Daxianguan

Chapter 484 The Situation of Dinghai County (Third)
Is there no candidate?

Obviously impossible.

Chu Xian knew that this was Li Ji's special case. For example, officials at the level of government order and chief secretary are naturally very important. After all, these two official positions are not low, sixth rank, seventh rank, in charge of a city, In many counties, I don't know how many people are staring at this seat eagerly.

It's not that Li Ji has no candidates, but that the other party wants to hand over the right of selection to himself.

Chu Xian thought about it carefully. He didn't want to participate in this kind of thing at first, but after thinking about it later, he did have several candidates, but he didn't know what the other party's current situation was.

After thinking for a while, Chu Xian said: "Wacheng Mansion Order and Chief Scribe, these two seats are vacant first, I have two candidates, according to my understanding of them, of the two of them, one can be the Mansion Order, and the other Li Changshi, you can arrange someone to contact them and check their current situation. If they are doing well and can be promoted, then promote them. "

Although this was an inquiry and discussion, Li Ji didn't think so.

What he thought was that since Lord Inspector had proposed this, then the government decree and chief secretary of Wacheng must be these two people.

Yushi Li Ji asked: "Lord Inspector, who are these two candidates?"

Chu Xian said: "My subordinates in Dinghai County used to be Jiang Yuan and Xia Bozhong."

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Dinghai County.

Inside the county mansion, Xia Bozhong's face was a bit ugly, but he still had to stand respectfully, because the newly appointed county magistrate Mr. Zhou was scolding him.

Not only for training, but also in front of other officials, the tone is quite serious.

"Xia Bozhong, look at you, the chief registrar of a county town, you can't even do this thing well. When I ask you to do things, you are always procrastinating. When the sun is not bright in the morning, the official Remember, I will give you instructions to sort out the county tax accounts for the past five years, but you have not handed them over to the official until now, what is your intention?"

Zhou Qiangren frowned, and spoke angrily, with a loud voice.

Xia Bozhong really wanted to say, what you want may not be finished in three days, let alone half a day. Isn't this just an excuse?
But Zhou Qiangren was the new Dinghai county magistrate, his superior, he dared not and could not contradict him, so he could only bow his head and listen, obediently.

The other officials in the county government also have different thoughts, but no one dares to say anything, they are not smart, they think it is Xia Bozhong, but they did not do a good job. , let him wear small shoes.

"Master Xia is too pitiful. Zhou Xiancheng has been here for more than half a year, and he is embarrassing Master Xia every day. Hey, I still miss the past. It would be fine if Mr. Jiang Yuan was not sick." A small official said in a low voice. , a person next to him hastily whispered: "You don't want to die? Be careful to let Mr. Zhou hear it, but you are right. When Mr. Jiang Yuan was there, he cooperated quite tacitly with Master Xia. The prosperity of the year is also due to the credit of these two adults, but now, Lord Zhou is clearly here to pick peaches."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple. Master Zhou has been here for half a year, and sometimes his prestige among the people in the county is not as high as Master Xia's. This naturally makes Master Zhou angry, and several officials brought by Master Zhou have already taken care of him." A few officials have been squeezed out before, but Master Xia is the second in command of the county government, and Mr. Zhou probably has already planned to find a way to replace him with his own people."

"Hey, forget it, forget it, don't say it, it will be bad if people hear this, but it's a pity for Mrs. Xia, I heard that Mrs. Jiang Yuan was going to report to Zhenxi City Mansion half a year ago, and wanted to recommend Mr. Xia Taking over his class, I didn't expect Master Jiang Yuan to have an emergency, and fell ill before he could explain it, so..."

At this time, several officials from Zhou Qiangren's department walked over, and these small officials immediately shut up, not daring to discuss any more.

"Master Xia, you have been the master secretary in Dinghai County for so many years. It stands to reason that you shouldn't say that about you, but you don't have a long memory, you don't make progress, go back now, and tomorrow morning, get the things I want Get it sorted out, if you still can't do it well, then I can only write to the city government to ask for a replacement." After Zhou Qiangren finished speaking, he waved his hand and sent Xia Bozhong away.

The latter is also full of anger.

But there was no other way, Mr. Jiang Yuan was suddenly seriously ill and was bedridden. Originally, he could take over as the county magistrate, but Zhou Qiangren was directly delegated from above.

Xia Bozhong has been an official for so many years, and he also has some contacts. He found out that Zhou Qiangren has a backer, and this backer is now in Zhenxi City, and he is the chief secretary of the sixth rank.

In this way, how can he compete with Zhou Qiangren?

Half a year ago, the county magistrate's seat was robbed by the other party, Xia Bozhong didn't complain, he just continued to be his chief registrar, and just worked hard for the people of Dinghai County.

But who would have thought that the other party would not even allow him to be the chief registrar.

It is obvious that if the file cannot be handed in tomorrow, the other party will use this as an excuse to go to the city mansion to ask for a replacement, and the chief scribe of the city mansion is Zhou Qiangren's backer. Take it down.

At that time, the official will be able to do it.

Thinking of the sadness, Xia Bozhong shook his head again and again.

Sighing and returning home, Xia Bozhong's wife was waiting for him at the door as usual. Xia Bozhong's wife was married a few years ago and was from another county. Old friends, that's why we got married.

