In Dongchen Village, more than ten miles away on the outskirts of Jinling, the largest house in the village is the famous Chen Mansion in the nearby area!

The reason why this Chen Mansion is famous is not only because Chen Lifu is an official of the dynasty, but also because the Chen family is a well-known scholarly family in the nearby area, and even in the entire Jinling City.

There have been people who have been officials in the court for several generations, and in recent decades, they have become a four-jinshi, and such imperial examination results are quite rare even in Jiangnan, where the literary style is quite prosperous!

The four jinshi of the Chen family, the early two were Chen Lifu's father and uncle, and later Chen Lifu sergeant, as for the fourth person, he was a side disciple of the Chen family.

This is the story that created the Chen family's four jinshi!

However, the side clansman who was later admitted to the Jinshi actually has nothing to do with Chen Lifu, at most he is a distant cousin, but the clan concept in these years is still relatively strong, although he is a distant clan, but in the eyes of outsiders, he is still a member of the Chen family.

In addition to the fact that the relationship is not intimate, there is a more important reason that his distant cousin is a serious reader, and he will feel particularly righteous about himself, when he has not yet been admitted to the Jinshi, he announced in some public occasions that he has severed relations with Chen Lifu, after the Jinshi examination, in order to show the outside world that he and Chen Lifu, the traitor of the Ministry of Taxation, Chen Rentu is not a person all the way, and he directly said that he was not in harmony with Chen Lifu many times in public, and he also followed the trend twice to impeach Chen Lifu.

Therefore, this is said to be a distant cousin, but in fact, it is not an enemy, no, it is not an enemy, at most it is a stranger who excludes each other.

However, this relationship did not affect the prestige of the Chen family's four jinshi!

In the past, the Chen family private school only accepted the children of the Chen family, and later Chen Lifu on the one hand was to return to the township to win a false name, on the other hand, it was also in response to the imperial court's "encourage the gentry of the world to actively run schools" This call, so the scale of the Chen family private school was slightly expanded, and it began to recruit students from the surrounding villages, and at the same time changed its name: "Chen Village Primary School"

Today, this Chencun Primary School has more than 150 students, which is a relatively large scale among the many private primary schools that have been restructured from private schools.

In these years, except for a few private schools that have been specially based on large-scale schools from the beginning, most of them have been rebuilt from private schools, and the scale of private schools is usually not large, more than ten or twenty students are very common, more than thirty or fifty students are very rare.

And the teacher, there is generally only one, and there are fewer than two!

The Chen Village Primary School is also a primary school restructured from a private school, but the original scale is not small, and then it is backed by the Chen family, and more importantly, the name of the Chen family is quite loud, and the people in the nearby townships are willing to send their children here to study.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the fees of Chencun Primary School are not expensive, and the overall fees are similar to those of previous private schools, and ordinary families can afford them.

This Chen Cun Primary School can be regarded as a contribution made by Chen Lifu to his hometown.

And today, those children in Chencun Primary School found that the person who came to teach them was not the teacher of the past, but a middle-aged man with a white face and beard, and the descendants of the Chen family with a good memory immediately recognized that this middle-aged man was none other than the old man who even respected the elderly people in the family had to respectfully accompany and talk!

Master, this word is in contemporary times, although officials, gentry, and the head of a small landlord's family can be called so, but in Dongchen Village, it can be called Lord by people in public, and there is a big word added in front of it, that must be Chen Lifu.

There is no other reason, because Chen Lifu is the eldest son of the Chen family, and he is also the head of the Chen family, and he is also the pillar of the Chen family and an official of the imperial court.

When Chen Lifu served in the inspection department two years ago, it was very powerful, and even the Chen family was also majestic, and when he said that he was a child of the Chen family in Jinlingdong, most people were very proud.

As for the other member of the Chen family who was admitted to the Jinshi, he is still only a seventh-grade official, and he has become a county magistrate in Hunan, and he is still 108,000 miles away from Chen Lifu's political status.

But why did Chen Lifu appear here, wasn't he transferred to Xingquan Mansion as the prefect? Why haven't you taken office yet?

That's right, Chen Lifu really hasn't taken office yet, or more precisely, he doesn't know if he can still take office!

After the investigation of the Ministry of Officials, Chen Lifu was arranged to serve as the prefect of Xingquan Mansion, the land of Longxing, and this position can be said to be one of the best prefect positions for local officials, because this place is the land of Longxing, and the political meaning is different.

Even if you don't do anything in office, as long as you survive the term, then the promotion is certain.

