This man was about forty years old, tall and thin, with a sparse beard, a malnourished pale face, an expression of vicissitudes and tiredness that could not be concealed, and the robe on his body was also very old, with a few patches exposed, standing like a flock of outcasts. Although the clothes are shabby, others can still see that he is a down-and-out scholar, which makes everyone involuntarily keep a distance from him, after all, it is not yet the era of "everything is inferior only the money is high", and the poor people at the bottom still have a respect for the reader from the bottom of their hearts.

This situation was also noticed by Pang Gang, and he quietly asked Wang Zhidao: "Where did you find this person?" ”

As soon as he heard his boss mention this person, Wang Zhi couldn't help but laugh and said: "My lord, this person was picked up by the villain when he was leading the homeless people out of Qingzhou City, when he was already fainting from hunger on the side of the road, it was the villain who saw him pitiful and poured him a few mouthfuls of rice soup to revive him." And then"

"And then you tricked him over?" Pang Gang interrupted Wang Zhi without waiting for him to finish speaking, and asked.

Looking at Pang Gang's smiling expression, Wang Zhi couldn't help but hurriedly say: "My lord, how dare a villain with a conscience in heaven and earth do such a deceptive thing, he voluntarily joined the army, and the villain did not deceive him." ”

"Okay, I'm sure you are." Pang Gang couldn't help laughing, patted Wang Zhi on the shoulder and walked towards the scholar.

Everyone who was queuing up saw Pang Gang in official clothes walking over, and hurriedly moved out of the way, revealing a space, only the middle-aged man was still standing there motionless.

Pang Gang walked up to the middle-aged man and asked with a smile: "Since you don't worship this official when you see it, it seems that you have a meritorious reputation." ”

The middle-aged scholar arched his hand to Pang Gang and said, "Don't dare, the late Huayan has seen a hundred households!" Let the adults laugh, the late life is just a poor and rotten Confucian, if it weren't for the rescue of the adult's subordinates, he would have starved to death on the side of the road long ago, how dare he be presumptuous in front of the adult. ”

Pang Gang asked Hua Yan thoughtfully: "This official heard that you are willing to join the military and settle down in Wanghai Fort, is that so?" ”

"Exactly!" Hua Yan smiled bitterly: "The late life is now without food and clothing, if you don't join the army, I'm afraid you will starve to death in less than three days. ”

"Hmm!" Pang Gang nodded with satisfaction, he saw that although this Huayan was dressed in despair, he was not humble or arrogant, and he had the heart to keep him, so he happily said: "It is a blessing to have the help of Mr., Mr. will stay in Wanghai Fort in the future, the official is willing to serve Mr. as a pawn, and the next month of rice, the official will be like a number of payments and will never deduct arrears, what do you think?" ”

A hint of joy flashed on Hua Yan's face after hearing this, he is now without food and clothing, and it is an unexpected joy to be a small official after coming to Wanghai Fort, so he bowed down and bowed to Pang Gang: "Such a subordinate has seen a hundred households!" ”

In ancient times, officials and officials were not the same thing, officials were appointed by the central government, so the officials were called "court officials", while officials were "not in the stream", and the governors themselves were "called", and their identities were still the people. In other words, bureaucrats are "state cadres", but officials have to be counted as "working instead of working".

Their status is no different from that of the official (changfu, catcher, jailer, etc.), except that the waiter, catcher, jailer, or military service, and the official provides intellectual surname services. As a result, the status of the officials was extremely low (often called "dog officials") and their remuneration was extremely low (they often did not receive a salary). In addition, there is also a rule that Xu officials cannot be imperial historians (supervisors), nor can they be admitted to the jinshi. The officials and officials are one in heaven and the other on earth.

But then again, although the position of officials is inconspicuous, their rights are not small, and in ancient times, there was a saying that "the officials of the hundred officials are famous, and the officials of the country are also officials".

The Ming officials are divided into collectors, priests, wardens, and officials, and the collectors are the last of the officials. In the Ming Dynasty, it is very difficult for officials to be promoted, if the road goes well, they can only be promoted to officials after three years of accumulation, and then three years are the pawns, and another three years are the best officials, and the officials are still petty officials who do not enter the stream, not to mention that Pang Gang gave him the most subtle collection.

But Hua Yan is still very happy about this, because anyway, from now on he also has a formal job, which is definitely a great thing for him who has no food and clothing.

After taking a careful look at Hua Yan, Pang Gang instructed Da Zhuang to bring the book and pen and paper, handed it to Hua Yan and said: "Mr. Hua, after those homeless people drink porridge, you will start to register for them, one for each of the main and one for the second, and the money and grain account book will also be handed over to you for registration, as long as you do a good job, I will promote you to a priest after recruiting people, you have to do a good job and don't let me down!" ”

Hanging a carrot in front of the donkey so that the donkey can grind hard is a timeless method in officialdom. In later generations, Pang Gang was called by the leader in this way, and now he has used it as it is, but it seems to be working well.

Seeing Hua Yanxing, who was beaming, taking over the book, Pang Gang was also greatly relieved. Although he handed over some things to Hei Tie and Li Xian during this time, but because these two of them were both illiterate and illiterate, he could only do those things of registration and even bookkeeping, and Pang Gang, who was tormented by these things, had already wanted to find someone to take over these jobs, and now he finally got a strong man, how could he not make good use of it?

Smiling at the crowd of homeless people happily drinking rice porridge, Pang Gang nodded secretly in his heart, most of these homeless people are young and middle-aged, it seems that after sowing seeds, you can select some people to come out and start training. After all, time waits for no one, and the sooner the troops are trained, the more secure the safety of Wanghai Fort will be.

Stretched out his hand to call Wang Zhi and asked, "Da Zhuang, do you know if there are any people with good surnames and good fishermen among our military households or homeless people?" ”

"My lord, are you going to send someone to fish?" Wang Zhi asked.

Pang Gang sighed and said: "Yes, now that there are so many people at once, our foundation is thin, and if we don't find something to fill the gap in food, we will really run out of cooking!" ”

Wang Zhi thought for a while and said: "My lord, I estimate that there should be, although our Ming Dynasty has already issued a ban on the sea, but there are still many people who will secretly go to the sea to fish, after all, people who are hungry and afraid will do anything, and it should not be difficult for the villain to touch this." ”

"That's good!" Pang Gang patted Wang Zhi on the shoulder and said, "I'll leave this matter to you, tomorrow you will start recruiting people and weaving fishing nets, in short, you must do it as soon as possible." And you have to remember, you must not let them have nothing to do, we don't raise idlers in Wanghai Fort! ”

"Yes, my lord, I will definitely take care of this." Wang Zhi slapped his chest loudly

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