The county magistrate is a second-rank official, to put it bluntly, he is an adjutant, and his rank is not high, which is the official title of the eighth rank. However, as the second in command of a county, he is quite powerful. Hongtong County is a big county, so there are more than one county magistrate, but three, called the first county magistrate, the second county magistrate and the third county magistrate.

The first county magistrate, the second county magistrate, and the third county magistrate are the same in terms of rank, but because there are first, second and third divisions, the importance is naturally the first largest, second and third. If the magistrate of a county leader has an accident, or if there is something wrong with him, such as facing the saint in the capital, the first county magistrate will be fully responsible for the matters in the county.

The first county magistrate of Hongtong County was named Zhou Dakang. With his qualifications, he could have become the magistrate early. There are two major reasons why he is still the first county magistrate.

The first reason is that this person is well aware of the way of officialdom and has refused to improve many times. He has always served as the first county magistrate on the grounds that he lacks ability. The second reason is that some people in the court were afraid that after he became the magistrate, Hongtong County would be completely controlled by local forces and would be blocked with unlimited strength.

Therefore, for so many years, Zhou Dakang has lived like a fish in water as his first county magistrate. During his tenure as the first county magistrate, he changed seven magistrates in total, two of whom died in office did not affect his future.

Han Feng and his party had not yet arrived outside the city, and they saw from a distance that a large number of people had gathered outside the gate of the county town, as well as officials of all sizes and big and small in Hongtong County. The leader was Zhou Dakang, the first county magistrate of Hongtong County.

Zhou Dakang was wearing an official uniform, with a gray beard, and was over 70 years old, but he looked energetic and obviously a trainer. After seeing Han Feng and his party from afar, he raised his hand. In an instant, there was a trembling sound of gongs and drums.

Han Feng saw this on the horse and frowned slightly. Before he came here, he had learned a little about the situation in Hongtong County from Wu Keyong, and also knew the power of Zhou Dakang, the first county magistrate of Hongtong County. At this time, he saw that he not only led all the officials of Hongtong County to wait for his arrival outside the city, but also called a lot of people in the city, which was "exhausted".

Although Han Feng was not sure what Zhou Dakang was selling in his gourd, he had already thought of a way to deal with it, that is, to respond to changes with the same constant. Since Zhou Dakang did not give him the magistrate of trust, but led the crowd to warmly welcome him, he also accepted it happily.

After arriving outside the city, Han Feng and his party got off the horse. Han Feng took two steps, bowed slightly to Zhou Dakang, and smiled and said, "This must be the Chief Zhou County Master."

Zhou Dakang came up and bowed to Han Feng, saying, "Xiaoguan is the first county magistrate of Hongtong County. Xiaguan heard that the magistrate will come to the county to take office today, so he led the county officials out of the city to greet him early in the morning. The people in the city are happy to come and welcome him, and ask the magistrate to give instructions."

The more respect Zhou Dakang was to Han Feng, the less careless Han Feng was. He looked at the people and saw dozens of fierce and vicious men among them, and they knew they were gangsters like gangsters in the city. Although the honest and ordinary people were all smiling, few of them had genuine smiles, and they could tell that they were forced to leave the city to welcome them at first sight.

Han Feng kept all these secretly in his heart, but he smiled and said, "I'm sorry, County Magistrate Zhou and his colleagues. Han dare not be the words of instruction. Han has no qualifications and is the first time he has been an official, so he doesn't know anything. I hope you can give me more advice in the future."

Zhou Dakang said: "How dare you? How dare we advise the magistrate? In the eyes of the Xiaguan, it can only be said that he is willing to communicate with the magistrate to be an official and benefit the people."

In this way, Han Feng and his party were welcomed into the city by Zhou Dakang and his party. After walking on several long streets in the city for a while, the people came out to greet him along the street. After arriving at the gate of the county government, the people dispersed.

Soon, Zhou Dakang invited Han Feng into a hall of the county government. After confronting Han Feng's documents and seals, he determined Han Feng's identity and led all the officials to visit Han Feng. Since Hongtong County is a big county, there are many officials, and Zhou Dakang brought about almost all the officials in the county this time, and stood in a full hall, which seemed very impressive.