Although Chen Lifu did not understand his appointment, he was still quite satisfied, because according to the convention, he should have been promoted within the Ministry of Taxation, but he did not expect that he would be sent to the local government to serve as the prefect, and this appointment is definitely not in line with the convention.

Officials of the Ministry of Taxation are usually promoted internally, but Chen Lifu picked out this framework, which means that he can follow the path of prefect, political envoy, governor, and squire like ordinary officials in the future, and at the same time, it is estimated that he will be able to return to the Ministry of Taxation in the future.

His experience as a tax and magistrate means that Chan will have a significant advantage over other officials.

But just as he was about to go to Xingquan Mansion to take up his post, the officials gave him an urgent order, saying that the appointment of Xingquan Mansion was canceled and he would be appointed another one.

Chen Lifu didn't know why such an accident happened, and he guessed that someone might have stumbled on him.

There are many people who have offended him in the inspection department, and there are many people who wish they were unlucky, and many of them have the ability to create obstacles for themselves, especially when they are not in the tax system.

But this is just his conjecture, the appointment was suddenly canceled, and after a few days, he learned that the ministry had already arranged for someone else to go to Xingquan Mansion to serve as the prefect, which also meant that the position of the prefect of Xingquan Mansion was lost.

It doesn't matter if this position is lost, the key thing is that he has been removed from his position as the head of the inspection department before.

What does it mean that the old job is gone, and the new job is gone? This means that he is now a candidate with no rank, but no actual dispatch.

Chen Lifu also used his connections to inquire about something, but only inquired that his appointment was suppressed by the high-level officials of the ministry, and it was rumored that he was a big man at the level of a waiter.

The officials have a complete set of personnel in their hands, and this official is a servant of the ministry, regardless of the left and right, they are all officials with real power in the current dynasty, and they can maintain a tough attitude towards the books of other departments!

When he knew that his appointment might have been suppressed by one of the two ministers, he could guess that he must have encountered something, and it was a big deal.

After more than ten years of ups and downs in officialdom, he immediately felt that something was wrong, so on the one hand, he mobilized his relationship to continue to inquire, and at the same time, he also met with several top bosses of the grain collection department to see if he could find out what he had done.

I've been waiting for more than half a month, what do you have to wait for?

He was upset in the city, so he simply returned to the old mansion, anyway, it was useless to be in a hurry, there must be a reason to hang up and down like this, and at his own level, he couldn't get in touch with this reason.

So now, whether someone wants to deliberately suppress himself, or really has other arrangements for himself, he can only continue to wait.

After waiting, he also came to Chencun Primary School to give a lecture, mainly to distract himself and teach children about enlightenment, to be honest, he is not good at it.

Although he accepted a few disciples in his early years, he also had a background of being a student, and those disciples worshipped him as a teacher and studied the imperial examination, but they did not seek enlightenment from him.

But now, he is too lazy to care about these, anyway, it is just a distraction, and teaching these children enlightenment is also a different experience.

He still cares a lot about Chencun Primary School, in order to build this primary school, the Chen family has invested a lot of money, and for the sake of reputation, the tuition fee charged is not expensive, but the tuition fee is not expensive, which does not mean that the teacher's salary is also cheap.

In the entire Chencun Primary School, there are a total of six teachers, plus a number of idle personnel, a total of nearly ten people, those teachers, the lowest salary per month is also ten taels of silver, and the principal is from the young military camp, the senior teacher who taught in Jinling Nancheng Primary School before, and he was dug with a high salary, otherwise people would not come at all.

This principal gets an annual salary, and the starting salary is five hundred taels of silver a year, and then there are all kinds of festivals, bonuses, etc., and I can't beat it without eight hundred taels of silver a year!

And that's it, people will give you classes for most of the year for more than half a year, and two months a year are paid holidays!

The salaries and expenses of teachers and employees in the entire primary school, teaching consumables and other expenses are at least three or four thousand taels of silver in a year.

According to this cost, relying on the tuition fees of students alone is definitely not enough, and the Chen family has to fill in a lot every year, but the Chen family has a big business, and this little money is nothing to them.

When people first expanded their enrollment, it was clear that they were spending money to buy fame, otherwise, they would either have only one or two teachers or raise tuition fees, just like other private elementary schools.

Chen Lifu came to be a teacher, just to adjust temporarily, and he was more concerned about his own future.

After waiting for more than a month, Chen Lifu finally waited for his new appointment, but when he saw the appointment letter, he was a little puzzled.

Treasury? I've never heard of this institution!