Chapter 1373 Extra Experience (5)

It's more difficult for his grandchildren, but his granddaughter has a tailoring skill and is very likely to work in a garment shop for a long time and become a permanent employee, which will earn more.

He told Zhao Mingming all this.

He didn't know why he told Zhao Mingming. Although he was honest and honest, he had experienced troubled times and people around him left one after another. He was still very wary. He knew that wealth should not be revealed, but squatting with Zhao Mingming, she Asked, he couldn't help but tell her.

Or the kind who couldn't help but reply with a few words when she asked her question.

By the time he finally finished chatting with Zhao Mingming and told all the happy and troubled things about his family, it was almost dark.

Zhao Mingming enthusiastically wanted to treat him to dinner and stay overnight at home.

The old man quickly refused, "We farmers can temporarily live in Jushantang when we go to the city. I will live there."

"How can Jushantang be as comfortable as at home? It's my fault that I forgot to check the time while talking. The old man can stay at my place tonight. I have a spare room at home."

The old man still refused, so Zhao Mingming said: "Okay, if you don't want to live here, then you can live here, but you have to eat and walk around. Our Yamen has public food, I can take it home to eat."

As soon as the old man heard this, he swallowed his rejection and happily went to the county government office with Zhao Mingming to get food. If you don't eat the government food, you won't get it for free.

Zhao Mingming took a large two-tiered lunch box and packed everything in, whether it was rice or vegetables. Before leaving, he ran to the staple food window and softly picked up several steamed buns and pancakes.

The old man followed her with her lunch box in hand, and when he saw her grabbing five or six pancakes in one hand and seven or eight large steamed buns in the other, he laughed so hard that he couldn't even see his eyebrows.

Zhao Mingming led him to his public rental house.

The old man followed her and asked in a low voice, "My dear lady, does Shangguan have no objection to you preparing so much food by yourself?"

Zhao Mingming said: "I have a big appetite and eat a lot. In addition, officials, big and small, have the opportunity to bring their families to visit the Yamen three times a year. This extra part is for their families."

There are so many talented people in the world, but they don't necessarily need to be officials, especially since officials also have to pay taxes and lose many benefits.

Therefore, in order to attract talents, in addition to providing some financial benefits, Zhao Hanzhang also ordered local government offices to build public rental housing. This type of public rental housing was specially leased to local officials. The rent was not high and the layout of the housing was reasonable.

In addition, officials can bring their families to visit the yamen where they serve every year. Yamen in various places also hold family activities every year to honor their families and encourage more aspiring young people in society to choose to take the talent test and become officials.

The effect is okay.

The old man was filled with envy. He looked at Zhao Mingming and said, "Several of my sons are not good at studying, and I don't know what kind of children they will have after they get married. If one of them can pass the county government entrance examination like the girl, our family will have a different family." "

Zhao Mingming smiled and said: "It's not that exaggerated. He is just a small official in the county government. When you have grandchildren, let them study seriously. As long as you are willing to pay, I think it will be easy to pass the county and county exams."

In Zhao Mingming's opinion, the county and county examinations are really not difficult. He has a rough understanding of the Four Books and Five Classics. Arithmetic and Wuwu also test some basic knowledge. The rest is policy theory and the writing of some official documents, summaries and assessments. It is very simple. .

At this time, Zhao Mingming has not noticed the huge gap between her and other students. The parts that are not difficult for her are precisely the most difficult items for them to score, while the poetry articles and the essays on the Four Books and Five Classics are a bit of a headache for her. Writing, on the contrary, is the part that outstanding students in the county and county examinations are best at.

Zhao Mingming treated the old man to a meal and personally sent him to Jushan Hall. He left after seeing him check in.

Jushan Hall was also built by the imperial court and can be found in basically every county.

The properties are similar to low-rent housing, except that low-rent housing is rented to local poor families on a long-term basis so that they can have a place to live.

Jushantang is a short-term rental house for farmers who move into the county and people who are temporarily hungry and poor. You don't need money to live in it, and you don't even need books, but you will be asked why.

For people like the old man who went to the city to sell some agricultural and sideline products and take a look at the bulletin board, the stewards didn't like to ask too many questions and just ignored them after assigning them rooms.

What the stewards like most are those who look confused when asked about the reason, or simply come to stay in the hotel because of poverty, no money, hunger and cold. When asked again, they don't even have household registration, then the stewards will be happy. .

This means that they can create excellence, retain people, register household registration, settle down, and allocate land...

You know, since the seventh year of Zhenyuan, it has been difficult to find illegal households without household registration outside, and there are even no refugees.

As long as there are refugees in a place, the county magistrate will be very happy and will immediately keep them. Keeping one person means that the new population of their county will be increased by one. If they ask about their place of origin, they can also write a letter to the county magistrate of their place of origin.

How bad does the magistrate of that county have to do before the people are displaced and become refugees under His Majesty's management?

You know, Yongye Field cannot be bought or sold. How could the people lose their land and become refugees?

It must be the local magistrate and the gentry and wealthy people who have done great evil, and exposing it is a merit.

Because the summer harvest has ended, many farmers have come to the city recently to sell goods and read the news, so Jushan Hall is full of people.

Zhao Mingming wandered around the Jushan Hall. Farmers gathered together in twos and threes and talked loudly about this year's harvest and taxes.

Some strong peasants who have done well in literacy classes are already counting the taxes to be paid this summer on their fingers.

Zhao Mingming listened for a long time, resisted the urge to step forward to correct him, turned around and left silently.

She had already walked out of Jushan Hall, and the voice behind her caught up with her, "Listen to me, I'm right. You can prepare eight shi of grain for the five members of your family. You can't go wrong."

"But my family only paid six stones and three dou last year. This year I heard it was only forty taxes per dollar, which is less than last year. Why do we have to pay more? And there are also autumn taxes. The taxes are collected in two installments, so the summer taxes won't be too much." That’s a lot, right?”

"Don't listen to him, don't listen to him, he miscalculated."

"Fart, there are 102 people in my literacy class, and I am third. Will I make a miscalculation?"

"You clearly know the most characters and are the first in literacy, why are you still ranked third? Because you are poor in arithmetic! Old Chen, let me do the math for you..."

"Stop the quarrel, stop the quarrel, Lao Chen, isn't it your family's turn to escort the taxes this year? Who will your family let go?"

A sad and heavy sigh sounded in Zhao Mingming's ears, "I haven't made a decision yet. I want the boss to go, but he makes the most money. If I go away for two months, I'm afraid it will delay the farming season."

"Your family is okay. There are many adults. You can just send one of them out. My wife and brother's family is unlucky. There is only one adult in my wife's brother. This year it is his family's turn. When he leaves, mother and son are left behind, and my family has to be Take care, my wife has made an agreement with me that this year’s autumn harvest will be combined with my wife’s brother’s family, and the two families will become one family. I don’t know if it will delay the farming season.”

Zhao Mingming stopped listening and strode towards the public rental housing.

Fan Lianyin and Zu Daozhong, who had just returned from overtime, were sitting on the steps in a daze with tea in their hands, their faces blank.

Seeing Zhao Mingming coming back, the two of them lazily stood up to say hello. After Zhao Mingming indicated that there was no need to be polite, they sat down again with blank expressions on their faces.

Zhao Mingming brought a chair and sat across from them, "Are you tired?"

They both nodded together. (End of chapter)