Wanping County has a radius of fifty miles, and its jurisdiction mainly covers the western half of the capital city, as well as the surrounding suburban areas outside the city wall, mainly the Xishan area outside Fuchengmen and Xizhimen, and the southern suburbs around Shanchuan Altar (Xiannong Altar).
Today, Wanping County has about 20,000 registered households, and the theoretical population is less than 200,000. In reality, it is a little less. It seems to be very disproportionate to the capital. How can one of the two counties of Guo, attached to the capital, only have such a small number of people?
But don't forget that the population ratio in the capital is different from that in other places. Because the emperor guards the border, the ratio of military households in the capital is very high. In addition, the number of officials' families and eunuchs is also tens of thousands, and they are not included in the civilian households in Wanping County.
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This is where Fang Yingwu will take office. Wanping County Government is located in the north of the capital, probably outside the north wall of the imperial city, next to Shichahai in the east, and about ten miles away from the Fang family's residence.
If the new magistrate is out of town, he will stay at an inn outside the city on the day before the auspicious day of the zodiac. On the day of taking office, the honor guard will go out of the city with a designated number of sedan chairs to greet them. At the main entrance of the county, there will be local celebrities to welcome the second wave of troops, who arrive at the county.
There was a third wave of welcoming teams at the Yamen Gate.
The entire inauguration ceremony was extremely lively and grand. In addition to showing the dignity of the parents of a county, this kind of pomp and ceremony probably also meant to publicize the arrival of the new magistrate to the people in the city.
But in the capital, does Wanping's new magistrate Fang Yingwufang want this kind of pomp? Or don't even think about it.
Staying outside the city overnight and going out of the city to greet him? He would go out of the city to meet the magistrate because he was mentally ill. The local celebrities would greet him at the main gate of the county? The celebrities in the capital include princes and ministers, and let these people greet the magistrate at the city gate?
Also, the main entrance to the "county seat" of Wanping County should theoretically be the Zhengyang Gate, but this is a symbol of the national gate and will not be opened unless used by the emperor. How dare other officials dare to use the Zhengyang Gate as the venue for their inauguration ceremony?
Therefore, when Fang Xianzun took office, he could only simplify it, but compared with the situation of ordinary Beijing officials going to the Yamen alone to report, the pomp was still much better.
It was just dawning, and there was already a team of twenty or thirty people, surrounded by official sedans, waiting in the alley outside the gate of Fang's house.
Naturally, this team was composed of government servants from Wanping County, holding signs, copper sticks and other kinds of objects. Most of the utensils were clean old goods, except for three pairs of high-legged signs that were newly made at Lou Tianhua's request.
The first pair says "Shu Jing" and "Shu Jing", the second pair says "Given Jinshi origin" and "Wanping County Zhengtang", and the third pair says "Xiangkui" and "Huiyuan".
This high-footed card is equivalent to a public business card shown by parents in a place. Try to write down your family's identity and glorious history as much as possible.
For example, in these high-legged cards, the origin of Ci Jinshi indicates Fang Yingwu's final score as a second-class Jinshi, the township leader indicates that Fang Yingwu is one of the five leaders in the provincial examination, and the Huiyuan indicates that Fang Yingwu is the first in the provincial examination.
It is part of the glorious history of Fang Yingwu.
But he said that the welcoming team was waiting outside the gate of Fang's house. Although there was no loud noise, there were quite a few people whispering to each other.
Not long after, the door of Fang's house opened, and a young and handsome official walked out, wearing a black gauze hat and a blue official robe.
Several subordinate officials who came from the Wanping County Government suddenly stopped talking and rushed forward. They knelt down at the foot of the steps and shouted: "I respectfully invite you to get on the sedan chair!"
Then the rest of the subordinate staff followed the leader in front and knelt down in the alley, shouting repeatedly: "I respectfully invite you to get on the sedan chair!"
The young official looked at everyone in shock and said in a sullen voice: "You have the wrong person!"
One of the leading petty officials looked up and looked at it carefully, and said in surprise: "The elder is joking. This place is obviously Fang Mansion. I came here to recognize the place. How could I get it wrong?"
At this moment, a younger head suddenly popped out from behind the young official, also wearing a black gauze hat. He looked even more incredible old. He said fiercely to the subordinate officials who were kneeling on the ground: "You just got the wrong person!"
Then, Mr. Lou Tianhua Lou, whom many subordinates already knew, jumped out of the door in a panic, "In front of you is the old master Fang, Master Fang, editor-in-chief! This person in the back is the county magistrate!"
All the subordinate officials in Wanping County felt faint at this moment. They knew that Xinzhi County was a young official. They just saw the old man who came out first wearing a blue official robe and looked relatively young, so they recognized him.
It was the county magistrate. It turned out that the county magistrate was his father, Master Hanlin.
The real person of the county lord who appeared behind is younger. Are all the members of this family descended from Wenquxing? If you want to blame it, it’s because the sixth-grade and seventh-grade official robes are the same... Suddenly seeing a real person
It's hard to tell.
This small episode did not have much impact. Fang Qingzhi left with his hands behind his hands, and Fang Yingwu stood on the porch to formally accept his subordinates' visit. Twenty or thirty people knelt down together again and loudly said: "I respectfully invite you to get on the sedan chair!"
The shouts echoed in the alley, causing Fang Yingwu's mind to flutter a few times. He turned to Lou Tianhua and said, "Today I know why parents and officials in the main hall are prone to be arrogant and domineering. We should take this as a warning!"
After that, Fang Zhixian asked his subordinates to get up, and then went down the steps to get on the sedan. He raised his eyes and saw the six-sided high-legged plaques in two rows in front of the sedan. He looked at the large fonts on them and felt that they were really eye-catching.
, then asked Lou Tianhua: "Isn't this a bit too much?"
Lou Tianhua hurriedly stepped forward and said: "It's not too much, not too much! This is not a fictitious name, why not? It's just to show off your achievements as proprietor to the people of the county, which is called enlightening people's hearts."
Then Lou Tianhua admired him again and said: "Speaking of which, the proprietor is definitely the number one official in the Ming Dynasty. There is probably no one like him in the world."
Fang Yingwu asked in confusion: "What number one, what does it mean?"
Lou Tianhua and Yourong Yan explained: "In all the prefectures and counties in the world, who can give Huiyuan and Jinshi status at the same time, who else can be the people-friendly official of the township leader? You are the only one, proprietor!"
Fang Yingwu was slightly stunned. It seemed that this was indeed the case... He was used to being a senior official in the capital. Compared with the third place in the provincial examination, the first place in the general examination, and the eleventh place in the palace examination, the person with better grades was chosen.
It is absolutely impossible to become a county magistrate when you are an official, at least I have not heard of it so far.
In other words, in the main halls of more than a thousand states and counties in the world, there is absolutely no one with a higher-end background than myself, so these high-legged cards of ours can be said to be the most luxurious top-of-the-line accessories. Unless one day there is a tripod.
A couldn't think about it anymore, and was humiliatingly promoted to the county magistrate, and was given the title of No. 1 magistrate.
Lou Tianhua patted the horse again and said: "Whether it is from your origin or from your status in Guo County attached to the capital, you, proprietor, must be truly the number one magistrate in the world."
No. 1 in the world... magistrate? Fang Yingwu laughed dumbly. The first four characters were very good, but the last two characters were too small.
PS: No. 1 in the monthly ticket historical classification is about to be lost, and the top ten in the overall list are gradually drifting away. Has fate finally arrived?
