Song Jiang is an escort. What is the position of escort?

In the Water Margin, Song Jiang is a undertaker.

So, what is the official of Yasi?

In fact, it's very simple, and it's even clearer with the officialdom we correspond to now.

The official system in the Song Dynasty basically followed the precedent of three provinces and six precedents in the Tang Dynasty, so I won't say much about the superstructure, but only the grassroots. Yuncheng County, where Song Jiang is located, is a simple analogy to a small county town we have now.

At present, there are two lines in China from top to bottom: the party controls the direction and propaganda (secretary, discipline inspection commission and propaganda), the government controls the economy (county magistrate, political and legal committee, deputy county magistrate controls the economy, culture, education and health, etc.), and the armed forces department.

There was no party leadership in the official system of the Song Dynasty. The magistrate of a county grabbed his eyebrows and beard, and the aides had to pay for it themselves.

Below him are Xian Cheng (Wen) and County Commandant (Wu), and below him are the main book (similar to our current secretary-general) and the sixth general manager Cao.

A key point here is the dividing line between officials: magistrate, county magistrate and county commandant are officials, and the following are officials.

In principle, only those who came from imperial examinations can be officials. If you sneak into the ranks of officials without going through the roll call of Donghuamen, it is turbid. Promotion has a clear ceiling and can be killed by a clean stream.

Just like now, I can't think of anything without a graduate degree.

Officials are generally the result of the division of interests between local rich landlords and magistrates.

At that time, the rule was that officials could not work in their native places, which was similar to what it is now.

A relatively strong magistrate of a county seized Cao, a key department, got all the benefits, had a good life, and took some with him when he left office.

The cowardly magistrate of a county can only spend his days in Houya's piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, or move or resign himself to fate, and can't be said to be poor.

Judging from the description in the Water Margin, Song Jiang's role should be to take the martial arts route, so his boss should be the county commandant. The magistrate of a county is seven, and the county magistrate is seven or eight (depending on whether it is the upper county or the lower county), which means that we are now division-level and division-level cadres.

Cao's departments should all be middle-level cadres, while the company is almost all cadres at the deputy department level or level.

In fact, he is an official who helps the county commandant handle practical affairs in the bureau.

As the saying goes, the devil is easy to see, and the kid is difficult. Jiang is a man.

There is no big future. Ju Xiaolian was not born in the imperial examination. Life is turbid, and the ascending passage has a ceiling.

However, it is a tragedy that people are a little ambitious. Just in time to rebel. What if I have a chance to break the ceiling?

In essence, it is to be a big official.

Usually I have some power in my hand. I join the township party and take care of my relatives and friends.

For example, send a message to Classical. Be idle, make friends in Jianghu, and improve your reputation. In fact, it's the same reason that Tik Tok is sucking powder now.

Now the fan economy is realized by commodities. When there were fans in the Song Dynasty, the channel of realizing money could save lives.

I killed someone and hid in Xiao Chai's yard. It was a beautiful day.

Judging from the Water Margin, Song Jiang is a black-bellied, hypocritical and scheming rural small rich man, but he is also an egoist eager to get rid of his muddy identity and yearn for the scenery of the imperial court. In fact, judging from Zhang Shuye's official history and Hui Zong's biography, this guy is a bit of a pirate of the Ming Dynasty.

Local strongmen, criss-crossing seashores, connecting inland areas, harassing traffic arteries, echoing Fang La from afar, were really revolutionary pioneers at that time.

Not a pioneer of the peasant revolution, but a thug to resist the central government's suppression of local gate valves.

Song Jiang in The Water Margin was originally the undertaker of Yuncheng county government. He is generous and people give him the reputation of "timely rain". Song Jiang is very popular in the local area and has great energy. Almost everyone respects him. So what is his position in the company?

Before the Song Dynasty, officials appointed by the imperial court could hire small officials to handle the daily affairs of the government after taking office in local areas. These petty officials are all supernumerary personnel and are not listed in the organization department of the imperial court, which means that they are not "officials" and have no cadre status.

Although he has no cadre status, if he has good ability and strong relationship with officials, he still has the opportunity to enter the system as an official.

But after the Song Dynasty, the boundaries between officials and officials were strictly distinguished. Generally speaking, as a small official of the county government, there is no chance to become a full member and enter the cadre sequence. Once you become an official, you will be an official for almost your whole life unless you resign.

