As February enters late, the results of Beijing Inspection emerge one after another, and naturally some people are happy and some are sad.

However, at this time, the most concerned officials in Manjing were no longer the result, but the follow-up. Yes, everyone was not focused on the Beijing inspection because of the results, but the subsequent rewards and punishments of the court. The superiors were promoted and the inferiors were demoted, which also added more topics to the officialdom and the people.

In the Ministry of Revenue, what everyone talks the most now is naturally how Li Ling will be promoted from the court next time. Although some people will become jealous or say something strange because of his high school entrance examination, everyone has to admit that this is a reflection of his own ability.

Because no one who becomes the chief of the Southern Yunnan Provincial Department of Qing dynasty would have done better than him. The tax and silver put into the treasury of hundreds of thousands of taels is the best manifestation. Many people even have to admit that if they change themselves, they will have been caught and have long been caught when they encounter a task that requires paying more than 300,000 taels of silver. At this time, they should have a low-level assessment, and then they are deposed for the official position and are dismissed from other places.

But what was surprising was that other officials were promoted and demoted in the next few days, but Li Ling still did not see further arrangements from the Ministry of Personnel, as if everyone forgot about this year's official who was the highest-rated official in the Beijing Inspection and Inspection High School Entrance Examination.

Only a very small number of senior officials at the department level will know the fact that His Majesty has made important arrangements for Li Ling, but now he has not made the final decision because the Political Affairs Hall is still making the final selection, considering where to put him.

As noon approached this day, after the emperor and several important ministers from the Political Affairs Hall arranged all the government affairs that needed to be handled urgently, Sun Yong mentioned the matter again: "Lu Qing, it has been several days since this has passed. Is Li Ling's arrangement a final conclusion?"

When Lu Zhen heard this, he quickly stepped forward and replied: "Your Majesty, I have discussed and discussed with relevant officials over the past few days. I thought there were a few county towns that were good choices, but they all had some shortcomings, so I still wanted to make some considerations."

"Oh? Which places did you choose? Let me tell you now and let everyone help me with it." The emperor was excited and ordered with a smile.

"I obey the order. At the beginning, the city thought of Xiaoshan County under Lin'an Prefecture, which is close to Lin'an and an important place in the south of the Yangtze River. If Li Ling was there, he would always make a difference."

"No," the emperor nodded in agreement, but then he said curiously, "What's the disadvantage here?"

"Just because Xiaoshan County is too close to Lin'an, it is the place that the Jiangnan government attaches most importance to. I feel that even the thieves from the Luotian Sect would not choose to gather there."

"It's reasonable. In this way, the many counties under Jinling Prefecture are not suitable?" The emperor nodded, and learned from others.

"Your Majesty, I am also considering this, and in this way, the range of options is much less. Shanyin and other places in Zhejiang Province were originally a good choice, but some people later mentioned that the area has few mountains and shallow waters and a flat horse. If there is any trouble, the government will definitely be able to quell the chaos in a short period of time. I believe that those thieves have been in chaos for many years and have long seen the shortcomings and will not put more people there."

The emperor nodded with conscience, and at the same time his brows frowned deeply. According to what he said, it was not easy to pick out a proper place to arrange for Li Ling to go. Because this was not an arrangement for trustworthy ministers to go to the local government to serve as officials, it was clearly a prediction of where the thieves would cause trouble.

Lu Zhen also understood the emperor's troubles, so he said: "After thinking repeatedly, there were three alternatives. One is the Jinhua Lishui and other cities in Zhejiang Province. It is a little distance from Lin'an and is not valued by the government. It has many mountains and steep mountains. Sometimes it rains heavily and may cut off traffic on official roads. It is the most suitable for those thieves to cause trouble in the local area."

The emperor frowned: "The two places have insufficient military preparations, so there is no necessary connection with their previous conspiracy."

"Your Majesty said so I thought of the second place, a county town in Yangzhou. However, although there is important, it is still the important place where Caohe passes, but because of this, the garrison forces are the most, and they may not have the courage to cause trouble there.

"As for this third place, it is Huating County under Songjiang Prefecture."

Although the emperor is working hard to govern, even at this age, he has not abandoned the government affairs. However, when Lu Zhen mentioned the name of this small county town, he still felt unfamiliar. Although this small town has heard of it, he has no further understanding of it. So after a moment of silence, he asked again: "What's special about Huating County?"

"This Huating County is an inconspicuous small county town in Songjiang Prefecture. However, because it is close to the sea, there are some commercial and trade business, so it has developed into a medium-sized county town. It is located in the north and south of the Yangtze River and is the key to the Central Plains. If there is any change, its impact will naturally be great. However, because it is not valued by the government in normal times, the local garrison forces are very weak."

