Seeing the eyes of these students, Yan Yan smiled lightly.
"Why is there no government office? It's just a convenience service center." Qian Shao took the lead in walking in front, and the others immediately followed.
Not only are they not used to it, even Qian Shao is not used to it either.
When he came to Zhaojiazhuang Town for business, he did not expect that the convenience service center was the Yamen of Zhaojiazhuang Town.
As the saying goes, if the eight-character yamen opens to the south (difficult to open), don't come in if you have reason but no money.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the government offices are high and out of reach.
Isn’t there a saying that the magistrate who destroys the family is the prefect who destroys the family?
But here in Zhaojiazhuang Town, the situation was reversed, and the yamen turned into a convenience service center.
The other students, except those from Zhaojiazhuang Academy, all looked confused.
All of them have the idea of cultivating their moral character and governing the country and bringing peace to the world, and they also have the feeling of praying for the lives of the people.
Since they are scholars, they naturally think that they are superior to others.
They save the common people, not serve the common people.
But now that I came to Zhaojiazhuang, my heart suddenly felt strongly stimulated and even shocked.
Scholars are not so superior to others, but serve the people.
They are no longer high-minded scholars, and their hearts are empty.
Chen Shi couldn't accept it for a moment. He swallowed hard and couldn't help but bowed his hands and asked: "Official, why is the Yamen here in Zhaojiazhuang Town called a convenience service center?"
"Of course there is. Since ancient times, the government has been called a government office." The tax number also found it incomprehensible and immediately jumped in and out.
Except for Zhaojiazhuang Academy, the other students did not speak, but their eyes were full of questions.
"This naturally has its origin. Didn't Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once say that the people are the most precious and the king is the most important?" Qian Shao straightened his clothes, straightened his official hat, bowed his hands to the sky, and said solemnly, "Since the king is the most important, the king is the most important." , what do I think of these eighth-grade officials?"
"Exactly, Zhaojiazhuang Town was originally just a Zhuangzi. After it was upgraded to a town, it didn't have as many restrictions as other yamen. Naturally, it can truly realize the concept of the people being the most precious and the emperor being the least important." Yan Yan also sorted out his official hat and clothes and looked towards the sky. He bowed his hands and said solemnly.
They thought there was no basis, but they did not expect that there was any basis.
The tax officer swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth, only to find that he couldn't find a reason to refute.
In the previous dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was called the first emperor of the ages, so he was naturally the most authoritative person.
He is just a small person, how can he deny it.
Except for Tian Mengwan and others who were the original students of Zhaojiazhuang, other people such as Taxpayer, Zhang Liang and others changed their expressions and were startled. They also arranged their clothes and said with great solemnity: "Students are taught."
Seeing the indifferent look on Zhaojiazhuang Academy's face, the tax officer couldn't help but get furious.
"We have already admitted that the people are the noblest of the king, so why don't you feel this way yet?" The tax officer asked with an extremely serious look on his face.
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The students at Zhaojiazhuang Academy looked at each other, shook their heads, and smiled lightly.
Seeing their expressions, the tax officer became even more angry. He stepped forward and immediately opened his mouth to scold them.
Tian Mengwan came out immediately, smiled faintly, bowed his hands and said, "Zi Ling, the people are more noble than the emperor. We have the articles we learned in Zhaojiazhuang Academy, and they are still hanging in the school."
"Exactly, we often intern at the Convenience Service Center, and we also know that it is the yamen of Zhaojiazhuang Town." Another student named Forest Farm came out and said.
The Forestry Farm also did well in this examination, and got the second place among Changyuan County Scholars.
Not only have they studied in books, but they have also experienced it in internships.
Upon hearing this, the tax ID's face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, and he wanted to say something.
As a result, I found that I couldn't say anything. I felt so depressed that I had to keep my mouth shut.
After thinking about it, he decided to change the subject and asked respectfully: "You two are the same year, what are you doing as an intern at the Convenience Service Center?"
"It's just collecting taxes, resettling the elderly, issuing house title deeds, resolving neighborhood disputes, fighting for land and water, demarcating land, and other miscellaneous matters." Tian Meng smiled bitterly, "In the past, when people had problems, they would go to the clan leaders. Convenient service center.”
"What, you guys are actually able to solve major issues within the clan? Aren't you afraid that the clan leader will embarrass you?" When the tax officer heard this, it was like a book from heaven, and he couldn't believe it was true.
Hood's eyes widened and he took two or three steps back in fright. His face first turned pale and then turned extremely red.
