Chapter 375: It's not easy to open up the situation

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, who took over, asked people to put up the tent first, and they needed to live in the tent for a period of time in the future, and the houses in the house had to be demolished and rebuilt, and they couldn't live now, who knows if someone would get sick and be infected.

The house can't be demolished yet, and there is no time to repair it, so there are a hundred guards left, and the rest have to go back and continue to move things.

Zhang Xiaobao changed into a loose suit and took out the roster in the house to see, accompanied by only a knife and pen officer next to him, and a master book was recorded on the roster, recording six officials, and a knife and pen officer who was responsible for messy things.

After glancing at the roster twice, Zhang Xiaobao suddenly asked the knife and pen officer next to him: "This is the roster that has just been written out for a short time?" ”

The knife and pen officer was startled when he heard it, and he didn't say it for a long time, Zhang Xiaobao said again: "It's okay, this official understands, is it that there were more before, but he doesn't want to do it anymore, so he can take advantage of this opportunity to have a good relationship with the outgoing Master Li, so he made a new roster?" Maybe I'll find someone to come over by myself, that is, the position of the main book can't be arranged by others casually, otherwise it will probably be gone. ”

The knife and pen officer nodded, and at the same time had a new view of the big kid in front of him, at least it showed that people were not stupid, otherwise how could they guess with a guess?

"What about you, don't you have a good relationship with the original Master Li?" Zhang Xiaobao asked again.

"This ...... Adults, the small ones are responsible for the purchase of the house, so they can't be missing, so they can only stay. The knife and pencil officer thought about it for a moment and replied.

As soon as he said this, Zhang Xiaobao understood that this person was not in a bad relationship with the original, but better, and was responsible for purchasing, which was a position that could get benefits, no wonder he didn't leave.

Since you have come, it is impossible to buy from others.

"In this way, the official has other arrangements for the purchase, you will change your position now, be responsible for the reception, receive the local people, no matter what the people have to do, you must treat it well, it turns out that how much is your monthly salary?"

Zhang Xiaobao changed the position of the knife and pencil clerk and asked about the salary again.

The face of the knife and pen officer changed, and he looked at the two guards of Zhang Xiaobao standing in the hall, and he didn't dare to show it, so he could only respond: "Yes, what the adults let the little one do, the small one will do it, this reception is the first time I have heard of it, and I don't know what to do, the small one has two stones of brown rice a month, and six feet of cloth, and can also get more than 30 catties of meat, which is fish." ”

"Who else is in the house?" Zhang Xiaobao nodded and asked again.

"Both parents are here, and there is a daughter-in-law and two children." The scribe and pencil answer any questions.

"In this way, your brown rice will be canceled every month in the future, and the cloth will not be used, and the fish and meat will ......?"

"My lord, what do you eat in that little house?" As soon as the knife and pen officer heard it, he stopped doing it, and didn't wait for Zhang Xiaobao to say anything, didn't he want to force people to death.

Zhang Xiaobao was interrupted and looked very unhappy, and his face was flat, "What you eat, that's your business, I don't care what you eat, in the future, you will have a salary of fifty yuan a month, buy what you want to eat, first *** two months, if it is good, it will rise again, if you can satisfy the official for three consecutive months, it will be a hundred yuan." ”

This time the knife and pen officer is no longer ***, his eyes are open vigorously, staring at Zhang Xiaobao's face, and he quietly pinched his leg with his hand, turned around, and felt very painful, only then did he know that he was not dreaming.

"Also, the fish and meat just mentioned are not given, replaced with pork or chicken, plus a pound of vegetable oil, you have to change your patched clothes, and the clothes of the people in the yamen will be managed by the yamen in the future, all year round, two sets per quarter, including shoes, what else do you have any opinions?"

Zhang Xiaobao said again that he wanted to give benefits and win over people, so he naturally had to take out the benefits that could be used to win people.

The knife and pen officer shook his head vigorously, and said gratefully: "No, no opinion, my lord, the small one must receive the people well, my lord, the little one will tell you, the previous Lord Li took sixty yuan from the treasury after the New Year this year, and smoothed the account again." ”

The knife and pen officer immediately began to betray people, which made Zhang Xiaobao very helpless, you said that you sold your predecessor at this time, doesn't that mean that if someone else treats you better, you will also sell me?

"It's just sixty yuan, what kind of fuss is it, in this way, since you are familiar with this place, the official will let you do one thing first, the official will rebuild the government here, you go to help buy stones and wood, the official will give you a thousand yuan, and tell you what to buy when the time comes, what do you think?"

Zhang Xiaobao is going to test this knife and pen official to see if he wants to be greedy, if he really thinks about it, not only will he not get the benefits of a penny, but he will not be needed in the future.

