Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1446: Holiday in Shangluo

[Speaking of which, Shangluo, don't talk about others - have you ever taken a vacation yourself? ]

"Well, this may be what Governor Yuan said about enjoying it. I have always been managing others, not being managed by others. I am the boss of others every day, so I will be tired no matter how hard I work."

When he got home, he sat on the sofa and prepared to think about the alchemy furnace. Apollonia's words reminded him that he had not rested for a long time.

But he really didn't feel tired - in this respect he was exactly the same as Governor Yuan.

He spends all day tormenting others instead of himself. Sometimes, tormenting others is a way to relieve stress.

In addition, after he became a celestial being, his physical and mental states could be maintained in good condition, so he would not feel tired even if he worked day and night.

Soon, Governor Yuan will be in a similar state. Although Governor Yuan's senses are limited, his mental and physical state can indeed withstand continuous work.

"But then again, I could use some time off to rest." He leaned back, "There's really nothing urgent for me to do right now."

Because the pills can be refined, but it is impossible to smelt them on a large scale to produce the amount needed by tens of millions of people.

If someone needs it urgently, Zhu Xianxi can get it done in "3 jobs". For him, 3 jobs means going to the alchemy furnace every morning to adjust the parameters and then wait for the pills to be harvested - this work is repeated for three days, which is jobs.

[Ah, so you're going to take a break, right? Okay, I'll take a break too.]

A white figure appeared from the air beside her, landed on the sofa and sat next to her.

When not working, Apollonia can also appear.

[Please don’t make me sound like a cyber ghost, okay?]

"Then don't talk to me in my head like a cyber-ghost! You can just sit next to me, can't you talk with your mouth?"

[No. I am in the VIP seat. How can I share a channel with others? I just want to speak in the VIP seat.]

"What is she whispering to you? Why do you only see her moving her mouth but not saying anything? VIP seat, right?" Phaethon sat on the sofa next to him with a glass of iced cola and handed another glass to Shangluo.

【How can you guess everything?】

"Thank you." Shangluo took the Coke and thanked her for being his substitute.

"So, where are you going tomorrow?"

"Is Victoria asleep?"

"She's not my daughter. Why did you come back and ask her if she slept? She went to bed early. She always goes to bed at a fixed time and never stays up late. I just came back from the Thunder Department. There are still so many people floating in the space station. I have to communicate with them when you are not here - so, where are you going tomorrow? I can arrange your schedule to cover the places you don't go."

"I'll take a day off tomorrow."

"Damn it! You have tomorrow off? Then I have to do everything you do?"

"Ah?" Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "What are you going to do?"

"You, don't you know you've already missed 4 classes?! The Imperial College will have another holiday class tomorrow. If you don't go, I'll have to ask for leave for you. Because I'm a teaching assistant, I'm in charge of your attendance."

"Well, that's great. I'll go to school for the holiday then."

"You call this a vacation?"

"Yeah." Shang Luo nodded. "After being a Heavenly Lord for so long, returning to the identity of a student occasionally is like a vacation for me."

"That's fine. I'll just deal with the matter in heaven tomorrow."

Shangluo blinked: "How about you take a vacation too?"

"Are you sure???" Phaethon looked at him, "Then don't blame me if anything happens after I take my vacation. I won't be responsible if the space station falls down."

"Well, forget it. I'll leave it to you."

"You go to school tomorrow, which will count as your own vacation, and it will save me a lot of trouble. You don't know that your seat is vacant all day, and I have to help you explain it. This is always a bit weird, you know?"

Shangluo said helplessly: "I know, but I can go tomorrow. It's okay for me to miss so many classes, right?"

"The academic system set by Elder Wen for you is independent, and you will get credits separately. He will help you make up for the missing parts in other places later, and count them as practical activities or something like that."

"Ah, it's great to have someone above me. So what class do I have tomorrow?"

"It's also a holiday course, so what we teach is not the course content, but the study guidance. We talk about how to take the courses of the Imperial College, which courses are recommended for you to choose, and how to get scholarships. Then we introduce the cooperative certification courses. For example, if you take a certain course and get an A grade, it can replace a certain part of the judicial examination. "

"Is it so convenient?"

