The happy time on vacation is always short-lived. After praying to make his wife feel relieved, Gu Chen had to get busy again.
The Ministry of Rites has arranged for people to go to Kaifeng, Runing and other places to start checking household registrations and organizing examinations, and is preparing to transfer these admitted people to Yingtian.
The county government office is divided into three classes and six bureaus. The third class is the yamen servants and the sixth bureau is the officials.
Officials do not need to retake the exam. All they need to do is transfer the original officials to other places to disrupt their foundation.
After all, the officials had read a lot of books, and some had failed the imperial examinations several times and were demoted to officials, so they could still be used.
But the government officials are different. This kind of work has little technical content but is very harmful to the local area. It must be strictly rectified.
Although people from other places are not as convenient to work as locals and don't know the basics, it is still better than pretending to be the county magistrate, right?
Of course, some local people must be left behind to facilitate work.
There are not many left, and the county government can only have ten local people at most.
This is mainly to prevent the occurrence of the situation where the government officials beat the county magistrate by taking advantage of the large number of people.
But it must not have anything to do with rich gentry, this is an iron rule.
As long as there aren't many people, there won't be any trouble.
The requirements for yamen officials to refer to are: height should be more than five feet as measured by the tailoring ruler, people from poor families, not only children, those who understand the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and those with strong physiques are preferred.
The tailoring ruler of the Ming Dynasty was one foot, which is now 34 centimeters, so five feet is 1.7 meters, which is not a high requirement.
Exam content: running, martial arts, moral character and law.
Salary and welfare: Once hired, there is no need to pay the county tax revenue. The salary is directly distributed by the court. The wages of Zaoli and Ma Kuai are different.
The lowest salary is that of a jailer, who also gets eighteen shi of food per year.
Although the three classes in the yamen, except for the Zhuang class, all have low status and cannot take the scientific examination.
Is it important whether someone who is cheap or not is eating?
The imperial court gave such good benefits, so naturally everyone signed up enthusiastically.
Gu Chen took his people to Jiangpu County, where the police officers and jailers made the most noise, lying on the ground and rolling around, refusing to leave.
"My grandfather worked in the government office, and my father also worked in the county government office. It has been passed down to me for three generations. Eight people in the family, young and old, all eat at me."
"The court said we were laid off, so how are we supposed to live?"
The leader seemed to be the leader of this group of government officials. He was sitting on the ground and making noises, but there wasn't even a tear on his face.
"Wang Yong?" Gu Chen took the yellow book, looked at his basic situation and said, "With your physique, you must weigh 200 pounds, right?"
"You're the one who comes to the Yamen as an errand. Come, I'll ask you."
"If there is a money robber right now, and he robs people of their money bags and runs away, can you catch up even if you are out of breath even after walking a few steps?"
He has grown into a square shape and can still work as a government servant. Then Zhu Pangpang can also become Zhu Xiaosi, mounting a horse and carrying a gun to fight in all directions?
Ma: Don’t touch me!
Hearing this, Wang Yong's face froze. He came to the Yamen as an errand to enjoy the blessings.
Catching someone?
Catch whom?
It's your misfortune that the people's money bags were robbed. He could only ask a few questions and write it down. Even if the job is done, how can he pursue it?
Those are extremely vicious people, what if they get hurt?
But in order to keep this job, he still acted in a coy and mean manner.
"Mr. Gu, although I am fat, I can still run very fast. An ordinary Xiaoxiao cannot escape from my grasp."
He won't leave anyway, no matter what.
Do you know how rich his job is?
In the last month alone, he earned more than a dozen dollars. Do you know where he got it from?
Ask the vendors about the stall fees they collect, and the prisoners in the jail.
Want something good to eat?
You want to sleep better, drink some clean water, or you say you want to take a bath.
It’s all fine, just pay.
As long as you give him money, he can help you whether you want to stay in prison or to continue your family lineage.
Without this job, where can he find a good job that can make so much money?
Gu Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, "Oh, really?"
Wang Yong didn't know what he wanted to do, but he still said with a smile.
"Yes, Master Gu, I run really fast, please don't..."
Don't cut him!
Gu Chen nodded, quickly took off his money bag from his waist, threw it to Gu An behind him, and then pointed at him.
"If you can catch up with him and restrain him today, then you can stay."
Xiao Anzi looked at Wang Yongdao who was still acting recklessly on the ground with disdain on his face.
"I won't run away. You bring ten people up. As long as you can get my master's money bag back from my hands, I will consider you to have won."
