After the residents of the area finished running, all of them were divided into ten groups, and the team leader and deputy team leader were also clarified.

Each group is accompanied by two horses, and each day they work in pairs and take turns patrolling the streets on horseback.

If you don't have horses, you will work in pairs and patrol the streets on foot, each in charge of its own area.

Tao Xiaowang has a relationship, so he was assigned a horse and brought another character to Huaijie.

Xiang Huaijie's cousin is the warden of another room, and he is also a relation.

The two rode horses every day, wandering the streets, in the Tao Xiaowang area in the morning and in the Xianghuaijie area in the afternoon.

Tao Xiaowang has a knife, Xiang Huaijie has a knife and a crossbow, and the court also stipulates that weapons cannot be lost, and losing them is a felony.

On the first day, when the two of them rode horses on the street, they felt very majestic, when they could be like the cavalry, riding horses on the streets.

Many little ladies on the side of the road also pointed at them, which made Tao Xiaowang proud.

But ten days later, the city of Suzhou has become accustomed to their presence, and the people are not surprised.

At this time, Tao Xiaowang and Xiang Huaijie already felt uninteresting.

Moreover, they rarely rode horses before, and their riding skills were not perfect, and after riding for a few days in a row, their butts and legs hurt.

This kind of meaningless work day after day makes Tao Xiaowang feel very bored.

In mid-July, the city of Suzhou was getting hotter and hotter, and Tao Xiaowang just went to the street that day, and led the horse to a tree: "I'm not leaving, rest and rest, on such a hot day, want to heat us to death?" ”

Lao Tzu is here to make money, not to die.

Xiang Huaijie looked left and right a little scared: "You can only rest every two quarters of an hour, do you want to go shopping first?" ”

"Walk around, who knows how long we've been walking, if you want to go shopping, I'm going to rest anyway." With a straw in his mouth, he sat down in the shade of a large tree, and refused to go.

Xiang Huaijie had no choice but to sit on the side.

Locals soon walked by the side of the road.

"Tao catches the head to catch the head, don't patrol today?" A mother-in-law laughed.

This mother-in-law is not bad, Tao Xiaowang said with a smile: "I will patrol again, and I will patrol to your house." ”

This is a mother-in-law in his area, her husband is a pig killer, Tao Xiaowang often sees it when he patrols, and he is relatively familiar.

The woman smiled when she heard this, and left quickly.

Tao Xiaowang suddenly felt a little interesting again, he was in charge of a thousand households, and in the past few months, every household had run through and met a lot of people.

Of course, most people didn't write it down, but the good-looking mother-in-law wrote down a few.

The two of them were cool under the tree, and many local people came over to know Tao Xiaowang basically, because this was his area.

After sitting for about two quarters of an hour, Tao Xiaowang was a little drowsy, and suddenly someone in the distance exclaimed: "There is a fight." ”

Xiang Huaijie patted him: "Fight, fight, fight." ”

"Hey, don't care." Tao Xiaowang didn't want to care about this kind of, the people who fought nearby were all villagers, and in the end, mediation was the mainstay, as long as no one died.

Xiang Huaijie repeatedly said that this is your area.

Tao Xiaowang is on fire, the two of us patrol together, it's ours, you want to go to you, I'll help you repay your merits when you go back.

Xiang Huaijie didn't want to go either, but soon people came over and called them over, saying that Lao Li's family and Lao Liu's family were fighting.

Xiang Huaijie had no choice but to deal with it head-on.

After that, Tao Xiaowang was basically like this, unwilling to take care of things, and let Xiang Huaijie go every time he had something.

After working with Huaijie for a while, he didn't want to be in a group with him and applied for a transfer.

Then many people cooperated with Tao Xiaowang one after another, and finally asked to be transferred, quite dissatisfied with him, and knew that he had a relationship, so they dared not speak out.

In a blink of an eye, it was the end of the fifteenth year of Hong Xi.

It was a day off, and half of the people rested and were called to a courtyard.

Tao Xiaowang has stopped scolding the emperor recently, although he was a little tired from running a thousand households in the first few months, and then he went to work to fish, flirted with the mother-in-law on the street, and his life became comfortable again.

He came to the scene proudly, and found that nearly half of the people came to the scene today, and all of them were called over to rest today.

After a while, a warden surnamed Xu arrived at the scene, and then he arranged it at the scene.

Soon someone appeared carrying a long table and a huge black plate, the blackboard fell to the ground, level with the ground, about two meters high, and the names of all the people today were written on it, and on the left side of each name were written four options: 'excellent', 'good', 'qualified' and 'unqualified'.

