Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1449 Shangqing Lingwei
The shocking facts came before everyone in the Censorate.

First, they have now changed their name to the North Pole Exorcist Institute. Second, all of them have been conferred the title of Shangqing Lingwei. Third, they are now immortal.

Three messages, just one of which was enough to shock them so much that they almost jumped to the other end of the phone line.

"Lord Wen, are you kidding us? The Censorate is going to lay off employees? You can't lay off the main arteries! If you lay off all the censors, the Censorate will have nothing else to do except the Archives Management Office. Lord Wen, you have to help us make the decision!"

"Old Chen, calm down. We are all alumni."

"Yes, we are all alumni. When you were a senior, I was a freshman. Now you are a cabinet minister and I am a seventh-rank official. What kind of alumni do you think this is?"

Wen Zhong asked, "You have 12 first-class stars on your body, but I only have one. How do you calculate this? Your salary and allowance combined are much higher than mine, right?"

"You have a bulletproof car, but I don't even have a monthly pass for the tram."

"That's because your home is right at the subway entrance! You buy your own monthly pass! You buy your own car! Why not buy a car? Can't you afford a car? And don't you have a car? What car do you drive when you're working a case? A high-powered eight-cylinder police sports car!"

The voice on the other end of the phone was louder than Wen Zhong's: "Your family is four times bigger than mine!"

Wen Zhong was also extremely angry: "My family's house was not taken when I entered the cabinet! It was inherited from our ancestors! Our ancestral house is only this big! Your ancestors are not good enough, so you blame me? Besides, your house is twice as big as Shang Tianjun's, do you want to compare with him?"

"Which side is this matter related to?" Lao Kedao's sense of smell helped him find the key words.

"That's nonsense. I was so confused that I told you all three things at once. I should have told you one by one and sent you 10 telegrams."

"No, no, no, so Old Man Wen, were you telling the truth just now?"

"How could it be fake? I think you are tired of living and don't even want to take the elixir of life."

"Wait a minute." The person on the other end of the line paused before asking, "What's the story? Have you ever experimented on dogs?"

"The emperor ate it, how could it be false? You may not know that Governor Yuan also ate it."

The confidentiality level of the matter of Governor Yuan is quite mysterious. Although the confidentiality level of the Supervisory Censor is also very high, the confidentiality level of the Ming Dynasty mainly refers to internal confidentiality, not mysterious confidentiality. The news on the mysterious side is basically limited to word of mouth. If you have acquaintances or business connections, you can know most of it. If you don’t have any, there is no way to know.

Yesterday, it happened that the Supervisory Censor was not needed to be present, because Zhu Xianxi himself came here. There was no administrative process for the whole thing. Zhu Xianxi asked Governor Yuan to go to a place with medical conditions to complete the transfer work after his death from a personal perspective. This was mainly because the place they went to was the Imperial Army General Hospital, which was the designated medical unit for all extraordinary diseases. The person who was eroded by the spirit last time was also treated here.

"Let me ask first, how is Patient No. 95?"

"You guys know about this too?"

"I found out about it myself. I heard that a researcher was involved in a spiritual evil experiment before, and the emperor himself went there, but in the end he couldn't be saved. But I heard that Shang Tianjun found a place for him to temporarily store his soul."

"It was actually Master Lan who took action that time. At that time, Shang Tianjun was not as reliable as he is now. Now, he is much better than he was then. Patient No. 95 is among the first batch of beneficiaries, and we have already made arrangements."

"Well, I believe this for now. But I heard that Governor Yuan is not in a good condition?"

"So this time, everyone should get a comprehensive physical examination before taking the medicine. Come to Jinyiwei. We will check each of you one by one and then give you the medicine. This is mainly to ensure that all of you can smoothly transition to the day when the true ascension arrives. With these medicines, except for external injuries, internal diseases will not be able to harm you. Just be careful not to be hit by a truck when you go out."

"Old Man Wen, why are you in such a good mood lately?" Wen Zhong actually started to joke, which made the person on the other end of the phone very puzzled.

"Because I finally got something important done."

"You're talking about Wen Yan? You finally told him about it?"

