Chen Lifu, who took office, did not immediately carry out a major reorganization of the inspection department as outsiders imagined, but went to work every day safely and steadily, handling ordinary official documents, and many things were done in accordance with the guidelines specified by the previous inspection department.

And this also relieved many people who were dissatisfied or worried about Chen Lifu!

To tell the truth, many people are very worried that after Chen Lifu becomes the acting director of the inspection department, a new official will take office three times, and the inspection department will be a chicken.

Even if there are no new officials taking office, but according to Chen Lifu's practice of inspecting local taxation in the past, it will also set off huge storms, Chen Lifu has been inspecting places in the past two years, almost every place he goes, it will cut off the heads of countless people, otherwise, how do you think his nickname of Chen Rentu came from.

That's a kill!

In the entire Tang Dynasty, there were countless officials of all kinds, even the powerful agency of the Grain Collection Department, and even within the inspection department, no one could directly or indirectly cause thousands of deaths and more than 10,000 people were sentenced or exiled in just two years like Chen Lifu.

Compared with Chen Lifu, the patrol officers in the patrol police department who investigate cases, even if they are star patrol officers who have handled many cases, are not worth mentioning.

Even the generals in the military, many generals do not have Chen Lifu's great achievements!

It is said that one general will have ten thousand bones, but except for those senior generals who have served as the commanders of the main force for a long time, most of the colonels, some brigadier generals, and even a few major generals, the number of enemies they commanded and annihilated by the troops was not as large as Chen Lifu's!

It can be said that Chen Lifu has won against Chen Lifu in terms of the number of enemies destroyed, and he is basically the commander of the main infantry division!

However, comparing the generals with Chen Lifu is an insult to Chen Lifu, because the generals are commanding troops to annihilate the enemy on the battlefield, and he is just inspecting taxes.

It is precisely because of Chen Lifu's 'great achievements' in the past that many people are worried that after Chen Lifu acts as the director of the inspection department, he will set off a storm of raiding his family and exterminating the family, just like when he inspected the local tax department before!

But such a person who frightened countless people, after taking office as the acting director of the inspection department, did not make any big moves, and even when he presided over the work of the inspection department, he was handled in accordance with the regulations left by the previous director, making people almost imperceptible to his presence.

This kind of thing, in the eyes of many people, is not normal.

But in the eyes of the secretary of the Ministry of Taxation, the minister on duty in the imperial study, Qian Aoli, this is the performance that Chen Lifu should have!

Although there is only a difference between the director of the inspection department and the deputy director, the nature of the work of the two is completely different, the deputy director needs to inspect the place, and when inspecting the place, the means are naturally necessary, otherwise how to shock those tax evasion thieves?

However, after becoming the director of the inspection department, there are many things that do not need to be done by himself, and at this time, the most important task for the inspection director is to maintain the health of the national tax system.

If there is a problem there, send a tax inspector directly!

You don't need to go out yourself!

And this, that is, the difference between high-ranking officials and middle-level officials!

Although the position of the director of the inspection department is only the fifth grade, in the official system of Datang and within the Ministry of Taxation, he definitely belongs to the ranks of high-ranking officials, and no one will dare to despise Chen Lifu because of the grade of the fifth grade.

This can be seen from the internal high-level meeting of the Ministry of Taxation, Chen Lifu, the acting director, who is already qualified to participate!

When Qian Aoli presided over the meeting of the Ministry of Taxation, the participants were generally the directors of various departments, and at the director level, he was the only one, Chen Lifu, although he was only listening in the back, unless someone took the initiative to ask, otherwise he was not qualified to take the initiative to speak in the meeting.

However, this audit treatment is also the only one in the system of the Ministry of Taxation, and the directors of other departments do not have this treatment.

Chen Lifu's promotion has attracted a lot of attention, but this is because of Chen Lifu's personal particularity and the importance of the inspection department, but then again, even if he is concerned, Chen Lifu is still only a middle-level official in the political ecosystem of the Tang Dynasty, and he can enter Li Xuan's sight, but he still can't make Li Xuan pay attention.

If you want Li Xuan to pay attention to Chen Lifu, he must at least become the director of the grain collection department!

And Chen Lifu wants to become the director of the grain collection department, don't look at the difference between the director and the director, but you have to know that the director of the inspection department is only the fifth grade, but the director of the grain collection department is the third grade, and the difference between the two is big.

Otherwise, there are nearly 20 second-grade officials at the same level as Shangshu and Monk Shushu in the Tang Dynasty, and there are nearly 100 second-grade officials at the same level as Shilang and Shilang, which does not include officials with low grades but very important positions.