Then someone on the scene began to send things, Tao Xiaowang also got a pen, this is not a brush, it is the latest charcoal pen, it is said to be called a pencil, and then there is a piece of paper, the same as on the blackboard, with everyone's name written and excellent, good, qualified, unqualified four options.

Tao Xiaowang knew that he was going to vote, but his uncle Tao Jiangzhi had already said hello to him, there was no situation, and he had his share in this year's excellence.

It's just a vote, and then who dares not to vote for themselves? Tao Xiaowang is still very sure in his heart.

"Brother Xiaowang, you must be excellent this year." At this moment, someone on the side came over and laughed.

"Hahaha, everywhere, everyone is the same, fair competition, fair competition." Tao Xiaowang said with a smile.

As soon as someone spoke, people around came over, even Xiang Huaijie also came over, because it was true that the team leader and the warden had greeted them privately before, who were the outstanding ones this year.

In fact, everyone is very unwilling, because they have the opportunity to be promoted to officials because of continuous excellence.

But who dares to offend the current officials.

Everyone was touting Tao Xiaowang and a few others, all of them were very excited, pretending to be very modest, and there was a person named Li Shao who was not modest at all, and said that they would invite everyone to eat together in the evening.

The court officials can't eat it, they can eat it, and everyone applauded, saying that Li Shao was atmospheric.

The scene was very lively, and suddenly the Xu Dian's face was not good-looking: "Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet." ”

The crowd slowly quieted down.

"Ahem, everyone knows that the imperial court will vote at the end of the year, the outstanding will be commended, and the unqualified will be punished."

"I'll introduce the rules first, and the personnel, this is--" He pointed to the two men behind him, and the two stepped forward.

Only then did everyone find out that behind Xu Dian, at some point, two officials came, and they didn't know each other.

"This is the general banner of Taicang Prefecture Jinyi Wei Ruan."

"This is the Imperial History of the Inspector Lin from Jingshi."

Xu Dianzhi then said the voting methods and rules, and there was an uproar at the scene, Tao Xiaowang's face was suddenly more ugly than eating, brushing, and then he found that many people around him looked at him and a few people who had been greeted, and their expressions were very strange.

Voting is very insidious, but it can be quite effective.

After a while, everyone sat cross-legged on the spot, each person was more than two meters away from the front and back, left and right, and the vote only needed to tick the box.

Sitting there like this, it's almost impossible to see someone hit you for being good or not.

After the beating, everyone put the paper on the ground in turn, and the Jinyi Guard and the Imperial History will come to collect it, and while collecting it, they will be disrupted.

Finally, log in on the blackboard to see who has the most tickets.

Finally, Xu Dianguan said: "The speed is ticked on the paper, and then the other way around, don't let others see it." ”

"Jin Yiwei and Yushi are on the side, you don't look around, and you can't stand up."

"Do you understand? If you don't understand, ask again. ”

Many people in the crowd understood, and the voice was quite loud, and Xiang Huaijie almost shouted, with an excited expression.

Tao Xiaowang and a few others who were greeted were a little ugly, and they were very scared.

At this time, Jinyi Wei Ruan Zongqi stepped forward again and said it again, including what Xu Dian's last words were, telling them to speed up.

After a few words, Ruan Zongqi said again: "Lin Yushi and I will disrupt the order while collecting it, so we can't see who you call unqualified, you can rest assured, we can't report you for voting for the leader's relatives." ”

"Hahaha." There was laughter below.

Then the people began to pull away at a distance.

Jin Yiwei and Yu Shi came down from time to time, they held a two-meter-long rope in their hands, first pulled the rope from the first row, and then everyone sat behind the first row.

Then I measured the spacing between each row, very carefully.

After a while, everyone sat two meters apart.

"Prepare to vote, don't look back, don't turn your head, finish the speed hook, and now you want to vote for who is unqualified and excellent, you can think about it in advance, don't waste time."

"Countdown ready."

Jinyi Wei Ruan's general flag began to count.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 starts."

With an order, everyone buried their heads and began to tick.

Xiang Huaijie had already looked at it with his peripheral vision, and after sitting cross-legged on the ground, he couldn't see what the people on the left and right were writing.

He was bold now, swished, first beat himself as excellent, and then directly gave Tao Xiaowang a failing grade.

"Report, it's over." After a while, no one raised their hand.

"Turn it upside down and put it on the ground." Jinyi Weidao.

The man quickly turned upside down and was caught on the ground.

In just a few minutes, everyone was done.

The surroundings suddenly became a little quiet, and the atmosphere was not very good, as if it was a little tense.

Tao Xiaowang and a few other people who were originally excellent had ugly faces.

