Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 136 Speech Quotient (2)

The establishment of a commercial and taxation department and the unconditional recruitment of personnel, Xu Qing's decree, the reactions of all parties in Cangzhou were different, and they were almost divided into two factions.

One school, represented by the scholars in Cangzhou.Xu Qing recruited people without setting conditions, and suddenly made their self-proclaimed noble status as scholars worthless. The foundation of the world.

In the eyes of those scholars, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are the foundation of the world, followed by field workers, iron saws, and merchants.Since they are fundamental, no one can lack them without them.

This concept of hierarchy exists, and they will not allow it to be destroyed anywhere.When entering the city, scholars must be advanced, and when eating, scholars must eat first. It is always necessary to be superior and one step ahead of others to be comfortable.If you want to ask him why, he will say: Confucius said that "be superior to ritual and music, and a gentleman is also a gentleman." If we scholars want to be a gentleman, we must naturally put everything first.Confucius' theories have been put into practice by scholars in this way.

The other faction is ordinary people.Xu Qing's tax cuts, low-price food, and every decree have won him great popularity. The concept that Xu Qing is a good leader is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.Not to mention recruiting people to eat iron rice bowls, even if Xu Qing raises his arms outside, hundreds of people will respond to Xu Qing.

It's just that some people think that they don't have much talent and can't help the governor, so they are not so enthusiastic about this "recruitment", which is what Xu Qing said about the job fair.

After all, it is an "iron rice bowl", and many people are still staring at it.The director and deputy director, they dare not expect that the officer patrolling the streets can still covet it.

Xiao Si is one of them.

Xiao Si is the son of Lao Si. He is tall and strong. He is also clever and can count.Originally, Xiao Si was an errand guy in a restaurant, but he accidentally saw Xu Qing's notice, and went home to talk with Lao Si one, and Lao Si raised his hands in agreement, so he decided to give it a try.

Xiaosi changed into a half-new and half-worn linen clothes, crouched his neck to look at the mighty guard at the door, "passed by" several times at the gate of Cangzhou inner city, slapped his legs and gritted his teeth before walking in.

What Xiao Si didn't know was that as soon as he entered the door, countless eyes immediately came from behind him.It turned out that everyone didn't want to be No.1!
After entering the door, seeing that the guard didn't move, he let out a long breath, and his back was wet.

Xiao Si looked up and saw two signs. On the left was written: "Secretary", and on the right was "Street Patrol".Xiaosi thought of recruiting 50 people for office work and 100 people for patrolling the streets.And Xiao Si didn't know what the job was. As for patrolling the streets, Xiao Si knew from his name that he was patrolling the streets.

"Okay, let's try patrolling the streets first?" Xiaosi said in his heart.Walk through the hallway on the right.

The moment Xiao Si entered the gate, a servant rushed into the inner courtyard and shouted: "Someone is coming, Lord Inspector, someone is coming!"

"puff……"

Xu Qing was eating sweet-scented osmanthus cake, when he heard someone applying for the job, he was so excited that the sweet-scented osmanthus cake sprayed out of his nose.Can you not be excited?It's been a long time since I had breakfast... It seems that he still underestimated the pressure of the feudal hierarchy.

When Xiao Si walked to the interview site in the back hall, Xu Qing had already arranged his appearance and was sitting in the upper seat.Seeing Xiaosi, he knelt down without hesitation, and said, "Caomin Xiaosi, pay homage to the elder..."

"Well, why did you apply for the job of patrolling the streets?" Xu Qing has his own authority.

Xiaosi was so nervous that he couldn't help but tremblingly said: "Caomin... Caomin doesn't know..."

Xu Qing shook his head and sighed helplessly, "Do you have a talent?"

"Xiaomin knows how to count..." Xiaosi replied.

"Oh? I'll take a question for you..." Xu Qing stroked his chin and thought for a while, "There are chickens and rabbits in the same cage today, with 35 heads on the top and 94 feet on the bottom. How about the chickens and rabbits?"

"Haha, interesting..." As soon as the topic came up, Xiaosi began to think, and even forgot to be nervous: "There are twelve rabbits, and two or three chickens, how about it?"

"Well, yes, there is one more question..." Xu Qing asked again: "There is a tree today, but I don't know how long it is. If you draw the rope to measure it, the remaining rope is four feet and five inches, and if you bend the rope to measure it, it is less than one foot. How long is the wood? "

"This..." Xiaosi pondered for a while and said with certainty: "The rope is eleven feet long, and the wood is six and five inches long..."

"Okay..." Xu Qing nodded in satisfaction. It's rare for someone to learn arithmetic "not doing their job properly".Xu Qing continued to ask questions, but this time Xu Qing stopped asking about arithmetic, and asked, "Why do you want to be a street patrol?"

"Caomin...Caomin wants to earn a good job without being ordered around by others."

"Let me tell you that the job of patrolling the streets is to maintain law and order in Cangzhou. You have to patrol the streets no matter what the wind blows or the sun shines. Are you still willing?"

"Forgive the grassroots, as long as the wages are enough." Xiaosi gritted his teeth and said, who doesn't come and go in the wind and rain in the field?But that is more face-saving than eating imperial food?

"Hahaha, don't worry, 12 taels a year, five stones of Lumi per month!" Xu Qing directly stated the salary.

"Scared! Yuelumi Wushi?" Xiao Si almost jumped onto the roof.

