Chang Wei nodded his fingers angrily, and said lazily: "Call me!"

Fang Greedy Wolf and other masters excitedly rolled up their sleeves and rushed to the second floor, Huikong howled and was about to follow, but was pulled by Chang Wei, "You are too heavy to go." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The kung fu of speaking was already a ping-pong ball, and Xia Sanzi and the others, who had originally escaped, turned around and jumped to their feet and shouted: "Fight, kill this group of bastards, your mother's Zhang Laosan, you are finished today." ”

Cheng Shiyu said in a low voice: "Just teach them a lesson, the Zhang family is not easy to mess with." ”

Chang Wei asked indifferently: "Just because they are a wang clan?"

The deputy incense head is equivalent to the county Cheng, and is the second-in-command of the Xiangtang in Weishan County, mainly in charge of the warehouse, prison and other departments, and is a real power fat poor.

Cheng Shiyu's face was extremely ugly, "More than a hundred years ago, the Xiazhen Canal Lock was built, and the ancestor of the Zhang family was the first commander, and since then the Zhang family has taken root in Xiazhen, and has been on the lock for generations. ”

Chang Wei's pupils shrank imperceptibly, and he sighed lightly: "It turned out to be a Xu official!"

Xu officials are small officials without grades, and their number is extremely large, from the court to the county seat, and they are the most important part of the court officials. The official departments of all dynasties and dynasties were the most important departments, but why did they call them the official departments instead of the official departments? This shows the viciousness and importance of the officials.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the number of people who have entered the bureaucracy has been extremely limited. In the triennial imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, only 100 Jinshi were selected, and the number of officials could not meet the needs of the Ming Dynasty with a population of 150 million. (After the Wanli Zhongxing, the population of the Ming Dynasty stabilized at 150 million, and only half of it was slaughtered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.) ）

Managing a large empire of 150 million people is definitely the most complicated and cumbersome thing in the world, and Chang Wei has done a professional and detailed investigation when he pretended to be a square minister.

Last year, there were 23 major cases of murder and robbery in Liyang County. And the smaller ones, such as: the owner lost the cow, the west family robbed the field, the Zhang family's daughter-in-law was stolen by the old Wang next door, and Li Da borrowed Liu Er's money and did not pay it back, at most there were hundreds of cases a day.

Moreover, the imperial court also stipulated that the people were not allowed to keep law books privately, because the law was the royal prerogative, and only the Son of Heaven was qualified to promulgate the law.

In the situation that the imperial examination does not attach importance to the law, and the scholars emphasize learning and morality, and ignore practice, the Xu officials who are proficient in the law because of the convenience of work have become an irreplaceable group.

As far as Chang Wei knows, the Yang family, the prison clerk in Liyang County, has not moved from the Sui Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and it still firmly controls the local key points for a thousand years.

A thousand years! The dynasty has changed five times, and the era of chaos and division in the middle has exceeded 100 years, and this Yang family is as stable as Mount Tai, what kind of powerful force is this? It makes people shudder to think about it!

There are 120 auxiliary personnel in Liyang County, such as masters, clerks, wardens, catchers, post bearers, miscellaneous servants, langzhong, onmyoji, monks, monks, soaps, horses, steps, menzi, servants, grain differences, tax differences, etc.

The number of officials in Daming is not consistent, but it is not too different from Liyang County. Although this large number of officials spread throughout the center of the imperial court and local officials, they could not change their identities to become officials.

The reason is very simple: in order to maintain the absolute authority of the imperial examination, the imperial court did not allow it!

Imagine that a Xu official who has been in camp for several decades can rule the world for the emperor like a jinshi who has studied hard for more than ten years in the cold window, and who has raised people, will there still be anyone willing to study hard? In that case, won't the Ming Dynasty become a society in which a villain is in charge? Therefore, no matter how old or capable a Xu official is, he can only be a Xu official.

Like He Chong, although he started to enter the official career from the fast catch, he made up for the position of the nine-grade inspection, and the rank is an official rather than a official. Like Chang Wei, he also started from the official of Jiupin at the beginning, not from what catches quickly, otherwise he would not be qualified to be promoted at all.

Since the promotion channel is closed, the officials can't get the opportunity to glorify their ancestors, so let's use all their efforts to make money.

Although their status is low, they hold the key point of communication between the upper and lower levels, and without them issuing information and transmission orders, the communication between the government and the people will come to a standstill. Moreover, they have long been in the power line, and they have a wide range of say in government decrees, and they can influence the decrees of their superiors.

Like the master and the secretary, they are the right-hand men of the county officials and prefects, and they are important people. In a casual word, a glance can make money that ordinary people can't earn in a lifetime.

In the past dynasties, the local county orders were as short as one year, and as long as three or five years, they would be promoted, transferred, or retired, and it was these nobles, gentry and officials who really held the real power.

The Wang clan has a large population, and each village, town, and even some small counties are all one ancestor and one surname. The elders and elders of the clan are more effective than the county officials, and if the county officials want to collect grain, pay taxes, and levy conscription, they must win over the elders of the wang clan.

The local gentry are the elites of the noble clan, or the talents of the show, or the queen of the official eunuchs. The elders held the patriarchal power, and the gentry fought for clan status in front of the local officials, and the two were interdependent and jointly assisted the officials in governing the local area.

The so-called winning the hearts of the people is not to win the hearts of the common people, but to win the hearts of these elders and gentlemen. This is because a county and a place can be hundreds of miles long and a dozen miles small, and there are only three or five high-grade officials in the county government, so let them observe the people's feelings?

Therefore, the customs and conditions of the people in a certain place are all reported by these old gentlemen.

The communication between the two is the officials, how many fields are in a certain village or town, how to divide the advantages and disadvantages of the fields, what is the harvest of drought and flood, how many people in the family have a family, how much grain and taxes should be paid, and whether someone should go to prison or be fined money for breaking the law...... These powers are in the hands of the officials.

Zhang Laosan, who was beaten like a pig's head in front of him, was a collection of three identities: a wang clan, a Xu official, and a gentleman's nephew.

In normal society, this Zhang Laosan is definitely an extremely difficult character, even with the identity of Chang Wei Jinyiwei, if he is driven out of the official office without killing him, I believe that it will not be long before the local officials who can't leave him will secretly invite him back.

However, this is a place under the rule of the White Lotus Sect, a place of chaos and disorder, and no officials, nobles, and gentry can compare to force and power here.

Looking at the undisguised happiness in Cheng Shiyu's eyes, Chang Wei asked, "Have you ever been bullied by the Zhang family?"

"Not only have I been bullied!" Cheng Shiyu gritted his teeth and said: "My father has saved nearly 200,000 taels of silver in 40 years of trading, which seems like a lot, but who knows that most of it has been stripped away by the Zhang family!"

"All officials in the world can be killed!"

Chang Wei said leisurely, "This is by no means a complaint!" (To be continued.) )