023 Dismounting
On the first night in the county town, Su Hao and Lu Xiu'er both slept very hard, mainly because they were too tired during the day. Although they were the only two of them living in a big house, Su Hao did not think about doing something that was not suitable for children. After all, both of them were indeed children.
The next morning, Lu Xiu'er got up early, prepared breakfast, and then woke Su Hao up to wash and have a meal. After breakfast, Su Hao went to the county government to go to the county government to go to Mao, while Lu Xiu'er scrubbed and washed at home. Such a big house, cleaning is a big project.
Su Hao came to the county yamen gate. The yamen guarding the door had already heard about him. After asking about his name, he saluted him and said, "Master Su, it's so early."
"Brothers, early!" Su Hao waved his hand, with a certain leadership style.
"The master needs help if he has something to do, so he can come and spread it to the villains." The head of the yamen runner seemed to say casually.
"What's the matter?" Su Hao looked at the head of the troupe in surprise, but the head of the troupe just smiled mysteriously and said nothing.
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 responding to changes in the same way. He first came to the lobby and took a look. Seeing that the magistrate had not yet been promoted to the hall, only a few yamen runners were wiping the tables and chairs. Su Hao asked about the location of the workshop and went straight to the workshop. As the master in charge of the workshop, there was his serious office place.
"Who are you looking for?"
When Su Hao walked into the workshop hall, he saw seven or eight officials sitting inside, talking about something. Seeing Su Hao coming in, one of the officials in the leader asked in anger.
"I won't look for anyone." Su Hao smiled faintly and replied.
"Why are you going to the workshop if you don't find someone?" the official continued to ask.
Su Hao said: "I am Su Hao, the magistrate of Meng County, favored me and hired as a worker in charge of worker affairs. Which worker clerk Dai Qi is the worker clerk?"
In fact, Su Hao knew without asking. The official who interrogated him just now was Dai Qi, because there was only one clerk in the workshop, and the others were all yamen runners who worked miscellaneously. The day before, Su Hao had already agreed with Fang Mengjin and was scheduled to discuss digging wells in the workshop this morning. Even if Dai Qi hadn't seen Su Hao yesterday, he should be able to guess some of it. He pretended to be ignorant and interrogated Su Hao. If Su Hao couldn't feel the hostility that was revealed, he would be really stupid to study.
"I'm Daiqi." The official responded, but he did not stand up and salute Su Hao, but frowned and said, "You are Master Su Hao and Su? Why don't I look like you? Does Master look like you?"
Seeing that Dai Qi started to attack, other yamen runners also started to make excuses:
"That's right, little scholar, have you heard that a new Master Su has come and pretend to be fake?"
"Scholar, you have not even grown your beard, so you dare to pretend to be a master?"
"Yes, how can a child make the decision about this workshop?"
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Everyone was talking together, and while winking, they made various sounds from the table and chairs. This was clearly just to see Su Hao’s joke.
Dai Qi heard Fang Mengjin notify that a new master in charge of the workshop came yesterday, and he was anxious. Of course, he did not dare to rush Fang Mengjin. In front of Fang Mengjin, he repeatedly expressed that he would obey the leadership of the new master and do a good job of digging the well. However, after returning to the workshop, he became more and more annoyed the more he thought about it, and scolded Su Hao, whom he had never met before, to the darkness of the sky.
As Fang Mengjin had told Su Hao before, the workshop is a department in charge of projects of all sizes and large in the county. It has a lot of money and grain. It is easy to get dozens of taels of silver a year in any place. It can even be said that this is very honest. As a workshop clerk, Dai Qi can get hundreds of taels of silver from the project every year, and his life is very comfortable.
The affairs of the workshop have some professional characteristics. Han Wen and Fang Mengjin are not very familiar with this, so they dare not take too seriously the affairs of the workshop. They turn a blind eye to Dai Qi's behavior. In this way, the workshop becomes Dai Qi's personal little world. Such a kingdom that can make money but no one cares about him suddenly airborne a master. How disgusting is such a thing? How disgusting is that Dai Qi can tolerate it?
