Guilin, Guangxi Province, the sixth day of September.

A suburban welcome was being held on the outskirts of Lingui County, and many local officials in Guangxi, under the leadership of Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangxi, greeted the arrival of the new Guangxi governor at the gate of the East City Gate.

This is a rare grandeur for the inspector to take office, after all, no matter how much the power of the inspector has swelled over the years, nominally he is only a petty official of the seventh grade, and the rank of the official is also below the governor.

What's more, Zhang Ren, the current governor of Guangxi, heard that he was seriously ill, and Guangxi officialdom was doubting how long he could survive, and he insisted on coming to greet him, which is really rare.

However, compared with the grandeur of the arrival ceremony of the suburban patrol press, the pomp and circumstance of Gao Shishi, the new patrol press, is also the largest among the previous patrol presses, and there is no one. For he brought three hundred men with his firearms alone. The most amazing thing is that it is said that the emperor himself allowed this.

The dragon of the saints can be seen. You must know that during the Hongwu period when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, the patrol was appointed according to the imperial history, and he could not even ride a horse, but could only ride a small donkey to show that he was here to be the master of the people. Later, in the Renxuan period, because of the sparseness of the imperial history, it was said that other officials took office, with a tall head and a big horse, and the patrol took office but rode a broken donkey, and the official authority was completely cloudless, and the emperor allowed the patrol to ride a horse.

It's just that I didn't expect that now that the seven-rank patrol has arrived at the place, even the second-rank political envoy can only serve respectfully.

As long as the officials in this area of Guangxi are not people who stand on the opposite side of the high party, who does not want to criticize the weight of the supervision power of this new patrol inspector who may reach the heavens at any time, not only because he can supervise any official in the province, but also because he is willing to listen to his supervision.

With the emperor's trust in this Gao Zhizhi, how important his evaluation should be

Because of this, all the Guangxi magistrates who could find a reason to come to Guilin were all here today.

When the high-level and pragmatic official sedan chair landed, Governor Zhang Renzhang, who was supported by the left and right, greeted him with a group of civil and military officials.

Gao Pragmatic saw the skinny Zhang Ren as soon as he got off the sedan chair, whether it was from the style of the official robe or from the standing position, Gao Pragmatic immediately knew his identity.

Without waiting for Zhang Ren to approach with difficulty, Gao Pragmatic took the initiative to move forward quickly, bowed his hand, and bowed slightly, "The waiter Xinzheng is pragmatic and has seen Zhongcheng." ”

Zhang Ren smiled, and arched his hand with difficulty, and said, "Waiter Shanghai Zhang Ren, polite." ”

The waiter, to put it bluntly, is "a student waiting for your guidance", and the governor and the inspector meet each other and call themselves "waiters", which has a history of about 20 years, which is also one of the signs of the skyrocketing status of the inspector.

In fact, in terms of the nature of their duties, the governor and the inspector can really "guide" each other, the governor is the official, and the inspector supervises the whole body, isn't this "mutual guidance".

Gao pragmatic returned the salute again, and he Zhang Ren turned slightly sideways, indicating that he did not dare to accept the salute, and then said, "Pointing to the new position, when I first arrived in Guangxi, this official will first introduce you to your colleagues." ”

Gao pragmatic smiled and said, "There is Lao Zhongcheng." ”

Zhang Ren was obviously in a strong fighting spirit, and even his voice could be heard to be really weak, but he still introduced the officials who came to greet him today one by one for Gao Pragmatic.

There are so many people who come here today that they can't even remember all their appearances, names, names, places of origin, and so on with a high level of pragmatic memory.

Some of the relatively important people he remembered were probably as follows

Zhang Shaoyi, the eunuch of Guangxi, Wang Shangwen, the chief soldier of Guangxi, Hu Shu, Hu Shu, the political envoy of Guangxi, Zhuang Guozhen, the political envoy of Guangxi, Wu Shan, the political envoy of Guangxi, Zhao Yumin, the political envoy of Guangxi, Wang Tianjue, the left senator of Guangxi, Chen Shangyi, the right senator of Guangxi, Peng Yingshi, the envoy of Guangxi, Lin Chengyuan, the deputy envoy of Guangxi, the deputy envoy of Guangxi, the right senator of Guangxi, and the right manager of Liuzhou, Qingyuan, Sien, Jiang Xin, the deputy envoy of Guangxi, the governor of Guilin and Yongningzhou County, Fuyi, Hou Guozhi, Wang Baiyu, the chief of Yongning, Guangxi, the prefect of Songguilin, Wu Zhaodong, and so on.

