In the Ming Dynasty, in the value system of officials, civil servants and servants were considered humble and not among the scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. In reality, civil servants and servants were real people. Only officials and gentry are noble and powerful than them. Even scholars among the "scholars" could not compete, and at most they could not be bullied. Of course, if scholars were born in gentry and powerful, they would not be listed.

Local officials have a term of office, and locals are not allowed to work in the local area, and they have to study hard and study the Four Books and Five Classics that have nothing to do with practice. When they were in their first term, they often had no experience and could only rely on their aides and teachers. However, their aides and teachers only knew the rules of handling the matter and did not know the local real situation. The real people who did the matter were civil servants and servants who came from local sources.

The first local officials of officials are often the magistrates. For both public and private, they must rely on local officials and servants, otherwise they will be unable to move forward and may even be punished for nothing.

What's more serious is that the identities of civil servants and servants can be hereditary. Civil servants with limited term change every few years. Civil servants are passed down from generation to generation. Over time, the power of civil servants and servants in the local area becomes more and more stable and powerful, and local officials make more and more concessions to them, and they become real people who manage the local area.

The inheritance from generation to generation, wealth and connections are constantly accumulating, and civil servants and servants themselves have become local tyrants, which makes them even more uncontrollable.

There is also a huge disadvantage. The court officials paid very little work and food to civil servants and servants, so little that they could not support their families normally. Everyone made a living by foreign wealth. Where did this foreign wealth come from? It was just from the common people's bones and sucking marrow. What's even more terrifying is that forever, everyone thinks this is just right. Civil servants are tigers and wolves, civil servants are pigs and sheep, and tigers and wolves eat pigs and sheep, which is natural...

In a county, the top level of the official service is the Six House Jingcheng. They control all aspects of the county government. The other civil servants and three squads of servants are just documents and laborers who run for them. Among the six houses of officials, households, punishments, soldiers, craftsmen, and rites, the top of the official service is the official service. The official service is in charge of the official service and manages the entire county.

The official room is in charge of personnel affairs of a county, and is in charge of promotion, performance assessment, appointment and removal, which means that the county has control over the future of personnel. If there is no such position, everything else will not be discussed. The official room who controls all this is naturally the top level, and the person in charge of the official room, Jing Cheng, will naturally become a person in charge of the entire county.

According to the government level, the official Fang Jingcheng is just an inconspicuous role, with the magistrate, chief clerk, and clerk on it. However, in practice, these rank-level officials must give the official Fang Jingcheng a face and even be courteous. Otherwise, the government orders will not leave the lobby, and even individuals will be hindered. In fact, in most cases, the official is the official Fang Jingcheng a bit of face. The officials understand such rules. Even if they don’t understand, the aides will teach him that if they don’t want to abide by it, they will be bleeding in the face of cruel reality.

Of course, there are also relocations between civil servants. It does not mean that you can have a position for generations. No matter how good you do in this life, you can only ensure that your descendants can have a position among civil servants and servants, or a pretty good position. However, if you want to gain real power and stand on your own, it depends on your own fortune. There are often fathers and grandchildren who are from a certain house, but they indulge in the descendants, which leads to offend many people and spend all their family property. In the end, they can only be a strong rank, and even a white deputy.

But the official Fang of Huairen County was different. His family had three generations. His great-grandfather was just a deputy servant who had no identity in the Lifang. However, for some reason, he went to the Lifang to manage the Nian. He got himself a job as a resident of the Lifang. He went to Fang Ming's grandfather's generation to be a civil servant who was officially a resident of the Lifang. Lifang was in charge of the county ceremonies and county schools, and the most powerful place was the last among the six rooms. However, Fang Ming's grandfather was capable and didn't know what method he used to transfer to the Lifang. This incident happened, and the whole county was really shocked.

Later, people received news that Fang Ming's grandfather had his own house at that time, and a person who had posted a seal of money from the Zheng family came to find a fortune. Even if he borrowed a loan at the Lifang, someone would help pay it back. Naturally, these things were not a problem. Fang Ming's grandfather was in charge of the New Year in the Lifang.

When Fang Ming's father was born, he was quite flattering to the incumbent magistrate. At that time, many people looked down on him, saying that he didn't know the long term and would leave for a few years. However, local people were a lifelong thing. Fang Ming's father was not sure about the importance of the matter. He would be punished sooner or later, but he did not expect that the magistrate whom he flattered went to Datong Prefecture to be a magistrate, and later promoted to the prefectural chief.

In local practice, officials cannot fight against officials, but if they are more than a few levels higher than the court, the civil servants cannot resist at all. The person who had received the favor of Fang Ming's father as the magistrate of Huairen, and after he was promoted, he secretly made efforts to transfer Fang Ming's father to the position of Jingcheng of the official room.

