A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks of the Imperial Examination

Chapter 69: Promotion

“It’s me, how does the county magistrate know my name?”

Xiao Jingduo was silent, and asked, “Chen County magistrate, but your father?”

“Yes, it’s my father, what happened to him?”

Xiao Jingduo didn’t speak, and she realized something when she made the statement. She staggered to her feet and raised her eyes to look around.

Destroying the den of Taili Jiao, what a big deal, how could the county magistrate Chen be absent? If he’s not there, that’s just one problem.

“My father, when did he go?”

“Miss Chen, how are you?”

Qiu Ju stood outside the county magistrate Chen’s house and knocked on the door carefully. Xiqi put her ear on the door, for fear of missing a suspicious sound.

With a creak, the door opened from the inside. Xi Qi suddenly opened the door and almost threw himself inside.

“Be careful!” Chen Ci hurriedly supported Xiqi, Xiqi stood up with the help of Qiu Ju and Chen Ci, and smiled awkwardly: “Miss Chen, are you alright?”

I have no regrets for being severely punished. If I have to say it, I just regret that I couldn’t be filial by my father’s side, but let him go alone…”

The statement choked again, Qiu Ju looked at her worriedly, the statement wiped away her tears and forced herself to smile: “Father definitely doesn’t want to see me crying now, I I won’t cry anymore.”

“Alas, Miss Chen…”

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“Xiao Xiancheng, what should Miss Chen do?” In the outer courtyard, other people also asked about the statement.

Xiao Jingduo sighed: “Chen County Magistrate is dead, Miss Chen has no parents and brothers, so she can only live in the county government temporarily. I have already reported to the court, and when the court finds Chen County Magistrate’s relatives, I will immediately Arrange manpower to **** Miss Chen to help her return home.”

“That’s the only way.” The master and others sighed, “I didn’t expect the immortal master, ah, Qi Ling is such a person. innocent girl.”

“That’s right, it’s because of his ruthlessness that he first asked the old servant to poison the county magistrate Chen, and after killing the magistrate Chen with Ge Hua, he even had butcher Feng’s knife stolen. He slashed the county magistrate Chen several times, and finally threw the knife at the side of the county magistrate in an attempt to blame Butcher Feng. Hmph, do these people think our government is so easy to fool?”

The official who was fooling the case not long ago is now arrogantly posing as an official, Xiao Jingduo took the tea cup and drank water, and Quan thought he didn’t hear it.

These people touted each other, and stopped when they were both physically and mentally comfortable. Although these people are officials, they have never been seen by the people of Jinjiang County before, no one listens to their words, and no one cares for their actions, not to mention being aggrieved. Until a few days ago, they cracked the case of Tailijiao in one fell swoop, and they did not say anything in front of the common people. They could also write a lot on their official resumes.

As these people talked, they turned to the official performance appraisal soon after: “Xiaoxian Cheng, October is this year’s performance appraisal, what do you think?”

In October every year, all officials have to participate in the performance appraisal. Officials from Chang’an go to the Ministry of Personnel for selection, and officials from other places go to the local prefecture to be evaluated by the provincial governor, and then the governor will send the comments back to Chang’an, the Ministry of Personnel. Based on this, the promotion and dispatch of officials are decided.

Xiao Jingduo and others are officials of Jiannan Road, and according to the rules, go to Chengdu Prefecture for performance evaluation. Xiao Jingduo set out from Chang’an in June and arrived in Jinjiang County in August, followed by the county magistrate’s case and the Xianji case. After he had written the files of the two cases, it was already October and he was about to take part in the performance appraisal.

Performance appraisal is very important to the official career. According to the performance of the year, the performance appraisal results are divided into nine grades: “upper”, “upper middle”, “upper” and “lower down”. ”, “Shangzhong” are basically only seen in books, and they are not usually awarded. Afterwards, those who get “up and down” will be promoted to two ranks, “middle and upper” will be promoted to one rank, and “middle and middle” will not go up or down. After the “middle school”, the performance evaluation results are very miserable, and each grade is demoted by one order.

