On their first night in the county town, Su Hao and Lu Xiuer both slept very soundly, mainly because they were too tired during the day. Although there were only two of them living in a big house, Su Hao never thought about doing something for children.
Something inappropriate, after all, they are both still children.
The next morning, Lu Xiu'er got up early, made breakfast, and then woke up Su Hao to wash up and have a meal. After breakfast, Su Hao went to the county government office to order some snacks, while Lu Xiu'er scrubbed and washed at home. Such a big house
, cleaning alone is a big project.
Su Hao came to the gate of the county government office. The gatekeeper had already heard about him. After asking his name, they all saluted him and said hello: "Good morning, Mr. Su."
"Good morning, brothers!" Su Hao waved his hand, showing some leadership style.
"Master, if you need help with something soon, just come and tell the little guys." The head of the yamen team seemed to say casually.
"What's the matter?" Su Hao looked at the class leader in surprise, but the class leader just smiled mysteriously and remained silent.
Su Hao couldn't figure out what was going on in the county government office, so he walked into the county government office with the intention of staying the same to cope with the ever-changing situation. He first went to the lobby and took a look, and saw that the county magistrate had not been promoted to court yet, and only
Several government officials were wiping tables and chairs there. Su Hao found out where the workshop was and went straight to it. As the master in charge of the workshop, that was his official office.
"Who are you looking for?"
When Su Hao walked into the workshop, he saw seven or eight officials sitting inside, chatting about something. Seeing Su Hao come in, the leader of the officials asked him angrily.
"I'm not looking for anyone." Su Hao replied with a faint smile.
"Why did you come to the workshop if you didn't want to find someone?" the official continued to ask.
Su Hao said: "I, Su Hao, have been favored by the magistrate of Mengzhi County and hired as the master of the workshop to be in charge of the affairs of the workshop. Who is Dai Qi, the clerk of the workshop?"
In fact, Su Hao knew without asking that the official who questioned him just now was Dai Qi, because there was only one scribe in the workshop, and the others were all miscellaneous government servants. Su Hao had already made an agreement with Fang Mengjin the day before.
Dai Qi was scheduled to discuss the matter of digging a well in the workshop this morning. Even if Dai Qi had not seen Su Hao yesterday, he would have been able to guess it if he had seen him today. He pretended to be ignorant and cross-examined Su Hao.
If Su Hao couldn't feel the hostility revealed, then he was really reading stupidly.
"I am Dai Qi." The official responded, but he did not stand up and salute Su Hao. Instead, he frowned and said, "Are you Su Hao, Master Su? Why don't you look like me.
Has Master ever grown up like you?"
Seeing Dai Qi start to make a fuss, other government officials also followed suit:
"That's right, little scholar, didn't you hear that there was a new Master Su, so you came here to pretend to be one?"
"Xiucai, you don't even have a full beard, how dare you pretend to be a master?"
"Yes, how can it be a child's turn to take charge of matters in this workshop?"
"..."
Everyone was talking together, winking and making various noises on the tables and chairs, obviously because they wanted to see Su Hao's joke.
Dai Qi was anxious yesterday when he heard from Fang Mengjin that a new master in charge of the workshop had arrived. Of course, he did not dare to complain to Fang Mengjin. In front of Fang Mengjin, he repeatedly stated that he would obey the new master.
As a leader, he had to do a good job in the important task of digging a well. However, after returning to the workshop, the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and he cursed Su Hao, whom he had never met before, in his heart.
As Fang Mengjin told Su Hao before, the Gongfang is the department in charge of large and small projects in the county. It handles a lot of money and food. It is easy to make dozens of taels of silver a year by doing some tricks anywhere, and you can even do it.
This is considered to be very honest. As a clerk in the workshop, Dai Qi could get a hundred and ten taels of silver from projects every year, and his life was very comfortable.
The affairs of the workshop have some professional characteristics. Han Wen and Fang Mengjin are not very familiar with them, so they dare not control the affairs of the workshop too strictly, and they turn a blind eye to Dai Qi's behavior.
.In this way, the workshop has become Dai Qi's personal little world. For such a kingdom that can make money and no one cares about it, a master suddenly descends from the air. This kind of thing is so disgusting, Dai Qi
How can it be tolerated.