Tian Menghan shook his head, smiled faintly, and said calmly: "In other places, the imperial power does not go to the countryside, and Zhaojiazhuang Town has not considered the imperial power to go to the countryside, but the people come to the door themselves and actively ask us to solve their problems."
See, Zhaojiazhuang Town didn’t let the imperial power go to the countryside. It was the people who came to see it, okay?
"But if this is the case, what are you going to do as tax collectors, as well as building roads and bridges, water conservancy canals, and educating the people?" The tax number belongs to a big family, so naturally they know the power of a big family, especially the patriarch.
The first thing a county magistrate does when he comes down is to improve the relationship with the clan.
Without the support of these big family patriarchs and squire elders, it can be said that the county magistrate's decree would be difficult to leave the county.
Without the support of the clan leader, no matter how much you are the county magistrate, you can never hope to mobilize the people.
Because the people only recognize the clan leader and don't recognize you as the county magistrate at all.
Many people in the Song Dynasty may not know who the county magistrate is, but they must know who the patriarch is.
If they have any problems, they always go to the clan leader to solve them. They rarely go to the government, except for homicide cases.
When the county magistrate asks for taxes, laborers, construction of roads and bridges, water conservancy and canals, and education of the people, he has to plead with the clan leader, otherwise his political achievements will not come from anywhere.
It can be said that the clan leader is the emperor of a land or even the emperor of the land. Some large clans even have their own nominal troops such as regiment training and security.
Their family is not particularly big, but there are thousands of people in the clan, and there are about a hundred servants with weapons.
Although it cannot be compared with regular soldiers and horses, there is absolutely no problem when encountering ordinary bandits.
Now that I heard that there was no need to go beyond the clan leader, the tax number took a breath of air and was at a loss, like a clay or wood carving.
Clan is the foundation for establishing a person, the foundation for a person, and the foundation for a family. This has always been the concept of the tax code.
The reason why he was able to become a member of the Three Realms was that the clan invested a lot of manpower and material resources in him.
The clan set up a clan school, and the clan leader saw that he was a nurturing talent, so he worked hard to train him.
You don't want to go to a clan school. If you have dull qualifications and a poor family, you may have no choice but to be a lifu in this life.
Ideally, if you can read a small amount of words, it would be good to be the leader of the clan.
After all, it costs a lot of money to hire a master to teach, pen, ink, paper and inkstones, and maintain the school.
The patriarch is usually a wealthy and respected scholar, and a large family is usually made up of officials who are idle at home.
The patriarch is also called the eldest son or the patriarch. The patriarch has the power to deal with matters as small as internal disputes within the family, weddings and funerals, and as large as worshiping ancestors and temples. For unfilial sons, the patriarch even has the power to execute unfilial sons.
To assist the clan leader in management, there are usually a pillar leader and a room leader. The room leader is usually the senior and oldest person based on blood relationship. The pillar leader assists with rent collection, sacrifices and other chores.
The squires are composed of scholars who failed in the imperial examinations, retired officials, small and medium-sized officials who are idle at home, and clan elders. They are not officials, but they have the power of officials.
They played the role of publicizing and executing the decrees of the imperial court and officials in the countryside, equivalent to the township chiefs and village chiefs in later generations.
Because they are clan leaders, they often represent the clan's interests and the interests of the villagers.
Theoretically, they are highly respected, but as a clan leader, it is difficult not to be selfish, and selfishness is usually tied to the clan.
Even his tribesman who became the county magistrate, called Shuning, only passed the three civil servant examinations with the strong support of his clan, and was admitted to the same imperial examination.
After passing the imperial examination, he only has the fate of being the chief registrar of a county-level government office. Some people may stay in this position for the rest of their lives.
In the end, he had to use the power of his clan to gain access to the backstage of Su Buqing, the transshipment envoy, and became the county magistrate.
If the tax ID belongs to an ordinary family, let alone being able to win the lottery, there may not even be a chance to study.
Therefore, the tax ID has great respect for the clan, and the clan is a mountain that he cannot cross in his heart.
What he never expected was that Tian Mengwan had now destroyed the tall and sacred image of his clan in his mind.
He stayed for a long time, with his mouth open, speechless for a long time. After a while, he shook his head, waved his hands hysterically and yelled at the top of his lungs: "Zi Qiang (zi Qiang Tian Meng nian), this is fake, I don’t believe it at all.”
The forest farm looked at the tax number with some confusion. If the tax number can be among the top thirty with the participation of students from Zhaojiazhuang Academy, it must have strong strength.
