Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 8

"Sanlang, the Chang'an county government has arrived." Ah Huang reminded.

Qin Lang wiped off the sweat from the sun on his face, and quickly jumped off the horse.

Changshoufang was originally named Guangenfang, but it was changed to Changshoufang because the name of Yang Guang was taboo in the Sui Dynasty.

To the north is the West Market across Huaiyuan Square, and to the east of the West Market is Guangde Square where Yongzhou Mansion is located.

Standing in front of the gate of the Chang'an County Government Office, Qin Lang was a little excited. He came here to take office just after being kicked out by Qin Qiong. For the time being, he could only use this place as his home for the time being.

"The yamen is an important place, idlers go away!"

Two soap clothes came over with sticks and shouted.

Ah Huang stepped forward, "You dog slaves are blind, this is the new Chang'an County Captain Qin Shaofu, come and see your boss soon!"

In the yamen, the county magistrate is called Mingfu, so the general county lieutenant is called Shaofu.

The two Zaolis looked at Qin Lang dubiously. Although he was quite tall and mighty, there was still a childish look in his eyebrows and eyes, especially when he was wearing a short shirt, he looked like a servant of some mansion.

"Fart Shaofu." Although the two Zaoli forced a smile on their faces, they were scolding their mothers in their hearts. However, in Chang'an, the rich and powerful walk everywhere, and there are as many officials as dogs, so they are not too sure, and dare not rashly offend , "I also ask the Shangguan to show me the confession."

Ah Huang was arrogant, "What qualifications do you dog slaves have to dare to inspect my Sanlang and sue him? Why don't you hurry up and notify the yamen to welcome you!"

Qin Lang took two steps forward, pushed Ah Huang away, and said with a slight smile, "I'm new here, so it's normal for you not to know each other." Then, he sued him for the official letter issued by the Ministry of Officials. out.

When the two Zaoli saw the jute paper, they knew that it was probably true. Waiting for the trembling to take it slightly, opened it, and first glanced at the "seal of Shangshu Libu's confession" at the back, and saw Those few words made even my feet tremble a little.

Then hurriedly glanced at the front, confirmed that it was correct, and immediately returned it with both hands.

"Young Master Qin, please forgive me for not being able to see Mount Tai with your dog's eyes. There was a lot of collision just now."

Don't underestimate such a report, but it is an extremely important official certificate. After passing the assessment, the officials appointed by Datang have to report to the minister for approval, and then report to the subordinate province. The door servant inspected it, and the servant checked it again and reported it to the emperor, and finally the official department in charge carried it out.All those who confer the official are given trustworthiness from all kinds of backgrounds and even public officials, and they must be stamped with the seal of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Without this piece of paper, there is no official appointment.

Although Qin Lang didn't know how good Li Shimin's methods were, he went through the process in a short period of time and got him this confession, but it was definitely genuine.

"The little one goes to the yamen to report immediately."

After a while, Zaoli entered the yamen and brought the officials in the yamen.

Originally there were six county lieutenants in Chang'an, so it was not a big deal for the new county lieutenant to take office, but as soon as Zaoli reported it, the county magistrate immediately summoned all the officials in the Yamen, stopped what they were doing and came out to greet him.

This surprised all the officials, but they were even more surprised when they saw that the new county lieutenant was just a young man outside.

"Just now, Gao Zhizhong of Yongzhou Prefecture sent someone to deliver a message, saying that a young hero will arrive today. I was looking forward to it. Now that I see him, he is indeed young and extraordinary. He is the son of Lord Yi, a talented general, welcome."

The county magistrate of Chang'an looked in his 30s, and his scarlet robe was very conspicuous among the green robes around him.Feipao, this is the official robe color of officials above the fifth rank, also known as the color of Tonggui.

After a chatter, everyone officially got to know each other.

It was only then that Qin Lang realized that the magistrate of Chang'an, who was a fan, was actually a fifth-rank position. As for the name of the county magistrate, he was even more surprised. Soon, the staff of King Qin's Mansion were transferred out one after another. Xu Jingzong was born in the Xu family of Gaoyang, with few literary names. His father was a minister of rites in the Sui Dynasty, so he was awarded the important post of Chang'an County Magistrate.

After all, both he and Qin Qiong used to be colleagues of Prince Qin's mansion. Even now, Xu Jingzong is still a member of Prince Qin's party. He had just received a special confession from Gao Shilian from Yongzhou Zhizhong, asking him to take special care of this little brother. , Of course, they were very warm and polite when they met.

