Chapter 956: The Scholar and the Executioner
The reason why Shi Wuyan was so angry was because he felt that he was going to be pitted by Gong Wenbao!
This bastard, even if he investigates the case, he is so careless that he can let go of such a major clue, and he also finds himself to give orders.
Yesterday, he personally gave the order to arrest people, but fortunately, after Gong Wenbao went back, he found out that something was wrong and slowed down the action of arresting the Chen family, otherwise, the trouble would be even greater now.
Once he has reached that point, no matter whether Chen Lifu is guilty or not, for the sake of his own career and the authority of the Inspectorate, he will probably have to forcibly investigate and do everything possible to convict Chen Lifu.
Once it goes to which point, then it will be a war, a war between the Inspectorate and the Ministry of Taxation, he Shi Wuyan will certainly be in the center of the war, but even the boss of the Inspectorate, Zuo Du Yushi, and Song Tieshu, the minister on duty in the imperial study, may not be able to avoid it.
Fortunately, it is not yet in the worst state, even if the current situation has deteriorated very much, but there is still a chance to save it!
After scolding people, Shi Wuyan looked at Gong Wenbao, and he had already made up his mind to pay attention to it, if this matter could be passed safely, he would remove this Gong Wenbao when he turned around, and he didn't plan to let him lose his official position comfortably.
If you want to resign and return to your hometown to enjoy happiness, and if you want to be beautiful, Lao Tzu wants to send you to Dayuan Mansion, Qiongzhou Mansion or remote areas in the southwest!
No, those places are still too good for this Gong Wenbao, I heard that the Tang Western Company has a colony in Luzon, the Immigration Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has already begun to organize immigration, and the Ministry of Officials is also planning to send officials to Luzon, and when the time comes, I will stuff this Gong Wenbao into it and let him go to Luzon to take up a post.
When his tenure in Luzon expired, he was transferred to other overseas colonies, anyway, the Tang Western Company and the Ministry of Agriculture were very active in the colonies, and they were not afraid that there would be no place to arrange Gong Wenbao.
Ma Dan, if Gong Wenbao is asked to return to the Central Plains in this life, Lao Tzu will directly write his name upside down!
If this matter can't pass safely, needless to say, if he Shi Wuyan is unlucky, this Gong Wenbao will be even more unlucky, and at that time, he Shi Wuyan doesn't have to worry about how to punish this Gong Wenbao.
But although he was very sure of these thoughts, he didn't say it, because now, he still needs Gong Wenbao to do things, and then he will talk about it first, and if he can't get it, he will just launch it as a scapegoat.
At this time, if you inexplicably change the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, it will be difficult to shirk your own guilt in the future.
Of course, the dean of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, although it is said to be a prefecture-level position, but it is a very special positive three products, if you want to remove it, although he Shi Wuyan also has this certainty, but it will take some time to do it.
Because the Chengtianfu is directly under the direct jurisdiction of the cabinet, the grade of its prefect is much higher than that of ordinary prefects, and the grade of the prefect of Chengtianfu is from the second grade, which is equivalent to the governors of various provinces and the ministers of the cabinet.
At present, there are a number of state capitals directly under the jurisdiction of Datang, for example, Xingquan Mansion is directly under the central government, this is because this place is the land of Longxing, and the political treatment is special, but except for the higher political treatment, there is basically nothing else.
Then the three prefectures of Zhaoqing Mansion in Guangdong, Youzhou Mansion in Hebei, and Chang'an Mansion in Shaanxi are also directly under the central government, and the reason is very simple, because the above three places are the legal capitals of the Tang Dynasty at present.
However, the grade of these directly administered prefectures is the third grade, which is two levels higher than the ordinary fourth rank prefect, which is basically the same as the provincial political envoys, but it is lower than the second grade of the Chengtian Mansion.
The administrative level of Chengtianfu is very high, and the province is equivalent, the prefect is from the second grade, and the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, this is the position of the third grade, in fact, in the political system of the entire Tang Dynasty, it is also a high-ranking official.
But this person is not enough to see in front of Shi Wuyan, although Gong Wenbao is the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, and he is the third grade, theoretically speaking, it is only one grade lower than Shi Wuyan's left deputy capital Yushi of the second grade.
However, the officialdom crushes people to death!
Moreover, in the political system of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there are more positions below the third grade, some directors of central ministries, directors or something, political envoys of various provinces, presidents of inspectors of various provinces, presidents of courts, directors of tax departments, etc., if you really want to count, at least a few hundred.
However, from the second grade, the number of this group of people has decreased sharply, and there are only the left and right attendants of the ministries, the governors of the provinces, the deputy envoys of the left and right of the Inspectorate, the vice presidents of the ** Yuan, and the prefect of Chengtianfu.
Well, gone!
If Gong Wenbao wants to climb to the second grade, he has to go through several levels, first of all, he has to blend into the Central Inspectorate, serve as the minister of the important institutions of various ministries within the Inspectorate, and was awarded the right to the imperial history, and then promoted to the left to the imperial history, and this series of positions will not change in grade, but it is a real promotion.
