Commander Sun's face was gloomy, and he sat in the tent, looking at the piles of campfires outside, and the crowd chatting around the campfires. After being silent for a long time, he looked at Chen Yuliang on the opposite side and said, "Brother is in Qingtai Town, but he is still living happily?" ”

Chen Yuliang took a sip of wine and said, "Originally, I thought I was living aggrieved, but after seeing your current appearance, I don't think so." ”

After saying that, he tore a piece of meat from the chicken on the plate and ate it beautifully. It's still affordable to live in the countryside, raise a few chickens by yourself, and feed them with some rice, so you can have such good meat to eat. In Qingtai Town, a rooster costs dozens of yuan, and you have to weigh it if you want to eat it.

Commander Sun was silent for a while, and then sighed: "It's not easy for this official to do now, and I also want to go to the town." ”

Chen Liangyu was taken aback and hurriedly said, "Why does my brother think so?" When I went to the town to do things, not to mention idle and busy, I could only receive those money and food every month, and there was no other income, and there was no filial piety, how could I be in charge of hundreds of families here! ”

Commander Sun just sighed: "Since I arrived at the place, each family has divided the land, the people's hearts have been scattered, and the team is not easy to lead." In the past two days, because the work of road construction has become heavier, Pang Dutou has been naughty with me every day, annoying and angry to death! ”

Chen Liangyu listened to it and said indifferently: "Brother, listen to my advice, you will be angry wherever you do things." Desperately suffer some grievances, but also to occupy this son. In the future, the grain will be harvested, and there will be silk silk, and the countryside will be full of oil and water! ”

"Alas, if you have oil and water, you have to eat it in your mouth! It's just that the subordinates are naughty, and things can always pass. But Pang Dutou took the villagers today, and directly stopped work and didn't do it, and he was fined money and rice, and things were not good. He stopped there, the matter couldn't be done, and I and Deputy Commander Qin would be punished. Now that the yamen is strictly controlled, I am afraid that it will not only punish the people, but also seize the office, so how can this continue? ”

Chen Liangyu said: "Why is Pang Dutou so ignorant! Anyway, after all, it's his own brother, and he made a fuss like this, delaying everyone's future! This man has always been short-tempered, and he is not a big dealer! ”

Commander Sun shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Brother, we are coming here to farm now, do you think there is still a future?" I guess that to die, it is just a matter of managing a few villages, and to be ugly, it is just a righteousness. It is said that in front of the Li Zheng Ya, the world is heavily served, and I didn't know what was going on before, but now I can be regarded as understanding. The tax servants above are only distributed to you, and if the people below do not obey the call, they will all be on themselves. ”

In the past, in the military, there were a series of violent means to ensure the authority of these officers, but now when they go to the local farms, the violent means are not good, and all kinds of problems have come to the fore. Commanding and managing ten villages, in fact, is Lizheng, and there is no system of local elders and township scribes, so it is not easy to do everything by himself. Commander Sun couldn't turn these people's brains, and he didn't adapt for a while, thinking that he could control the life and death of his subordinates just like he used to do in the army.

It is not easy to change from the army to peasants, and it is even more difficult for these grassroots officers, and they are doomed to be difficult to do without the consciousness of taking the initiative to adapt.

Chen Liangyu was one of the first few people to give up his military post and go to the camp and field affairs yamen, not because he had a long-term vision, but because he was lazy by nature and did not want to farm at all. When he arrived in Yamen, he was a petty official in the early days and worked everywhere, and recently opened a halva making workshop, in which he worked. The things in the workshop are simple, not as complicated as in the place, and the money and food are sufficient, but they are also delicious.

After Pang Dutou had a big quarrel today, he took the villagers back to the village, refusing to do it. would rather evade labor and be fined than be angry with Sun's command, and the matter was completely frozen. Commander Sun found the heads of other villages, but none of them were willing to take this lot. If the deadline is reached, and the roads in other places are repaired, this section will be left unrepaired, and Commander Sun himself knows the consequences. At that time, it will not be over with a fine, and if you don't do it, you will be taken away from the camp. Although his official position is small, he has also been promoted through hard work, how willing he is to be taken away like this.

