Be a master through ancient times

Chu Ci was sitting on the chair, his slender white fingers tapping rhythmically on the table, the expression on his face was a little playful, making it difficult for people to see his true thoughts.

Wang Ming sat across from Chu Ci dry-mouthed, his eyes fixed on the teapot on one side from time to time, but he hadn't figured out the temperament of this lord yet, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

"That is to say, although there are more than 100 schools here, some of them are already in name only?" Chu Ci didn't notice his small movements. After listening to him talk for so long, Chu Ci came to such a conclusion.

"Well, my lord, it can't be counted. There are still a few students..." Wang Ming felt a little nervous when he heard him ask this question. What can they do?

"How many students?" Chu Ci snorted softly, "The Zhou Family Village you mentioned has a total of 63 households with a total of [-] people. It can be considered a big village, but there are only three or four children in the village school. In this way, can it be regarded as a school?"

Wang Ming lowered his head and said calmly: "But, it may be that the life in Zhoujia Village is hard and the people's livelihood is difficult to maintain, so they can't send their children to private schools—"

The sound of "pa" blocked Wang Ming's words in his throat. He secretly raised his eyes to look at Chu Ci's expression, shrank his neck and stopped speaking.

After Chu Ci threw the booklet on the table, he felt a little regretful, and he lost his composure.However, in the face of this man's nonsense, it's hard not to be angry.

Zhoujia Village is not too far from Fucheng, and it is a small village under Jiang County.However, although Zhuangzi is small, the life of the people is very rich. The reason is that there is a kind of bamboo growing there, which is very good for making oil-paper umbrellas.Local villagers cut bamboo into slices to make umbrella stands, and then have people paste them on the umbrella surface. An oil-paper umbrella can be sold for forty or fifty renminbi.

The umbrellas they have are exquisite and durable, and someone specially collected them in a book called "General Miscellaneous Notes". The book is written by a rich boy who likes to wander around. Every article in his miscellaneous notes is based on local textual research. passed.Chu Ci watched it at the time, and was still very envious of this kind of rich and leisurely life.

"You are in charge of registering and compiling, so have you ever visited these schools in person?"

Wang Ming shook his head: "My lord, I'm only doing the book making, and other school officials are going to look at it."

As a matter of fact, there are school counselors here, and those school counselors have personally visited those who are from good families but refuse to send their children to private schools, but with little success.After coming down several times, they didn't want to go again, they just fooled around to prove that they had done the job.

"You go and call them over—that's all, don't call them now. It's getting late, you go, after lunch, call all the yamen to my yard." Chu Ci looked at the sky, Lunch was about to come, and if he called someone over now, lunch would definitely be delayed.In order not to make himself seem too unkind, Chu Ci decided to let them go to dinner first.

However, although Chu Ci felt that he was considered considerate, those people didn't think so.

After Wang Ming returned to the classroom, he poured himself a large mouthful of tea, and after his dry throat was relieved, he sighed comfortably.

"My lord Wang, what's wrong with you? Could it be that this new lord is even more stingy than the old lord Meng, and he doesn't even want to give you a sip of tea?" A man named Li Shuo teased. When I went to the Tixue Hall, I thought he was trying to get close.

"Want to know? If you want to know, go and have a look yourself." Wang Ming said angrily, obviously this room was compiled, but he was the only one who was scolded and even made sarcastic remarks when he came back. What's wrong with the world? !

"Oh, looking at you, it can be seen that our new lord is really amazing. Have you heard? When this lord Chu was in the capital, even a prince was pointed at his nose and scolded. It's over!" Another man named Zhao Zhendi said, his father-in-law works in the provincial capital and has a wider network than him.

"Hey, come and listen to me! I was lucky enough to take a look at that adult yesterday, and he was obviously tender-faced, but he is so powerful?" Sun Yang was a little skeptical. Everyone said that his face came from his heart. Do you think Master Chu looks gentle?

Wang Ming and Li Shuo also looked at Zhao Zhen curiously, wanting to hear what he said.Someone cheered, so Zhao Zhen complacently told everyone the contents of the father-in-law's letter yesterday, all about Chuci's "feat" in the capital.Some of them are exaggerated, after all, the rumors become more and more mysterious as they spread.

So, when the few of them finished listening to Chu Ci's story, the expressions on their faces were so complicated.They respect and fear Chu Ci now.

What's respectful is that Master Chu is an upright person who is dedicated to serving the public. What he is afraid of is his thunderous methods and his righteous mouth.

"You said, did you bring his golden ruler?" Wang Ming asked suddenly.

Who knows?Everyone looked at each other, and then dispersed to let the servants go to the kitchen to pick up their hot meals.Hurry up and eat, after eating, I don't know what Master Chu will say to them!

……

After lunch, people from the Tixue Division gathered in twos and threes and walked towards the Tixue Hall.They talked while walking, and the object was naturally the legendary Lord Chu.Among them, there are many people who have obtained information in advance like Zhao Zhen, so they will share their information.

Chu Ci is sitting in the room drinking tea at the moment.His lunch was delivered directly from the back hall by Dahu.The back hall is about ten minutes away from the front hall, separated by a small door in the middle, and there is a guard to prevent anyone from breaking in from the front hall.

