In the shop next to the blocked water, Commander Sun patted the table and said, "Shopkeeper, two bowls of noodles, two more side dishes, two bowls of wine!" ”

The little guy responded loudly, and after a while, he brought a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, a plate of lotus noodles, and two bowls of wine on the table.

Commander Sun picked up the bowl and said to Deputy Commander Qin on the opposite side: "Brother, it's rare to have leisure today, let's get drunk!" ”

Deputy Commander Qin took a sip of the bowl and said to Commander Sun: "Since I arrived in Qingtai Town, I have been depressed every day, and I am in a better mood when I see my brother today." ”

Sun commanded: "What's the matter, we are officials now, the money and food are still received, no matter the person, I don't know how happy I am!" ”

Deputy Commander Qin patted the table: "How willing!" It took us one or two decades to get a commander, and we didn't want to be idle. What's the point of doing things like the walking dead in the field now! ”

Sun commanded: "Brother, let's look away." In the past, when I was pulling fiber, I just arranged my subordinates to go to each boat, how much did it mean? At that time, money and food will be deducted, and there will often be disputes, which seems to be idle now. ”

Saying this, Commander Sun was still a little lonely. used to be in charge of hundreds of people, hugging from front to back, how majestic. Now sitting in the yamen of the field service, there is not even a person to speak. Someone else brought a pile of paper, but he couldn't read the big characters, and he didn't even know what was written on it, so he just signed and signed on it. Anyway, as long as you recognize what it looks like and don't draw the wrong place.

Obviously, the yamen didn't expect them to play any role, that is, to be a mascot in the field affairs. With such a person here, the officials should be cautious and not dare to deceive too much. If the report is false, these officials will be correct, but as long as they are found out by the yamen, the punishment will be much harsher than usual. And the mascot is an official after all, and if he deceives them once, he will always have to find a way to get it back later.

Such a day is not boring, and there is no future, is it true that people are like this for the rest of their lives? If you don't pursue it, the court will never keep idlers. If it goes on for a long time, maybe like this time, I don't know where to be kicked in the future.

After a while, the little guy brought two bowls of noodles. Thin noodles with a few vegetables on top, with a few chicken bones, soaked in fragrant broth.

Stirring the noodles with chopsticks, Sun commanded: "This is a newly made noodle in the yamen, called dragon beard noodles, which is extremely smooth and chewy. I heard from the people in the yamen that in a few days, we will all be transferred to the field where we do this. ”

Deputy Commander Qin took a bite of noodles and said, "This noodle is not bad, I can't usually make this taste at home." It is also thanks to the ingenuity of several officials in the yamen that they came up with the idea of making this system and building a few field affairs. Otherwise, we people have nothing to do when we get to Qingtai Town! ”

Sun commanded: "Brother is wrong, these field affairs are nothing. I have heard that iron ore has been excavated in the mountains of Fangcheng in the north, and it is necessary to mine and smelt in Ye County, where there is a need for many talents. In a few days, all of us will have to read and write, and we will take the exam, and if we do well, we will not be useful. ”

"It's funny, we are dozens of years old, we have lived for half our lives, but we have to go to school like children, and we are not afraid of being laughed at!"

Sun commanded: "Brother, I advise you, those who know the times are Junjie." We, who are in charge of the camp and judge, must use reading and reading to read and write no matter what we do. As long as you work under him and can't read big words, you will definitely have no future. It's better to work hard, or to read some words. ”

"If I don't study, will I take away my job?!"

Commander Sun sighed: "Brother, I originally thought the same way from you, but these days in Qingtai Town, I have some things to figure out. Naturally, the judgment will not take away our jobs, no matter what, the money and grain are distributed on time and never withheld, which is better than many officials. But if you don't follow his path, you will have no future, and you will have to do things without oil and water in Qingshui Yamen for the rest of your life. ”

Deputy Commander Qin said: "As long as I don't deduct money and food, I can support my family, and they will deceive the ghosts about any future!" ”

Commander Sun shook his head and said no more. Last time, because of a quarrel with Pang Dutou, I really couldn't do it, so I finally took the initiative to resign and returned to Qingtai Town. After this change, the sex has become a little smoother. In these days in the town, he can see that Du Zhongxiao uses people to do things, and he attaches great importance to knowledge. Those who can't read and write have basically no future under him. There's no way, if you can't understand those detailed regulations, how can you do good deeds? The camp and field affairs set up rules little by little, no matter how big or small, everything has a Cheng Wen, and if you don't know how to read, you can't do it at all.

