In reality, the scribes and servants are the real people, and only the officials and gentry are more noble and powerful than them, even if the Xiucai in the "Shi" can not compete, at most they can not be bullied, of course, if it is the gentry and the strong Xiucai is not listed.

Magistrates have a term of office, and the locals are not allowed to work in the locality, and they have to study the four books and five classics that have nothing to do with practice, and they often have little experience in the first term, so they can only rely on the staff master, but the staff master and so on only know the rules of running errands, and do not know the local situation, and the real errand workers are still born in the local clerical and errand service.

The first magistrate of the officials is often the magistrate of the county, and they must rely on the local officials and servants in public and private, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch, and they will even lose their official positions if they do nothing.

What's worse is that the status of civil servants and commissioners can be hereditary, and civil officials with a limited term of office have to change every few years, while civil servants are passed down from generation to generation.

Passed down from generation to generation, wealth and connections have been accumulated, and the scribes and servants have become local powerhouses in their own right, which makes them even more uncontrollable.

There is also a great drawback, the court government to the clerks and servants issued very little silver, so little that they can not support their families normally, everyone makes a living from foreign wealth, where does this foreign wealth come from, it is nothing more than knocking the bones and sucking the marrow from the common people, what is more terrible is that for a long time until now, everyone thinks that this is a matter of course, the clerks are tigers and wolves, the common people are pigs and sheep, and the tigers and wolves eat pigs and sheep, which is justified......

In the land of a county, the top level of the officials is the six-room economic inheritance, they control all aspects of the county government, the rest of the clerks and the third-class errand are just the clerks and laborers who run for them, and in the six rooms of officials, households, criminals, soldiers, workers, and ceremonies, at the top is the official's room, and the official's room is in charge of the official's room and governs the whole county.

The office is in charge of a county's personnel, and is in charge of promotion, performance evaluation, appointment and dismissal, which is equivalent to the county's personnel future in control.

According to the level of the government, the official room is just an inconspicuous role, the county, the main book, and the canon and history are all on it, but in practice, these high-grade officials have to give face to the official room, and even give a few points, otherwise, the decree will not go out of the lobby, and even the individual will be hindered, in fact, in most cases, it is the official room that gives the officials a little face, and the officials understand these rules, even if they don't understand, the staff master will teach him to understand, if he doesn't want to abide by it, That will hit your head and bleed in the face of cruel reality.

Of course, there is also a circulation between the clerks and servants, not to say that the generations can do a position, no matter how good you do in this life, you can only ensure that your children and grandchildren can have a position in the clerks and errands, or a good position, but if you want to grasp the real power and take charge alone, it depends on your own creation, and even there are often parents and grandparents who are inherited from a certain house, and the result is indulgence and arrogance of the children and grandchildren, resulting in offending many people, scattering the family property, and finally can only be a strong class errand officer, and even the white deputy can not be mixed.

But Huairen County's official room is not the same as Fang Mingfang's master, his family has three generations, and his great-grandfather's generation is just a deputy who has no identity in the ceremonial room, but for some reason he went to the ceremonial room to manage the only daughter, and got himself an identity that eats work and food silver in the register, to Fang Ming's grandfather's generation is the official clerk of the ceremonial room, the ceremonial room is in charge of the county's ceremonies and county learning, etc., the most powerful place without oil and water, the first from the bottom of the six rooms, but Fang Ming's grandfather is capable, I don't know what method was used, he actually moved to the officer's room, this happened, The whole county really shook.

Later, people got the news that Fang Ming's grandfather pawned his own house at that time, and there were people from the Zheng family who put the money in the seal to come and make trouble, even if he borrowed a loan shark in the office, someone helped to pay it back, these things are naturally not a problem, Fang Ming's grandfather achieved the position of managing the year in the office.

When it came to Fang Ming's father's generation, he had a lot of stammers with the incumbent magistrate, and many people looked down on him at that time, saying that he didn't know how long it would take for a long time, and Taizun would leave in a few years, but the local talent was a lifelong thing, Fang Ming's father didn't know the severity of the retribution sooner or later, but he didn't think that the magistrate he stammered actually went to Datong Mansion to make a general judgment, and later he was promoted to the mansion.

In local practice, the official can't fight the officials, but if they are a few levels higher, they really have to give orders, and the clerks can't resist at all, and the one who has been favored by Fang Ming's father in the position of Huairenzhi County, and after being promoted, he secretly exerted his strength and transferred this Fang Ming's father to the position of the official's office.

Every time Fang Ming's father talked about this incident, he beat his chest and said that if he hadn't taken care of his fellow villagers, he would still be able to give his children and grandchildren a famous background.

