Chapter 020
Seeing these hundreds of households and trial households becoming more and more excited, they all approached Cheng Shijie step by step.
"Back off, back off!"
At this time, Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu, and others were not there. Only ten servants from the Hundred Households stood in front of Cheng Shijie with their bodies. Cheng Shijie dared to summon these officials from the Hundred Households because he was well prepared. He had a pig-driving artifact in his hand. , which is also a stunner.
Cheng Shijie hid the electric shock device in his sleeve. As long as anyone dared to come forward, Cheng Shijie was prepared to make anyone suffer.
"You all get out of the way, I want to see who dares to rebel today!"
When Cheng Shijie said this, the servants and soldiers drew their swords one after another. Chen Dayong, the flag-bearer of the middle hundred households, pointed at the hundreds of households in the hall: "Step back, you dare to disrespect the Lord Qianhu, why don't you hurry up and show respect to the Lord Qianhu?" Kowtow and apologize.”
Liu Ning, the official of Ganquan Baihu Office, glared at Chen Dayong and said: "Chen Dayong, you are the second son of Chen Laosan's family, right? Now your wings are hard? You dare to use a knife in front of me? Come and chop here!"
Liu Ning pointed at his neck.
"Puch..."
Chen Dayong slashed at Liu Ning's neck, and Liu Ning looked at Chen Dayong in disbelief.
He felt as if his body had been drained of energy, and his physical strength was rapidly disappearing.
"you……"
Before Liu Ning could say another word, he fell to the ground and twitched a few times and stopped moving.
The other hundred households looked at each other, somewhat at a loss what to do.
Zhou Yandong, the oldest official among the hundreds of households, saw that the matter was getting serious, so he bit the bullet and said: "Qianhu adults sympathize with their subordinates, and the subordinates understand it on behalf of the officers and soldiers. It's just that the lives of the officers and soldiers are their lives. Is it possible?" Isn’t an officer’s life life?”
Cheng Shijie said calmly: "You are not allowed to drink the blood of the soldiers and eat the flesh of the soldiers. I am just not allowed to take out the silver from the soldiers. You deserve what you deserve, and this thousand households can replenish it with the silver!"
The salary of a hundred-household official is nominally one hundred and twenty shi of grain, and from the sixth rank it is one hundred and ten shi of grain, and an additional ninety Feng Guan salary notes are given. In the early Ming Dynasty, salary notes were still worth some money, but by the Chongzhen Dynasty, there was basically nothing left.
Now Cheng Shijie has money in his hands and confidence in his heart. Even if all officers are given Dai, it will be three dan per month for each hundred households, plus seven trial hundred households, two dan and eight heads per person, twenty general banners, one stone and five dou per month for each person, and one hundred small banners. Each person gets one stone and two buckets per month.
All the officers added together were worth one hundred and ninety-nine shi and six dou of grain. According to the current calculation of five taels of silver per shi of grain in Dengzhou, it was one hundred taels of silver.
Listening to Cheng Shijie's request to make up for the money, Zhou Yandong said: "Master Qianhu, the expenses for these more than a hundred comrades cost more than one hundred taels of silver. It's really unbearable for the lower officials to have Master Qianhu spend so much alone. What's more, , It’s unreasonable for Mr. Qianhu to donate money by himself, and I’m just afraid that Shangfeng has some ideas..."
Cheng Shijie pointed at Zhang Ruyi and said: "Zhang Qianshu!"
"Be humble!"
"Right now, food is being distributed outside, and all banners, small banners, and hundreds of households are being notified, and hundreds of households are being tested. Everyone will receive according to the allocated share!"
"How embarrassing is this!"
The hundreds of households and the trial households pretended to be evasive and went out to collect food with a lot of thanks. Now Zuo Qianhusuo was impoverished. Not to mention the ordinary military households who had no food, even the officials of hundreds of households, most of the generals and banners I can't open the pot at home.
When hundreds of households were about to leave, Cheng Shijie stopped Zhou Yandong.
"Zhou Baihu, wait a moment!"
"I don't know what your orders are, Senhu-sama!"
Now Zhou Yandong, an old man, no longer dares to underestimate Cheng Shijie, a smiling tiger. In Zhou Yandong's eyes, Cheng Shijie is a smiling tiger.
Without any hesitation, Liu Ning was hacked to death. Of course, Liu Ning has no backing. He has been a hereditary official of hundreds of households for more than 20 years. Because of his bad temper, he could not get praise from the adults of Qianhu every time he was evaluated. The four adults of Qianhu before and after did not receive praise, so he would die. Death in vain.
He used food to buy people's hearts. With just a few hundred taels of silver, he won the favor of these military households. Especially the servants who had just been recruited a few days ago worked hard for Cheng Shijie. Especially the one who took action, Chen Dayong, was a soldier from Liu Ning Baihu Station, and his father was still a soldier under Liu Baihu.
