Northern Dynasties

Chapter 97 Black Otter's Night Visit
Li Tai asked the two soldiers again, and it turned out that being an official in Daxingtai did not include food and drink, but it was not completely voluntary labor.

Daxingtai will allocate a certain number of soldiers and fields to the government offices according to the number of employees and the number of people in each department. Through the management and harvest of these official industries, it will maintain administrative costs and official food expenses.

This point is similar to the cost of public houses in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The imperial court delegated a certain amount of financial support power to government offices at all levels, allowing them to operate and solve part of their administrative expenses.

The difference between them is that the national power of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was strong, and the capital of the public house was directly distributed in the form of money and silk, and then loaned to the private sector for interest.However, the Western Wei government did not even have a stable monetary policy, so it could only distribute labor and land.

In addition to administrative work, officials also need to seriously manage this part of the industry, otherwise they may not even be able to eat.

After learning about this, Li Tai couldn't help feeling sorry for the Western Wei government, or Yu Wentai's domineering regime, it was really not easy to set up such a team, and there was an air of poverty in almost every aspect.

While waiting for the official kitchen to prepare the meal, the two soldiers went through the core official documents of the government office with Li Tai.Ink and Cao affairs are mainly divided into three parts. In addition to the storage and dispatch of pen and ink consumables, there are also course professors for Xingtai government schools and the management of the farm itself.

Before Li Tai's arrival, the division of labor between the two soldiers was that Pei Han was in charge of official education, while Xue Shen was in charge of other common affairs.

After the three of them discussed together, they decided that Li Tai would be in charge of Zhuangtian's production temporarily.This can be regarded as a care for Li Tai. After all, whether the management of Zhuangtian is good or not, the influence is only limited to the inside of the government office.

As for other things, once they are not done well, the impact will be much greater.

Li Tai has no objection to this decision, after all, he also needs a certain amount of time to adapt and get used to the atmosphere and rhythm of the Taifu.

The three agreed on a division of labor, and the subordinates also took back the meals.

Although Daxingtai is digging and searching in terms of money and food expenditures, it is not deceptive when it comes to business.

Two horses of silk bought a large barrel of round-grained rice, [-] sourdough cakes, and two whole roasted whole lambs, as well as other dried dried meat, betel sauce, water spinach, etc., and a small barrel of buttermilk. At least the more than twenty people in this government office are more than enough to eat.

After the large cart of food boxes was pulled back, the subordinates were not in a hurry to share the meals, but first lifted the heavy wooden boards to block the gate.

Li Tai didn't understand what it meant at first, but soon understood.

"Pleasure alone is not like joy together. You are too stingy to wait for Mo Cao, and your colleagues around you have not had time to smell the smell and set off, but you are going to thank the guests behind closed doors!"

Outside the gate of the yamen hall, several people quickly jumped out from the gap while the door was still closed, pointed at Cao Nei and laughed loudly.

Li Tai also became happy when he saw this, no wonder when the meal was about to start, the crowd was as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and their feelings were to guard against someone rushing in for a meal.

"These gluttonous thieves who are not afraid of evil, they each show their poverty in the office, and they see other families making food, but they are as fast as they are first!"

Xue Shen saw that he still couldn't stop these people who were looting, so he couldn't help laughing and cursing while standing in front of the hall, but he still introduced the few people who broke in to Li Tai. Su Heng, Xin Shao from the same prefecture of Longxi, and so on.

The names of these people, Li Tai, are mostly unfamiliar to them, but when they come from different Chen families, they all have some impressions, most of them are Han county surnames or the children of local powerful people.

Li Tai thought back to the half a day since he entered the Taifu, there were very few officials in the Taifu who came from Beizhen.In addition to the fact that Beizhen Wu's talent is not high enough to undertake the busy administrative work, it should also be related to Yu Wentai's deliberate arrangements.

Although Li Tai's age and qualifications are not high, but his background itself is a passport, coupled with his own emotional intelligence and good conversation, he quickly became acquainted with these people.

He also noticed that many officials present at the office, in addition to their own food, some people put uneatable pancakes and barbecue in their pockets, probably to pack them and take them home to their eldest wives. Let's have lunch.

This kind of situation is not one or two, and everyone is used to it, and they don't ridicule and ridicule.It can be seen from this that even if they are officials of the hegemony, there are many people from poor and worrying families.

After half an hour of eating this meal, some subordinates soon cleaned up the leftover seats. After everyone was full, they went back to their cases and continued to deal with official duties.Looking at their hard-working appearances, Li Tai felt as if he had returned to the days dominated by 996 in a trance.

He was new to the government office, and he didn't have much work to do, only some official documents that needed to be signed by all the soldiers needed to be reviewed, but he didn't feel tired, and only took half an hour to complete the work on the desk.

But seeing that his colleagues including Pei Han and Xue Shen are still working at their desks, he can't just leave early openly, and he can't compete for performance like a young man who just joined the unit, and go to other people's desks to grab things to do, so he will Holding a document that has already been read, he pretended to read it seriously.