Phaethon glanced at him and said, "This is the Imperial College, don't make a mistake. It is the highest institution of learning in name. Although it is said to be not cost-effective, it provides you with many conveniences in administrative procedures. Therefore, many people who aspire to become historians will apply for the Imperial College. These cooperative courses alone can help you save about 8 months of your life - 8 months on average, and up to a year is possible. Did you see the look on Governor Yuan's face?"

Shangluo nodded.

At the level of Governor Yuan, and every level before that, sometimes a difference of one or two years is a major stage in life. "Speaking of which, the treatment is so good, why doesn't anyone come to apply for our Imperial College?"

Phaethon was surprised and asked, "Why do you like to take on tasks for yourself? Are you going to start thinking about how to recruit students for the Imperial College again?"

"No, no. I'm asking, why is no one coming for such good treatment?"

"It's mainly about cost-effectiveness. Being a historian is not the best career path, but it requires the highest scores. This is actually the same as many military academies. People who don't really have that kind of 'ambition' rarely choose this path. I also discovered this after being an assistant teacher for a while."

"Oh?" Shang Luo asked doubtfully, "Actually, I don't quite understand what it's like to be a historian. Can you give me an example?"

"Give me an example? For example, the Supervisory Censors you usually see have independent supervisory powers, the backbone of the Censorate, the entry-level censors, and the lowest level of 'censors' - to reach this status, the average age is 35 years old, and the Imperial College is about 32 years old. In other words, even if you are a student of the Imperial College, you have to wait 10 years after graduation to get the status of Supervisory Censor."

The Supervisory Censor is the censor in the usual sense, a sub-type of the censor. The entire censorship system is derived from the censor. It is like a policeman in a police station. This system is sometimes also called the Kedao officials, referring to the six "Ke" Jieshizhong and the thirteen "Dao" Supervisory Censors.

The earliest censors can be traced back to the historians in the pre-Qin period. They were the secretaries and historians of the emperor, princes, and ministers. The Qin Dynasty had the Grand Censor, the Tang Dynasty had the Censorate. In the Ming Dynasty, it was the Metropolitan Censorate. The Supervisory Censors were the backbone of the Metropolitan Censorate.

Inspect all officials, tour counties and prefectures, oversee criminal justice, and regulate court ceremonies.

Becoming a supervisory censor meant having the power to handle cases - being able to lead a case. Different assignments had different titles, such as inspecting agriculture, inspecting grain transport, inspecting salt, inspecting tea, inspecting judicial prisons in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, presiding over major criminal cases, economic crimes and other major cases, and supervising imperial examinations at all levels, etc.

A censor can organize his own team and have his own subordinates. His direct subordinate is the "judge".

The judge is the person who is actually responsible for a certain aspect of the work in the censor's team. Because after the censor arrives at a place, he needs to carry out his work in an unfamiliar environment, so he needs to recruit different judges as his agents according to needs. Experienced judges who have passed the examination can be promoted to censors when they are of the right age - generally as trainee censors, they will serve as the censor's deputy and chief judge, and then they will be promoted and have their own case-handling team.

The censors and judges were the main components of the case handling team of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Of course, under the judges there were trainee judges, who were the positions held by the newly graduated students.

And such a Censor is a seventh-rank official.

"So there's only the seventh rank?"

In a place like Yingtian, seventh-rank officials are numerous, and a falling billboard might kill several hereditary centurions.

"What if he was a result of the imperial examination?" Shangluo asked.

"As for the imperial examination, the starting point for a county magistrate is the seventh rank, and the starting point for an editor in the Hanlin Academy is also the seventh rank, but after that, you will be promoted rapidly. It is not impossible to reach the fifth rank before the age of 40. In other words, 10 years after graduating from the historian, you will be the starting point for the Jinshi degree - to be a regular official, you must be a Jinshi, and the official titles of the Imperial Censor Department are basically Juren. There is a hard ceiling for the promotion of Juren."

“Where is this ceiling?”

