Wang Demin walked to the door, and saw that Bai Du had already walked out of the county Cheng's signing room, and without waiting for Wang Demin to speak, Bai Du waved his hand and said: "I already know what happened, that person used a musket, those foolish people you found didn't know, and they were suppressed by him, this pass is considered to be over, you quickly go and gather the people in the county office, and we will go to meet Shangguan ......."

"Huh?! You want me to meet him? Wouldn't it be that I bowed to him?! ......" Wang Demin said with a look of surprise.

Bai Du glanced at him and sneered: "The county official took office, since you are a subordinate, you should greet you, so you can shirk that it is the mob that besieges the county government and cannot get out, and now if you don't show up again, you will despise the official!" It's up to you to go or not, I'll go first! ......" After speaking, he ignored Wang Demin and went to the gate of the county government without looking back.

Wang Demin stood in place for a while with a cloudy face, waved his hand to a small official behind him, and said, "Go and inform the others!" ......", he stomped his feet and chased after Baidu.

As soon as Guo Zhiyuan, Xu Guangqi and others arrived at the gate of the county government, Baidu hurriedly ran out of the county office, bowed to Guo Zhiyuan and said: "Xiaguan Gutian County Cheng Baidu see the county order, the appropriate mob besieged the county government, the lower officials were incompetent and failed to come out to greet the adults, which frightened the adults, please forgive the adults!" ……”

At this time, Wang Demin also led a group of officials and officials to run out of the county office, and bowed to Guo Zhiyuan in the same way: "Please forgive me!" ……”

Originally, Guo Zhiyuan held his stomach, and was about to use the topic to play a role, and make a move to knock on the mountain and shake the tiger to stand up, but now that Baidu and they are so messing with him, it is not good for him to have a seizure, and he quietly looked at Baidu and Wang Demin, it is obvious that these two people are the heads of everyone, and most of today's events are inseparable from these two people, but they have just arrived, and they have no foundation, if they tear their faces with the two deputies as soon as they come, it will be even more difficult to do, so they smiled and said: "Baixian is serious, and you are all the right-hand men of this county, This county is new to the county, and it is ...... that Bai Xiancheng and his colleagues need to take care of it."

A fine light flashed in Baidu's eyes, this Guo Zhiyuan is young, but his words are not leaky, quite a city, it seems that he really underestimated him before, but he thinks very highly of himself, and now these officials in Gutian County, including Wang Demin, are not looked at by him, Guo Zhiyuan's arrival has aroused his fighting spirit, and the opponent is difficult to find! His face said quietly: "Lord Guo has been tired all the way, so let the subordinates place their luggage in the official mansion (official's residence) first, and the subordinates and others will accompany the adults to the City God Temple to drink tea and rest for a while......"

On the first day, they must be bathed in the Chenghuang Temple, prepare the wine ceremony and some utensils, and the oath ceremony can be carried out on the second day before they can officially take office, of course, there is no one in Gutian County, a poor place where birds don't, and no one is sticking to this kind of ancient ceremony, the reason why Baidu did this is to paralyze Guo Zhiyuan, so that he will be dizzy by this kind of red tape sent to Guo Zhiyuan, so that they can calmly arrange and continue to stumble on Guo Zhiyuan.

Of course, Guo Zhiyuan didn't want to be stumped by these red tape, waved his hand and said: "There is power in the matter, there are mobs besieging the county government as soon as the county takes office, it can be seen how lax the county governance is, this county has been appointed by the grace of the saint as the Gutian County Order, since the government is diligent and loves the people, red tape is exempted, please Bai County Cheng notify all the office staff of the county government, I will wait for this to go to the second hall to discuss matters!" ......" After speaking, he didn't wait for Bai Du to object, and took Xu Guangqi and the others and walked directly to the county office.

Baidu couldn't stop it anymore, exchanged a look with Wang Demin, got out of the way, let Guo Zhiyuan and others pass first, and followed closely.

Although the Gutian County Government is dilapidated, it is also small and complete, the instrument door, the wall, the lobby, the second hall and other facilities are readily available, the lobby is the place where the county official openly tries the case, and the second hall is behind the lobby, which is the place where the county official convenes his subordinates, but even the county government is so dilapidated, these two halls are naturally not much better, the tables and chairs inside are a little crumbling, the dust is inch thick, obviously it has not been used for a long time.

Knowing that the new county official was going to discuss matters in the second hall, the officials were in a hurry to clean up, and the dust raised almost choked Guo Zhiyuan to death, so they had to wait outside for the officials to finish cleaning before entering. Not to mention, although these two halls are not brand-new after they are cleaned, they also have a somewhat solemn atmosphere.

Guo Zhiyuan sat in the first place, Xu Guangqi and Zhao Shizhen were just Guo Zhiyuan's privately hired staff, there was no seat, Guo Zhiyuan wanted to add two seats behind him for them to sit, but Xu Guangqi and Zhao Shizhen said that Yu Li did not agree and insisted on standing behind him, Guo Zhiyuan could only be reluctant.

Bai Du and Wang Demin sat on Guo Zhiyuan's left hand side, they were the second official of the county order (that is, the deputy official, whose rank is slightly lower than that of the chief official, but not the subordinate official of the chief official), Bai Xiancheng sipped tea slowly, and Wang Zhubo kept brushing his beard, not looking at Guo Zhiyuan, looking poor and bored.

There should have been a job and no character on the second official's side to sit in the third chair, but it was empty at this time, and the seats on the right side that should have been the chief official and miscellaneous officials were also empty, and even the assistant officials who did not have seats, such as the head of the third shift and the chief of the sixth room, did not come to a few, and only a few officials stood sparsely under the hall, and they all looked weak and listless.

Guo Zhiyuan still has some understanding of the grassroots organizational structure of the Ming Dynasty, and the personnel working in the county office in county-level organizations like Gutian County are divided into three categories: officials, officials, and servants. There are two kinds of officials, one is registered in the Ministry of Officials, because Gutian County is relatively small, so it is also known that the county Guo Zhiyuan, the county Cheng Baidu, the main book Wang Demin, and the classic history Lu Zhichao are regarded as officials with names and surnames in the Ministry of Officials. The other is the chief official and miscellaneous officials, such as the teacher (director of the education bureau), the instructor, the inspector, the post officer, the tax ambassador, the county warehouse ambassador, etc., these officials are not registered in the official department, and they are miscellaneous officials who do not enter the stream, but they are also members of the county leadership team.

Below the official is the official, the official is the head of the six rooms, the county six rooms correspond to the six central departments, respectively, officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, these people are directly responsible for the county order, and they can be regarded as personnel in the system. The officials are then servants, although they work in the county government, they have no establishment, and rely on some subsidies to make a living. These officials are divided into three shifts: soap, strong, and fast, the soap squad and the strong squad are responsible for internal guard work such as standing in the hall, hadao, guards, and case summons, and the fast squad is responsible for delivering official documents and arresting.

In short, to support a county government team, a lot of staff are needed, but Guo Zhiyuan only saw a few people in front of him, and his new county magistrate ordered to convene all the staff of the county government to discuss the matter, this is the first staff meeting presided over by his new county magistrate! These people are still so slack, do they still have their own county order in their eyes?