In other words, since the land exchange with Jiangdong, Zhao Lei's Pheasant County Order should not be able to continue, and I don't know where the lord arranged for him later.

Zhang Xi hurriedly asked someone to check, and soon replied.

Zhao Lei is in Nanjun, and his official position is still the county order, but he has changed from the Xiazhi County Order to the Zhijiang County Order.

Zhang Xi was immediately overjoyed, and he had the idea of getting Zhao Lei over and helping him.

Of course, Zhang Xi didn't want to promote Zhao Lei from a county order to a county magistrate all at once, which was not appropriate.

On the one hand, such a quick promotion will inevitably cause criticism from others.

On the other hand, although Zhao Lei is from Jingzhou, he is not from a family, and he is also a son of a poor family, if he suddenly occupies a high position, those Peng Shi-level officials under him will not be convinced, and it will not be much better than the experience of Li Qiu, a foreigner.

You must know that Li Qiu has been a county governor of Badong County, and he has qualifications and work experience, but Zhao Lei's work experience so far is just a county order.

Zhang Xi thought for a moment and thought of a way to get the best of both worlds.

The next day, Zhang Xi issued an official document, raising Deng Ai from the position of the chief secretary of Nanjun to one level, becoming the acting chief of Nanjun, and at the same time transferring Zhao Lei to Zhijiang County as the chief secretary of Nanjun.

The position of the chief bookkeeper is the secretary of the county guard, and this position does not need to pay attention to the background and qualifications, as long as the county guard can see it, it is a bit of a private appointment.

Therefore, Zhao Lei was favored by Zhang Xi as the main bookkeeper, and no one would say anything about it.

As for Jun Cheng, he is indeed a high-ranking official of a county, Zhang Xi's deputy, this position, it is necessary to pay attention to the influence.

Therefore, Zhang Xi asked Deng Ai to be the acting county official, which was temporary, and when Xu Shu was done and sent one of the Xi brothers, Deng Ai could retire and continue to be the chief bookkeeper.

Deng Ai, as a disciple of Zhang Xi, is an acting county officer, I believe that the officials below should also be understandable, this is a sincere own person, don't you let the agent do it?!

The middle- and lower-level officials in Jingzhou are not so iron-headed.

Li Qiu's biggest problem is not because he is incapable, but because he is a foreigner. Deng Ai is both a disciple of Zhang Xi and a native of Jingzhou, and the officials below will not fail to give this face.

As long as what Deng Ai said works and the people below are willing to do it, then the government affairs of Nanjun can be carried out smoothly, and Zhang Xi does not have to be so tired of doing part-time work in person.

As for whose idea Deng Ai said, it doesn't matter at all, and the people below don't care.

Therefore, Zhang Xi's meaning is to let Deng Ai be the acting county official on the surface, and hand over the private official affairs to Zhao Lei to be responsible, Deng Ai still guards himself, continues to study, and continues to do the work of the master bookkeeper.

In the second half of the year, if any of the Xi brothers comes to be the county leader, Deng Ai can retire and continue to be the chief bookkeeper, and Zhao Ti, Zhang Xi will let him exercise by his side for a few years, boil up his qualifications, and wait until the right time to be promoted.

In this way, you can not only cultivate the talents in your pocket, but also get through this gap period without a county, the best of both worlds.

Therefore, Zhang Xi specially issued an order to transfer Zhao Lei to Jiangling City.

The two of them haven't seen each other for several years, and Zhang Xi also set up a banquet to entertain Zhao Lei.

But Zhao Ti has to say that he has been a county magistrate all these years, and he really can't blame others.

Zhao Lei is actually not bad, that is, his background is a little worse, and there is no one in the officialdom to help.

But Zhao Lei originally had this capital, he was quite familiar with Zhang Xi, and now Zhang Xi is in a high position, and he is a little squeezed in front of the lord, and he is also a person who can rank in the top five.

Such a person, Zhao Lei has never thought of stammering, and there is not a single letter of greeting on weekdays, but he has been stumbling on the appointment of the county order.

That is, Zhang Xi is really busy at this time, and he thinks that there is such a number one person, otherwise Zhao Lei will probably be a petty official at the grassroots level in his life.

Now Zhang Xi has promoted Zhao Lei from the Zhijiang County Order to the main book, it stands to reason that this is the benefactor, but the first thing Zhao Lei did when he saw Zhang Xi was not to catch up with Zhang Xi, but at the wine table, bluntly advising Zhang Xi not to drink.

In the past few years, Jingzhou has had bumper harvests year after year, and the people's families finally have some grain in stock, but who knows what the future will be?!

If the superior does not think of frugality and drinks for fun, the people will inevitably follow suit, and then the people may sell the stored grain and wine for money, which will lead to a bad atmosphere, which is not what a superior person should do.

This kind of person is, at best, straightforward, but. Fortunately, Zhang Xi knows what kind of temperament he is.

At the beginning, he was in the pheasant, but this person dared to risk killing his head to open a warehouse to distribute food to the homeless.

Zhang Xi hurriedly withdrew the banquet and confessed his mistake to Zhao Lei. I finally got someone who could help, but I couldn't make people angry and run away.

