Early the next morning, the command post had just opened, and Shang Chengcheng found Jiang Shu's office in the household department. He told Lao Jiang about his ideas and Guan Xian's methods, and hoped that Lao Jiang could rearrange the affairs of the household department, so that Guan Xian could concentrate on doing his errands. He told Lao Jiang that he understood the current difficulties of the household department, and at the end of the year, the household department was probably the busiest department in the yamen, and the verification and clearance of various data of taxation and servitude, the detailed distribution of salaries and rewards, and the inventory and sealing of inventory materials were all the affairs of the household department; But what Guan Xian wants to do is also a big matter, after all, more than 400 officers and soldiers are involved, and the affairs on the Shangzhai side cannot be delayed, and it is only two or three days away from the annual leave......

He originally thought that Jiang Shuban would talk to him a few words, would point to the complicated official business and complain to himself, and maybe he would quietly make a little stumbling block for himself A few days ago, when he was furious about the delay in the delivery of supplies to Shangzhai, this Jiang Shuban was one of the most embarrassed people he scolded. Who knew that he had just said it, and Lao Jiang immediately nodded and said yes. Lao Jiang said that even himself, everyone in the household department will fully cooperate with Guan Xian to run errands. Lao Jiang also said that not only the household department, but also the other five departments of the military and criminal work will not hold Guan Xian back, and they will try their best to help get things done properly.

This time it was Shang Cheng's turn to be surprised. If it weren't for the sincerity and sincerity on his face when he looked at Jiang Shuban's speech, he would have thought that the Sixth Section of the command post was ready to fight with him.

It's only been a few days! The six sections of the command post have collectively changed sex?

Lao Jiang also made a suggestion. He said that since he wanted to send New Year's goods, since he wanted to let the officers and soldiers of Shangzhai have a happy and prosperous year, he simply gave a part of the annual reward to the soldiers in Shangzhai according to the head, and sent a few orders of red paper by the way, so that the soldiers could also use the money to seal a red envelope to greet each other for a new year, and the picture was auspicious.

Without a doubt, this is a good idea. Shang Cheng immediately agreed to this suggestion, and asked Jiang Shuban and Guan Xian to discuss and consider a specific method for the distribution of rewards.

This time, Jiang Shuban did not do things like the previous two times, he said that he would do it, and before three o'clock, he posted a notice in the village to buy cattle, sheep, charcoal, and sheepskin at the current price. Cattle are big livestock, is a good helper for farmers to plough the fields and farm, unless the old and weak can not make or there is a big event in the family waiting for money, no one will be willing to sell it, and it is not easy to collect it in a small place like Zhongzhai. But sheep are different; Like most of the slightly affluent villages, almost every household in the village has sheep, not to mention that the command post only accepts twenty or thirty sheep, even if the number is doubled, it will not be difficult to collect them all. Therefore, Lao Jiang did not ask Shang Cheng for instructions, so he changed the method without authorization, and did not accept cattle one by one, but also sheep, pigs, whether sheep or pigs, anyway, it is the current price. As soon as the notice was posted, the farmers in the village who were anxious about the inability to sell their pigs and sheep immediately flocked to the village. After a while, when the farmers in the surrounding villages drove pigs and sheep to sell a few of the living money but were told that they had received it, they were so angry that they spat and scolded their mothers.

In the evening, the charcoal matter also has an eyebrow, there are tens of thousands of catties of ready-made charcoal in a charcoal field on the official road in the north of the village, as long as it can be purchased all at one time, the owner of the charcoal farm is willing to sell all the charcoal to the border army at seventy percent of the market price. Although the amount of charcoal was large, the money was not much, so Guan Xian negotiated with the owner of the charcoal farm who came and bought all the charcoal. He believes that Shangzhai needs charcoal for winter, and the border army in Zhongzhai also needs charcoal to burn kang for heating.

The pigs and sheepskins were all collected, and the charcoal was also settled, and Jiang Guan and the others immediately began to organize a pack team. Originally, the most difficult thing to do in the New Year is the manpower, in previous years, the foot force packer who worked in the New Year's Festival was either a lowly border household, or a border soldier who was not pleasing to the chief, but this time Shang Cheng had an order, not allowed to assign border households at will as in previous years, nor allowed to arbitrarily transfer border soldiers, only to be hired with preferential remuneration, and the side households of Zhuang households were treated equally. Border sergeants and yamen scribes could also join the caravan, but they were not paid, and their salaries and allowances were quadrupled during the business trip, and they were given make-up leave afterwards. With such instructions, where is there any need to worry about not being able to recruit people? Jiang Shuban can be regarded as an eye-opener: he has been working in the yamen for more than 20 years, and it is the first time he has seen the border households crowded at the door of the official room, shouting loudly while squeezing into the room: "I am the border household, this is our part of the errand!" I'm a side household! ……”

Regarding Jiang Shuban's and Guan Xian's two "first cut and then played" handling methods, Shang Chengdu later gave appreciation and encouragement. At the New Year's dinner at the command post on the night of the 29th of the lunar month, he also specifically mentioned these two things, praised Lao Jiang and Xiaoguan in front of everyone, and called on everyone to "learn" from them and "give full play to their own subjective initiative in work......