After collectively meeting Han Feng, Zhou Dakang officially introduced himself to Han Feng, followed by the second county magistrate, the third county magistrate, and then two county magistrates who also belonged to the second officers. The county magistrate is the official in charge of public security and robbery in one county, with two ranks in Hongtong County, divided by rank, namely the first county magistrate and the second county magistrate. Finally, the officials of the six ranks of the chief, the teacher, the instructor, the instructor, the prison, and the officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and the officials, regardless of the chief or deputy, regardless of the rank, were present.

As for the leader in the Six Gates, the one with the most uniform and highest status is naturally the county captain. Han Feng came from the "Sheng Captaining Department", so he paid the most attention to this area. The county captain of Hongtong County is Chen Yuan, who is over 80 years old and has been a county captain for more than 30 years. This person was quite arrogant. When he introduced himself, he just bowed to Han Feng. There were as many as seven county deputy captains in Hongtong County, one of them was a young man, about the same age as Han Feng. His attitude was worse than Chen Yuan, who was the county captain. He didn't care about Han Feng at all. If it weren't for Zhou Dakang, he would have left long ago.

In addition to one county culprit and seven county deputy culprits, there are twenty squad leaders. These twenty squad leaders are the leaders of the constables, equivalent to the captains. Each squad leader will be equipped with two squad leaders. However, the deputy squad leader has too low status and is not qualified to come to see Han Feng.

In the establishment of the Ming Empire, the leaders of the Six Gate ranged from high to low, namely the General Head, the Deputy General Head, the Large Head, the State Head, the County Head, and the Team Head. The Six Gate's Constable is somewhat different from other yamen runners. In the entire yamen, take the county yamen for example, there are so-called three yamen runners, namely the Zaoban, the Zhuangban, and the Quick Team. The Zaoban is responsible for the station hall, the Zhuangban is responsible for the coolie, and the Quick Team is responsible for the arrest.

In general, the Zaoban and Zhuangban are responsible for internal service, execution, guards, and the road, and the fast class is divided into step fast and horse fast, which is specialized in arresting, which is the general sense of the constable. The constables in the Six Gate must be above the three yamen runners. Those who can enter the work will basically have several skills, which is not a fancy move, and their salary is twice as high as other yamen handlers. The imperial court allocated as much as tens of millions of silver to Six Gate every year, which can be said to be a considerable expense.

After officials from all over the world introduced themselves to Han Feng one by one, Zhou Da Kangbo had already ordered his servants to prepare a table of extremely rich wine and dishes in a side hall to welcome Han Feng. In addition to Zhou Da Kang, there were only the first county magistrate, the first chief magistrate, the first dictionary, the teacher and a county deputy captain. Han Feng was not polite to Zhou Da Kang and had a big meal.

After dinner, Zhou Dakang had already arranged a large mansion for Han Feng outside the county government office, saying that it was specially provided for Han Feng to live in, but Han Feng refused his kindness and insisted on living in the inner house of the county government office. Seeing that Han Feng did not accept his kindness, Zhou Dakang didn't say much, but just smiled.

After Han Feng and his party were settled, Zhou Dakang retired. He did not live in the county government office, but had his own house in the city. Moreover, his house was so large that it was beyond the salary of a small county magistrate.

The next day, just as Han Feng got up, Zhou Dakang had already arrived at the county government office.

Han Feng heard that Zhou Dakang was coming, and he didn't feel a little strange. Logically, Zhou Dakang wouldn't come to work so quickly. However, since he was so "diligent", he was embarrassed to be lazy, so he went to see Zhou Dakang, with only Chi Zhirong and Erniu around him.

When Zhou Dakang saw Han Feng, his first sentence was: "Mr., according to the rules of our Hongtong County, any newly appointed magistrate will start visiting the gentlemen in the city from the next day. This is to facilitate the handling of the county's affairs in the future..."

Han Feng was stunned for a moment, and Zhou Dakang continued: "If you don't prepare a gift, the official has prepared it for you. After you go, just visit us directly."

Before Han Feng could speak, Chi Zhihao shouted loudly: "It's really outrageous. My son is the lord of a county and is appointed by the court. If you want to visit, it should be the gentleman in the city who comes to visit my house. How could my son visit them?"

Chi Zhirong is Han Feng's Changsui. In Zhou Dakang's eyes, it is equivalent to Han Feng's assistants to Hongtong County this time, so he will not offend him easily. He smiled and said, "Brother Chi, I don't know that Zhou has been a county magistrate in Hongtong County for so many years. He has experienced a total of seven magistrates. Any magistrate who is respectful to the wise and has a good relationship with the gentlemen in the city. No matter what the matter is done, there is nothing wrong with it. Therefore, the magistrate makes the decision without authorization and arranges everything for the magistrate. If the magistrate doesn't like it, the magistrate cancels this arrangement."

