In both places, the county schools have not opened. It just so happened that he wanted to urge the county to run a county school, so they beat and beat together.

Whether Lao Zhu can pick talents or not, he doesn't care.

But if the county can't learn it, his third- and fourth-level official teeth can't be opened, because there is no channel to pick people, and no one is available.

Because there was a delay on the way, by the time we got to the next station, it was already dark.

The stationmaster of Jintan Post Station ran out early to greet him.

Zhu Bai rested slightly, and after eating, he instructed Zhang Yu: "Tomorrow, we are not in a hurry to go to Changzhou, let's go to Jintan County first." You will send someone tomorrow morning to take the greeting post I wrote, and make sure that the magistrate of Jintan County is waiting for me at the county office. ”

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There is no long detour from Jintan Post Station to Jintan County.

At noon, I arrived at the county office.

The magistrate had heard of Zhu Bai's reputation for a long time, and when he received Zhu Bai's post, he immediately took a group of officials to greet Zhu Bai outside the county office.

The guards sent by Zhu Bai were standing beside the magistrate at this time, not like they were here to deliver letters, but like they were guarding the prisoners.

Zhu Bai jumped off the horse, ignored the magistrate who came up, strode in, and then sat directly behind the case in the lobby.

As soon as the magistrate saw this scene, his legs were already weak, and he hurriedly followed in and stood with his hands bowed in the lobby.

Zhu Bai didn't say anything, sat down and lowered his eyes to play with his nine consecutive rings.

The magistrate did not dare to speak out.

After a while, the county magistrate of Jurong also arrived, and he went up to the hall to salute Zhu Bai, and stood beside the county magistrate of Jintan.

Zhu Bai raised his chin at Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu dumped the stolen goods seized from the robbers' sack yesterday on the ground.

Zhu Bai asked with a smile: "The two county magistrates, do you know what this is?" ”

The two magistrates wiped their sweat and replied: "The lower officials don't know." ”

"I don't know."

Zhu Bai said: "This is the stolen goods confiscated by the robbers I caught from the junction of the two lords. These things were all saved by him after robbing and killing past merchants again and again. ”

The two magistrates turned pale when they heard this.

Zhu Bai said several important information in just one sentence: first, he encountered bandits, but robbed and killed the other party.

Second, many merchants were robbed and killed.

Third, this bandit has been running rampant for so long, but no one cares.

Zhu Bai looked at the two magistrates lightly: "Don't you have anything to say about the two of you?" ”

The two magistrates knelt down together: "Weichen is guilty." ”

"Wechen is incompetent."

Zhu Bai glanced at the four officials in front of him and asked Jintan Zhixian: "Are all your officials here?" ”

Jintan Zhixian kowtowed: "Yes." ”

Zhu Bai asked the magistrate of Jurong County again: "How many servants do you have?" ”

Jurong Zhixian kowtowed: "It's also four." ”

Zhixian is the seventh product or from the seventh product. Everyone laughs at the seven-grade sesame official as a petty official, but they don't know that there are officials under the county, such as the county Cheng (Zheng Bapin) and the main book (Zheng Jiupin). In fact, there is a smaller classic history below, which has no rank, and is called "not entering the stream".

Lao Zhu Fa's husband only supports the officials themselves, but they don't care whether the officials have wives and children.

The magistrates of the county and the prefect have to support a large group of subordinates, and the county and the chief secretary can also get a fortune.

What officials, masters, and family members have to rely on the prefect and the prefect to find ways to generate income to support.

If the magistrate has money, he can hire a few more powerful and tall officials, and the law and order will naturally be good.

If the county is poor, it can only arrange a few fewer officials, such as Jintan County and Jurong County.

These four officials have not been professionally trained, and directly letting them deal with those robbers is tantamount to sending them to death, which is indeed a bit inhumane.

When Zhu Bai thought about this, the anger in his heart just now faded a lot.

He said: "This king plans to set up a fourth-level bureaucracy in various counties. ”

The two magistrates didn't know why Zhu Bai suddenly jumped into this matter, and looked at each other.

Zhu Bai asked again: "The imperial court ordered that the township test will be held this autumn. Why don't you open the county school? If the county can't learn, how can you go to the township test in the draft? ”

This is the only way for the poor student carp to jump into the dragon gate and enter the official career, and now it's okay, the people below directly blocked the first level.

In the imperial examination or something, in the end, candidates from these big cities in Fuzhou were selected.

Zhu Bai, who used to be a homemaker in a small town, was very angry.

The two magistrates of the county said tremblingly: "The county is really poor and can't do it." ”

In fact, the people are not poor, after all, it is a rich land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Wealthy people can go to school in the state capital.

The key is to know that the county is poor.

If they raise money from rich households to run county schools, they are afraid that the rich households will cheat for personal gain because of this requirement, and the examination will be released. In the end, only the children of rich families became talented.

They also have a bad reputation and bury hidden dangers.

Therefore, it can only be dragged out and not run a county school.

Zhu Bai pursed his lips: It's useless to force them. No money is no money.

He asked, "Have you estimated how much it will cost to run a county school a year?" ”

Jintan Zhixian whispered: "The organization of the examination can be run by the official, and there is also a place to teach in the county government, but I want to invite Mr. to teach, Mr. Guan has three meals a day, how can it cost twenty taels of silver a year." ”

The magistrate of Jurong County said: "It's almost the same on Xiaguan's side. ”

Zhu Bai said: "The number of talent quotas allocated to you by the imperial court is twenty, right?" ”

Jintan Zhixian: "Yes." ”

Zhu Bai: "In this case, I'll help you come up with an idea." You organize the exam first. There is no tuition fee for the top five, and for the sixth to tenth place, fifty literature fees a month. The eleventh to fifteenth will receive 100 yuan a month. Sixteen to twenty people receive 500 wen a month. ”

That's more than three taels of silver a month. It can not only solve the salary of the teacher, but also subsidize the poor students with particularly excellent grades.

Jintan Zhixian was stunned for a moment and muttered: "Then what if eleven to twenty people have no money?" ”

Zhu Bai smiled: "Didn't the magistrate organize the exam?" Which candidate has no money at home, you still don't know? ”

Besides, this kind of exam, unless it is particularly excellent, is there a big gap between the top ten and the top twenty?

It's not just a matter of one sentence.

To put it bluntly, it is to kill the rich and help the poor, and change the high-sounding reason.

For a wealthy family, fifty wen and one hundred wen a month is nothing at all.

Even if it's a tael of silver, isn't that one less beautiful dress?

Jurong Zhixian thought about it first, and hurriedly said: "Xiangwang Shengming." ”

Zhu Bai nodded: "Hurry up and go down." This king passed by when he came back from his inspection, and if he saw that you hadn't set up the county school, he could only do it. ”

The two magistrates hurriedly kowtowed: "Yes." ”

Then Jurong Zhixian had the courage to ask: "Your Highness, what to do with those thieves." ”

The thief must have killed his head, and he actually wanted to ask him about his responsibility.

This matter can be big or small.

If Zhu Bai had to report it, he would definitely not be able to escape the death of the crime.

If Zhu Bai was to be handed over to him directly, everything would be fine.

Zhu Bai looked at him with a smile: "What are you going to do?" ”