Obviously, the officials and clerks present at that time were at a loss as if they did not understand these words of the commander. However, there are also well-informed people in the bookstore, who know that the commander had been a monk for several years before, and these incomprehensible words must be Buddhist sayings in a certain Buddhist scripture; As for the profound meanings in it, they can only be understood one by one, not spoken, and everyone goes back to think carefully......

On the morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, sending off the pack team led by Jiang Shuban, Shang Cheng kept bringing gifts to comfort several old border soldiers in the village who had retired due to injuries. These old border soldiers are all foreigners, who have made mistakes in their hometowns, and they have no face to go back when they retreat from the border army, so they stay in the village, relying on picking a rag to help a casual job and the old brothers' Zhou Ji to survive. Shang Cheng saw that the life of these veterans was too difficult, the kang was cold, the stove was cold, even the firewood was a pitiful small pile of wet wooden sticks, and some people didn't even have decent cotton wool on the bed. He was so sad that he couldn't bear to stand in that dilapidated house that leaked on all sides. Without saying a word, he asked these veterans to immediately give these veterans a place where they could live, and on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the Zhongzhai Border Army, invited them to participate in the dinner that night. He also told them that he would find someone to solve the practical problems of the veterans as soon as possible, and always find a proper way for them to live in West Malaysia. If they are homesick, he can also give them official certificates, and give them a thorn, so that they can return to their hometown safely and smoothly......

I don't know if it was because of the presence of these veterans in new jackets, or the military song shouted by Bao Kan's incomplete voice mobilized everyone's emotions, or the table full of pork and mutton shook dazzlingly, or maybe dozens of jars of wine ignited the atmosphere of the scene, in short, the dinner that night was very lively, and the border soldiers sang and made trouble like crazy.

Shang Cheng has an eye disease, and he also knows some diets that should be taboo, so he basically doesn't drink much on weekdays, and he eats little ginger and garlic, so he only eats some pickles and dried vegetables during the dinner, nibbles a few cakes on pork soup, and then sits and watches the soldiers make a fuss. At the beginning, he was still able to hold it, and when others came to toast, he took a sip with the wine bowl, which was what it meant. He has a high rank and is a chief officer, and others will not bother with him. But gradually, everyone had wine, and he couldn't think about "meaning" anymore. First, a few battalion sentry officers shouted that they couldn't "meaning" to toast, then several captains and chiefs also came to have a bowl with him, then a dozen or so border soldiers who had traveled with him through Quzhou and fought in Guangpingyi, followed by a group of soldiers who had suppressed bandits in Dujiadian, and finally even a few veterans had to have a bowl with him, a "good adult......

At the end of the day, he didn't know anything......

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when most of the soldiers were still hangover and lying in bed, he had already gotten up. Take a hot bath, change into clean clothes, nibble on a few half-lukewarm hard cakes with the leftovers of the previous night, and ride out of the stockade all the way south with Baokan. More than two hours rushed to the lower village, in Jin Xi's house casually shaved a few bites of food, the fatigue all the way has not dissipated, began to be busy in the lower village. In front of the bandits did not catch up with the old birthday star of the birthday worship, this time to pay a solemn visit, Jin Xi buckled the door and the bag was served, the four soldiers of the four-color ceremony each held a plate, all of them pulled out their chests and folded their abdomen, and their bodies were as straight as possible, Shang Cheng had a full set of seven-grade official uniforms and official ornaments with both hands holding the red red New Year's sticker and stood in front of the old man's door, and in a blink of an eye, half of the street was blocked to see the rare people, and the lively scene was not worse than the day of the old man's birthday. The old man's son and daughter-in-law were first stunned and then dizzy, and they opened their mouths wide one by one and went in and out many times, until Shang Cheng left with people, Leng didn't think of serving tea and soup to the commander, until Shang Cheng and his party entered the barracks, the old man's eldest son came over with a few red bags wrapped in money, and stuffed them into the hands of several people without saying anything. was also polite and overly excited, he actually forgot that this was an important place in the military camp, and he also forgot the order of sending the wedding packages, one by one, Jin Xi Baokan was sent all the way, and finally sent it to Shang Cheng, a big official wearing a cyan official uniform......

That night, the border army in Xiazhai had another dinner. After eating a lively meal, Shang Cheng was drunk again, and slept until dawn the next day.

He refused to be retained by Jin Xi and his family, and after cleaning up in a mess, he rode back to Zhongzhai again.

After returning to Zhongzhai, before he sat down, there was an endless stream of people from all walks of life to greet him. The people who came were officers and soldiers, there were clerks and clerks, there were village households, and there were gentry in the vicinity, often a group of people had not yet left, another group of people had already arrived, and when a few chairs in the hall were empty, two circles of benches were placed against the wall and still could not sit down, and there was really no place to stay, and some people simply stood under the eaves and waited. None of the people who came were empty-handed, and the cages and money were placed in the yard, and the gift list was just pasted, and the bag was collected several times.

Whether it is to send money or eggs, no matter how light or heavy the gift is, Shangcheng will accept it first. There was no way, there were too many people, and he couldn't ask everyone else to bring things back. It was only after the heavenly hackers had left that he confessed to Bao Kan and quietly returned all the gifts. He also specially told Bao Kan that when returning the gift, he must speak tactfully, so that people can't misunderstand what he meant......