In Cangzhou, the officials sent by the imperial court must rely on clerks provided by the rich family to investigate the land of the rich family.

In Kaifeng Prefecture, Lu Jia asked that Lu Benzhi and his son could still find some public officials who had little connection with the imperial guard system to drive them.

After all, the pool in Kaifeng Prefecture is relatively large, and the range of choices for major yamen is wider. Moreover, the public officials in many yamen offices in Kaifeng Prefecture are hereditary, and many people have served in yamen for generations, and they can catch up with Taizu and Taizong dynasties. In that era, the imperial guards still took military service as their main job, but there were no 360 yamen, and there were any imperial guards in every yamen.

Therefore, most of the people who served as public officials in the yamen office were poor scholars from Kaifeng Prefecture. Well, poor scholars were not as noble as later in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Five Dynasties until the beginning of the Song Dynasty. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, where the gentry had the advantage, there were very few people who took the imperial examinations, and there were many tricks in the imperial examinations, so most poor scholars could only start from the lower-level public officials or the disciples of high-ranking officials (in fact, the disciples and public officials were in common).

At the beginning of the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the world was dominated by martial artists. During the reign of Emperor Taizu of Song, the number of people who were selected for one subject was single or double digits. It was impossible to provide a way for many poor scholars to rise, and it was impossible to select a huge bureaucratic team to rule the world. Therefore, it was the most common way for poor scholars to serve as officials and disciples in that era.

In this case, although the quality of officials is high, they are not independent enough and must rely on officials. They also have channels for promotion to become officials. It is easy to form a group with the officials who promote their officials. The so-called disciples and former officials all over the world refers to this situation.

When the imperial examinations were booming, poor scholars had a broad and relatively fair rise channel, and no longer had to rely on high-ranking officials to serve as clerks. At the same time, the rise channel for clerks was gradually banned because the court had to arrange official positions for a large number of Jinshi.

On the one hand, it was the position of an official who lost his appeal to scholars; on the other hand, it was the position of a cold official who had no Hakka ministers to drive. Therefore, the situation of officials without feudalism and the situation of hereditary officials began to become mainstream.

In actual government affairs activities, the strange pattern of strong officials and weak officials also began to form in the Song Dynasty.

In the ideal of the Song people, even if the officials were the prime minister, there should not be a large number of disciples and retainers to be driven by. It would be better to be a lonely minister without a confidant and minion.

Lu Jia asked, Lu Benzhi, father and son were standard lonely ministers, not only without a few minions, but also with the huge Shouzhou Lu family. What they could rely on was a group of hereditary officials who had long formed an interest group...

However, Lu Jia asked about evil and cruel officials of this level that there was still a way to grasp a few hereditary officials with a lack of background.

Lu Benzhi reported outside the study: "Father, Yu Ai Shi, Zhao Ai Shi, Zhou Duli, and Liu Duli have arrived and are waiting in the front hall!"

Lu Jiawen, who was frowning and looking at the "tube building" picture provided by the store and house construction office, replied casually: "Oh, let them wait, I will arrive soon."

Lu Benzhi brought four public officials from the residence of the Taifu Temple Minister, from the Municipal Taxation and Pingjuan Case. Yu Ai Shi was named Tongdao, and his courtesy name was Shuyou, and he was the Municipal Taxation Department, which was the Municipal Taxation Department, which was the Municipal Taxation Department, which was the Municipal Taxation Department. The Zhou Du official was named Yi Jian, and his courtesy name Rubing, which was one of the four municipal officials who were responsible for the taxation of Chengbeixiang. Zhao Ai Shi was named Lu, whose courtesy name was Ziren, and he was the Official Secretary who was responsible for the Beixiang Department of Pingjuan Case. Liu Du official was named Rong, and his courtesy name was Ziyao, and he was the Chief Official of the Inspection Office of Pingjuan Case.

The four officials were carefully selected, all around twenty-five years old, and they joined the company for three or four years. Of course, they were all from the family of officials.

Lu Jiawen, who had worked in the Yiwu and the Third Department for a long time, knew the situation of the Kaifeng Prefecture's public officials and knew that it was difficult for older officials to drive them. First, they had been a clerk for many years, and most of them had the qualifications to serve as officials, that is, they could get the official position at any time and be out of the control of Taifu Temple. Second, these people all started a mixed relationship network and were familiar with various official methods that were lip service, which was difficult to drive them; third, these old officials were extremely slippery, and they could not get any handles and make mistakes. It was better to make mistakes than to make them do anything. There was no handle and it was caught. It was not easy to make them bite evil dogs.

The easiest thing to drive is undoubtedly the kind of quasi-new people who have been a public official for three or four years. Although their positions are inherited, they do not mean that they don’t need to spend money. The boss needs to manage the matter and settle the tribe. It is not surprising that a public official at the level of a minister is inherited. It is not surprising that he spends 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. He can basically empty his family’s fortune, and maybe he still owe a lot of debts. Now is the time to make money!

