Chapter Twenty-Seven: Encounter the Kidnappers?
The chief took Shen Ze to a small room next to Zhang Zhixian. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to Na Changsui, this small room is where the former master works, and this will naturally be the place where Shen Ze works in the future.
The furnishings in the small room were very simple, except for a long worn bookcase, a hat chair that was about to fall apart, and a bookcase on the side of the north wall, which was full of criminal files.
The county didn't arrange any work, Shen Zegan sat for a while, very bored, so he took out a stack of dusty files from the cabinet and threw them on the bookcase. When the dust had settled, he found a rag to wipe his chair and sat down to read the file.
Shen Ze looked at it for a while, and found that it was all a case that had accumulated for many years, so he was not interested, so he casually closed the file. Reading these files is purely a hobby, and I am not a model worker, who has nothing to do and likes to work without work, and I still find a job to do!
Shen Ze got up and looked around again, but finally didn't find the tea he was looking for.
Shen Ze has always felt that he is a very easy-going person, the environment almost doesn't matter, and the only dissatisfaction is ...... Anyway, he is also the master of the county government, why no one even pours a cup of tea, it's really unusual! I had been grinding with Zhang Zhixian for a while just now, and now I am a little dry!
So Shen Ze decided to find a handyman to solve the most basic tea problem.
Shen Ze came out of the wing room and saw a few handymen chatting under a big willow tree in the backyard, so he called out to a handyman and asked him to make tea for himself.
The handyman saw that Shen Ze was dressed in a Confucian shirt and a scholar, although he didn't know that this was the newly hired master of the county, he didn't dare to underestimate it.
At that moment, the handyman politely bowed down and listened to Shen Ze's instructions, and hurriedly ran to the corner of the northwest corner of the courtyard to make tea.
In the northwest corner of the backyard, there is a row of low houses where the chief servants rest, which is for the long attendants who are on errand in the second hall of the county office.
The handyman went to a small house and poured a bowl of hot tea and brought it to Shen Ze.
Shen Ze took the tea bowl, glanced at it, and couldn't help but be speechless. There are a few tea stems floating on the surface of this tea, which is black. Shen Ze wasn't sure if it was a tea stalk or a grass root, and the edge of the tea bowl was greasy.
This...... Shen Ze felt that for such a beautiful son as himself, drinking this kind of tea was simply an insult to himself, and he was also a master hired by the county.
Shen Ze looked at the handyman, rolled his eyelids, and asked, "Can you drink this tea?" He wondered if the handyman looked down on him as a newcomer and deliberately poured himself such a cup of tea to chill himself.
The handyman hurriedly said respectfully: "This is the tea that villains often drink, and you can drink it." But you can't get used to it. It's just that the tea and tea sets that the old men in the yali drink have always been brought by themselves, and the villain has nowhere to find anything else for the son for a while! ”
Lao Zhu, the grandfather of the Ming Dynasty, was born from the grassroots, and after sitting in the world, he really didn't have a good impression of the officials who had oppressed him. Although it is indispensable to govern the world without officials, Lao Zhu is indeed quite mean to those who are officials.
Not only did he set a very low salary for officials, but he also stipulated that officials who embezzled more than 60 taels of silver should directly "peel the skin and pull the grass" and kill them.
This also led to the fact that the official salary of the Ming Dynasty was the lowest in history, and if the official income of the Ming Dynasty was compared with the Great Song Dynasty, it was completely the difference between the flower and the rich.
The living officials of the Ming Dynasty can generally achieve the second grade at most, and the second grade is only sixty-one stones. In the Ming Dynasty, only officials and titles were available. The Ming Dynasty was knighted for military merit, and civil officials naturally did not have titles, and the Ming Dynasty also canceled various loose officials and titles in the Tang and Song dynasties. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a high-ranking official of the Ministry and Cabinet who has achieved the second grade, theoretically there is only a few dozen stones.
This is very different from the officials of the Great Song Dynasty. In the Great Song Dynasty, the general second- and third-grade high-ranking officials had a legal income of thousands of stones, or even thousands of stones. The officials of the Great Song Dynasty were originally high, and in addition to the official who had a salary, the titles of the officials, such as dispatch, pavilion official, scattered official, honor, and title, also had their own titles.