In the county government of Song Dynasty, except for a few local officials appointed by the imperial court, the rest were all officials appointed by local governors, and a large number of daily affairs in the county government were completed by them.

The types of officials are very complicated. In the county government, there are two departments, namely the escort department and the postal department. They are mainly engaged in collecting taxes, managing household registration and handling prison proceedings. Song Jiang's escort status in Water Margin is an official engaged in prison litigation in the county government.

At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, the courtiers in the county government were generally sent from the "upper households".

The so-called "shanghu", in layman's terms, is also a family with property, that is, a rich household. Song Jiang in Water Margin comes from a small landlord family.

Due to the higher requirements for the company, it is necessary to write well and be an accountant, so it is inevitable to be short of manpower. Later, the company added two kinds of services, recruitment and inheritance.

According to historical records, a county government is generally equipped with eight people. But the rankings of these eight people are not the same.

Feng Menglong recorded in epigram that the company ranked first and second. According to the description in the Water Margin, Song Jiang is the first escort, and he is the tallest escort.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a strict distinction between the clothes of ordinary people and officials. Yasi's dress is similar to that of a scholar, and he can wear long gowns and boots, which is obviously different from that of ordinary people (ordinary people wear short gowns and high heels).

Although Yasi's dress is different from that of ordinary people, Yasi's identity is "human" after all, not "official". Therefore, Yasi was looked down upon by scholars, and his political status was very low, and he was at the bottom of the bureaucratic system.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no salary or very little salary for the position of escort. However, they manage the people on behalf of the government, have been local officials for many years, are familiar with the people's feelings, and have certain real power in their hands, so it is also local real power figures who can do the work of the swearing-in company. So it is not difficult for us to understand why Song Jiang is also a prominent figure in the local area.

Since the company's salary is very small, why does Song Jiang always give this gold to that silver?

"Water Margin" mentioned that Song Jiang was born in a small landlord family, and his family assets should be relatively strong. In addition, although the company has a low position in the bureaucracy, it has many positions, such as collecting taxes and taking charge of prison proceedings. They are very powerful and rich in oil and water. As you can imagine, sung river will not remain uncorrupted.

Although the company's position is very lucrative, due to his identity, Song Jiang will never be able to enter the official career and get ahead. This makes Song Jiang, who has received traditional Confucian education since childhood and thinks highly of himself, feel bitter.

Song Jiang later wrote an anti-poem in Xunyanglou, saying, "Just like a tiger lying on a barren hill, its latent minions endure ... if they go to Ling, they dare to laugh at Huang Chao without a husband." It is not difficult to see that Song Jiang has endured for a long time and does not want to be trapped in the resentment of petty officials.

Song Jiang privately released his classic works, and was blackmailed by Yan Poxi, who later angered and killed Yan Poxi to rebel. When he became the boss of Liangshan, Song Jiang finally accepted the favor of the imperial court. It is not difficult to see that in Song Jiang's mind, seeking fame and serving the court is always orthodox.

A small escort, how important is the position and how good is the salary? Why can Song Jiang be generous as a "Song Escort"?

The nature of the company is the motive of Song Jiang's rebellion. According to the Records of Officials in the History of Song Dynasty, there are eight county officials. That is to say, the secretary position in the county government office belongs to officials rather than officials, and the general establishment is eight, but it is also divided into three or six. For example, in the Water Margin, Song Jiang was called the first escort in Yuncheng County, and the people respected him as "Song Escort", while his fellow escort was called "Xiao Zhang San", which was obviously far from him.

So, what is the explanation of "Yasi"?

Escort, in addition to the meaning of painting, mainly refers to "pledge", such as pledge, pledge, pledge and so on.

Division refers to supervisors and operators, such as judicial officers and drivers.

Custodian, mainly refers to the clerk and assistant in charge of the prison. After sorting out the relevant prison files, report them to the county magistrate for review.

Song Jiang's position can not only benefit from "eating the plaintiff and eating the defendant", but also benefit from giving the injurer a heavier punishment, a lighter punishment and no punishment.

At the same time, the official system of the Song Dynasty also stipulated that you can't be an official if you have a record of being an official. Therefore, Song Jiang, who is ambitious, wants to enter the officialdom. He is blocked in the right direction and can only avoid the road and go astray.

