Earth Immortal Righteous Path

Chapter 341 Trivia
"Prince Bai, is this county magistrate refusing to even say hello?"

Ding Zhenyuan put on his official accent and held his posture in a decent manner.

There was an undisguised smile on his face.

Bai Dian clenched his fist, released it, and clenched it again.

Finally, he lowered his head and said vaguely:

"...Meet the county magistrate!"

Ding Zhenyuan nodded.

"If there is nothing wrong with the county magistrate, please come early tomorrow! The previous county magistrate died suddenly for no reason. This matter is full of doubts, and I have to investigate this matter strictly."

"By the way, the county still needs to hand it over. Please ask the county magistrate to sort out the government affairs for this period of time tomorrow morning. I will check it carefully."

"...Yes, my lord!"

After all, Bai Xiancheng still had a clear mind and did not openly confront Shangguan.

Otherwise, Ding Zhenyuan would have to strip him of his official skin and suspend him.

In fact, the county magistrate does not have the power to directly execute the county magistrate.

Even other officials and county magistrates cannot be executed directly.

Officials and officials are different.

The former is an official of the imperial court and has a decent grade, while the latter is not popular and belongs to two classes.

The next day.

Sure enough, Bai Dian brought a county magistrate to meet the new county magistrate.

"I'll pay my respects to the county magistrate!"

The so-called etiquette is just bowing hands and bowing.

To meet the king of a country, one needs to kneel down.

"Xianzun, this is the household registration and income and expenditure accounts of the county."

"This is the list of county soldiers in the county."

"This is the specific project of the county's water conservancy engineering..."

"This is a backlog of criminal cases, as well as civil lawsuits. It has been two months, and the prisoner is urgently awaiting trial..."

……

Without waiting for Ding Zhenyuan to ask questions, they first threw everything over.

"Young people don't know how to manage politics, let's see how embarrassing you are!"

"Even if you come from a family, no matter how broad your knowledge is, you can't learn it without a teacher for the first time? Doesn't it take three to five years to be familiar with this government affairs before it can be handy?"

Secretly laughing in his heart, these subordinate officials waited to see the joke.

This is not the first time they have done this. Every time a newly appointed county magistrate, especially a Jinshi county magistrate with an imperial examination background, it always takes a year and a half to slowly grasp the overall situation of the county.

After all, no one is born to understand these things. If you haven't learned them before, it always takes time to understand them.

Ding Dang saw their thoughts at a glance.

"Sure enough, it's because I'm young that I'm easily underestimated!"

This is really normal, Ding Dang does look young, after all, he is only 15 years old.

And these people, one counts as one, and none of them is lower than 25.

"However, when it comes to age, everyone in power should be an octogenarian!"

But at this time, he just put down the paperwork and got familiar with government affairs step by step.

"On my way to my post, I met refugees fleeing from Nanyang County. I heard about the flood in Nanyang. It was very frightening!"

"Today, I officially took office. It happens that you are all here. Why don't you go with me to appease the refugees."

Several subordinate officials were still a little reluctant.

Ding Zhenyuan showed the majesty of a Shangguan, swept over lightly, but said:
"I know that this is not within my power and responsibility, but I have already agreed, and the few of you have the right to accumulate blessings for your descendants!"

It's good to say that if you don't obey even on the surface, then such a subordinate will definitely have to wear small shoes and sit on the bench in the future.

This is just a very simple truth.

Song He has already led people to Beichen County.

It's just that they are not allowed to enter the city yet, they just wait outside the city.

They didn't do nothing, they just gathered some reeds to build simple huts.

As soon as Ding Zhenyuan gave an order, he recruited government servants and civilian husbands to maintain order and prevent them from running around.

He personally took his subordinate officials and walked through the big families in the county one by one. In other words, the east family gave some, and the west family gave some, and gathered some old clothes and moldy rice.

Of course, taking this opportunity, Ding Zhenyuan actually got acquainted with the big households in the city initially, and had a better understanding of the temperament and ability of each other's subordinates.

It can be roughly divided into several categories: one is dawdling, perfunctory, and has no skills, most of them are old fritters over the age of 50; The third is that they have no skills, and those who don’t even do superficial articles, and those who assign a task for a long time without seeing the specific actions are purely dragging their feet.

Of course, there is another set of divisions according to their respective temperaments.

On this day, a simple hut was roughly built, and all the refugees were allocated residences according to male and female families, and they were temporarily resettled.

Using this day's time, Ding Zhenyuan roughly distinguished the available manpower.

"The position of the corpse, the positive obedience and the negative transgression, are actually the ones who are holding back in private. They must be opposed to me, the county lord. This kind of person must find a way to replace and promote someone who is serious and hardworking."

"Promote those who can be used and kick out those who can't. For the time being, it's as simple as that."

"It can basically be used like this before the imperial court collapses."

"But I still need to recruit a group of capable people in private, in case no one is available when there is an incident."

"You can take a look at that Song He first. Besides, there must be unsuccessful literati in Beichen County. Some talents can be tried. The key is to have a clean background."

"I'm also a seventh-rank county magistrate, and I can handle it. I dare not think about it. I can always afford some documents and the like."

Thinking of this, Ding Zhenyuan returned to the county government office, changed into casual clothes, dressed up in disguise, and took two guards with superb martial arts skills to tour the city by car.

Beichen County is worthy of being a large county with ten thousand households, almost comparable to the other three lower counties, so the city is very prosperous.

There are hawkers everywhere along the street, selling all kinds of straw mats and sandals, bamboo baskets, snacks, and many small toys.

Businessmen coming and going are busy.

There was an endless stream of people coming and going, and carriages and horses passed by from time to time, walking slowly on the stone road.

Next to the road in the city, there are canals and sewage, which are the drainage system prepared when the city was built. It is said that there are also sewers, which can communicate with the moat and discharge sewage.

Even if it rains continuously for the next week, the stagnant water in the city will be drained quickly without causing stagnant water.

"Today I realized the authority and responsibility of the county magistrate. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a Bailihou."

"Everything in the city, big or small, is under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate. In fact, he is the emperor of the earth. No wonder the county magistrate can raise troops to serve the king in history."

"Speaking of this, I haven't been to the barracks yet, and I don't know what this county soldier looks like."

In every prefecture and county of Daliao, there are prefectural soldiers and prefectural soldiers, who come from local young and middle-aged men to serve in the military.

As long as you are sixteen years old, you must perform military service. In principle, even if you are an official family or even have a title or a descendant of the clan, you cannot be exempted from military service.

If you are unwilling to perform military service, you must pay a sum of money and hire others to perform military service instead of yourself.

Military service lasts for two years.

For most people, military service is a complete waste of time, what's wrong with it?
Later, most of the soldiers in the county army were paid to serve as soldiers.

Even ordinary wealthy households would pay three or four hundred dollars a year to hire others to serve in the military.

Many families who are short of money have been serving in the army. In addition to their own two-year military service, they can also get a fee of more than 100 yuan from an intermediary.

This generation's military service seems to have become a business.

People from poor families serve as soldiers in order to solve their family rations. After the employment expenses have been deducted many times, they can still subsidize every [-] yuan to the family.

This is the current county soldier.

(End of this chapter)