Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who took over, asked people to set up the tent first. In the future, they need to live in the tent. All the houses in the mansion have to be demolished and rebuilt. They can’t live there now. Who knows if anyone will get sick and get infected. Above, the two did not report much hope for this place.
The house cannot be demolished yet, and there is no time to repair it. A hundred guards are left, and the others have to go back and continue moving things.
Zhang Xiaobao put on loose clothes and took out the roster in the mansion to see. There was only a knife and penman next to him. There was a master book on the roster, which recorded six bureaucrats, and a knife and penman who was in charge of messy things. That's it. People, want more, no more.
After looking at the roster twice, Zhang Xiaobao suddenly asked the knife and penman next to him: "Is this a roster that has not been written for a long time?"
The knife and penman was taken aback when he heard it, and he kept silent for a long time before saying it. Zhang Xiaobao said again: "It's okay, I know if there were more in the past, but I don't want to do it anymore. I just took advantage of this opportunity to make the relationship and separation. If Mr. Li is okay, I made a new roster? No matter, I find someone to come over by myself, that is, the position of the master book can't be arranged by others casually, otherwise it is probably gone."
The knife and penman nodded, and at the same time he had a new perspective on the older child in front of him. At least it shows that he is not stupid. Otherwise, how could he guess it
"What about you, don't you have a bad relationship with the original Master Li?" Zhang Xiaobao asked again.
"This... My lord, the young one is responsible for the purchase of the mansion, so I can't miss it, I can only stay." The knife and pen man replied after thinking about it.
When he said that, Zhang Xiaobao understood that this person was not in a bad relationship with the original, but was better. He was in charge of purchasing. This was a good position, no wonder he didn't leave.
Since I have come, it is impossible to use others to buy it.
"In this way, the official has other arrangements for the purchase. You will now change your position and be responsible for receiving and hosting the local people. No matter what the people have, you must treat them properly. So what is your monthly salary?"
Zhang Xiaobao changed the position of the knife and penman, and then asked about his wages.
The knife and penman's face changed. He looked at the two Zhang Xiaobao's guards standing in the hall. He didn't dare to show it. He could only respond: "Yes, what the adults let the younger do, the younger do what they do. When I heard about it once, I don’t know what to do. There are two stones of brown rice in a month, and six feet of cloth. You can also get more than 30 catties of meat, which is fish."
"Who else is in the family?" Zhang Xiaobao nodded and asked again.
"Both parents are there, there is a daughter-in-law and two children." The knife and penman answered when he had any questions.
"In this way, your salary and brown rice will be cancelled every month from now on, and the cloth will no longer be used, fish meat..."
"My lord, what do you eat in that little house?" The sharpener stopped doing it as soon as he heard it, and protested before Zhang Xiaobao said it. Didn't he want to force people to death alive.
Zhang Xiaobao was interrupted and looked very upset. "What you eat is your business. I will take care of what you eat. You will pay 50 cents a month for the next month. If you want to eat, buy it yourself. Try it out for two months. If it is good, then it will increase. If it can satisfy the official for three consecutive months, it will be a salary of 100 yuan."
This time the knife and penman stopped protesting, his eyes were kept open, staring at Zhang Xiaobao’s face, and he quietly pinched his leg with his hand, turned around, felt very painful, and then knew it was not. dream.
"Also, the fish meat just mentioned is not given anymore. Replace with pork or chicken. Add a pound of vegetable oil. You also need to change the patched clothes. From now on, the clothes of the people in the yamen will be taken care of by the yamen. There are two sets every season, including shoes, all year round. Any comments?"
Zhang Xiaobao also said the benefits to be given, so as to win people, he naturally had to use the ones that would be able to win them.
The knife and penman shook his head vigorously, and said gratefully: "No, no opinion, sir, the young one must receive the people well, the sir, the young one will tell you that the last Li, Mr. Li, will be from the warehouse after the Chinese New Year. He took sixty pennies and wiped out the account again."
The knife and penman started betraying people immediately, which made Zhang Xiaobao very helpless. You said that you sold your appointment at this time. Wouldn't it mean that if someone else treats you better, you sold me
"It's only sixty pennies, so what kind of a fuss is it? So, since you are familiar with this place, the official will let you do one thing first. The official will rebuild the mansion here. You can help buy stone and wood. The officer will give you a thousand sticks and tell you what to buy at that time. What do you think?"
Zhang Xiaobao was going to test the knife and penman to see if he wanted to be greedy. If he really moved his mind, not only would he not get the benefits of a penny, he would not be needed in the future.
"One, a thousand sticks? Adults want to buy a thousand sticks of stones and wood? Okay, great, no, sir, the small one means that wood and stones are not valuable, and you don’t need a thousand sticks. Find someone to go to the mountain. Go up and pick it up, and just pay a little bit of money."
