Chapter 224: The Servants

Although it is not too far from the city to the Grange, after all, it takes more than an hour to walk, and it is a good pastime to listen to Chang Kai tell allusions on this road.

Servant is a lowly status that has been passed down from generation to generation, cannot participate in the imperial examination, and even conduct is considered to be congenitally deficient, but such a lowly servant has enough authority and abundant extraneous money, and so on, on the one hand, it makes the world envious and jealous, and on the other hand, it is contempt from the heart.

Under such contradictory treatment, many young people in the families of servants seem a little strange compared to their peers in the common people, some will intensify their misdeeds, and some people deliberately appear different from their parents, of course, more people still grow up according to the rules, learn from the experience of their fathers, inherit positions, and repeat the same life.

The life of the servants is much better than that of the common people, so the life expectancy of men and women is relatively high, and young people often have to reach middle age before their sons can inherit their father's business.

If the young people who serve as white-body deputy servants want to learn and grow, want to accumulate contacts, and have to guard against various risks in their errands, they have to follow the elders or seniors who are related to the ability, which has become the rule of the officials in the prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty.

More than 100 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the official service system has become more and more complex, the original position of power and benefits is only some clerical and poor people in the compilation, and later some white deputy officers can also have such a good shortage, under the management, the identity of the white deputy will also be passed on from generation to generation, and this good and short is also controlled by fixed people, which makes the system of official replacement more large and complex.

Up to now, only in Huairen County, the children of the staff will often recognize their relatives and apprentices before the age of ten, and they will go to be apprentices around the age of twelve, and the older ones will be the white deputy servants who follow them until they become adults, and then inherit the original position after their parents are old, and the children of the white deputy family have two choices, to be good people, agriculture, business, and literature, or to run the officials, they will follow the same path as the children of the editors. The difference is that the children of the compiler's family are looking for the servants who are in the compilation, and those who are not in the compilation look at their parents, and those who have a way to worship the servants in the compilation, and those who have no way to find the elders of the white deputy servants.

"The two of the officials' houses and the households, sometimes the management years of these two rooms have to be counted, the eldest son of their family is directly making up, and everyone else has to stay up for ten or twenty years......"

From Chang Kai's words, Zhu Da can deduce that this system is very reasonable, can maintain metabolism, and can give enough training to the young people who are behind, so that they can fully contact the practice, have enough growth, and also let the clerks and errands who do things have enough available and reliable helpers.

Of course, in such a process of "passing on the help", some people will be considered unsuitable for the profession of servants, and they will be eliminated, not only the apprentice picks the master, but the master also picks the apprentice, and Fu Yu and Meng Tian were eliminated, and they were eliminated several times......

Fu Yu is the only son of an old official in the rite room, Fu Yu has been smart since he was a child, and the family lamented that he could not win fame in the imperial examination, and hoped that Fu Yu could jump out of the rite room to a good position like the officer's room and the household room, and sent Fu Yu to the household to do things after entrusting him.

Maybe the ritual room is full of scriptures and rules all day long, and there are too many articles on the face, which somehow affects Fu Yu's growth and temperament, causing Fu Yu to look down on many bad rules in the house, and when the "master" he followed eats and takes cards according to the rules, he dissuades and even satirizes, and in the end, he even obstructs it and is directly driven back.

The Fu family is naturally making a lot of trouble, but it is such a lone seedling, and there is no way to blame it too much, and he sent people elsewhere, and he doesn't know if he is angry or really thinks so, Fu Yu always feels that the third class and six rooms are not doing things right, and they are too unconscionable.

“...... Talking about conscience is not bad......" Chang Kai said this quite calmly, he was not laughing at himself, but calmly narrating a fact.

After being driven back by the "master" a few times, no one in the county dared to accept him, and the family had no choice but to let Fu Yu help in the rite room, do a hard job without oil and water, and wait until he was old to inherit his father's position and live a lifetime.

“...... It's a pity that this Fu Yu has a good memory, he is actually quite lively, he can do everything properly, but he has a pimple in his heart, if he wasn't born in a servant's family, maybe he would be a reading seed......" Chang Kai said with emotion.

As for this Meng Tian is the second son of an old catcher in the fast class, Meng Tian doesn't recognize a few words, but he doesn't have a bad brain, but his family's work is on his eldest brother, and he doesn't care much about him on weekdays, as a result, this Meng Tian is particularly fond of commenting on dramas and the like, and there are few people who sing songs in the small county, not to mention the storyteller of the opera troupe, in addition to having fun in the market, he is listening to Fu Yu, who is one year older than him, talk about the ancients, and as a result, he believes in what loyalty and righteousness.