This article was written by Xue Shen and was about to be submitted to his superiors. The main content was about the procrastination of various subordinates in office work, which led to the huge cost of materials such as lamp oil and fire wax.Mo Cao is responsible for remunerating various office consumables, and office lighting is also within the scope of his authority.

Li Tai was just using it to pass the time, but after watching it, he actually saw it.

In fact, some details recorded in it are very vivid. For example, some officials go to work early but do not work, and stand in the corridor of the government office to eat breakfast, deliberately acting diligently.Some pour ink directly on their robes, indicating that they are tired from copywriting.

What's more, some government offices are obviously idle, but they paid a lot of lighting supplies in advance, and even compiled a duty list inside the government office, lighting lamps on duty at night in turn, just to show their diligence.

This article is full of nearly ten thousand words. It is simply a complete collection of ancient civil servants fishing. Li Tai read it carefully many times, and the more he read it, the more he felt happy. Sure enough, the wisdom of the masses is infinite.

He read it here several times, but seeing that it was still early, he simply took out a new piece of paper and wrote the three big characters "Tested Method" on the front of the volume, and then he wrote thousands of words eloquently.

Li Tai waited until he heard the crowd getting up, and Li Tai looked up, only to find that it was dusk.Although the content of the test method has not been finished yet, he does not intend to write any more.

After all, he is a new member of the Taiwan government, and it is really difficult to stand on the opposite side of the masses of fishing people. You must know that he is also one of them!

The reason why I wrote it today is to pass the time with feelings, and to remind myself that when he grows up and starts to govern, he will have to deal with those people who fish for money.

He was about to put away the scroll, when an official next to him came forward and reminded him: "Li Canjun, there is a rule in the Yamen that no piece of paper can be released..."

Li Tai was a little dumbfounded when he heard the words. The big business of feelings doesn't even care about food, but they are so strict about the value generated during office hours, and they don't even allow a piece of paper to be taken out of the hall. This is obviously not allowing everyone to do private work!
"This article hasn't been finished yet, so let's store it elsewhere for the time being, don't formulate it in the hall."

Seeing the official put away the article on the case, Li Tai hurriedly warned again that he planned to pour the ink on it tomorrow to destroy the corpse and wipe out the traces. I am also a defender of everyone's fishing career, and I am definitely not a traitor!

In the evening, the office announcement of the government office came to an end, but Mo Cao still had the task of evening school correspondence.Li Taixin entered the government office, he looked handsome and tender, and he didn't look like a well-educated man, so he could go home from get off work.

After confirming the office time tomorrow, Li Tai left the Taifu, Hui went out of the city with the followers waiting outside, and returned to Shangyuan Village before the sky completely darkened.

He came home from get off work here, but the atmosphere in Mocao's office became tense again. A close friend from Daxingtai came to tell him that Daxingtai would come to this government school to attend lectures tonight.

Daxingtai respects the administration of officials, and is also very concerned about the education of officials, and it is not just one time to come to attend a lecture.However, Xue Shen, who was staying in the government office, still couldn't help being a little nervous. He quickly picked up the relatively esoteric and obscure "Six Classics", talked about the more popular and exciting historical biographies, and recalled his colleagues who had left the government.

When the lights first came on, all the officials at Zhucao's school were in place, and Pei Han had already returned, but Li Tai, the newly appointed Mo Cao's army, was not in the city at all.

Xue Shen didn't have time to complain about Li Tai's unreliability, and when Daxingtai arrived surrounded by his own soldiers, he hurriedly went on stage to give a speech.

Yu Wentai sat on the upper side of the lecture hall, not very interested in the content of the lecture, looked around the hall, and immediately called Pei Han in and asked in a low voice: "Didn't Li Boshan be added to the office? Why isn't he here? "

"Gao Pingnan has just entered the Taiwan government. He has not yet fully understood the importance of academic affairs. He works in the office until late at night. He told Grand Master He Ba that he needs to be taken care of by a close servant, so he left the residence and returned to his hometown."

Pei Han replied in a low voice with some embarrassment, and he also realized that Daxingtai paid a lot of attention to this new recruit, and he probably came to listen today to hear about Li Tai's academic level.

But when he and Xue Shen excluded Li Tai when assigning the affairs of the government office, although it was also for Li Tai's care, it was obviously against Shang's wishes.

After hearing the words, Yu Wentai nodded and didn't say anything else. He didn't stand up until Xue Shen had finished his lecture, went straight into the yamen hall and said, "Report what Li Boshan has done today. If you don't explain what happened in the past, or say you don't meet him, But now that I have entered the mansion, I want to see why he offered me!"

Everyone in the hall did not expect that Daxingtai paid so much attention to Li Tai, so they didn't dare to be negligent for a while, and quickly ordered the subordinates to take out all Li Tai's handwriting on today's case documents.

Yu Wentai opened the papers a little, and there was a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, but when his eyes fell on the half-finished "examination method", his eyes suddenly froze, and he held the paper in his hand to read After looking at it again and again, he raised his hand and said: "Quickly pass... that's all, Li Boshan enters the mansion tomorrow morning, hurry him up to the hall to see him, I will wait for him at the mansion before noon!"

(End of this chapter)