But the behavior of the tax number in front of him completely destroyed his three views. Is this still a scholar, or is he still a third-term scholar of the Song Dynasty?
The forest farm looked at the tax number lightly, looked at him disdainfully, as if he were an idiot, and said: "In the past, those magistrates asked you to wait for these big families, but you had to control the tax and labor, build roads and bridges, and you had to educate them. Waiting for sponsorship, but now Zhaojiazhuang Town does not need big families like you and others at all. On the contrary, if big families want to develop and grow, they cannot do without Zhaojiazhuang. Therefore, a superior clan like you and others will not work in Zhaojiazhuang Town at all. "
Lin Chang didn't want to say this at first, but he was a concubine and had no status at all in the big family.
For a person like him, his biological mother was a concubine. He could read and write well, but it was impossible to get the attention of the clan. This was determined by his status as a concubine.
People like him cannot inherit the family business and cannot get support from the clan. After all, the clan's resources are limited and they can only invest limited money and materials in their legitimate sons.
His fate in the future is to be able to recognize some words, be allocated a small amount of land, and live a life of eating and waiting for death.
Until he heard about Zhaojiazhuang School and took the risk to come to Zhaojiazhuang to study.
Now that I have finally passed the scholar examination and ranked second on the red list, I am finally proud.
"You, how can you talk like this? Don't you come from a big family?" The tax officer suppressed his anger and asked the forest farm.
After all, the forest farm comes from a big family, so it is still different from the ordinary disciples who come from a poor family, and there is still a difference in their clothing and temperament.
"I do come from a big family," the forest farm said with a wry smile and glared at the tax number, "But I am not just the legitimate son. I am here to wait for these legitimate sons. In front of me, there is nothing.”
The tax ID's expression froze and he smiled awkwardly. His smile was uglier than crying.
He took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, you are from a big family. Have you forgotten the benefits that a big family has brought to you?"
"The good thing, the good thing is you legitimate sons." Lin Chang's face turned gloomy at this time, and he said bitterly, "You all have your own biological mother, but what do I have? I have to call my biological mother my sister and your biological mother. As a mother, otherwise you will not be able to get the education opportunity she gave you. It is the existence of you, the legitimate sons, that makes us, the common sons, humiliated. Of course, you are the legitimate sons, so you take these things for granted, and you will not understand that we, the common sons, humility, pain, bitterness, and shame.”
After talking about it, Lin Chang's face became increasingly livid and ugly, and his chest kept rising and falling.
After twenty years of suffering all kinds of injustice, oppression, discomfort and unfair treatment, he suddenly broke out at this moment.
"You can't say that," the tax officer sighed, trying to calm down, and patiently persuaded, "If you didn't have the education of a big family, would you be able to pass the second place among scholars?"
"To be admitted to the second place as a scholar, the education in the big family school only laid the foundation, but none of us have passed the exam. Because all the good teachers have taught you, the legitimate sons. We, the bastards, are only worthy of being taught by inferior teachers. If not, With the education of Zhaojiazhuang School, not only is there no hope for the second place, but it is also difficult to pass the examination." It was okay not to mention these tax ID numbers, but the mention made him even more angry and turned away in one breath.
"This..." The tax ID was extremely embarrassed and forced a smile. Na Na said, "In any case, the education you received in a big family is much better than that of a disciple from a humble family."
"A disciple from a poor family?" Lin Chang smiled coldly, looked at him disdainfully, and said lightly, "Don't look down on the poor family. The two husbands, Lu Shenggong, Du Shichang, and Fan Wenzhenggong all came from poor families."
When the tax officer heard this, his face seemed to have opened a big dye vat. His face turned the color of pig liver for a while, turned red for a while, and turned livid for a while.
He never expected that although Lin Chang came from a big family, he had almost the opposite attitude towards the big family in his heart.
"I am a farmhouse minister in the morning, and I ascend to the emperor's hall in the evening." Tian Mengwan saw that the two people were becoming more and more stalemate, and hurriedly came out to adjust the atmosphere, "Ziling, Zidi, we are all waiting for the favor of the imperial court. In the Song Dynasty, , As long as you work hard, you will eventually be rewarded, so don’t keep arguing."
He is the number one scholar this time, equivalent to a senior brother in the same year.
According to the practice of Jintang County scholar examination, he and the other two examination papers will be recommended to the Ministry of Etiquette of the imperial court.
If their articles are favored by the Ministry of Rites, they are very likely to be awarded Tongjinshi.
Of course, it is common for Tong Jinshi to be idle at home for a long time because his qualifications are seriously inferior.
