"That's right, that's right. It's not in vain that our master has spent so much time training them. When we see them today, it turns out that all the hard work was not in vain."
Li Xiao, who saw this scene not far away, couldn't help but said with relief.
Li Jinglong praised them: "Master, these talented people are capable. Today they can compete with the young masters from wealthy families. Great things can be accomplished."
After all, the purpose of training this group of talents is to fight against the squires and landlords. Today, they have begun to show their signs, and Mavericks has tried their hand at it.
"That's right, but it still needs some heat."
Li Xiao smiled slightly and said, "Jinglong, what do you think they will say when they go back?"
Li Jinglong thought for a long time, but couldn't think of a reason. He couldn't help but asked curiously: "National Master, what do they want to say most?"
Li Xiao said calmly: "I'm afraid that the desire to make contributions in their hearts can't wait any longer!"
Half a month later.
Return from journey.
Altogether, it has been three months since we arrived in Nanjing. Everyone has changed, is full of ambitions, has a fire in their hearts, and wants to do something serious.
Sure enough, after returning, the scholars began to ask for orders.
On this day, we were training on the school field as usual. During the lunch break, people began to ask for help, and then more and more people came.
"National Master, let us go out and make contributions."
"Yes, we have lived idle for three months without doing anything. The Imperial Master is so kind to us, and we have no way to repay him. We can only do things for the Imperial Master."
"National Master, let us go and make some achievements, we are already very hungry and thirsty!"
The scholars have been training for three months and are now very motivated. They have been holding back for three full months and are exhausted.
This is what Li Xiao wants to see.
When a person is very motivated, he cannot be stopped.
Li Xiao waved his hand: "No, you are not enough now, you still need to continue training."
"That's enough, that's enough, please let us go out and make great achievements!"
The scholars shouted in unison.
Seeing this, Li Xiao smiled lightly: "Can you do it?"
Everyone patted their chests and said, "We'll be fine!"
"Okay!" Li Xiao said loudly: "After training for so long, everyone's growth is obvious to all. My master is very pleased. In the past three months, no one has escaped from the battlefield, and no one has complained about suffering and tiredness. Now, you have been reborn. , since you want to make contributions so much, let’s start from tomorrow!”
The words fell.
The scholars were all happy.
It’s finally time to get down to business, it’s finally started!
"Qiu Shui, are the personnel arrangements in place?"
Li Xiao looked at Qiu Shui and asked.
A few days ago, Li Xiao handed over the situation of the yamen, townships, counties, villages, and fields in Yingtian Mansion to Qiu Shui, the general manager, and asked him to compile it into a book, mark it on the map, and allocate these talents at the same time.
Qiu Shui came over, took out the assigned booklet and map and handed them to Li Xiao, saying, "Master, the arrangements have been made. Please take a look at them."
Li Xiao nodded and took a look at the map. The counties, townships, and villages were marked on the map and numbered.
Each number represents a house area and a person.
There are more than 1,54 natural villages in Yingtian Prefecture.
In ancient times, villages were the basic organizational form of society and the basic units of rural society and farmers' production. They were very large in number.
On the map, the population of the villages is also marked. The villages with a small population have only twenty or thirty people, while the villages with a large population have a population of more than a thousand people.
Calculated in this way, each of the fifteen hundred or so scholars must also serve as the president of the dormitory, so there will still be vacancies for the vice president and dormitory members. Li Xiao suddenly felt that there were not enough people.
The position of vice president can remain vacant, but temporary workers can be hired locally.
Or when the national examination is held later, more positions can be created, but this needs to wait until the national treasury is more abundant. After all, the expenditure of the national treasury is very large now. In addition to war expenditures, there is also construction and statehood.
There is also a roster, which marks which person is responsible for which village, all determined based on the ranking of the last Glory Tournament.
Those with high rankings go to villages with a large number of people. Such villages are difficult to manage and require powerful people to take charge, otherwise it will be difficult to intervene.
Those with low rankings and weak abilities will go to small villages with twenty or thirty people.
It is not a waste of resources, because the population has increased significantly with the new decree. The total population of the Ming Dynasty is now more than 60 million. As long as various poll taxes and other taxes are cancelled, and the increase in food is added, the growth will naturally explode.
"Qiu Shui, you did a good job."
Li Xiao was very satisfied with Qiu Shui's arrangement. She had spent three years cultivating his arithmetic and logic. She was very good at this kind of table arrangement.
"Thank you, Master, for the compliment."
Qiu Shui bowed and said, "This is what a slave should do."
Li Xiao nodded slightly, then looked at the scholars and said loudly: "You have successfully passed the hardships of these three months and passed the test of your country's division. Originally, some of you were the dormitory chiefs, and some were the deputy dormitory chiefs. But my national division has decided to designate you all as dormitory chiefs. From today on, you are officials. The Ming Dynasty’s imperial court ordered the district chiefs of official dormitories to enjoy the salary of the court!"
The words fell.
