After hearing this, Yuan Xi immediately bowed and said, "Thank you, Lord."
At this time, Yuan Shao was giving orders as a state shepherd, and Yuan Xi was taking orders as a subordinate.
Although this is considered an overstep of authority because it conflicts with the official position sent by the Han court.
But at this time, the Han Dynasty was weak, and the princes were actually rebelling, and the official positions they were granted were actually unfair.
However, no one cares. Whoever has the big fist has the final say, whoever takes control of a place, and whoever can get actual benefits is the winner.
At this point, the officials appointed by the Han court were almost completely defeated, because they had no soldiers and could not take office to suppress the local powerful.
Except for Liu Biao, a fierce man who rode into Jingzhou alone, everyone else could only stare.
Yuan Xi secretly sighed in his heart, having a good father is really worth the efforts of others for decades or even a lifetime.
From the county magistrate of Beixincheng with six hundred stones to the county magistrate of two thousand stones, it was a big step.
According to the official system of the Han Dynasty, from top to bottom according to salary, they are Sangong with ten thousand shi (350 dendrobium per month, 1 dendrobium = 1 stone = 10 dou, 4200 shi per year), and the middle one is 2000 shi (180 dendrobium per month, 2160 per year). The Jiuqing of the stone), the princes of the real two thousand stones (150 dendrobium in the moon valley, 1800 stones in a year).
Further down, there is the county guard of two thousand dan, with 120 hu of dendrobium per month and 1,440 dan per year.
Next, there are Zhonglang, General, Xiaowei, etc., whose weight is more than two thousand stone, and Prime Minister Chang Shi, who is more than two thousand stone. Those with more than one thousand stone are considered high-ranking officials.
At this time, the Han court was in turmoil and various places were in chaos. It was common for Han court officials to be unable to pay their salaries.
It is very ironic that various places are occupied by princes, and fake officials who rely on the princes are paid salaries.
Therefore, the Han Court at this time was almost in name only.
Although Yuan Shao did not give Yuan Xi a righteous position, the salary was real. Jizhou was rich in money and food, which was why Yuan Shao was so confident.
However, according to the salary of a soldier, which is about two dan per month, Yuan Xi still has to find a way to raise most of it by himself. A salary of 2,000 dan is the limit for supporting a thousand soldiers.
If you have no money, no food, and no pay, who among the soldiers will listen to you?
This is why Yuan Xi keeps an eye on Cao Song's property and never lets go.
Yuan Shao nodded with satisfaction and said, "In the past few days, you can select soldiers and raise money and food."
"Since you have become a county guard, your civil and military positions are complicated. I will ask Yuan Hao to help you clarify them. You can decide on your own."
Yuan Xi and Tian Feng bowed and said, "Here."
Yuan Shang gritted his teeth. If the eldest brother and the second brother conquered Qingzhou, they would build up their power first and lose themselves!
No, the alliance between the two must be broken up!
Yuan Xi and Tian Feng came out of Yuan Shao's house and went to the clerk's room. Seeing no one around, Yuan Xi said to Tian Feng: "I don't know anything about official positions. I rely on Mr. Yuan Hao to send some close people to help me." "
Tian Feng knew that Yuan Xi had made friends with him. When the water is clear, there are no fish. He is not a rigid person. He nodded and said: "Don't worry, sir, I will do my best."
"But in the next few days, the young master will have a headache. The young master's threshold may be stepped on by others."
Tian Feng was indeed right. That night, there was a steady stream of people coming to visit Yuan Xi.
Because there are hundreds of official positions under the county governor, although Yuan Xi only actually occupies three counties in Zhuo County now, there are at least a hundred positions. This is what the gentry covets.
Yuan Xi's head was pounding. He didn't recognize most of the people inside, so he had to write down their names temporarily and wait to ask Tian Feng the next day.
There was even Xu You among them, which gave Yuan Xi an even greater headache.
Xu You was a man of average personal ethics, very greedy for money, and his family members were all corrupt officials. He did some bad things because of his friendship with Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shu: "Xu Ziyuan is a vicious and promiscuous person with impure sexual conduct."
Xun Yu: "Xu You was greedy and refused to rule."
With this kind of evaluation, Yuan Xi would definitely stay away from Xu You.
Thinking of the great contribution he made to Cao Cao in later generations, Cao Cao still found an excuse to kill him after he captured Yecheng, which shows that this man was really unpopular.
If Xu You's family goes to work in Youzhou, I'm afraid the officialdom will become a mess within a few years.
After seeing off the last group of guests, he leaned on the couch to take a breath and sighed to Wu Zhao, who was helping him squeeze his shoulders: "This officialdom and personnel affairs are more tiring than fighting."
Wu Zhaoshen felt the same way: "The nobles think highly of themselves. It would not be good if the young master directly rejects them. It will only cause private criticism."
"What should we do?" Yuan Xi asked.
Wu Zhao smiled: "Isn't there going to be a war soon?"
"Let those who are just pretending to be fake take up military positions." Let them make it clear first, and then everything will be handled according to military law. "
"Nine times out of ten, they will back down. If they really dare to go, let them go. At the worst, let them hang out and just don't miss anything."
Yuan Xi nodded and said: "What a good idea. I will open a government office tomorrow and allocate official positions."
He thought about it, since Qu Yi could not enter Jizhou, he could only let him be a school captain first and also be the magistrate of Beixincheng County.
Qu Yi has always been in poor health, and his strength lies in military training. In addition, Beixin City is Yuan Xi's hometown, so he can only rest assured if he is handed over to Qu Yi.
As for Zhao Yun, he was finally free to go into battle and kill the enemy for Yuan Xi.
But there are still few generals.
Although Gao Lan had defected to Yuan Shang in private, he was still Yuan Shang's man. There was no honest reason for him to come over directly.
