"Su Hao, what a means, not bad, not bad." Fang Mengjin said to Su Hao with a smile while plucking the floating tea leaves in the teacup with the lid of the teacup.

They were discussing in the second hall of the county government at this time, Han Wen and Fang Mengjin sat in the top two positions, and Su Hao sat alone at the bottom. On the first day, when Su Hao came to the interview, Fang Mengjin sat down with him, highlighting the position of Hangul. Now that Su Hao has also become a member of the system, Fang Mengjin no longer pretends to be low-key, but sits side by side with Hanwen.

In this way, he is conveying a message to Su Hao, that is, he Meng Jin is the master of the county government and the person that Han Wen relies on. Although Su Hao is also a master, he belongs to the little master, and his status is far lower than that of Fang Mengjin.

In the morning, Su Hao subdued Dai Qi and others in the workshop, and the news was quickly reported to Fang Mengjin by a certain official in the workshop, and Fang Mengjin told Han Wen the news. When Su Hao arranged the work of the finished house and came to report to Han Wen and Fang Mengjin, both of them looked at him with an appreciative eye, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"Master Han, Master Fang, the students have to make all kinds of promises to the servants of the workshop just to make it easier to do things, please rest assured, the students will never trade with principles." Su Hao hurriedly expressed his attitude to the two leaders.

Han Wen waved his hand and said: "Don't use suspicious people, don't doubt people, since the county has appointed you to be in charge of the affairs of the workshop, I believe you, what do you think is beneficial, just let it go." ”

Fang Mengjin also smiled: "Su Hao, my lord and I were worried that you were too young to deal with Dai Qi's gang of old oilmen, but now it seems that we have lost our eyes, and the future is terrible, and the future is terrifying." ”

"The adults and the master praised it falsely, and the students thanked the adults and the master for their trust." Su Hao said. He knew in his heart that what these two people said was just an attitude, and if he really trusted himself completely, why would he send someone to supervise his movements, and he would not shy away from himself at all. As soon as he came in, Fang Mengjin pointed out what he was doing in the workshop, which was actually a warning, which was to tell Su Hao that in this county office, nothing could be hidden from Fang Mengjin.

However, Su Hao didn't have any objection to such a warning, he didn't plan to engage in crooked ways anyway, so naturally he didn't care about others spying on him. He hadn't figured out how to develop in the Ming Dynasty, but at least he had figured out one thing, that is, there was no need to get rich through illegal means in such a small county.

"My lord, master, I have already held a meeting for everyone in the workshop just now. In the next step, I plan to leave two people on duty in the workshop, responsible for allocating materials and coordinating personnel. The rest of the servants went with me to the countryside to help dig wells. Su Hao went straight to the point.

Fang Mengjin said: "This arrangement is good, it will soon be the season of a large amount of water in the fields, and the matter of drilling wells cannot be delayed." However, only you can do this method of surveying the well position, so what can you do if you let these officials go down with you? ”

Su Hao smiled bitterly: "This is what it means to talk better than nothing." The well location survey needs to survey the surrounding topography and landform, and comprehensively analyze the geological structure to ensure that the well location selection is correct. I have to run all the places by myself, but I really can't do it enough. My idea was to let the officials record the topography of each village according to the method I said, and I would first conduct a rough selection based on the materials reported by everyone, and then go to the place where the water is most likely to be stored to conduct an on-the-spot survey, so that the effect would be twice as effective with half the effort. ”

"What do you mean by talking better than nothing?" Han Wen asked.

Su Hao said: "I just chatted with the officials, I originally thought that the officials in the workshop must know some engineering technology, who knows, they just have a little craft, and more than half of them are illiterate." The highest Chinese is Dai Qi, but when it comes to arithmetic, he only has the ability to keep accounts. I just tried to teach them how to draw a map of the scene, and many of them don't even have the right posture to hold a pen, and I guess I have to vomit three liters of blood to the point where I can barely use it. ”

"Of course, the officials are illiterate." Han Wen was not surprised by this, "On weekdays, they can even guess and understand a card ticket, which is already good." The way you have learned is incomparably exquisite, how can these foolish people comprehend it? ”

"That's where the students get frustrated." Su Hao sighed.

Fang Mengjin thought for a moment and asked, "Su Hao, have you ever thought about going to the academy to find a few students to help you?" ”

"Academy?" Su Hao's eyes lit up, yes, the illiteracy rate among the people is high, but the students in the academy are still educated. Although the students did not study natural sciences at that time, they had a cultural foundation, and it was too late to learn and sell now. What Su Hao needs his assistants to do, in fact, in later generations, they are all done by ordinary workers in the geological team, and the requirements for mathematics, physics and chemistry are not high.

