With Zhao Han's letter of recommendation and Wu Bing leading the way, Wang Wei and Lin Xue quickly found jobs.

Wang Wei went to a girls' school in Jishui County to be a teacher, while Lin Xue cooperated with many bookstores and usually drew some illustrations for books.

In order to test the price of Jiangxi's paintings, Lin Xue took out a picture of Guanyin painted by herself, and the calligraphy and painting shop directly gave five taels of silver. In addition, the owner of the calligraphy and painting shop also said that he would accept as many paintings as he painted with this quality.

Five taels of silver is worth ten days' wages of Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua and others.

Even if she doesn't do anything, just by painting and selling, Lin Xue can live a nourishing life, but she came to Jiangxi to get married.

Not to be a concubine, but only a wife.

As for how superb Lin Xue's painting skills are, Dong Qichang once commented on it. Among the female painters in the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Huilin of the Southern Sect and Lin Xue of the Northern Sect are called "Southern Yang and Northern Forest".

There is also a great writer Li Yu, not to mention what his masterpiece is, anyway, friends who understand it understand.

When Li Yu created "The Edge of Meaning", he lamented the encounter between the two female painters, and married Yang Huilin to Dong Qichang and Lin Xue to Chen Jiru in the opera.

On this day, Liu Ru came back in a sedan chair, and a bookstore guy helped deliver books.

Back in the courtyard where the two shared a house, Lin Xue was shocked: "Buy so many books, do you really want to be a female official?" ”

Liu Ru said with a smile: "I have inquired, the yamen in various places recruit political observers once a quarter. During the period of observing the government, there was no money, and the food and lodging were taken care of. As long as you don't make mistakes, you can become a reserve clerk in three months. ”

"Looks like you've made up your mind." Lin Xue said with a smile.

The two of them each hired a maid, and their mother-in-law cooked and washed clothes, and their small lives were very nourishing.

Liu Ru asked the shopkeeper to bring the book into the room and gave a handful of copper coins as a tip.

She rolled up a book and said, "Sister Lin, what do you think this is?" ”

Lin Xue leaned over and took a look: "Fanyin." ”

"It's the world's Datong silver dollar, and a silver dollar is one or two pieces of silver, which is much more convenient than broken silver and silver ingots," Liu threw the silver dollar over, "Give you one, as rent." ”

Today, the weather is fine, and Lin Xue took the calligraphy and paintings to the yard to dry.

Liu Ruyi was reading a book under the corridor, and the book she was reading was an official document writing. The format has long been understood, but there are other rules in Jiangxi, official documents must not have rare words, try not to quote allusions, and must be written in colloquial language.

Colloquial texts, which are colloquial texts, can be understood as ancient vernacular texts.

In fact, many scholarly articles of the Ming Dynasty, including the writings of Confucianism, often used colloquial texts to elaborate. Its degree of colloquialism is between classical Chinese and vernacular, and it is only slightly more formal than "Water Margin".

After Liu Ru understood the rules, he no longer read the book, but picked up "The Law of Increasing and Losing the Great Ming".

"The Law of Increasing and Losing the Great Ming" is a deleted version, and about one-third of the whole book has been changed.

After spending a few days like this, they suddenly remembered that they had not yet settled down, so they made an appointment to apply for a household registration. You can only apply for a temporary household registration, and you need to settle for more than half a year before you can change it to a permanent household registration.

I came to Toko.

The middle partition wall has been torn down, as if the windows are bright and clean.

The section chief of the county yahufang is very young and is working on a desk. Maybe it was because he had been working for too long, he put down the brush and rubbed his wrists, and suddenly saw Lin Xue and Liu Rus, and he couldn't take his eyes off and looked at it directly.

"What are the two sons of law going to do?" A small official asked.

"Settle down." Lin Xue replied.

The little official took out a household post and said, "Sit down." Foreigner? ”

Lin Xue said, "Yes." ”

The little official asked, "Name." ”

"Lin Xue, the word Tiansu."

"Origin."

"Fujian, Jianning."

“……”

"The cost of the household post is fifteen yuan, and Chongzhen is not charged ten yuan. The security fee is 20 yuan per month, which can be paid monthly or in advance for a whole year. ”

"What is the security fee?"

"There are too many people in Ji'an Prefecture, and the county government criminal department should set up a sub-management yamen, and build a police station every three squares, responsible for patrolling, anti-theft, firefighting, and fighting."

Both girls paid the security fee for half a year, and they thought that this police station was very interesting, a bit like the Five Cities Terracotta Division in Nanjing.

Due to stability and prosperity, the population of Ji'an Province has swelled rapidly, many of whom are foreigners, and the total number of people in and out of the city has exceeded 250,000.

Even some arable land around the city has been demolished to build houses.

How can the county officials be in charge?

Zhao Han ordered the integration of the original organization and set up five police stations throughout the process, each with jurisdiction over more than 50,000 people, and the responsibilities of the people's police, criminal police, patrol police, and fire police.

Big cities must do this, and Nanjing and Beijing have five cities of terracotta and horses.

However, the five cities of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty basically lost their function in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. A large number of departments were able to direct them to do things, but in the end there was no one to do the main business, and they were almost reduced to servants of nobles, eunuchs, and civil officials.

You can understand that the police in Nanjing and Beijing can't find anyone all day long, and they are all on free errands for officials.

Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the Five Cities Terracotta Division, and if he wants to know that he is made like this, he is estimated to be able to climb out of the coffin in anger.

When the two women finished their household registration and left, the young section chief immediately came over.

"Section Chief!" The little official hurriedly greeted.

The young section chief asked, "Two women share a house?" ”

"Yes." The little official said.