So, he gathered his government officials and prepared to give Su Hao a slap in the face. According to Dai Qi's idea, the best result is to make Su Hao cry or scare him to tears, and make him run to resign to the county magistrate. In this way, Dai Qi will
The vested interests of the Gongfang would not be harmed. Even if this result was not achieved, he would at least let Su Hao understand that the Gongfang was not an easy place to talk, and not try to interfere too much in the Gongfang's affairs.
One of the reasons why Dai Qi dared to do this was that Fang Mengjin once told him that Su Hao was only 17 years old, a scholar from the countryside, and his family background was quite average. In Dai Qi's view, such a person with no background
As a young scholar, his experience was absolutely incomparable to that of an official veteran like him. Faced with the combined resistance of everyone, Su Hao had no choice but to surrender.
Unfortunately, Dai Qi's wishful thinking was interrupted. The Su Hao in front of him was no longer the poor scholar he was before, but a time traveler who had experienced countless ups and downs. Watching the performance of Dai Qi and others
, Su Hao crossed his hands on his chest and smiled slightly.
"Xiucai, why are you laughing?"
A yamen servant named Wu Da finally couldn't help it anymore and asked Su Hao. Dai Qi and other yamen servants were also confused by Su Hao's calm expression. The booing gradually became quieter. Everyone looked at Su Hao and wanted to know what he was doing.
How to respond.
"Are you tired?" Su Hao said in a tone of hatred that iron cannot be made into steel. "Seven or eight big men, dare to do something but not act accordingly, pretending to be stupid, just to deal with a helpless person like me.
Scholars, don’t you feel ashamed?”
"Xiucai, what are you talking about? What is pretending to be stupid? Who is pretending to be stupid?" Dai Qi argued. The most fearful thing about this kind of booing and arguing is that the opponent doesn't care. They made such a fuss. In Su Hao's eyes,
It was just treated like a monkey trick, and everyone's faces were really a little confused.
"Stop making such a fuss!" Su Hao interrupted Dai Qi neatly. He walked up to Dai Qi, pointed to the seat under Dai Qi's butt, and said, "Get up, this is my seat."
Although Dai Qi had contempt for Su Hao, he still had some scruples about the position of master, otherwise he would not have gathered all his subordinates to launch an attack together. Now seeing Su Hao's calm and calm expression, Dai Qi felt unreasonable
Feeling a kind of pressure, he couldn't help but stand up. When he felt that he was losing his composure, it was too late to sit down again.
Su Hao sat down on the main seat of the workshop, looked at Dai Qi and the government officials, and said calmly: "A bunch of fools, they are still playing tricks like this when they are about to die. I am here to save you, don't you know?
?”
"...Master Su, what do you mean by saying this?" Wu Da, who spoke before, asked timidly. He was the most impatient of all the government servants. Su Hao was so pretentious just for the sake of it.
Destroy the fighting spirit of timid government officials like Wu Da.
Su Hao asked: "As clerks and government servants in the workshop, do you know what is the most important thing in the province at the moment?"
"Dig a well!" Several government officials replied at the same time. Dai Qi was too late to stop him and could only watch the whole scene being guided by Su Hao.
"That's right, it's just digging wells." Su Hao praised, "Drilling wells to fight drought is not only the will of the county magistrate, but also the will of the prefect, chief envoy, and governor. This is the basic plan of the province. The entire province has
Be proud of being able to drill wells, and be ashamed of being able to drill abandoned wells; be proud of doing things that are conducive to well drilling, and be ashamed of hindering the cause of well drilling; be proud of being an advanced individual in well drilling, and be ashamed of being a failure in well drilling.
Shame. Have you heard of all this?"
As soon as this argument about three honors and three disgraces was thrown out, everyone shook their heads desperately and said that they had never heard of it. Even the county magistrate Han had never heard of such a statement.
What Su Hao wants is this effect. Telling others some policy-level things they have never heard of can make others feel that he is a person with a background, thus creating an inexplicable sense of awe. The current situation in the workshop is
In this way, a group of officials were completely shocked by Su Hao's big words, and they thought that Su Hao and the governor were together as brothers the previous night.
"So far, the county's well-drilling results are that on average one out of every four wells can produce water, and the success rate is 25%. From the perspective of the province, this result is at the middle and lower reaches. Maybe you will think that the middle and lower reaches
After all, it’s not the end yet…” At this point, Su Hao slapped the table and said loudly: “But!”
Everyone's eyes were widened, waiting to hear Su Hao's next words.