The knife and penman was indeed tempted. The first thing he thought about was how much he could keep from it when he heard a thousand guns. As soon as this idea appeared, he was extinguished by himself.
He is not stupid. He has just raised his salary and is not yet familiar with it. The Cishi gave a thousand guanxi in the blink of an eye. It would be strange if it was not a temptation. He suppressed a thousand guanxi heart and endured the feeling of dry mouth. It is difficult to say how to obtain stone and wood cheaply.
Zhang Xiaobao feels that this person is not lacking in mind, so that's good, and said: "The officer will let you take care of this matter. I will give you a hundred pats first, and then take care of what the official wants. Remember, the wages are not allowed to be less. Whether it’s wood cutting or stone quarrying, as long as you work hard, you must pay five cents a day, and three meals a day are also in charge. Those who work can find your neighbors and relatives in your house, um, that’s it."
The knife and penman suddenly felt that this new governor was different from the previous officials. He didn’t talk about it when he was young. He seemed to be very rich. Look at the things you moved in when you moved, and then look at the clothes people wear. I have never seen good fabrics, and I know that they are definitely not cheap.
"Why was so rich and distributed to Jili State? You can find a good place with just a little money."
When the knife and penman was thinking about it, he suddenly said something.
Zhang Xiaobao smiled and said: "This year the official is only twelve years old, and he has become a fourth-rank. Where can I find a good place for the official? You can only go to the worst place, otherwise how to seal the crowd. Mouth? What's more important is that today's sage always wants to make trouble for the official. The official invites him to dinner and wants to go to Dengzhou. However, after eating, he kicks the official to Jilizhou, which is very miserable. "
"Ah? My lord, can you invite the emperor to dinner? I'm only twelve years old. It doesn't look like it. I'm fifteen or sixteen years old." Nonchalant tone.
What does this show? This can only show that the newcomer Zhang Cishi is very familiar with the emperor, familiar enough to dare to complain with others, and he is not afraid that the emperor will hear the condemnation.
"Well, it’s so big, otherwise the official will not do it. As for the emperor, forget it, don’t mention him, take advantage of the official, and get the official here. The official decided to find it here this year. Good seafood doesn't send him the fine products, but the second-class ones."
Zhang Xiaobao said this deliberately, because he wanted to "seduce" the knife and penman with profit.
The knife and penman was really on the road, and as soon as he was seduce, he walked down and said: "My lord, there is no need to send something to the court? No one did it before."
"Others don't send it, but the official doesn't do it. The official doesn't send things to the court, but directly to the emperor, and the official's adoptive father, General Gao."
Zhang Xiaobao continued to use his identity to make the knife and penman to surrender.
"Which General Gao? But Lord Gao Lishi?" The sharpener asked with his eyes rounded.
"Exactly, can you not give it? Otherwise, they should write to ask why they don't get some seafood to eat when there is a sea here? Do you think it makes people embarrassed?"
"Yes, yes, it's really embarrassing, it's so embarrassing, the little one actually wants to be embarrassed once, the adult, the little one, go find someone."
The knife and penman really didn't know what to say. He finally knew how a twelve-year-old man became a fourth-rank official. He also figured out why he became rich, so he was ready to make arrangements when he said hello.
Zhang Xiaobao yelled again at the back, "People who cook must also pay wages. Three articles a day. Remember to find a good cook. If it can't be your relatives, you can find an old lady who can't move."
Waiting for the knife and the penman to promise to run without seeing the shadow, Zhang Xiaobao breathed a sigh of relief and muttered to himself: "I hope that his relatives can have more relatives and reveal the identity of the official. The more people know, the better."
Wang Juan walked out of the room next to him and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "I will show my identity now, so I am not afraid that the people here will move their minds to deal with us in advance?"
"They still don't dare to be so fast. If we want to move, we have to wait for us to let them see that they can make a lot of money. Otherwise, what can we do? No benefit. Since we have revealed our identity, we will act more high-profile in the future. It makes people look like that."
Zhang Xiaobao had a plan, and he was going to make some publicity here, otherwise it would be okay for anyone to mention his godfather and bring Li Longji with him.
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After half a month, all the things on the ship were finally shipped back, and all the houses here were also demolished. A jar of wine was found under a house here, and there was no tool to estimate that the wine was buried. How long will it take? Anyway, only one-fifth of a jar is left. It is estimated that it is a long time ago.
Zhang Xiaobao knows that this kind of wine may not taste good at the beginning, but now after so many years of fermentation, there are more fungi in it, which is suitable for wine making, so I just set aside a piece in this place and build a small wine shop, ready to promote it later. , Come up with a legendary story, sell it for a big price.
