Chen Xiaomu's mouth was dry when he was talking about it. He originally thought that he had explained it in such detail, and the top soldier below would understand it no matter how stupid he was. But at this moment, the top soldier below suddenly said in a loud voice: "Master , I am a rough man, you said so much, I can’t even remember it, I only know how to work as an errand to make money to support my wife and children, in short I will arrest whoever you tell me to arrest, that’s all!”
When Chen Xiaomu heard this, he couldn't help but have a headache. He immediately lowered his face and said: "You must remember it even if you don't remember it. From now on, these grade marks will be embroidered on your sleeves so that people can see them at a glance, and what I just said every month is The salary of one or two and five cents is only the monthly salary of the third- and third-level patrol officers at the lowest level among these levels. Each level above will have a difference of five cents in salary. Take the third- and third-level patrol officers as an example. If he is promoted to the third-level and second-level patrol officer, his monthly salary will be increased from one to two and a half silver to two and a half silver, and so on. The chief arrester with the highest rank will get at least five to five silver per month. As a monthly salary!”
"Oh my God, we can actually get so much money. I don't know how high I can be as a government official!" As soon as Chen Xiaomu finished speaking, the veterans below began to talk about it. At this time, there were a few bold veterans in the crowd. He shouted to Chen Xiaomu: "My lord, my lord, my lord, how many levels do you think I can be a government official?"
Chen Xiaomu couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "How many levels of yamen you can be is not decided by me. It mainly depends on your own performance. In the past, you were soldiers, and you only had to charge and kill on the battlefield. , now that you are a government official, you have to deal with all kinds of criminals, so you must be literate, otherwise you can’t even read a simple arrest warrant, how can you catch criminals?”
"Oh! After all this detour, we have to go to some literacy class!" Someone in the crowd sighed.
Chen Xiaomu heard the sound and sneered: "Haha, it's okay not to go, as long as you are willing to be the lowest cadre and get the lowest salary!"
"Sir," someone among the veterans asked casually at this moment: "The younger one is willing to go to the literacy class, but I don't know how much more money he can get every month after joining the literacy class?"
Chen Xiaomu couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and reprimanded: "Do you think you can get more money just by going to the literacy class? Then I tell you now, you are wrong! One month after entering the literacy class, the government will conduct In the assessment, anyone who can understand more than 300 words will be raised by one grade, and his monthly salary will be increased by five taels of silver. If he can understand 500 words, he will be promoted by two grades, and his monthly salary will be increased by one or two taels of silver. By analogy, can it be improved? Your level difference and salary will depend on your own efforts.
"Sir, do you think civilian girls also want to go to literacy classes?" Gao Xiaochun hesitated again and again, but couldn't help but asked timidly.
"Haha" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help laughing and said: "Go, of course you are going. Not only are you going, you two sisters will also be their wives, that is, monitors, and the four of them will be deputy monitors." Chen Xiaomu said with a finger to recognize the five Those four men and women who have more than 100 words.
Probably Gao Xiaochun wanted to know how much monthly salary she could get, so she boldly asked in a stuttering voice: "May I ask, sir, what is the grade of the monitor of this literacy class and how much is his monthly salary?"
Chen Xiaomu raised three fingers to her and replied with a smile: "You can recognize more than a thousand words. According to regulations, you and your sisters should be awarded the rank of second-class and third-class detectives, with a monthly salary of three taels of silver! In addition, you will receive three taels of silver per month!" I will give you five taels of silver as a post-job supplement, which will give you a total monthly salary of three taels and five cents."
Hearing that a weak woman like Gao Xiaochun could earn three to five dollars a month, all the veterans, including Gao Xiaochun himself, were so shocked that their eyes almost dropped! You should know that in the Zheng State, the general reference for the value of copper coins and silver was grain. The main crops produced by the Zheng State at that time were millet and wheat. One stone of millet on the market today (about ninety-three catties in later generations) ) is about one hundred and sixty cents, one stone of wheat is worth about one hundred and eighty cents, and one tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand cents. Think about how much food these three taels and five cents of silver can be exchanged for home! Can it not shock the hearts of the veterans? "
Everyone was dumbfounded for a long time, and they didn't know who it was. Suddenly they looked up to the sky and sighed in the crowd: "Oh my God! Literacy has such great benefits. I'm going to book this literacy class. If anyone stops me, I will have a grudge against him!"
