The magistrate returned to the county government and immediately handed over the order to Qin Tai. After Qin Tai handed over his appointment to his wife Zhan Xiaoxiao on the side, he didn't care about anything else.

The magistrate also knew that he and the county needed to contact others immediately and handle it together. The most important thing for Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao now is to read the file and analyze the things in the case of the disappearance of the children.

Zhan Xiaoxiao had already prepared a large amount of blank paper and ink, and it seemed that the couple was ready to read all the relevant materials overnight.

It is estimated that when the day dawns, more information will be sent to them. These materials will have local information on missing children in Daxing County, as well as information from other places, and there will be more and more information tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

Because Qin Tai and his wife heard about it, there are no less than three or four hundred cases of missing children in Daxing County alone.

Each child has a dossier, and if a dossier is 100 words, there are tens of thousands of words to read. There are four prefectures under Suncheonfu, maybe not only Suncheonfu, but also Beizhili, and even other surrounding places, so there are too many files to see.

Qin Tai and Zhan Xiaoxiao didn't worry about others, for fear of missing any important details, so they needed to look carefully, so the responsibility was quite heavy.

From this night on, it was destined that the county government of Daxing County would begin to be unpeaceful, and almost all the people were busy, and no one dared to complain, nor did they dare to disobey the yang and the yin.

Because everyone knows that this matter is related to everyone's future, and even more so to the future of several officials.

At this time, if you offend the magistrate or the county, you are simply looking for your own death, because there is a local proverb called it

"The birthday boy eats arsenic". Not only did everyone mobilize, but they all worked very hard. Speaking of the staffing of the county government, I have to talk about the officialdom structure of the Ming Dynasty.

Although there are still town offices and township offices below the county government, and there are also land protection and armor protection in the village, in the official view, these are not official institutions.

From the central government to the local government, there are six levels of yamen acquiesced by the imperial court: the first level is the central prime minister's yamen, that is, the highest decision-making yamen cabinet.

All directives must be issued through the cabinet in order to have the most authoritative effect. Unless the emperor himself decrees it, the documents of the Cabinet have the most legal basis, and all orders that contradict the opinions of the Cabinet must be amended or simply annulled according to the will of the Cabinet.

The second level is the Yamen of the Six Ministries of the Central Committee. Although these yamen were of the same rank and grade as the provincial level, they had a certain degree of authority greater than that of local provincial officials because they were central and issued national directives on behalf of a certain department of the imperial court.

The following yamen should first consider the instructions of this level, and when their instructions are contrary to the instructions of the provincial level, they should generally listen to the instructions of this level first.

The third level is the provincial-level yamen, which are mainly the yamen under the highest local administrative organs. Generally speaking, a province has a governor's yamen, and the highest governor is the governor, who is also the nominally largest administrative official in the province.

There is also a political envoy yamen, and the chief is the political envoy, who is in charge of the property and people's livelihood of a province. There is also a yamen of the procurator, and the chief is the procurator, who is in charge of the security and punishment of a province.

A governor's yamen, the chief is the admiral, who is in charge of the management and training of the army of a province. The fourth level is the Daotai Yamen, and each province has its own Daotai Yamen.

The salt road yamen responsible for salt tax, the military preparation road responsible for the storage and transportation of strategic materials, the grain road for grain collection, the river channel for cleaning and maintaining local rivers, and so on, their chief is a daotai, and their position and rank are a little higher than that of the prefect, so they are not as good as political envoys or inspectors.

They have similar functions to the six central ministries, and are responsible for the main departments in the province, and have the function of guiding the operations of the subordinate yamen, and also have the right to recommend the appointment and dismissal of lower-level officials.

The fifth level is the state government yamen, which is equivalent to the current local and municipal departments. At that time, the prefecture was slightly larger than the prefecture, and the governor at the state level was called the governor, and the governor at the prefecture level was called the prefect.

The authority of management is about the same, except that the level of the governor is slightly higher than that of the prefect. The prefect is generally from the fifth grade, sometimes from the fifth grade, and half of the governor is from the fourth or fifth grade.

Although the grade of Zhizhou is the same as that of some Daotai, their authority is very different. If it is a general Daotai, it is not as good as Zhizhou has real power, but the Daotai with real power is the object of Zhizhou's eyes.

This is a bit like the relationship between the governor and the six ministries and nine secretaries, the chief of the six ministries and nine secretaries and the local governors, they are all from the second rank or the second grade.

The governors of the Qingshui Yamen, such as the Guozi Priest Wine, envied the power of the local governors, but the local governors were greedy for the wealth of the household department, the oil and water of the Ministry of Industry, the power of the officials department, and the soldiers of the military department.

