Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 246

Meng Changqing leaned over to check the progress. The ID cards were almost copied. She couldn't help but ask Laicai, "When did you start?"

Laicai took the opportunity to answer her while changing the wooden sign: "After Bafang returns to his room."

That is, it was after three in the morning and I have been busy until now.

Lai Cai saw Meng Changqing standing there stupidly, so he stopped what he was doing and added, "Bafang said you were waiting for it."

"Yes." Meng Changqing felt like she hadn't finished her homework at night, and wanted to make up for it early in the morning, but found that her family had already done it for her. It was an unexpected thoughtfulness.

"Thank you." She said to Laicai.

Laicai went on to write that he and Bafang were very different, but their hearts for her were the same.

Xiao Dai brought breakfast over, but he didn't expect that there were three people in the study. It was obvious that the food he had in his hands was not enough. Seeing that the three people were working around the small round table, he simply didn't say anything, and didn't put down the breakfast he was carrying. He went to the kitchen to get two more portions and brought them over again.

When he came this time, the three people sitting at the round table had already started packing up, and it seemed that the matter had come to an end.

Xiao Dai came in and greeted, "Master, Master Qi, Laicai, come and have breakfast."

Meng Changqing and Qi Renli were really hungry, but Laicai, who had been busy the rest of the night, had no appetite. He ate a little and went back to his room to sleep.

Just after breakfast, Meng Changqing was talking to Qi Renli when Cheng Guang came over.

He came to report to Meng Changqing about the situation of the night search last night, "Last night, I patrolled six times at fixed points and conducted six thorough inspections, a total of twelve times, and did not find any problems."

"Okay, you've worked hard, go and have a rest."

Cheng Guang said, "Sir, the brothers took turns sleeping at night, so they can still hold on."

"You also said that it's not worthwhile to just hold on. It's not worthwhile to ruin your health."

"Sir." Cheng Guang noticed the ID card in the box. "You made these things overnight, so you must want to distribute them as soon as possible. If we go to rest, there will be no one to do anything."

This is a problem. Except for the ten yamen runners recruited by Qi Renli later, the rest of the people working in the yamen are Meng Changqing's personal soldiers.

Originally, these personal soldiers came to Meng Changqing in two groups, with a total of one hundred people. Later, Zhang Yuan was transferred to take over Yu Tai's position, so she had one less person on her side.

Originally, after Zhang Yuan left, Wei Fangyun had always said that he would send a reliable person to Meng Changqing, but at that time Meng Changqing was adjusting the part-time jobs of his personal soldiers and did not want to have another lieutenant to interfere, so the matter was delayed.

The current arrangement of these personnel in the government office is the result of Meng Changqing's continuous adjustments.

The yamen is divided into teams of ten to fifteen people, and each team has a person in charge, which makes it easier for Meng Changqing to manage.

Two of the teams were responsible for patrolling the area around the yamen and the county town, and two teams were responsible for guarding the county yamen.

There is also a group of people who are responsible for guarding dangerous mountains and other places that need surveillance.

These five shifts employ a total of 62 people. They stick to their respective posts day and night and are the guarantee of stability in Beishan County. However, due to the long working hours, they have little energy to do other things.

In addition, Yang Zhengyin had to go to Yangmen County to pick someone up, so Meng Changqing assigned two groups of people to him.

As a result, there are only sixteen people left for Meng Changqing to use.

Among them were the thirteen people who patrolled the resettlement housing area last night.

If Cheng Guangzhen took them to rest, Meng Changqing would only have three personal soldiers left.

Qi Renli said, "I have six people who can be transferred over there. They don't have anything to do for the time being." Meng Changqing thanked them for their kindness and said, "We still have people in the government office."

Cheng Guang didn't understand what he meant, "Who else?"

"The Imperial Guards," Meng Changqing said, "ask them to do you a small favor. They won't refuse."

Meng Changqing also pays these imperial guards on time every month. Although it cannot be said to be wages, it is still acceptable if they can help out a little.

Seeing Meng Changqing's insistence, Cheng Guang had no choice but to obey the order.

After he left, Qi Renli did not leave. He said, "I can help you and learn more by the way. I hope Master Meng will not mind."

"Brother Qi, what are you talking about? If that's the case, I won't be polite." Meng Changqing handed the box that Laicai had reorganized to Qi Renli, "Brother Qi, please copy all the contents inside."

"Ah?" Qi Renli was puzzled. "This is what we copied last night. Why do we have to copy it again?"

Meng Changqing explained to him, "All of this is written down on paper. Paper can easily go wrong during storage. If it gets eaten by insects or gets damp, it may cause key information to become unclear. So we need to make two or more copies and keep them strictly in different places."

Qi Renli was very impressed and immediately took the box back to his office to copy it.

Meng Changqing said, "Brother Qi, please go to Captain Yang's office to copy it. Also, if there are any discarded papers, remember to throw them into the charcoal basin like you did last night."

"I understand." Qi Renli nodded very solemnly.

When he was transcribing it last night, he didn't think much of the contents. After hearing what he said today, he realized that if this kind of thing was obtained by someone with ulterior motives, he would be able to know the situation of those 300 people thoroughly.

It seems that although Lord Meng has not taken the imperial examination, he is more comprehensive in being an official than he expected.

After Qi Renli left, Meng Changqing called three yamen runners who had no other tasks at the moment and asked them to move the wooden box onto the cart and "wait for me outside the east gate."

Meng Changqing stood in the courtyard where the imperial guards lived. As soon as he stood there, the door opened.

Chu Mufeng asked: "Master Meng is going out?"

"I want to trouble you all for something." Meng Changqing said, "I don't have enough manpower around me, can you help me for a day?"

Zhou Qiwen squeezed next to Chu Mufeng and said, "Master Meng, it's too polite to say that. Just tell me if you have anything to say."

Zhou Qiwen has always been enthusiastic about Meng Changqing. Last night, even though Meng Changqing didn't ask them for help, he still took four or five people to help.

Meng Changqing expected that he would agree.

But for others, it depends on Chu Mufeng's attitude.

"Okay." Chu Mufeng turned around and called everyone over.

There were twelve people in total, excluding the two who were guarding the back court next door, the other ten, including Chu Mufeng, all followed Meng Changqing to the resettlement house.

As soon as she arrived with these people, people kept gathering in the resettlement house.

"Everyone, did you sleep well last night?" Meng Changqing asked loudly.

"Okay!" Someone in the crowd took the lead and responded.

Meng Changqing continued loudly, "Please tell each other to send one person from each household to come over to get an ID card."