It is precisely because Fang Ming's father "cares about the villagers", so this official room is very stable, the wife is peaceful to the old, and when he is old, he naturally sent Fang Ming to the official room to run errands, and several generations of drill camp inheritance, this Fang Ming is really shrewd, a skill, plus several generations of accumulated connections are there, five years after his father handed over the inheritance, he sat in the position of the official room inheritance.

Now this Fang Ming is fifty-three, has been a twenty-year official room inheritance, served five county masters, in this Huairen County is really deep-rooted, to say one or the other, to the present, the county in private to be called the old gentleman, as for the master and the like, has always been politely treated, everything is discussed, roughly to this side of the meaning of the inheritance.

If you don't ask for any fame and wealth, Fang Ming's life can be regarded as complete, but he has two unsatisfactory places, one is that the Fang family in other counties is the first class except for the gentry, but in Huairen County, there are Zheng patrolling the Zheng family, and the Weisu martial arts family is also colluding with the local place to reach out indiscriminately, making the top people in the county very unhappy, and the second unsatisfactory place is that the three generations of the Fang family have been passed down alone, and this generation is still the only seedling named Fang Yan, and there are three or four daughters.

It's just a single biography, and now this Fang Yan is also in his thirties, which can be regarded as a frightening and dangerous upbringing, but this Fang Yan has been spoiled since he was a child, not only is he not as shrewd and capable as his father and ancestors, but he is addicted to alcohol, and he emptied his body when he was less than twenty years old, and now although he has several wives and concubines, he has no children, and his family is also weak and sick, I don't know how long he can live.

Whenever he talked about this, the beautiful old man Fang sighed, although he had already succeeded a nephew of his family to be the grandson of his family, but this was a few layers away, after all, it was not intimate, and his daughter and son-in-law were still staring at the family property, not knowing what it would be like in the future.

"I can only buy more when I can move, so as not to let my children not score points after leaving." Fang Ming often chattered so helplessly in front of his cronies.

As for outsiders ridiculing "Several generations have not accumulated virtue in doing things, but now there is retribution", and "Lao Fang is too undignified now, everyone is also working in the yamen, how can he be like a deputy who has never seen silver", Fang Ming has not heard of it, but he doesn't care about it, and the few people who can say it are not afraid that he cares.

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In the past, when Yang Shouwen came to see Fang Ming, he often had to wait for half an hour, even if Master Fang had no guests, the status difference between the two sides was too far, and there was no etiquette to talk about, as for the Yang family's sister doing small things, it was Master Fang's face, don't really think that your family is a relative.

However, this time he asked to see, Yang Shouwen was immediately called in, a few candles were lit in the living room, quite bright, Fang Ming was sitting on the side of the Taishi chair with his eyes closed and meditating, and the servants outside let Yang Shouwen come in after passing the word, this Fang Ming still didn't mean to open his eyes, but Yang Shouwen came over lightly.

At this moment, there was a crying sound from somewhere in the house, and something being beaten, which was faintly audible in the quiet night.

Yang Shouwen stood with his head bowed, his expression was as usual, he couldn't hear anything he did, but he was thinking in his heart, the name Fang Yan was given because of the lack of fire in his life, but this person is a false fire, his hobbies are not only on women, it is said that he also likes to play with the delicate little man, this Fang Yan's mother-in-law is the daughter of the last one in charge of the torture room, and she has a great temper, and she keeps making trouble about this matter.

This noise made Fang Ming in the Taishi's chair unable to hold back, his fat round face like a rich man was gloomy, he snorted coldly angrily, opened his eyes and looked at Fang Ming and said: "Look at the good things you have done, the mountain sound of patting your chest in advance, what else is arranged to be inside and outside, and what winged tigers, which are also rampant at the border pass, were all wiped out by two and a half children, and let their wives come back peacefully, Luan Qianhu came with silver, and left with silver, where do you let the old man's face be!" ”

Yang Shouwen, the deputy head of the Zhuang class, bent his waist even lower, and explained flatteringly: "Master Fang, Luan Qianhu also wants to pick up a bargain, and he will only pay eight hundred taels of silver at most for this batch of goods, but the silver that these two boys brought back is far more than eight hundred taels, Shouwen I arranged for someone to search the thief's den of the winged tiger, and the hidden things were dug up, maybe it was those two boys who did it, Fang Ye, you think, the winged tiger has done these cases, and what he has in his hand is probably not a decimal!" ”

Fang Ming's eyes narrowed, but he didn't continue to speak, Yang Shouwen said again: "You have also heard the news, this kid has done a few good businesses in Zhengjiaji, and he has earned ten times more than ten times, and this time and again, there are more than eight hundred taels in his hand." ”

Seeing Fang Ming's slightly listening attitude, Yang Shouwen lowered his voice and said, "Everyone guesses that when they came back from Zhengjiaji, there is a good chance that they dug up the silver hidden by the Dachuan!" ”