The knife and penman's efficiency was not bad. He ran out that day and quickly pulled up a team of more than one hundred people in the city, went to the surrounding mountains to chop down trees as required, and parted out some to plan the stones.
In fact, Zhang Xiaobao originally wanted to build cement. Later, he thought that this was the seaside, and that the cement building would easily absorb moisture, so he replaced it with stone and wood.
The knife and penman’s surname is Xue. If you count it, you can get along with the big family. It’s just a small branch that can’t be smaller. In addition, there is no development. The owner of the family does not recognize him. He is even more so. I'm sorry to find it.
There are not too few relatives here. There are more than fifty people in total. Those who are able to do work are arranged to live by him. There is so much money a day, and it is not profitable.
In half a month, the master book also showed up several times, and each time he showed up was not long, and he showed up for leave. There is a mountainous land here in his home. The spring ploughing is here, and he is busy with that.
Did Zhang Xiaobao say anything? Even the two government officials were given leave. Anyway, they were not needed. His own guards temporarily acted as government officials. The position of the master book was replaced by someone, and even the other positions were filled. This The second time is not a temporary representative of the post of Pansi.
After Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan arranged the people in their homes, they wrote to Li Longji. They went through the normal channels and let Li Longji order the arranger. At the same time, they also changed the death deed and replaced them with officials. A free man, otherwise he cannot be an official.
Regarding this matter, Li Longji compromised, although he knew that if Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan changed their official positions in the future, he needed to bring all those who had official positions with them.
Seeing his mansion under construction, Zhang Xiaobao felt very satisfied, and said to Wang Juan: "Go, take Xiaobei and the others to see how Xue Daobi is doing."
A group of people walked towards a hillside outside the city under the protection of the guards.
On a hillside outside the city, there were about two hundred people who were cutting trees and planing stones. They were very dry. The man had already taken off his shirt. He was shirtless and working hard. From time to time, someone called the tree. It fell, and then there was a bang, and a tree fell on the hillside, letting people pick up its branches and lift it down.
At this time, the trees are relatively large, old enough, densely grown, and more ministers. They are usually carried by eight people. If eight people can't lift them, two will be removed, and six people will lift them. If six people can't do it, four Personally, if it doesn't work anymore, people can only be dragged away in front of them without lifting them up.
Xue Daobi didn’t know that Zhang Xiaobao had come here, and he was watching everyone working here. This time he was really not greedy for a penny, but he got a lot of benefits. At least the people he got to work after clearing their wages every day, Everyone would come to his house to say something nice, get a few days of money, and feel too much, so they buy something and send it to his house.
His prestige among relatives has also improved. In the past, among relatives, he was just an ordinary person, and he didn't count his words, because there were still older people, so how could he be a junior.
Now that he has something to do, he will discuss it with him. Who makes him different from before? He still cherishes such an opportunity.
"Father, daddy, Xiao Fan is hungry."
When Xue Daobi was instructing people to cook, two children from his family ran over. The eldest was a boy who was five years old this year, and the youngest was a girl who was two years old this year. He was just able to pop a few words out of his mouth. Come, I can't make it clear yet, it's far worse than Xiaobei and others.
Today I ate steamed buns at noon. There is only one type of filling, which is oily and sauerkraut filling. The oily is leftover after Zhang Xiaobao finished refining the oil. If there are more people, you need more oil. Naturally, there are more oils. , You can have a meal when you send it over.
The steamed buns cannot be eaten until they are steamed, but they are squeaky enough to eat. All the two children in Xue Daobi's family rushed to this place.
When Xue Daobi heard his son say that his daughter was hungry, he slapped his son’s forehead with a slap, "Xiao Fan knows about this? You say you want to eat. You don’t have to get involved with your sister, go and pick a few there. Yeah, I’m going to chew up Xiaofan. If you choke on Xiaofan to see I won’t kill you."
The boy slapped him and was about to cry. When he heard that he could eat, he immediately closed his grinning mouth, pulled his sister and ran over there, and stretched out Mai Tai's little hand on the freshly-lived filling. In the middle, the person who makes the buns doesn't care. Maybe they didn't wash their hands when they made the bag. Everyone is the same.
Xue Daobi felt very proud of seeing his son eating over there. Apart from anything else, at least he still had some power. For example, he had three meals a day, not two meals, let alone some people’s meals. Meals, and the food was okay, every day, people from Yamen Zhang Cishi sent something to eat that day.
Three meals a day, at least one meal with meat, and at least one meal with white noodles or rice. Otherwise, how can people work so hard and want to get more tired and then eat more, otherwise they can’t eat. .
Xue Daobi thought this way, and felt that his ideas were right.