The Xiang Army is not a forbidden army, nominally under the infantry military department, but in fact under the local administration. Du Zhongxiao dealt with it directly, and Commander Sun could only accept it, and there was no place to shout grievances. Knowing that the consequences were serious and there was no way to solve it, Commander Sun was distracted and didn't want to suffer on this son. Today, I specially asked Chen Liangyu, who had given up his military position to go to Qingtai Town, to consult and find a way back for himself.

The two drank wine and chatted about what happened these days, and their hearts were mixed.

There is no need to pull fiber, and when they go to the local farm, the workload of these people is reduced a lot. It's only been a few months, and everyone from the commander to the pawn has gained a lot of weight. In the past, I used to pull fibers, work all day long, and have muscles all over my body, where is it as rich as it is now.

As the local area is getting on the right track step by step, many people cannot adapt to the new life, and various contradictions have emerged. As far as the conflict between Commander Sun and Pang Dutou is concerned, it was not a big deal in the army at all before, what's wrong with having more strength, and I will make up for it later. Now it's just not going to work, it's not just a matter of making more efforts, it's directly involving money and food income, and everyone won't give in.

Thinking of the capitals of other villages, Commander Sun was even more tired. They have benefited, but let them help themselves, and repair the section of Pangdutou according to the assigned workload, and no one is willing. With the same effort, other places can get six liters of rice, and Pang Dutou only has two liters there, and everyone will calculate this account. If the price is not raised, no one will come to take the job.

Price increase money? Then you have to take the rice out yourself. Thinking of this, Commander Sun felt bitter in his heart. Isn't this the battle of Lizheng, if something goes wrong, you will pay for it, how many family businesses can be squandered like this? It's not enough to get it all in.

Of course, it is also possible to redivide, admit your mistakes, and reduce the workload of Pandutou Village. But in this way, his prestige will be gone, and how will he manage people in the future. Not to mention, other villages don't want to, do they quarrel one by one?

If you're wrong, you're unlucky, who makes you incompetent, it involves real benefits, and no one in your subordinates will help you take the blame.

Don't want to make up for his mistakes with his own money and food, Commander Sun has only one way left, and that is not to do it. admit that he can't do this errand, let the camp and field affairs yamen make up for the loss, and leave by himself. The camp is building all kinds of field affairs, there are many places to employ people, supervisors and officials, etc., and it is not difficult to arrange for Sun to command these people. It's just that in his own heart, it is difficult to pass this hurdle.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Commander Sun asked Chen Liangyu: "Brother, how are you doing your life in the field affairs?" ”

Chen Liangyu took a sip of wine, ate a mouthful of chicken beautifully, and said: "The days are very leisurely, I go to do things every day, and when I go home when I finish it, everything has rules and regulations, and there is no trouble." Rest on the tenth day, and receive money and food on the other day, everything will be fine. There is only one thing, this day is very boring, and the Qingshui Yamen has no additional benefits. We are people who are used to leading soldiers, and we are suddenly left out in the cold, and we are a little unaccustomed. ”

Chen Liangyu used to be the head of the capital, with a hundred soldiers under his command, life and death were in his own hands, and he was always flattered. Not to mention asking for wine and meat every day, when you go out, you can hug left and right, and someone will listen to you at any time. Now the field affairs are done, and they only hold the power to sign and draw the charge, everything is according to the regulations, and no one is stammering anymore. In fact, the officials recruited from the field are doing it, and Chen Liangyu, the officials arranged inside, are just the eyes and ears of the yamen, and they are just guarding the profits of the goods for the official. He doesn't need to understand, he just needs to understand what kind of paper is written and what kind of words are written on it.

This kind of life is very leisurely and boring, and it is purely an errand for the elderly. Even if something goes wrong, there is no need to take responsibility, as long as there is no mistake in signing and drawing, the officials of the Yamen who own their own camp and field affairs go to the officials of the field affairs, and they do not need to come forward.