After becoming the imperial history of the left capital, he is qualified to become the right deputy capital envoy, and after becoming the right deputy capital envoy, he has the luxury of becoming the left deputy capital envoy.
In other words, he has to be promoted five more times before he can reach the political status of Shi Wuyan shoulder to shoulder!
Moreover, the three institutions of the Inspectorate, the Court, and the Ministry of Taxation are more special than other institutions, because they can only be promoted internally, in other words, if he Shi Wuyan does not fall, if he is a scholar, the people below basically don't expect to become the left deputy capital of the imperial history, because he occupies this position.
If you don't want to be an ordinary civil official, if you want to be promoted to the second rank, you can be the governor of so many provinces in the country, or you can be the right waiter of each ministry, of course, don't count on the left waiter of each ministry.
According to the practice of the dynasty, the left attendants of each ministry can only be transferred from the governors of various provinces and the right attendants of each ministry, and it cannot be directly said that he has served as a left attendant from the second rank.
Because the left squire of each ministry is the actual second-in-command of each department, and his real power is second only to the books of each department!
In the same way, the Shangshu of each ministry is either leveled by the Shangshu of each department, or promoted from the left servant of each department.
In other words, if you want to be a scholar, you have to become a left servant first, and before you become a left servant, you have to become the governor of each province or the right waiter, but if you go down, there will be more positions, such as provincial political envoys, some central directors, bureau chiefs, etc.
Now the official system of the Tang Dynasty is already very sound, and all kinds of rules and regulations are very clear, and it is difficult to have a situation in the early days of the dynasty, and any person can serve as an important minister in the cabinet.
Of course, the appointment of local officials is still relatively bold now, demoted, new science and scholars, as long as you have the ability, below the fourth grade, basically except for the prefect, the prefecture, the county, the town and other local yamen positions, other positions are basically more casual.
The premise is that you have the ability, well, of course, you don't have the ability to fart, and it's not impossible to write an article without making sense, as long as you can drill the camp and convince others, then you can go.
After all, the country is so big, there are many messy things, as long as you are bold enough, hide well enough, and even you can intercept and kill the local official who went to work, and then rob his seal and seal, and then save his fingerprints, and at the same time your appearance is similar to the text description, then you can completely replace this official to take office in the local area!
Of course, after a long time, it will definitely be discovered, and the discovery is the end of the family and the extermination!
But before you are discovered, you can enjoy the sense of accomplishment of being an official and benefiting the people!
The official system of the Tang Dynasty is relatively perfect, which means that it is impossible to temporarily remove the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, even for Shi Wuyan, it will take a while to operate.
So now, even if Shi Wuyan is tired, Gong Wenbao can still continue to keep his position, but he doesn't know how long he can sit in this position!
After saying goodbye, or being blasted out by Shi Wuyan, Gong Wenbao looked at the gloomy sky overhead, this day, it seems to be raining!
The rain in the winter, this is not normal, just like Chen Lifu's case!
In front of Shi Wuyan, he could clearly feel that he was about to lose Shi Wuyan's trust!
At that time, he was able to be transferred to Gyeonggi and serve as the president of the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, and it was precisely because of Shi Wuyan's recommendation that his career path was absolutely impossible without Shi Wuyan's trust.
But now, he felt that Shi Wuyan's trust in him was passing fast!
He had to do something, he couldn't watch himself fall into the abyss!
And to change the current situation, he felt that he needed to directly peel through the fog and find a breakthrough point from Chen Lifu!
So as soon as he returned to the Chengtianfu Inspectorate, he just went directly to Chen Lifu!
To be honest, this was the first time he had seen Chen Lifu, although Chen Lifu was the protagonist of this case and had been living in the guest house of their inspectorate for seven days, but he Gong Wenbao had never come to see him.
That is not in line with the practice of the Inspectorate, and generally speaking, except for the Imperial Historian who is in charge of the case, other officials of the Inspectorate are not allowed to meet with those suspected officials at will.
Because it's easy to get burned!
However, now Gong Wenbao couldn't take care of it much, he came directly to the room where Chen Lifu lived, and saw this man who was in the center of the storm and pulled himself into the whirlpool!
When he saw this person, he was a little surprised, this man's appearance or image was not the same as the image described in rumors or words from the outside world
He remembered very clearly that the internal investigation report of their inspectorate reads: the officer has been in the first month of the fifth year of Xuanping, and has served in the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation, with a total of one year and eleven months, during which he has been promoted from the seven-product tax inspection to the deputy director of the five-product inspection department, and it is rumored that he is very likely to serve as the new director of the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation next year, if it is true, then he will set a record for the fastest promotion since the establishment of the grain collection department of the Ministry of Taxation.
During his inspection of local taxation, the officer raided a total of 183 homes, commanded a tax inspection team to annihilate more than 2,800 armed anti-tax elements, and after the various tax criminals arrested by him were transferred to justice, more than 670 people were sentenced to death, and more than 10,000 were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or exile.
But such a man should be a fierce god and evil, but he is dressed in a Confucian robe, his body is a little thin, and his face is white and pure.
This is clearly a thin and white scholar with a bookish face, how can it be that countless Zhili gentry and many tax officials are frightened Chen Rentu?