This sentence immediately resonated with everyone, and they all echoed: "Yes, yes, persuading people not to go to literacy classes is like cutting off people's wealth, which is really hateful! After all, everyone is afraid of poverty. I just colluded with everyone in the crowd. When the veterans who didn't waste time in literacy classes heard this, they quickly lowered their heads quietly, not even daring to fart again.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xiaomu finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Zhang Jian beside him and said with a smile: "General Zhang, since you and General Ximen have brought the veterans here, you can't escape innocently on your own. You two have to stay for at least two days. Days later, help me sort out these veterans."
Zhang Jian hugged his hands and said cheerfully: "Mr. Chen, you can arrange these veterans well. It's not too late to thank General Wei and General Ximen! Not to mention two days, in the future, as long as we are free, we will come here to visit them often." of!"
Chen Xiaomu nodded with a smile and just said: "Okay." He saw Ye Duzheng hurriedly came to him, put his mouth to his ear and whispered: "Sir, Chai Yugui wants to see you."
"Who is Chai Yugui?" Chen Xiaomu was stunned after hearing this and quickly searched his mind. He had no impression of this person at all and did not know him at all. Thinking that there were still many things to do next, he didn't want to waste time with someone he didn't know, so he waved his hand to Ye Duzheng and simply said: "No see."
"This...!" Ye Duzheng didn't know that Chen Xiaomu didn't even know that Chai Daguan, a famous man in Xinjing City, didn't know what to say after being flatly rejected by Chen Xiaomu, and stood there in a daze.
Chen Xiaomu glanced at him strangely, and felt something in his heart. He smiled slightly and said, "What? Master Ye, is it important to meet this person named Chai?"
Ye Duzheng cupped his hands and said in a low voice: "Sir, this Chai Yugui is the shopkeeper of Rishengjin, the largest bank in Xinjing City. Some time ago, because the emperor just returned the capital to Xinjing City, the Ministry of Household Affairs did not allocate the special funds in time. Mr. Jia once I came to Chai Yugui's Risheng Money Store to borrow ten thousand taels of silver for emergency turnover! Sir, do you think...?"
"Oh!" Chen Xiaomu suddenly understood. It turned out that he was here to collect a debt. Chen Xiaomu has always attached great importance to credit, so he immediately changed his words: "Master Ye, where is Shopkeeper Chai now?"
Ye Duzheng bowed and said: "Your Majesty, my subordinates have taken him to the Yamen living room to wait."
"Okay, come with me and take a look!" After Chen Xiaomu said this, he turned around and said hello to Zhang Jian, and then walked towards the government office living room with Ye Duzheng.
Chai Yugui is a middle-aged man about forty years old, with a straight face, a medium-sized figure, not fat but not thin, and very well-proportioned. He has three locks of mustache, a pair of slender red phoenix eyes that look into people's depths, and he has a rather majestic look. Momentum, at this time, he was sitting on the couch in the living room, lowering his head and meditating. Suddenly, he saw the light in the living room flickering. He quickly looked up and saw Master Ye accompanying a young man, opening the door curtain and walking in from the outside.
Chai Yugui was a cautious person. When he saw the two people coming in, he quickly stood up and stood with his hands down. Since he didn't know Chen Xiaomu, he would never salute rashly before Ye Duzheng introduced him to the young man's identity.
Seeing the situation, Ye Duzheng took two steps quickly, stepped from behind Chen Xiaomu to between the two of them, and said to Chai Yugui: "Shopkeeper Chai, this is Mr. Chen, the new general judge of the government office. If you have anything, just tell Mr. Chen directly. !”
"Oh!" Chai Yugui was secretly shocked when he heard this. He originally thought that the young man in front of him was a personal attendant sent by the adult in the government office, but he didn't take him seriously. He didn't expect that this young man was so young. After getting on the Tongpan, he immediately bent down to Chen Xiaomu and bowed: "Chai Yugui, a common man, has met Lord Tongpan."