Those three pamphlets were enlightenment textbooks, and the camp and field affairs yamen were divided into several batches for the subordinate officials to attend classes. This matter is not forced, and those who do not want to learn can not go. However, many of the official duties of the camp and field affairs have to learn those three booklets to do well, and if they don't learn, they will soon be unable to keep up.

The impact of this matter on the officials is relatively small, they have official ranks, there are standards of money, and they must always have suitable positions. Officials are not so easy, except for a very small number of ranks seconded from states and counties, most of the officials have the same status. Those who learn well will soon be able to get important ministries and become more and more powerful, slowly crowding out others.

In recent days, because young people learn things quickly, many important positions have been occupied by young officials. There are even seventeen or eighteen-year-old children who are in charge, and they are in charge of the affairs of a group of old officials. The yamen here was newly built, and the ministry was unprecedented, and everything was started from scratch, whether young or old. Once controlled by others, the old official is helpless.

The old officials, who are now changing drastically, will one day move to the heads of officials. Sun commanded these people, they were military petty officials, and the local officials were nothing more than prison officials, and with power they had status, and once they had no power, they were dispensable. One day, all affairs will be carried out according to the charter, and these people who are illiterate and unable to read the charter will sooner or later be replaced by others.

From the village to Qingtai Town, the environment has changed, and people's minds have changed. Seeing the drastic changes in the status of the officials around them, it is impossible for these grassroots petty officials to have no ideas, and they must also think about their future. Looking at the current situation, the camp is developing rapidly, and once it seizes the opportunity, it may really rise. What is the field work of making sugar and noodles now, if the mine and metallurgy are really opened, there are many officials needed in it.

Du Zhongxiao sat in the yamen, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. The village below is doing a big project, the town is newly opened, and the affairs have been busy recently. There are still too few officials under the camp and field affairs, and most of them have to do it themselves, which is really tiring.

At this moment, Su Song walked in quickly from outside, saw Du Zhongxiao open his eyes, and said, "The matter of mining and metallurgy in the north has been decided by the imperial court!" ”

Du Zhongxiao perked up: "What do you say? Last month, Tao Seventeen had already led people to refine good iron and sent it to the capital. There are both iron and coal mines in that area, everything is complete, it is rare, and if you want to open a big mine! ”

Su Song said: "It's to open a big mine." The two governments agreed that Ye County would be carved out of Ruzhou, and then the places with iron mines would be included and an iron supervisor would be set up, and the name of Baiting would be the supervisor. First of all, it will be managed by the camp and field affairs, and then the court will send competent officials after a few days. Also, the Holy Lord sent 500,000 pieces from the inner treasury and asked the Baiting Supervisor to cast guns and cannons for the use of the forbidden army. The money will come soon, and the days of lack of money will come to an end! ”

Du Zhongxiao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect such a good thing. The affairs of the army, the expenditure of additional funds, mostly by the inner treasury, this has been the practice since the founding of the country. One is that the left treasury does not have much savings, and the money is useful, and the money used by the inner treasury also shows that the army is inheriting the emperor's grace. However, the emperor paid for himself to be an iron supervisor, which was unexpected.

After thinking about it, Du Zhongxiao asked again: "500,000 guan, it's not too much." A big iron prison, tens of thousands of people at every turn, how much is the first person to be distributed? What other good is there for the imperial court, let us build an iron prison. ”

Su Song said with a smile: "There is another one, which is the imitation of Hedong Road cast iron money." The iron money here supplies Shaanxi Road and Sichuan Gorge, and the imperial court uses the grain of Jingxi Road to deduct it, and we can also share a little profit. ”