"Brother, from now on, everyone who takes the exam in the city will know you Liu Xi's life."

After Xie Wenle said goodbye to the other scholars, he said to Liu Ximing with great emotion.

Liu Ximing joked to himself: "Could it be that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles?" I'm afraid that when the time comes, all I will tell is how I, Liu, am crazy, right? ”

Xie Chunxi smiled, looked at Liu Ximing, paced around him, imitated Xie Chengzhou's tone and said, "Where did you come from, left and right, take it for me." ”

This girl imitated her father's expression and tone vividly, and directly made Liu Ximing and Xie Wenle laugh.

Xie Chunxi laughed for a while, and then said: "Brother Ximing don't worry, if you really want to write a book and say it, it will naturally attract the world's comments, where to be afraid of their gossip, as the saying goes, not to be jealous is mediocrity, if you are in high school, there will always be like-minded people to accompany you, and then you will become a family of your own, and your name will be passed down through the ages, isn't it beautiful." ”

Liu Ximing didn't expect Xie Chunxi to see it so thoroughly, he didn't care about other people's opinions, in the era he lived in before, whether it was a good reputation or a bad reputation, as long as he had fame, it was a good thing, otherwise there were so many people who tried every possible way to become famous, of course, in the Meng Dynasty, they still had to be a little more restrained.

But this Chunxi girl has a sentence that is particularly reasonable, the key is that you want to go to high school, otherwise you are a primary school student to talk about other people's masters, doctors, who the hell cares about you, the academic discrimination of the dynasty is a fine tradition from ancient times to the present.

The matter of the county test cannot be delayed, but Liu Ximing has not forgotten the development of his own family, and Xie Chengzhou's words reminding him to be careful of thieves are still lingering in his ears, constantly telling him what a dangerous era this is.

He had to keep urging Xie Wenle to help him arrange a meeting with several clerks in the county government, Xie Wenle was also quick to do things, and called the people from the Nanchong County government out the next night.

"This is Jiang Quan, the secretary of the office, Zeng Zhihe, the secretary of the household, and Fan An, the secretary of the workshop. A few of you, this is my brother, Liu Ximing Young Master Liu, you can help more in the future. ”

Xie Wenle took three men who looked like small officials into the private room of the restaurant and introduced them one by one in front of Liu Ximing.

When Zeng Zhihe, the secretary of the study, saw Liu Ximing, he immediately smiled and bowed: "It turned out to be Young Master Liu, I said who can invite Young Master Xie to be a middle-aged person, the little one has seen Young Master Liu before, I don't know if you remember?" ”

Of course, Liu Ximing remembered that this household clerk had bought and sold the 300 acres of land in Zhang Yucheng's house by himself, and Xie Chengzhou took him with him at that time.

He immediately stood up and politely invited everyone to the table, in order to deal with the matter of buying and selling the craftsmen of the official mansion, he also went to the best Taibai Building in the city today to entertain these people.

Xie Wenle sat next to Liu Ximing in a daze, and after everyone at the table pushed the cups and handed them over, Liu Ximing asked Xie Wenle in a low voice: "Why did you call so many people here today?" ”

Before Xie Wenle could answer, Zeng Zhihe's ears were sharp, and he immediately said to Liu Ximing with a smile: "Young Master Liu, Young Master Xie has already made your intentions clear to me, if this matter is to be done, the three of us have to join forces, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes." ”

Liu Ximing listened to Zeng Zhihe's lecture and suddenly realized that the artisan households of the county government should be managed by the workshop according to their use, but the personnel who were conscripted for service were recorded in the officer's room, and the household registration of these craftsmen was managed in the household, so these three people were prone to problems if they were missing a link.

Zeng Zhihe took a sip of wine with a smile and continued: "If Liu Gongzi wants to recruit these craftsmen, he can only use the method of buying leisure. You have to find someone who is willing to replace you first, and first my household will convert the household registration of the craftsman you recruited into the civil registration, and then convert the person you find to replace the person into the craftsman's registration. Secondly, the old fan of the workshop will take action, cross out the name of the craftsman from the workshop name book, and then add the name of the person you replace. Finally, the old Jiang of the official room counted the enlistment of the artisan households, and wrote the enlistment on the household registration of the person who replaced him. In this way, it can be considered a success. ”

Liu Ximing took a bite of food to calm down, numb, can you still operate like this, you grassroots personnel Zhen Nima is a talent, but he thought about it and asked a question: "Isn't there anyone who checks this name register?" What if I find out? ”

Zeng Zhihe pursed his lips disdainfully: "Young Master Liu, don't worry, don't say that you found us through Gongzi Xie, the second master will definitely not trouble us." As for the eldest master and the third master, who will have nothing to eat and be full to see these, besides, ......"

