Chapter 36: Speech and Commerce (2)

The establishment of the Department of Commercial Taxation and the unconditional recruitment of personnel, Xu Qing's decree, all parties in Cangzhou reacted differently, and they were almost divided into two factions.

One faction is represented by scholars from Cangzhou. Xu Qing recruited people without conditions, and suddenly made their self-proclaimed noble scholar status worthless, which made them extremely dissatisfied, and united to launch a verbal attack on Xu Qing, saying that Xu Qing had broken the rules of the imperial court and the foundation of the world.

In the eyes of those who read, they are the foundation of the world, followed by those who do manure, make iron saws, and trade. Since they are fundamental, no one can lack them.

This hierarchical notion is there, and they can't allow it to be destroyed anywhere. When entering the city, the scholars should be advanced, and the scholars should eat first, and they must always be one head above others and one step ahead of others to be comfortable. If you want to ask him why, he will say: Confucius said that "advanced is better than etiquette and music, and a gentleman is also", and if we scholars want to be gentlemen, we must naturally put ourselves first everywhere. Confucius's theories were put into practice by scholars.

The other faction is the common people. Xu Qing's tax cuts, low prices and every decree won him great popularity, and Xu Qing was a good leader. into people's hearts. Not to mention recruiting people to eat iron rice bowls, even if Xu Qing raises his arms outside, there will be thousands of people corresponding to Xu Qing.

It's just that some people think that they don't have any talent and can't help Thorn Shi, so they are not so keen on this "recruitment", that is, the job fair that Xu Qing said.

After all, it is an "iron rice bowl", and there are still many people staring at it. The director and deputy director, they dare not expect that the officers can still covet the street patrol.

Primary Four is one of them.

The fourth child is the son of the fourth child, who is tall and strong, and he is also clever and can count. Originally, Xiao Si was running errands in a restaurant, but he accidentally saw Xu Qing's notice, and he went home with the fourth child in a heartbeat, and the fourth brother raised his hands in agreement, so he decided to give it a try.

Xiao Si changed into a half-new and half-old linen clothes, shrunk his neck to look at the mighty guards at the door, and "passed" several times at the gate of Cangzhou's inner city, patted his legs, gritted his teeth, and then walked in.

What Xiao Si didn't know was that as soon as he entered the door, countless eyes immediately attracted him behind him. It turns out that everyone doesn't want to be the first!

After entering the door, he saw that the guard did not move, so he let out a sigh of relief, and his back became wet.

Xiao Si looked up and saw that there were two signs, the left side read: "Officer", and the right side was "Street Patrol". Xiao Si thought that he would recruit 50 officers and 100 people on the streets. And Xiao Si doesn't know what the officer is, as for patrolling the streets, Xiao Si knows that he patrols the streets when he hears the name.

"Okay, let's try patrolling the streets first, right?" Xiao Si said in his heart. Take a step forward and walk towards the corridor on the right.

The moment Xiao Si entered the gate, a small servant rushed into the inner courtyard and shouted: "Someone is coming, Lord Thorn Shi, someone is coming!" ”

"Poof......

Xu Qingzheng was eating osmanthus cake, and when he heard that someone had come to apply, he was so excited that osmanthus cake squirted out of his nose. Isn't that exciting? It's been a long time since breakfast...... It seems that he still despised the pressure of the feudal hierarchy.

When Xiao Si walked to the interview location in the back hall, Xu Qing had already sorted out his appearance and sat on the top seat. When Xiao Si saw it, he knelt down without hesitation and said, "Xiao Si, grass people, meet the eldest master......

"Hmm, why did you apply for a street patrol?" Xu Qing has his own official authority.

Xiao Si was nervous, and trembled and said, "Grass people...... The grass people don't know ......"

Xu Qing shook his head and sighed helplessly: "Do you have a long one?" ”

"Xiaomin will count......" Xiao Si replied.

"Oh? I'll test you a question......" Xu Qing touched his chin and thought slightly: "Today, there are chickens and rabbits in the same cage, with thirty-five heads on the top and ninety-four feet on the bottom. ”

As soon as the question of "Haha, interesting ......" came out, Xiao Si started thinking about it, and even forgot to be nervous: "There are twelve rabbits, and there are two or three chickens, how?" ”

"Well, yes, there is another ......" Xu Qing asked again: "There is wood today, I don't know the length of it. The degree of the rope is drawn, the remaining rope is four feet five inches, the amount of the rope is less than one foot, and the length of the wood is geometrical?"

"This ......" Xiao Si muttered for sure: "The rope is eleven feet long, and the wood is six and five ......inches long."

"Good ......" Xu Qing nodded with satisfaction, it is rare for someone to learn arithmetic "without doing their job". Xu Qing continued to ask, but this time Xu Qing stopped asking arithmetic, he asked, "Why do you want to be a street patrolman?" ”

"Grass People...... Grass people want to earn a good job without being called around by others. ”

"I told you, the post of street patrol is to maintain law and order in Cangzhou, no matter the wind or sun, you have to patrol the streets, are you still willing?"

"With all due respect, you just need to be paid enough." Xiaosi gritted his teeth and said, which one is not in the wind and rain to make dung? But that one is more face-saving than eating imperial grain?

"Hahaha, rest assured, twelve taels a year, five stones of rice per month!" Xu Qing directly put out the salary.

"Scared! Five stones of moon rice? "Xiao Si almost didn't jump on the roof.