The above are only people in the civil service.

There are also dozens of generals in the military who can make Li Xuan pay attention, all of them are above the rank of major general.

There are many high-level officials and generals, how can Li Xuan have time to pay attention to a five-grade official.

In today's Tang Dynasty, if you want Li Xuan to pay attention, if you don't have a special position, you have to at least be a third-grade person, otherwise Li Xuan won't be bothered to take care of it.

Chen Lifu's career path, many people pay attention to it, Li Xuan, they don't feel anything, although Chen Lifu's acting director was personally approved by him, but he is just a routine.

Chen Lifu's appointment was jointly recommended by several bigwigs from the Ministry of Taxation, and after being reviewed by the Ministry of Officials, he was sent to Li Xuan together with several other candidates, and Li Xuan only glanced at the resumes of the four candidates at that time, and then approved Chen Lifu's appointment.

The approval of Chen Lifu's appointment was just a routine matter for Li Xuan, and it was just a matter of many decisions he made when he led the army to conquer the southwest, and there were countless decisions that were more important and more influential than this choice.

For example, Li Xuan, who had just arrived in Jiangxia in Wuchang, received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by a request from the King of the Ryukyus for tribute and canonization, and said that the King of the Ryukyus was now staying in Shanghai, waiting for the summons of the Son of Heaven.

This matter is much more important than Chen Lifu's matter, because this is still the first feudal state among many traditional Chinese feudal states to take the initiative to request canonization!

And this kind of initiative to request canonization is different from Tatar Altan Khan, Altan Khan asked for active canonization at that time, that was forced to helpless, Altan Khan felt threatened, and wanted to use the request for canonization, mutual markets, etc., to ease the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, not to mention, so far, the negotiations between the two sides have not ended, and they are arguing.

However, judging from the news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the peace talks between the two sides should reach an agreement, and eventually the Tang Dynasty will canonize Altan Khan, and the two sides will trade with each other.

Now the two sides are arguing for some details, such as the title, the form of canonization, and then the details of the mutual market, etc., but overall, the difference is not big, after a period of time, the two sides are estimated to reach an agreement, but even if the problem is not big, but after all, there is no relevant agreement, and the canonization is naturally impossible.

And the Ryukyus request for canonization is pure, without other messy things, and without any additional strings attached!

There are several excerpts on this matter, there are those of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are also those of the navy, and the excerpts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are very suitable for publication, which says that the king of the Ryukyus admires Chinese culture and the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty, and is willing to be a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, and that in order to accept the Chinese culture and civilize the people, he specially implores the Tang Dynasty to send a number of cultural, administrative and military advisers to help them educate the people and establish a new armed force.

This is an excerpt from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and what it says is called a good one, whoever believes it is stupid!

Because the navy's excerpt says that at the end of last year, the fourth squadron under the command of the Navy's Second Fleet, while pursuing pirates, discovered that many pirates were harboring on Ryukyu Island, and in order to eliminate the pirates, they resolutely and resolutely launched a landing operation!

The 500 marines in the fleet swept across the Ryukyu Islands, and both the pirates entrenched in them and the small army of the Ryukyu king were all defeated by the 500 marines!

In the end, they succeeded in annihilating a number of pirates entrenched on the island, as well as several ministers of the Ryukyu king who connived at these pirates, and captured the Ryukyu king!

Needless to say, under the persuasion of the ships and guns of the Fourth Fleet, the Ryukyu kings simply expressed that they were willing to become vassals of the Tang Dynasty, accept the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, and accept the cultural, administrative, and military advisers sent by the Tang Dynasty, and expressed their willingness to accept the guidance of the Tang Dynasty on their internal affairs, foreign affairs, military and other tasks.

In the preliminary agreement signed by the two sides, it was clearly stipulated that the Ryukyu Kingdom would follow the Tang system, implement reforms, and establish a cabinet, and the ministers of the cabinet must be reviewed and approved by the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the King's Guard, which is about 500 people, must be concurrently served by active soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the transfer of this unit needs to be approved by the military chief of the Tang Dynasty stationed in Ryukyu!

At the same time, the King's Guard can only be an army, not a navy!

The merchants of the Tang Empire can freely travel to and from the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the Tang military can freely be stationed in any suitable place.

To put it bluntly, he completely turned the king of the Ryukyus into a puppet!

Well, these things are said to be a little more subtle, and to put it more bluntly, the Ryukyu Kingdom has become a colony of the Tang Dynasty!

According to the thinking of those people in the navy, how can such an important place in the Ryukyus not be controlled, colonization or something is too weak, and puppets are too weak, and they can be annexed directly!