When Tan Lun told Qin Tai the news, Qin Tai was stupid. He didn't expect Jia Baishun to come back to Shanxi and serve as the chief of the prison in a province.

Although Tan Lun and Jia Baishun are also fourth-grade officials, and Tan Lun is a fourth-grade official, Tan Lun cannot be compared with Jia Baishun.

The reason is simple, the officials of the first Ming Dynasty were

"Emphasis on duty is not on quality", that is to say, the importance of an official depends on his position rather than his rank.

One is also a three-grade official with two positions, one is the governor of a province, and the other is the country's son of the priest wine. There is a world of difference in status and power between the two people.

One holds the power to kill and seize the military and people of a province, and the other has the qualifications to teach and arrange subjects only in the country.

Tan Lun is the prefect, and although he also serves as the deputy political envoy, his main responsibility is still in charge of local security in Datong.

Jia Baishun is the highest public security official in Shanxi Province, in charge of criminal and prison management, and is an important post with power and soldiers.

If the two meet, Tan Lun must make way for Jia Baishun, which is the rule of officialdom. Even if you want to let the road, how can Tan Lun and Jia Baishun do everything?

Second, Tan Lun is a degraded official, and everyone is not optimistic about him. Jia Baishun is an official who has been praised by the imperial court, and there are people in the imperial court as backers.

So no matter who it is, they will be biased towards Jia Baishun and will not be optimistic about Tan Lun. Third, Jia Baishun is Xu Jie's cousin and Xu Jie's close assistant.

Xu Jie will not let Jia Baishun fight alone, of course, he will assign a capable general to help Jia Baishun. Tan Lun is almost alone, with only a few cronies by his side, how can he confront Jia Baishun and them?

Fourth, Tan Lun, as a prefect, can only have a maximum of 100 subordinates in his hands, that is, the officials of the yamen.

Even if all of them listen to Tan Lun, there are only about a hundred people, and some of them don't listen to Tan Lun's command

"Hard bones". However, according to the regulations of the inspection and inspection yamen, there are about 500 regular troops, which is the army of the imperial court that has been explicitly stipulated to stay in the local inspection and inspection yamen.

In addition to these standing armies, there are also more than 300 servants in the yamen, who investigate cases and arrest people in peacetime, and are reserve troops when things happen.

From the hands of people, Tan Lun is not Jia Baishun's opponent. Although Qin Tai knew that Tan Lun was not Jia Baishun's opponent, he still told Tan Lun everything he knew about Jia Baishun.

Qin Tai's purpose was not to ask Tan Lun to deal with Jia Baishun, but to ask Tan Lun to be wary of Jia Baishun.

Qin Tai's evaluation of Jia Baishun is incompetent, cool, ruthless, greedy for money, and short-sighted.

Jia Baishun is a distant cousin of Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet, and he has been a master who has not worked hard since he was a child. Because Jia Baishun can't be promoted, he can't be promoted to the rank of jinshi, and he can't serve as an official normally.

In order to make Jia Baishun an official, Xu Jie secretly spent a sum of money to buy Jia Baishun a qualification for a national eunuch.

then bribed Guozijian's teacher, issued a fake diploma, and used his power to arrange a position as a magistrate for Jia Baishun.

There are only three ways to become an official in the Ming Dynasty, the first is to pass the examinations and become an official by the imperial examination. This is the most orthodox and the most common way of doing an official.

The second is shade. That is, after the meritorious service, the imperial court gave some places for their descendants to hold some unimportant positions.

These yin sheng are the youngest sons of meritorious people, and the eldest sons and grandchildren can inherit the positions of their fathers, and some of the younger sons are not happy.

Therefore, the imperial court used this method to appease those who could not inherit the position of their father. The third type is the tribute of Guozijian.

Guozijian is equivalent to the current key university, and those who can enter Guozijian are either descendants of officials or top students recommended by the local government.

There are two kinds of people who study in Guozijian, the first is to wait for the opportunity to take the big exam and participate with other students

"Big Ratio". Such people either do not participate

"Big competition", if you participate, you will definitely have a good ranking. The second is to eat and drink together, and when you graduate in the future, you will become a local official, and you will be an official.

Later, because the imperial court was short of money, merchants were allowed to use silver to buy some official positions that had no real power, and that is

"Donating Officials". With the help of his cousin, Jia Baishun not only became a national eunuch, but later became a county official.

I don't know if Jia Baishun is unlucky, or if it is destined to have a long-standing feud between Qin Tai and Jia Baishun, the Qin family and the Xu family.

Qin Tai inadvertently knew about Jia Baishun's shortcomings and took advantage of Jia Baishun's mistakes to remove Jia Baishun.

Jia Baishun not only did not study hard, but also did not study how to be an official in Guozijian. Nominally, Jia Baishun studied in Guozijian, but in fact, Jia Baishun's time in Guozijian was only a handful.

After becoming an official, Jia Baishun not only did not know how to try the case, but also did not even know the process of handling the case. The master gave him ideas, and once there was a case, the master helped him prepare everything in advance, and the head catcher helped him find good witnesses, physical evidence, and criminals.

In this way, the confused officials tried the confused cases, and each case was closed with a high-sounding sound. The master and the head catcher not only received a lot of benefits, but also came up with a series of ways to deal with it.