This dares to attack Liu Ning without fear of revenge, which shows that Cheng Shijie is good at winning people's hearts.
Of course Zhou Yandong didn't know that Chen Dayong and the 161 newly recruited servants were all involved in the assassination of Gao Wang, the former Qianhu master. Gao Wang was stabbed more than 160 times. Dao, as well as Mr. Li and his four sons, everyone is like this.
As long as these things were leaked, it would be a serious crime to confiscate their homes and be executed. They had already boarded Cheng Shijie's pirate ship, and there was no possibility of getting off the ship.
Cheng Shijie pondered: "Our deputy Qianhu, Han Wenfei of Zuo Qianhu, has been ill for more than half a year. Qianhu also needs an experienced person to assist Qianhu. I think Zhou Baihu is very good and can be this person." Deputy Qianhu, of course, Ben Qianhu only has the power to recommend, but not decide, the appointment and dismissal of deputy Qianhu level officials. After a while, Ben Qianhu will submit a document to the Wei Commander Si Yamen saying that Deputy Qianhu Han is too old to bear the heavy responsibility. …”
Zhou Yandong was stunned for a long time and did not react.
Even though there is only one step away between the official of a hundred households and the deputy official of a thousand households, it is equivalent to the difference between the director level and the deputy director level in later generations. Many people will be stuck at this level for the rest of their lives.
What's more, the Ming Dynasty was different from other dynasties in that this official position was hereditary. Just like Qi Jiguang, his starting point was actually higher than many people. He was a hereditary Dengzhou Guard commander and a fourth-grade military officer.
Zhou Yandong was already forty and seventeen years old, and he was considered an elderly person in the Ming Dynasty. He did not have much pursuit of an official career. But the problem was that this official position was hereditary and could be passed on to his son.
An official from hundreds of households supported by thousands of households only needs money to be promoted. Regardless of Zhou Yandong's complaints about poverty, he can still afford the money to smoothen the relationship. Otherwise, as a small landowner for more than 20 years, he would have wasted his time.
Cheng Shijie took out a piece of silver from his pocket. The piece of silver was not large, only about five taels.
Zhou Yandong was shocked: "Master Qianhu, how can this be done?"
"From now on, you are the deputy Qianhu of our Zuo Qianhu Office. This is what you deserve!"
Cheng Shijie said: "But, your Zhongzuo Baihu must be released. This Qianhu is planning to let Chang Yu serve as the Zhongzuo Baihu. From now on, Zhongzuo Bai and Zhongbai will both be the servants of this Qianhu." household."
Zhou Yandong understood instantly. As expected, this Deputy Qianhu was not that easy to get.
However, before he was disappointed, Cheng Shijie said again: "However, I won't treat Brother Zhou badly. There are some thorns in the Ganquan Hundred Households. This Qianhu household is worried that Chang Yu is young and cannot shake them. If Brother Zhou goes there, he should You can conquer these thorns!"
Zhou Yandong could only sigh inwardly, Cheng Shijie deserved to be an official. Look at this man's Machiavellian tactics. Killing Liu Ning and seizing his 100 households would definitely result in the hostility of Liu Ning's confidants. However, Cheng Shijie let himself In the past, they moved to Ganquan Baihu Station, but Ganquan Baihu Station was far away from Qianhu Station.
This means that as Deputy Qianhu, he basically has little opportunity to take charge of the Qianhu Office.
What's more important is that he still has no way to refuse.
…
"Congratulations, Zhang Baihu!"
"Congratulations, Zhang Baihu!"
When Changyu returned from buying grain, he met many old friends from the Thousand Household Office. They came up to congratulate Changyu on becoming a Hundred Household Office.
You must know that after ten days, Changyu was still a poor military household who had eaten his last meal without finishing his meal. However, the problem was that when Cheng Shijie recruited his servants, he relied on his extraordinary physical strength, ability to fight and courage to fight, and was promoted to the rank of Little flag officer.
Then, after killing Gao Wang and handing in the certificate of surrender from Chongjinpo, he was promoted to the general banner. Now that he has returned from purchasing grain, he has been promoted to the official of hundreds of households?
Changyu still felt like he was dreaming.
He pinched his thigh hard.
hiss……
It hurts.
In fact, getting promoted from a hundred households has the same effect as Cheng Shijie buying an official. All it takes is money. Unlike a deputy from a thousand households who often pays thousands of taels of silver, the official from a hundred households actually doesn't cost much.
Ordinary people will not become military households. A hundred-year-old official has to be exploited by thousands of households, and he does not have much oil and water. For example, Zuoqianhu in Dengzhou only has more than 23,000 acres of land, and each hundred-year-old household has an average of more than 2,000 acres. How much money can be made from the land, coupled with years of drought?
In fact, most of the money raised by Baihu to be promoted went to Qianhu, and the commander was just the handler, and this matter was also considered one of the benefits of Qianhu officials.
