"Hey, it seems that I was wrong, this Lu County Commander's life is far from being as good as I thought before." After seeing the little girl Cui Mei leave, Lu Zhen sighed and made a judgment silently in his heart.

This is seven days after he entered the Guangling County Government as the county commander Lu Jin, and he has already seen some clues from the reactions and words of the people around him, as well as some things he can touch at hand.

Lu Zhen originally thought that Lu County made the young man ambitious and had a beautiful wife, which was really enviable. But after only living in the back office for two days, he found that the relationship between the two husbands and wives was extremely indifferent, there was almost no communication, and Lu Xianling, who was the husband, was actually driven to sleep in the study, which alone shows that he was at a complete disadvantage in the relationship between husband and wife.

You know, this is the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, the average man in the family is completely dominant, and it is the wife's day, how can it be completely reversed when it comes here?

For this reason, Lu Zhen knocked on Cuimei's body several times for a while. Fortunately, this little girl didn't have much scheming, and she didn't expect her master to change people, so he asked a lot of things about Lu Xianling and his wife Yunrong.

It turned out that Na Yunrong's surname was Chu, and he came from Suzhou City, Jiangnan, like Lu County Ling. Because the Chu and Lu families have always been good friends, especially the parents of both sides are close friends, they decided to marry the two early.

It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, Lu Xianling's father died when he was still a minor, and his mother also went soon after, so Lu Xianling could only rely on the help of his clansmen to live. Fortunately, he is quite smart, especially in reading, and he is also considered to be an upper-middle talent, and he was admitted to the third list of Tongjinshi at a young age, so that the rural people dare not be contemptuous.

But in the end, he has no parents since he was a child, so in terms of temperament, Lu Xianling seems a little weird. Not only is he a little greedy in money, but he is also a little timid, and after becoming an official, his character in this area has not been too restrained and improved.

As his fiancée, Chu Yunrong has long seen his character, so he naturally doesn't like it. It was only because of the previous marriage contract and his father's insistence that he had to marry before Lu County ordered Guangling to take office.

But the relationship between the husband and wife is extremely cold, because the Chu family's family background is far better than that of Lu County, and there are even officials in the court in the family, plus Chu Yunrong is beautiful and has a strong personality, so he actually ate his husband to death, so he didn't dare to make a mistake at all. Not to mention spitting at his wife like other husbands, he still has to look at Chu Yunrong's face and act, and he can't even have sex with him.

So since he came to Guangling County, Lu Xian Ling has been staying in the study on the side, and he hasn't even stepped into Chu Yunrong's room a few times, so he came back that night, so he let him go in and take a picture and say a few words of greeting.

After understanding all this, Lu Zhen expressed great sympathy for this Lu County Lingna, who had the same name and surname, but he couldn't touch such a flowery wife by his side, he must have had a very bad time during this time. And as far as what happened to him is concerned, it is understandable that he has become such a character today, as far as the investigation of later generations is concerned, every orphan who has lost his parents since childhood always has some mental illness to a greater or lesser extent. And Lu Xianling can still take the Jinshi exam at a young age under such circumstances - although he is the same Jinshi, but it is also the existence of the top two or three hundred candidates in the country - which shows that he is extraordinary.

And this is not the worst problem that Lu Xianling encountered, and later, Lu Zhen found that he was not only in an embarrassing position in the back yamen, but also in the official yamen, and there was not much prestige at all.

At the beginning, Lu Zhen was weak in heart and worried that he would be seen as flawed, so he always said that he was sick and hid in the back office to recuperate. After five days, I felt that if I didn't go out again, I would arouse suspicion, so I had to show up.

But what happened next surprised him, and the officials in the yamen were very respectful to him, the magistrate of the main hall, and even greeted him with a good greeting. But Lu Zhen found that on top of the second hall of the bookcase in his office, there were only a few documents that were not important, and there was no part of him in the decision.

Over the next two days, as he spent more time in front of him, the feeling of being deliberately ignored became more and more apparent. It was only when he brought some official documents that needed his seal that the county order was needed that the officials below would come with a smile, and when he scanned the contents, a few of them would look impatient.

What surprised Lu Jin even more was that those documents had already been instructed in the tone of a county order, and they didn't give him any place to write at all. His sole function was to affix his official seal to the officials after they handed in the documents, making them legitimate official documents.