Zhao Ti is a person, of course, his ability can't be compared with Zhuge Liang and Zhang Zhao, but he has many years of grassroots work experience, and he has also cooperated with Zhang Xi, and there is a certain tacit understanding between them, Zhang Xi is at ease to use.

It doesn't matter if you have a little temper, as long as it's right, Zhang Xi still has this measure.

Then, Zhang Xi can have a good chat with Zhao Lei and separate things in the future.

Zhao Lei is just upright, not unkind, since Zhang Xi has withdrawn the banquet and admitted his mistake, he will not continue to hold on.

Zhao Lei also told Zhang Xi what happened after he parted with Zhang Xi.

In fact, it is to continue to be the county magistrate and deal with the daily work of Xia Pheasant County.

Here Zhao Lei also confessed to Zhang Xi, because when Zhang Xi got married, he invited Zhao Lei, but Zhao Lei really couldn't leave, so he couldn't participate, and only came to a ceremony to no one.

Now that I see me, of course Zhao Lei has to explain the situation to Zhang Xi.

Zhang Xi really didn't care about this, since he talked about continuing to be the county magistrate, Zhang Xi casually asked about Zhao Lei being the county magistrate in Zhijiang, including some government affairs.

When Zhang Xi talked about government affairs, Zhao Lei immediately had something to say.

"The county guard, tired of a word, go to the county guard Chana!" Zhao Lei got up and bowed to Zhang Xi first, and then began to say his own advice.

After all, it's the locust plague.

In Zhijiang County, there are already some signs of flying locusts, and Zhao Lei found out for the first time and planned to organize the people to kill the flying locusts.

But the people were quite frightened by this, thinking that the punishment messenger sent by God, how could mortals easily kill it?!

Zhao Lei explained for a long time, from the villagers to the people, they all thought that even if there was a locust plague, it was the destiny of heaven, and they did not dare to go down to the field to kill the locusts.

Zhao Lei really had no choice but to find the county Peng stationed in this county, hoping that he would come forward to organize the people to kill the locusts.

As a result, Jun Peng directly gave him a heavenly induction and said, saying that this is the reason for the Son of Heaven's immorality, and only the Son of Heaven can avoid the disaster if he accuses Heaven of sin. Zhao Lei wanted to give him two slaps.

The Son of Heaven is now unable to protect himself, you tell me that he is immoral?!

What's wrong with him?!

Originally, Zhao Lei was worried about this matter, but he received an order from Zhang Xi to go to Jiangling City as the chief bookkeeper.

Zhao Lei originally wanted to stay and refuse the order, stay in Zhijiang County and continue to persuade the villagers to kill locusts, but when he thought that it was useless to say anything, it was better to go to Nanjun Town and persuade Zhang Xi to order the killing, which would be more efficient.

So Zhao Lei came.

Zhao Lei knows Zhang Xi and knows that Zhang Xi is not the kind of person who is stupid in reading, so he hopes to persuade Zhang Xi to pay attention to the matter of taking off locusts.

Of course, Zhang Xi attaches great importance to it, and has been on guard since February.

Seeing that it was about to be May, and there was no report from any county that there was a locust plague, Zhang Xi thought that this time it was just a misjudgment, but in fact, there was no locust plague at all.

As a result, Zhao Lei said yes, but Peng Shi ignored it.

In particular, Zhang Xi had the intention of cutting people on the spot.

In the past, these bastards worked against Li Qiu, but they endured it, took a step back, and transferred Li Qiu away.

Now these bastards are still messing around, aren't they?!

Zhang Xi immediately took Zhao Lei to the study and wrote down a written order, asking the county orders and Peng Shi to report the locust plague, and at the same time ordered that the garrison of Zhijiang County, Peng Shi, be imprisoned and escorted back to Jiangling City.

As for Zhijiang County, Zhang Xi immediately sent a letter to the county governor of Zhijiang County, asking him to temporarily take the position of county commander, organize the people to kill locusts, and allow him to use his county's share of forced labor.

If he does it well, he is the new county order, and if he can't do it well, he will come to be the companion of this unlucky Peng Shi.

Then, just wait for news.

About ten days later, Peng Shi of Zhijiang County was escorted back to Jiangling City, and Zhang Xi publicly announced his guilt and was executed.

Strictly speaking, this person's guilt should not be damned, it's just a great dismissal, but now Zhang Xi, what he needs is someone to stand up and give him an explanation, and this history is just hitting the muzzle.

The matter of the flying locusts has been mentioned in February until now, and Zhang Xi arranged the history of the county to the locality, originally asking them to pay attention to the situation of the flying locusts at any time.

As a result, the flying locusts in Zhijiang County already had signs, not only did he not report it, but he also stopped Zhao Lei from letting Zhao Lei report it, which was looking for death.

Coupled with the previous Li Qiu incident, Zhang Xi has already backed down, and it is impossible to keep conceding to the Jingzhou family like this, they will only get more and more inch.

Therefore, Zhang Xi has to redo this history, the purpose is also to deter the families in Jingzhou, if it is too much, Zhang Xi does not mind breaking up.

Don't forget, now is a troubled time, and the Liu Bei Group, which has soldiers and food, is not easy to mess with.

(End of chapter)