The officials of the North Shore Development Zone had already been waiting in unison, if it hadn't been for Chen Lifu's instructions before, they wouldn't have had to do any face-saving work such as greeting, they would probably have collectively run to the dock to greet them.

Chen Lifu asked them not to go to the dock to greet them, but he was not considerate of his subordinates, but the temporary wharf was dusty, a large number of building materials were piled up, and construction was going on everywhere.

He didn't want to be in the mess of the makeshift wharf, so he simply ordered in advance not to let the officials of the North Shore Development Zone come to the wharf to greet him.

However, in fact, the location of the yamen of the development zone is only more than a thousand meters away from the temporary wharf, and it won't take long even if it is on foot, not to mention that they still take a horse-drawn carriage.

Nowadays, the entire development zone is a construction site, and the roads are also temporarily leveled, not to mention the potholes, but also dusty, and some roads are mud pits......

After arriving at the temporary office wooden house where the Yamen of the North Shore Development Zone is located, Chen Lifu summoned more than a dozen middle- and low-level officials from the Yamen of the Development Zone who had already arrived for a small meeting, mainly to listen to the current construction situation of the Development Zone.

However, the dozen or so officials present at the meeting were all low-level officials, and the highest level was only the deputy district head of Cong Liupin, as for the district chief.

I'm sorry, but the officials haven't decided yet.

After all, in terms of level, the head of the North Shore Development Zone is Zheng Liupin, which is already the same level as the ordinary county order, and the position of the county commander has always been decided by the ministry, and locally, even if it is a provincial political envoy, has no power to decide.

The Ministry of Officials is usually very cautious about the appointment of local leaders, especially the appointment of chief officials in important areas.

After all, the head of the North Shore Development Zone has only six grades, and the jurisdiction is only a few tens of square kilometers, but its importance is more important than that of an entire county.

The district head did not arrive so quickly, so the current development zone yamen, the highest official rank is only from the deputy head of the six grades, this deputy district head is still an agent, previously served in Qingpu County, Songjiang Prefecture, selected and appointed by the Jiangnan Provincial Officials Department, and if you want to remove the word agency, you also need to formally approve the Ministry of Officials.

However, the higher-level civil service department will not usually reject the appointment of candidates for positions recommended or arranged in advance by lower-level civil service agencies, especially candidates for deputy positions.

Although there is no explicit provision, it can be regarded as a tacit unspoken rule of decentralization between the central government and the various departments, as well as the local government departments, and theoretically the officials are in charge of the appointment of all officials.

However, in practice, the candidates for the third grade, the third grade, and the second grade are usually discussed and determined by the cabinet, and then reported to the Son of Heaven for decision, and the ministry does not have any discretion except for providing a list of candidates

The more senior officials or a few important positions of relatively low rank, such as the second rank and above, and the governors of the provinces from the second rank, the squires of various ministries, as well as the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the county orders of the special counties of Shanghai, are usually the dictatorship of the Sacred Heart, which is decided by Li Xuan himself.

Well, Chen Lifu's county order of this special county in Shanghai was hand-picked by Li Xuan.

In this way, the scope of the real power of the ministry is limited to officials of the fourth rank and below.

However, it is impossible for the Ministry of Officials to be in charge of the appointment of all the middle and low-level officials in the whole world, and they cannot control it at all.

Generally, the Ministry of Officials is only in charge of the affairs of the central agencies above the seventh grade and the local affairs above the fifth grade, but if it is the position of the local leader, it will be relaxed to the fifth grade and the sixth grade, that is to say, the county order of the sixth grade or the district head of the sixth grade are under the personal jurisdiction of the Ministry of Officials.

The duties of the central organs from the seventh rank and below are basically the responsibility of the secretary department within each organization.

At the local level, the number one positions below the sixth rank and the ordinary posts below the fifth rank are usually delegated to the provincial highway bureaucracy.

However, it is impossible for the Provincial Highway Officials to be in charge of all the official positions in the province, so it is also in charge of all the ordinary positions of the fifth and sixth grades, and all the positions of the sixth and seventh grades.

As for the state capital's official office at this level, it is mainly in charge of the appointment of the three levels of the seventh grade, the eighth grade, and the eighth grade, and the county-level official section is in charge of the two levels of the ninth rank and the ninth grade.

After all, in the Tang Empire, from the ninth rank is an official body, and the number of officials is far more than that of any feudal dynasty.

You must know that in the pre-Ming period, most of the county officials with grades were actually only six people, and the rest belonged to the officials, not officials, and were not under the control of the officials.

