Tashi Chieftain and Hongdong County Magistrate of Dawanshan Division stood up one after another, and said to the people who came, "Dai Tongzhi, long time no see!"
Same knowledge? That's the prefect's assistant officer, who is in charge of supervising food, catching pirates, coastal defense, river defense, water conservancy, etc. He is an official from the sixth rank, and this is the direction Ye Xiaotian has been striving for all the time! Ye Xiaotian looked at this "Ximen official" from the sixth rank, his eyes were full of eagerness.
His eagerness was not because he wanted to imitate Dai Tongzhi's brilliant achievements in courting a good family and chasing young women, but because Dai Tong's sixth-rank official position aroused Ye Xiaotian's infinite reverie.
In addition, Tongzhi is also called Zhoutong, and he is the right-hand man of the magistrate together with the state judge. His identity is a step closer than his experience. It seems that the family's relief money will fall on this Dai Zhoutong. For a while, Ye Xiaotian looked at Dai Zhoutong, as if he saw a pile of white money.
Among this group of strange officials, Ye Xiaotian, who is tall, tall, handsome, young and handsome, stands out like a stand out from the flock. Dai Zhou immediately noticed him and looked over with a smile, but saw Ye Xiaotian staring at him. looking at him, eyes gleaming greedily.
Dai Zhoutong tightened his chrysanthemum immediately, took a step back subconsciously, and thought to himself: who is this, why... why are you looking at me like this? Dai Zhoutong cleared his throat, bowed his hands to everyone, and said, "Thank you for waiting for a long time, my lords have already woken up, my lords come with me."
"Master Zhizhou wakes up?" Ye Xiaotian looked at the bright sunshine outside the hall and was speechless.
All the officials followed Dai Zhoutong out of the hall in a swarm, and Dai Zhoutong suddenly found that Ye Xiaotian was still sizing him up quietly, with a strange expression on his face, and couldn't help but turned to Ye Xiaotian and asked: "This lord has a very good face, but he doesn't know how to be respectful." Last name?"
Ye Xiaotian has been to the magistrate's yamen twice, but each time he was interviewed privately by Zhang Zhifu, and he has never met the subordinate officials in the mansion's yamen, so he does not know this Lord Dai. Now when he heard that he took the initiative to start a conversation, he immediately approached Go, laugh before saying anything: "Xiaguan Huxian County Chancellor Ye Xiaotian, Dai Zhoutong, long-awaited, long-awaited!"
Dai Zhoutong kept a safe distance away from him calmly, thinking to himself: "Dai and you are strangers, why are you so enthusiastic?" But he said calmly and perfunctorily: "Ah, so It's Ye Xiancheng, disrespect, disrespect."
Fatty Zhang is piled up in a grand master's chair like a meat mountain, wearing a plum red magpie Dengzhi Yanju brocade robe, the magpie is bulging from the fat on his belly. He was supposed to go to the front hall to listen to the officials' discussions, but he was too fat to move around, so he called them to the back house.
"Sit down, sit down."
Fatty Zhang was full of energy, and his abdomen moved like a drum when he spoke. Everyone greeted Zhang Zhifu one after another, and then sat down on the seats on both sides. Because they were dressed in disorder, they couldn't tell who was of higher rank, so they couldn't arrange seats according to their status, so they could only find seats nearby.
Ye Xiaotian didn't understand this habit, he was just a little taken aback, the first row of seats on the left and right had been preempted by someone, Ye Xiaotian suddenly realized, and rushed to the second row, when he rushed over, the second row of seats was also occupied When it was full, Ye Xiaotian had no choice but to rush to the third row, and managed to grab a seat next to the pillar, but it was the one closest to the entrance of the hall.
Ye Xiaotian sat down, heaved a sigh of relief, and looked at the other side of the pillar, wanting to see who else was as unlucky as him, and when he probed, he saw the unknown surname of Da Wanshansi, a native named Hong Dong Zhixian's elongated face was as ugly as a shoehorn, Ye Xiaotian quickly retracted his head again.
