As soon as Wang Demin walked to the door, he saw Bai Du had already walked out of the county magistrate's signing room. Before Wang Demin could speak, Bai Du waved his hand and said, "I already know the incident. That man used a musket. The foolish people you found were unaware of, and he was shocked. After he passed this level, you can quickly summon the county yamen staff and we will greet Shangguan..."

"Ah?! I want me to greet him? Wouldn't I bow my head to him?!..." Wang Demin said in surprise.

Bai Du glanced at him and sneered: "As the county magistrate takes office, you should welcome him as a subordinate, so you can refuse to let go, and you are the mob surrounding the county magistrate and unable to escape. Now that you don't show up, you will despise Shangguan! It's up to you to go or not, I'll go first!" After that, he ignored Wang Demin and went to the county magistrate gate without looking back.

Wang Demin stood there for a while with a gloomy face, waved to a minor official behind him and said, "Go and notify others!", and then he stomped his feet and chased Bai Du.

As soon as Guo Zhiyuan, Xu Guangqi and others arrived at the gate of the county government, Bai Du hurriedly ran out of the county government and bowed to Guo Zhiyuan and said, "The county magistrate Bai Du met with the county magistrate. Just now, the mob surrounded the county government. The officials were incompetent and failed to come out to greet the adults, which scared the adults. Please forgive me for your crimes!"

At this time, Wang Demin also led a group of assistant officials and officials out of the county government, bowed to Guo Zhiyuan in a similar manner and said, "Please forgive me!"

Originally, Guo Zhiyuan was holding it in his arms and was about to take advantage of the problem and use a trick to achieve his authority. But now Bai Du and his friends are not able to do anything about this. He looked at Bai Du and Wang Demin quietly. It was obvious that these two people were the leader of everyone. Today's affairs are probably unrelated to these two people. However, he was just a new arrival and had no foundation. If he broke up with his two deputys at the time, it would be even more difficult to do. Zhan Yan smiled and said, "The Bai County Magistrate is so serious. You are the right-hand man of the county. When this county is just a new arrival, it still needs more attention from the county Magistrate Bai and his colleagues..."

A gleam flashed in Baidu's eyes. Guo Zhiyuan was young, but he spoke without any leakage. He was quite scheming. It seemed that he had really underestimated him before, but he had a high opinion of himself. Now, the officials in Gutian County, including Wang Demin, were not seen by him. Guo Zhiyuan's arrival aroused his fighting spirit, and it was hard to find his opponent! He said calmly: "Mr. Guo was exhausted all the way, so he could ask his servants to place his luggage in the official party (official residence). The servants and others accompanied him to the Chenghuang Temple to have a tea and rest..."

When new officials in ancient times took office, they could not go to the yamen first. On the first day, they had to get a bath in the City God Temple, prepare wine and some utensils, and then implement oath ceremony the next day before they could officially take office. Of course, no one in Gutian County, where birds do not shit, is bound by this ancient ritual. Bai Du did this to paralyze Guo Zhiyuan and make him dizzy by the red tape of welcoming and sending him off, so that they can calmly arrange and continue to stumbling at Guo Zhiyuan.

Of course, Guo Zhiyuan didn't want to be stuck by these red tape, and waved his hand and said, "There is power to follow the matter. As soon as the county came to take office, a mob surrounded the county government. It can be seen how relaxed the county government is. The county was given the grace of the emperor and appointed him as the magistrate of Gutian County. He should work diligently and love the people. If red tape is exempted, please ask the county magistrate Bai to notify all the office staff of the county government. I will go to the second hall to discuss matters now!" After that, without waiting for Bai Du to object, he took Xu Guangqi and others to go directly to the county government.

Baidu was not easy to stop him anymore, so he exchanged glances with Wang Demin, letting the road be opened, and let Guo Zhiyuan and others pass first, and he followed closely.

Although the Gutian County Government Office is dilapidated, it is also a sparrow, all with all internal organs, including the gate, screen wall, lobby, and two halls. The lobby is the place where the county officials openly review the case. Behind the lobby is the second hall, which is the place where the county officials convene their subordinates to discuss matters. However, even the county government office is so dilapidated, these two halls are naturally not much better. The tables and chairs inside are a bit shaky, and the dust is thick, and it is obviously not in use for a long time.

When they learned that the new county magistrate was going to discuss matters in the second hall, the yamen runners started to clean up in a hurry. The dust raised almost choked Guo Zhiyuan to death, so they had to wait outside for the yamen runners to clean before entering. It's true that although the two halls were cleaned up, they were not completely refreshed after they were cleaned up, but they also had a slightly solemn atmosphere.

Guo Zhiyuan sat in the first place without permission. Xu Guangqi and Zhao Shizhen were just staff hired by Guo Zhiyuan. There was no seat at all. Guo Zhiyuan wanted to add two seats behind him for them to sit, but Xu Guangqi and Zhao Shizhen said that Yu Li was incompatible and insisted on standing behind him. Guo Zhiyuan could not resist and could only let them go.

Bai Du and Wang Demin sat on the side of Guo Zhiyuan's left hand. They were the second-rank officers of the county magistrate (i.e., deputy officials, whose rank is slightly lower than that of the chief official, but they are not the chief official). Bai County Cheng slowly sipped tea, while Wang Zhubo kept stroking his beard, not looking at Guo Zhiyuan, and looked extremely bored.

The second officer of the Assistant should have a position but no rank, and the third seat was empty at this time. The positions of the leader and miscellaneous officers on the right were not present. There were no ones. Even the Assistant officers who had no seats, such as the head of the third squad and the chief officer of the sixth squad, were not many. There were only a few yamen runners standing in a sparse manner under the hall, all of whom were weak and listless.

Guo Zhiyuan still knew about the grassroots organizational structure of the Ming Dynasty. For county-level organizations like Gutian County, the personnel working in the county office were divided into three categories: officials, officials and servants. There are two types of officials. One is registered by the Ministry of Personnel. Because Gutian County is relatively small, the magistrate Guo Zhiyuan, county magistrate Bai Du, chief clerk Wang Demin, and Dian Shi Lu Zhichao were famous officials in the Ministry of Personnel. The other is the chief officials and miscellaneous officials, such as the teaching officer (director of education), the instructor, the inspector, the post chief, the tax ambassador, the county warehouse ambassador, etc. These officials are not registered in the Ministry of Personnel and are not in the rank of miscellaneous officials, but they are also members of the county leadership team.

The officials are the officials, and the officials are the leaders of the six ranks. The six ranks of the county corps correspond to the six central departments, namely the officials, households, rites, soldiers, punishments, and labor. These people are directly responsible to the county magistrates, and they are also considered personnel within the system. The officials are the servants. Although the servants work in the county corps, they have no staff and rely on some subsidies to make a living. These corpses divide the corpses, the third corps of the corpses, the corpses and the Zhuang corpses are responsible for the work of stations, roads, doormen, and the case-based guards. The fast team is responsible for passing official documents and arresting.
Chapter completed!