Speaking of this, Zeng Zhihe suddenly lowered his voice, and whispered to Xie Wenle and Liu Ximing: "The second master also knows, now this enslavement yellow book has long been unusable, and the yellow book we have reported to Nanjing Houhu Yellow Book Library over the years has never been accurate, even if someone comes to check, what can be found." As long as the parties are bitten to death, no one can turn this matter upside down. ”

Liu Ximing was taken aback in his heart, of course he knew that this thing had been regularly made since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, and all of it was sealed in the treasury of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing, which was the most important means for Emperor Dameng and the imperial court to grasp the overall information of the world.

As long as there is a yellow book, the whole world is equivalent to taking off his pants in front of the emperor, which province, which county, how many people, where and how much tax should be collected, all are clear, and now you fucking tell me that the yellow book is not allowed?

I don't know if this is a special case of Shunqing Mansion, Liu Ximing was speechless, but according to what he knew, the urine of the officials of the Meng Dynasty was afraid that the whole world would be like this.

Hey, I can't play if I don't want to.

But in this way, it is convenient for his own people, Liu Ximing glanced at Xie Wenle and thought in his heart, of course, there are local gentry like Xie Chengzhou and them.

"Come on, come on, eat vegetables, Zeng Shu, I don't know how much this replacement person will come out for the price?"

"Hey, hey, Young Master Liu is the nephew of the second old man, where do the little ones dare to overcharge. In this way, according to the lowest price, for each person replaced, the three of us will each receive five taels of silver, and according to the custom, Young Master Liu will also have to give the person who is replaced three buckets of rice and three coins of silver per month. ”

Hastily, Liu Ximing scolded wildly in his heart, this fucking calculation costs fifteen taels of silver per craftsman, which is more damn than the settling-in fee for recruiting soldiers.

There is also an expenditure of about six taels of silver every month, not to mention that after the craftsman arrives at his own home, it is impossible not to pay a monthly salary, if it is really skillful, two taels of silver per month is at least.

Hemp chicken.

But the development of the family really needs to recruit more craftsmen, Liu Ximing saw that Xie Wenle also looked confused, knowing that he probably didn't know the market, so he had to grit his teeth and said: "I admit this price, you first help me transfer fifty blacksmiths, weavers and others out, but I said ugly things ahead, these people must be good craftsmen, otherwise don't blame me for telling Xie Shibo." ”

Zeng Zhi and the three of them had ecstatic expressions on their faces, fifty craftsmen, this is seven hundred and fifty taels of silver, and each person can divide two hundred and fifty taels!

Thinking of this, the three of them were really hungry for profit, and they all made a flattering look and said to Liu Ximing: "Young Master Liu is bold, you put a hundred hearts, if there is shoddy, our heads will be sent to you to kick as a ball." ”

Phew, labor and management want your heads to be useful, pity my little money.

However, after finally negotiating a major event, Liu Ximing's mood was a little lighter, but when he thought that he was going to bleed nearly a thousand taels of silver again, his mood that had just become better immediately became cloudy again, and he bent the three officials with an unhappy face: "The three of them made a few hundred taels of silver overnight, which is really a good business, and I want to find a position." ”

Zeng Zhi and the three of them looked at each other, they all felt a little funny, this master bought it conveniently and felt distressed, but the three of them didn't scare him at all, these years the grassroots government affairs are all in the hands of officials like them, even if the county magistrate comes, they have to rely on them, otherwise they have already been made into a book like a book of heaven household registration files, official documents and other things, who can understand.

Zeng Zhihe said with a flattering look: "Liu Gongzi is a Wenqu star, and even the second master has praised him more than once, he will definitely be in the future and enter the phase, why bother to play tricks on the little ones." As for this silver, your old man doesn't know, and it's not all three of us who have this money, there is always a point up and down the yamen, Liu Gongzi forgive me, forgive me. ”

Liu Ximing snorted twice, you are an acquaintance, but he has a deeper understanding of the political ecology of this Meng Dynasty in his heart, I used to watch TV and didn't understand why the officials of the Qing Dynasty had to bring a few masters when they took office, and now it seems that if these officials don't have a few masters who know how to punish names, money and food, they will really be turned around by these officials.

Of course, these little officials are not just going up and down, at least they will do things when they receive money, which makes Comrade Liu feel that these guys are still quite "professional".

The next morning, Zeng Zhi and the three of them reported the situation of fifty craftsmen, Liu Ximing took a closer look, and found that they were indeed old craftsmen, he was quite satisfied, and the only thing to do now was to quickly find some idle people to replace them.