Moreover, Zhang He had a high view of the two men, but Yuan Xi still hadn't figured out how to use them. After all, these two men surrendered to Cao Cao during the Battle of Guandu, which sealed Yuan Shao's defeat.
There are actually very few military commanders who are truly loyal.
What Yuan Xi really coveted were Lu Bu's generals, and he had been trying to find ways to poach them.
When Gao Lan was retained, he also had thoughts about one of Lu Bu's generals, just like contacting Dong Fang through Dong Zhao and leveraging Zhang Miao's relationship with Lu Bu.
The next day, as Wu Zhao expected, most of the scholars, after hearing that he had taken office, would immediately follow him to fight in Qingzhou, so they quickly shied away and ran away, running faster than a rabbit.
They want to be comfortable civil servants and enjoy happiness in the rear. Who wants to die on the battlefield!
This is what Yuan Xi wants to do. The officialdom of Youzhou that he wants to see in the future should be dominated by the Han Shiliang family and not allow these noble families to collude with each other for personal gain and prey on the common people.
Yuan Xi woke up from Wu Zhao in the morning and saw that he was sleeping soundly, with his long hair spread out on the pillow. The marks on his face had faded a lot, and there were still some tears in the corners of his eyes.
Yuan Xi will go to Qingzhou to fight in the near future, and he doesn't know when he will come back.
Yuan Xi remembered that in his previous life, Yuan Xi married Zhen Mi and then went to Youzhou to take office. Zhen Mi was left alone to guard the empty boudoir in Yecheng for several years. This Han system of not allowing a head wife to take office was a bit too much. It's unethical.
While Yuan Xi was punishing Plump for her crimes, she remembered that Wu Zhao had mentioned last night that if she returned to her identity as Cai Zhaoji, with Cai Yong's reputation, there would definitely be many students of Cai Yong and scholars who admired his name.
Yuan Xi thought about it again and again, but gave up because the time was not yet ripe.
Cai Zhaoji is still a widow of the Wei family, her identity is exposed, and the Wei family's involvement will not be solved in a short time.
His primary goal now is to capture Qingzhou and Youzhou, and he has no time to deal with these things.
Therefore, Cai Zhaoji's identity can only be hidden for the time being, and it may be of greater use in the future.
Wu Zhao opened her eyes. She was used to Yuan Xi's behavior. With her eyes closed, her face became hotter and hotter.
Yuan Xi exerted a little force, and Wu Zhao said angrily: "You are a sanctimonious person, and you don't know where you learned your bad skills."
"I remind you that you need to find a way to settle the hundreds of carts of goods that Cao Song got from him as soon as possible to avoid any complications."
"The only ones who can handle these things in a short time are the Zhen family."
Yuan Xi retracted his hand and nodded: "You are right, I sent someone to notify the Zhen family last night. Mrs. Zhang replied that the arrangements can be made today, and I will go to the Zhen family soon."
After a while, a maid came in and brought breakfast out of the wooden tray.
Yuan Xi saw that there were fish and meat on several plates, and even the porridge was made of white rice, which was much better than that in Beixin City.
He picked up the bowl, took a sip, and sighed: "This kind of comfortable life really makes people less enterprising. I'm afraid that if I stay here for a long time, I won't want to go back."
Wu Zhao covered his mouth and smiled: "Everyone wants to enjoy happiness, but you only want to endure hardship."
Yuan Xi said with a smile: "Happiness alone is not as good as happiness for everyone."
After hearing this, Wu Zhao pondered for a long time and said softly: "Sir, sooner or later you will surpass my father."
After Yuan Xi finished eating, he went out and arrived at the government office. Over there, hundreds of soldiers and cart drivers were already waiting for him beside the cart. Following his order, everyone pulled the cart and headed for Zhen's house.
At this time, the genius was bright and there were few people walking on the street. He got up so early to hide his identity from others and avoid being coveted.
When we arrived at the back door of Zhen's house, the door there was opened, and someone had already been waiting to welcome them and brought everyone in.
The backyard of Zhen's house is huge. Hundreds of large cars have been pulled in, and there is still less than half of the space free.
Mrs. Zhang had already waited with dozens of shopkeepers and clerks to evaluate the goods on the car.
Yuan Xi had no idea how much Cao Song's jewelery items were worth, and it would be extremely difficult to deal with them if they were left in his hands. Now he could only sell them off quickly with the help of the Zhen family, one of the four wealthy businessmen.
When Yuan Xi saw that the cars had been pulled in, he asked the soldiers to go out and guard the front and rear doors.
Seeing this, Mrs. Zhang smiled and said, "Don't worry, young master, I have many servants in the Zhen family, so I guarantee there won't be any problems."
Yuan Xi thought of the Mi family, who were also wealthy businessmen. It was said that they had tens of thousands of slaves, and thought that being a businessman was really rich.
So sinful!
The shopkeeper had already gone up and removed the ropes from a large cart, uncovered several layers of linen cloth, and revealed a dozen large boxes.
The clerk lifted the boxes one by one and opened the lid. The goods inside immediately dazzled everyone's eyes.
After the shopkeeper appraised the belongings one by one, he roughly calculated that the contents of these dozen boxes amounted to millions of dollars!
If every car was roughly like this, these things would be worth at least hundreds of millions of dollars!
No wonder Cao Song dared to buy an official position with 100 million yuan!
So sinful!
Zhang looked at Yuan Xi with a complex expression: "Young Master is really powerful. He was able to seize food from a tiger's mouth and snatch such a large sum of money from the Cao family."
Yuan Xi felt proud.
Mrs. Zhang sighed: "It's almost as good as the dowry I prepared for Mi'er. I'm ashamed."
Yuan Xi:…….
(End of chapter)