Moreover, these newly-employed public officials are not as good as the old officials, and it is easy to catch the handle. With the handle, they can only be obedient, otherwise they will have nothing to do if they start the trade.

Lu Jiawen sat down and looked at the four young officials wearing black shirts with a somewhat nervous expression standing with their son.

Lu Benzhi said calmly and said, "This is a tax department in the city. He accepted 500 bribes from Li Jiagangshou, mixed the smuggled goods into the gang grains, and escaped thousands of bans of taxes.

Zhou Jian was a tax official in the city. Because he received 300 yuan from the shopkeeper of Wazi, he exempted from housing tax for three months on the grounds that his business was closed during the national mourning of Wazi in North.

Zhao Lu and Liu Rong, who cleared the case, were instructed to join forces to blackmail Wangjia Grain Store in Beixiang, and were reported."

"Okay, they are all very capable!" Lu Jia asked and smiled coldly, "How many years have you worked, so don't take Wang Fa seriously?"

"Bachelor...Bachelor, let me spare this time..."

Four officials who were grabbed by their braids knelt down and begged for mercy.

The crimes they committed were not serious. It can be said that everyone was doing them, and it was just a bad rule. Somehow, the high-ranking official like the Taifu Temple Minister found out that it was actually Lu Benzhi who went down to find the officials and officials of the municipal tax peace case in the name of Lu Jiawen, and asked them to hand over a few illegitimate officials to rectify the rules and regulations. So the four newcomers with no background were given the indicators...

"What's the point of forgiveness?" Lu Jiawen smiled indifferently, "It's not a crime of beheading the head and becoming a soldier. I am too lazy to send you to the Ministry of Justice to be punished. I just started the rebellion and never used it. Let's live a good life in the future."

According to the law, it is not a minor crime for officials to accept bribes of hundreds of bribes. However, it is no big deal to send a prison to the court to ask for punishment. Instead, it will make other officials of the Taifu Temple Minister feel disheartened. So Lu Jia asked only the Kaige, not the others.

For these four public officials who have no wealth, Kaige lost everything, and from now on, they will be four paupers.

"Father," Lu Benzhi said at this time, "They are just first offenses, so why don't you give them a chance to make up for the merits."

"Make up for the mistakes?" Lu Jia asked the four people coldly, "Can they do it?"

"Okay! OK!"

The four of them said in unison.

Ai Si, named Yu Tongdao, was the fastest of the four. Now he understood that Lu Jia asked this cruel official to use his own family as a knife. He said immediately: "If the scholar is sent, he will go through fire and water without hesitation."

"You are here without hesitation, okay..." Lu Jia asked and laughed, "Then you stay and everyone else will leave."

"Bachelor, Xiaodi is here to stay!"

"Xiao Di's sect went through fire and water..."

The remaining three people hurriedly begged. Although the literati and officials looked down on this dispatch, they were officials from Taifu Temple! When it comes to oil and water, ordinary county officials are not as good as those!

Lu Benzhi also said: "Father, they are willing to do your job for you, why don't you stay?"

"How can we stay all?" Lu Jiawen shook his head, "I will always fire two..."

As he spoke, Lu Jiawen coldly swept the four kneeling people in the hall, and then lowered his voice: "Everyone is a cruel official! You are right, this official is a cruel official! A cruel official takes office to establish his authority. You just happen to run into it, so no wonder you are the official.

However, I am not unreasonable. I can give you a chance to make up for the merits. Among the four people, only two people will be opened. As for whom it will be retained, it depends on your performance!”

It depends on performance... and there is only half the chance to stay! I have to say that Lu Jiawen is still very capable!

Looking at the four miserable officials who kowtowed like pounding garlic, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Lu Jiawen's mouth.

With these four minions, I am not afraid that the small vendors in the North Military Camp in the Zhoubei Army will not move away. As long as someone is willing to move, the structure will be loose and it will not be difficult to take them all down.

...

When Lu Jiawen's major demolition business began to progress, Shi Dazhou, who was organizing a force to investigate the hidden houses in the hidden fields, was accepting bribes of 3,000 evil money, plus a beauties from the Goryeo Kingdom.

The one who came to pay bribes was the young businessman from Qizhou on Jingdong East Road, named Chen Xiaotian. His family was the largest sheep dealer on Jingdong East Road. He bought 100,000 sheep from the Liao Kingdom every year. He also runs a pasture covering an area of ​​more than 30,000 acres in Cangzhou. The sheep bought from Liao Kingdom must be fed in a place. Only when the sheep are fat can they be sold for money.

Of course, this ranch is also a hidden field. It is certainly someone behind this that can buy so many sheep from Liao Kingdom and become the number one sheep merchant on Jingdong East Road. There is certainly no problem with having 30,000 acres of hidden field in Cangzhou.

However, his family suddenly received an order from the backend boss, saying that Cangzhou is now inspecting the fields, so it is necessary to sell part of the 30,000 acres of ranch to avoid causing trouble.
Chapter completed!