Chapter 9 9. The opponent of the new official is the old official

Being an official means breaking away from the status symbol of ordinary people.Xinke Jinshi went through roll call, Shi Brown (granting officials), bestowing green robes, bestowing wats (shoubans that ministers take when they go to court, there are jade, ivory, and bamboo slices, which function like memos, and write down the things to be played. In the above, so as not to forget) and other procedures, it marks the official entry into the official career. In the sixth year of Shenzong Xining, after the reform of the law, the treasury was filled. Baiguan".What is the concept of three thousand strings?Yang Zhi, the middle-green-faced beast, has an ancestral treasured sword, and wants to sell it for three thousand pieces.

Xinke Jinshi don't need to think that the money is used to make money for the next place. The Song Dynasty had a strict system of appointment.The Song inherited the Tang system, and it was stipulated that "all foreign officials will give the pretense, thirty days for those within a thousand miles, fifty days for those within two thousand miles, sixty days for those within three thousand miles, and seventy days for those within four thousand miles. A distance of four thousand miles is eighty days."Depending on the location of the appointment, different arrival times are given. If you fail to take office or arrive late, you can be sentenced to imprisonment at the highest level in the Tang Dynasty.Officials who took office with their families and mouths were given "post coupons" by the imperial court, through which they could eat and drink for free at the post station.When high-ranking officials go to other places, the imperial court will give them moving ships.

However, Xinke Jinshi went to the local area and worked in the state capital usually as an idle job. For example, Wang Anshi Jinshi Jidi was appointed to sign the Huainan East Road Jiedu Judgment Office, referred to as signing Huainan.The official name is a string, which reads very scary. In fact, it is not a big cadre, that is, the small staff under the magistrate of Yangzhou.Wang Anshi's father, Wang Yi, has been working in the local area, and finally ended up in the economic situation of "no farmland to live on for a day".If at the grassroots level (magistrate affairs), the new official has to face the local subordinate staff, this is often the beginning of trouble.

When Bao Zheng was appointed to know the affairs of the Kaifeng government, he made a rule that if a citizen violated the law, he would be eaten first.A criminal bribed the official to escape the pain of the spine of the stick. The official suggested that the Lord would let me interrogate first.Sure enough, Bao Zheng asked the officials to interrogate first, and the criminal loudly said that he was wronged, innocent, and innocent.The official sternly said: "But if you go out with the stick spine, why talk too much." Bao Zheng in the hall heard that I should be the one giving orders. When it's your turn, a small official, you have clearly exceeded your authority.Bao Zheng hurriedly stopped and removed the spine of the criminal's stick, so as to restrain the official's arrogance.

Bao Zheng, who was stern and selfless, only suppressed the officials, while Zhang Yong was ruthless directly. "Helin Yulu" records that when Zhang Yong was the magistrate of Chongyang County, an official came out from the finance department of the county government. There was a copper coin hidden under the temple scarf. Zhang Yong found it, and he knew it was money from the treasury.Zhang Yong couldn't help but talk about the stick.The officials clamored that what is worth a penny, if you can stick me, you would rather behead me?County Magistrate Zhang drew a pen and sentenced him: "A penny a day, a thousand days a thousand, sawing wood with a rope, and dripping water through a stone." After the sentence, he drew his sword and chopped it off, and then impeached his superiors for lax discipline and incompetent governance. and so on.When he was the magistrate of Yizhou, he encountered another crime from officials.Zhang Yong ordered someone to put him in shackles.The official threatened that it was easy to put me in shackles, but it is difficult to take them off if I tell you.The implication is that you have to think carefully, and the subordinates don't take your officials seriously.Zhang Yong said, what's so difficult about getting rid of the shackles?I'll help you take it off.Draw the sword and cut it, the official's head fell directly from the shackles.

These two short stories show the tension between officials and officials.Officials were of the same rank in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and then gradually parted ways.Because officials have no rank, although they are government employees, their political status is very different from that of officials.Officials are an important part of the connection between the people and the court, so the upper-level power is in the hands of the officials, and the lower-level power is in the hands of the subordinate staff.Before the Yuanfeng reform in the Song Dynasty, officials had no wages, and their economic income could only depend on entrapment of the common people, so the struggle between officials and officials emerged endlessly.

Wang Yi served as the chief secretary of Jian'an County, Jianzhou, Fujian Road (now Jian'ou County, Nanping City, Fujian Province), and the county magistrate's deputy. He encountered an incident of tax resistance by officials.When collecting taxes, ordinary people do not pay taxes, not only in Jian'an, but also in the counties under the jurisdiction of Jianzhou.After investigation, Wang Yi found out that "Kongmu officials still pay taxes from time to time, why are the poor alone evil?" If the officials working at the gate of the yamen don't pay taxes, why do ordinary people pay taxes?This phenomenon reflects the reality of unfairness.Wang Yi also adopted Zhang Yong's method, and severely punished Kongmu officials who did not pay taxes by 20 boards.Kongmu officials ate the board and paid all the taxes within three days, and the problem of tax collection was quickly resolved.

No matter Wang Yi, Bao Zheng or Zhang Yong, they are all cruel to criminal officials and will never tolerate them.They are representatives of officials, representing the interests of officials within the vast system, and they have strict boundaries for people outside the bureaucratic system. In the final analysis, officials and officials are the contradictions between two classes.Officials must rely on officials to safeguard the interests of their own class, and on the contrary, officials must rely on the assistance of officials to manage the country.If there is no skin, how will the hair be attached?No one can do without anyone, and no one will obey anyone.The biggest problem for new officials to take office is how to deal with the subordinate staff, followed by squires, rich households, prominent families and so on.There are many thorns and thorns in the local office. Whether the boots of the new official can walk steadily and go in the long run is a serious question.