And from the sixth grade and below, this power is basically handed over to the provincial bureaucracy.

The reason why the power is lower is also a matter of no way, because there are more officials in the Tang Dynasty than in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and there are many more, of course, this kind of more just shows that there are more registered on the surface, but the public servants in time are about the same.

In a county in the Ming Dynasty, at most, there were only a few officials with grades, and in fact, the officials were in charge of the county order, and as for the many office workers in the county yamen, except for a very few who were of grade, most of them were hired by the county commander out of his own pocket.

The Tang Dynasty, on the other hand, officially included these people who were outside the formal establishment into the category of officials, and gave them the grades of eight or nine grades.

In such a situation, there are so many officials on the register that the ministry alone cannot manage them.

Therefore, it is also very important to share some power to the local government, otherwise, it will not be possible to handle so many official appointment affairs.

However, in order to avoid officials dominating the local area for a long time, even for low-level officials, the Tang Dynasty still implemented a firm and incomparable non-local appointment system.

Among them, the eighth-grade and ninth-grade officials are not allowed to serve in the county; Officials of the sixth and seventh grades are not allowed to serve in this government; The third, fourth, and fifth grades are not allowed to serve in this province, and of course, there are exceptions, that is, those who serve in various institutions directly under the central government are not among them.

After all, it can't be said that officials from Jinling City can't be allowed to serve in various departments of the central government!

For example, Chen Lifu is a person from Jinling, but he has always served in Jinling City!

But this is only limited to the central agency, if he wants to serve as a tax official of the Chengtian Mansion, it will not work!

The characteristics of the official system of the Tang Dynasty have basically been determined, the officials almost hold the power of life and death of officials below the third grade, and any official will not dare to have any neglect of the summons of the officials, and the same is true for Chen Lifu!

A few days later, he arrived at the ministry's headquarters, ready to make his debriefing report!

Speaking of which, he did a lot of this kind of thing a few years ago, because at that time, it didn't take long to be promoted to an official, and once he was promoted, he would come to the ministry to make a debriefing report.

Now that more than three years have passed, it's a little strange to do this kind of thing!

After entering the Ministry of Officials, he, the most powerful official in the world, was no different from other officials who came in a hurry to report on their work.

The lowest grade of these people is also a positive sixth-grade, and Chen Lifu even saw a few third-grade bigwigs from it!

Don't say that he is just a fifth-grade, even if he is a few third-grade bigwigs, although the aura of the whole person is unusual at a glance, but in this huge conference room, he is no different from ordinary people, and he is waiting for the summons of the Ministry of Literature and Literature!

After so many years of reform, although the names of the subordinate institutions may be the same as those of the Ming Dynasty, they are actually very different, such as the Department of Literature and Anthology, this institution in the Ming Dynasty, is basically responsible for the appointment of all civil officials, but in the Tang Dynasty, this institution is basically an evaluation body, the main job is to judge the work performance of officials, as for the power to decide on appointment, it is not in their hands, but in the Organization Department.

Or to be more precise, the departments under the Organization Department, the departments under the Organization Department, basically correspond to the provinces and central agencies, for example, there is the Guangdong Division, which is responsible for the appointment of officials in Guangdong Province.

For example, the tax department is responsible for the appointment of officials of the tax department, as well as the Liaodong office, the Jiangnan office, the overseas office, the court office, and so on.

And the person Chen Lifu wants to see is the person from the Anthology Division!

While waiting in the lobby outside, Chen Lifu finally wondered why outsiders would say that there are as many officials in Jinling as dogs!

Nima, I can't feel it outside on weekdays, but when I arrived at the Anthology Division, I saw that there were more than 100 people queuing up in such a small waiting room...... Well, just one!

Basically, all year round, this waiting room is crowded with people, queuing from morning to night, making a debriefing report, it is all a smell of sweat, not only Sven sweeps the floor, but also has no official authority.

Many people have a lot of resentment about this waiting room in the ministry, saying that there are two major moments on the way to the office. It's unbearable, and even turns into a lifetime of psychological scars!

The first is the search when participating in the imperial examination, which is a stripped naked search, so Sven won't talk about it!

The second is to go to the Anthology Division to make a debriefing report, which is also completely unprestigious, and Sven is swept away.

For this reason, some people often respond to the Ministry of Officials, saying that your Ministry of Officials is also an important institution with real power, and in the Imperial Cabinet Ministries, the real power is on a par with the Ministry of Taxation, so you can't make this waiting room for reporting work a little bigger, or simply divide a few more waiting rooms into one or two, and get more chairs and tables, and put tea and snacks and so on.

But every time it was directly rejected by the ministry, on the surface, there was a shortage of funds, this Jinling land is very expensive, it is really impossible to build a large waiting room, and the supply of tea and snacks is also very expensive, overwhelmed.

But behind the scenes, the people from the Wenxuan Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said: "When you come to the Wenxuan Division, no matter if you are the political envoy of the first province of Zhengsanpin, or the county order of Zhengliupin, you have to add up the tail to the official, and wait honestly!" ”

This waiting hall is actually a hint in my heart, that is, no matter how majestic you are outside, but when you come here, don't brush your official authority, it's the dragon that coils for me, and the tiger meows for me, otherwise you will line up every day and die in a hurry!

