The two officials also have quite a characteristic appearance.

One was tall and tall, but skinny like a long bamboo pole; One person is small and short but full of fat intestines, and a pile of fat is piled up on the left and right cheeks, and he is alive and well Marshal Zhu Bajie from Tianpeng.

After Guo Ye carefully looked at the two of them, he couldn't help but feel funny, your sister, Jin Yong and Jin Daxia are really prescient, and the fat and thin two-headed Tuo in "The Legend of Deer and Ding" is taken from the prototype of these two people.

After making fun of the two of them in his heart, Guo Ye saw that the two of them were still looking at him with a kind of onlooker, and he couldn't help but feel depressed, and hurriedly took out the letter from his arms that his father-in-law Wu Maocai handed over to him from the county lieutenant, raised his voice and said, "Two of you, don't get me wrong." We are colleagues, you see, this is a letter written by Lord Gu of our county governor of Longxi County, and I went to the yamen to report today. ”

As soon as he heard the five words of Lord Gu of the county magistrate, the fat and thin officials instantly restrained the inexplicable eyes just now, and then glanced at each other.

The fat official rubbed his hands and smiled: "Ah, it turned out to be a brother who came to the yamen to report, tsk, it was introduced by Lord Gu himself, it's really amazing." ”

Then he said to the thin officer: "Bamboo pole, I'll take this brother to the yamen to report the way, you can keep an eye on the city gate first." ”

The thin servant didn't say a word, nodded to himself, and then closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the city gate, basking in the sun leisurely.

Guo Ye listened to the fat officer's name for the thin officer, and couldn't help but be secretly happy in his heart, sure enough, it was also called a bamboo pole.

Seeing the virtue of this bamboo pole official who doesn't like to talk lazily, Guo Ye couldn't help but sigh, since ancient times, it seems that this thin bamboo pole is also a strange thing.

Originally, Guo Ye had a dark eye on Longxi City, and he was not familiar with it at all, and he didn't know where to open at the entrance of the county ya. Now I heard that the fat official took the initiative to ask Ying to take him to the yamen to report, why not do it?

So he said to the fat servant, and then followed him into the east gate.

The county seat is the county seat, and in the end it is not comparable to Dongliu Township and Daze Village.

As soon as I entered the city, I finally opened my eyes, as the so-called glimpse of the whole leopard, only when I really saw the bustle of Longxi County, I knew what was called the rule of Zhenguan in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.

The bustling merchants from the north and south, the merchants in the alleys, the welcome guys at the door of the tea house and wine shop, the small merchants and vendors selling along the street, and all kinds of shops shouting and buying, constitute a map of the downtown of the Tang Dynasty.

Only the small county town in Shuzhong is so lively, it is conceivable that the slightly larger cities are so prosperous and lively?

Along the way, Guo Yeru walked around and watched the ancient street scenes, which really made him forget to return.

However, on the way to the Yamen, the fat official was not idle, and always asked about Guo Ye's background, you know, to be able to get a letter from Lord Gu of the county to come to the Yamen on an errand, it is a great talisman.

If Guo Ye is really a confidant of Lord Gu or some distant relative, he can't bear it, and he is also a backer, isn't it?

What the hell did the fat servant fight, how could Guo Ye not know?

Now that he has borrowed Gu Dezhao's momentum, it is better to borrow him again.

Then he explained to the fat officer, saying that his father-in-law had a very personal relationship with Lord Gu, and Lord Gu saw that he could be accomplished, so he let himself come to the yamen to experience and experience.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the fat servant's eyes burst out as if he had obtained some earth-shattering secret, and there was even more flattery between his eyebrows.

In this case, Guo Ye also naturally inquired about some information that he wanted to know.

For example, the names of the fat and thin officials, the thin officials who continue to guard at the east gate are called Gan Zhushou, and the person is like his name, looking like a thin bamboo pole.

And his own name is Zhu Pengchun, which is really suitable for the occasion, and he is still surnamed Zhu when he looks like this.

Then, Zhu Pengchun, the fat official of the yamen, introduced some of the situation in the yamen to Guo Ye as a gesture of goodwill.