What's funnier is that almost all of these people are red-robed officials, but when they see him, a green-robed official, they all call themselves "lower officials" and "lowly officials". No wonder it is said that when you are an official in the Ming Dynasty, you can just look at the title, but you can't take it seriously.

However, when we met today, Gao Shishi also lamented the strength of the Gao Party, even in a border place like Guangxi, there are Gao Party officials. For example, Hu Shu, a scholar in Guangxi, and Zhao Yumin, a leftist politician in Guangxi, are all members of the high party.

Among them, Hu Shu is a Jinshi of Jiajing for 44 years, and a high-arch student. His qualifications are already good, and he is the right deputy to supervise Xuezheng as the imperial historian, so his official grade is the third grade, Xuezheng usually has little power, but he is noble, and his status is respected, just theoretically, when Zhang Ren is seriously ill, he can represent Zhang Ren to meet Gao Pragmatic.

Zhao Yumin is a Jinshi in Longqing for five years, Guo Pu's protégé, and Gao Pragmatic is a brother-in-law relationship. He was not promoted quickly, and last year he was only in the middle of the matter, but because he led the impeachment in the matter of overthrowing Ling Yunyi, he was later promoted, and he first served as a senator of Huguang Left for a few months, and was promoted to Guangxi Left to participate in politics because of a vacancy in Guangxi.

However, whether it is Hu Wei or Zhao Yumin, they are very affectionate and even a little respectful when facing Gao Pragmatic.

As for the other officials, Gao Shishi still can't figure out their identities and positions for a while, so we have to wait and see them slowly.

After Zhang Renqiang introduced this large number of Guangxi dignitaries, he couldn't support it anymore, so Gao Pragmatic asked him to withdraw the ceremony, and everyone went back to the yamen.

The highly pragmatic yamen is not called the Guangxi Patrol Yamen, but the Guangxi Patrol and Inspection Yuan. In fact, there is no fixed station for patrolling the imperial history, because it is necessary to move around the country, so there is a "procuratorate" in each place as the actual yamen of the imperial history.

This procuratorate has a long history, it is still a building built in the Hongwu period, there are five rooms in the main hall, three rooms in the water, one straight house, three rooms in the back hall, six rooms in the left and right corridors, seven rooms in the gate house, three rooms on the left and right sides of the hearing hall, it can be regarded as a big courtyard, but compared with the governor's yamen, it is still not worth mentioning.

After all, the patrol of the imperial history still requires a low profile in name, and requires a little bit of the appearance of being the master of the people.

By the way, in addition to supervision, the patrol also has its own court attributes, and has the right to accept military and civilian lawsuits. If the people feel that the county government is unfair and are unwilling to appeal to the government office, it doesn't matter, there is another option, which is to appeal to the inspector.

Originally, the Ming court had a rule that the lawsuit should be fought one level at a time, and if the people had a dispute, they usually let the old man mediate first, and if the mediation failed, they would go to the state and county to fight the lawsuit, and the state and county could not solve it, and then appeal to the government and the government was not satisfied, and then appealed to the highest judicial body at the provincial level according to the prosecutor's department.

If someone dares to appeal at a higher level and disrupt the judicial order, then whether you are justified or not, you will be punished first.

Moreover, the identity of the inspector is independent of the locality, which can ensure that the trial of the case is not interfered with by local interests to a certain extent, and it can be regarded as another channel for the people to redress their grievances.

In later generations of movies and television, it is often seen that at the critical moment when the local unjust prison appears, a certain "Eight Prefecture Patrol" shines on the stage, presiding over justice and majesty, no matter how big or small the officials present, see him all kneeling in fact, the so-called "Eight Prefecture Patrol" has never been a formal official position, the origin is to patrol the imperial history, and the patrol according to the imperial history to manage the "eight prefects" is really no difficulty, and many times there are more than eight prefectures.

The office of the new Guangxi "Eight Governors" Gao Shishi in Guilin, Guangxi Province, is the procuratorate in front of him.