Seeing that those fourth-grade and even third-grade bigwigs were all sitting and waiting honestly, and then Chen Lifu also received the number plate and sat aside honestly, and several people also recognized Chen Lifu, and their faces flashed with surprise.

Why are they surprised, Chen Lifu naturally knows that he has been in the position of the director of the inspection department for three years, which is very abnormal, and now he has come to the Wenxuan Division, regardless of whether he is promoted or demoted in the end, or he is transferred, but he is definitely leaving the inspection department.

He can imagine it with his toes, it is estimated that in less than a day, the news of his transfer from the inspection office will come out in the entire capital, and in this way, I am afraid that many people will applaud and celebrate!

But they don't have to think about it, even if they are transferred, but the new head of the inspection department who takes over will let them go?

!

No matter who you are, as long as you sit in the position of the director of the inspection department, you will inevitably do what you do, and you may even be more ruthless than you do!

Because they are not cruel to others, they are the ones who die!

In the eyes of outsiders, tax inspection is very majestic, and when it comes to local inspection, it is equivalent to the existence of Qincha, with great real power, but this position is also very risky.

When you get to the place, if you can't find out the problem, then the career of this tax inspector is basically over, because if you can't find the problem, either because you are incompetent, or you are corrupted, and no matter what, don't expect to be able to keep your career.

So even if it is for the sake of their official hats and their own lives, after those tax inspectors arrive at the place, they will basically not be polite.

As the saying goes, being in his position to seek his own government, or the ass determines the head!

It's just that there aren't many people who can see through this!

They thought they would be able to be dashing if they were transferred, but was that possible?

Chen Lifu knew with his toes that the new director of the inspection department who would take over at that time would definitely take office as a new official in order to make achievements, and he didn't know how many tax evaders and evasors would be investigated at that time.

However, none of this has anything to do with me!

He opened the bamboo tube of water he carried with him and drank it, then took a sip of the tea that had been filled in advance, and then took out a piece of dim sum from the food box and put it in his mouth.

Judging from his experience of frequent debriefing in the past few years, he would have to wait for at least half a day to wait, and he would definitely not be able to catch up with lunch.

And the other people's department doesn't care about food, and there is no talk of keeping the number plate, if this person goes out of the door of the waiting hall to have lunch, the license plate will be withdrawn, and then in the afternoon you have to queue up again, and there is a chance that you can't line up, so you can only wait for tomorrow to come back.

Even if it is the water to drink, it is naturally there, but Chen Lifu is sure that the people in the ministry must have deliberately made it bad, and this tea is all inferior coarse tea, which is bitter together.

So, bring your own tea and snacks, which is a must for those who come to wait for the debriefing!

But there will always be someone who will come to report on his work for the first time, and there will be no other well-wishers to remind him, so he stupidly did not bring tea and snacks.

For example, a middle-aged obese man sitting opposite Chen Lifu now looked at the snacks in his hand frequently at first, and after a quarter of an hour, he saw him drinking water frequently, but his eyes at Chen Lifu's food box were more frequent.

Chen Lifu didn't see it at first, but this official is thick-skinned!

Chen Lifu didn't see him, but people ran over by themselves!

This time it is: "In the Lower Jinan Mansion, I know Cao Sheng, look at the appearance of Brother Tai, I am serving in the Beijing Division!" ”

When he spoke, his eyes were still aimed at the food box in Chen Lifu's hand.

What kind of person is Chen Lifu, the sleeves of the wide official robe were swept slightly, and the food box was covered, and then he replied: "Yes, Chen is working in Gyeonggi!" ”

This person immediately said: "The capital is good, Brother Chen can live and serve in a prosperous place for a long time, he must be happy!" ”

At this time, he glanced at it slightly, and saw that Chen Lifu had already covered the food box with wide sleeves, but his face remained unchanged, and he immediately said: "This official department is really not good, you see, several elderly people over there don't even have a position, I just went to the people in the ministry to say if you can have that chair, but guess what they say!" ”

Chen Lifu muttered in his heart: "What else can I say, I must not give it!" ”

If it weren't for the fact that he knew it wouldn't be easy to grab a seat, he wouldn't have come early in the morning, and he wouldn't have waited all day like everyone else!

But he didn't say anything, but let out a soft oh.

The man just snapped and said, "They didn't even give it, and said that there were no chairs, but some colleagues saw that there was a row of stools in the room next to them!" As soon as someone asked, the officials immediately moved away, saying that it was for other purposes, which was too much......"

"And ah, the people of this ministry don't even prepare a better tea and snacks, this tea is okay, although it is coarse tea, but it can barely quench your thirst, but this snack is too much, you must know that there are many people who go out early in the morning, and don't even eat breakfast, this is close to noon, and they are already hungry and dizzy......"

As he spoke, his eyes had already focused on Chen Lifu's sleeve robe, and under the sleeve robe was a food box, and there were snacks in the food box!