"It's the Supervisory Censor. The seventh-rank Supervisory Censor is the ceiling, compared to the county magistrate outside. After you are promoted to Supervisory Censor, you may never move again in your life. At most, you will be promoted to a redundant logistics office 10 years before retirement to adjust your mentality. You can see how comprehensive the Supervisory Censor's own team is. The Supervisory Censor's team is often very stable. A judge will work under him for more than ten years before he can become a master. If the censor himself is transferred from one place to another and is separated from the front line of case handling, then there is no need to have such a complete team."

"Ah," Shangluo covered his forehead, "This is really a hard job."

"So I say, if there is no ambition, I'm afraid no one would want to be a censor. Of course, censors are indeed very 'cool'. Although censors are only seventh-rank officials, they are only paid according to the seventh-rank salary. But censors are very special in terms of etiquette, which can be clearly felt in various places. For example, various honors and ribbons. The coolest thing is that they can wear the Xiezhi costume, which is a uniform that only censors can wear. No one else can wear it, no matter how high their rank is."

"Then, is there any chance to go up?"

“There are things that must be said.”

Of course, there were not only censors in the Censorate, in fact, all "governors" were considered censors. However, governors did not have to be promoted from censors, but could be promoted from other administrative systems. Governors did not wear Xiezhi clothing, but wore clothing according to the official rank granted.

There were some who were promoted from Censor to Governor-General - however, either they were newly-appointed Jinshi who were directly transferred to the Censorate to work as Censors and lead a team to handle cases, or they were really very capable and were assessed by the Ministry of Personnel to be Governor-General.

"The only real room for advancement for the censors is in the general affairs departments of the Northern and Southern Capital Procuratorates, and this is usually done before retirement. After all, the frontline of case handling and the backstage are two different workplaces. However."

Phaethon thought for a moment:

"In fact, those of you who graduated from the History Department of the Imperial College don't always become Censors. There is another side of the Kedao officials, which are the Six Departments Censors. The treatment is slightly better than that of the Censors, after all, the Six Departments Censors can participate in the court discussions of the Political Affairs Hall. But the Six Departments Censors are even more of a pit, because the Six Departments Censors need to be trained as historians in the Hanlin Academy, and then they can't get out for decades. However, if they want to be promoted, they will go directly to the Dali Temple, the Imperial Household Department, and the Imperial Household Department to be the heads of departments, which is not bad at the moment."

"This is too much trouble. Why are the officials like this?"

"It wasn't like this before. The Six Departments' Secretaries were promoted to the Imperial Household Department, the Dali Temple and other internal affairs departments, and the Supervisory Censors could be promoted to the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner and the Provincial Administration Commissioner. But now the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner and the Provincial Administration Commissioner have become empty words. These two departments don't have their own offices, only the governor has his own office. So the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner and the like are generally just honorary titles for senior censors, and they actually still do the work of censors."

This was a kind of immediate political balance, a result of the government officials squeezing out the officials of the Ministry of Personnel. Since the officials of the Ministry of Personnel were seventh-rank officials in charge of the supervisory power, their prospects were crushed in the long-term party struggles, and gradually formed a closed group.

After all, except for the six censors, the censors rarely stayed in one place and had to handle cases in various places all year round. Only when they became senior censors would they be stationed and work somewhere, and be given the assignment of inspecting salt, inspecting farmers, or inspecting a certain place.

"This is the career path of the Imperial Academy's historian department. In this life, you can basically see the end at a glance - but because it is so cool, if you really like it, it is actually very cost-effective."

"Of course I like it. I just like cool things."

"It's a pity that you probably don't have time to experience the promotion process from a judge to a censor. Elder Wen arranged for you to take courses in the History Department, probably not to let you handle cases, but to hope that you can acquire the comprehensive qualities necessary to become a historian. These include family history, law, philosophy, literature, and professional courses such as military command. It's probably difficult for you to find such a wide range of courses elsewhere, except for biomedical engineering in the Department of Science."

"Interesting." Shangluo pondered for a moment, "But it's not impossible. I can pretend."

"Disguise? I've only heard of thieves and the like disguising their identities, but how can someone investigating a case also disguise themselves?"

"The emperor can go on a private visit in disguise, so why can't I go on a private visit as an imperial censor? I also have cases I want to investigate myself."

(End of this chapter)