Zhang Zhifu coughed twice, and said: "The land in Guizhou is barren, and the tax of a province is not as good as that of a county in the south of the Yangtze River. The imperial court has the intention of benevolence to the people, and the emperor has a compassionate heart, and allocates funds for relief every year, and this year is no exception. Cough! This The sum of money has already arrived, so let’s discuss how to distribute it.”
As soon as Zhang Zhifu finished speaking, an old man in a Confucian shirt, a square scarf, and three long beards stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Prefect, our academy is a government school and has always relied on government funding. According to the old rule, a portion of the imperial government's donation should be allocated to the academy every three years. It is the following officials who urged the prefect to follow the old rule and allocate the full amount of funds for our school."
Ye Xiaotian saw that this person was Li Jiaoyu, he didn't seem to see him when he went to wait in the hall just now, and he didn't know when he appeared, but he even snatched a seat beside Zhang Zhifu. The "prefect" in Li Jiaoyu's mouth refers to Zhang Zhifu, a scholar who loves ancient times, so the prefect is called the prefect.
Before Zhang Zhifu could speak, that Zhaxi chieftain stood up and said in a rough voice: "It doesn't matter if the school is built or not, the first priority is to appease the people. Mr. Zhifu, I wear Kesi with flat head Surrounded by mountains, the terrain is closed, and the economy is struggling! Even I, the chieftain, can only eat fragrant pork for two days now, which shows the suffering of the people. Have mercy on my people who have flat-headed kes..."
Li Jiaoyu stared at Chieftain Zhaxi, and said with disdain: "The government school is set up by the imperial court. It is the place where disciples gather to teach and study knowledge. It is the place of the world to preach the scriptures, disseminate enlightenment, carry the cultural movement, and select talents and abilities. How come the first priority becomes so trivial when it comes to your mouth?"
Chieftain Zhaxi said: "The sage said: when the granary is full, you will learn etiquette. Now that the people can't even fill their stomachs, how can they talk about etiquette education?"
Li Jiao said: "To prosper a place, enlightenment comes first. Without enlightenment, the poor will only get poorer. The people are ignorant, what can they do?"
Immediately another person in official robes jumped up and said: "Li Jiaoyu's words are really high-sounding, your school has the name of building a school, but not the truth of spreading the way. It took five years to produce a scholar, and a lot of money was spent. Where did the flowers go?"
Li Jiaoyu blushed and argued forcefully: "Although my school only produced one scholar in five years, he passed the Juren examination and was selected as an official. Now he has made outstanding achievements in government and has been promoted from Dianshi to county magistrate." , Although the number of talents educated in Tongren Prefecture is limited, the quality is very high. Now it is because there are too few talented scholars in Tongren Prefecture that we should increase investment."
This is a dispute between "education is useless" and "education is omnipotent". Seeing that this is the point, Ye Xiaotian, as a student of Li Jiaoyu and the biggest beneficiary of education in Tongren Prefecture, can't help but show his support Teacher.
Ye Xiaotian coughed, stood up, and said earnestly: "My lords, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how hard you are, you can't be poor in students! I think what Li Jiaoyu said is very reasonable."
Ye Xiaotian said impassionedly: "As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow a tree, and a hundred years to grow a person. A country can be strong, and a place can be rich and powerful. Only with a lot of talents can it be possible. Li Jiaoyu is far-sighted and well-intentioned. It is really admirable and admirable. This official agrees. Li Jiaoyu's opinion!"
As Ye Xiaotian said, he thought to himself, "This time I came to Tongren, I wanted to ask Li Jiaoyu to speak for me, but why did I speak for him instead? This prefectural school allocates funds every three years as usual, and this year happens to be its turn again. Wouldn’t it be even more difficult for me to get more donations? I hope Li Jiaoyu will reciprocate, and remember to support me later.”
"Bullshit! It's all nonsense!"