According to the data, the monthly salary of magistrate of a county in Song Dynasty was 20 Liang. It is estimated that the monthly salary of Song Jiang, the first charge company, may be around 10 Liang, which was relatively rich at that time. Otherwise, it is conditional to be generous in aiding needy people, what's more, Yan Poxi (Yan Xijiao), the number one prostitute in Tianxianglou, is often found.

So, why does a small company have so much power?

In ancient times, officials were basically not allowed to work in their hometown because of the consideration of honest and clean government. Therefore, the example of "studying hard at a cold window for ten years, becoming a top scholar at one time" is mostly assigned to other places to be officials.

After the new county magistrate arrived in a new place, his eyes were almost black. If he wants to carry out the work of "clearing fields, collecting taxes, all kinds of corvees, disputes and lawsuits, and arresting bandits", he will naturally choose local prestigious officials to assist in the relevant work. On the surface, it is a choice, but in fact it is a dependence.

Therefore, Song Jiang, as a "local strongman", is particularly good at being a man. How can the county magistrate not give him some face? Naturally, there are many people looking for him to do things, and he is worried that he will not get any benefits.

Because of this, Lei Heng, the captain of the security team in Water Margin, is also extremely respectful to him, and most of the Jianghu people he makes are "gangsters" with criminal records.

The level of the company is the source of Song Jiang's becoming an outlaw. The highest military and political chief of a county is the county magistrate, called the county magistrate or magistrate, just like the county party secretary and county magistrate in later generations. Xian Cheng, the first deputy of the county magistrate, is equivalent to the deputy secretary of the county party committee and deputy county magistrate; The second deputy county commandant, equivalent to the minister of the armed forces and the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, is in charge of criminal and judicial affairs such as catching thieves and public security.

So at that time, Song Jiang's direct boss was probably the county commandant, and he was probably the assistant or secretary of the county commandant.

The grass-roots government organization in the Song Dynasty was the county government, while the grass-roots government organization in later generations was the township (town, street office) government. Therefore, it can be said that Song Jiang's company position is equivalent to the clerk of the DangZhengBan of the township (town) government, and he is mainly directly led by the secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the township (town, street office).

Obviously, Song Jiang's position as a guard is the most basic public office of a country, which is indeed much higher than that of the people, but far from being an official. Therefore, it is understandable that the ambitious Song Jiang wants to use the influence of Liangshan in Shui Bo as a springboard to achieve his life goal of being an official by wooing him.

Anyone who has seen the Water Margin knows that Song Jiang was a court official before going to Liangshan. Although the official position is not big, but at that time in Yuncheng county as a guard, honest and helpful. Therefore, he is well-known in Yuncheng County. When he mentioned Song, everyone was in awe. But today, if you ask an official what he does, it is estimated that not many people are clear.

Yasi was a small official who handled documents in the local government in Song Dynasty. According to the Official History of Song Dynasty, both the government and the county level in Song Dynasty held the post of "Yasi". Generally speaking, there are usually several companies in the government, up to eight; There is generally one county-level government, and there are also two or three. The number of people in this office depends on the size and population of the prefecture.

In the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, Yasi was a small official with no rank and hard work, with heavy tasks and great responsibilities. Their work is mainly to manage official documents, accept letters from superiors, draft manuscripts for heads, report and issue official documents. Anyone who forwards the information conveyed by superiors or publishes the statement of the county or government where he is located shall follow the instructions of the director and publish it in time.

In ancient times, the productivity was very low, so all the official documents issued by superiors should be copied one by one, and no mistakes could be made. Therefore, whether the company copied it itself or instructed its subordinates to copy it, even if it was wrong, it would be severely punished. If the content is different, you will be punished, ranging from losing your official position to imprisonment. Therefore, as an escort, you must have the conditions of "skilled knife and pen, skilled official career". "This Song Jiang has done funeral in Yuncheng County, and he is proficient in all kinds of swords, guns and brushes, and in all kinds of ways of being an official ..." From the description of Song Jiang's appearance in Chapter 18 of Water Margin, we can also see the requirements for the profession of "undertaker".

In the Song Dynasty, Yasi was a small official in the county government who handled general copywriting, similar to the masters of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was not among the nine categories.

