The official from Shandong talked a lot and was very humorous, and he became acquainted with Ma Shaoguang in less than a few minutes.

"This Shangguan, Xiaguan is from Jiangxi, surnamed Chen Shuming, and the cursive character is Zhao! I don't know what adults are called? ”

Ma Shaoguang knows that this guy wants to have a relationship, but officialdom pays attention to multiple friends and multiple paths, since he wants to make friends with himself, why not do it?

"It turned out to be Lord Chen, the official's surname is Ma Shaoguang, the cursive character is Heng, and he has spent forty-one years this year!"

"It turned out to be Brother Ma, Brother Ma can call the little brother by his name!"

Ma Shaoguang and this Chen Shuming were chatting here, when they heard a commotion from the front of the team.

Ma Shaoguang couldn't see anything clearly in front of him, and couldn't help asking, "Brother Chen Xian, what's wrong with the front?" ”

Chen Shuming pursed his lips and said, "It's nothing more than that magistrate pretending to be an uncle at the door, and he was reprimanded by the secretary of the organization department!" The younger brother has been here for half a month, and I have seen a lot of this kind of thing. The prefects of many places came here and thought that they were still the same as the localities, and they drank five or six of these books. They don't want to know, what is this place? The place in charge of your official fortune, can you come here to pretend to be an uncle? A little manager of the promotion department can clean you up, and make a note of the crooked mouth and eyes in your file and it's over! ”

The most important point in the selection of officials in the Ming Dynasty is to look at the appearance, if you look tall and starry, such a person will definitely be able to be a big official. On the contrary, if you have sharp-beaked monkey gills and roe deer-headed rats, let alone become an official, it is not certain whether your fame can be retained.

However, everything has a special aspect, if you look good and don't take money to offer it, you will naturally become a roe deer. No matter how ugly the appearance is, if you give Wenxuan Shilang Zhongyinzi, you can also become a beautiful man like Pan An and Song Yu, so the most important thing is money.

Chen Shuming has been angry a lot here in the Organization Department for about half a month, and now the conversation box is open and the Organization Department is scolded from the middle to the bottom of the Editorial Department, the principal, the pen post, the inheritance, and the lowest level of the bookstore.

When Chen Shuming scolded the bookstore, the clerk's office blocking the door at the entrance of the organization department ran to the back sweating profusely, shouting as he ran: "That is Master Ma?" That is the master of Zhizhou in Yong'an Prefecture, Guangxi? ”

Ma Shaoguang heard the book office call himself and quickly stood up and said: "This book office, the next official is Ma Shaoguang of Yong'an Zhizhou!" Ma Shaoguang is a five-grade person, more than 20 levels stronger than the non-mainstream bookstore, but there is no way, he has to bow his head under the eaves, and Ma Shaoguang can only whisper in front of the bookstore.

Now this secretary has changed his arrogance just now, and he can't even wipe the sweat on his forehead, so he hurriedly took Ma Shaoguang's hand and said, "It turns out that Master Ma is here, okay!" Please go in with the villain.,Wenxuan Shiro Nakabayashi is invited! ”

In the eyes of these low-level officials, Wenxuan Shilang is the sky, because your official career is in Langzhong's words, saying hello you will make you prosperous, and saying that you are bad can make you doomed. Now Wen Xuan Shilang is going to meet a low-level official, which immediately stunned the friends around Ma Shaoguang.

Chen Shuming, the little friend that Ma Shaoguang just befriended, it is still not clear that this newly recognized eldest brother has a background, otherwise how can Wen Xuan Shilang, who is not easy to meet, directly mention his name?

Thinking of this, Chen Shuming hurriedly seized the opportunity, stepped forward and grabbed Ma Shaoguang's sleeve and shouted: "Big brother, please say a few nice words for your little brother in front of Lord Langzhong!" ”

At this time, the secretary came up to tear apart Chen Shuming's entanglement, took Ma Shaoguang's hand and said, "Lord Lin is waiting for Master Ma, let's go quickly!" ”

Ma Shaoguang took the envious and jealous eyes of his colleagues around him, and followed the book office into the gate of the Yamen of the Organization Department. The clerk grabbed Ma Shaoguang and whispered: "Master Ma, the villain doesn't know that Lord Ma and Lord Lin are old, just now the villain was just doing business, please don't take it to heart!" ”

After speaking, the secretary took out a silver ticket from his sleeve, and he didn't know how much it was, and stuffed it into Ma Shaoguang's arms.

Ma Shaoguang was just about to resign, but at this time he had already entered the yamen, and there were many people around, so Ma Shaoguang couldn't say anything, so he had to arch his hand to show that he knew.

The clerk saw Ma Shaoguang take the silver ticket and breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that this mere five-grade official had such great energy.

Just now, Lin Langzhong of the Literature and Anthology Division sent people out to look for this Master Ma, the bookstore contacts so many officials every day, and there is no way to remember what Master Ma from Guangxi has, so the bookstore has to go out and look for it one by one.

Now that this old man Ma has finally been found, the secretary office breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although the Wen Xuan Division of the Organization Department has only five products, but the waiter of the Organization Department has always been promoted by the Wen Xuan Shilang, and now the left waiter Zhang Huai is old, and he will go home at the end of the year, and this vacant position is likely to be held by Lin Langzhong, so the book office is more careful, and it is not good to offend the future waiter!

The secretary office saw that Ma Shaoguang had accepted the silver ticket, and relieved himself to lead Ma Shaoguang into the yamen of the organization department.

