Chapter Seventy-One: Taking Over

Chen Fei's carriage came to the city of Shuozhou, ready to take over the county magistrate of Shuozhou, which is subordinate to Shuozhou. Because this Shuo County is a county attached to Guo, the county government is actually in the state city, so in fact, the assassin and his own county order are in the same city. The biggest disadvantage of this is that the influence of the superiors is too great, as long as someone gives an order, just send someone to come over and make you very troublesome. And there are also many people in the state capital yamen, although they seem to be relatively low, but what people say in front of the assassin history, then you have to be careful. So it's very headache, and this one is the reason why the county order should not be a county order attached to Guo County. As for now, Chen Fei also has no choice but to be the county magistrate of Guo County.

Chen Fei's carriage arrived outside the county office, and Chen Fei frowned as soon as he got off the carriage. However, to Chen Fei's surprise, this county government was deserted and very secluded. Chen Fei slowly walked outside the door, and then knocked on the door.

"Who!" A scribe-like figure inside walked out and asked.

Chen Fei saw this scene and immediately asked, "Is this how you work?" Today should be a day to open the door, why are you all so lazy? Don't you know that the court spends money to support you, just to let you do things well and serve the people? But now you are all lazy, like what? ”

"Who are you? Even the Niu County Order is like this, what do we have to do like this? The scribe asked.

"Who am I, look at what this is!" Chen Fei took out the official document given to him by the ministry.

And the scribe was very disdainful at first, but when he looked at the official document, he suddenly said condescendingly: "Oh, it's the new county lord, please please." We have been waiting for the Niu County Order for a long time, and we ask the new county to hurry in and hand over the Niu County Order, and then prepare to take office! ”

Chen Fei looked at this scribe coldly, he finally knew what kind of bird this Shuo County was. With a lazy and irresponsible county order, it is natural that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked. Since the county orders are so irresponsible, the subordinate county officials, the chief bookkeepers, the county lieutenants, and even those ordinary scribes and wardens are naturally very lazy. This is also the so-called number one brought, and the number one can influence many people. If the number one leader is a good official, then he can also influence many people. If the number one is not a good officer, then the subordinates will be pulled into the water one by one. This situation has been the same until later generations, and this is actually the biggest drawback of the rule of man, and if we want to change this situation, we must let the government evolve to the rule of law.

However, Chen Fei knew that it was impossible for the government to evolve to the rule of law in a short period of time, but Chen Fei also knew that after he took over, the first thing to grasp was the issue of discipline. Looking at the situation of the county government today, if we don't pay attention to discipline, I don't know what will become of it in the future.

"Oh, Chen County Order, you are really young and promising! is so young, it has become a county order, and the future is limitless! And I heard that Chen Xianling was born in the imperial examination, this is a capable person! It's not like those of us who are ordinary scribes who are discriminated against! Niu Xian Ling said with a smile.

And Chen Fei saw that this Niu county order was about forty years old, and this age was still a county order, and in ancient times, there was actually no future. And he claimed to be a scribe, so he may have climbed up from an ordinary scribe. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, many low-level officials were also slowly promoted from an ordinary scribe, and then became high-level officials through the opportunity to flow outside and into the stream. However, people with this kind of background are much worse than those officials who rely on the shadow of their parents and those who are born in the imperial examination.

And Chen Fei actually thinks that in fact, this kind of officials who climb up at the bottom are the best, but in ancient times, this was a feudal era, and he paid attention to Confucianism, and did not pay attention to this kind of work experience at the bottom. If there are the same two people, one is from the imperial examination, and the other is from this kind of low-level scribe, then the priority is definitely to promote the person who was born in the imperial examination. And these scribes, almost none of them have ever been prime ministers. Therefore, this kind of person is discriminated against, and it is difficult to have a good future. In the Song Dynasty, this kind of person was even more suppressed, and it was almost impossible to be promoted to an official above the eighth rank. As for the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was even more lowly.

Chen Fei is both pitiful and hateful for this kind of person. It's a pity that they are responsible for the most ordinary administrative work of a country, which is equivalent to civil servants in later generations. However, the salary is very low, and there is no way to compare it with the civil servants of later generations, whether in terms of income or social status. Moreover, their promotion channels are very discriminatory, and they are almost impossible to be promoted, even if a small number of people who can have the opportunity to become officials, it is impossible to become high-ranking officials. And when there is no hope of promotion, they think about how to get by, and be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day. Even many people have begun to use the little power in their hands to embezzle**, so in ancient times there was a saying that officials are as smooth as oil.

This Niu County Commander is now an official who was born as a scribe, and he is old and has no hope of promotion, so he has a lot of situations where he gets by and does not seek merit but no fault. Chen Fei is very uninterested in this kind of guy who has been worn away by the years and has become a rubber man, so Chen Fei does not plan to use any good attitude to treat him.

"Niu County Order, my official documents are true, have you verified it? If the verification is done, then hurry up and the handover will take over. Chen Fei said lightly.

"It's boring!" Niu Xian Ling scolded secretly.

Niu County Commander verified Chen Fei's handover document, then took out the seal of the county order, printed the seal in the blank space on the document, and then signed his name. And Chen Fei also signed the document, and then also printed the seal, so that the handover was completed.

"Niu County Order, now that we have completed the handover, I have officially taken office. Now that you are no longer the county magistrate of Shuo County, you can leave! I'll give you an hour, you pack my things and leave! Chen Fei said coldly, obviously he had a very bad impression of a mediocre official like Niu County Ling.

"You-" Niu Xian Ling was so angry that he couldn't speak, even if he was his predecessor, the handover was completed, this Chen Fei shouldn't have spoken to him so unceremoniously!

"Let's go!" Niu County ordered Niu Tou to leave, obviously not wanting to talk to Chen Fei more.

Chen Fei stroked the seal of the Shuo County Order, and then finally said: "Finally in office, I am also a parent official." I also want to serve the people, and if I don't make decisions for the people, I might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes! Anyway, if it fails, just go and eat Princess Wanchun's soft rice. ”