In ancient times, the government organization was small, and the county government generally had officials: magistrate, county magistrate, chief secretary and county commandant. Later, Jiao Yulu was added, with about 40 officials. The bureaucracy in Song Dynasty was huge, with about 60 county officials. Collectors are divided into six grids, and there are also small collectors under the grid. Among them, there are eight wardens who are responsible for receiving, delivering, copying, registering and sorting letters, just like secretaries and office clerks today.

The real "Sung River Uprising" in history is far from the scale of "Fang La Uprising". Sung River, a company in Yuncheng County, gathered 36 people in Liangshan, Shui Bo, and raised the flag to "rob the rich and help the poor". The local authorities cut it off before it became a climate. The incident was originally small, with almost no trace in the official history, but later it was seasoned with salt and vinegar. The longer it was chewed, the more wonderful it spread and the larger it became. It became a textbook that 108 will lead hundreds of thousands of troops to "do justice for heaven".

The story of Yasi in Song Dynasty, through the continuous extension of storytellers, the continuous supplement of historical figures and the continuous enrichment of story books, has made Shi Naian's classic novel "Water Margin".

Ya, refers to the yamen, department, branch, that is, the county party committee secretary, county government and so on! My ancestor Qi Xinzhai became the official secretary of Laiwu County in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty!

China is a country with rich cultural heritage. In the history of 5,000 years, many famous scholars have appeared, and their works are widely circulated in later generations, among which four classic novels are the representatives.

Today I'm going to tell the story of Song Jiang, a classic character in Water Margin, one of the four classical novels. Then Song Jiang is the escort in the text, and the escort may be an ancient official position that everyone is very strange to.

Let me explain in detail what the company's positioning is.

When Shi Naian described Song Jiang in Water Margin, he took Song Jiang, a Shandong native living in the Northern Song Dynasty, as the prototype, but this Song Jiang was not as written in Water Margin.

At that time, he only led a small-scale peasant uprising, which did not have a great influence on the government at that time as written in the novel.

In fact, the reason why Song Jiang rallied the peasant uprising was also related to his own official position. As a guard, his official position ranks below the county magistrate.

The county magistrate is still a seven-product official position, followed by Xiancheng county commandant, and Song Jiang is only the officer of the county commandant. At that time, it was difficult to be promoted step by step. Even if peace was restored, as a junior official at the grass-roots level, he basically had no hope of becoming a bigger official.

Such a situation is absolutely not allowed for the ambitious Song Jiang, so he pinned his hopes on his Liangshan stronghold, hoping that the uprising would succeed and get ahead.

In the novel, Song Jiang is a man who attaches great importance to brotherhood. Of course, he will support his brothers when they have difficulties, and he will also give financial help to some poor families.

But how did he get so much money to help the people as a small company at that time?

In fact, Yasi's official position was a very important official in the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, in order to better record the cases handled by the yamen, an official post named Yasi was specially derived from the Song Dynasty.

The job of this official position is to write documents and record the yamen. A yamen can have up to eight such officials.

So many companies, what is the reason why Song Jiang is better than them?

Let's look at such a phenomenon again. In ancient times, officials were generally not allowed to hold local posts, but were sent to work in unfamiliar foreign countries after the senior high school entrance examination.

When Song Jiang was already the person who knew the local situation best, he naturally became the object of promotion by the county magistrate who had just been transferred. Not only that, through the description of Song Jiang in Water Margin, Song Jiang's character is also appreciated by local people.

On the one hand, I won the strong support of the county magistrate, on the other hand, as a red man around the county magistrate, I also have a lot of work to benefit from. These two conditions are enough to make Song Jiang live smoothly in the local area.

At that time, Song Jiang's monthly salary was about twelve taels of silver, which was a relatively high salary in the Song Dynasty at that time. Coupled with the benefits given to him by local people who want to find him, Song Jiang lived a rich life.

So, at that time, Yasi was not even a do sesame official, but he was much higher than ordinary people. Now, Yasi is only a grassroots village cadre.

However, Song Jiang made a small company official by virtue of his own personal ability, which is really admirable.