Just like Xiao Jingduo is now from the eighth grade, the official rank is from the first grade to the ninth grade, of which the fourth grade and below are divided into upper and lower grades, a total of nine grades and thirty grades. , then you can be promoted to two ranks in a row. If your grades are not good, then not only will you not be promoted, but you will have to be promoted.

But also nervous about the upcoming exam.

Xiao Jingduo has just entered the official career, and it has only been two months since he has been an official, so he is not worried about the performance appraisal at all. He has only just started, and he doesn’t want to be promoted, nor will he be demoted, so it’s enough to go to Chengdu Mansion to walk through the scene.

The imperial court attaches great importance to the performance appraisal. Before November 15th, all prefectures will send the examination papers of local officials to Shangshu Province, so from January to October, officials from Jiannan Road will continue to He rushed to Chengdu House to participate in the performance appraisal hosted by the Governor of Chengdu House.

Jinjiang County, where Xiao Jingduo is located, and even the superior Rongzhou are a real desolate land, but Chengdu Prefecture is completely different. Chengdu is full of flowers and has the reputation of Jinguan City, which is completely different from Jinjiang County.

Xiao Jingduo endured his sadness and temporarily lived in the official residence assigned by the governor of Chengdu. Entering the official career, it is inevitable to socialize, so Xiao Jingduo was called out to drink by colleagues from other states on the second day when he arrived in Chengdu.

After three tours of wine, the officials of all sizes slowly relaxed and talked about performance appraisal and court affairs.

“You know, news has come from Chang’an in the past few days, it seems that the saint is not doing well…”

Xiao Jingduo suddenly woke up: “Is there such a thing?”

“It is absolutely true, my cousin who is an official in Chang’an has heard news that I am a good student this year, and I should not be sloppy. I can’t say it, it will be a different day next year!”

“What is a good student’s performance test, we also want to do well!” At that time, there was a lot of complaints.

After a while, someone asked tentatively, “Then what’s the situation in the capital now?”

“I don’t know, my brother only said that the saint’s health is not very good, the six prime ministers are always on standby in the palace, and now most of the decrees are issued from the east palace.

“Wow…” The officials were amazed that Beijing had reached the point where the prince was supervising the country, and the emperor’s health was so poor!

Xiao Jingduo did not expect such a thing. When he attended the Banquet of Flowers in Chang’an in April, although the emperor looked tired, he seemed to be in good spirits. Unexpectedly, the situation turned out to be so bad.

“The prince is diligent and sensible in his administration, and he has never made mistakes in his administration in the past few years. Instead, he has repeatedly made extraordinary achievements. Presumably in the future, the achievements of the prince will be better.”

Means vaguely, as long as they understand each other.

The achievements of the prince will be better in the future. Now that he is the prince, what can be higher achievements? The crown prince has been established for nearly ten years, and both inside and outside the court and the public see what the prince has done. Aside from the party disputes, everyone feels that the prince is a qualified prince and will become a sensible king in the future. During the reign of the current emperor, the internal and external wars were basically settled. It can be seen that the prosperity of Daxuan lies in the prince’s dynasty!

Hearing these familiar names, Xiao Jingduo seemed to have crossed thousands of mountains and rivers in an instant and returned to the towering Chang’an City.

But the next moment, the official accent with Jiannan accent pulled him back. An official was already half-drunk, and said drunkenly: “It would not be a bad thing if it was the prince. But the prince is very good, but there is only one thing wrong. I heard that the prince loves the eldest daughter very much, and does not avoid her even when handling government affairs? ”

It’s a good start. The ladies of the Xuan Dynasty are jealous, but the princesses of the royal family are not jealous, but they are messing around.

So most of the officials here don’t think it’s a big deal for the prince to dote on the Yangxin county master. It’s just a princess, and it’s just wayward. Anyway, it’s not them who will suffer in the future.

