Idle courtiers

Chapter 307 Functions of the Secretary of General Administration
In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the Secretary of General Administration was a major department. Because it had the power to deny and refute memorials, it was almost equivalent to the cabinet, where it was placed on the shelf.

Later, after it was completely weakened into a communication room, the establishment was still maintained, and there were not many other things in the agency, except that there were many people and many officials.

There is one Tongzheng envoy, who is the third rank; one left and one right governor, who is the fourth rank; one left and one right counselor, who is the fifth rank.

Next, there is another person with the experience of Zheng Qipin, this is a miscellaneous official, in charge of documents, equivalent to the director of the office.

These are serious officials of the court, and there are six principals in charge of specific business. To put it bluntly, they are just running errands.

Pedestrians are already running errands, and Zhou Nan is a little upset that he is still running errands on secondment to the Secretary of General Administration.

The six principals are the Tongzheng Envoy, the Left and Right Tongzheng, and the Left and Right Counselors, and the other is to cooperate with the experience.

Zhou Nan was naturally invited by Zou Yinglong to his court, and was in charge of helping Senator Zou to preside over the daily government affairs.

Zou Yinglong has four secretary offices and two servants, all of whom are old people in the imperial city.Strange to say, they all seemed indifferent when they saw Zou Yinglong, but they were respectful when they saw Zhou Nan.Every day when Mr. Zhou arrived at the Department of General Affairs, the six of them came to please him, pouring tea and water, and complimenting him, calling out "Master Zhou" one after another, almost treating him as an ancestor.

This made Zhou Nan very satisfied, as if he had returned to the days when Baigezhuang was the majestic king of the mountain.

The only regret is that there are so few people, you can count them with five fingers on one hand.

He wondered why everyone in the hall was afraid of my lord, could it be that my domineering spirit could no longer be hidden?
After thinking about it carefully, I understood again.According to the way of being an official in the officialdom, the head of the department is very kind, and he has to put on airs and look good, while his deputy wants to be a villain and play a bad face.The so-called "the king of hell is easy to see, but the little devil is hard to deal with"!

The people below offended Zou Yinglong, Mr. Zou is open-minded, maybe he won't do anything to you.But Mr. Zhou is going to punish you. It is said that Zhou Xingren was born as a local government servant and has rich experience in fighting.

I thought that after being seconded to the Department of General Affairs, I would deal with copywriting all day long. This was hard work for Fei Yang, who was ecstatic and happy.

No, life here is colorful.

As I said earlier, the responsibility of the Secretary of General Administration is to collect officials' papers and hand them over to the cabinet after review.In the past, the officials in the department felt that they were old men in the reception room, so they didn't have to be so serious. They collected the memorials and looked at them casually. If the format was okay and the content didn't violate the regulations, they just handed them over.

But this time Zou Yinglong went to the Sili to raise his hopes and prepare for the next move to the local governor. He also wanted to use the well-informed platform of the General Administration Department to secretly investigate the source of the strict party's funds, and he was rarely diligent in politics.

In the next few days, Mr. Zou and Zhou Nan will either go out to the various yamen in the capital to investigate together, or let Zhou Nan go out alone.Speaking of this, some people may be surprised, you are the concierge of the imperial court, you guard the door, and you can send and receive, and investigate a ghost, do you have this right?
It really does.

It turned out that after the ministers and related units uploaded the papers, if the secretary felt that something was wrong, he could go down to investigate and find out, and then decide whether to reject or submit.As long as you are not afraid of risking the disgrace of the world or offending others, you can flex your muscles and use the "silver platform" as a small cabinet envoy.

Like this Qingshui yamen, you may not care about it on weekdays, but once it cares about you, it will kill you.

To use another analogy, after a certain scale of private enterprises in later generations, they will have to set up trade unions.The trade union chairman can be appointed by the business owner himself, and it is purely a decoration.But once you have established a file with the local government's trade union, if the trade union wants to fight against you, you will be in trouble.

The trade union can supervise your workers' welfare and safety issues at any time, and organize employee learning and activities. You, the business owner, have to cooperate as much as possible.In addition, there is a stipulation in the system that business owners should help trade union members pay dues in a certain proportion of the salaries issued, and this proportion is still very high.

With power and money, there is energy.

Things in the world are afraid of the word serious.

As soon as Zou Yinglong was serious, the power of the Secretary of General Administration was revealed.

As soon as the papers from the various ministries were handed over, Zou Yinglong replied with "to be investigated" and then led people down to investigate. The other yamen had no choice but to deal with it carefully.

With Lao Zou around, Zhou Nan dared not make any mistakes as a subordinate.When I led the team alone, I was very happy.

The servants of the book office and yamen under him have to do everything they can to eat and get cards, Mr. Zhou doesn't want to stigmatize himself, he is simply looking for something to do when he is bored, and investigates the strict party by the way.Of course, if the subordinates get benefits, they will also honor him, and it is hard not to accept it.Otherwise, how can you get along with everyone in the future, and you will not be able to get along with the light and the dust.

On this day, Zhou Nan had just returned home from work in the General Administration Department. As soon as he entered the gate, he saw a dozen large bamboo baskets filled with kohlrabi in the yard.

Out of curiosity, he asked the steamed cornbread that greeted him: "Why do we buy so many turnips?"

Wotou: "If you go back to the master, it was sent by a group of military masters, saying that it is a tribute to the elder."

Zhou Nan was a little puzzled: "Which yamen is it?"

Wotou is an honest boy, and he didn't understand it after talking for a long time.

At this moment, Xun Fangyu came over and said, "Master, it was sent by Deputy Commander Ma Sifeng of the Dongcheng Army."

