After having this grade, then it is basically the second-in-command of Gangnam Province, and the level of Gangnam Province's political participation is comparable.

After the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture was upgraded, Shanghai County could also be changed to a special county in Shanghai, with two more words, just to show particularity and make arrangements.

The magistrate of Shanghai's ad hoc county has a grade of positive four grades, which is equivalent to the same knowledge of Songjiang Prefecture after the reform!

The other counties of Songjiang Province remain the same!

There is no way, although the economy of this place is too concentrated, the chief official does not have enough grade, can not suppress the field, and it is easy to cause turmoil.

If the officials of Zheng Sipin were sent to Shanghai by the central government, then the fool would know that he had a great future, and he would not mess around like Zhou Lide before.

The previous Zhou Lide was only a sixth-grade official, and he was already in his forties, even if he had a resume as a county magistrate in Shanghai, but in this life, he didn't expect to be an official above the fourth-grade level, and there was no hope of promotion.

Most of his predecessors thought the same way!

Therefore, Li Xuan's first step in reforming Shanghai and Songjiang Mansion is to upgrade Songjiang Mansion and improve Shanghai's administrative level, pay attention to it, and then make better arrangements.

Li Xuan has decided so, the people below naturally have no opinions, and if they have opinions, they have to swallow them back into their stomachs, do you dare to oppose the opinion of the Son of Heaven?

It's just that in this way, the many candidates who were prepared before can't be used, those are all officials of the sixth grade, and now the county orders of the ad hoc counties in Shanghai have become the four grades, which is naturally not matched.

But in this way, those ministers did not complain much, but were even more happy!

It is still a little troublesome for them to choose a county order of positive six products, but it is not easy to choose a county order of positive four products!

First of all, there are only a few hundred candidates who can be qualified for this level, and then filtered according to their ability and resume, it is estimated that there are only dozens left.

Then, although this broken place is a county, but the economy is larger than a province, all must be people with outstanding ability, and they must also be people who are in Zhenglong, so in this election, there are not many candidates, and finally the officials are picking and picking, and finally they make up a list of exactly ten candidates!

The ten people above are all middle-level officials who have been relatively famous in recent years, and behind each person's file resume, there is an evaluation of the four words of loyalty to the monarch, in other words, they are all objects that the empire is preparing to focus on, and their names, Li Xuan has more or less heard of them.

In the end, Li Xuan did not arrange it for the imperial study, and the Ministry of Officials did not have this authority, but even if the Ministry of Officials had authority, it is estimated that Ma Wei would not have the courage to decide directly.

Don't talk about him, even Liu Bagou is not willing to get involved in the in Shanghai now!

Shanghai is a special county, the county order of the fourth grade, and it is also made by the Son of Heaven, it can be seen from this point alone, that the broken place is very sensitive, and if something goes wrong, it will affect itself.

For example, if the person they recommended went to Shanghai to be the county magistrate, and then embezzled millions of taels of silver again, even if it was an important minister of the empire like Liu Bagou, he would inevitably have to take off his skin!

Therefore, Liu Bagou and the other ministers on duty were very clever in pretending not to know about this, and let the officials directly send the list of the last ten candidates to the Son of Heaven, and let the Son of Heaven make the final decision.

Now this matter, except for the Son of Heaven to make a decision himself, in fact, there is no very good way!

If it is a decision made by the Son of Heaven, and the selected person does a good job, it is naturally the Son of Heaven who is wise and great, and his eyes are like torches.

If the person elected by the Son of Heaven is also corrupt in the end, then it is this person who has failed the high hopes of the Son of Heaven and should be killed, and the Son of Heaven has been deceived by this corrupt official.

In this case, only Li Xuan can choose people without pressure.

When Li Xuan opened this list, he felt that the names on it were all a little familiar, and several of them were not only familiar, but also very familiar, and the name of one of them aroused his interest: Chen Lifu!

Li Xuan is not a stranger to Chen Lifu, he has met a few times before and after, and he is also a young official who has heard of this many times in many things before, and he also agrees with this person in his heart.

But let him serve as the county magistrate of the ad hoc county in Shanghai? Li Xuan was a little hesitant!

His name was selected into the list of ten candidates, Chen Lifu, as the party concerned, didn't know it at first, but there is no impermeable wall in this world, not to mention, this matter is not a secret, when the Ministry of Officials submits the list of candidates, they all follow the formal way, not the secret channel.

So there are quite a few people who know the specific list of candidates!