After only a little temptation, Lu Jin knew that this was a common practice that had been implemented since the arrival of the Lu County Order, in other words, this Guangling County Commander did not have any power at all, only the share of being manipulated by others, and it was just a marionette in the hands of those local officials.

Lu Zhen has also read a lot about this kind of county order being hollowed out by his subordinates, which is also a drawback in the imperial court magistrate system.

Because according to the system of the imperial court, the liuguan is generally appointed once every three years when he arrives in the locality, and after the third term, he will be transferred to another place anyway, and there is a rule that he is an official in a different place - that is, officials from a certain government are not allowed to be local officials, which is to prevent officials from colluding with local forces because they are too familiar, resulting in a big tail.

However, many of the actual errands could not be handed over to officials who were completely unfamiliar with the local area, so the imperial court promoted many local officials to be assistants to the main court officials. As far as the county yamen is concerned, in addition to the county order and the county official, the chief bookkeeper (mainly in charge of clerical taxation), the canonical history (mainly in charge of the prison servants), and a series of other officials are all local people.

And these errand men don't have as many restrictions as the county order them, once they take office, they don't have a term of office, and they can occupy this position until they are old, or they don't want to do it anymore. Sometimes, this position can be passed on to one's children and nephews.

In this way, the power of the local lower-level officials has become extremely great, and in many cases they can even restrain their superiors in turn, so that the county commander has nothing to do with them. Because any county order wants to make achievements, it is indispensable to cooperate with the people below, once there is a conflict with them, not to mention that people oppose it openly, they are secretly doing something, or letting people pick a pick, it is enough for people to drink a pot.

Unless he is unusually strong and skillful, or a county commander with a deep background in the DPRK and China, he can fight a way to regain his power in such an intricate battle, otherwise in many cases he can only be at the mercy of these officials and become their puppets.

Of course, these local officials are not completely deprived of face for their bosses, after all, the other party still has room for development, and it is not good for them to stiffen the relationship. So as long as the county commander does not deliberately make enemies of them, they will also save some face for their superiors.

It's just that this kind of officialdom rule that leaves room for each other is more in the south or Gyeonggi important places, and as for some remote places, it's another matter entirely.

And what Lu Zhen is facing now is such a situation, the original Lu County Order was completely set up by the subordinates, and he didn't even have the power to speak, so he could only be responsible for stamping the official seal on the official document.

When he understood all this, Lu Jin's sympathy for Lu Xianling became more and more serious, on the surface, the other party who seemed to be the winner of life, both inside and out, was really aggrieved, and must have been very sad before. And what is even worse for this Lu County Commander is that he can't even live such a day, and he died outside in a daze, which is cheaper for him as an impostor.

And for such an embarrassing situation, Lu Zhen not only did not feel unhappy because of this, but felt a sense of relief in his heart, which was really a good thing for him.

Originally, he was worried that his identity as an imposter would be discovered for various reasons. For example, when dealing with the official affairs of those county offices, because of the ignorance of these matters or the misjudgment of the rules, people find that there is a big difference from the original county order.

This kind of thing, he can't always use brain injury to explain prevarication. But now it seems that things are much simpler, he doesn't even need to look carefully at the content of those official documents, as long as he stamps a seal on them like a machine, and he can be considered to have done it, where is the flaw?

As for the interaction with those subordinates, it is also very simple, often just a few empty scenes, plus they are obviously not very familiar with Lu County's order, so he actually let him be confused.

And the back office, which was originally the easiest to show the horse's feet, has also become much easier to deal with because of the indifferent relationship between Chu Yunrong and Lu Xianling. The two didn't even have any interaction, they just nodded when they met, and Lu Jin's secret was naturally easy to keep.

The only one who had more contact with him, except for a few handymen, was a green eyebrow. The latter was too naïve and a little careless, and he couldn't see any difference between him and the original master, and he only doubted it once, and he was quickly prevaricated by Lu Jin.

In this way, perhaps some of the circumstances that were quite sad for the original Lu County Order helped Lu Jin a lot, allowing him to pass the most dangerous period of time safely, and he believed that as long as a few more days passed, everyone would get used to the current Lu County Order, and no one would have any doubts.

As for seizing the power of the county government from people, Lu Zhen didn't even think about it, isn't it good to have such a carefree life, and he has to fight with people? Not every traveler likes to fight for power and profit, fight and kill.

The only thing that made Lu Jin a little uneasy was the war a few years later in his memory, and he only hoped that he could leave Guangling before this and go somewhere else to be an official.