"It's all there, take your time, don't bring the paper on the ground." Jin Yiwei said at this time.

The crowd slowly got up, withdrew from the scene, and gathered around.

Jin Yiwei and Yushi went down to collect the paper, and while they were collecting, they disrupted the order.

Everyone saw it in their eyes and breathed a sigh of relief.

After all the papers were collected, Jinyi Wei Ruan Zongqi said: "According to the regulations, four more people will come up, and they will be disrupted again." ”

"Who wants to come up."

"I" "I" "I"

Hands were raised in the crowd.

Ruan Zongqi casually called four people, went up to mess up the paper he had received, and rearranged it several times.

From beginning to end, these papers have been buckled on the table, and now everyone is more at ease.

"Okay, now check the tickets on the spot, everyone will come around, the closer the better, everyone can see clearly." As soon as Yushi said this, everyone laughed, swarmed forward, and surrounded the long table and blackboard.

Xu Dianyi shook his head and sighed at this time, thinking that something was wrong, Suzhou City, I am afraid that many people will be unlucky.

At this time, the ticket was checked, Yu Shi first took one and turned it over, immediately showed it to everyone, and said with a smile: "Haha, this person is very trouble-free, everyone is excellent." ”

This ticket gave everyone an excellent rating, and the scene breathed a sigh of relief, I don't know who is so boring and trouble-free.

Jinyi Wei Ruan Zongqi held the ticket in mid-air, showed it to everyone for a moment, confirmed that it was correct, and turned his head to look at Xu Dian.

Xu Dianguan wrote a horizontal after everyone was excellent.

Then Yushi pulled out again.

This person votes more clearly, there are excellent, some are good, and some are unqualified.

"Unqualified, Tao Xiaowang, Zhou Tianpeng, Yu Donghai-" Every time Yushi reported a name, the crowd exclaimed.

"Who's going to vote." That week, Tianpeng scolded.

"You scold again?" Jinyi Wei Ruan Zongqi said coldly: "Add one unqualified." ”

"Sss Zhou Tianpeng didn't dare to snort again.

Before, they had already said the rules, whoever dared to make noise on the scene would be disqualified once, and if they made serious trouble, they would be disqualified ten times.

The vote was looked around, and Xu Dianzhi continued to register according to the ballot.

At this time, the atmosphere was quite tense, because everyone knew that it was real, there was no cheating, and there was no backstage.

As the tickets appeared, many people at the scene laughed secretly.

"Unqualified, Tao Xiaowang, Zhou Tianpeng, Yu Donghai-"

There were about seventy or eighty of them present today, and six of them who were usually lazy, went to work to fish, and basically didn't do much work, all of them were voted a large number of unqualified.

Originally, these people thought that they were going to get excellent this year, but they didn't expect the court to come to the real thing.

As more and more unqualified people on the blackboard appeared, everyone was silently counting.

The imperial court used the character 'zheng' to record, this character has no traditional characters, exactly one of five strokes.

Someone has secretly counted it, and only half of the votes have been opened, Tao Xiaowang has already six positives, and thirty votes are unqualified.

Tao Xiaowang is far ahead, and if he continues like this, he will definitely be expelled.

Tao Xiaowang stood in place with a pale face, his heart was fluttering, and he couldn't stop jumping, it was already hot today, he was already sweating profusely at the moment, and it felt like the end of the world.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who are expelled by the imperial court will not be hired in any department for life.

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Before the ticket was opened, Tao Xiaowang turned around and ran, rushed out of the yard directly, and went to find his uncle Tao Bizhi.

When he finally found Tao Bizhi and told Tao Bizhi about the rules and results of the vote, Tao Bizhi's face also darkened.

"Is that how the court voted?"

"Uncle save me, I'm going to be fired, is it too late?"

Tao Bizhi blushed, couldn't speak for a long time, and finally was forced to be helpless, and sighed: "What do you usually do, why did you offend so many colleagues?" ”

"I didn't offend them, I just -—— I just -—— "I just went to work and fished."

Tao Bizhi had no choice, so he hurriedly went to find Gu He with his nephew, but when he came to Gu He's yamen, he happened to see Jinyi Wei Ruan Zongqi and Na Yushi there.

The two are from different state capitals, they don't know each other, and no one dares to cover them up, and it was the result of the public announcement, Tao Xiaowang was too unqualified and was expelled.

Hong Xi's voting system at the end of the 15th year severely shocked the grassroots officials and eliminated a large number of people who only took money and did not work.

At the same time, it also serves as a wake-up call for officials in other state capitals and above the county government.

If the emperor doesn't follow the routine, whoever only takes money and doesn't do things in the future will definitely be unlucky.