After the meal, Dui left with the basket again.The place they live in hasn't been settled yet, the master said try to change all the decorations in the room, so that he can feel more comfortable.Because they had done this before, Zhang Hu had no objection.Fu Ming'an and Chang Xiao were a little strange, but Chu Ci left early in the morning, and they had nowhere to ask, so they could only follow behind Zhang Hu to help.

Besides Chuci, he had just drank a cup of tea when the entourage at the door came to report, saying that the adults asked to see him.

Chu Ci was taken aback, so fast?

"Xiao Si, go and invite people in. Xiao Wu, go and make a pot of tea." Chu Ci said, after speaking, he looked at his whole body and found that there was nothing wrong, he straightened his sitting posture, no matter what At any time, Master Chu's idol burden cannot be lost.

"The lower officials have met your lord." A group of Wu Ya Ya, dressed in official uniforms of different colors and patterns, stood below and bowed their hands to Chu Ci.

"My colleagues, please, you don't have to be so restrained." Chu Ci said, he just counted with his eyes, and found that there are actually only more than 20 people in this yamen who are qualified to hold meetings, and the rest are more without official positions. Officials and government servants, although they serve the government, they are not included in the establishment, referred to as temporary workers.

"Thank you sir."

The Tixue hall had been rearranged at this time, and Chu Ci asked people to arrange another row behind the seats on both sides, which could barely accommodate the large group of people.

As a newly appointed official, Chu Ci naturally wanted to introduce himself first.Although he knew that everyone might have pulled out the eighteenth generation of his ancestors, there was still a lot to go through.

"Hello colleagues, my official surname is Chu, and I have a single name. I am new to your place, and I am honored to meet you all. I hope we can communicate with each other in the future and do things well."

After a brief introduction, Chu Ci began to ask questions: "Now, please sit down in order in each room, and then send someone to talk about the work and number of people in each room."

The people below hurriedly followed what Chu Ci said.After a while, the location was rearranged.

"Young official, Zhou Qing, belongs to the foreign affairs office, and there are three people in the office. The owner of the foreign affairs office hosts reception matters. Whenever there are outsiders who come to the Department of Education, we will entertain them before discussing matters..."

"The next official, Wang Ming, belongs to the pen and ink room, and there are four people in the house. The owner of the pen and ink room uses pen and paper skills, and we will do everything that is transcribed, registered or published..."

"Sir..."

After a while, these people finished talking.There are five rooms in total, with the number of people ranging from three to six. Each room is responsible for different things, and the assignment of responsibilities is reasonable and clear.

Chu Ci mainly looked at those advising officials, wanting to know how they did things.But it didn't feel good to ask them alone, so Chu Ci simply asked everyone.

"Okay, today is Chu's first day in office. Although it's almost the end of the year, I still want to call everyone over to have a chat. Let's discuss what we will do in the department after the Chinese New Year."

Everyone in the audience complained bitterly. Today is the 28th Chinese New Year. In the past, they would have taken leave and gone home long ago.The job in the Department of Education is already free, who spends it here after the Chinese New Year?But this year is different, Master Chu looked at Mian Shan, but in fact he was not easy to get along with. In the name of his impartiality, if any of them were caught as pigtails, they would definitely have a hard time in the future.

Chu Ci could see the resentment in their hearts, but he couldn't control that much.If they were as comfortable as before, it would be his turn to be uncomfortable.

"Because today is the first meeting, I will tell everyone the requirements. Please remember carefully, if you don't act indiscriminately according to the requirements in the next meeting, don't blame me for being unreasonable."

"Follow your lord's orders."

"First, for future assemblies, please bring paper, pen and ink, and write down the content of each time to avoid omissions. Second, please go to and from the Yamen on time, and every time you come late and leave early, you will be deducted half a day and a month's money. If there are special circumstances , it is necessary to ask for leave from the consulates of the various departments, and after the consular approval, it will be kept on file and cannot be lost.”

It's about the monthly money, and some people look unhappy, they didn't even need to click before!Chu Ci took a few glances and added: "For those who work on time every month, in addition to the monthly payment, an additional bonus will be issued, which is called full attendance."

In fact, commuting to and from get off work on time is their responsibility, but since the Tixue Division is different from other yamen, the management is more relaxed, so Chu Ci came up with the perfect attendance award to prevent them from bottoming out because of too many changes.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the people who were not convinced at first immediately calmed down.

"Thirdly, the official has ordered someone to open a room near the kitchen for everyone to eat, so everyone is not allowed to eat in the classroom in the future, so as not to deface the official documents."

Chu Ci wanted to say it before, when he looked at the roster today, he found that there were many spots of oil on it, and there was a smell of food mixed with it, which made people very uncomfortable.

The officials below were a little surprised, but most of them had no objections.Where to eat is not to eat?

However, Master Chu seemed to be out of touch with fireworks, but he didn't expect the fireworks to be quite heavy, and the first thing that came to his mind was the question of eating.This new official took office with three fires, and there was still one stove fire.