At this time, the people gathered around to watch the excitement and speculated whether the young man could do it.
Although Fatty Wang is indeed fat and may not be able to run, but if ten government servants come together, this young man may not be able to defeat them, right?
"Can you do it?"
Although Gu Chen wasn't too worried about Anzi, he still asked pretendingly.
"Don't embarrass me."
Being too pretentious can lead to overturning, so be more modest.
"Sir, I'm fine with being a little kid."
Gu An immediately assured loudly, how could a man say no?
"Sure." Gu Chen looked at Wang Yong and warned in a deep voice: "His Majesty said that those who leave obediently will be exempted from their humble status."
"It doesn't matter whether you go home and farm, or you can train your children and grandchildren to study for the imperial examinations."
"If he is stubborn, he will be punished with hard labor from generation to generation."
"I will give you a chance. If you can snatch back the money bag and keep it, if you cannot snatch the money bag back, you will be directly punished with hard labor."
"Choose for yourself!"
He doesn't have the time or energy to play with these people, so he must let them know that there will be a price to pay for failure.
If there is no price, these people will provoke the court's policy at every turn.
Then they don't have to do anything and just hang around these people.
How much time will be wasted eating, sleeping, and fishing?
Wang Yong was stunned, and a fake smile immediately appeared on his chubby cheeks.
"...No, it's not Mr. Gu. Shouldn't the villain just leave after losing? How...why should he be directly punished with hard labor?"
With his body like this, it's difficult for him to walk even a few steps, so how can he go to work?
Gu An had long been unhappy with the fat man who couldn't run away. When he saw that he dared to question what the adults said, he directly scolded him.
"My lord, just listen. Where do you get so many questions?"
His temperament was different from that of an ordinary boy. When he was angry, he was full of cruelty, which made Wang Yong tremble in fear.
"Yes, yes, the villain is talking too much."
At the same time, my heart began to waver. Emperor Zhu was a man of his word.
The Hu Weiyong case, the Kongyin case, and the Guo Huan case all cost tens of thousands.
Who is he?
Seeing this, Gu Chen looked at Anzi with satisfaction and admiration, feeling that this child was really looking more and more like a young boy.
The honey trap that Pearl used was indeed the right one.
The effect is great!
Gu Chen reached out to Wang Yong who was on the ground, pulled him to his feet cordially, and said kindly: "How about it, have you thought about it?"
"Should I regain my good status and leave, or should I go with these overseers who are short of people?"
"I know that we are all smart people. What is there to do in this humble office? After so many years, have we saved a lot of salary?"
"Take the money and go back to support your children in school. Wouldn't it be better to take the imperial examination and become an official in the future?"
Now the Ming Dynasty still needs to build many cities and water conservancy projects, as well as the palaces of vassal princes in various places. This is the time when they are short of people.
Oh, the imperial mausoleum also needs to be repaired.
These people usually just put on a show when they are on duty, shouting "powerful" and that's it. How can any of them really chase or beat up any vicious people?
Therefore, when everyone looked at the muscular Gu An, everyone was a little afraid to gamble.
What's more, Master Gu gave them face and gave them a good reason.
That's right, compared with future generations' imperial examinations, compared with doing hard labor.
This Yamen bureau seems not so important.
After struggling for a while, everyone took off their signs one by one and chose to leave the county government office. Wang Yong was the last to leave.
There is no other way, everyone else has left, but he won’t leave?
Why don't you leave and wait to work as a labor force?
There are also a few families who are really poor and have nothing to do with the landlords and squires.
Gu Chen didn't feel embarrassed. If he wanted to stay, he could just let the Ministry of Rites retrain them and stay to bring in new people for the county magistrate to dispatch.
His side was fine, but Zhan Hui's side was miserable. I heard that some yamen officials claimed that they would be killed in the yamen and refused to leave, life or death.
The landowners and gentry also gathered together to speak for their own people.
And based on their own power, they found officials in the court and went to the emperor to intercede.
Let Lao Zhu leave a way for them to survive, and don't make it impossible for them to survive. The emperor is annoyed by the sage's doctrines.
Su Wanying stayed at home and heard about the chaos in Yingtian Prefecture's counties.
"During the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Renzong abolished Sandu, which also caused such trouble."
"At that time, Song Renzong had a weak ear, so he would just let it go after such a scene. I wonder what will happen to His Majesty today?"
In any case, the current determination should be greater than that of Song Renzong, right?