In the hearts of all officials in the Ming Dynasty, the organization department responsible for the promotion of all officials in the world must be a noble department, in fact, this yamen is the same as other yamen, and it is even less spacious than some yamen. After all, the Organization Department and the Personnel Department used the house of the Ministry of Officials, and there were still so many rooms, but the number of office staff was doubled, so the office space of each department inside was really small.

As the first division of the organization department, the Literature and Anthology Department only has three main rooms and six side rooms here, but it has to accommodate more than 20 people. The Department of Literature and Anthology consists of eight sections: the Recruiting Section, the Establishment Section, the Promotion Section, the Book Library, the Writing Section, the Warden Section, the Voucher Section, and the Metropolitan Book Section. Except for Lang Zhong himself, who occupies a main room, each of the other departments has a room.

The clerk led Ma Shaoguang to the middle room, and said at the door: "Ma Shaoguang from Yong'an Prefecture, Guangxi, has arrived!" ”

At this time, someone in the room came out to take over Ma Shaoguang's transfer documents, and then took Ma Shaoguang into the house.

There are three rooms in this main room, the outermost is the signing room, the middle is the pen and post type, and the innermost is Langzhong's office.

Lin Yangzu heard that Ma Shaoguang had arrived, came out of the back room, stood at the door and said with a smile: "Master Ma, the slack office outside the door has made Master Ma wait for a long time, it's all Lin's fault!" ”

Ma Shaoguang didn't know why this Lin Yangzu was so enthusiastic about himself, so he hurriedly bowed down and didn't even dare to say.

Lin Yangzu took Ma Shaoguang's hand and entered the inner room, and at the same time let the pen serve tea. The pen post style was also very surprised, in the past, Lin Langzhong interacted with provincial and ministerial-level high-ranking officials above the third grade, why is he so concerned about a five-grade petty official today?

Ma Shaoguang followed Lin Yangzu into the inner room, which was where Lin Yangzu worked, and the environment was very ordinary, not at all like an important place that decided the promotion of officials across the country.

Lin Yangzu looked at Ma Shaoguang and looked around, and said with a smile: "Brother Ma Xian, Brother Fool is really narrow here, but there is no way, the office location of the original Ministry has become two departments. This is not bad, I heard that the tax department where my brother is going is even more so, because the original household is divided into three departments, and my brother is going to suffer if he goes! ”

Ma Shaoguang knows that there are no secrets in officialdom, and although his appointment has not come down, well-informed people have already found out clearly, but Ma Shaoguang doesn't know why this Lin Yangzu wants to make friends with him!

"Brother Lin laughed, the younger brother is an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he is an official for the country and the people, as for the office conditions, the younger brother is not picky!" Ma Shaoguang didn't know what the background of this Lin Yangzu was, so he just said some scenes.

Lin Yangzu laughed when he heard Ma Shaoguang say this: "Brother Ma, there is no other meaning in meeting today, there will be a chance to introduce a few good friends to Brother Ma in the future, after all, Brother Ma has just arrived, there should be a few good friends to talk to!" ”

Ma Shaoguang understood what was going on as soon as he heard it, it was nothing more than the set of friends in the officialdom, after all, the officialdom is different now than before, it is not possible to fight alone, they all pay attention to group fighting, and there is really no sense of security in the officialdom if they do not join a group.

However, Ma Shaoguang was born to be the Chu Party, he didn't know what party Lin Yangzu belonged to, what if it was his opposite?

"I don't know who Brother Lin's good friends are?"

Seeing Ma Shaoguang cautious, Lin Yangzu said with a smile: "Brother Ma, don't worry, several of us are from Huguang, including Xia Langzhong from the Examination Department of the Personnel Department, Ouyang Langzhong from the Military Aircraft Department, and Zhao Langzhong from the Arsenal Department of the Logistics Department, all of whom are our own people!" ”

Ma Shaoguang understood what these three official positions were when he heard Lin Yangzu talk about, the Examination Division, the Wuxuan Division, the Wuku Division, and Lin Yangzu's Wenxuan Division, collectively known as the four major fart oil crotch fats in Beijing.

The Wenxuan Division is in charge of the promotion of the lower officials, and the Meritorious Examination Department is in charge of the assessment of the lower officials. The Military Selection Division is similar to the Wenxuan Division, but it is in charge of the promotion of all military attachés. As the name suggests, the Treasury Department is in charge of all army equipment, weapons, local warehouses, and barracks construction. These four departments are all powerful, and they are known as the four fat differences in the former Ming Dynasty.

However, now the four major fat shortages in Beijing have become five major fat shortages, and the new one is the Salt Affairs Department of the Ministry of Taxation, that is, the department where Ma Shaoguang will serve as the chief official.

It is also very simple for the salt division to become a fat shortage, and the salt monopoly! The annual salt tax costs three million silver dollars, and this kind of good place is not a good place if it is not fat.

Ma Shaoguang was relieved when he heard Lin Yangzu say this, he was not afraid of the cliques in the officialdom, what Ma Shaoguang was afraid of was that these people dragged him into the battle between the princes. At most, forming a party for personal gain is to remove officials and go home, and if it is not good to get involved in taking over the heirs, it will make the whole family lose their heads.

Ma Shaoguang put his heart down and said with a smile: "This is natural, the younger brother naturally wants to visit a few brothers when he first arrives, and when the younger brother goes to the tax department to report in the afternoon, he will arrange a few brothers in the evening!" ”

Lin Yangzu was overjoyed when he heard Ma Shaoguang say this, the power in the hands of the Salt Affairs Department is too big, and the money involved in managing the salt industry every year is tens of millions of silver dollars. Although the majority of the salt industry was divided among several elders of the court, the remaining soup and water were enough for their own enjoyment. It is precisely because the salt industry has such great interests that Lin Yangzu wants to make friends with this new salt minister.