"One, a thousand? Adults want to buy a thousand pieces of stone and wood? Okay, great, no, adult, small is to say, wood and stone are not worth much, you don't need a thousand, find someone to go to the mountains to pick, just give some wages. ”

The knife and pen officer was really tempted, and when he heard a thousand times, the first thing he thought about was how much he could leave from it, and as soon as this idea appeared, he was snuffed out by himself.

He is not stupid, he has just risen to a thousand yuan, and he is not familiar with it, and he gives a thousand guan in the blink of an eye, if it is not a temptation, it would be strange, he pressed down a thousand guan's heart, endured the feeling of dry mouth, and struggled to tell how to get stones and wood cheaply.

Zhang Xiaobao felt that this person was not short of heart, so it was good, and said: "Then the official still asks you to take care of this matter, first give you a hundred yuan, and then take care of the official's needs, remember, the salary is not allowed to be less, whether it is a person who cuts wood or quarries, as long as he works hard, he must give five cents a day, and he also manages three meals a day, and the person who works can find your neighbors and relatives at home, well, that's all." ”

The knife and pen officer suddenly felt that this new assassin was different from the previous officials, not to mention the youth, it seemed to be very rich, look at the things that moved in when he moved, and then look at the clothes worn by the people, although he had never seen good fabrics, he also knew that it was definitely not cheap.

"Why was so rich and allocated to Jili State? Just spend a little money and you can find a good place. ”

When the knife and pen officer thought about it, he unconsciously said it.

Zhang Xiaobao smiled and said: "This official is only twelve years old this year, and he has become a fourth grade, where to find a good place for this official?" Only run to the worst place, otherwise how to seal the mouths of the people? What's more important is that today's saint always wants to make some trouble for the official, the official invited him to dinner, and wanted to go to Dengzhou, but after eating, he kicked the official to Jili Prefecture, which is very miserable. ”

"Huh? My lord, can you invite the emperor to dinner? It's only twelve years old, it doesn't look like it, and it's fifteen or sixteen years old. The knife and pen officer was surprised by Zhang Xiaobao's age, and even more surprised by Zhang Xiaobao's nonchalant tone when he talked about the emperor.

What does this mean? This can only show that the newcomer Zhang Jianshi is very familiar with the emperor, so familiar that he dares to complain to others, and he is not afraid that the emperor will hear about the crime.

"It's big, otherwise the official won't do it, as for the emperor, forget it, don't mention him, I took a lot of benefits from the official, and got the official here, the official decided not to send him the fine seafood I found here this year, but to send him the second-class ones."

Zhang Xiaobao deliberately said this, just to use interests to seduce this knife and pen official.

The knife and pen official was really on the road, and as soon as he was seduced, he followed him down and said, "My lord, there is no need to send things to the court here?" No one sent it before. ”

"It's okay if others don't send it, but if the official doesn't send it, it's not okay for the official to send things to the court, but directly to the emperor, as well as the official's father-in-law, General Gao."

Zhang Xiaobao continued to use his identity to make the knife and pen officials surrender.

"Which General Gao? But Lord Colliers? The pencil officer asked, wide-eyed.

"Yes, is it okay not to give? Otherwise, they should write to ask, why didn't they get some seafood to eat when they got to a place where there was a sea here? Do you think it's embarrassing? ”

"Yes, yes, it's really embarrassing, it's too embarrassing, the little one actually wants to be embarrassed once, the adult, the small one will go to find someone."

The knife and pen clerk really didn't know what to say, and finally knew how a twelve-year-old person became a four-grade official, and he also figured out why people were rich, so he said hello and was ready to arrange.

Zhang Xiaobao shouted again in the back, "The person who cooks also has to be paid, three dollars a day, remember to find a good cook, if it can't be your relative, you can find the old lady who can't move." ”

Waiting for the knife and pen officer to promise to run away without seeing a shadow, Zhang Xiaobao breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "I hope that his relatives can have more and reveal the identity of the official, and the more people know, the better." ”

Wang Juan walked out of the room next to him and said to Zhang Xiaobao: "Show your identity now, aren't you afraid that the people here will think about us in advance?" ”

"They don't dare to be so fast, if they want to move us, they have to wait for us to let them see that they can make a lot of money, otherwise what are they moving us for? can't get any benefits, since you have revealed your identity, you will act in a high-profile manner in the future, making people look like that. ”

Zhang Xiaobao has a plan, and he is ready to publicize it here, otherwise no one will mention his godfather and bring Li Longji with him.

Half a month later, all the things on the ship were finally transported back, all the houses here were demolished, and a jar of wine was found under a house here, and there was no tool to measure how long the wine had been buried, but only one-fifth of the jar was left in the end, and it is estimated that the years are old.

Zhang Xiaobao knew that this kind of wine might not be delicious at the beginning, but now after so many years of fermentation, there are more fungi in it, which is suitable for winemaking.

