On the way to the Nanjing Criminal Department, Qin Tai knew that there would be nothing good in the Nanjing Criminal Department. When I arrived, it didn't take long for this to be confirmed. A six-grade petty official like Qin Tai doesn't need Lord Shangshu of the Nanjing Criminal Department to personally meet Qin Tai, the person who comes is just a fourth-grade Nanjing Criminal Department Langzhong. "Langzhong" does not refer to a doctor in the general sense, but a job title. Each of the six yamen has a Shangshu, two attendants, eight langzhong, twelve chiefs or also known as outsiders, a number of masters and stewards. The Criminal Department of the Criminal Department is a "steward" level official. The Beijing Criminal Department plus the Nanjing Criminal Department has a total of two Shangshu, four waiters, and more than ten Langzhong. Sending a Lang Zhong to see Qin Tai is not a low salary.

This Lang Zhong doesn't seem to have looked at Qin Tai squarely, and Qin Tai doesn't seem to give this Lang Zhong the "red envelope" he deserves according to the rules. This Lang Zhong directly dropped a file and left.

After Qin Tai made sure that Lang Zhong was gone, he picked up many files on the ground. There were several appointments in it, and they had already decided the fate of Qin Tai in the future. Qin Tai had long known that it was impossible to just reprimand, and demotion had almost become inevitable.

In this dossier, the first one is Qin Tai's order to hand over to Zhang Juzheng, the servant of the Beijing Criminal Department. At this time, Qin Tai didn't know that Zhang Juzheng had been transferred to the Beijing Military Department as the right attendant of the Military Department, in charge of the daily affairs of the Military Department. This order was Zhang Juzheng's last order in the Criminal Department, and it happened to be an order to dismiss his friend Qin Tai. In the name of the Beijing Criminal Department, Zhang Juzheng removed the Qintai Criminal Department from the post of sentencing, but he did not have the right to remove the right to supervise the Qintai Criminal Department. In other words, from this time on, Qin Tai did not have the right to review local cases.

The second is an order from the Beijing Officials. Although the Beijing Criminal Department and the Nanjing Criminal Department are both yamen of the Criminal Department, they have no subordinate relationship, so they must be appointed and dismissed by the Ministry of Officials before they have legal effect. The Beijing Ministry of Officials agreed to remove Qin Tai from his post of punishment in Beijing, and the file was immediately transferred to the Nanjing Ministry of Officials.

The third is an order from the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, which states that Qin Tai, the former Beijing Criminal Department, was appointed as an official of the Nanjing Criminal Department. There is no specific position and grade written on it, so I don't know if it is a promotion or a derogatory.

The fourth is the appointment of the Nanjing Criminal Department, "Qin Tai, who was sentenced by the former Beijing Criminal Department, was dismissed from his original position on the spot and sent to the Nanjing Criminal Department because he did not respect his superiors' orders and handled the case in violation of the system without permission." The Nanjing Criminal Department thought that he was quite serious in handling the case, and he had made some meritorious achievements. reported to the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, and Hu Zongxian, the governor of Jiangnan, agreed, and appointed Qin Tai as the manager of the Nanjing Criminal Department, in charge of the review of local criminal cases in Fujian. The grade is still sixth. ”

Qin Tai smiled bitterly, he was unlucky enough. If you solve the case, you have to be dealt with, if you can't solve the case, won't you lose your head? At least the Criminal Division belongs to the central officials sent to the local area by the imperial court, and local officials should be a little taboo. Now Qin Tai has become a steward of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and he is in charge of the most unlucky Fujian. Fujian was in the Jiajing Dynasty, and it was not considered a court at all. Not counting the two attacks by the Japanese in three days, the common people there have long lost all patience with the incompetent government. I heard that the common people in Fujian organized their own militia groups to defend their homeland, and did not listen to the government's assignments, let alone treat the officials of the government as human beings. Sun Dafu, the new governor of Quanzhou, Fujian, who had just fled back, said that he would not go to Fujian at all. His official uniform was torn by the people, his family was beaten by the people, everything was robbed, and his wife was almost taken away by the people. Sun Dafu would rather not be an official in the future, even if he is in prison, he will not go to Fujian. At this time, where is there any public security in Fujian, and who will investigate the case when it happens? Reviewing cases? It's better to ask Qin Tai to send him to death.

In accordance with the rules of the imperial court, Qin Tai went to the Nanjing Ministry once, but fortunately it was not far from the next door. Qin Tai handed over the seal of the sentence, and also handed over his own customs defense. Then on the other side, I received a new seal and identification. Unexpectedly, Qin Tai received three copies, and he hadn't given one to himself yet. When Qin Tai woke up, Qin Tai was about to faint from everything in front of him.

It turned out that the Nanjing Ministry heard that there was an official who was going to Fujian, and hurriedly handed over all the official certificates that were going to Fujian to Qin Tai, hoping that Qin Tai would work harder and go to do these jobs together. Qin Tai swallowed his saliva in a big gulp, only everyone has always rushed to be an official, and there has never been such a person who insists on being an official.

Qin Tai sat helplessly at the entrance of the Nanjing officials' department, and the soldiers on one side did not dare to drive Qin Tai away. Because Qin Tai was holding so many seals and waist cards in his hands, no one dared to underestimate Qin Tai. Qin Tai was really a little overwhelmed at this time, and he hadn't eased up yet. Obediently knock the hole, how can this still make people live?