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Let's take a look at the grass-roots settings in the Song Dynasty: all counties in the Song Dynasty have county orders and county guards as the length of a county. There are also master books in big counties. In the third year of Kaibao (AD 970), Changbian (1 1) stipulated that county officials should customize: "If there are more than 1,000 households in the county, there are still orders, commanders and master books, and there are 3 employees; If the number of households is less than 1000 households, it is the order, the captain 1 member, and the county order is also the main book; If it is less than 400, stop buying the master book and the county magistrate, and take the master book as the county magistrate; If it is less than 200, it will be the main book and the county magistrate. " After Emperor Ning, more than 20,000 counties were ordered to add a county magistrate, second only to the county magistrate, and above the main book and county commandant. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the county was abolished. Song county magistrate called magistrate of a county. However, it is often seen that the magistrate of a county is often called in historical records, which is the characteristic of the local official system in Song Dynasty. It seems that in the Song Dynasty, the undertaker was not an official, but an official. Mainly responsible for secretarial work, equivalent to the current office secretary. Song Guan signed the official title, handled the case and so on. Officials of the Ministry of Pastoral Affairs and Lin 'an Prefecture recorded in the Official History of Song Dynasty are officials, but in fact they are officials. For example, Song Jiang is often mentioned in Water Margin, and the locals call him Song Yasi, because Song Jiang works as a clerk in Yuncheng County.

Officials in Song Dynasty mainly handled tax collection or prison litigation. Escort agency should be a small official in charge of document arrangement or secretarial work, but the level is hard to say, because the state government also has the position of escort agency, and so does the Song and Ming punishments. Generally, a county has eight districts. For example, in Water Margin, Song Jiang was the undertaker of Yuncheng County before going to Liangshan.

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Civil servants in the Song Dynasty were divided into officials and officials.

Officials are full-time and hierarchical. For example, there are seven items of magistrate, eight items of county official and nine items of main book. Because these people were appointed by the court, they were also called "court officials".

Officials are part-time and have no rank. The reason why the imperial court wants to add officials below officials is because the establishment of officials is limited. For example, in a county, there are only a few successful officials, and it is impossible to manage a county by these people, so there are more officials.

Song Jiang is an official in Yuncheng County.

As for what the company was responsible for at that time, it was very simple, that is, it was generally responsible for filing or secretarial work for the chief executive in the state or county government. Generally speaking, it is equivalent to the official secretary who has not been prepared at present.

Seeing this, some people may worry that Song Jiang is just a small official who is looked down upon by the literati class. Where did he get the money to help others? There are so many people who worship him?

Here's the thing. Although Yasi didn't become an official, he didn't even fart in officialdom. But at that time, all the officials were cold window for ten years, and lived a gentry life dedicated to mountains and rivers, laughing and having a university, without the life of Ding Bai. They don't touch the people at ordinary times, and all kinds of ordinary affairs in the yamen are handed over to their officials. Anyway, the following people should be filial, and the following people dare not be unfilial. Officials leave at the end of their term of office, and they are too lazy to care about trivial matters.

Officials, on the other hand, are rooted from generation to generation, and are usually responsible for clearing fields, collecting taxes, corvee and disputes, all of which are places where they make a big fuss and make a fortune. Officials can add or subtract a sum from the document at will, which will ruin the lives of ordinary people. Such a "terrifying", where there are no famous people to offend? Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, officials are grandfathers, and they must be respectful and pay all kinds of money to buy filial piety.

Although Song Jiang was not so overbearing in Water Margin, he casually wrote down that the felony became lighter and the misdemeanor became nothing. He usually greets heroes who are put in prison, and there is still some power to send wine and meat. Moreover, he has never been stingy with his power to curry favor with Jianghu heroes.

This is like a person, whether you know him or not, just add him to WeChat and he will send you a red envelope as soon as he passes. Whether the relationship is familiar or not, as long as you ask him for money, he will borrow it directly. And it happens that he is still working in the office. No matter what you ask him to do, he will do it for you. He has no airs at all. Afterwards, he not only refused to accept your red envelope, but also gave you a big red envelope, saying, brother, take this money to work first, and then come to your brother when you are short of money. When you leave, he will personally escort you to the station. He won't leave when you get in the car. You must stand outside the car and wave goodbye until the car is out of sight. (This is the routine that Song Jiang used to convince Song Wu to take orally. )

Do you think that a person who is affectionate, righteous, rich and powerful and protected by his official status can be in a low position in the Jianghu?

So, don't look down on small officials, and don't look down on Song Jiang. In the official-based society in ancient China, people with status are far easier to talk than those with money and no status. Moreover, Song Jiang's EQ is far from being comparable.

