Chapter Seventy-Five: Confirmation of Foreigners as Officials

The old men of Huayuan County spoke really accurately, and it rained heavily for three days, and it became smaller on the morning of the fourth day.

Zhang Zhong didn't go anywhere for a few days, so he stayed at the foot of Yaowang Mountain, and when he encountered a situation of heavy water, no matter what he did, he would put it down and rush to guard the embankment.

I was sleepy and lay down in the house for a while, and when I was hungry, I just got something to eat, and I stared at it for three days, and the river and the canal that led to the water on this side of Yaowang Mountain miraculously nothing happened.

The rain stopped, but the water level did not drop immediately, and it took another half a day for the water to flow more upstream.

The people who were working breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the muddy lake over there, which was not too big, and the canal had to be left behind, and then it would become a river that would flow into the lake, and then an opening would be made in another place, so that the water of the lake would flow from that mouth to the downstream of the next river, or it would become a separate river.

Zhang Zhong only slept at midnight this morning, got up at the end of the day, slept relatively well, ate a meal that I don't know what kind of meal it was, and came to the river embankment again.

The people greeted each other one after another, with deep respect in their eyes, and the happiest people were those who had come here from outside to do some odd jobs, since Zhang Zhong said that he could let them stay in Huayuan County, the news was quickly passed among them.

"Master, change your clothes, it's okay here, when the rain stops and the river falls, you have to go back to the yamen, and I don't know how many things have been pressed over there."

Holding a new set of official uniforms, the official followed behind Zhang Zhong and asked him to change.

Zhang Zhong has been wearing the broken clothes for the past three days, and he has not washed them, and he looks dirty and torn at this time, without the slightest appearance of official clothes, but Zhang Zhong feels that he is a real official at this time.

"Don't worry, wait until the rain stops, otherwise it will get wet again, this lake will be ours in the future, we can house a lot of people who can't find things to do, and we can make money, no worse than those under Yaowang Mountain."

Zhang Zhong looked at the turbid lake, imagined what it would look like in the future, and said happily.

The official was also happy, the more money and power of the main family, the better off their lives would be, and they would have the confidence to go out, so he thought about it and said: "Master, I still have a younger brother, one in twenty this year, it is better to let him raise some fish and shrimp here, he has not found a daughter-in-law yet." ”

"Nope." Zhang Zhong refused this request without thinking about it, and the official was a little helpless, but he couldn't say anything, if the master didn't let him do it, then he couldn't do it, but Zhang Zhong's next words made him happy again.

"The people in the inner courtyard came to raise fish and shrimp, isn't it condescending? Let him be a steward here, take care of others, and when the time comes, the girl of which family he likes, the main family will help marry into the door, and then go out to live. ”

"Huh? Sir, really? Thank you, master, you don't have to go out to live, you can marry right away when you become a steward, it's not a girl from any family, it's our inner courtyard, the girls outside are not ordinary, and the general inner courtyard people in the family can't look down on it, only their own people in the inner courtyard look at it, hehe, sir, when the time comes, I will still live in the master's house, and there will be a house. ”

The official finally helped the family solve a big problem, the younger brother can marry a daughter-in-law, the younger brother has long been on good terms with the girl, but the girl has to say that she is waiting for her younger brother to have a chance, what can she do if she stays in the inner courtyard all day, and does the work that should be done, naturally it doesn't count, and it will be different if she comes out to be in charge.

Zhang Zhong also did not object to the love between the people in the inner court, as long as they kept the rules, kept the etiquette, and could start a family when they saw it, and if they had children in the future, they would also be in the inner court.

"When the time comes, the lord's family will give a bride price, and then a dowry for the woman, and see if you can buy the land and build a new house there, and you can't treat the people in the inner courtyard badly."

"Thank you, master, my brother will not be separated from the master's house at that time, in the past two years, the two of them have also saved some money, and life will be better, master, what kind of waiter, don't want to find a way to inquire? What if he does something bad behind his back? ”

The servant imagined the situation when his younger brother married his daughter-in-law, the more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he would still be a member of the main family in the future, so he would not have to spend any money, he would still be in charge of eating and dressing, and when he had a child, he would also be raised by the main family, and he would go to the school when he was older, and then he would go to the academy when he was older.

Thinking of these good things, the servant suddenly remembered the squire who came that day, but the old man didn't toss lightly, and was a little worried.

Zhang Zhong didn't care at all, "It doesn't matter what kind of servant he is, he doesn't have the courage to impeach me, as for making things bad behind his back, then let him go, there are many people who want to make things bad for the Zhang family." ”

"What the master said is, our Zhang family is not afraid, master, the little boy and the little lady are here." As the official spoke, he saw the two young men coming from there at a glance, and took the initiative to take a few steps back to make room.

