The night was dark, Dian Wei looked at the brightly lit room, and frowned, the lord's work and rest were very regular in the past, but I don't know why, since the autumn harvest, Chen Mo has become busy, and there are always endless dossiers every day.

What is it about the file that is so troublesome?

You must know that Chen Mo is regarded by many people as a demonic existence, no matter what it is, he can basically remember it and memorize it backwards after reading it now, why is Chen Mo so idle on weekdays? It's not that he's lazy, it's that most of the things that need to be handled by him can be done in a very short time, and there is no need to think too much about it at all.

Jizhou, this is the first time that Chen Mo has done this kind of thing of staying up late to read the file.

"Lord, it's late at night, why don't you rest earlier?" Dian Wei couldn't help but knock on the door.

"Don't worry, I'll see Uncle Wang later, the problem in Jizhou is more serious than I imagined, you go and rest, there are guards in the house watching, nothing big can happen." Chen Mo's voice came from the room, and he didn't even look up when he spoke.

The wealthy family of Jizhou is indeed honest, but it is only on the surface that they no longer compete with Chen Mo, and the two sides are still in a state of stalemate, which has not been alleviated, and even because of the matter of the Sanxue Minutes and the new tax law began to be promoted to the township, new problems have arisen.

"Lord, the last general thinks that you have been too tired lately, or the last general will go and find you a sister-in-law......

"Get out!"

"喏~"

"This Dian Wei ......" Chen Mo shook his head, lowered his head and continued to check the taxes in various places and what Skynet had verified.

After a while, there was a knock on the door again: "Lord, Wang Biao and Zheng Tu are here." ”

"Ask him to come in."

"The last will see the lord." The door opened, Wang Biao and Zheng Tu came in, and saluted Chen Mo.

"It's really sinful to invite two uncles over so late at night." Chen Mo got up and signaled that the two of them didn't have to be formal, the two sides met in Weimo, Wang Biao watched him grow up, although he is now a monarch and minister, but psychologically, Chen Mo is still very kind to Wang Biao.

"What did the lord say, besides, didn't the lord sleep?" Wang Biao said with a smile.

"Jizhou is endless, it's hard to sleep." Chen Mo shook his head and sighed.

"What happened? Those people still dare to make trouble at this time? Wang Biao frowned.

Those people naturally refer to the Jizhou family.

"Not really." Chen Mo shook his head, although the concept is different, but everyone has a measured shot, since Chen Mo won this game, and now Chen Mo is in full swing, they will not continue to give Chen Mo a chance to eradicate them, they will lie dormant and wait for the next fight, this is the way the family fights, a moment of success or failure is not enough to talk about heroes, they fight, it is a matter of this life and even the next three, five or even ten generations.

Of course, if someone jumps out to go against Chen Mo, they are very happy to see it happen, and they will not fall into trouble with Chen Mo at this time, because Chen Mo has not yet reached the time of despair, but he will definitely not be kind enough to help, more watching the show.

"That's ......" Wang Biao was a little puzzled, the wealthy family didn't dare to move, who would jump out and go against Chen Mo at this time.

"It's not an opponent, but it's like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and it's hard to eradicate." Chen Mo shook his head and said.

"What happened?" Wang Biao was even more puzzled.

"This is this year's tax book, the imperial court set three taxes and one, and there is no problem with handing it over, but according to the detailed secret visit I sent to the people, the people really got it in their hands, and only thirty percent, more than before, but it was not as expected." Chen Mo put the taxes he had sorted out in the past few days on the table and frowned.

Wang Biao and Zheng Tu suddenly understood that in addition to officials and gentry, there is another group - officials.

What is a clerk? In terms of the county, the county order has to deal with county affairs, it is impossible to do everything personally, he has the main book, the county officer, the warden, the teaching, the inspection, the post officer, the scholar Cao, the law Cao, the tax Cao, the criminal Cao, and then down to the township, there are three elders, Li Zheng, the pavilion chief, and these people, there are many people who do things, these are called officials.

The statement of the officials is not early, in the pre-Qin period, the officials are not clearly divided, and it is said in the "Zuo Chuan" that the king entrusts the three officials.

The three officials here are the three dukes, after the first emperor ruled the world, the officials and officials gradually distinguished, the county order (chief) is the head of a county, and the county lieutenant and the county belong to the adjutant, that is, the officials, there is no grade, only Yulu, and the officials and officials gradually began to be distinguished, and the extreme is now.

It seems that officials are bigger than officials, but in fact, many times they can't be counted like that.

Because the county magistrate and the county magistrate are generally in office for a few years, they will be transferred away after making political achievements, or go to a richer county town to be a county magistrate, or directly promoted to a place such as the county government, such as their own teacher, if they were not discouraged back then, after the Li Ling was completed, they were eligible to be promoted to Taishou, but their own teachers were unwilling to send Chen Mo away, so they chose to return to their hometown and retreat, and were later invited by Zhang Chao to do things.