The Xia family is also a hardworking woman. Although she is also the wife of an official family, she doesn't know how to put on airs.

Seeing Xia Bozhong coming back, the Xia family guessed that Xia Bozhong was troubled, so he asked what was wrong.

Bozhong Xia didn't want to talk about the mess in the county mansion, but the Xia family is obviously a smart woman. She knew that in the past six months, since the county magistrate of Zhou came, she often used excuses to reprimand and embarrass Bozhong Xia, and it is probably the same today.

"Did Master Zhou make things difficult for you again?" Mrs. Xia asked, and helped Xia Bozhong take off his boots. The latter sat on the chair without saying a word, just closed his eyes and rested his mind.

These days, he is indeed too tired.

At this time, Xia said again: "I know it even if you don't tell me, not only Master Zhou likes to bully people, but also his wife and his concubines are also virtuous. When they meet me, they always speak bad words. But I don't care about them."

"Just ignore it." Xia Bozhong said.

Mrs. Xia shook her head: "But it's not a big deal to always be so tolerant. As the saying goes, people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden by others. If we blindly forbear, what we get in return is not others' understanding, but further insults. These days, I can't go on."

Xia Bozhong smiled wryly: "What else can we do?"

At this time Xia Shi came over, although she was not very beautiful, she still had a certain charm, at this moment she whispered: "Why don't you go to see Master Jiang Yuan, I heard that his health has improved a little."

When Bozhong Xia heard this, he shook his head hastily: "No, no, Mr. Jiang Yuan is old and seriously ill. He should recuperate quietly. How can you bother him because of my affairs? What's more, Mr. Jiang Yuan is also very old. There is no way, he is no longer the county magistrate, Zhou Qiangren is backed by the master of Zhenxi City Mansion, we can't fight against them."

"Then endure it all the time and be bullied by them all the time?" Xia's eyes were a little red, obviously because of her husband's worthlessness.

Xia Bozhong said: "Zhou Qiangren is targeting me so much because he wants me to give up the position of the master book. At worst, I will let him do it."

"No." Xia said hurriedly: "It's not easy to be a Shangguan, how can you give up lightly? Let's think of a way."

Speaking of this, Xia suddenly whispered: "I heard people say today that it was in the past, that is, Mr. Jiang Yuan's previous county magistrate, who is an example for the world's literati, Chu Xian, Mr. Chu?"

Xia Bozhong's complexion changed, and he immediately said: "Who did you listen to?"

The Xia family looked aggrieved: "I'm from another county, so I don't know, but if you ask the people in Dinghai County, no one knows, how can you hide this from me. And I heard, husband, you are also accused by this Master Chu discovered and promoted him. Although Master Chu has been away from Dinghai County for many years, he may not have forgotten you, my husband. The most important thing is, I heard that Master Chu is now the governor of our Liangzhou. Great official, why don't we, Shacheng, go and ask Master Chu..."

"Shut up!" Xia Bozhong immediately reprimanded: "Don't say this again."

Xia Shi was startled, there were tears in his eyes at the moment, because Xia Bozhong was always gentle, never had he been so fierce to her.

Xia Bozhong guessed that he knew that his reaction was a bit big, so he sighed; "Madam, you can't do this. You are right. Your husband and I were indeed favored and promoted by Master Chu a few years ago. Mr. Yuan was also pulled out of the mountain by Mr. Chu. At that time, it is really nostalgic. Mr. Chu is the outstanding man of the world. He is very young and powerful. If Mr. Chu did not exist in Dinghai County, the city would have been destroyed long ago. So, Lord Chu has a great kindness to the people of Dinghai County, and he also has a great kindness to me, Bo Zhong Xia, and I have never repayed the kindness, so how can I bother and bother Master Chu because of these trivial things?"

"But..." Mrs. Xia was about to say something, but Xia Bozhong waved his hands: "Madam, don't say any more, I have made up my mind. Although I don't want to give up the officialdom and want to do more for the people, if the situation forces me, Then this official, it doesn’t matter if you don’t do it.”

The Xia family knew that it was useless to say anything else.

After coming out of the room, she thought about it, and knew that her husband would lose his official position if this went on, so she gritted her teeth and went to beg her father-in-law.

Xia Song.

After Xia Song listened carefully, he also said: "Bo Zhong is right, if you ask Master Chu for these trivial matters, it will embarrass Master Chu, and it will also appear that we are incompetent, so we can't do it."

Xia Shi didn't expect her father-in-law to have the same idea.

She couldn't help it. After she came out, she had an idea and thought of a compromise.

That is to let people spread the news that Xia Bozhong and the current governor of Liangzhou, Chu Xianchu, are old acquaintances.

That's all.

"Zhou Qiangren, you have a city chief secretary as your backer, but my husband is still an old acquaintance of the governor, I don't believe it, you will have the guts to bully my husband after hearing this." Xia muttered to herself.

So the next day, the news had already spread.

As the magistrate of Dinghai County, Zhou Qiangren has many eyes and ears, so he got this rumor at the first time.

At the moment, Zhou Qiangren didn't dare to be negligent, so he summoned his cronies to spy in the study, and what he said was this matter.

(End of this chapter)