But Qin Lang knew Xu Jingzong, not because he was a famous scholar, nor because he was very talented, but mainly because Xu Jingzong was the prime minister of Empress Wu in history, and he also left the name of treacherous prime minister.

But now, everyone is on the same front, so naturally they are very cordial.

The officer is so enthusiastic, and Qin Lang is still the son of Duke Yi Qin Qiong after all, even though he is only Qin Qiong's concubine son, when he just entered the yamen, he was still warmly welcomed by everyone.

Under the west corridor of the county government office, Xu Jingzong specially prepared Qin Lang's public house early.

A very spacious room, with all kinds of books, pens and inks inside, "Is my brother satisfied with this?"

"It's good. I don't know which part I will be in charge of in the future. Should I let the officials and servants in charge come to meet me?" Qin Lang asked.

Xu Jingzong smiled and said, "Gao Zhizhong greeted me, and he said it in detail, brother, you stay in the Chang'an county government in the future, so you don't have to worry about trivial matters, just stay at ease."

"Since I've been appointed as the Chang'an County Captain, I should do something, and I should take it as exercise." Qin Lang was a little bit unwilling and just came here to take a job as a liaison officer.

"Hehe, young people are motivated, okay." Xu Jingzong replied with a smile. Although this man was wearing a scarlet robe, he was also a senior official, but he didn't have the slightest airs when getting along with Qin Lang, and he always smiled.

After a while, Chang'an Facao participated in the military, Chang'an Facao Zuo, Facao Shi, and Facao scribes, etc., and finally there were bad commanders who commanded bad people, and several classes of yamen servants.

Not to mention, the originally spacious county magistrate's house was suddenly full of people. Also, after all, it is the county government in the capital city, and at least it manages half of Chang'an City.

"Greetings to Captain Qin!"

All the people crossed their hands and saluted together.

Qin Lang returned a salute, "A certain young talent, originally Zuo Xunwei, the new Shi Brown was released as a county captain in Chang'an. From now on, I will be the thief arresting officer in Chang'an. I will work harder in the future, please help me."

There are six county lieutenants in Chang'an, four more than the two county lieutenants in Shangxian County. Known as the thief-catching officer, he focuses more on law and order.

He is responsible for catching thieves, and his main subordinates are Fa Cao and Bad Shuai.He is the general manager, and Facao is the specific supervisor, which is equivalent to the head of the Public Security Bureau. As for the unscrupulous commander, this is a special establishment, which belongs to the exiled officials and is not included in the rank of officials. He is in charge of the group of unscrupulous people. A rather special group.

In the yamen of the Tang Dynasty at this time, there were no three classes of yamen servants as in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The yamen servants at this time were just a kind of miscellaneous service by the government to the common people, that is, the common people came to the yamen in turn to do errands.Because of this, these yamen servants who were born in the common people are not professional, especially because they are highly mobile. They usually come home after a month or two.

After all, the yamen has the duty of catching and organizing thieves, which requires very professional personnel, so in the end there is a group of bad people.

In fact, in the final analysis, the bad guys are the fast-shift catchers in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, who were full-time thieves and thieves.Most of them are local snakes in the Chang'an neighborhood market. They were originally rangers, rascals and ruffians.

In addition to unscrupulous people in the county government, there are also Baizhi, Zhiyi, Zhanshen, Lishi, etc. These are actually equivalent to the strong class and fast class in the Yamen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Clear the way for official guards, stand on both sides of the hall during the trial, maintain discipline, escort prisoners, execute torture, guard warehouses, prisons, patrol roads, etc.

Relatively speaking, the area in charge of bad people is more professional, so they are not ordinary people recruiting people to serve in turns, but specially recruiting those who have a lot of connections and strong means, and they are generally long-term rather than long-term. temporary.

Therefore, bad people have money and food, while the rest of the white straight, Zhiyi, etc. are voluntary servants.

Fa Cao's military surname is Li Mingkai. In ordinary counties, Fa Cao is just an official, but in Chang'an he is a ninth rank, but although his rank is low, this person has a lot of background.

He is the fourth son of Li Keshi, the younger brother of Li Jing, the general manager of the Lingzhou Army. He was originally a student of the Imperial Academy. Chang'an County Meritorious Cao.

Bad handsome Wei Chang, but not tall but very stout, wearing a soap robe, with a horizontal knife on his waist, a scar on his face, and a story of vicissitudes in his eyes, he looks like a ruthless old man.

