"I'm exhausted." A Tang official from the human resources department grabbed the tea cup on his desk as soon as he entered the room, drank all the overnight tea in it and sighed, "The soles of my shoes are almost leaking!"
"What's wrong?" His colleague looked up from the pile of forms and documents and asked with a knowing smile.
Although he has not been sent out, there is still a scary amount of work in the office. He has worked overtime at the unit for two consecutive days and has not gone home. Every day he is in a daze. Even when he eats, his mind is full of names and photos.
The personnel department has recently been selecting more than 2,000 people every day, appointing more than 700 officials, and supervising the identification, resume, files, etc. of these personnel to be sent to the appropriate places.
As you can imagine, this workload is huge. Officials in every human resources department have been so busy lately that just interviewing these junior officials who are preparing to take up posts in new places is enough to make them collapse.
When Tang Mo appointed regional governors, he found that more than half of them had never met him, and the officials below were even more unknown.
Some of these people don't even have management experience, and some are just the heads of small workshops in a factory... But now they have all been recommended to serve as village chiefs or county chiefs somewhere.
There is really no way. After all, the territory conquered by the Tang Empire is too vast. The new land of the Tang Empire is almost twice the area of the original territory of the Tang State. The number of people needed to fill these places is... Astronomical figures.
For the sake of efficiency, many officials from Qin and Chu were selected and re-appointed, letting them work as temporary workers to do their original jobs, and then wait for new officials to arrive to take over.
If they do a good job, even the officials who replace him will be transferred immediately. This is also an inspection of the old officials in these newly occupied areas. If they are indeed capable, they have not brought bad habits to the Tang Empire. , then they can still wear the official skin.
"I went to interview a group of Qin officials. All those guys were very slippery and their words were impeccable. I really couldn't do anything." This Tang official was still young and looked to be less than thirty years old.
It was because of the rapid development of the Tang Dynasty that he reached his current position at this age. He is an official who relies on his ability and does not have much experience in interpersonal relationships in the old officialdom. This is also a common flaw of officials in the Tang Dynasty: their professional level is higher because the majors they studied in school are the same; but in other aspects they are too young and are no match for the old bureaucrats.
To put it bluntly, they are not good at being in the officialdom, but they are very good at work.
Therefore, it is indeed a bit overwhelming to ask this young official who is only thirty years old to interview a large group of senior officials of the Qin State: How can he be a match for those senior officials of the Qin State who have been officials for decades? Everyone has seen through it.
Even at the end of the interview, he became the one who answered the questions... The other party just said a few simple words, and this Tang official took himself into the role of a working official.
"Didn't our boss personally take action in this matter?" the official who handled the forms and documents asked with a puzzled look on his face. Didn't their boss go out early in the morning? Wasn't he going to the interview venue?
"Our lord director went to the Prime Minister's Mansion. He said he was going to personally invite the former Qin Prime Minister named Ying Ke." The personnel department official who was drinking water replied.
"So that's it. Then you don't have to worry. Can't we just let Ying Ke choose the officials he wants?" His colleague put down the pen in his hand, stretched out and let out a comfortable groan. Voice: "Ah...my shoulder..."
Not only were there not enough workers, there were actually not enough officials in the Tang Empire. The large number of official vacancies made personnel arrangements difficult. For a time, many people from the Tang Empire were sent to the newly occupied areas to hold important official positions.
This kind of promotion is unhealthy, prone to mismatch of abilities to official positions, and prone to corruption. But even though they knew this, the Tang Empire had no choice but to continue to send officials to these places.
In order to reduce the pressure caused by too many local officials in the Tang State being redeployed, the Tang Empire employed many officials from the Qin State, and the most important one among them was Ying Ke, the former prime minister of the Qin State.
"That's easy to say. When he messes up, won't I also take the blame? This year's performance review, I'm afraid, is over." The official walked to the thermos bottle, grabbed the water bottle, unscrewed the cork, and gave himself He added another cup of hot water to his tea cup and complained without looking back.
His cup of tea was poured yesterday and was just drank today. There is still a base left in it, and the newly poured hot water has also turned light yellow.
The overnight tea leaves were rolling up and down in the glass, as if it were a small world. The official returned to his seat with the cup in hand and sighed again: "Oh... that's right. Ying Ke is the old prime minister of Qin after all. If he can't be chosen, it will be useless no matter how I choose him."
"That's right! So you should quickly sort out the list of officials with innocent identities now. If Ying Ke takes office then, he will probably ask you for it. Don't worry if you can't get it by then, leave it for the new Mayor of Wuyang What a bad impression." After the colleague finished speaking, he once again immersed himself in the mountains of documents.
The only sound left in the office was the rustle of the pen tip rubbing against the paper. After the stunned personnel officer realized what he was doing, he immediately went to look for the documents piled on his desk.
The cup of tea finally cooled down, and the tea leaves inside gradually stopped rolling. It wasn't until nightfall that someone dragged his tired body back and turned on the incandescent light in the office. Only then did the two busy people realize that they had to work overtime again.
At the dinner table, Ying Ke thought about the words of the Tang official who had just come to him. The Tang Empire was willing to pardon his crimes, but the condition was that he must become the mayor of Wuyang, who was so useless.
In his opinion, being a "city lord" is really not a good thing, but in fact he has no way to refuse any conditions offered by the Tang State: the other party not only sent the former Qin Emperor Yingduo's warrant, but also brought a large number of people. Appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire.
If they all refused...he estimated that his whole family might evaporate from the world. Therefore, he sighed and said to his family members in a formal manner: "Eat!"
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