“Alas, in the future this concubine will suffer…”

The more these people talk, the more they go too far, and finally they even involve the female family members of the royal family. Xiao Jingduo was extremely displeased, but he had just entered the officialdom, and his qualifications and rank were far inferior to those of the other people present. Except for the warning, “Don’t lie,” he couldn’t say anything else. Xiao Jingduo was angry in his heart, but what was even more annoying was that he didn’t even know what he was angry about.

Xiao Jingduo’s inexplicable low air pressure continued until returning to Jinjiang County, Qiu Ju and others were very happy to welcome them out, but the moment they saw Xiao Jingduo’s face, they didn’t dare to speak.

Facts have proved that Xiao Jingduo is not a person who loses his temper. Qiu Ju and Xiqi have not received any anger. , for five days in a row.

In fact, Xiao Jingduo’s reason is very good. It’s almost the end of the year. Taxes, prisons, household registration, etc. need to be checked for statistics, and because of Taili Jiao, the county government and Taili Jiao are all involved. Being dismissed, the county government instantly lost half of its people. Taxation, household registration, the most important official duties of the year, can only be driven by the remaining half of the people working overtime.

At this time, there was no county magistrate, and there was still a shortage of people in the county government. Xiao Jingduo held several positions and took on almost half of the tasks. The clerk repeatedly bumped into Xiao Jingduo after nightfall and was handling government affairs in the council hall. Xiao Jingduo, a newcomer to the officialdom, was fighting like this. If these old people had any complaints, they could only hold on to it with gritted teeth.

Everyone thinks that when the spring starts next year, the imperial court sends a new magistrate and brings new staff, they will be able to relax.

, that is to say, from the prime minister to the nine-rank sesame official, all officials can rest for nearly half a month.

The way to let Xiao Jingduo go outside to relax.

One day, Xiao Jingduo was studying the military book in the room when he suddenly heard Qiu Ju’s voice.

Qiu Ju stood at the door and gestured to Xiao Jingduo with something in her hand: “Lang Jun, look!”

Qiu Ju held a delicate window grille in her hand, and even Xiao Jingduo, a layman who didn’t care about it, thought it was extremely beautiful. Xiao Jingduo smiled lightly and praised: “It’s beautiful, you made it?”

“Miss Chen taught me. Lang Jun, you will be eighteen this year, Happy New Year!”

There was laughter from outside the house, Xiao Jingduo saw Xiqi and Chen Zi sitting in the wing through the window, holding red paper-cuts in their hands, smiling in his direction.

It has been two months since the statement returned to the county office, and she has long been familiar with Qiu Ju and others. She is grateful to the young county chief in front of her from the bottom of her heart. She saw that Xiao Jingduo had been thinking and unhappy these days, so she tried her best to make Xiao Jingduo feel more relaxed.

In such a peaceful and happy environment, Xiao Jingduo’s mood gradually calmed down. Seeing that Xiao Jingduo finally smiled, Qiu Ju left with satisfaction. After Qiu Ju left, the room returned to silence again. Xiao Jingduo stared at the scroll, but his mind had already flown back to Chang’an.

In the past two days, I wonder how Changan is doing? It’s a critical moment for the change of imperial power. I don’t know, is Rong Ke okay?

However, Jiannan is too far away from Chang’an, and the news spread very slowly. Until the year-end performance appraisal of the Ministry of Personnel was distributed to the prefectures, Xiao Jingduo did not receive any news from Chang’an.

But at this time, no one has the heart to pay attention to the affairs of the capital. It was like a thunderstorm exploded in Jinjiang County, and everyone in the county jumped up in shock.

Xiao Jingduo, the county magistrate of Jinjiang County, performed well and solved two major cases in a row. It coincided with the death of the original county magistrate.

The author has something to say:

The statement is the same as the previous Yu Niangzi, a unit role, although I think everyone may not remember who Yu Niangzi is…

Promote and make a fortune to kill the boss, let us give the applause to Xiao Jingduo who overtakes in the corner and successfully turns to normal

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