"Master, the students in this academy, can I support them?" After Su Hao was happy, he had some doubts again.

He did not study in the academy, but he had come to the city many times to discuss academic matters with the teachings and instructors of the academy, so he also dealt with the students of the academy. According to his impression, the students of the academy were too high-eyed, and they had always looked down on poor rural talents like him. In the eyes of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of thing is a matter of craftsmen, and now he wants to mobilize a group of scholars to help, are these people willing?

Fang Mengjin said: "Scholars, self-cultivation and Qi family rule the country and level the world, I think the students in the academy still understand this truth." Besides, these students are also children of their own county, and their families are also suffering from drought, and the digging of wells is also for the benefit of their own family, so they will not refuse. If there are really rotten Confucians who don't care about the life or death of their fathers and villagers, the magistrate is here, write down their names first, and when it is time to allocate the quota for the township examination, hum ......"

Su Hao was cold first, as the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials, which is really good. The county government wants to requisition the students in the academy, and theoretically speaking, the students can refuse, but the county government has too many ways to deal with these students who do not give face. What Fang Mengjin said was that such students were blacklisted and not given places in the township examination, which was the most terrible threat to the students.

In the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, the township examination was a very important link, and this link was limited by quotas, which were generally calculated according to 30 times the number of people in the province and then distributed to various prefectures and counties. There are three to four hundred students in the county school in Fengcheng County, and there are only thirty or forty places to participate in the township examination each time, which is equivalent to one person out of 10 people can get a place. Fang Mengjin claimed that he wanted to link the matter of participating in the well drilling with the quota allocation, which was ruthless enough.

As soon as Fang Mengjin finished speaking, Han Wen added: "For those who have contributed to helping the county government dig wells, Su Hao, you can also make a roster and report it, and when the quota is allocated in the future, these people can be given priority, which can be regarded as a little reward from the county for them." ”

High, really high, there are prizes for those who participate, and those who don't participate are punished, and they all use the lifeblood of the students as bargaining chips, carrots and sticks, and they are not afraid that these showmen will not bow their heads. Su Hao secretly admired it in his heart, he remembered something, so he asked with a smile: "Master Han, if the student drills the well this time, and it works, can this reward also be counted as a student's name?" ”

"What else do you need to say?" Han Wen grinned and said: "If you can really be like in Zhegui Township, I will definitely list you as the first hero of Fengcheng to dig wells." It's too late this year, next year I will make you up as a student of the county school, and when you are successful in your studies and can participate in the township examination, your place is completely guaranteed. ”

"The student thanked the adult." Su Hao hurriedly thanked Han Wen, and the promise Han Wen gave him was really useful. Although he is quite disdainful of the imperial examination system, if he wants to make a name for himself in the Ming Dynasty, it is estimated that he will have to go through this process in the end. When he took the Xiucai exam, he just barely passed the test, and he failed to get the highest treatment among Xiucai, just an epiphysis. It is very difficult for an epiphyte like him to qualify for the township examination, but now Han Wen has solved this problem for him.

Fang Mengjin continued in Hangul's words and said: "Su Hao, although you have this promise from an adult, your own writing skills are still very important. Otherwise, even if the magistrate gives you a chance, your article will be useless, right? The article you wrote when you were in the county exam, the old man found it out yesterday and read it, with all due respect, there are some debatable points in the article. ”

Su Hao was embarrassed, his predecessor level was indeed not very good, he read a lot of books, but he didn't have any aura, Fang Mengjin said that the articles he wrote were quite debatable, to put it bluntly, it meant that his articles didn't make sense. If you take the township test with such an article, it will basically be a waste of a place.

"The students understand that when this is over, the students will definitely study hard." Su Hao said.

Fang Mengjin stroked the beard on his chin and said: "Although the old man is tired of fame, he also has some experience in the imperial examination article. In the future, Su Hao, if you have any doubts about the article, you can come to the old man, and the old man may be able to give you some advice. ”

"Thank you, master." Su Hao was busy saluting Fang Mengjin again.

"Well, we'll talk about that later. At the moment, the matter of digging a well is more important, without further ado, I will take you to Longguang Academy. Wu Zhicheng, the new teacher of the academy, is an old master, but he is not very easy to speak. Fang Mengjin stood up and said.