The county seat of Yingchuan County is a majestic giant city that is several times larger than Qingshui County, and the city wall alone is more than 30 meters high, and there are huge buildings and ships parked on the wharf.

The merchant ships of the Tianhe Gang are the largest building ships in Qingshui County.

However, several of the building ships docked at the docks of the county town were larger than the merchant ships of the Tianhe Gang.

These huge merchant ships were all used to do business between the counties of Yuanzhou.

The Canglan River, which runs through the entire Yuanzhou from east to south, is more convenient than walking by land, so in several counties on the edge of the Canglan River, water transportation is more developed and prosperous than land transportation.

There is a distance of several miles from the pier to the city gate.

It takes at least half an hour to walk from the pier to the city gate on ordinary people's feet.

Glancing at the sky, Chen Xuan couldn't help but speed up, and used the Land Rushing Technique to quickly sweep towards the location of the city gate.

It's almost closing now, so there aren't many people in line.

"Get the way out!"

The soldiers defending the city in armor glanced at Chen Xuan and said in a cold tone.

Immediately, Chen Xuan took out the order from the thief Cao Si.

At this time, Chen Xuan did not change his appearance, but used his original appearance.

"It turned out to be the thief Cao Si's upcoming officer." The soldiers guarding the city looked at it, and then said with a smile: "If you also work for the imperial court, then the entrance fee will be waived, go in!" ”

"Thank you!"

Chen Xuan hugged his fists and entered the city.

The streets of the county seat are much wider than those of Qingshui County, especially the main street that enters the city gate, which can accommodate six horse-drawn carriages at the same time, and there are various shops and vendors on both sides of the street, which is much more prosperous than Qingshui County.

On the street, some soldiers in armor can be seen patrolling.

Chen Xuan asked the people in the city about the location of the thief Cao Si, and when he rushed over, the official of the thief Cao Si had already left work, so he found an inn to live in, and waited for the next morning to report to the thief Cao Si.

After staying in the inn and eating something, Chen Xuan rested.

Early the next morning.

After Chen Xuan had breakfast, he came to the thief Cao Si and handed over the order.

After a while, Chen Xuan met Lin Changting, the chief of the thief Cao Si.

When he was on a merchant ship, he learned about the situation of the county seat from He Yun.

The biggest official in Yingchuan County is naturally the county guard, and then the county commander and the captain, and the relationship between these three is the county honor, the county lord and the county lieutenant, which belongs to the upgraded version of these three.

The office of the county keeper and the governor is called the house.

For example, the county guard's mansion, the governor's mansion, etc.

The following official offices and yamen are called Cao Si.

To put it simply, the county guard is the city government, and the 'Zhucao' department below belongs to the department and bureau.

Thief Cao Si, the official in the palm of the hand, thieves, lawsuits, crimes, etc.

Among them, the chief official is the chief officer, the official of the six products, and the following are the directors of each department, such as the chief of water and fire, the chief of criminal prisons, and the chief of arrest, etc., all of which belong to the six products.

The chief of the thief Cao Division, who is the seventh product, belongs to the secretary of the master of the thief Cao Division, and is in charge of the personnel of the Thief Cao Division.

"I've seen the chief."

Seeing this chief official who was somewhat similar to the county lieutenant Lin Changrong, Chen Xuan saluted respectfully.

"No need to be polite." The chief officer Lin Changting waved his hand and said: "You are Chen Xuan, the third brother mentioned you in the letter, and you can be regarded as saving the third brother's life." ”

"This is what I should do, and my subordinates dare not take credit."

Chen Xuandao.

"You don't have to be modest, since you came to the thief Cao Si, then work hard here, the Lin family will not treat you badly." Lin Changting asked, "Do you want a military job or a civilian job?" ”

"My subordinates want to be civilian."

Chen Xuandao.

"Clerical?" Lin Changting frowned slightly, and then said: "The martial profession is relatively dangerous, but the credit also comes quickly, and you may not be able to obtain the grade in the future. ”

"My subordinates don't have any big ambitions, and they just want me to live a peaceful life before my parents leave."

Chen Xuandao.

For him, it doesn't matter if he can get a grade or anything, the important thing is a stable environment, with a proficiency plug-in, he can steadily improve his cultivation realm and improve his strength, so there is no need to fight and kill.

"There aren't many civilian positions, what are your strengths?"

Seeing that Chen Xuan wanted to choose a civilian position, Lin Changting did not persuade him.

Originally, for the sake of the third brother Lin Changrong's strong recommendation, he also wanted to give Chen Xuan a chance, as long as he performed well in the martial arts, after three or five years, it would not be difficult to get an official position from the ninth grade.

But since the other party insists on choosing a civilian position, then he doesn't have to make that effort.

"The thief Cao Si is still short of servants, prison painters, jailers, these are all considered to be civilian."

Lin Changting said lightly.

"Prison painter, jailer."

Chen Xuan pondered these three positions.

Among them, he was a forensic doctor in ancient times, who specialized in examining corpses.

This requires a lot of professionalism and a lot of dealing with dead bodies.

The prison painter is a portrait of a prisoner who has been convicted of a crime and is to be imprisoned in a prison, while the jailer, as the name suggests, is a prison guard, and generally has to live in the prison department and cannot go out at will.

Although the prison painter also belongs to the prison department, he is more free than the jailer.

"Go back to my lord, I will paint a portrait."

Chen Xuan said.

"That's the prison painter." Lin Changting said: "Tomorrow, you will report to the Criminal Prison Department." ”

After speaking, Lin Changting picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.

Serve tea to guests.

Chen Xuan immediately understood what he meant, and immediately got up and said, "Thank you, my lord, that subordinate has resigned first." ”

Leaving the thief Cao Si, Chen Xuan returned to the inn and changed his identity and came to Yaxing.

Although the prison painter can live in the prison department, he has many secrets, and it is definitely inconvenient to live in the prison department, such as imitating the rest of the secret medicine on the market and refining the secret medicine himself to practice, which must not be known to outsiders.

So, he had to rent a house outside.

Before coming to the county seat, Chen Xuan made dozens of 'road guides' by himself.

Just use these fake road guides to rent a house in Yaxing, and Chen Xuan will also disguise himself as in the portrait above, so that his true identity will not be exposed.

In the future, when buying medicinal herbs, these false identities are used.

After a while, Chen Xuan rented more than a dozen courtyards with different identities.

These dozen courtyards are distributed around the Criminal Prison Department, and the distance from the Criminal Prison Department to these dozen courtyards is about the same.

After a busy day, a total of thousands of taels of silver were spent.

The county town is prosperous, and the consumption is also high.

As far as renting a house, a courtyard of the same size in Qingshui County is a maximum of ten taels of silver a year, but in the county seat, it costs fifty taels, which is four times more expensive than Qingshui County, and costs forty taels of silver more.