The efficiency of the knife and pen officer was not bad, and he ran out that day, and soon pulled up a team of more than 100 people in the city, and went to the surrounding mountains to cut down trees according to the requirements, and distributed a part of the planing stones.

In fact, Zhang Xiaobao originally wanted to build a cement method, but later thought that this was a seaside, and cement was easy to absorb moisture when repairing a house, so he replaced it with stone and wood.

The surname of the knife and pen official is Xue, if you really count it, you can also get on the side of the big family, but it is just a small branch that cannot be smaller, plus there is no development, and the owner of the family does not recognize him, so he is even more embarrassed to look for it.

There are not a few relatives in the family here, there are more than 50 people together, and those who can do the work have been arranged by him to work, so much money a day, if you don't make money, you don't make it in vain.

In half a month, the main book also appeared a few times, each time he appeared for a short time, and he appeared to ask for leave, there is a mountain land in his house here, this spring ploughing, busy with that thing.

Zhang Xiaobao didn't say anything, even the two officials asked for leave, but they couldn't be used, their own guards temporarily served as officials, and the position of the main book was replaced by someone, and even the other positions were filled, this time it was not the temporary position of Pansi.

After Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan arranged the people in their own family to the position, they wrote to Li Longji, and took the usual channel, so that Li Longji ordered the arrangement officer, and at the same time, he also changed the death contract on his side, and replaced the person with an official position as a *** person, otherwise he would not be an official.

In this matter, Li Longji compromised, although he knew that if this was the case, if Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's official positions changed in the future, they would need to take all these people who had officials with them.

Seeing that his mansion was under construction, Zhang Xiaobao felt very satisfied, and said to Wang Juan: "Let's go, take Xiaobei and them to see how Xue Daobi is doing." ”

The group was escorted by the guards and headed for a hillside outside the city.

On a hillside outside the city, there were about 200 people here cutting trees and cutting stones, and the work was in full swing, and the men had already taken off their shirts, and were working hard there bare-chested, and from time to time someone shouted that the tree had fallen, and then there was a clang, and a tree fell on the hillside, and people picked up the branches and lifted them down.

At this time, the trees are relatively large, there are enough years, the length is dense, and it is more subordinate, usually eight people to lift, eight people can not lift it, remove two, six people carry, six people do not work on four people, and if it doesn't work, it can only be dragged in front of people, not lifted.

Xue Daobi didn't know that Zhang Xiaobao was coming, watching everyone work here, this time he really didn't have a penny, but he got a lot of benefits, at least the people he found to work would go to his house to say something nice after clearing the wages every day, and get a few days of money, and if he felt that it was too much, he would buy some things and send them to his home.

His prestige among his relatives is also better, in the past, among his relatives, he was just an ordinary person, and he didn't count talking, because there were still older people, how could he be a junior.

Now he will discuss some things, who makes him different now than before, and he still cherishes such an opportunity.

"Dad, Dad, Xiaofan is hungry."

Just when Xue Daobi was directing people to cook, two children in his family came over, the eldest was a male baby, five years old this year, and the younger one was a female baby, two years old this year, who could just pop out of his mouth a few words, and he couldn't speak clearly, which was far worse than Xiaobei and others.

Today's lunch is steamed buns, there is only one kind of filling, that is, oil squeak and sauerkraut filling, oil squeak is left after Zhang Xiaobao finished refining oil, there are many people, there is more oil needed, and there is naturally more oil squeak, and you can eat a meal when you send it over.

The buns can't be eaten if they are not steamed, but this oil is squeaky and can be eaten, and all the two children in Xue Daobi's family came to this.

As soon as Xue Daobi heard his son say that his daughter was hungry, he slapped his son on the head, "Xiaofan knows this?" You said you can eat if you want, you have to pull your sister, go, go over there and pick a few, feed Xiaofan to chew it, if you choke Xiaofan to see that I won't kill you. ”

The boy was slapped and was about to cry, but as soon as he heard his father say that he could eat, he immediately closed his grinning mouth, pulled his sister and ran over there, stretched out his little hand to pick up the stuffing that had just lived, and the person who made the bun didn't care, maybe they didn't wash their hands when they packed, everyone was the same.

Xue Daobi looked at his son eating over there, and felt very proud, not to mention anything else, at least he still had some power, such as letting his family eat together, this is three meals a day, not two meals, not one meal for some people's families, and the food is good, every day it is Yamen Zhang Tingshi who asks people to send what they want to eat that day.

Three meals a day, at least one meal is meat, and at least one meal can eat white flour or rice, otherwise how can the people who work so hard, not want to be tired more, and then eat more, otherwise they can't eat.

Xue Daobi thought like this, and felt that his idea was very right, and the more people who worked, the more powerful they became.