Every time Fang Ming's father talked about this, he would beat his chest and stamp his feet, saying that if he hadn't been Gu Nian's fellow villagers, he would have been able to curry favor with his children and grandchildren and come back.

It is precisely because Fang Ming's father "consider the villagers", the official Fang Jingcheng was very steady. His wife was still ordinary until she was old. When she was old, she naturally sent Fang Ming to the official Fang for work. She had several generations of experience and had all her connections and relationships accumulated over several generations. Five years after his father handed over the official Fang Jingcheng, he was expected to be the position of the official Fang Jingcheng.

Fang Ming is now fifty-three years old. He has served five magistrates for twenty years. He is really deeply rooted in Huairen County and is the only one who says it. Now, the magistrate still calls him an old man in private. As for the masters and others, he always treats everything politely and discusses everything. The meaning of Fang Jingcheng is generally based on the meaning of this magistrate.

If he didn't seek fame and fortune, Fang Ming would have been satisfied in his life, but he had two unsatisfactory things. One was the Fang family in other county towns, except for the gentry, but in Huairen County, there were powerful men like Zheng's inspector Zheng's family. The Wu family of the garrison also colluded with the local government to stretch out their hands, making the top figures in the county very unhappy. The second unsatisfactory thing was that the Fang family was handed down by three generations. This generation was still the only one named Fang Yan, and there were three or four daughters.

It's okay to just pass it alone. Fang Yan is now in his thirties and has been raised without any danger. However, Fang Yan has been spoiled since childhood. Not only is he not as smart and capable as his father and grandfather, he is addicted to alcohol and sex. He emptied his body when he was under 20 years old. Even though he has several wives and concubines, he has no children. He is also weak and sick, and he doesn't know when he can live.

Whenever he talks about this, Master Fang, who is in the glory in front of others, sighs. Although he has adopted a nephew of my family to be my grandson, he is a few levels away. After all, he is not caring. His daughter and son-in-law are still staring at the property, and he doesn't know what he will look like in the future.

"You can only buy more when you can, so that your children will not score points after leaving." Fang Ming often muttered so helplessly in front of his confidants.

As for outsiders' ridicule of "I have not accumulated virtue in my work for several generations, but now I have retribution", and "Lao Fang is too undecent now, and everyone works in the yamen, so why are they like the deputy servant who has never seen money in white?" Fang Ming has not heard of this, but he doesn't care. Moreover, the few who can say this are not afraid that he cares.

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In the past, when Yang Shouwen came to see Fang Ming, he often had to wait half an hour, even if Master Fang had no guests, the status of both parties was too far apart and there was no etiquette to talk about. As for the girls of the Yang family doing small things, Master Fang was admiring his face. Don’t really think that he was a relative.

However, this time, Yang Shouwen was called in, and a few candles were lit in the living room, which was quite bright. Fang Ming was sitting upright on the side of the Grand Master's chair and closed his eyes and pondered. After the servants outside passed it, Yang Shouwen came in. Fang Ming still had no intention of opening his eyes, but Yang Shouwen came over quietly.

At this moment, there was a crying sound from somewhere in the house, and something else was beaten. Although it was vaguely heard clearly in this quiet night.

Yang Shouwen stood with his head down, looking as usual, and he couldn't hear anything he did, but he was calculating in his heart. Fang Yan's name was because of lack of fire in his destiny, but this person was a strong person with strong hobbies. He was said to like to play pretty young men. Fang Yan's wife was also a daughter who was in charge of the New Year in the punishment room. She had a very strong temper and kept fighting about this matter.

The noise made Fang Ming in the Grand Master's chair unable to hold on. His fat and round face, which looked like a rich man, became gloomy. He snorted coldly in anger. He opened his eyes and looked at Fang Ming and said, "Look at the good things you did. He slapped his chest beforehand. He arranged for the inside and outside cooperation, and what kind of tigers were winged? He was also rampant in the border. He was killed by two and a half-old boys, and his wife was returned peacefully. Luan Qianhu came with silver and left with silver. Where did you let me put my face on this!"

Yang Shouwen, the deputy head of the squad, bent down and explained flatteringly: "Master Fang, Luan Qianhu also wants to get a bargain. He only pays 800 taels of silver for this batch of goods at most, but the two kids brought back more than 800 taels of silver. Shouwen, I arranged for someone to search for the thief's nest of the thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief's thief

Fang Ming narrowed his eyes but did not continue to speak. Yang Shouwen said again: "You have heard the news. This kid has made several good businesses in Zhengjiaji and made more than ten times more. This time, he has more than eight hundred taels in his hand."
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