Moreover, Lao Zhu has also reduced the various benefits of being an official to the minimum, and even the publicly-funded meals of government offices at all levels have been reduced. According to the rules of the grandfather at that time, the Ming government office had to bring its own food. As for the tea, it naturally comes with it.
It can be said that when Lao Zhu was alive, it was very miserable to be an official in Daming, because Lao Zhu was too harsh on officials, and even many officials abandoned their official seals. Of course, it is difficult to say how many of Lao Zhu's regulations can be implemented so far, after all, he has been buried in his old house for more than 100 years.
However, the tea leaves of the subordinate officials in Yidu County were indeed brought by themselves, and the miscellaneous servants did not really look down on Shen Ze.
Shen Ze couldn't help but be a little depressed, this master's treatment was too bad.
Cao Dianshi heard the movement in the courtyard at this time, came to the door of his signature room, and said to Shen Ze: "Master Shen wants to drink tea, come to me, I have the best Wuyi rock tea here!" ”
Shen Zezheng was thirsty, listened to Cao Dianshi's words, hurriedly arched his hand at him, and said, "Then talk about Cao Dianshi." Shen Ze didn't plan to be polite to him, anyway, this guy still owed himself a favor.
After speaking, Shen Ze handed back the tea bowl in his hand to the handyman, and followed Cao Dianshi into his signing room.
Cao Dianshi's Wuyi rock tea is very fragrant, and Cao Dianshi's cooking skills are also very high, Shen Ze didn't expect Cao Dianshi to look unkind, but he is still such an introverted person.
Cao Dianshi also had nothing to do today, so he chatted with Shen Ze.
As a result, Shen Ze spent his first day at work happily drinking tea and farting with Cao Dianshi!
Shen Ze felt as if he had returned to the good old days when he was a small civil servant in the township, drinking tea and farting with his colleagues all day long!
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Shen Ze, who got off work early in the afternoon, walked back to the Yuelai Inn in a leisurely manner.
The main guest house is not a long-term solution! Although the guest house is very worry-free, you don't have to do anything yourself, and the guys have done it, but the cost of this guest house is really not small.
Thinking of this, Shen Ze was a little depressed. Originally, I could make a lot of money by writing "Journey to the West", but when I saw this big house, I beckoned to me! But now that I was forced by the county to do this, Master Laoshizi, it really affected my creation and making money, it was like eating hot pot and singing songs, and my life was very happy, but I was suddenly robbed by bandits, which is really sad to say.
Alas, be a little more tired, and work overtime at night! Fortunately, I just dictated, and it was Yang Feng who wrote it, so I wasn't too tired!
As soon as he turned the corner, Shen Ze saw a few men in coarse cloth shirts squatting in front of the Yuelai Inn, and he didn't know what to do there.
"That's not Brother Sixteen!"
"It's Little Sixteen!"
As soon as those men saw Shen Ze, like a hungry wild dog seeing delicious food, they all stood up violently and rushed towards him.
Before Shen Ze could react to what was going on, he was already surrounded by those five big and three thick Zhuang men, and one of them, a man with a full beard, directly cut Shen Ze's hands.
Damn, kidnappers are too bold these days, aren't they? In broad daylight, it's such a blatant kidnapping?!
What about the superman who maintains law and order in Qingzhou, uh, no, is it the tall woman? Where have you been at this point? Don't show up when you should be, don't show up when you shouldn't, you have to entangle with me!
"Hey, all the good brothers and don't be rude, the little brother doesn't know where to offend everyone? If you inadvertently offend everyone, the little brother is here to compensate all the heroes! If all the heroes are short of silver and two expenses, and the little brother has some of them, I will go to the inn to get them for you! ”
Shen Ze is depressed, he came to Daming, but he has always been kind to others and has never offended anyone!
I also blame myself for being too cheap, what did I use just now to describe being invited by the county to be a master, but I took the analogy of being robbed by a bandit, now it's okay, I really met a robber, Shen Ze really wants to give himself two mouths! Well, if you can move your hands freely!
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ps: Still asking for tickets and collections.,Xiao Yuan seems to be a little chattering.,Don't hit me... If you want to fight, hit me with a ticket, Xiao Yuan promises not to hide, hehe!