The imperial court has a clear rule that the general official is equipped with a wooden waist card, and there is no defense. Officials below the seventh rank include the seventh-rank officials who are issued with iron waist plates, and the officials above the seventh rank have their own customs certificates. Officials above the seventh grade, including officials with five grades and below, are equipped with bronze waist plates. Above the fifth grade, below the third grade, including the third grade official with a silver waist card. Officials above the third grade, including officials with a gold waist plate below the first grade. Officials above the first grade, including the vassal king, are equipped with jade waist plates.

Qin Tai had seventeen iron waist cards, eleven bronze waist cards, and four silver waist cards in his hand. That is to say, Qin Tai has to serve as seventeen grass-roots officials below the seventh rank, eleven middle-level officials below the fifth grade, and four provincial-level officials below the third grade. In addition to his own work, he also has to concurrently serve as thirty-one officials, which is the most part-time official since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the "salary" of officials was generally not high, mainly because the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a beggar emperor and felt that the annual salary of officials he personally set was high enough. But I didn't know that I had left a big tail since then, resulting in a situation of "no official and no greed". In order to alleviate the embarrassment of some officials, some emperors came up with a lot of subsidy methods. For example, the "activity expenses" and "office expenses" of officials include the food and housing problems of some officials in order to reduce the burden on officials. But it's still overstretched and doesn't solve big problems. So the emperor came up with a way to have multiple positions, one position and one "salary". For example, the Ministry of Rites is a scholar and a cabinet member, and one person receives three "salaries". The secretary of the military department also holds a military position, and with the title of prince and taibao, he can also receive several "salaries". For example, Yan Song has a lot of positions, such as the Beijing Ministry of Officials, Wenhuage University Scholar, Taishi, Cabinet First Assistant, Prince Taifu and nearly ten other positions. Generally, the local governor holds the title of Shangshu, and the governor hangs the title of squire, that is, in order to receive an extra "salary". However, officials like Qin Tai who received 32 large and small jobs alone and did not work together can be said to be unprecedented in the Ming Dynasty.

Qin Tai looked at the customs defense in his hand, thirteen prefects, four county governors, six prefects, four Tongzhi, one Fujian grain road, one Fujian military garrison, one Fujian deputy envoy concurrently served as the prefect of Quanzhou, one deputy envoy of Fujian political envoy concurrently served as the prefect of Fuzhou, plus his own Fujian review manager of the Nanjing Criminal Department. In normal times, these are all "fat shortages" that kill people and don't pay for their lives, but now they have become "rags" that no one dares to take over. If Qin Tai knew that the predecessors of these officials were either killed by mobs or pirates, or they were so frightened that they abandoned their officials and fled, he would probably be even more overwhelmed.

Qin Tai slowly walked back to the Nanjing Criminal Department, and there were soldiers at the door of the Criminal Department. The soldiers are in and out of the country, that is, those who go in are checked, and those who come out are not to be cared for. They obviously knew that Qin Tai had gone to Nanjing to hand over the order, so they deliberately made things difficult for Qin Tai, and they also wanted to see what kind of official Qin Tai was now. Qin Tai didn't say much, and then took out a bronze medal, thinking that it was his own, but he didn't expect the soldiers to let him in.

Qin Tai looked at the text on it, it was a Tongzhi with the same six grades, and "Tongzhi" was the prefect's assistant, who managed an official in an area on behalf of the prefect when the prefect was away. Tongzhi in Fujian has no affiliation with the Nanjing Criminal Department, so he cannot enter the Nanjing Criminal Department. Qin Tai had no choice but to pull out a large string of waist cards that were too scared to die, so that the soldiers could see one. The soldiers stared at the top four silver waist cards, knowing what they meant. When Qin Tai walked into the yamen of the Nanjing Criminal Department, the soldiers outside fell to the ground en masse. One person can be so many officials at the same time, is this still called a human life? Qin Tai may be the official with the highest "salary" in Jiajing Chaoming.

The fact that Qin Tai held more than 30 official positions immediately blew through the entire Jiangnan Ancient City of Nanjing like a gust of wind. Qin Tai has not yet left the Nanjing Criminal Department, and almost all the officials in Nanjing City know about it. This is the advantage of the government being together, the collective knows the secret, and who doesn't have to worry about not knowing. As soon as Qin Tai returned to the place where he lived, he saw several shopkeepers beginning to be more and more polite to him. There are also a lot of good and fine wines in the room of the "old drunkard" master, and I heard that they were all sent by the restaurant owner and the hotel shopkeeper. The "old drunkard" master does not refuse to come, because according to the rules, the master can accept gifts. Officials can't accept gifts plainly, because they are afraid that officials will be corrupt or favoritism, and the master is just a subordinate, and someone giving a gift to a subordinate is not considered a bribe.

Qin Tai didn't talk to the already drunk "old drunkard" master about the appointment and dismissal. Anyway, Zhan Xiaoxiao, "Ma Sandao" and Xiao Lingzi are about to come back. After everyone arrived, we set off for Fujian together. At this time, Qin Tai returned to his room and secretly recalled everything he saw in the rabbit nest. I don't know if it's a coincidence or providence, this case happened to happen in Fujian, and Qin Tai happened to take the opportunity to investigate the case. Qin Tai also wanted to find out whether this matter was true or false.