But what about the Tang Dynasty.

A county alone is a parallel organization, there are four major yamen: the county yamen, the county inspectorate, the county court, and the county taxation bureau, and there is one person from the county order of the six products, one person from the county of six products, and one person from the president of the inspectorate, the president of the court, and the director of the tax bureau of the six products.

There are ten of them, and several section chiefs of the county yamen are all seven-grade, and then the mayors of each town are also seven-grade. At the same time, there are also many positions in the other three major yamen.

As for lower-level officials, it's even more.

The number of officials in a county (with a formal establishment, from nine grades or more) can range from two or three hundred to thousands!

Don't think that there are too many people, the financial pressure will be very great, in fact, the Tang Dynasty just included the officials of the pre-Ming Dynasty into the scope of officials, a county of the former Ming Dynasty, although there are only a few officials, but there are a lot of officials, and there are hundreds of people casually.

In the Tang Dynasty, from the nine products and the nine products, they are usually just ordinary clerks, patrol officers and the like, and the salaries they get are only ordinary salaries, usually the local finance is still responsible, and the central finance department is only responsible for formulating salary standards and auditing local finances, but it is not responsible for paying salaries to local officials, otherwise so many officials will not be able to pay ......

The appointment and promotion of so many officials cannot be managed by the central government alone, and can only be decentralized to local management.

However, although the decentralization has been given to the locality, this is just a default rule, and it is reasonable for the officials to directly intervene in the appointment of officials from the nine grades if they are idle one day.

The appointment of all the above-mentioned local officials is a temporary and acting appointment, and it is necessary to report to the higher-level officials and yamen for approval afterwards, and then issue a formal appointment before it can be regarded as a formal appointment.

It's just that this kind of filing and approval is usually just a process, and it is generally not rejected.

Because of the current official appointment system in the Tang Dynasty, the district head of Zhengliupin has not yet arrived, and the official affairs department of Shanghai ad hoc county cannot decide, and the official affairs office of Songjiang Prefecture and the Jiangnan Provincial official affairs department cannot decide, so they can only wait for the officials to send someone over.

As for the deputy district head of Liupin, it belongs to the jurisdiction of the Jiangnan Provincial Officials' Department, so he sent an acting deputy district head over early.

If it weren't for the fact that the district mayor had not yet arrived, Chen Lifu himself would not have needed to personally manage the affairs of the development zone.

There are few people in the meeting, and it is natural to speak quickly, and in the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, it is not popular to hold meetings, basically after a brief introduction to the situation, Chen Lifu took people to the field investigation.

According to Chen Lifu's experience, the first few months are very important, and there can be no mistakes, otherwise it will cause big trouble in the future.

Because once the current infrastructure is determined, and the final construction is completed, it is not so easy to change it in the future, even if you want to change it, there is no money to change it.

Along the potholed riverside avenue, Chen Lifu browsed the entire development zone like a horse, and when he reached the northernmost edge of the development zone, he found a very interesting scene.

That is the north of the development zone, which is not within the scope of the development zone, and it is also a large construction project.

Hundreds of workers can be seen busy leveling the land-based road, which is connected to the riverside road in the development zone.

He remembered very well that the edge of the development zone was here, and the design of the riverside avenue only extended to the edge of the development zone, and did not extend further north.

And he didn't get a report from the local yamen that the government had an organization to open the way here!

"What's going on up ahead? Why are you building roads? I don't think there was such a project, right? ”

Chen Lifu asked suspiciously.

The deputy head of the development zone on the side quickly stepped forward and replied: "Lord Qiqi, this is Feng's company building roads, not only building roads, they are also repairing the wharf, just ahead, look!" ”

Following his instructions, Chen Lifu looked to the north, and sure enough, about 100 meters ahead, there were dozens of people working on the river beach, looking like this was to build a wharf!

Fung Company? I haven't heard much of this name, there are more companies from all walks of life in Shanghai, and there are at least tens of thousands of registered enterprises in the business zone.

However, Chen Lifu didn't know, naturally someone would explain it to him!

"This Feng company is mainly engaged in inland shipping, and it is also our relatively strong inland waterway shipping company in Shanghai, after the news came out that we want to develop the north bank, they bought a piece of land along the river here, saying that they want to build a shipyard!"

Shipping companies run their own shipyards? It's a bit of a cross-line!

And in recent years, although the shipbuilding industry is still hot, but the competition is becoming more and more fierce, because now everyone knows that shipbuilding makes money, and there are more people who come in, and the competition is naturally becoming more and more fierce.