The Yamen of the Wenxuan Division of the Ministry of Officials of Great Xia is located in the south of the national capital Yujing City, where commerce is not prosperous, but the buildings here are all built with high grandeur and full of official atmosphere.

Many of the yamen under the Ministry of Great Xia were all built here.

Among them, there is a courtyard made of blue bricks, which is not particularly large, but it is very exquisitely built. On the gate of this courtyard hangs a plaque with the three big characters of the Anthology Division.

Anyone who sees this plaque knows that this yamen is the most powerful of the many yamen subordinate to the officials at the head of the six departments.

The Department of Literature and Literature of the Ministry of Officials is responsible for the evaluation of officials above the fourth grade, as well as the appointment and dismissal of officials below the fourth grade. Most of the power in the hands of the Ministry of Officials is borne by the Department of Selected Documents, so the Department of Selected Arts is also known as the Ministry of Small Officials.

Every day, there is an endless stream of officials coming in and out of the place, in order to establish a good relationship with the officials here, so that they can support themselves when they are selected, appointed, or evaluated.

In the courtyard at the back of the Ministry of Literature, there is a very luxuriously built public house. This public house is where the office of Qian Zhiyu of the Ministry of Writing. Qian Zhiyu, as the supreme official of the Anthology Division, is naturally qualified to choose the best place to stay and work.

However, a few months ago, Xia Qingtian, the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, actually issued a holy decree and personally appointed a member of the Ministry of Literature and Anthology.

The main position of the Ministry of Literature and Anthology is the number one, called Langzhong, which is the official position of the four products. The deputy position, that is, the second-in-command, is called the outsider, and is an official position from the fourth rank. It stands to reason that after the outsider arrives here, he is the second-in-command here, and he should obey the first-in-command, but after the second-in-command arrives, it does make the first-in-command Qian Zhiyu very headache, because this second-in-command is very difficult to manage and has a very good background.

According to the convention, Emperor Xia Qingtian only appointed officials above the third rank, such as the Lang of the various departments of the Ministry of Officials, and the officials below the fourth rank, such as the Wai Lang, have always been directly appointed by the Ministry of Officials. The prefects of those state capitals and officials below the fifth rank such as the prefect of the prefecture or the prefect of a certain county are directly appointed by the Department of Literature and Literature of the Ministry of Officials.

However, this time it was unusual, and His Majesty the Emperor personally issued a holy decree appointing Xia Muyan, the son of King Chengjun, as a member of the Ministry of Literature and Selection. What's even more strange is that in the holy decree, it was actually stated that Xia Muyan held the official position of the fourth grade, that is, the Yuping level of Lang Zhongqian of the Tongwen Xuan Division, all of which were the fourth grade. However, Xia Muyan still holds the title of a marquis, which is the marquis of His Majesty the Emperor who has made meritorious contributions to his return from serving as a Qin mission. Although the Hou Ye is only a knighthood, not an official position, this title has a very high status and can be on an equal footing with the officials of the third grade.

Therefore, after the first day of his arrival, the new official Lang occupied the magpie's nest and swaggered to occupy the office of Qian Zhiyu, the leader of the ministry, so that Qian Zhiyu, who came one step late, had no place to go, so he had to stay in the courtyard for most of the day. Qian Zhiyu thought that the other party was just using his public house temporarily, but he didn't expect that in the afternoon of the same day, this young man from Lengtou ordered the officials in the yamen of the Wenxuan Division to move all Qian Zhiyu's things out of the public house, and then repainted the public house back and forth, put the tables, chairs and benches he moved from home in, and then swaggered to sit in that place to do official business.

What makes Qian Zhiyu even more angry is that the court of the Great Xia Kingdom has a rule that only the officials in Beijing who are above the fourth grade can take the official sedan chair in the national capital Yujing, and the officials below the fourth grade can only hire a small sedan chair by themselves, and if they take the official sedan chair, it is beyond the system.

