On the first day, all the officials of the Jingnan County Yamen went off duty in an atmosphere of tacit understanding of grinding work, and the results of the work were infinitely equal to zero.
Go to work and grind, go off work and fight.
Once the government office, all the officials are very active and fast, one minute is not used, the whole government office will be empty.
Jingnan County Yamen is empty, but not far from the County Yamen and Feng building is quickly overcrowded. The county magistrate Zhang Changru, the chief bookkeeper Yao Wenyuan, the county office six rooms of Xu Xian, and even last night’s drunken, ill at home, did not go to work, Li Da is in the He Feng building.
Well, it can be said that except for County Magistrate Zhu Pingan who is not outside, all the dignitaries of the entire Jingnan County Office are present.
The He Feng building has been chartered by them, with a sign outside saying “closed, no reception” to ensure that no one is disturbed.
Zhang Changru, the county minister, sat in the first place as if he was the master, and was surrounded by stars. The table is full of delicious food, mountain treasures, wild game, seafood and aquatic products are absent from the feast, each dish is done in all colours and flavours, and each altar of wine exudes an intoxicating aroma. The crowd pushed the cups and exchanged the cups, and gathered together happily.
“Hahaha, I guess this will make the little county honourable face all green.”Liu Yunshan, the mandarin official, laughed with his wine cup on the table.
“Oh, still this will, I think his face has long been green. Hey, Zhang Dainian, the next hall that will, small county honourable is not called you, let you will backlog of cases file to him to send over it, how is it, I heard that your criminal room a day down even a file are not sorted out. Haha, you are not able to see, when the little county honourable person came out from your household room and transferred to our ceremony room, that face pulled ah, that is not a smile at all.”
Household room official Wang Bin laughed and took over the words, saying that he pushed the criminal room official Zhang Danian sitting next to him and joked with a smile.
“Hehe, brother Wang you still have the face to say others Zhang brother it, you household room is not the same. Little county honourable asked you to count the county’s unpaid money, food and taxes, and I heard that you couldn’t even count a village for the whole day. Oh, that have to be how big the village to let you count a day can not finish counting …….”Ceremony room official Xu Zhi rushed household room official Wang Bin squeezed his eyes and said with a narrow smile.
“Ahem, there is no way ah, the pile of cases long ago, the case is complex, and handled so many county honourable, this dossier ah put is more and more miscellaneous, the dossier is also mutilated, sorting out is naturally difficult.”The Ministry of Justice official Zhang Dainian, smiled and coughed, shrugged his shoulders with a smile.
“Well well well, but also, but also, our household department is also, the following village situation is complex, there are married and separated from the family alone, there are married daughters, there are widows remarried, this situation is very complex, we statistics is also difficult.”Household room official Wang Bin imitated Zhang Dainian’s words, smiled and followed with a shrug.
Then, the two of them looked at each other, the corners of their mouths unfurling an unspoken smile.
“Hehe, but pull back you guys ……”The crowd laughed out loud at the words.
“Hahaha, crows fall on pigs, let’s not laugh at anyone. Drink, drink ……”Criminal room official Zhang Dainian and household room official Wang Bin both picked up their wine cups and laughed as they remotely honoured the officials around them.
The crowd laughed and clinked their glasses, drinking freely.
“Oh, not to hide you all, our little county honourable to our criminal room to urge the file, learned that we have not sorted out a file, the fart did not dare to put a, mouth also said that we have worked hard it ……”
The criminal room warden Zhang Dainian put down his wine glass and smiled as he bragged to the crowd.
“Oh, he in addition to biting his teeth and blood swallowing what else can he do, he a foreigner, milky, leave us, what can he do! Leaving all of us, he’s a bare-bones governor who can’t even fart.”
The canonical historian Li Da wiped his hand on the wine stains on his beard, then reached out and yanked a chicken leg off the plate, went up and tore off a large chunk of meat with his mouth, chewing it with a big mouthful while saying with great disdain.
