In the middle of the night, the autumn insects kept chirping, and in a house in Anyi County, the candle flame was flickering. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Guo Jia had fallen asleep leaning there, he was tired these days, and his weak body was a little unbearable.

Zhang Liao hadn't slept yet, he was checking the news that the Shadow Division and the scouts had inquired about in the past few days, mainly the situation of the county and several Peng Shi, including their names, surnames, origins, political achievements and reputations.

The first fire of his new official was naturally to burn from the personnel level, and if he could not control these county officials, then all ideas and decrees would be empty talk.

However, there are many county officials under the command of Taishou, including four categories: discipline, supervision, subordinates, and Zhucao, with a total of nearly 100 people, and Zhang Liao cannot burn all the fires, otherwise he will not be able to do anything about it.

So he has to start from the most important positions, the available ones are left behind, and the unusable ones are swept away.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao also served as a county official in Yanmen, and he knows a lot about the inside situation, and he can also grasp the key points.

Under the Taishou, the first deputy is the county officer, with a rank of 600 stones, a bronze seal and a black ribbon, and assists the Taishou to manage the county government

The rest are county officials, that is, Zhu Cao's Peng and history, all of which are recruited from the local area. Peng, Shi Cao deals with county affairs, Peng is the main position, history is the deputy position, but there are only those who set up history, such as Gong Cao only has the history of Gong Cao, and does not set up Peng, then the history is the length of a Cao. Each Cao also has a book for handling documents. Three elders were also set up to help promote administrative administration and education.

Among the county officials, Gong Cao Shi, Wuguan Peng and the main book have the highest status and the greatest power, which is called Gang Ji and ranks 200 stones. The second is the five superintendents, which are divided into east, west, north, south, and middle, each supervising the officials of several counties under the county, and they also have great power. Then there are the history and books of the thief Cao, the decisive Cao, the Hu Cao, the Cang Cao, and the Fa Cao.

Time is pressing, the importance is orderly, and Zhang Liao's first focus is on four positions, Juncheng, Gongcao Shi, Master Bookkeeper and Thief Cao.

It is said that the county is the same as him, he is appointed by the central government, parachuted into the county, and he is a rootless tree, as the deputy of the Taishou, if the county is not too trustworthy, his power is not enough.

But his county Cheng Wangyi is a little special, in Hedong Taishou vacancy for more than a year, Wang Yi has been acting as the political affairs of Hedong County, already rooted, and Wang Yi once served as the chief of Lishi, Lishi is one of the twenty counties of Hedong County, so Wang Yi is also considered to be an old Hedong.

And he saw Wang Yi's information, his ancestral home is from Niyang in the north, and he is a fellow countryman with Li Dao, and Wang Yi served as a county chief from Lishichang, and it was also when Li Dao was crusading against Baibo in Hedong, so he had to wonder if there was any relationship between the two.

However, judging from Wang Yi's comments in the past year, he is still a good official, he gets along well with the local wealthy families, and he is also more diligent.

Time is in a hurry, and there is not much news from the Shadow Division, judging from the available information, Zhang Liao still recognizes the county of Wangyi, although he does not have the courage to resolve the chronic disease, but he is a pragmatic and law-abiding official for the people.

Now, Zhang Liao only sees that he is disobedient, if he always disagrees with himself, then he can't stay, if he can be with himself, he is a good executor.

So Zhang Liao put down Juncheng Wangyi first, and he had to observe for a while.

In addition to Jun Cheng, the next thing is Gong Cao Shi, seeing Gong Cao Shi Weigu's information, Zhang Liao frowned suddenly.

Gong Cao Shi is the first person among the county officials, in charge of personnel, in charge of the assessment, rewards and punishments and appointments of other Peng history, and can participate in all the government affairs of a county, known as the prime minister of the Taishou Mansion, especially the Gong Cao Shi is almost all from the local wealthy family, with deep roots and dense leaves, and the Taishou government relies on him the most.