At this time, Zhang Xiaobao and his party also came to the bottom of the hillside and saw the scene of work.
"Xiaobao, it seems that the locals are more obedient, and are not against us?" Wang Juan felt that the people's hearts here could also be used.
Zhang Xiaobao shook his head: "They are talents for wages. They are replaced by Baoxin County. Even if they don’t have wages, the people are willing to work for us. If they don’t believe it, tell them, Yamen let them work for 20 days. Look at them. Do it or not? There must be no one to care about us, which is far behind the people elsewhere."
"That's not bad. I'm afraid that they won't do it if they give them money. It's always going to happen bit by bit, Beckham, it's up to you, go and buy people's hearts."
When Wang Juan was talking, he suddenly saw a few children on the construction site. The older ones were also helping to transport the stones, and the smaller ones were running around, and from time to time they ran to the cooker to grab something with their hands. Sauerkraut can also be eaten raw.
This is exactly what Xiaobei's strengths are. If you change to others, you may still be pretending. Xiaobei treats others well from the heart.
No matter what her sister said, Xiaobei really ran over when she saw children playing there, followed by other little guys and protectors.
The appearance of the group of people finally attracted the attention of the workers, and they stopped what they were holding to look at them. Xue Daobi also found Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and he was very happy. He strode here and shouted. : "Master Zhang, Master Wang, why did you two come here in person? No wonder the official thinks it is a good day."
The running Beckham stopped, looked up at the cloudy sky, thought about it, and said: "It's probably raining soon. It's raining, it's a good day." Then he continued to run forward.
Zhang Xiaobao understood Xue Daobi's name. He usually talks small and small. Today I am not talking about being an official. This is to save face and give him, so he said along: "I just wandered around, just listen. People say that they did a good job here, and it turned out to be Xue Daobi, much better than others."
Xue Daobi felt that there was light on his face, and did not continue to walk. He ran to the front, saluted Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and said, "Master Zhang, Master Wang, don't dare to neglect the younger ones. This is a major event in the family of two adults. My son, I don’t know if the two adults have eaten.
"No food, no need to enter the city. There is no good place in the city. After the official builds a restaurant here, I will eat here. When I come, I will prepare it and bring a lot of pickles, and Eggs will be made into soup in a while."
Zhang Xiaobao was indeed going to come over for a meal, motioned for a moment, and someone behind him came over and showed Xue Daobi a basket of eggs.
"My lord, this can't be done. How can you two eat with them?" Xue Daobi remembered that his son was still grabbing things with his hands, fearing that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan would find the blame.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also knew what was going on. Didn’t they just get a little spoiled when they were doing it, and just steamed them, and they decided to eat here without any explanation, and to have fun with the people, and pretend to be pretend to be.
At this time, Xiaobei has opened here. I take things out of the bag and share with others to eat, tell stories to others when they eat, and gather a group of local children, especially Xiaobei's. It's still a story about eating. Listening while eating is really addictive.
During the small chat, Zhang Xiaobao was still looking around the construction site, and the workers also looked at the new janitor, but his expression was cold, there was no way of smiling with a high official.
Zhang Xiaobao doesn’t care either, knowing that his identity is not easy to be accepted by the locals. Adults have many thoughts, not as good as children. There is no child who is indifferent to her, there are delicious foods, and stories. This It is a kind of happiness.
After waiting for a while, it was finally time to eat. A bowl of egg soup was brought out, and a large steamed bun was delivered to everyone's hands. The workers did not wash their hands and rubbed their trousers. , Grab the buns and eat them.
Zhang Xiaobao thought for a while, and symbolically rubbed his hands on his trousers. In the same way, he held a bowl with one hand and grabbed the buns. He squatted beside others to eat. After taking two bites, he said to the person who ignored him:
"Hey... I just remembered that I also brought pickles over. Quickly, bring the pickles, put them... on my buns, this big brother, can I open the ground after all the trees on the mountain are cut?"
Perhaps the people around Zhang Xiaobao’s "heroic" appearance recognized a little bit, or perhaps they knew who provided the food. After all, this person did not ignore Zhang Xiaobao anymore, but waited for someone to put a cucumber pickle. Behind the top of the bun, he said to Zhang Xiaobao:
"It depends on what mountain it is. The stone-cutting mountain is planted like no one, that is, it can produce a seed. The distant mountain is not bad, but it takes a lot of hard work to chop wood and clear a piece of land. Time, not worth it."
"Oh... it turned out to be like this. Then I don't know how to burn the wood on that mountain and burn it into charcoal? I can buy it for a big price. I want as much as I want, and the rest of the land will be yours."
Zhang Xiaobao made a sudden look, and then talked about closing the charcoal.