For example, who is the surname of the county commander, who is the master, who is the county leader, and who are the governors of the six divisions (or six Caos) under the county government.

Six Cao (Six Divisions) are divided into Gong Cao, Cang Cao, Hu Cao, Bing Cao, Fa Cao, and Shi Cao, each performing its own duties, and each Cao is in charge of calling it an adjutant officer, which is the same level as the county lieutenant, and belongs to the civil service of the nine officials.

For example, Gong Cao, who is in charge of the personnel of the county government, is in charge of the county's official hat, a bit similar to the organization minister of later generations, and the chief of Gong Cao is called Gong Zuo.

For example, Bing Cao is in charge of the county military affairs, and is in charge of the county's military and armed forces, including the three classes of the government and the Zhuang class, a bit like the armed forces minister of later generations, and the chief is called Bingzuo Lord

In Guo Ye's eyes, Zhu Pengchun's kid is a county government living dictionary, and there is no gossip news that he doesn't know.

Especially when Zhu Pengchun mentioned the specific situation of the county government now, Guo Ye's interest became stronger and stronger, this is what he is most concerned about, what county magistrate, the county lord is too far away from him.

Only the affairs of the yamen officials are the most closely related to him at present.

Zhu Pengchun used to talk on the road with a dry mouth, but now when he talked about the place that Guo Ye was most interested in, he suddenly got stuck, and kept pursing his mouth and swallowing saliva, as if he was extremely thirsty.

Then he said: "Brother Guo, this is still a short way from the county yamen, wait for me Zhu Pengchun to drink herbal tea to quench my thirst when I go to the yamen, and then talk to you in detail." ”

Guo Ye was stunned, damn, you are thirsty at a critical time, damn.

Thirst is fake, your sister's, asking for a bribe is real, right?

Looking at Zhu Pengchun's posture, it is a bit like that.

As a newcomer to his own country, he just opportunistically borrowed the power of the county lieutenant, so that Zhu Pengchun could show favor to himself, if he didn't take something useful out of his mouth, and he didn't understand anything when he entered the yamen, if he violated the taboo of any official, he wouldn't be able to draw it.

So, Guo Ye put his right hand into his left sleeve and touched it for a while, and it was all broken silver, and there was no copper plate or money at all.

Taking the broken silver to buy news from Zhu Pengchun, Guo Yewei was really reluctant, but he was reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, right?

Then, Guo Ye frowned slightly and gritted his teeth, took out half a tael of broken silver from his sleeve and stuffed it directly into Zhu Pengchun's hand, and said softly: "Give this little money to Brother Zhu, and you can quench your thirst with a few catties of good wine when you go back." ”

, Zhu Pengchun was dumbfounded when he weighed the broken silver in his hand, alas, the broken silver actually weighed half a tael.

In the end, it was the person introduced by the county lieutenant, and the shot was extraordinary, two words, magnanimous.

Half a tael of silver is enough to be worth half a month's silver of his Zhu Pengchun, enough for his family of three or four to eat for a month, so it's strange that he is not tempted.

Although he held the broken silver in his hand, he smiled at Guo Yebu and said: "How can this be made, how can this be made, it is too polite, Brother Guo is too polite." ”

Your sister!

The moment Guo Ye took out the silver, his heart was really painful, and he couldn't help but degrade when he heard Zhu Pengchun's fake excuse, politely, then you return the silver to Lao Tzu,.

But before he could speak, Zhu Pengchun, a dead fat man, had already bent down and carefully stuffed half of the two pieces of silver into the black leather boots he was wearing on his feet.

After hiding the broken silver, Zhu Pengchun's mouth was no longer thirsty, and his legs were no longer sore, and he spoke to Guo Ye with great interest: "As far as the situation of the officials in our yamen, Brother Guo, you can be regarded as asking the right person." I Zhu Pengchun has been holding a tolerant job in the county government for so many years, so I know everything about it. ”

Immediately, Zhu Pengchun slowed down and slowly told Guo Ye about the specific situation of the current Ya Nei in Longxi County.