Since the middle of the Later Han Dynasty, the local wealthy clans have grown day by day, the power of the imperial court has been declining, and the local counties at all levels have a term of office, and the Peng Shi bureaucrats are mostly hereditary of the wealthy clans.

There is even a precedent of Taishou and Gongcao being at odds with the history, and Taishou was finally defeated and transferred! It was only because the imperial court had to rely on local wealthy families to maintain stability that it had to compromise.

It can be said that since the middle of the Later Han Dynasty, the county officials and the wealthy families were inseparable, and the wealthy families recommended their children to become county officials, and these county officials, in turn, safeguarded the interests of the wealthy families and formed a dense net that was difficult to break.

Now Zhang Liao's Gong Cao Shi is also from a wealthy family, named Wei Gu, the word Zhongjian, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a strong personality, born in Hedong Wei, the leading wealthy family in Hedong. However, this Wei clan and Wei Zhongdao's Wei clan are not the same family. Wei Zhongdao is a family of poetry and books, but the Wei Gu family is from a strong background.

Since Wei Gu served as Gong Cao Shi, the county prince has been compromising with him, Wei Gu manipulated the local government, and wantonly appointed clansmen, and now there are more than a dozen people among the county officials who are from the Wei family, and this force cannot be underestimated.

In particular, Weigu occupies a large area of salt fields on the side of the salt pond, and the clansmen have many things to occupy the people's fields, and there is a large fort dock, which has privately accepted thousands of parts, plus the clan, guests, and vassals, there are tens of thousands of people in the fort dock, and the money and silk mountains are accumulated, and the wealth exceeds that of the princes.

The employment of people, salt fields, people's fields, tribes, and attached people are all the focus of Zhang Liao's next step in governance, and they will inevitably violate Wei Gu's interests, so Wei Gu cannot stay.

It's just that this Wei Gu is very prestigious in the township, and he often uses the collected grain money to help the clan and the township, and subsidizes the weddings and funerals of the people in the township, which is supported by the township. This is also the most commonly used way of the Hao family, such as Zhang Miao, Bao Xin, Wang Kuang, etc., so they can recruit troops in the local area and be supported by everyone. And Weigu also uses this extremely well.

The second is that there are many aliens and bandits in Hedong, and Wei Gu took the opportunity to privately recruit his troops and borrowed clan weapons to protect the people in the township from the suffering of war, and became the mainstay of maintaining local security.

Therefore, although he was domineering, expropriating and encroaching on people's land, he was also supported by many villagers. Zhang Liao wants to move him, I'm afraid the backlash will not be small.

The greatest strength of the wealthy families is not financial resources, but their complete control of the place, and their deep foundations, how difficult it is to shake their foundations.

However, it is not without opportunities, in the peaceful and prosperous era, without constraints, the wealthy family will become more and more expanded, with more and more fields, and the power will become stronger and stronger. And their essence is greedy, even if they benefit the people, but they are only a small part of the clan and dependent villagers, most of the people are suffering from it, they swell to a certain extent, they will force the people to be displaced, and rise up, this is the beginning of the troubled times.

In the troubled times, there is a lack of restraints, and the force is strong, and there are many ways to deal with these powerful people, and the fastest means is to cut through the chaos with a quick knife and directly wipe out the family.

But the sequelae of this are also very large, it will cause a backlash, and once the reputation is bad, it will be quite detrimental to Zhang Liao's control of other states and counties in the future.

So Zhang Liao needs a justifiable opportunity to implement, in fact, he doesn't need to destroy all the strong and powerful, that is to be the enemy of the whole world, what he wants to do is to "suppress the strong and help the weak", although there is also a lot of resistance, but it is much better than raiding the family and exterminating the family.

For Wei Gu, the first thing is to take his merits, this position is too important, it is in charge of the assessment and appointment and dismissal of local officials, Zhang Liao must appoint a trusted, honest, and fair person to do it.

As for how to take him down, it depends on his own performance. (To be continued.) )