At this time, Zhang Xiaobao and his party also came to the bottom of the hillside and saw the scene of work.

"Xiaobao, it seems that the locals are also more obedient and have not opposed us?" Wang Juan feels that the people's hearts here can also be used.

Zhang Xiaobao shook his head, "They are only working for wages, in exchange for Praise County, even if there is no salary, the people are willing to work for us, if you don't believe it, tell them, the yamen let them work for twenty days, do you think they will do it?" There must be no one to take care of us, far worse than the people elsewhere. ”

"That's not bad, I'm afraid they won't do it if they give them money, things have to come little by little, Xiaobei, it's up to you, go, buy people's hearts."

As Wang Juan was talking, he suddenly saw a few children on the construction site, the older ones were also helping to transport the stones, and the smaller ones were running around, and from time to time they ran to the cooking side to grab something to eat with their hands, and the sauerkraut could also be eaten raw.

This is Xiaobei's strength, and others may still have a pretending appearance, and Xiaobei's kindness to others comes from the heart.

Xiaobei didn't care what her sister said, when she saw a child playing there, she really ran over, followed by other little guys and protectors.

The appearance of the group finally attracted the attention of the workers, and they all stopped their work to look at it, Xue Daobi also found Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and looked very happy, while striding towards this side, he shouted: "Lord Zhang, Lord Wang, why did you two come here in person, no wonder the lower officials think this day is good." ”

Xiaobei, who was running, stopped, looked up at the cloudy sky, thought about it carefully, and said, "It is estimated that it is about to rain, it is good to rain, it is a good day." Then he kept running.

Zhang Xiaobao understood as soon as he heard the title of Xue Daobi, how about talking about it usually, today he has to say that he is a lower official, this is to give him some face, so he said: "I wander around casually, I hear people say that it is good to do here, and it is really Xue Daobi, which is much stronger than others." ”

Xue Daobi felt that there was light on his face, so he didn't continue to walk, ran to the front, saluted Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and said: "Lord Zhang, Lord Wang, don't dare to slack off, this is a big event in the family of the two adults, I don't know if the two adults have eaten, if they haven't eaten, it's better to ...... It's better to invite the two adults into the city to eat. ”

"I didn't eat, I don't need to go into the city, there is no good place in the city, and then the official will build a restaurant here, and then I will eat here, and I will prepare it when I come, bring a lot of small pickles, and eggs, and let people make soup in a while."

Zhang Xiaobao was indeed about to come over for a meal, and after a gesture, someone behind him came over and showed Xue Daobi a basket of eggs.

"My lord, this is unacceptable, how can you two eat with them?" Xue Daobi remembered that his son was still grabbing things with his hands, afraid that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan would know the blame.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also know what's going on, isn't it just that they stolen a little when they made it, and it was good to steam it, so they couldn't help but set up the matter of eating here, and they had fun with the people, and they had to pretend.

At this time, Xiaobei has opened here, taking out things from the bag and distributing them to others, telling stories to others when others are eating, and recruiting a group of local children together, especially Xiaobei is still telling stories about eating, listening while eating, it is really addictive.

During the chat, Zhang Xiaobao was still looking around the construction site, and the people who worked also looked at this newcomer, but his expression was cold, and he didn't have the slightest look of smiling when he saw a big official.

Zhang Xiaobao doesn't care, he knows that his identity is not easy to be accepted by the local people, adults have a lot of thoughts, not as good as children, Xiaobei There are no children who are cold to her, there are delicious food, there are stories to listen to, this is a kind of happiness.

After waiting for a while, it was finally time to eat, bowls of egg soup were served, and a drawer of large buns was delivered to everyone.

Zhang Xiaobao thought about it, and also symbolically rubbed his hand on his pants, and also grabbed the bun with a bowl in one hand and the other hand, squatted next to others to eat, ate two bites, and said to the person who ignored him next to him:

"Hey~! I just remembered that I brought pickles over, quick, bring the pickles, and put them in the ...... Put it on my bun, this big brother, can you open the ground after the trees on the mountain are cut down? ”

Maybe it was Zhang Xiaobao's heroic appearance that the people around him recognized a little, or maybe they knew who provided the food, this person didn't ignore Zhang Xiaobao after all, but waited for others to put a cucumber pickle on top of the bun, and said to Zhang Xiaobao:

"It depends on what kind of mountain it is, this stone shaving mountain is the same as not planting, that is, it can make a seed, the mountain in the distance is good, but it takes a lot of effort to cut wood and clear out a piece of land, it is not worth it."

"Oh~! So that's the case, so I don't know how to cut down the wood on the mountain and burn it into charcoals? I can buy it for a large price, as much as I want, and the rest of the land will be yours when the time comes. ”

Zhang Xiaobao made a sudden look, and then talked about collecting charcoal.