As the saying goes, eating people is soft-spoken and taking people short-handed. This debt of money can be regarded as short-term. Chen Xiaomu stepped forward, took Chai Yugui's hand, and said warmly: "Shopkeeper Chai, please give me two days, and you can bring the IOU over in two days." I will pay back the money in full! What do you think?"
Chai Yugui was startled, knowing that Chen Xiaomu had misunderstood him and thought that he was coming to ask for the money owed to the government office. He hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Master Tongpan, the grassroots came to the government office not because of the money they owed, but because they had something else to ask for." Mr. Yu!"
"Something else?" Chen Xiaomu didn't react for a while.
Chai Yugui coughed dryly and said with some embarrassment: "To be honest with Mr. Chen, the grassroots came back to the government office just to ask you, what are the main responsibilities of the president of the Xinjing Chamber of Commerce, and what is his jurisdiction?"
Hearing what Chai Yugui said, Chen Xiaomu suddenly understood and said with a smile: "Is it possible that Shopkeeper Chai is interested in the position of president of the Xinjing Chamber of Commerce?"
Chai Yugui blushed, bowed and cupped his hands and said, "I hope Lord Chen will make it happen."
Chen Xiaomu nodded and looked at Chai Yugui with a playful look on his face: "I don't know if Shopkeeper Chai didn't read the notice carefully, but there are conditions for becoming the president of the Xinjing Chamber of Commerce."
"Of course, of course." Chai Yugui responded repeatedly. He took out a few pieces of paper from his body, handed them to Chen Xiaomu and said, "Mr. Chen, the common people are all ready. This is the IOU left by the government when they withdrew money from Risheng Qianzhuang last time. The total is 10,000 yuan." In addition to the three thousand five hundred taels, the grassroots people are willing to take out another twenty thousand taels of silver and hand it over to the government for resettlement of the refugees.
Chen Xiaomu sighed softly and said to Chai Yugui: "Shopkeeper Chai, don't take the position of president of this chamber of commerce too seriously. To tell you the truth, this chamber of commerce is actually a semi-official and semi-private organization. President Although the two vice-presidents and the two vice-presidents were awarded the rank of Zhengjiu and Congjiu by the government, they are actually empty frames with no real power. Their duties are to attract merchants in the city to join the Chamber of Commerce, and then to provide services to the merchants who have joined the Chamber of Commerce as members. The government responded to some of their demands and acted as a bridge between the government and merchants. In addition, they had to complete the tasks temporarily assigned by the government!"
Although Chen Xiaomu downplayed the responsibilities of the Chamber of Commerce, Chai Yugui nodded frequently and said: "Zhong, Zhong, Mr. Chen, as long as the imperial court can grant the grassroots official rank, even if the chamber of commerce is empty, the grassroots will recognize it!"
To be honest, after listening to Chai Yugui's words, Chen Xiaomu really couldn't figure it out and thought to himself: "What on earth is going on with these businessmen? Could it be that they can't even keep their accounts and spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy someone who has no real power and is not in the mainstream? A low-level official with an annual salary of only more than forty taels must be a fan of officialdom.
Seeing that Chen Xiaomu was silent for a moment, Chai Yugui couldn't help but become anxious and asked tentatively: "Mr. Chen, could there be someone who bids higher than the common people? If so, the common people can add another five thousand taels!"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head and said with a smile: "Shop Manager Chai, I am actually thinking about another thing related to your bank."
Chai Yugui asked doubtfully: "Mr. Chen, does he have money that he wants to deposit in Risheng Money Manor?"
Chen Xiaomu shook his head: "No, I just want to ask Shopkeeper Chai whether Wu Guanglu, who runs a casino in Xinjing City, has money stored in Risheng Money Bank?"
"This...!" Chai Yugui hesitated for a moment, then wondered: "Mr. Chen, you know, in the bank business, our first priority is to keep our clients' privacy confidential, so please forgive me for not being able to tell you!"
Chen Xiaomu smiled softly when he heard this and said teasingly: "Look, Shopkeeper Chai, you didn't pass the first test of my assessment. Do you still want to be the president of the Chamber of Commerce again?"