When the rain was light, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan worked together to hold a big umbrella, hold their trouser legs, and wear sandals made of reeds on their feet.

The two of them just received a letter from the old man, which mentioned the book of the Ministry of Industry, and also mentioned the Lu Shilang, focusing on Zhang Zhong's going out after completing the county order, and the old man wrote out the pros and cons, which means that Zhang Zhong will be an official in a poor place in the future, as long as there is a little achievement, it is a great political achievement.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also had to admire the old man, not to say that the old man had this idea, but to push this matter to Lu Shilang with hatred, to give him a chance to take revenge, so that he felt that Zhang Zhong wanted to enter the court, and he contacted some people to find a way to get Zhang Zhong to a remote and poor place.

In this way, he is comfortable, and the Zhang family also saves some things, and there are people to help do things, and there is no need to make benefits, there are not many such things.

After Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan sighed at the old fox, they came over to discuss with Zhang's father and asked Zhang's father if he agreed, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan agreed.

After the old man's explanation, he knew that he needed to be a thorn in the local area, or he was too guarded, otherwise, he usually couldn't rise to a higher position, and he could only be a deputy in some departments, and he was ready to rely on luck to get up, which was too difficult.

Wang Juan didn't object to Zhang Xiaobao's proposal because he thought of Yang Guozhong, this person relied on nepotism, and the Zhang family did not have any concubines, but the Zhang family could form such a form through other ways, and now after reading the letter sent by the old man, he decided that it was better to follow the normal way.

The two of them came over, and when it rained heavily, they didn't use an umbrella, and when the wind blew, they got wet, and it was just right when it rained.

Zhang Zhong turned around and saw his son and daughter-in-law coming, smiled happily, and said to the two people: "Have you been at the bottom of the mountain for the past three days?" Want me to go home with you? ”

"Dad, it's lively under the mountain, it's not annoying, but I really have to go home, I can't always let others deal with things in the yamen, Dad, Grandpa Bi sent a letter, you can take a look."

When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stepped forward, Zhang Xiaobao took out the letter from his arms and handed it to his father as he spoke.

Zhang Zhong thought that Bi Gou had written a letter to the two children of the school, but he didn't care, so he took out the letter casually, and when he saw it, he realized that the letter was written specifically for him.

"Xiaobao, isn't it too early to talk about this at this time?" Zhang Zhong actually doesn't want to be an official outside, how good a Beijing official is, it is credible to write clearly, if you don't go outside as an official, if you want to go further in the future, it is not easy to find opportunities, unless you encounter something big, you need to use the deputy position of a certain department, and the deputy position can do things very well in order to be valued.

Zhang Xiaobao has studied so much psychology, how could he not know what his father thinks, and persuaded him next to him: "Dad, it's not early, you really want to work for three or five years?" After the harvest is completed in the autumn of this year, all the infrastructure construction is done, and various transactions are also rising, Huayuan County is only higher than Sanshui County.

Dad, you are still young, not even thirty years old, only in your twenties, you can enter Beijing as an official now, and make more efforts at home, so that you can do chores in various departments first, and then make some money, or make some small achievements, you can mention it a little, but if you want to achieve the position of a waiter, you have to be at least ten years.

Ten years you are also young, thirty-four or five years old, but if you want to achieve the position of Shangshu, it may not be just ten years, you can also sit, think of more ways, the child can let your father go up, but the child is too tired, it is not a simple political achievement, but there is also a political struggle with other high-ranking officials.

Dad, don't you want to do something big? Only the official can't do it, the Zhang family still has a lot of money to support, and the child still has to make money, although there is a juanjuan to help, but the juanjuan will also have his own things to do. ”

Zhang Xiaobao told the truth, Zhang Zhong looked at his son, and then he thought that his son is still a child, he is already so tired, and he will have his own things when he grows up, and he can't help himself busy behind the scenes all day long, and he has to learn more about this kind of thing in the future, and he can't always study.

It doesn't matter if you go to the local area, the poorer the place, the more contradictions there are, and it can be regarded as a kind of learning and exercise, really going directly to the court, with the help of your family, or an official who deals with miscellaneous things, and your colleagues will let you get too much exercise.

It's better to go outside and take a look, in a poor place, with his son's ability, no other needs, as long as he copies some things from Sansleep County and Huayuan County, he can get it right.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhong didn't know whether to be happy or helpless, but he had too little experience in officialdom, and he always had to let others protect him.

Now even the officials after the county order can be arranged, and when they enter Beijing and other places, they can choose as they choose, and when they become officials, they should be content.