Chapter Ninety-Seven: Recruitment for Public Office

Wang Xiaotian swallowed the real thing in his mouth, drank milk tea again, moistened his throat, and said: "It's true that you fight local tyrants and divide the fields." But, it depends on when. If, my master, comes to the news, let us be sure to occupy Dushant. Then I will definitely take out a part of those gold and silver treasures and distribute them to the common people, and quickly win the hearts and minds of the people. ”

"Then, take out another part and recruit powerful masters to form an elite force and fight hard with the emir. Take the rest with us as trophies, and let the emir cry in the empty castle lord's mansion. ”

"But if I, Master, let us abandon Dushant and return as soon as possible. Then when we distribute the gold and silver treasures to the common people, we are actually harming them. ”

Xia Xianlong wondered, "Why do you say that?"

Wang Xiaotian picked up a piece of mutton, put it in his mouth and chewed it with a mouthful full of oil, and said, "For example, we send money to the people." Ordinary people suddenly have a lot of money in their hands, and they will definitely buy things in large quantities. ”

"Dushant is a very closed city, and the total amount of supplies is basically fixed. Naturally, prices are also relatively stable. If there is more money in the market, prices will inevitably rise. When the time comes, it will be the common people who will suffer. And that's just one of the problems. ”

"Another question. If we take the gold, silver, and jewels left by the emir, and give them to the common people. After we leave, the emir will return, and he will surely take it back from the hands of the common people even more vigorously. When the time comes, I don't know how many families will be ruined. In the old era, there was a special word to describe this situation, called the homecoming group. ”

Hua Ziyu exclaimed: "It's still Xiaotian's thoughtfulness. What's next?"

Wang Xiaotian thought for a while and said, "Let's take a look at how much money is still in the public account of Dushant City. If the money is sufficient, we will first compensate the dead and wounded yesterday, including ordinary people. Uncle Durban, count your personnel as well. ”

"The standard of bereavement for the soldiers and guards of the city defense army, as well as for the common people, is the same. Uncle Durban, the people on your list, the pension is ten times as theirs. The specific amount will be determined after finding out the family background of Dushante's public account. If there is little money in the public account, you can take out the money from the city lord's mansion and use it. ”

"The second thing is to repair the east gate as soon as possible so that the caravans can enter and exit. The third thing was to lower the entry tax of the caravans and attract those caravans to come and go. Oh, by the way, and one of the most important things is to report the situation here to my master quickly. ”

Xia Xianlong said: "It has been reported." However, the news was definitely not so fast when it was delivered to the dragon head. It will take some time for his instructions to come back. ”

Wang Xiaotian nodded and said, "Don't worry." It will take ten days and half a month to complete the things at hand just now. Besides, what about Princess Nia?"

Hua Ziyu said: "I'll go to Kashgar to meet them, and then take them to Furong Academy." ”

Wang Xiaotian hurriedly asked, "Professor, are you still back?"

Hua Ziyu smiled and shook her head, "I'm a professor at Hibiscus Academy. Participating in this matter is just a chance meeting, and it just happened to happen. It's over, and now that I'm going back to college, I'm going back to work as a professor. I'll leave it to you here. ”

Wang Xiaotian was speechless. You're a professor at Seremban Academy, and I'm still a student at Seremban Academy. Why can you wave your sleeves, turn around and leave in style, but put me in this crater to roast?

He really wanted to ask Hua Ziyu why this was, but it was estimated that even if he asked, Hua Ziyu would not answer. Therefore, these questions only went around in his mind for a while, and then he left them behind.

Next, what Wang Xiaotian has to do every day is to read all kinds of documents and sign them for approval. The specific implementation work is all done by Uncle Durban.

In the first few days, Wang Xiaotian was still very interested in these, read every document carefully, and signed it seriously, meticulously, and full of a sense of ceremony.

However, as he did more of this kind of work, his enthusiasm and interest slowly faded. Less than ten days later, he was not interested at all. What he feared the most was that every day Uncle Erban came to him with a large stack of documents and reported to him one by one. From millions of dollars in expenses to trivial conflicts between residents. made Wang Xiaotian annoyed.

Once, when Durban babbled for a long time, how many years ago there was a dispute between the two families who had a conflict, how they quarreled for decades, and never resolved a small contradiction, he finally couldn't help it and asked: "The former Emir City Lord, do you also care about these things?"

Durban was stunned, shook his head, and said, "I don't know either." In the past, all I was concerned about was this kind of information, and my superiors didn't let me spy on administrative information. So, I'm sorry, I can't really help you much with the administration. The previous work was also done by us brainstorming and thinking that it should be done, so we came to you to report. ”

Wang Xiaotian himself was speechless. Feelings are a large group of laymen, who managed a city for more than ten days. It's not easy for Dushant to be stable.

He thought for a moment and said, "Uncle, you find some officials who used to follow the city lord and ask them how the city lord managed Dushant in the past." We don't necessarily copy it, but we should always learn from it. ”

Durban nodded in agreement.

Three days later, Durban came back to report that the original lord of the city did not care about this. He told his men to do only two things, one was to collect taxes, and the other was to maintain law and order. The rest of the work is left to the big local trading houses, or some influential family.