"No, I asked Shang Tianjun to tell him - this is not important. The important thing is that I am afraid that I will die one day, and I must tell him before I die. When that day comes, I don't know how to face him. It doesn't matter now."

Elder Wen has been living a very depressed life for the past few decades. This is actually mainly related to his personal moral requirements, which can be regarded as a knot in his heart. This knot is very complicated, and as he gradually ages, he seems to be more and more entangled, because the day of showdown is not far away. Even if he tells Shangluo and decides to let him convey it, it can't calm his own problems. However, time can solve everything, and now he can delay it indefinitely. Procrastination is always pleasant, especially for people like him.

"Old man Wen, you are just too conflicted. If I give you a sweet cookie in your left hand and a salty cookie in your right hand, you will fight with yourself."

"I am just like this, I am so stubborn. Anyway, I have come through all these years - the Imperial College needs someone as stubborn as me to avoid being bullied. And I don't plan to remain silent in the Heavenly Court. I have also called Shang Tianjun to the Imperial College, and he is studying in your history department."

Wen Ge Lao did not graduate from the Department of History. This was an exception among all the high-ranking Imperial College graduates.

"You didn't call him to your department?" Master Wen did not graduate from the history department. His major was also an unpopular one in the Imperial College, and it was a major that could not be more unpopular.

"Forget it. After thinking about it, I think your side is better - so, I have informed you of this matter. Do you want to come and have a meeting with Shang Tianjun?"

"Wait, I'll be there soon."

After the other party hung up the phone, Lord Wen continued to drink his soup.

"By the way, Elder Wen, didn't you graduate from school? Then which department did you study in?"

"Law Department, major in Penology." "Huh?" Shang Luo was stunned for a moment, "This major is..."

"I think I told you that my family is a family of Jinyiwei. Jinyiwei are basically good at this kind of work, and I still have the skill of using a pork slicer - of course, I mainly use it when eating hot pot. But people should not forget their roots. I didn't plan to continue on the academic path, so I chose a department that could inherit the family business. Who knew that I would be the one who went the furthest."

If nothing unexpected happened, Wen Zhong should have worked in the Jinyiwei's Tianlao, serving as a civilian in the Tianlao as a mortal. He was mainly responsible for confidentiality management and most likely would not be imprisoned. But in the end, he took the academic route and became the Minister of Rites, the Imperial College, and then entered the cabinet, which he himself did not dare to think of at the beginning.

"Come to think of it, the main choice for penology at the graduate level is social engineering, which overlaps with your current work. I didn't continue my studies in penology afterwards - but it did allow me to meet a lot of alumni. If the Jinyiwei went to the Imperial College, they would most likely go to my department. I wasn't very familiar with the people in the history department, but I became familiar with them after I started working."

"Who was that just now? The one who came to see me later."

"The Inspector General of the Fourth Bureau of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Metropolitan Censorate is the Chief Censor in charge of the internal affairs of the Southern Zhili region. Because the Metropolitan Censorate's traditional promotion channels have been given additional titles for administrative officials, there is an additional system within the Metropolitan Censorate that is calculated based on honors."

"Didn't I hear before that the title was given to him as an inspector?"

"Originally, we should have added a censor, but there was no censor in Nanzhili. The Censorate was the Criminal Investigation Department of Nanzhili. While managing the internal affairs of the whole country, it was also responsible for the specific internal affairs of the capital. Specifically, the Fourth Bureau of the Internal Affairs Committee of the Censorate was responsible for the specific internal affairs of Nanzhili."

"Wait a minute." Shangluo thought for a moment, "So the Censorate is still in charge of intelligence work?"

"Yes. The Censorate and the Imperial Guards are both intelligence departments, but the Imperial Guards report directly to the emperor, while the Censorate is under the control of the cabinet. After all, we can't go directly to the Imperial Guards for everything. Even if I were an Imperial Guard, I wouldn't call back for everything. So the cabinet's work needs to be handled by the Censorate. The intersection between the two is the Ninth Bureau of the Censorate. Nine is the extreme number, which is just right for fighting against evil spirits."

"How many games are there in total?"