For example, Classical, nicknamed Tianwang Classical, sounds very domineering, right? But in fact, he is just a warden, a village man, and has no social status. Lei Heng, head of the infantry in Yuncheng County (a junior military attache), was polite when he met Song Jiang, but he honestly acted as an ATM in front of Classical. Patrol at ordinary times, and take his hand down to the classical house to eat and drink if he has nothing to do. Classical had to wait on him honestly and didn't dare to complain.

For example, Master Chai is generous, and he usually brings heroes from Jianghu into the village, but his emotional intelligence is not good. Song Wu ate and drank in Chai Jin Palace for a year without any gratitude. Because in Song Wu's view, this is Chai Jin giving him alms, which makes the arrogant people very unhappy. Although Song Jiang only gave him a little money, he personally sent Song Wu away and sent him six or seven miles. He has been caring and attentive, which made Song Wu deeply touched. This is the real big brother. I recognized Song Jiang as my eldest brother on the spot.

A classical, a Chai Jin, a compared with sung river, sent the yamen background, another emotional intelligence, don't know how to analyze the weakness of human nature. That's why Song Jiang can finally hold Liangshan boss, but he can't.

Generally speaking. Song Jiang served as a guard, and his usual job was to help the magistrate of a county, similar to the current secretary. In high society, this is just a dirty role. But behind Song Jiang, after all, is the county magistrate. He is the person who deals with the people on behalf of the government. He is the official who has the most contact with the people at ordinary times. Therefore, Yasi still has great influence in ancient grass-roots society.

Yasi is not an official, but such a role, whether in ancient times or later, is a powerful role.

First of all, there were few real officials in a county in the Song Dynasty, and there were only three people in the largest county. One is the county magistrate, whose official name is the county magistrate, but in fact, it is often to send lower-ranking Beijing officials to local areas to manage county affairs, which is called: county magistrate affairs. So it gradually became a magistrate of a county.

Below the magistrate, an official is the main book, that is, the county secretary-general, who is in charge of documents and finance, and actually has great power. Another official is the county commandant, that is, the county armed minister, who is in charge of both the army and the police. But because of the long history of peace, you can't count on a county captain in real war, so your power is actually smaller than that of the main book.

In the Song Dynasty, except for these three people, the others in the county were not officials in the legal sense, but temporary workers. At that time, the temporary workers in the county government were also very arrogant.

Temporary workers in the county are also divided into leaders and bottom-level personnel. For example, the security captain is the leader in charge of public security, and a specific security guard is the bottom personnel. But even the lowest security guards are from the county. They have guys in their hands, and it's not certain how much they can take. But in the face of the people in the county, on behalf of the government, he said that he could catch it and let it go. The people in the Song Dynasty dare not provoke them, they are afraid!

In the novels set in the Song Dynasty, such as the Water Margin, the so-called sheriff, has been mentioned many times. Song Wu and Lei Heng did this. Do you think you are taking the imperial examination route? Don't! Yanggu county made Song Wu look good, even a tiger could be killed, and he became the head of the infantry without saying anything. Why is it so convenient? Because the head of the infantry is the county sheriff, in the final analysis, he is also a temporary worker-if Song Wu took part in the martial arts of the imperial examination and passed the examination, he would have the opportunity to be appointed as the county magistrate (minister of armed forces).

And worse than the director (security), it is the county's civilian temporary workers, the so-called company, which is the role of Song Jiang. For example, in Yuncheng County, according to the law, up to 8 contractors can be employed. In fact, there are two books about the Water Margin, one is Song Jiang and the other is Zhang Wenyuan.

What does the company do? Actually, it's a clerical staff. Everyone laughed at the sight of the document, saying that everything can be done with small documents in the county. In fact, it is very powerful, because the county magistrate rarely deals directly with the people. So these documents are actually people who deal with people on behalf of the government. The decrees of the Great Song Empire were interpreted by them; The specific policies of the county are more explained by them.

In other words, facing the people, they are representatives of the government.

So you see that Sung River is just a small company. Why does everyone in the county give him face and no one dares to provoke him? Because he is the person who talks directly with the county magistrate.

Of course, the same company, Song Jiang and his position are different. Song seems to be more qualified, so the magistrate of a county relies more on him and has much more power. The same is true of prestige among the people. Whether it's Jiabao Classical at the grass-roots level or a vendor selling potions like princes, they all value Sung River, but they won't go to Zhang Wenyuan, who is also a pawn company. That's the reason.