Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"Don't worry, I keep my word." Because Baili knew that Defang came here not only to change the name of Heitugang, but also to ask for a reward for the county magistrate, so he patted his chest and promised, "In less than a month, you, Mr. Li, will definitely be punished by the court." award."

Hearing this, the six people gathered together and murmured and didn't know what to say. Baili stretched his neck to look, frowned and said, "Hey! I said you guys, what are you talking about? You don't believe what I say, do you? "

"No, no," said the yamen servant, "Brother Bai, wait a moment."

The six ran out in a hurry, Baili was very angry, put his hands on his hips and said, "The people in the small county just haven't seen the world, and I don't believe what I say, a bunch of stupid people."

Baili stood for a while, and the six of them ran back again, far away from Baili, waved and said, "Brother Bai, come here."

"What are you doing!" Baili looked at a few people and said angrily, "You guys leave as soon as you say, come as you say, just kidding me, right? Don't go!"

"Don't dare dare" the yamen servant ran over and pulled Baili to the gate, "Brother Bai, come here, come here."

Baili looked at a few people, "Why, let's talk."

The yamen servant stuffed a small cloth bag into Baili, "Brother Bai, please accept it."

"What?" Baili opened the cloth bag and found that it was full of broken silver and copper coins. Baili stuffed the cloth bag back to the yamen servant, "What are you doing!"

"Brother Bai, we know that this is too little. It costs a lot of money to ask someone to say a good word in the capital, but we can only scrape together this now. If you can help our lord, we will give you all the monthly money in the future. Go to the capital."

"Are you out of your mind?" Baili looked at several people, "You are just the servants of the county government, and your monthly money can support five or six members of your family at most, and your lord is an official anyway. Salary, as well as salary, salary, material money, food money, food and clothing, salt charcoal, kitchen materials, supplements, public money, coupons, and the imperial court will give rewards from time to time, which are very rich, and you can use them to contribute to him. Asking for money?"

[Since the founding of the country, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty implemented the high salary system for officials, with the purpose of maintaining integrity. Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty also said: The system of salary should be from the best, the common people will be prosperous, and the responsibility should be clean. 】

"Brother Bai, you don't know that our lord is a widower, Gaotang is not here, and he has no children. His money is given to the poor people. He usually goes to work after eating a few mouthfuls of food in the yamen. Our adults have never exchanged gifts with the high officials above, so no one speaks to our adults and recommends them."

"How many years have you been an official?"

"We adults are thirty-five, and we have been officials for 11 years. In the early years, we were poor and had no money to study. We went to ask other scholars to teach writing and listen to children. Later, we took the scientific examination with great difficulty. It was from the county. It started as the chief bookkeeper, but it has always been an official in Yongcheng."

"Eleven years? That's long enough." Baili said, "Speaking of which, you adults are really good. You can be considered very capable if you can teach writing and listening to children read books and pass the scientific examination to become an official."

"Yes, yes, little brother Bai, our lord is really a good official. If we can become a bigger official, we will definitely do more things for the people."

Baili looked at the six people, "Even if that's the case, what about you? If he becomes an official and does great things, what benefits do you have?"