Five stones of rice, six hundred catties!How much rice can you eat in a year?One catty a day is only more than 300 catties, and this month earns a year's rations. How can I not do it?I absolutely have to do it, even if I'm exhausted... what?There are still 12 taels of silver!One tael of silver can be exchanged for more than a thousand Kaiyuan Tongbao, five coins for a bucket of rice, how much is that?Xiaosi subconsciously converted Xu Qing's treatment into food, but he found that he was so excited that he couldn't count one, two, three, and looked at Xu Qing's continuous nodding, which meant that he was willing to do it.

Xu Qing didn't give Xiao Si the expected nod, but said: "One last question..."

"There was a carriage driver who was very skilled in driving. One day, he found a piece of gold the size of a head lying on the edge of a cliff, but he had to drive to get it. If you were that carriage driver, what would you do?"

This is a question from a Buddhist academy.

Xiaosi said anxiously: "Caomin can't drive..."

"Suppose you can drive a car, and you're good at it, how?"

Xiao Si thought for a while, and replied: "If the grass people don't go, it's a cliff, and when the horse stumbles, it's important that gold dies!"

"Okay, now I'm paying homage to you, deputy director of the Cangzhou Commercial and Taxation Department. I will be promoted to the ninth rank after a year of good work."

"Ninth...Ninth Grade, Ninth Grade Official? Me?" Xiaosi's eyes were bigger than a bull's.He was only planning to patrol the streets, so he could manage a section of the street in the future, and it would be more face-saving to speak out.But now, he has become an official!A high-ranking officer!The fourteenth generation of Xiaosi's family has never had half an official...

"Hmm..." Xu Qing nodded slightly.

Xiaosi hurriedly knelt down, and said in tears of gratitude: "My lord, thank you so much for your kindness, may I ask your lord?"

"Cangzhou Inspector Xu Qing!"

After hearing this, Xiao Si raised his head suddenly, stared at Xu Qing for three seconds, rolled his eyes and passed out.

"Come on, pinch someone!"

After one stick of incense, Xiao Si had already changed into a green robe official uniform, wearing a blue servant head, and appeared at the gate of the inner city.The young man was handsome and tall, and his official uniform was slightly smaller, which made him look slim.When the people waiting outside saw it, Qi Qi looked over, and someone exclaimed: "Isn't that the boy who went in just now? Why is he wearing the official's clothes!"

"Hey, be careful what you say, you're going to die!" Another person stood up and reminded that even a piece of wood has three points of deterrence with an official robe on his body.

Xiao Si looked around at the people outside the door, resisted the trembling of his legs and said: "Thanks to the favor of the governor, I am a grassroots person, a deputy secretary, if you apply for a job patrol, come with me..."

"What? He really became an official!" Everyone cried out sadly, but it was a pity that they were not the first to go in. If they were the first to go in, they must be the officials now.It was useless to mourn, another deputy was appointed by Xu Qing, that is, Xu Qing's protégé——Han Zibang.

Xu Qing only has three requirements for Han Zibang and Xiao Si, first, they must not accept bribes, and second, they must not be discriminated against. They must be strong and strong when patrolling the streets, and they must be good at arithmetic, but the more skills they have, the better they will be. admitted.Third, it is better not to lack than to be indiscriminate, and equality to be equal. Xu Qing will not want people who are stealing and eating.

Leaving aside the matter of the job fair, Xu Qing also had to go to Huang's house.

The matter of Huang Shimei and Xu Qing is basically settled, but it has not been announced to the outside world.It is said that Xu Qing, as the uncle of the county, has a few "quota" legal wives and concubines, so he doesn't have to steal two wives like ordinary people and hide it from the sky.

With a few cavalry entourages, he walked to Huang's Manor. Xu Qing looked around, withered vines and old trees, small bridges and flowing water. In the eyes of the person, he still saw the fear and vigilance of strangers from outside.

Xu Qing dressed luxuriously and looked familiar, so the servants of the Huang family didn't come to stop her, so Xu Qing went straight to the backyard to look for Huang Shimei.

Going through the alley and through the door, I found Huang Shimei's courtyard, and was about to enter, when a voice sounded behind Xu Qing:

"Stop, who are you, dare to run around in the backyard?"

Xu Qing looked back, and saw a young man Pian Pianjia, with a folded fan and a scarf, with a gorgeous poem and book, his face was like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and his color was like the flowers of the spring dawn. He was really a handsome man like Pan An!It was Ouyang Zhendong who lived in the Huang family...

Xu Qing secretly scolded Ouyang Zhendong's pseudo-mother in her heart, and said impolitely: "I'm running around, who are you, what are you doing here?!"

"Hahaha, I'm Miss Huang's cousin, how do you treat?" Ouyang Zhendong is indeed beautiful, and the laughter made Xu Qing a little distracted.Xu Qing hurriedly pinched the soft flesh around his waist, thinking to himself, why is this man so charming?

"I'm also Miss Huang's cousin, why haven't I seen you?"

"I should ask this question, why haven't I seen you before!"

"Fuck, you're new here!"

"I...you are fake..."

"You are the fake..."

"Shimei is here, let her criticize and expose you, a prodigal son who wandered into the backyard!"

"Hahaha, I will wear her back yard in the future, what is the back yard?"

Xu Qing turned her head and saw Huang Shimei walking over with a smile, holding a book in her hand, she stretched out her arms, and was about to hug her...

(End of this chapter)