There is only one official sedan chair in the Wenxuan Division, and after Xia Muyan arrived, he unceremoniously occupied Qian Zhiyu's official sedan chair, and swaggered out in this green sedan chair carried by four people. The servant of the ministry had an urgent matter to discuss with Qian Zhiyu, and Qian Zhiyu could only trot all the way to the yamen of the ministry. Fortunately, the yamen of the Ministry of Officials was not far from them, but after Qian Zhiyu trotted all the way over, he held back his resentment.

What makes Qian Zhiyu even more angry is that since Xia Muyan arrived here, the appointment and dismissal of all grassroots officials have almost all been stuck. Whether it was the governors of various provinces, the list of appointments and dismissals of state and county officials recommended by the political envoys, or the officials inspected by the Ministry of Literature and Selection, when they were preparing for the following appointments, they were all rejected by the newly appointed Wailang Lord Xia Muyan. The reason for the refutation is very simple, that is, Xia Muyan said that he didn't know this person at all, and he couldn't make an appointment at will based on the following words, and he needed to meet me and take a good look before agreeing to the appointment.

After this Leng Touqing arrived here, the appointment and dismissal of grass-roots officials came to a standstill, including the secretary of the ministry, the servant of the ministry, and many other officials played a chapter to the emperor Xia Qingtian, saying that the new official Wailang did not understand the rules and acted recklessly, so that the appointment and dismissal of grass-roots officials could not be carried out normally.

However, after the snowflakes were presented to Emperor Xia Qingtian, they were all like mud cows into the sea, and there was no news.

In order to find a half-official position, many grassroots officials sharpened their heads and drilled up, and Qian Zhiyu, who held the power of appointment and dismissal, was naturally the target of their stammering, and Qian Zhiyu did not get any less benefits from them. When Qian Zhiyu, who had a short mouth and a short hand, was trying to do things for others, he didn't expect to encounter an obstacle when he was trying to do things for others.

Many weighty officials went to the post to impeach Xia Muyan, but they got a result that there was no news. Therefore, Qian Zhiyu, who has been in officialdom for many years, has used his good tricks of working together, and he doesn't care whether the other party occupies his public house, as well as his official sedan chair, and took the initiative to vacate the places of several officials and give them to Xia Muyan, so that he can be admitted on the basis of merit.

When he was in the Feather Terrace, Lin Jun helped Xia Muyan recapture the best immortal stone. It was precisely because of that piece of the best immortal stone that Xia Muyan led many monks of the Xia Kingdom to make a tragic situation in the Feather Terrace, even if he was almost wiped out, he was not punished in any way. On the contrary, after presenting the best immortal stone, Long Yan was so happy that he almost sealed him a county king. If it weren't for his uncle and Xie Hang, the minister of the upper study, who was in the way, then the young Xia Muyan would now be a county king.

At that time, when he was in Xianfeng Valley, Xia Muyan had promised Lin Jun that if he could help him regain the best immortal stone, Xia Muyan would not only worship Lin Jun as his eldest brother, but also help him get a prefect.

Now, Qian Zhiyu took the initiative to vacate the positions of several prefects and gave them to him.

Xia Muyan looked at these vacancies and said, "Which of these state capitals is closer to Zizhumen?"

Qian Zhiyu took a closer look and said, "Muzhou, only Muzhou is the closest to Zizhumen, only more than two hundred miles away. ”

Xia Muyan nodded and said, "Okay, just give me this position." I want to appoint a deputy head of Zizhumen as the prefect of Muzhou. ”

After listening to Xia Muyan's words, Qian Zhiyu said in great embarrassment: "What? The deputy head of Zizhumen, then he is a member of the sect, how can people in the sect not participate in the imperial examination, how can they be appointed to official positions without fame?"

Xia Muyan said: "I don't care about this, you go and find a way, as long as you can get this thing done for me." I will not stop the appointment and dismissal of all the other officials. ”