There are a total of 40 people in the three classes of the Longxi County Ya, and the so-called three classes are not three shifts, but the three classes perform their own duties.

For example, Zhu Pengchun and Gan Zhushou belong to the soap subordinate in the third class of government officials, and their main work is to guard the city gate to collect taxes, go to the countryside to urge grain and collect taxes, collect taxes from shops along the street according to the order of the yamen, or demolish some indecent and illegal buildings, etc., referred to as soap class, a total of ten people.

According to Guo Ye's understanding, the officials of this soap class are a bit like the urban management and tax police in later generations.

In addition to the soap class, there are also station classes and fishing classes.

As the name suggests, the station class is standing, and the main job is to knock on the killing rod when the county magistrate ascends to the court, shouting the mighty official in his mouth, and sometimes the county magistrate goes out of the house to inspect, and the station class also serves as the work of opening the road and protecting the guard.

It is somewhat similar to the court police of later generations.

The number of people in the station class is the same as the number of people in the soap class, both of which are ten.

The most awesome of the three classes of officials is the fishing class.

The arrest class, as the name suggests, is to catch fast, and is mainly responsible for public security patrols, arrests, detention and other work.

In the words of later generations, Datang Capture is both a public security police and a criminal policeman.

For example, although there are only twenty people in the fishing class, they are equipped with three fast horses, five Tang knives, and five bows.

Looking at the equipment on Zhu Pengchun's body, except for a servant uniform and an iron ruler inserted in his waist, there is not a single hair.

In the end, the treatment is different!

Seeing that Zhu Pengchun had a sour expression in his words when he talked about catching the class, and he was babbling from time to time, Guo Ye could see it with his toes, although these three classes of officials performed their own duties, but there was also a lot of open and secret fighting.

Finally, Zhu Pengchun focused on introducing the only armed forces in the county, which was in the hands of the county lieutenant Gu Dezhao.

This so-called Zhuang squad is mainly composed of young men recruited by the county government and some retired veterans from the army, the number of which is about 50 people, and their work is mainly responsible for suppressing and preventing riots in Longxi County, and suppressing small bandits.

Compared with the three squads, especially the capture squads, their weapons and armor are relatively sophisticated, and they are equipped with bows, knives, armor, and shields.

And they are dressed very differently from the officials, wearing red tasseled helmets, soap silk armor or leather armor, which is a bit like the equipment of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

It is okay to say that these 50-person Zhuang squad is the urban defense army of the Longxi County Ya, and it is okay to say that these 50-person Zhuang squad is the armed special police of the Longxi County Ya, anyway, these 50 people are the most important military force in the seven miles and eight townships of Longxi County.

Therefore, the county lieutenant Gu Dezhao is well versed in the power of the barrel of the gun, and personally controls the strong squad of 50 people, and never pretends to others.

Of course, in addition to the three classes of officials and the strong class, there are also miscellaneous servants, also known as white servants, such as the jailer who guards the prison, the post-mortem worker, the gatekeeper at the entrance of the county office, the groom in the stable, the postman at the post station, and so on.

The number of these miscellaneous servants can be increased to about 100, which is enough, but the total treatment cannot be compared with the third class of servants and the strong class, at best, a month's salary of a few hundred copper plates, and there is no food.

Although these miscellaneous servants are numerous, they have no combat effectiveness, so the county lieutenant Gu Dezhao has no heart to manage them well at all, so the miscellaneous servants are the most despised in the yamen.

Guo Ye listened while leading the donkey to follow, his heart was stirring and undulating, mother, I am obedient.

It turns out that a small county government has so many doorways, I don't know if I don't ask, but after inquiring, it is really unheard of, and I have gained knowledge.

Now that I think about it, the half of the silver flower is not wronged at all.

At this time, Zhu Pengchun in front of him stopped and said, "Ha, it's here, Brother Guo, have you seen it, this is our Longxi County Yamen." ”

After speaking, he pointed ahead.

Guo Ye, who was full of thoughts, unconsciously raised his head and looked ahead, lying down, really, really......