The first to know was naturally the staff of the Ministry of Officials, because the name of Chen Lifu was chosen by them.

The people of the Ministry of Officials selected Chen Lifu into the list of ten people, and naturally they also had their own reasons!

It is true that these officials in the Ministry of Officials, in fact, few people like people like Chen Lifu, in the officialdom, many people are too violent for Chen Lifu to do things, and the murderous spirit is too heavy, look at how many people he killed when he served in the inspection department of the Ministry of Taxation.

These officials, even if they are officials of the Tang Empire, whether they are left over from the Ming Dynasty or brought in through the Tang Imperial Examination, but in the final analysis, they are still scholars.

And the scholars are inseparable from the group of gentry and landlords!

Even the officials who have been admitted to universities in recent years and entered the imperial examination have all abandoned the Four Books and Five Classics and devoted themselves to studying new disciplines, and then they have been admitted to the imperial examination and become officials of the Tang Dynasty, but in their bones, they are still scholars, and they are combined with the traditional gentry, landlords and businessmen.

This situation will not change because of the change of dynasty and the reform of the imperial examination.

Therefore, many Datang officials actually despise some of Chen Lifu's behaviors, but their inner thoughts are inner thoughts, and work is work.

On the side of the Ministry of Officials, after so many years, there has long been a complete set of perfect systems for selecting officials, and even Ma Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, is difficult to change easily.

When selecting candidates, personal preferences are not important, what matters is the candidate's resume, and then various ratings.

is very helpless, Chen Lifu's resume is quite perfect, and the evaluation is also quite high, among officials of the same level, it is almost a first-class existence, even if it is someone who hates him, he can't brush him down with personal preferences.

Otherwise, he was impeached by his political opponents casually, saying why Chen Lifu was not selected, is there something greasy in the selection process? Then the career of this official is over.

Those who are officials, who don't have a few political opponents, needless to say others, colleagues around them, subordinates, and bosses all have to be guarded against!

Subordinates want to pull you down and then take it yourself.

Colleagues want to take you out and gain a greater competitive advantage to get to the top.

The boss is also suppressing you, for fear that you will make trouble and pull him down.

Becoming an official is very dangerous, and taking a wrong step is a catastrophe.

Therefore, many times as an official, he is actually involuntarily, and he often dislikes a person even if he opposes it in his heart. I have to force myself to smile at him.

Chen Lifu relied on his perfect resume as an official for many years, so that the selection officials of the Ministry of Officials were almost impeccable, and finally pinched his nose and put him in the list of ten people.

Of course, if he is put in, Chen Lifu wants to become the county magistrate of Shanghai's special county, and the possibility is very small.

Because Chen Lifu just took office as the right deputy director of the Financial Department, it was only less than three months in total, and before that, he also served as the governor of Xingquan Mansion for a short period of half a month.

That is to say, in just over three months, Chen Lifu has changed from the director of the inspection department of Zhengwupin, to the prefect of Xingquan Mansion of Zhengsipin, and then to the right deputy director of the financial department of Zhengsipin.

In this case, in a short period of time, Chen Lifu's position and grade will basically not change for at least a year, otherwise, the unspoken rules of officialdom promotion in the entire empire will be chaotic.

However, this time, the selection of special counties and county orders in Shanghai was quite special, and the Son of Heaven personally ordered special affairs to be done to select outstanding talents from all over the country.

In this case, Chen Lifu is in line with this position.

But even so, it is unlikely that Chen Lifei really wants to become the county magistrate of Shanghai's ad hoc county.

Chen Lifu himself knew it, so when he heard that he had become a candidate for the special county magistrate in Shanghai, he just smiled!

Now he has a firm foothold in the financial department, although he has made some achievements, but there is still a period of time before the transfer!

Besides, he himself has no experience in governing the local government, so he went directly to be the county magistrate of Shanghai, and he was not afraid that he would make a mess of Shanghai, he was afraid of himself!

According to his assumptions, the biggest possibility for him in the future is to be transferred to become an ordinary prefect, and it would be better if he could be promoted to become a provincial envoy, but as for the direct promotion to the director of the department in Gyeonggi, this possibility is not very likely.

If he, the deputy director, wants to be promoted to the director according to the normal procedure, don't look at the gap of only one grade, but in fact it is several levels behind, even if he is promoted to the third grade, he has to train for a few years in other ordinary positions from the third grade, and then it is possible to become a real power from the third grade like Xie Yiwei.

Therefore, Chen Lifu felt that it was impossible for him to become the county magistrate of Shanghai's ad hoc county!