Han Feng knew that the gentlemen in the city were local forces, and these local forces were themselves in the same group as Zhou Dakang. In the entire yamen, most people only listened to Zhou Dakang's words. If they wanted to gain a foothold in Hongtong County in the future, it was not appropriate to confront them at present.

So he waved his hand and smiled at Chi Zhirong, "Zhirong, if you are an official, you have to benefit the people and protect the local area. The gentlemen in the city are also one of the people after all. As a county magistrate, I should follow the customs and go to visit and socialize."

When Zhou Dakang heard Han Feng say that the gentleman in the city was one of the people, a strange smile flashed from the corner of his mouth. He didn't know whether it was laughing at Han Feng's stupidity or Han Feng pretending to be stupid.

"The officials have already heard of the high reputation of the magistrate. Today, when they see the magistrate's style, they realize that the magistrate is indeed well-known and a parent official who benefits the people." Zhou Dakang said.

"Where, where, as the magistrate, Han should do his duty well. Han dare not be the title of a parent and official. If Han thinks he is an official of his parents, wouldn't he treat the people as his sons? This is unreasonable, right, County Magistrate Zhou?" Han Feng said.

"Yes, yes, yes, the official said nothing..."

Zhou Dakang's previous words were originally just polite words in the officialdom, but Han Feng was serious with him, his old face turned slightly red, and he could only cater to Han Feng's words.

At that moment, Han Feng asked Erniu to call Long Yi, and brought three people, namely Long Yi, Chi Zhirong and Erniu, and Zhou Dakang and others out of the county government gate.

When passing a shop, Han Feng stopped and asked Erniu to go in and buy seven gifts. Zhou Dakang didn't expect Han Feng to be like this, so he was stunned and said, "Mr. Magistrate, the official has prepared a gift for you. There is no need to buy it anymore, just send it directly."

Han Feng said: "How dare Han be embarrassed if County Magistrate Zhou asks County Master Zhou to do his job for Han?"

Zhou Dakang said: "What's the point of being so embarrassed about this? In the future, the officials will work with the adults. This gift is just regarded as a gift from the officials to the adults."

Han Feng was not fooled by Zhou Dakang, smiled and said slowly: "Next time, Han will thank County Magistrate Zhou for his kindness this time."

Zhou Dakang saw that Han Feng was in a situation he set, although he was a little surprised that Han Feng was "sophisticated", but there was no strange look on his face, and he called away the followers with the gift.

Soon, Erniu went to the store to buy seven gifts, which were quite beautiful, but the value was low. There were four followers next to Zhou Dakang. Seeing that the gifts prepared by Han Feng were so cold, he showed contempt on his face, which was clearly a joke about Han Feng.

It is no wonder that in their eyes, Han Feng prepared gifts, let alone the gentlemen in the city, even they didn't even take them seriously, and they wouldn't even look at them. They didn't even have enough money for a meal. Han Feng actually asked Erniu to take the gifts like treasures.

Zhou Dakang coughed dryly, and the four followers hurriedly put away their contempt.

Han Feng had actually seen it, but he pretended not to see it, and still happily asked Zhou Dakang about his long and short time. Soon, he learned from Zhou Dakang that there were six gentlemen in the city to visit today. The first one was to visit, the largest and richest family in the city - the Bai family.

According to Zhou Dakang, the Bai family has occupied the position of the richest family in Hongtong County for more than 300 years. The first head of the family was the godson of Xu Xishan, one of the ten kings of different surnames in the founding of the Ming Empire. The reason why the Bai family was so powerful in Hongtong County was because they had the support of the "King of Zhao" behind them.

The Xu family's mansion is located in the most prosperous area in the city. There are more than 30 people guarding the gate alone. There are eight white jade-carved Pegasus in front of the door, which are lifelike. The courtyard wall of the mansion is wide and tall, so you can run a horse, which shows the wealth of the Bai family.

Han Fengshang is approaching, and he has seen the vast courtyard wall of the Bai family and the grandeur in front of the door, which is even more grand than the royal palace. He couldn't help but sneer in his heart and said to himself: "The purpose of my visit to Hongtong County this time is to manage a group of local forces led by the Bai family. Humph, Bai family, let's see when you are arrogant."

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