The school grounds were in a state of excitement.
"What? Are we all house leaders now?"
"That's right, didn't you hear? They are all from the House Chief! If you are a thirteenth-grade official, you will enjoy the salary of the imperial court!"
"That's great. I got more than 1,900 marks in this national examination. I thought I was a deputy. The National Master has been so kind to us all."
"I heard that although the Zhengshe District Chief is a thirteenth-grade official, his salary is higher than that of a tenth-grade official."
"Yes, I've also heard that there is a 'subsidy for going to the countryside', which means you leave your hometown and work as a district chief in the countryside. You are given a monthly subsidy of five taels of silver. With this subsidy, the salary is quite considerable."
All the scholars were very happy.
Everyone thanked in unison: "Thank you, Imperial Master!"
The sound resounded through the sky!
Li Xiao nodded slightly, and then said loudly: "No pain, no gain, you will work hard next, the district chief will only be the starting point, not the end. The National Division will always pay attention to your political achievements, although it is only to manage a group of people." A village can become a wealthy village if it is done well! For example, the model chicken village in Dong'an County, Beiping City, produces 10,000 chickens every year, and the Brick-Shaking Village in Wanping, which produces 100,000 bricks and tiles every year. .Every house of the common people is built with bricks and tiles, and every meal has good wine and good food. It is your political achievement to let the common people live a good life! You are all carefully trained by our national teachers. What our national teachers like most is to promote talents from the grassroots. . In the future, it is possible to be promoted to county magistrate, magistrate, or even to the capital as a capital official, so do your best!"
Li Xiao took advantage of the situation and drew a big pie and asked them to work hard.
In fact, it is not a short-term pie. If they perform well, Li Xiao is very willing to promote these people. What Ming Dynasty lacks now is hard-working and good officials.
The scholars were very happy to eat this pie, because they knew that the Imperial Master was really not stingy, and they said in unison: "We will definitely live up to the Imperial Master's expectations!"
"Very good, all I need is this energy!"
Li Xiao nodded, and then asked someone to read the roster.
"Yu Qian was appointed as the head of Tangjia Village in Yingtian Mansion, Jiangning Town, Qilin Township."
"Yu Qian takes the order!"
Yu Qian was so excited that he finally got down to business, working for the Ming Dynasty with passion!
"Shi Qi was appointed as the head of Yingtian Mansion, Jiangning Town, Qilin Township, and Huanghua Village."
"Shi Qi takes the order!"
"Xu Sanduo was appointed as the head of Gaolao Village in Yingtian Mansion, Jiangning Town, Qilin Township."
"Team Xu takes the order!"
The morning passed and everyone was assigned a position.
Soon, everyone received an appointment document.
This appointment document, Li Xiao, has been filed with the Ministry of Household Affairs. He can report to the county government office with the document.
The superior of the house district is the county government, which is under the control of the county magistrate.
They need to find the county magistrate, and then get money from the county government's treasury to buy a piece of land in the village, and then build a dormitory building as an office space.
If you need to start a business project later, you will also need to get money from the county government.
There must be many difficulties here. After all, why would the county magistrate give money to the community to do things?
However, these difficulties must be solved by yourself.
the Rainbow comes after the storm?
"Okay! Everyone has received the appointment documents. What should we do next? We don't need to be taught by our national teachers again, right? We already had training at the Ming Official Training Academy at the end of last year." Li Xiao joked: "Everyone has learned Three months, you shouldn’t have forgotten it, right?”
That was last year.
All the top 2,000 candidates for the national examination have gone through this training.
The training is on how to build shelter areas in rural areas and how to lead villagers to get rich.
This series of steps and processes includes how to build and manage the housing area, how to establish ledgers, and how to establish village enterprises based on local conditions.
These Li Xiao had people draw them into a booklet for them to learn from, and also asked a dozen of Peiping's district chiefs who had done a good job to teach everyone their experience.
Therefore, Li Xiao doesn't need to waste any time on this point.
Just let them go and they'll know what to do.
Last year, the training time at the training academy was three months.
Food and accommodation are included, and there is a monthly salary of five taels of silver.
Li Xiao trained them for another three months in Nanjing, with the same allowance of food and accommodation, and a monthly salary of ten taels of silver.
In addition, Li Xiao gave them twenty taels of silver as a reward for the Glory Tournament.
In other words, almost every scholar has at least sixty-five taels of silver.
With these silver taels, it is enough for them to purchase clothes and supplies in the early stage. Later, when the official salary comes, they will have a monthly salary of close to 20 taels of silver, and their life is guaranteed.
"National Master, we still remember it." The scholars laughed.
Li Xiao smiled and said: "That's good. In addition, I will arrange three soldiers for each person to assist you in the early stage. You can choose from the soldiers of Cixi Guard. However, this is a free obligation to help you, so you must entertain them well. , it’s delicious and delicious, don’t be too picky, you know?”
The Cixi Guard soldiers were already paid, but Li Xiao did not intend to pay them.