Meng Tian worshipped the master once, but when the Zhuang class went out of the city on an errand, he was stopped by Meng Tian because he was molesting a woman, and he couldn't hold his face to do something to Meng Tian, and was beaten by Meng Tian, and he was raised at home for half a month to move around, after such a incident, Meng Tian could only follow his brother and father to do things, and he didn't do it a few times, and he quarreled a few times when he went back, and his father and brother didn't bother to pay attention to it.

These two have nothing serious to do, and no one in Huairen County will accept them, and after Chang Kai becomes the deputy head of the fast shift this time, there are only four or five available white-body deputies around him, and when a large number of people are needed, Fu Yu and Meng Tian are stuffed to Chang Kai's side.

“...... It's not that the new hot stove here is going to come over to burn, it's that there is really no place to take it in, there is a chance to follow me, and I can find a time to transfer people away in the future......" Chang Kai didn't laugh at himself or smile bitterly when he said this, he just felt normal.

This time, after Chang Kai became the deputy head of the fast shift, in just two days, the white-body deputy around him changed from seven to thirty-eight people, and several people who were "not motivated", "unsuccessful" and "nowhere to go" were all arranged, Fu Yu Mengtian is a recognized thorn, the third son and nephew in the family who have nowhere to go, and the related people who did not plan to be a servant.

For them, Chang Kai is short of people here, and he is a person with no foundation to take office, he will not pick and choose, this side is more or less a position, there is always money and food subsidies, and he also gives his children a place to go.

"Those who are outstanding and capable will not be sent to me, those who come here now are all lost, they are often carried up by Master Qin, and our officials in Huairen County are two roads, now the family, may not have the same heart in the future, the children are sent here and don't expect anything, and they are not afraid of implicating their own family if something happens, anyway, there is no harm, Brother Zhu, do you think this is the truth?" Chang Kai said with a grin.

For this closed and conservative county government system, everything has its own rules, Chang Kai was suddenly promoted to deputy team leader from the capture of fast This rule is already broken, and he relies on the strong man from outside the county, to help the foreign strong man cut off a few pieces of the pie that is the public, this kind of position, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a public enemy, you must know that in the eyes of the officials, the buildings such as the show of talent are up and down, only the officials are inherited from generation to generation, the real long-term, you Chang Kai has become a heresy of this system, No matter how you look at it, it won't end well in the future.

It's just that when such calculations, no one thinks about it, or subconsciously doesn't think about it, this piece of cake was originally not there, or they realized that they couldn't move the distribution, it was planned by Qin Juren, and the servants had a deep-rooted consciousness that everything in the local area was theirs, maybe not in the short term, but definitely in the long run.

"Lao Chang, as the days go by, let's walk and see, now they are calculating, and I am afraid that they will regret it in the future." Zhu Da can figure out this set of joints, and he said a few words with a smile.

Chang Kai also nodded with a smile, and said with confidence: "Anyway, I have a heart, follow Brother Zhu to the end." ”

Along the way, they chatted happily and walked quite easily, dozens of them did not swagger, from time to time they had to go up to push the cart to help, and they had to go to the front to drive away the merchants and residents along the road for various reasons, so that the young and strong servants who came with them did not expect that not only Zhu Da's family members went to help with the cart, Zhu Da himself went to work, and the biggest ones did it.

When it was three miles away from the grange, Chang Shen led people out to greet him, Chang Kai was still very thoughtful, and sent someone to inform him early, after the two sides met, the white deputy who guarded the grange and these young and strong people led by Chang Kai greeted each other with a smile, quite warm.

Everyone is young, although some people can be errand and some can't, but the county town is so big, everyone is in the circle of officials, they are close in age, and of course they are familiar with each other.

The people below laughed and laughed, but Chang Shen's face was a little nervous, which made his brother Chang Kai frown, and said in his heart that he would always be unable to hold his breath in front of Zhu Da, and many good things would not be able to take his turn in the future.

"How many new people have come here so far?"

"One hundred and sixty-one."

"How many new are you?"

Chang Kai's impatient reminder made Chang Shen even more nervous, and he actually said something else: "The person who went to the horse tether house came back, so he brought back a person." ”

Zhu Da signaled to Chang Kai that there was no need to blame, the horse tethering place was also a place where blood was washed into Kou, but only one was gathered there, compared to the day before yesterday and yesterday, there were more than 20 people yesterday afternoon and today, and it seems that there are only so many people who can be gathered.

"Master, those poor men inside are going to make trouble!" Chang Shen is nervous about this......