Although there are clear regulations on the selection of officials, that is, those who can be familiar with the "Han Law" can be officials, which is a charter set in the early Han Dynasty, and it has not been changed later.

However, it is worth noting that officials will be promoted or transferred away because of their political performance, and the term of office of a county commander is usually three to five years, but the officials are different, the imperial court does not have a performance assessment for officials, and the general achievements are counted on the county order, which has nothing to do with the officials, and at most the county order gives some thank-you gifts in private.

This also creates that in addition to some officials who have a good personal relationship with the county order, they will follow and leave to fight for a future, more often, the change of officials is not as ordinary as that of officials.

Far from it, let's just say that many of the characters who have appeared in the past 20 years or so have started from officials, but most of these are not their own amazing art industry, plus the appreciation of their superiors, and then they have the opportunity to enter a bigger stage, it can be said that the future of officials has a lot to do with Shangguan, but not everyone can get this opportunity.

After all, the general county order has to go to at least two or three counties to take office, and not all of them are promoted, some will be county officials for a lifetime, it is impossible to bring all the county officials with them, and there are thousands of counties in the Han Dynasty, how many people can be promoted from the county order, and most of these people have their own team around them, and they may not use county officials.

Over time, most of the county officials have been county officials all their lives, although they are not officials, but the operation of a county, most of them have to rely on the county officials to maintain, and even many county officials want to do a good job in county affairs, they have to deal with the local county officials, because most of these county officials come from the county or the side branch of the family, after all, the county officials must at least be literate, and the energy in the local area is not small, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and even many county orders with backgrounds, before taking office, the family will deal well with the local county officials, or exchange resources, such as your family people come to us to be officials, we will help you, but my family will go to you to be an official, and you will have to help too.

"The lord came to us to ask us to clean up these dirts?" Zheng Tu said with a cold expression.

"Yes and no." Chen Mo nodded, and then shook his head: "This is a fundamental matter, it is easy to get rid of them, but it is not a cure for the symptoms." ”

Most of the officials are from the Shu clan or the Han family, this is the object of Chen Mo's wooing, it is easy to kill, but if you kill too hard, it will disrupt your layout.

"I've been thinking about it for a while, the officials are also included in the official rating assessment, and the performance of the county order is not done by the county order alone, and the officials can also be promoted to officials, everything is based on political performance, and at the same time, like the county order, the official cannot stay in one place for a long time." Chen Mo handed the several volumes of files in front of him to Wang Biao and said: "Uncle Wang and Uncle Zheng are the same as me, they are all born in the market, you know the doorway, this is a list of some officials who they think are extremely evil, you two are responsible for checking again, those who are really guilty of great crimes, kill, and re-select people from the local area, I will draft the "Official Law" in the near future, and try it out in Jizhou, including how to evaluate the performance of officials, and how to promote, remember, people who are not evildoers should be killed. ”

The unspoken rules formed by officials are actually a matter of laws and regulations, people in different environments, ideas are different, can not be beaten to death because of this, now with the territory is getting bigger and bigger, how to establish a mature and effective system, is a sign of the maturity of a political system.

Chen Mo is trying to find a perfect employment mechanism, and there are also loopholes and shortcomings in it, so Chen Mo is also very careful, and he needs to correct these in time.

The officials are included in the official ranks, and there must be drawbacks, and the officials will be mobile, new to a place, to understand the local people's conditions, but also to deal with the relationship between all levels, familiar with the officials, subordinates, but the advantage is that even if there are great evil people mixed in, it will not cause too long-term losses to the local people.

Just like now, Chen Mo's new law was promulgated, and the wealthy families were defeated, but these people still dared to squirt money and food from the people, hindering the passage of government decrees, Chen Mo's new law has become a means for these people to loot money.

Of course, if you don't want to go, it's okay, but you can't enter the officialdom for the rest of your life, and the officials can't do it, not to mention completely eradicating it, but at least the harm to the people will be much less.

The reason why Wang Biao and Zheng Tu were asked to do this was that Chen Mo believed in them, and secondly, both of them were born as market rangers, and they didn't know much about officialdom, but they knew very well the routines of those little officials, and they could deceive Shangguan, but they couldn't deceive them, Chen Mo was even ready to set up another one outside of Skynet, specifically for the problem of local officials, of course, this kind of supervision mechanism is difficult to establish and improve in a short period of time, and it also needs to be restrained, Chen Mo only has an idea in his heart now, as for whether to establish it, it is difficult to say nowLet's see how effective the "Law on Officials" is before making a decision.

"The last general understands!" After Wang Biao and Zheng Tu bowed, they took their own leave.