There is no position in the officialdom level and grade, for example, a five-grade Yangzhou prefect and a three-pin Nanjing Guozi Priest Wine, although the level is different, but it is definitely the Yangzhou Governor who is powerful and rich, and he is envious of the Nanjing Guozi Priest Wine and wants to be demoted to be this Yangzhou Governor.

The sixth-level yamen is the county government in various places, and the prefect is the magistrate. In the eyes of the imperial court, the county government is the most basic yamen of the country, and it is not an official institution further down.

Generally speaking, the county government has a prefect, and the official title is the county magistrate or county order, and the common people are generally called the county magistrate.

The county government is in charge of the county and calls the county lord or the lord, and there are also some cronies who have always called the county lord. The cronies who call the magistrate are generally the master or subordinates hired by the magistrate, indicating that the magistrate is their master.

The functions of the magistrate are equivalent to those of the current ******** who also serve as the county magistrate, and sometimes as the president of the court and the president of the trial division.

In charge of a county's criminal, people's livelihood, finance, taxation and other affairs. It can be said that it is responsible for the whole county, and of course, when there is responsibility, the first person to bear the brunt is the county.

Under the county is the county officer, and the county officer, as the name suggests, is the second person who assists the county to manage the county government.

Under normal circumstances, the relationship between the county and the county is not very harmonious, and there is only superficial politeness between each other.

The main purpose of the establishment of the county is not only to assist the magistrate, but more often to restrict the authority of the magistrate, so that the magistrate does not dare to act arbitrarily in the area under his jurisdiction.

The county is equivalent to the current deputy secretary of the county party committee and executive deputy county magistrate, and the secretary of the county discipline inspection commission. He not only has the power to handle official affairs on behalf of the county governor in his absence, but also has the power to independently try criminals.

Under normal circumstances, in addition to the magistrate, only the county magistrate has the right to ascend to the court to try criminals, which is the greatest privilege of the magistrate and the county magistrate.

Under the prefectural Cheng is

"Warden", generally speaking, wardens are dispensable, but generally relatively large county officials have established the position of warden.

The main role of the warden is to assist the county magistrate and the county magistrate in handling the logistics, and the person who is responsible for the personnel arrangement within the yamen.

It is equivalent to the current head of the organization department of the county party committee and the deputy county head in charge of personnel. If there is no warden, this right is in the hands of the more powerful magistrate or county magistrate.

Below the warden is the canon, and the canon is responsible for the security of the county and the management of the armed forces. It is equivalent to the current head of the county people's armed forces department and secretary of the county political and legal committee.

Under the canon is the copywriter, who is responsible for the processing of the county government documents, and assists the county magistrate and the county official in issuing official documents, preparing for the promotion of the court, and formulating the trial results, which is equivalent to the current secretary general of the county party committee and the director of the county party committee office.

There are six rooms under the copy, which are arranged according to the six central departments, namely the ceremonial room, the officer's room, the torture room, the household room, the workshop and the military room.

The ceremonial room is responsible for the registration, distribution and management of the merit of the county's scholars, as well as the welcome and delivery of foreign officials.

The prefect in charge of education is called the Instructor, and the prefect in charge of the official is called Yicheng. The office is the place where the internal personnel of the county government are managed to make a register and distribute wages, and it is their duty to appoint and dismiss internal personnel and reward and punish the staff of the yamen.

The chief of the officer's room is called the officer's office, and the secretary's office is also called the secretary's office. The torture room is the place responsible for the preparation of cases and the preparation of the court, and it is also the place where the county's criminal roster and past cases are stored.

The chief is called the Criminal Office or the Criminal Book Office. Hufang manages the county's household registration and the income and expenditure accounts of the county government over the years, and also manages several official warehouses of the county government.

Responsible for the collection of taxes in spring and autumn and the daily expenditure of the county government. The chief called the household office or the household secretary office. The workshop is responsible for the construction and maintenance of important projects in the county, as well as the cleaning of rivers and the renovation of the yamen.

Generally speaking, it is rare to pay people directly to work, either to transfer criminals to work, or to require the common people under their rule to perform hard labor.

The chief is called the work office or the work book office. The responsibility of the barracks is to coordinate the relationship between the local government and the army, and is responsible for the annual distribution and delivery of supplies to the barracks.

The commander called the military office or the military secretary office. Under the copywriting is the head arrester, who is responsible for the criminal cases of the county, which is equivalent to the current director of the county public security bureau.

Under the arrest is the warden, responsible for the detention and interrogation of criminals in the county government, and assisting the magistrate and the county to convict the criminals.

It is equivalent to the current county prison director and assistant to the chief prosecutor of the county prosecutor's office. Under the prison are the clerks, and the assistants of the clerks, and then the three classes of officials and the subordinates of the yamen.