His old enemy Hongdong County Magistrate of Dawanshansi stood up and retorted: "I, the chieftain of Guizhou, have been passed down for thousands of years. What do I rely on? It is fists and knives, not books. It’s useless, of course you’re trying your best to tout your nonsense knowledge! The people will rebel if they don’t have enough to eat, what should we do if there is trouble? Take your sage’s enlightenment out, can you tell them to go back obediently and go hungry?”
As soon as this remark came out, all the officials responded one after another, and some people brought private goods and hurriedly expressed a few words of support. Immediately, the conversation changed and began to complain to Zhifu Zhang, talking about the hardships under his rule.
Zhang Zhifu sat there like a Buddha, with a smile on his face, and he didn't care at all. Obviously, it was not the first time he had a similar experience, and this was not a means for him to control his subordinates
Dai Zhoutong saw that all the officials had started the poverty exposure competition again, and said: "My lords, you can't all point to the imperial court's relief. The imperial court's relief funds are limited, and it is difficult to save the poor. How do you divide it? We need to come up with a reasonable charter."
Zhang Zhifu caressed the green jade finger under his hand, and said with drooping eyelids: "You guys, you keep crying poor in front of the government, but you are thinking about the little money in the hands of the government. The money is to be distributed to you, but There must be a charter that can be recognized by all parties, I think you can't come up with an idea, then you might as well discuss the arrangement of the government, Chonghua, tell them."
Dai Tongzhi said respectfully, "Yes!"
Dai Tongzhi cleared his throat, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, and read aloud to everyone, "This year's government school will be allocated funds according to the old practice three years ago. Dawan Shansi was imprisoned by the tiger and a group of absconding tax collectors I walked away with a large amount of tax money, plus 10% as usual. Yimei Dongsi suffered a drought last year, so I added 10% as usual. Shiye Dongsi are all mountain people, with no food and clothing, so I added 10% as usual... "
Ye Xiaotian listened attentively, not only did Hu County not increase, but it was 30% lower than the old rule. Ye Xiaotian became anxious when he heard it, and he even helped Li Jiaoyu to fight for it. Prefect Zhang has already made a plan in his mind, presumably Li Jiaoyu just now That look, and even the few officials who jumped out to oppose him, must be helping each other and acting.
Otherwise, Chieftain Tashi had such close contacts with Li Jiaoyu's son-in-law, so it would be unreasonable for him to be the first to oppose Li Jiaoyu. Besides, Chieftain Tashi is a rough man, and he may not even know the words. If no one taught him to speak in advance, he would not be able to speak such polite words. He is the only one who is so stupid that he counts the money after being sold.
After Ye Xiaotian learned of Zhang Zhifu's position from Li Jiaoyu, he did not go to Zhang Zhifu's door in advance. Hu County and other counties under the native officials have completely different positions in Zhang Zhifu's eyes. The little love between them harms their own interests. If he went to see Zhang Zhifu in advance, he might be persuaded by Zhang Zhifu privately instead, and it would be difficult for him to refute Zhang Zhifu's favor of promotion.
As soon as Dai Zhoutong finished speaking, Ye Xiaotian jumped up and said: "This kind of allocation, the lower officials think it is not appropriate. Dai Zhoutong said just now that the imperial court has limited funds, and it does not help the poor! Yes, just for these redundant staff, the consumption is incalculable, right? It is reasonable to give up the salaries of redundant staff, to lose the rewards that are not urgent, to stop the nameless levy, to save money and money, and to increase revenue.
I don't have this problem in Huxian County. Last year, in order to facilitate the management of household registration, the imperial court advocated the change of customs, but anyone who responds will be exempted from money, food and taxes for one year. As a result, our Huxian County’s economy will be stretched, and it is time for emergency assistance, so I would like to ask the magistrate to be sympathetic. Let’s increase the appropriation somewhat this year! "
The magistrate of Hongdong immediately jumped out, and said coldly: "Whether it's emergency or rescue, is it your Huxian's turn to speak? Mr. Ye, from head to toe, I can't see that you have the slightest sense of poverty?"
Ye Xiaotian stared blankly: "What do you mean? Do you want to compare with me 'who dares to be worse than me'? Do you really think I can't be more shameless than you?"