Five stone rice, six hundred catties! How much rice can you eat in a year? It's only more than 300 catties a day to eat one catty, and this month will earn a year's rations, how can you not do it? I definitely have to do it, and I have to do it when I'm tired...... What the? And twelve taels of silver! One or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for more than 1,000 Kaiyuan Tongbao, five coins and a bucket of rice, how much is that? Xiao Si subconsciously converted the treatment given by Xu Qing into food, but he found that he was so excited that he couldn't count one, two, three, and looked at Xu Qing nodding vigorously, meaning that he was willing to do it.

Xu Qing didn't have the expected nod from Xiao Si, but said, "There is one more question at the end......"

"There was a carriage driver who was very good at driving. One day, he found a head-sized piece of gold on the edge of a cliff, but he had to drive to get it. What would you do if you were the coachman? ”

This is a question from a certain Buddhist college.

Xiao Si said worriedly: "The grass people don't know how to drive......"

"Suppose you know how to drive, and you're very good at driving, what?"

Xiao Si thought for a while and replied: "If the grass people don't go, it's a cliff, and when the horse stumbles, it's important that the gold doesn't die!" ”

"Okay, I now worship you as the deputy director of the Cangzhou Commercial Tax Department, from the ninth grade, and after a good job, I will be promoted to the ninth grade."

"Nine...... Nine products, nine officials? I? Xiao Si's eyes were bigger than a cow's eyes. He was only going to patrol the streets, but in the future, he would be able to take care of a piece of the street, and he would have more face if he said it. But now, he has become an official! Officers with rank! The four little families have never had half an official in the eighteen generations......

"Hmm......" Xu Qing nodded slightly.

Xiao Si hurriedly knelt down and said gratefully: "The adults are more grateful than the grass people, dare to ask the adults?" ”

"Cangzhou Thorn Shi Xu Qing!"

Xiao Si suddenly raised his head when he heard this, stared at Xu Qing for three seconds, rolled his eyes and fainted.

"Come on~ pinch people!"

After a pillar of incense, Xiao Si had already changed into a green-robed official uniform and appeared at the gate of the inner city wearing a cyan servant. The young man is handsome and straight, and his official uniform is slightly smaller and slim. The people waiting outside saw it, and they all looked over, and someone exclaimed: "Isn't that, the kid who went in just now, how did he put on the clothes of the official master!" ”

"Hey, be careful, don't die!" Another person stood up and reminded that with the addition of official robes, even a piece of wood has three points of deterrence.

Xiao Si looked around at the people outside the door, forcibly held back his legs and trembled: "Thanks to the grace of Lord Thorn Shi, I am a grass people, and I am the deputy director, if you have applied to patrol the streets, come with me......"

"What? He really became an official! Everyone cried out, but it was a pity that they were not the first to enter, if they were the first to enter, they would definitely be the officials now. It was useless to cry out, and the other deputy secretary was determined by Xu Qing, that is, Xu Qing's protégé - Han Zibang.

Xu Qing only has three requirements for Han Zibang and Xiao Si, the first is not to accept bribes. Bribe, second, there can be no discrimination, patrol the street must be strong, and the officer must be able to arithmetic, but the more skills, the more will definitely be admitted first. Third, it is better to be indiscriminate than lacking, equality is equal, to the point that it is a person who steals chickens and dogs, and sits on the empty mountain, Xu Qing will not want it.

Putting aside the job fair, Xu Qing had no choice but to go to Huang's house.

The matter of Huang Shimei and Xu Qing is basically decided, but it has not yet been announced to the public. It is said that Xu Qing, as a county uncle, has a few "quota" legal wives and concubines, and he doesn't have to take two wives like ordinary people, but he also has to sneak around and hide from the world.

With a few cavalry entourage, kicking and stepping to the Huang family manor, Xu Qing looked around, withered vines and old trees, small bridges and flowing water, the traces of the last wild boar gang burning and looting here have long disappeared, but from the eyes of the locals, I still see the fear and vigilance of outsiders.

Xu Qing was dressed luxuriously and looked familiar, so the Huang family did not come to stop him, and Xu Qing went straight to the backyard to find Huang Shimei.

Through the alley, I found Huang Shimei's courtyard, and was about to go in, when a voice sounded behind Xu Qing:

"Stop, who are you, dare to run around in the backyard?"

Xu Qing looked back and saw a beautiful son, folding a fan and a scarf, poems and books, his face was like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and his color was like a flower of spring dawn, he was really a beautiful man like Pan An! It was originally Ouyang Zhendong, who lived in the Huang family......

Xu Qing secretly scolded Ouyang Zhendong's puppet mother in his heart, and said unceremoniously: "I'm running around, who are you, what are you doing here?!" ”

"Hahaha, I'm the cousin of the eldest lady of the Huang family, how are you doing?" Ouyang Zhendong is indeed beautiful, and this laugh made Xu Qing lose his mind a little. Xu Qing hurriedly pinched a handful of soft meat on his waist, and secretly said How can this man still have charming-like kung fu?

"I'm also the cousin of the eldest lady of the Huang family, why haven't I seen you?"

"I should ask this, why haven't I seen you!"

"Damn, you're new!"

"I ...... You're a fake......"

"You're the ...... fake"

"Shimei is here, let her judge the reasoning, and expose you prodigal son who broke into the backyard!"

"Hahaha, I'm going to wear her in the future. What about the court, what is the backyard? ”

Xu Qing turned around and saw Huang Shimei coming over with a smile, holding a book in her hand, stretching out her arms, and about to hug her......