This section chief has lived abroad for a long time with his father, who was an official, and returned to Jiangxi two years ago, and his promotion to the head of the Luling County Criminal Section has been very fast.

He is twenty years old, his fiancée has died, and he is thinking about getting a wife.

Liu Ru was so beautiful that he was discouraged. Lin Xue is very suitable, a few years older than a few years older, it doesn't matter if she is a good prostitute, her appearance is enough to ignore many things.

It can only be said that the influence of literary and artistic works on the ideological atmosphere is likely to exceed the indoctrination of the Department of Missions.

In recent years, a large number of dramas have depicted the love of maids and prostitutes, so that many young people have not so many scruples, and they dream of a beautiful marriage in private.

Of course, we must carry the old stubbornness of the family and break through the obstruction of the feudal parents.

Every year after work at noon and in the evening, the young section chief has to go out for a walk, secretly observe Lin Xue's whereabouts and routes, and try to create some scenes of chance encounters on the street.

After observing for half a month, the young section chief was completely obsessed, and he found that Lin Xue's painting skills were superb.

Talented girl!

Liu Rushi read the notices every day, and when she memorized half of the "Law of Increasing and Losing the Great Ming Law", she finally waited for the county to recruit political officials.

Only 30 were accepted, and more than 100 people signed up.

In the past, he was a scholar with a reputation and did not want to be a political observer. This thing is an intern, who has no pay for doing chores for others, and can only be a reserve clerk after three months.

But with Zhao Han's occupation of Hunan and Guangdong, a large number of scholars from various prefectures and counties came to sign up!

"You sign yourself up?" The little official looked at Liu Ruis stupidly.

Liu Ru asked, "Can't women sign up?" ”

"Not really, but ...... But ...... "The little official didn't know what to say."

Liu Ru said with a smile: "Since there is no ban on women from signing up, then it is okay, please help me register." Liu Yin, the word is like this. ”

"Good...... Good! ”

The little official was fluttering, and was fascinated by Liu Ruye's smile, and finally said, "Come to the county government tomorrow for the exam." ”

The county officials, including many applicants, all looked at Liu Ruis stupidly, one is her beauty, and the other is that there are women who have signed up to watch politics.

Nowadays, there are indeed many women who work in the missionary group, but only Xiaohong is an official in the county government.

And Xiaohong is also a missionary turned political officer, and Liu Ru is the first to sign up for the political exam!

"Next!"

"I'm a lifter, and this is my credential."

"It turned out to be Mr. Juren, you don't need to take the exam, you can go directly to the county government to watch the government."

There are a lot of talents in the country, but there are far fewer people.

Once there are people who are willing to watch the government, they will be admitted directly, without occupying a quota, and they will be promoted quickly. This practice can not only select talents, but also win over scholars.

Following.

Liu Ru came to take the exam, the official documents were simple, the law was okay, the agricultural affairs were blind, the mathematics was confused, and the Datong theory was qualified.

After doing so badly in the exam, he was actually the eighth place, but he could stay in the county yaguan government and not be assigned to the township yamen.

The chief of the official section had a sad face, took Liu Ruyi's test paper, and went to ask Zhang Huanjun of Luling County.

"County Zun, this is a woman." The chief of the official section said.

Zhang Huanjun nodded approvingly: "It's really a good word, the writing is also excellent, and the vulgar text can be written catchy." When recorded. ”

The chief of the official section repeated: "County Zun, it's a woman!" ”

Zhang Huanjun laughed: "A woman is a woman, just a political observer." ”

Luling Zhixian is equivalent to Zhao Han's Jing Zhaoyin, how can he be pedantic if he can achieve this position?

The last Luling magistrate punished Fei Chun's parents!

On the first day of Liu Ru's internship in the county government, it directly caused a sensation, and the officials of various sections took turns to watch and ran to the household department under the pretext of chaos.

Liu Ru was purely a miscellaneous worker for the first two days, and the young section chief of the household department, seeing that there were too many onlookers, threw her to the innermost part to copy the official documents. Gradually, I assisted in handling government affairs, all kinds of work were at my fingertips, and after completion, I had time to study mathematics on my own.

General Military Office.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "She is watching the government in the county office? ”

"Yes, the news has reached the General Army's Mansion." Secretary Wang Dai said.

"Order the people below, don't make it difficult, and don't have to take care of it," Zhao Han asked, "Is the march formed?" ”

Zhang Jiayu said: "I have been training for half a month. ”

Fei Ruhe has been transferred back and reinstated, but he is now in charge of the East Military Academy. He transferred the backbone of the army from Guangdong as a framework, and Hunan also transferred some officers, and then recruited peasant soldiers from poor areas of Jiangxi to join the army.

The number of professional soldiers under Zhao Han finally increased to 28,000.

Calling Pang Chunlai, Li Banghua, Fei Chun, Chen Maosheng, Xiao Huan and others, Zhao Han said: "In the past few days, everyone has discussed for a long time, and I have made up my mind. This year, Fujian will not be fought, first occupy Jiangnan, all divisions should make corresponding preparations, and immediately send troops when the summer grain is in the warehouse! ”

What made Zhao Han change his strategic decision was a letter from Xu Ying.

Zhejiang Xiucai is about to revolt!

The Fushe has branches in various places, and the Yishe is the most influential branch in central Zhejiang.

Xu Du, the leader of the Righteous Society, even wanted to launch an uprising, and he had already connected the scholars of several counties, and had the support of many merchants and small and medium-sized landlords.

Tianyu did not take it, but suffered the blame, and Zhao Han had to change his expansion plan.

This time, Zhao Han wanted to personally conquer Jiangnan and personally come forward to control those Jiangnan clans.