But the soldiers would definitely be willing to let these dormitory chiefs take care of their food and drink.
In addition, they get along relatively well with each other during this period, so let them choose familiar people.
It would be somewhat weak if these talents were asked to report to the county government alone.
Three soldiers are assigned to each person. Even if they do nothing, standing behind them will have a different aura.
Presumably, even if the county magistrate doesn't want to pay attention, he can't make it look too ugly on the surface.
After all, they were the ones sent out by themselves, so they couldn't be too shabby.
"Thank you, Imperial Master!"
When they heard that each person could be assigned three soldiers to help the village, the scholars all said excitedly: "We will definitely take good care of the Cixi Guard brothers and we will not neglect them!"
"Okay! You can pack your bags today and report in tomorrow. In addition..."
Li Xiao pointed at this group of scholars and cursed: "You guys are sour and stinky. No wonder you had conflicts with people over at West Lake. What kind of rags are you wearing?? It makes people disgusted. This afternoon, I will immediately wear these rags." Throw away your clothes for me, take the silver reward I gave you, and go buy a few sets of decent clothes on the street. Don’t go out to embarrass me, and don’t be reluctant to part with a few coins. There is a saying that my talents will be useful, even if all the money is gone Come back again. If you are an iron rooster, don’t say that you are a person trained by our national master. It is a shame. People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. You wear rags and go to the village and say that you will lead the villagers to get rich. Do you think anyone will believe you? Can you do a good job?"
Li Xiao cursed at these scholars.
It's not enough without scolding. These people are used to being poor and will save money if they can.
We must use scolding to change their consumption concepts.
This does not mean that you should be extravagant and wasteful, but if you have money, basic necessities of life, food, clothing, housing and transportation should be at least acceptable.
Li Xiao scolded him, and some of the scholars below were moved to tears.
Sincerity for sincerity, they can feel the hard work that Li Xiao has put into them.
"We will not let the Imperial Master down."
The scholars cried and cried.
Touched, really touched.
They have never met such a noble person, who gives them a stage and cares about their lives.
"The whole house is full of men, all acting like daughters!"
Li Xiao cursed, then waved his hand and said: "Get out of here, you look annoying."
"I will obey."
The scholars stood upright one by one, bowed deeply towards Li Xiao, and then wiped away their tears.
Everyone hangs out with each other and goes out to buy new clothes.
In addition, the scholars also took three selected soldiers and invited the soldier brothers to a restaurant to drink and enjoy themselves.
After all, the Imperial Master had warned them not to be iron roosters.
These soldier brothers will have to help them later and must be treated kindly.
Gradually, the scholars and soldiers from the entire military camp went to the market.
Suddenly it became empty.
"Strange. I actually feel a little reluctant to let go."
Li Xiao looked at the empty school grounds and couldn't help but say.
After three months of living and eating together, three months of getting along day and night, some feelings were more or less developed.
This group of scholars did not disappoint Li Xiao.
Li Xiao deeply felt that these scholars were actually ambitious.
It's just that they are not talented enough to write eight-legged essays and cannot pass the exams.
But it's not bad in some aspects, they just lack an opportunity.
And now I have given them this opportunity.
They are also willing to seize this opportunity to climb up.
"National Master, if you treat them sincerely and train them, they will naturally feel it. You have the kindness to teach them. Although they do not worship you as their master, you have the kindness to teach them."
"After three months of getting along day and night, it's normal to be reluctant to let go. This is why the general and the soldier have been together for a long time, and the soldier is willing to go through life and death for the general."
"In other words, these talents are now the soldiers in your hands."
Li Jinglong smiled and explained that he felt the same way.
He didn't know this before, but when he was in Cixi, he discovered that if you treat the soldiers sincerely, the soldiers will return double the favor.
Such an army is called an army whose officers and men work together as one, can win battles, and fight fiercely.
Li Xiaoshen felt the same way: "Yes, they are all soldiers of our own division, opening up territory for me."
Li Jinglong nodded, and then said worriedly: "However, Imperial Master, this time you sent them to report and do things, but you did not let the county magistrates know in advance. I am afraid it will be difficult for them to go out this time. It’s likely to fail.”
"Of course I know."
Li Xiao smiled slightly: "It's not that they may fail, they will definitely fail."
Hearing this, Li Jinglong was a little confused, "Then why did the Imperial Master let them out?"
Li Xiao pointed to the horizon and said loudly: "Now is the time for them to be complacent. The more it is at this time, the less likely it is to let them go too smoothly, so I deliberately did not prepare everything. How can you see the rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? Experience? It takes a setback to understand this."
"the Rainbow comes after the storm."
Li Jinglong murmured to himself, and then suddenly realized that there was still training.
The national teacher has its own way of cultivating talents.
Li Xiao looked at the sky and said slowly: "In addition to training, there is another meaning, which is to tell the family gentry of Yingtian Mansion that the war is about to begin." (End of Chapter)
