The county seat of Yingchuan County is a majestic city several times larger than Qingshui County. The city wall alone is more than thirty meters high, and there are huge ships parked on the pier.
The Tianhe Gang's merchant ship is the largest building ship in Qingshui County.
But some of the high-rise ships docked at the county pier are larger than the merchant ships of the Tianhe Gang.
These huge merchant ships are all doing business between counties in Yuanzhou.
The Canglan River runs through the entire Yuanzhou from east to south. It is more convenient than walking by land. Therefore, in several counties along the Canglan River, water transportation is more developed and prosperous than land transportation.
There is a distance of several miles from the pier to the city gate.
It would take at least half an hour for an ordinary person to walk from the pier to the city gate.
After taking a look at the sky, Chen Xuan couldn't help but speed up, and used the land galloping technique to quickly rush towards the location of the city gate.
It's almost closing time now, so there aren't many people queuing up.
"Bring out the guide!"
The armored soldier guarding the city glanced at Chen Xuan and said in a cold tone.
Immediately, Chen Xuan took out the transfer order from the thief Cao Si.
At this time, Chen Xuan did not disguise himself, but used his original appearance.
"It turns out he is the subordinate of Cao Si, the thief who is about to take office." The soldier guarding the city looked at it, and then said with a smile: "We both work for the imperial court, so the city entry fee is waived, let's go in!"
"Thank you!"
Chen Xuan crossed his fists and entered the city.
The streets in the county are much wider than those in Qingshui County, especially the main street entering the city gate, which can accommodate six carriages running parallel at the same time. There are various shops and vendors on both sides of the street, which is much more prosperous than in Qingshui County.
On the street, you can see some soldiers in armor patrolling.
Chen Xuan asked the people in the city about the location of Cao Si. When he rushed over, Cao Si's superior had already gotten off work, so he found an inn and stayed in, waiting to report to Cao Si early the next morning.
After checking into the inn and eating something, Chen Xuan took a rest.
Early the next morning.
After Chen Xuan had breakfast, he came to Cao Si and handed over the transfer order.
After a while, Chen Xuan met Lin Changting, the chief official of Cao Si.
When he was on the merchant ship, he learned about the situation of the county government office from He Yun.
The largest official in Yingchuan County is naturally the county guard, followed by the county magistrate and the captain. The relationship between these three is the county magistrate, the county magistrate and the county captain, which is an upgraded version of these three.
The offices of the governors, magistrates, and captains are called fu.
For example, the governor's mansion, the captain's mansion, etc.
The various government offices below are called Caosi.
To put it simply, the county governor's office is the city government, and the "zhucao" departments below belong to the department and bureau.
The thief Caosi is in charge of water and fire, thieves, lawsuits, criminal laws, etc.
Among them, the chief official is the division chief, a sixth-rank official, and below are the chiefs of various departments, such as the chief of water and fire, the chief of prisons, the chief of arrests, etc., all of which belong to the subordinate sixth rank.
The chief official of the Thief Cao Division is the seventh-grade official. He is the secretary to the chief of the Thieves Cao Division and is in charge of the personnel affairs of the Thieves Cao Division.
"I have met the chief official."
Seeing this official who was somewhat similar to the county captain Lin Changrong, Chen Xuan saluted respectfully.
"No need to be polite." Lin Changting, the chief official, waved his hand and said, "You are Chen Xuan. The third brother mentioned you in the letter. You can be regarded as saving the third brother's life."
"This is what I should do. My subordinates dare not take credit."
Chen Xuandao.
"You don't have to be humble. Since you have come to Caosi, you should work hard here. The Lin family will not treat you badly." Lin Changting asked: "Do you want a military position or a civilian position?"
"My subordinate wants to join the civil service."
Chen Xuandao.
"Civilian position?" Lin Changting frowned slightly, and then said: "The military position is relatively more dangerous, but the merit comes quickly, and you may not be unable to obtain a rank in the future. If you choose a civilian position, you will be a subordinate for the rest of your life."
"My subordinates don't have any lofty ambitions, and my parents only wanted me to live a peaceful life before they left."
Chen Xuandao.
For him, it doesn't matter whether he can obtain a level or something. What matters is a stable environment. With proficiency plug-ins, he can steadily improve his cultivation level and improve his strength, so there is no need to fight and kill.
"There are not many civil service positions, what are your specialties?"
Seeing that Chen Xuan wanted to choose a civil service, Lin Changting did not persuade him.
Originally, because of the strong recommendation of his third brother Lin Changrong, he wanted to give Chen Xuan a chance. As long as he performed well after entering the military service, it would not be difficult to get a ninth-grade official position in three to five years.
But since the other party insists on choosing a civilian position, he doesn't have to put in that effort.
"The thief Cao Si is still short of portrait painters, prison painters, and jailers. These are all considered to be civilians."
Lin Changting said calmly.
"Wuzhuo, prison painter, jailer."
Chen Xuan thought about these three positions.
Among them, Wu Zuo was an ancient forensic doctor who specialized in examining corpses.
This requires a lot of professionalism, and you also have to deal with corpses frequently.
Prison painters are those who specifically paint prisoners who have been convicted of crimes and are imprisoned in jails. Jailers, as the name suggests, are prison guards. They usually live in the prison department and are not allowed to go out at will.
Although prison painters also belong to the prison department, they have more freedom than jailers.
"Sir, I can draw portraits."
Chen Xuan said.
"Then I'll be the Prison Painter." Lin Changting said, "Tomorrow, you will report to the Prison Department."
After saying that, Lin Changting picked up the tea on the table and took a sip.
Serve tea as a farewell to guests.
Chen Xuan understood the meaning immediately and stood up immediately and said: "Thank you, sir. I will take my leave now."
After leaving the thief Cao Si, Chen Xuan returned to the inn and changed his identity to Yahang.
Although the Prison Painter can live in the Prison Department, he has many secrets, and it is definitely inconvenient to live in the Prison Department. For example, he can imitate other secret medicines on the market and refine the secret medicines himself to practice. This must not be known to outsiders.
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Therefore, he has to rent a house outside.
Before coming to the county town, Chen Xuan made dozens of "road guides" by himself.
Just use these fake Lu Yin to rent a house in Yahang, and Chen Xuan will also disguise himself as the one in Lu Yin's picture above, so that his true identity will not be revealed.
In the future, I will use these false identities when purchasing medicinal materials.
After a while, Chen Xuan rented more than a dozen courtyards under different identities.
These dozen courtyards are distributed around the Prison Department. The distances from the Prison Department to these dozen courtyards are almost the same. After renting the courtyard, you can buy daily necessities.
After a busy day, I spent thousands of taels of silver in total.
The county is prosperous and consumption is also high.
As far as renting a house is concerned, the rent for a courtyard of the same size in Qingshui County is at most ten taels of silver a year, but in the county it costs fifty taels, which is four times more expensive than in Qingshui County and costs forty taels more.