So he gathered his yamen runners to give Su Hao a warning. With Daichi's idea, the best result was to make Su Hao cry or scare him, and let him resign from the magistrate, so that Daichi's vested interests in the workshop would not be damaged. Even if this result was not achieved, he would at least make Su Hao understand that the workshop is not a good place to talk to, and not try to interfere too much in the affairs of the workshop.
One reason why Dai Qi dared to do this is that Fang Mengjin once told him that Su Hao was only 17 years old, and he was a scholar from the countryside, and his family was quite average. In Dai Qi's opinion, such a young scholar without any background, had absolutely no experience compared to an experienced official in the officialdom like him. Faced with the resistance of everyone united, Su Hao had the option of raising his hands to surrender.
Unfortunately, Daiqi's wishful thinking interrupted the place. The Su Hao in front of him was no longer the poor scholar, but a time traveler who had experienced countless ups and downs. Looking at the performance of Daiqi and others, Su Hao crossed his hands on his chest and smiled slightly.
"Scholar, why are you laughing at?"
A yamen runner named Wu Da finally couldn't help it and asked Su Hao. Dai Qi and other yamen runners were also confused by Su Hao's calm expressions, and their voices gradually became less and less. Everyone looked at Su Hao together, wanting to know how he would answer.
"Are you tired?" Su Hao said in a tone of regret, "Seven or eight big men, dare not act, and pretend to be stupid, just to deal with a scholar like me who is powerless, don't you feel embarrassed?"
"Scholar, what do you mean? Who is pretending to be stupid?" Dai Qi argued. The most feared thing about such a slap in the fight is that their opponents don't care. They are so fierce that in Su Hao's eyes, they just treat it as a monkey, and everyone's faces are really a little overwhelmed.
"Stop making trouble!" Su Hao interrupted Daichi simply and neatly. He walked to Daichi, pointed to the seat under Daichi's butt, and said, "Get up, this is my seat."
Although Dai Qi was contemptuous of Su Hao, he was still a little concerned about such a position as Master, otherwise he would not have found all his yamen runners to attack him. Now seeing Su Hao's face was light and light, Dai Qi felt a sense of pressure for no reason. He couldn't help but stand up. When he felt that he had lost his composure, it was too late to sit down.
Su Hao sat on the main seat of the workshop, looked at Dai Qi and the yamen runners, and said lightly: "A group of confused insects are still playing with this kind of scruple when they die. I am here to save you, don't you know?"
"...Master Su, what do you mean by saying this?" Wu Da, the one who spoke before, asked timidly. He was the most unsustainable among all the yamen runners. Su Hao acted in such a manner in order to dismantle the fighting spirit of a timid yamen runner like Wu Da.
Su Hao asked: "As a clerk and a yamen runner in the workshop, do you know what is the most important thing in the province at present?"
"Dig a well!" Several yamen runners replied at the same time. It was too late for Dai Qi to stop him. He could only watch the whole scene being guided by Su Hao.
"That's right, it's just digging a well." Su Hao praised, "Digging wells and resisting drought is not only the will of the magistrate, but also the will of the magistrate, governor, and governor. This is the basic plan of the whole province. All the whole province is proud to be able to dig wells and be ashamed of digging waste wells; be proud to be beneficial to digging wells, and be ashamed of hindering the cause of digging wells; be proud to be an advanced individual in the well digging, and be ashamed of becoming a failed person in the well digging. Have you heard of all this?"
As soon as the arguments of the Three Honors and Three Shames were thrown out, everyone shook their heads desperately, saying that they had never heard of it, even the magistrate Han Wen had never heard of it.
What Su Hao wants is this effect. Telling others some policy-level things that he has never heard of before can make others feel that he is a person with a background, thus creating an inexplicable sense of awe. This is the case in the workshop now. A group of officials and servants have been completely shocked by Su Hao's big talk. They thought Su Hao was with the governor the night before.
"So far, the results of drilling wells in this county are that one gulp of water can be produced in every four wells, with a success rate of 25%. This result is at the middle and lower reaches of the province. Maybe everyone will think that the middle and lower reaches are not the last..." Speaking of this, Su Hao slapped the table and said loudly: "But!"
Everyone's eyes were wide open, waiting to listen to Su Hao's following.
Chapter completed!