Isn't that a little similar to Jinhua and other places? The emperor was about to ask this question, but Lu Zhen added: "Compared with several places in Zhejiang, Huating's treasury hoarding is quite abundant due to maritime trade. Once it is really earned by the thieves, their strength will definitely increase greatly.

"Your Majesty, these are not the most critical. The most important thing is that two years ago, the magistrate of Huating suddenly died suddenly on duty. Until today, the truth has not been found out..."

"There are still such things?" The emperor's face immediately turned dark, "What are the local governments doing? Haven't there anyone who has sent someone to investigate and deal with the yamen such as the Ministry of Justice?"

"Your Majesty calms down. This fact is very strange. Whether it is the local officials or the commissioners sent by the court, they only found that the former Huating County Magistrate was killed by snake venom. However, according to many local people, this was an accident and there was no sign of human beings, so it was finally left unresolved...

"However, after reading the relevant files, I still feel that there is something strange about this matter. What's even more strange is that the current Huating County Magistrate was directly promoted by the county magistrate. He has been an official in the local area for more than ten years, which is not in accordance with the rules of this dynasty!"

According to the rules of Dayue as an official, local officials are appointed once every three years, and they will inevitably leave after three terms. However, because the successor Huating County Magistrate was the county magistrate and later became a county magistrate, he took advantage of loopholes and became a local official who had been working in the local area for more than ten years.

Lu Zhen naturally would not tolerate this, so he thought of arranging Li Ling to Huating, which not only defeated the other party, but also checked whether there was anything strange in the local area, which was a killing two birds with one stone.

After pondering for a moment, the emperor couldn't help but nodded in agreement: "Huating County is a good choice. Do other ministers have other ideas?"

"I think it is indeed a wise choice to release Li Ling as the magistrate of Huating County!" Some of the other ministers agreed, some of them discussed this decision because he and Lu Zhen, while others followed the crowd. This matter had nothing to do with him, so naturally they didn't want to spend more time.

"Since that's the case, then it's decided!" The emperor made the final decision. As soon as the golden mouth opened, Li Ling's outgoing matter was completely finalized.

Next, the Ministry of Personnel will issue an order, and then the Ministry of Personnel will make corresponding arrangements for officials to transfer their identity certificates. This set of things must be kept in normal times and will be done for less than a month or two. If the officials don’t go to the Ministry of Personnel several times and give filial piety to the relevant people, the matter will never be done.

But this time, the situation was obviously completely different. The decision was made by the emperor and the left prime minister, and the Minister of Personnel came forward to order the matter. So in just two days, the relevant procedures were completed, and the Ministry of Personnel sent someone to send it to Li Ling directly, without him running for the last time.

When these things were sent to the Ministry of Revenue and handed over to him, Li Ling only realized that the court had made a decision. He was now the seventh-rank Huating County Magistrate and could leave Beijing immediately for office!

After receiving the transfer order and official edicts and other documents, Li Ling was still a little confused. Where is Huating County?

If it were Lin'an Shanyin, he would be quite familiar with Jiangnan, but Huating seems to be a little familiar, but it should be a memory of his previous life. Now he has no impression of this place name.

But don’t be poor mountains and valleys... Li Ling, with a slight uneasiness, went to see his colleague who was in charge of tax revenue in Suzhou Province and asked him about the specific location of Huating County.

After hearing the question, the man's face looked a little strange: "Is Huating? It's indeed a small place. He is in Jiangnan, but the tax revenue is not high, but it's too inconspicuous."

"Uh, I know this. Just tell me where it is." Li Lingxin said that it would be famous, so I have no doubts.

The head laughed, then took out a simple map of Suzhou Province, pointed to a position on the lower right and said, "It's here. It belongs to Songjiang Prefecture. Although it is close to the sea and has maritime trade, the local people are more mainly fishing along the coast. After all, the sea affairs are still a bit dangerous..."

As he spoke, he looked up at Li Ling, and then he was surprised to find that Li Ling's eyes were fixed on that point, his mouth opened and his breathing was a little messy. Is he scared?

"Mr. Li..." Seeing Li Ling stunned for a long time, this person finally couldn't help calling, finally making Li Ling come back to his senses, and then his face was full of strangeness: "Little place, hehe, little place..."

"Mr. Li, are you... okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay, what can I do?" Li Ling waved his hand, and turned around without thanking others, because he was really excited, because he realized where that inconspicuous little place was...

Shanghai!

Today, Huating County is just a Shanghai in later generations, a small place that is so magical!
Chapter completed!