Diao Geng, together with his deputy, the magistrate Yao Bin, the magistrate Pang Xinghuai, and several clerks from the household house, are discussing countermeasures for the governor of Li Huiwen of the two provinces.

In the Ming Dynasty, the prefect was the official title, and the prefectures were governed by the prefectures and counties, and was the chief executive at the level of the prefecture. One magistrate, the fourth rank, the Tongzhi, the deputy of the prefect, and the fifth rank.

The magistrate is responsible for grain transportation, water conservancy, military farming, horse herding, river and sea defense and other matters, and is the sixth rank.

Promote the official, in charge of the name of punishment, praise the scriptures, the seventh rank, the experience of the government, the cashier, the internal affairs of the government, the eighth rank, the governor, the ninth rank, the official, the imperial examination, the procuratorate, the prison, the prison, etc.

In addition, the prefect's yamen also imitated the system of the six central ministries, setting up six cottages, officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and work, which correspond to the six central ministries.

Official room: in charge of office attendance, local gentry, ups and downs, and doing all the work of officials in other provinces.

Household: in charge of household registration management, taxation and grain collection, famine relief and other matters.

Lifang: is in charge of promoting education, imperial examinations, education, commendation, etiquette, sacrifice, festivals and other matters.

Military room: in charge of military affairs, strong people, military affairs, public security and other matters.

Criminal Room: is in charge of solving cases, documenting the affairs of the court, writing documents, and managing criminal affairs.

Workshop: in charge of engineering construction, warehouse repair, yamen building and other matters.

The shop chief room: the matter of mailing and welcoming and seeing off officials.

Chengfafang: All kinds of official documents and letters should be issued, all registered by this room and distributed to each room to transfer.

Let me introduce so many things for now. The staff of each room are commonly called Dianjie, while the leaders of each room are either called Jingcheng, or are named after the names of each room, which are called official books, household books, ritual books, military books, criminal books, and labor books. The staff below are called clerks, clerks, and book offices.

At this time, Diao Geng held a banquet in the Taiyuan Prefecture Office. There were no outsiders at the banquet, but they were all his family members in the prefecture office. When his family closed the door, the family did not speak two families, Diao Geng went straight in.

"I believe all my colleagues know that this new governor, Li Tiewen, is a talented person. Not only is he highly appreciated by the Emperor of Long Sui, it is said that not only Shanxi, but even the people of Henan praised him as Li Qingtian. Haha, everyone, what do you think about this?"

Diao Geng was asking questions knowingly that the officials of the prefecture government office had never had a good face for this Li Dawen. It is said that the governor brought the court's 2 million taels of silver to provide disaster relief funds. However, the prefecture government offices in various places did not even see a copper coin.

Diao Geng is a smart person. He knew that everyone had no good feelings for Li Dawen. However, as a prefect, he would not take the initiative to express his opinion. All he wanted to do was to fan everyone and sniff everyone's anger, and then his goal would be achieved.

This is the cleverness of the top leader. He cannot directly insult the Shangfeng. Otherwise, if someone catches the handle, it will be more troublesome to sue him. He doesn't have to say too much about everything. He just needs to gently click and someone will come forward to settle it for him.

Sure enough, when Diao Geng spoke, his deputy, Yao Bin, said angrily: "Hmph, Lord Diao, the official has always been straightforward. I won't keep it from hiding our financial path. Li Daiwen did this to cut off our financial path. He thought it was a good idea. The money and food for disaster relief were distributed directly to the victims without passing through our prefect's office. I was the first to be dissatisfied. In the year of the disaster, the people's lives were not easy, so how could we be officials be?"

When Yao Bin spoke, the magistrate Pang Xinghuai immediately echoed: "That's right, it is said that this Lord Li is stating that he is honest. I think this is just using any means to make a false reputation. He wants to directly distribute the disaster relief funds to the people without going through our government office. Humph, I think too naive."

Diao Geng frowned: "This, do you say that Lord Li's disaster relief money and food are not under the hands of our government office. How did he distribute it to the people?"

Yao Bin picked up the wine glass and drank it all: "Hmph, I heard that Lord Li privately recruited some people for his own use. A governor is going to establish his own small court."

Diao Geng was shocked: "This, Li Tiewen privately recruited soldiers, what is the difference between this and rebellion? Could it be that if the Lord Long Live indulges him so much, he will ignore it?"

The magistrate Pang Xinghuai curled his lips and said sarcastically: "This is the cleverness of Lord Li. Lord Li first sent hundreds of thousands of strong labor to the capital, just to show the court that he was not rebellious. Otherwise, he would recruit soldiers and horses without the law of the Ming Dynasty, and he would pay military salaries everywhere with his private soldiers and horses. He completely put our government behind his head. Hehe, Lord Li is so powerful."

Everyone agreed to this, and Yao Bin nodded: "So, Lord Li recruited soldiers and sent the strong youths from Shanxi and Henan to the capital, just to let the emperor know that he did this for the court and did not rebel. Otherwise, why did so many prefectures impeach him, but Lord Li did not surrender but promoted, and Zhengzhou Prefecture General Wu Liqun, Qi County Magistrate Zheng Baozhi, and Xuchang Magistrate Chao Liang were directly dismissed from office and investigated."

Diao Geng felt very uncomfortable when he said this. He had also written a letter to impeach him. Moreover, Diao Geng was more than anyone else at that time, and the result was also conceivable. A Chongzhen imperial edict cursed himself bloodily. Whenever he thought about it, Diao Geng was always unpleasant.

That's right, since he left Beijing to provide disaster relief, Li Zhiwen had thought of a countermeasure for himself. He knew the official system of the Ming Dynasty very well. If the disaster relief funds of 2 million taels were distributed to the victims through local governments, one or two million taels of silver would be less than 200,000.

For the two major disaster areas in Shanxi and Henan, 200,000 taels of silver can be said to be a drop in the bucket.

What to do? I am free from the court and recruiting troops privately, and there are many literati and righteous people. Li Daiwen assigned them to various places to raise disaster relief tasks.

But doing this would be like a lot of scolding. Government offices in various places would take turns to impeach. This would be fatal to a governor of two provinces.

What do you want to do, want to recruit soldiers and horses privately, or want to rebel? You don’t even take the imperial court seriously and regard the government as nothing. Which emperor will tolerate you?

Li Tiewen was very smart. He transferred the strong-age labor force from Shanxi and Henan to the capital to express his attitude to Chongzhen. Li Tiewen, I, are all dying people, and have no energy or ambition to rebel against the court. Now I have transferred the strong-age labor force to the capital to express my attitude.

Importantly, the three major battalions in the capital are short of soldiers, and these people are just placed. As for why I bypassed the local government and directly distributed money and food for the victims, it was really a helpless move.
Chapter completed!