Zhou Nan patted his forehead: "So it's him, this old Feng is really...weird!"

Dongcheng Bingma Division is one of the five cities Bingma Division.

The so-called Wucheng Bingma Division is equivalent to the district-level public security bureau in later generations. This is not one department, but five.There are five offices in the east, west, north, south, and middle, and they are responsible for the security of different directions in the capital.

In each army and horse division, there is one commander of the sixth rank, and four deputy commanders of the seventh rank.

Lao Feng is the deputy commander of Dongcheng Bingma Division, and the magistrate in the area from Jingdong to Tongxian County.Last year, the Mongolian Alta invaded Ji Town, disturbed the area for ten days, but returned without success.Yan Song took advantage of the problem and dismissed Wang Shizhen's father, Wang Shu, from office and detained him in the prison.

At the same time, all of Governor Wang's subordinates were also arrested, so many positions were vacant.

Deputy Commander Feng came up with the idea of ​​serving the frontier army, and wrote a letter of love to voluntarily support the border and serve the country.As soon as the cannon is fired, ten thousand taels of gold are given. It is much more refreshing to be an officer below than to be the current deputy commander.Anyway, they are all military positions. Although the soldiers and horses of the five cities are leisurely, they are at the feet of the emperor after all. They are so poor that they might as well go to the local area to get some real benefits.

As soon as the letter of love was delivered to the Department of General Affairs, Zhou Nan thought of his mentor's father, and deliberately went to investigate. He personally led a team to Dongcheng Military Division to "investigate" and was very busy for two days.

As a result, this guy knew nothing about Jizhen and the Mongol invasion, which caused Zhou Nan to make a trip for nothing.

Commander Feng was naturally very polite to Zhou Nan, and invited him to dinner once.During the dinner, Zhou Nan casually mentioned his wife Yunniang in his hometown when chatting with him, saying that the salted kohlrabi made by his old wife tasted very good.It's a pity that the husband and wife are separated in two places, and I really miss them very much.

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested, Deputy Commander Feng actually delivered more than a dozen large baskets in one go.

How can this be eaten?
Zhou Nan was stunned: Commander Feng, why don't you send some money over here? Isn't sending this thing to cause trouble for my lord?So angry!
Xun Fang said: "Why don't you send some to my teacher and my wife. My wife is from the south, so she should make salted kohlrabi."

Zhou Nan: "Send it over, send it all over, just let the mistress have a headache!" Then he laughed, this is a thousand catties of kohlrabi!

He has a deep relationship with Wang Shizhen and treats him like a father, and often asks his wife to send some daily necessities to his wife.There are a lot of gifts. During the Chinese New Year, only cured pheasants, cured wild pork, and cured fish are sent over thousands of catties.As a result, there is a problem of bacon permeating the Wang family all the time, and it is estimated that they will not be able to eat it all until the end of the year.

The teacher and his wife were deeply distressed, saying that now they lose their appetite when they see meat, and they only swear by vegetables and tofu.

Xun Fangyu also covered his mouth and laughed.

The two were laughing, and Huang Dou came in: "My lord, there is a Mr. Wu asking to see him outside, and he said he is the village party member of the lord."

"The one surnamed Wu is still from the same town." Zhou Nan took a look at the name badge that Huang Dou handed over, and couldn't help laughing: "This guy is so bold, is he trying to find my master's bad luck? I won't go to him, he It's really a narrow road to the enemy!"

It turned out that this person was Wu Xinhua, a small salt merchant from Huai'an Prefecture.

Wu Xinhua was imprisoned by Zhou Nan in the Weapons Bureau for a few days and suffered a lot.After being released, he was not in a good mood, and even blatantly attacked Zhou Nan on the day when Zhou Nan went to participate in the additional test in Shuntian Mansion. Zhou Nan was so angry that he still couldn't think clearly.

I thought that this surnamed Wu got into trouble and was afraid of retaliation, so he should flee back to Huai'an, but unexpectedly he came to Zhou's house today, what did he want to do?
Hearing the words "The Encounter's Road is Narrow", Xun Fangyu knew that the visitor was not kind.She had seen Zhou Nan's methods when she was in her hometown before, and she had a kind of blind trust in her husband, and she was not worried.

I'm afraid that Zhou Nan's impulsiveness will cause bad things.

He just said: "My lord, after all, I'm from the same town, and the so-called visitors are all guests. As far as I know, Huai'an Mansion has a guild hall in the capital. This guest should be known by people in the guild hall. If something happens later, I'm afraid it will hurt the master's reputation." reputation."

Zhou Nan was originally determined to clean up Wuxinhua. Hearing his wife's reminder, he immediately came to his senses: "My lady, don't worry, I have my own measure."

What Xun Fangyu said made sense, everyone who came was a guest, and if there was a disturbance later, it would be him who lost his manners.

All the provinces and economic powers of the Ming Dynasty set up guild halls in the capital to receive fellow villagers and exchange news.Those who can live in the guild hall are not local tyrants and gentry, but also noble families, famous scholars, officials from Huai'an who come to Beijing to work...

If I punish Wu Xinhua who came to visit, I will lose my reputation in my hometown.

You know, after Mr. Zhou gets old and retires, he will return to Huai'an, so the local relations need to be improved.

Xun Fangyu nodded: "The concubine went back to the backyard."

After a while, Wu Xinhua was led into the study by Huang Dou.

Ordinarily, enemies are extremely jealous when they meet.

But he didn't want to, Wu Daguan was very respectful, and bowed to the ground: "Wu Xinhua has seen Zhou Xingren, it's already Shenshi, I'm the host, please go out for a drink."

(End of this chapter)