Chapter 647: Whether Village Officials Are Voluntary

Chapter 648: Whether village officials are voluntary (second update)

"If you are the magistrate of a county, I tell you, be familiar with the situation of other officials in the county and reasonably dispatch personnel."

Li Yi said what the county magistrate should do.

He changed the subject: "To cooperate with the village chief, you must understand the situation of every household in the village.

Including how many people there are, their age, what they are good at, whether they have diseases, the source of economic income in the family, etc."

Two hundred and twenty students lowered their heads to take notes. They had never been officials and did not know how to govern the place.

"When remembering each household, you need to look at the distribution of rivers in the village, the richness of the land, stones, crops, etc.

In places with many reeds, consider whether you can make money by breeding reeds or raising other things.

Make money by weaving reeds, or make reeds into silage feed.

Find who to make it, who to sell it to, how much money, investigate it clearly, and then start..."

Li Yi said it very specifically, the village official himself must go down to the ground.

If it is replaced by a governor, it is another management model. The governor cannot personally go to every household in the state to understand the situation.

"At the same time, you have to find people with management ability and increase efforts to train them. You can't always be an official in the village.

When you leave, the original policy must continue to be implemented.

Learn to use people, learn to manage, learn to communicate, don't just think about getting along well with the people, but also establish prestige..."

Li Yi also asked the students not to lose their identity. Mixing with the villagers will confuse their positions.

It is necessary to be close to the people and convince the people. Officials represent the court.

If an official is good to the people all day long, even if the village is well governed, what will the later officials do?

The court's decrees are not a joke, and the people should implement them completely.

"Now you don't need to take the imperial examination books anymore. In half a year, learn physics, chemistry, biology, geography, astronomy..."

Li Yi told the students the courses within half a year.

There is no foreign language, no need to learn advanced mathematics knowledge, no need to memorize politics, and Chinese is already known.

Only learning other subjects, Li Yi is confident that he can teach junior high school knowledge well within half a year, which is enough for students.

That evening, in the Da Ci'en Temple in Jinchangfang, the students who failed the imperial examination this year gathered together.

"The court posted a notice, and three days later, we will go to Hanyuan Hall to meet His Majesty. What do you think it is?"

"Anyway, it won't be to give us official positions. There are many people who passed the exam this year, and they have to wait in line."

"Can you give me money? Life in the temple is not easy now. We eat and live here, and there is no light at night."

"I want His Majesty to arrange me to Lijiazhuangzi. I am willing to clean the animal shed."

"Wake up, don't dream. Lijiazhuangzi bought the land by the river and built so many houses that there is no vacant space."

"The people who lived there who passed the exam this year didn't move out and are still living there."

"With a rank, you have money. Although you have to pay for food and lights there, it is better than living in a dormitory in the temple."

"It's hot, and it's stuffy when there are too many people."

As the students chatted, the topic went off.

The candidates living in the counties outside got the news relatively late. When they heard that they could go to Hanyuan Hall, they made preparations.

After three days, the students who came from all over changed into the best clothes they thought and ran to Hanyuan Hall early in the morning.

They saw Emperor Li Longji, but they saw him from a distance and couldn't see clearly what he looked like.

Then the eunuch read out the selection of village officials, which was personally appointed by His Majesty.

If you don't pass the exam, you will be given an official position. Everyone is voluntary. Those who want to go can choose a place by themselves. Those who don't want to go don't need to sign or seal.

The period is half a year. After half a year, the candidates will be evaluated according to their performance in the village. The good ones will be promoted.

"Brother Donglai, are you going?" A student asked the person who wrote the poem of two ducks and a chicken.

This Donglai did not pass the exam again. It is estimated that his literary talent does not meet the requirements of the imperial examination.

"I signed my name when I came in, and the certificate of the exam was recorded. His Majesty asked you to be an official, but you don't want to. Do you still expect to pass the exam next year?"

Donglai did not do well in the exam, but he had a lot of thoughts.

Candidates must reveal their identities when entering the imperial city. Now they say they are willing. Who will not agree in the end? In the future...

"Go, go. I knew I would not go to the imperial city. I just went to the village. What a pity for my talent."

The person asking the question shook his head and helplessly looked for the name of the village and chose one.

Candidates waited for a year. There were more than a thousand people. There were not enough villages. Several people chose one.

After choosing, they started to receive things.

Official uniforms, they belonged to the officials outside the official ranks, and wore yellow clothes, not bright yellow, but khaki.

All the officials outside the official ranks wore the same clothes, and the petty officials who were not even outside the official ranks still wore khaki clothes.

In addition to clothes, shoes, and hats, there was also a luggage bag.

In the luggage bag were bedding, four treasures of the study, a string of money, and a bamboo tube of tea.

These were the things given to them by the court. They rested for a day and ran to take office tomorrow.

They had to arrive at the place within three days, otherwise they would be considered to have refused the official position.

Brother Donglai chose Liangpo Village in Lantian County. His surname was Wang, his name was Xu, and his courtesy name was Donglai.

As the name suggests, Liangpo Village has two large slopes, and then southward into the Qinling Mountains.

There are three rivers in the village, one small river flows down from each of the two large slopes, and the other is a tributary of the Bashui River.

He, Xia Hao, Chai Baohong, and Zhu An chose Liangpo Village together.

The four people arrived and took out the documents to show to the village chief Chen Mo.

Chen Mo was very enthusiastic. Although they came to cooperate with his village, they were all candidates for the imperial examination and were talented, even if they did not pass the exam for the time being.

He called on the villagers to clean up four empty rooms and move in simple furniture.

He sent firewood, clay pots, chopping boards, kitchen knives, oil, salt, rice, and a piece of bacon.

"For vegetables, pick the vegetables from the fields of the families with the best vegetables. At night, if there are mosquitoes, light mosquito coils, the mosquito coils of Lijiazhuang."

Chen Mo said to the four students, and told them that there would be a banquet in the evening to welcome them.

After the village official left, the four people began to be confused.

"You still have to cook by yourself." Chai Baohong showed an embarrassed look. He didn't know how to cook and had never cooked before.

"It's easy to do. Light the firewood and put it in the stove. Add rice to the clay pot on top and cook the vegetables together. You can also add some oil to stir the vegetables in the clay pot and eat them when they are cooked."

Zhu An looked like he understood, even though he had never cooked before.

Wang Xu and Xia Hao nodded. They had also seen others cook and had the impression that flint could make fire. They had learned it by playing with fire before.

In the evening, the village elders and the village chief accompanied the four people to eat and drink. The four people ate very comfortably.

After dinner, they returned to their own rooms and sat in front of the table in a daze.

They were a little excited. It was their first time to be an official. Good days were coming. As long as their political achievements were good, they could continue to rise.

The official appointed by His Majesty himself, so close to Chang'an, could get His Majesty's attention.

"Tomorrow I will... ask the village chief what work there is."

Xia Hao was drunk and lay down on the couch from the table. He muttered something and fell asleep.

The next morning, the four people got up, found water to wash themselves, found firewood, and started to light a fire to cook.

"The fire broke out, the fire broke out, come and put out the fire..."

A quarter of an hour later, some villagers saw smoke billowing from the place where the four people lived next to each other, and shouted at the top of their voices.