Wang Xiaotian shook his head when he heard this. He is only responsible for collecting money, and in order to collect money smoothly, he has raised a group of thugs (city defense army), and the rest is not worried. This kind of management is too extensive, isn't it? It is completely incompatible with the trend of historical development, and it is no wonder that the appeal of the emir is so low.

During his evening break, Wang Xiaotian went into the library on the first floor of the Tower of Babel, devoured ancient books from the old era, and then designed a new urban management system based on the current situation in Dushante.

First of all, the city management is divided into two parts: government affairs and military affairs. Military affairs are divided into two parts: city defense and public security, and each has a captain in charge. In addition, there are training teams dedicated to the training of the city defence forces and security personnel.

Government affairs are divided into three parts: finance, construction and logistics. Finance is responsible for managing, collecting taxes and public facilities such as cisterns and granaries, the income generated by external leases, and all external expenditures.

Construction is responsible for the repair of houses and walls, as well as other building facilities. Logistics is responsible for the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the city lord and city management personnel.

The heads of the six departments, together with the four representatives elected by all the merchants, and Wang Xiaotian, a total of eleven people, make up the Dushante Management Committee. The Management Committee meets quarterly. At the meeting, the six departments reported on the progress of the previous stage and discussed the main work at present.

At the end of each year, the Management Committee scores the work of the six departments. In the management committee, Wang Xiaotian can score 20 points, and the other ten people, each of whom can score 10 points, with a full score of 120 points, if the department's score is lower than 50 points, the person in charge will be removed.

If the rating exceeds 70 points, how many points are exceeded, how many percent does the bonus increase in the department.

The benchmark is scored on a scale of 50 points. The main reason is that the four merchant representatives may not dare to offend the heads of the six departments, so everyone will score 10. Add to that the person in charge's own 10 points, for a total of 50 points.

This is the most basic benchmark score. If the person in charge of a certain department can't even get these 50 points, it means that his work is extremely bad and he has offended the merchants.

In addition, it is also necessary to consider a certain department, such as the person in charge of finance, although he offended all the representatives of the four merchants, but if he completes the tax collection task well, he will definitely be recognized by the other five departments and the city lord, and his score will not be very bad.

Wang Xiaotian is quite satisfied with this system of division of labor and responsibility, scoring and assessment. When he explained these to Duerban, Xia Xianlong and others, he also got their approval. But the question before them is, where to look, the heads of six departments that they can trust.

Wang Xiaotian and Xia Xianlong have limited knowledge of the situation in Dushante. Although Uncle Durban was a native of Dushant, he came into contact with ordinary people, plus the original city lord, and did not pay attention to city management. Therefore, Uncle Durban can't figure out who has expertise in this area.

Even if neither of them knew how to find the right person, Wang Xiaotian still wanted the two of them to be responsible for finding a suitable candidate. Because the work is too nerve-wracking.

Who knows, he just glanced at the two of them, and before he could speak, the two immediately guessed his thoughts, and immediately excused himself, leaving Wang Xiaotian alone, spinning his hair in circles in the room.

After Wang Xiaotian lost hundreds of hairs, he suddenly remembered the imperial examination system of the old era, and he was overjoyed.

Then, he immediately shut himself up in his room and spent a whole week drafting the Dushant method for the recruitment of public officials, as well as the accompanying examination questions.

Immediately after, Wang Xiaotian announced the recruitment information, which immediately caused a sensation in the city. This form of open recruitment is too new. Everyone has never seen it, and they don't know why the city lord is looking for helpers in this way.

Moreover, people are more often curious, what is the so-called aptitude test, and what is the strategy, how do you need to answer? Will the city lord appear during the interview session, and what questions will he ask if he appears?

It's a pity that even if everyone is curious, there are very few people who really sign up. Because among the more than 100,000 people in Dushanted, not even one-tenth of them can meet the standard of reading and literacy.

Some of them have businesses in their own homes. How can you leave your own money-making business and go to a new city owner who doesn't know when he will leave?

Most of the remaining people had already been hired by the city's merchants. There are very few people who are really interested in participating in the recruitment.

So, the recruitment revelation was posted for a week, and only ten people came to sign up. Not ten for each of the six posts, but for a total of only ten.

After reading the registration, Wang Xiaotian was secretly glad in his heart. Thanks to the fact that before the release of the information, the sentence "the number of applicants is less than three, and the recruitment for this position will be cancelled" was removed. Otherwise, this recruitment will become a complete joke.

Although there are not many people who sign up, it is a valid start. Wang Xiaotian decided to continue to push forward the recruitment work.

Three days later, Wang Xiaotian personally organized the written test. The ten people who took the exam were all stunned when they saw the exam questions written on two sheets of paper.

Question 1: On the similarities and differences between democracy and fairness.

Question 2: The carriage you are driving is full of dangerous goods, and the two horses are frightened and can't stop, so you can only control the carriage to the left or right. There are two forks in the road ahead, the left side is deserted, and there is only one small child playing. It's bustling on the right, there's a bunch of kids playing, which intersection did you choose to turn the carriage on?