The law and order on Chang'an Street, especially the arrest of thieves and thieves, mainly depends on these bad people, as well as Wuhou who is under the left and right guards.

"Wei Shuai, the thieves caught in Chang'an County mostly rely on the bad guys to work hard on the streets."

"Qin Shaofu is polite, catching thieves, maintaining law and order, this is the duty of us villains, and we have no other skills." He didn't pay much attention to his new boss.

Has a temper, but such people are usually people with some ability. Anyway, in their eyes, a son of a family like Qin Lang becomes a county captain at a young age, and it is because of his good luck, not his own ability , and those people, although they worked hard, but because of their poor backgrounds, bad people never made it to the top in their lives, just like Wei Chang, who has been doing bad people for decades, and the leader of bad people in Chang'an County. , but never even entered the stream.

Although Bad Shuai has the word "Shuai", he didn't even enter the ninth rank, he was just an outsider.There is actually not much difference between the bad handsome handsome and the brigade commander and team rate in the army. He does manage more than 100 bad people. Of course, in Chang'an City University, every bad person actually has a group of helpers, Eyeliner and so on, so even though he is just a minor official, but the bad handsome Wei Chang is in half of Chang'an City, in fact, he still has some weight.

It's just that there is no hope for an official career, so he really doesn't think much of Qin Lang in his eyes, and he doesn't want to deliberately flatter him.

"Ah Huang!"

Qin Lang beckoned and asked him to fetch a gold collar.

The golden gold is cast into the shape of a pig's loin, with a collar of twelve taels.

Seeing Qin Lang handing an ingot of gold collar in front of him, Wei Chang was stunned. When a new official takes office, the subordinates usually have to be filial, but he has never seen a new official give gold to his subordinates upon meeting.

"I know that the brothers have worked very hard. It's hot now. I'll distribute these twelve taels of gold ingots to the delinquent brothers. It's like drinking a bowl of herbal tea and buying two pairs of shoes."

"This?" Wei Chang looked at the gold handed in front of him, whether to accept it or not.

"Take it, you also know that I am from the Duke of Qin Lang, and I am not short of this money. Besides, I, Qin Lang, if others give me face, I will give them gold. If you don't take it, you just won't give it to me. I am a new official."

Wei Chang couldn't help chuckling, this dude's behavior is really unexpected, ten taels of gold, gold is valuable now, even if food is expensive now, a piece of silk is easy to buy rice, this ingot of gold can buy more than 60 shi rice, Chang'an County has hundreds of bad people Divide it together, and each person can share half a stone of rice.

"Wei Chang thanked Qin Shaofu for the reward on behalf of the bad guys!" Wei Chang took over, and his attitude towards Qin Lang also slightly improved, and the smile on his face was not so stiff.

Over there, Qin Lang immediately handed Li Kai and Li Demo an ingot of twelve taels of gold.

"Give out some tea money to our Fa Cao's other brothers serving in the army, such as Baizhi, Zhiyi, Zhanshen, and Lishi."

Li Kai can also be regarded as a Guanlong general. He has been in Chang'an County as a Cao Cao for two years, and he has already integrated into it, but Qin Lang's behavior of spending money like water still makes him feel a little uncomfortable, "How can the Shaofu spend money?" ?”

"Accept it for the brothers, and help me share the reward later."

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"Sanlang, I've never heard of a new official giving away money to his subordinates when he took office. He gave away 20 taels of gold at once. This money is enough to buy a big house in Chang'an." The old horse felt a little distressed.

"Why do you feel distressed? Anyway, this gold is not mine. Besides, wouldn't the effect of throwing out the money be okay?"

"Sanlang, you should be careful. Although this bad person is recruited by the court, he is mainly responsible for arresting thieves and fugitives and maintaining law and order, but these people are all people with bad deeds. They are all people who have committed crimes but not serious ones. Most of them are reckless. Mixed in the market, made friends with all kinds of religions and nine streams, had a wide network of contacts, but also had a wide range of methods. These people are all treacherous and cunning, and there are not many good guys."

Qin Lang smiled, didn't he know this, but what he valued was that these people had wide means and wide connections.Although Li Shimin only asked him to come here to take a job as a liaison officer, he wanted to take this opportunity to do something seriously.

"This gold, it's the one who came here to bribe people."

"But I'm afraid that Saburo gave the money, and they will scold Saburo for being stupid after getting the benefits."

(End of this chapter)