In order to solve the case as soon as possible, in order to let Jia Baishun reuse them, they did not hesitate to arrest people to take over the case, frame and showdown some inexplicable crimes to some innocent people.

In this way, the yamen suddenly cracked all the cases that had been backlogged for several years, and it became a major political achievement of the county official Jia Baishun.

In fact, everyone in the local area knows that there are three phenomena in the An, Hui and Bronze Mausoleum Yamen. First, if the poor and the rich fight a lawsuit, the poor will lose; Second, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, whoever pays more money will win the lawsuit

"reasonable"; Third, it doesn't matter if you kill people and set fire to Tongling, you won't die if you rob your house, as long as you can afford it

"Official Quote". Even if something happens, someone will go to jail or even be beheaded on your behalf. Jia Baishun not only fully trusted his subordinates, but also did not listen to objections.

In particular, the case he decided is absolutely not allowed to be said to be wrong. Anyone who dares to oppose will be tortured by Jia Baishun to force the other party to admit that Jia Baishun is right.

Therefore, when Qin Tai learned what kind of official Jia Baishun was, he immediately dismissed Jia Baishun from his post in Zhengqipin'an, Huitong, and Lingzhi County.

Because Yan Song was in the court at that time, Xu Jie did not dare to cover the sky with one hand, so he had to let Qin Tai dismiss Jia Baishun.

But soon after Yan Song fell, and after Xu Jie took control of the cabinet, he arranged for his cronies to install various departments.

Jia Baishun not only returned to the official but also served as the head of the Criminal Department of Nanzhili, which was to use Jia Baishun to suppress Qin Tai.

Jia Baishun targeted Qin Tai almost everywhere, and many remarks and evidence unfavorable to Qin Tai were fabricated and collected by Jia Baishun.

When Qin Tai forced the palace to force Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houxi to return to the Forbidden City, Jia Baishun, under the instruction of his cousin Xu Jie, forced Qin Tai to hand over the power of Xingbu Kedao.

Because Jia Baishun has mastered the power of the Criminal Department, and the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is a person from Xu Jie, Jia Baishun can be said to have been calling for wind and rain in the Criminal Department over the years.

After Qin Tai told Tan Lun about Jia Baishun, Tan Lun summed up a few points. First, Jia Baishun's appointment as an envoy is a transition, and Xu Jie may have to reuse Jia Baishun.

From the head of the criminal department to the local prosecutor, it seems to be just an ordinary transfer, but in fact, the meaning is very different.

The officials of the six yamen in the capital are divided into three levels: high, medium and low, and the low-level officials below the seventh grade rarely have the possibility of promotion, so most of them can work with peace of mind, try to make money, and wait to go home to become rich people.

Middle-level officials do not dare to embezzle, nor do they dare

"Standing alone", so it's the hardest to do. High-level officials can call for wind and rain, or they can cover the sky with one hand.

But it is not too easy to rise from a middle-level official to a high-level official. Even if Jia Baishun has his own ability, and Xu Jie, the cousin of the first assistant of the cabinet, he will not be able to pass the test smoothly.

Besides, Jia Baishun was born in Gongsheng, and he did not pass the formal examination, so he could not be promoted to a senior official of the Sixth Department immediately.

Therefore, Xu Jiewei cousin didn't come up with this method, let Jia Baishun go to the local government to serve as an envoy, accumulate a certain amount of capital and then return to the capital, and then as long as Xu Jie is still the first assistant of the cabinet, Jia Baishun can serve as an important senior official of the six ministries.

Second, Jia Baishun came to Shanxi this time, probably to target Qin Tai. Under Xu Jie's arrangement, Jia Baishun can be said to be smooth sailing, and only Qin Tai dares to go against him.

Jia Baishun also lost an opportunity to make great strides in promotion because of Qin Tai's relationship. Jia Baishun will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to deal with Qin Tai well, and it is best to completely collapse Qin Tai.

Third, Jia Baishun may have accepted the secret order of his cousin Xu Jie, to monitor and target Gao Gong. Gao Gong is a native of the West of the Mountain, and he is a native of Qintai.

After Gao Gong left the imperial court, Xu Jie always felt uneasy, and always felt that Gao Gong would not retreat and accumulate energy to deal with himself again.

Therefore, Xu Jie arranged for his cousin Jia Baishun to go to the west of the mountain to serve as an envoy to watch Gao Gong's every move nearby.

Once Gao Gong made a move, Jia Baishun quickly sent someone to inform Xu Jie while causing trouble for Gao Gong.

Fourth, Jia Baishun may want to make money. Although Jia Baishun can also call the wind and rain in the capital, too many people pay attention to him.

Besides, even if you make money, the big head will go to Xu Jie, and Jia Baishun can only take the rest of Xu Jie.

It is not the same to be appointed as an envoy in a place, not only the emperor is far away, but also there is no need to honor Xu Jie.

As a commissioner, Jia Baishun can at least make more than 100,000 taels of silver. With this money, even if Xu Jie's old man returns to his hometown in the future, Jia Baishun can buy other officials to continue to be an official.

If you really can't do it, it's better to go home and become a rich man with this money. Therefore, Jia Baishun had to come to be an envoy for both public and private purposes, but he just suffered the people of Shanxi and Qin Tai and others.