“Lord Li is right, as long as we all hold together firmly, he, a milky brat, is still at our mercy.”There was a burst of nods of agreement from the crowd, who shared a disdain for Zhu Pingan, the prefect.
“This county governor position should have been Lord Zhang’s, he, Zhu Pingan, a milquetoast brat, where is the qualification, where is the ability to manage our Jingnan County where the situation is complicated?”
The criminal office official Zhang Dainian picked up his wine glass, got up and came to Zhang Changru on the main seat, flattered and toasted a glass of wine.
“Hey, you can’t say that ……The county minister is appointed from above, and is not incompetent.”The county minister Zhang Changru was very flattered by Zhang Dainian’s words, his eyes were squinted into a crescent shape, but his mouth was still in an official tone.
“Hehe, if he, Zhu Pingan, is not an incompetent, then there is no incompetent in the whole world. He is not only an incompetent generation, he is also a big fool, reading stupidly, when he was in the capital, he even collaborated to impeach Minister Yan, you say he is not stupid?!”The mandarin wardens also came over to give a toast to the county minister Zhang, casting aspersions on Zhu Pingan, he was well-informed and had long since inquired about the reason for Zhu Pingan’s relegation.
“Striking a stone with an egg, a praying mantis, he’s more than stupid, he’s simply stupid.”The crowd roared with laughter at the words.
“Oh yes, Lord Zhang, I heard that you went to the capital to meet a nobleman?”The crowd at the table asked curiously.
“All of you are well-informed enough, all of you are family members, I will not hide it from you. I made an acquaintance in the capital through my wife’s uncle with Langzhong Zhang of the Ministry …… of Mandarins.”County Minister Zhang leaned his body towards the chair and slowly said.
“Zhang Langzhong of the Ministry of Appointments!!!! My lord Zhang alas, we can hold on to your thick legs, your relationship are to the Ministry ah, the future of officialdom will surely be prosperous ah. My lord Zhang alas, you later developed, don’t forget us poor brothers ah.”
The crowd a burst of boasting, and even habitually flattering the criminal room historian Zhang Dainian really go over to hold Zhang County Minister’s thighs to go.
This was too much to bear in surprise?
Zhang County Elder narrowed his eyes, the corners of his mouth hooked up as he looked at the crowd provocatively and asked, “When I was about to leave the capital, guess, who did I befriend again?”
“Who?”The crowd was curious.
“Yan Shifan, Young Minister Yan.”County Minister Zhang didn’t let the crowd wait much and couldn’t wait to unveil the mystery himself.
“Young Prime Minister Yan?!!!”
The crowd at the banquet opened their mouths wide in surprise, the exclamations of surprise were like thunder, and the atmosphere was instantly HIGH.
“That’s right, it’s Little Minister Yan. A few days before I left the capital, I was lucky enough to get to know Young Minister Yan’s cousin Ouyang Zishi and Young Minister Yan’s good friend Luo Longwen, and it was through them that I was able to pay my respects to Young Minister Yan.”When he said this, Magistrate Zhang’s eyebrows flew up as if he was glowing all over.
“Lord Zhang is truly blessed with great fortune, you’ve made the acquaintance of Young Prime Minister Yan, that levelling the playing field is a matter of the blink of an eye.”
There was a burst of admiration from the people, and they were even more complimentary to County Minister Zhang.
“I won’t hide it from you all, when I was in the capital, Little Minister Yan had already asked Luo Longwen to greet the Ministry of Appointments, and the next governor of this Jingnan County will be me, Zhang Changru.”County Minister Zhang narrowed his eyes and raised his head to scan the crowd.
“Congratulations, Lord Zhang, congratulations, Lord Zhang.”The crowd burst into congratulations.
The next governor ah, this is good, as long as he, Zhu Pingan, becomes the predecessor isn’t it. Then we let him Zhu Pingan quickly roll away, or ……The crowd here reached a consensus in the midst of the wine.
