"

Listening to Fan Hongdao's ears, Guo Yushi seemed to make sense in every sentence, but every sentence could make him very uncomfortable, as if he had forced himself into a corner step by step.

It stands to reason that he, Fan Hongdao, is already a very eloquent person, why is he inexplicably deflated by Guo Yushi today? Could it be that just one person in the officialdom can block himself into nothing to say?

Fan Hongdao thought about it, and then suddenly realized that he knew what the problem was, and this was a confrontation under another discourse system. The reason why Guo Shengming could say those words, but he Fan Hongdao had no power to fight back, was because he entered the other party's rule system.

To put it simply, Guo Shengming is the boss, and he Fan Hongdao is a subordinate, Guo Shengming can question Fan Hongdao unconditionally, but Fan Hongdao cannot question his superior Guo Shengming unrestrainedly.

Guo Shengming can arrange things for Fan Hongdao at will, and comment on Fan Hongdao's ability and morality at will, but Fan Hongdao can't express the meaning of "We have done everything, so what do you Guo Shengming do", and he can't say "If we have done everything, whose merit is counted".

Once you enter the context of this kind of respectful and inferior order, even if you are as shrewd as Fan Hongdao, you will inevitably be greatly restrained, unconsciously affected, and act according to the rules of the other party.