"There are 14 bureaus, but the numbers are not in order. For example, there is also the 36th Bureau that is specifically in charge of oil and gas energy work. This is the last one to be established. There are 700 censors in total, and 700 working groups. Except for 110 of them stationed in various places, the other 590 are in the two Censorates in the two capitals. If you want to prepare elixirs, it is enough to prepare 700 of them."

These 700 people represent not only themselves, but also their trainee censors, judges, trainee judges, and many non-staff clerks who are not on the staff of the Censorate. Therefore, each supervisory censor actually represents a working group of dozens to hundreds of people, and there are also supervisory censors who work together to handle cases. When each working group holds a meeting, it can fill up a room.

"There are quite a lot of people here." Shangluo found that he seemed to be careless.
This doesn't seem to be a matter of a few hundred people, it's a matter of nearly 7 people.

"Sixty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-two people." Elder Wen reported the number accurately. "When I assigned you to the History Department, I checked the files. This is the number of all the regular and non-regular detectives currently employed by the Metropolitan Procuratorate. By the way, the non-regular patrol officers are not recruited casually. They are seconded police officers with their own police ranks, but they are just two names for one organization. They are called patrol officers within the Metropolitan Procuratorate system and are called internal affairs police at work. They are under the management of both the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Justice."

[So there are so many people? Shangluo, do you have enough rice? ]

"Ah," Shangluo pressed his forehead, "It was indeed hasty. However, since I have decided to transfer these good assets over, I have to do something. I can't just take it for nothing."

"So, Shangluo, what kind of treatment do you plan to give them? I can help you transfer the funds. But I heard that the work of the Thunder Department is now supported by the private accounts of Da Nei and Guo Xing?"

"In fact, Ouchi and I provide the funds - but it's only me in name. In reality, it's Kokusei who gives me the money, and then I set up the office myself. This allows Kokusei to pay the money without having to do the actual work."

"That's going to be a headache for you. Do you have a financial manager now?"

"Uh" he couldn't say it directly. Before, Phaethon was in charge of the accounts, but now it was Zhu Ling and Qi Yuan. But Qi Yuan was only free during the holidays, and Zhu Ling was only responsible for the part that Zhu Xianxun took out from the inner treasury. After the holidays, this makeshift team might collapse.

"Comparison of our previous management of the Thunder Department."

"Flatter?" Elder Wen looked at him.

"Ah yes, flattening."

"That's great." Elder Wen nodded. "This shows that your decision-making chain is short, your response is fast, and the cost of trial and error is low."

[Short decision chain - refers to your one decision. Quick response - refers to your quick response. Low trial and error cost - refers to you working for yourself without spending money.]

"Then what can I do? There were only a few people before, but now there are dozens of people. The accounts are very clear, so there is actually no need for a dedicated person to manage the accounts. Hey, wait a minute."

Shang Luo looked at Elder Wen and said, "I say, Elder Wen, if I can get things done, can we not set up a financial department?"

"Yes, of course." Elder Wen nodded. "To put it bluntly, it's about doing things. But when the business is big and there are many things to do, it's inevitable that we need to hire idle people. For example, in each of the six departments, there are [experience] who are in charge of secretarial work, [governor] who are in charge of specific affairs, [secretary] who are in charge of departmental internal affairs and logistics, and [registrar] who are in charge of files and auditing. All of them are indispensable, otherwise the department will not be able to run. The six ministries also have headquarters, which are basically the internal affairs departments of the six ministries. The headquarters of each of the six ministries also have their own secretaries, who are the internal affairs of the internal affairs."

"Can I replace them all with robots?"

"Robot?" Wen Zhong was stunned for a moment. "You mean let the automaton take care of it?"

"Anyway, we can just let machines handle the sending and receiving of documents, file management, and finance. We don't need humans to take the blame for our finances, right?"

Wen Zhong shook his head: "You know it all, kid. You said it yourself. You don't need anyone to take the blame for your finances. If something goes wrong, you will be in charge of it yourself. After all, no one will come to check on you. As long as there is someone in charge, all these tasks can be automated."

"Then we can transfer at any time."

"Don't you need to discuss this with us?" Wen Zhong asked.

"No need. The automatons are always ready and can dispatch as many as you need. They can do everything except take the blame."

(End of this chapter)