Chapter 140 The Way of Employing People

Author: Fat Bird Goes First

Chapter 140 How to employ people

In the back house of the prefect's Yamen, Fang Ruolan was checking this month's account books.

Holding a reed pen, Fang Ruolan checked out a few questionable accounts, ordered her personal maid to turn out the detailed account books, and casually gave the boy outside the door some chores in the house.

Mrs. Li, the prefect's wife, was indifferent, and Fang Ruolan took over the housekeeper's duties as soon as she became sensible.

Fang Ruolan treats her servants fairly, but she also knows how to understand Qiu and will not be fooled by her servants. Only then can the magistrate's family and family be stable, and Mrs. Li can go out to play horse hanging with peace of mind.

Oh no, these days the prefect's wife is obsessed with watching plays, and she often gathers ladies and ladies from the folk arts club to listen to plays in the back house.

Fang Ruolan became even more angry when she thought about this. Her good poetry club had turned into this folk art club, and she had to manage the family business on behalf of her mother. Fang Ruolan could only think bitterly about what kind of chaos the family would be like after she got married!

After a while, I heard the maid's announcement and saw the magistrate returning to the back house happily.

Fang Ruolan immediately brought the bowl of herbal tea without sugar and brought it to Magistrate Fang.

"Lan'er, did you forget to add sugar?"

Fang Ruolan said with a smile: "I asked Huang Tiju yesterday that eating too much sugar can cause toothache, so I removed the sugar from the herbal tea."

Magistrate Fang's face turned pale as he carefully recalled whether he had offended this precious daughter.

Finally, I finished the herbal tea under my daughter's watchful eyes.

Magistrate Fang said with a grimace: "The matter of the mining thieves has been solved, the Yanping Guards are also bleeding, and my father has just sent Su Ze away."

Magistrate Fang was used to discussing official matters with his daughter after going to the Yamen. He sighed and said:

"I didn't expect that Deng Dai really colluded with the real Japanese. I have reported this matter to the Third Division in a private message, but other prefectures and counties may not have such good luck as our Yanping Prefecture."

The good luck that Magistrate Fang mentioned was Changning Guard. Magistrate Fang knew very well that the level of the large and small health clinics in Fujian was basically the same as that of Yanping Guard.

At any rate, the Yanping Guards still dared to send people to fight, but some guards were afraid that they did not even have the courage to go out of the city to fight.

The magistrate Fang added: "Jianyang fell, and the magistrate of Jianyang died in battle and martyred his country."

The atmosphere in the room was silent. Jianyang was not far from Yanping Mansion, which was not good news.

Magistrate Fang sighed again and said: "The good news is that our Yanping Prefecture is too poor and the Japanese pirates don't like it, so they turned to attack Jian'an City in Jianning Prefecture. However, many rebellious people in Yanping Prefecture also followed Deng Dai's example and rebelled. The entire Yanping Prefecture was in chaos.

Let’s make a group.”

Magistrate Fang added: "It would be great if every county in the prefecture could have elite soldiers like Chang Ning Wei."

The fall of Jianyang County made Magistrate Fang's mood turn bad again. He was unlucky enough to be assigned to be an official in Fujian.

I only blame myself for not getting a high rank in the imperial examination and not being able to stay in the capital as an official. I also blame myself for being short of money when I was in the Literary Selection Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and not being able to get a good starting point in officialdom.

But there is no point regretting it now. Fang Ruolan said: "Dad, if we can keep the peace of Yanping Mansion, it will be great good governance."

Magistrate Fang nodded. An official like himself was just an insignificant local official in the court, and it was not his turn to worry about major court matters.

Su Ze came out of the magistrate's office and went to the county office to meet with Bai Zhixian.

Naturally, Baizhi County also praised Su Ze greatly, and Su Ze proposed that Lin Xianyang should serve in the government office.

Of course, Baizhi County did not stop him in any way. He just expressed regret that he had just discovered Lin Xianyang's talent and was about to take a job in the government government. Then he asked Su Ze to recommend another talent to fill Lin Xianyang's vacancy in the county government.

After all this was done, Su Ze came to the county school again.

After handing over the exercises assigned last time to Hai Rui, Hai Rui said to Su Ze:

"I didn't expect that the southeastern border defense has deteriorated to this extent."

Hai Rui was one of the few people in the county who knew about the defeat of the Yanping Guards. He was also frightened. If the Changning Guards had not taken action to wipe out the mining pirates, this group of mining pirates who had colluded with the Japanese pirates might have really been able to invade Nanping City.

Hai Rui added: "Jianyang was captured by Japanese pirates."

Su Ze was startled, and Hai Rui stroked his beard and sighed: "The Japanese pirates are coming fiercely, and there are already refugees from Jianyang in Nanping City. Ru Lin, if you can tell me in both prefectures and counties, if these refugees cannot be properly resettled, it will be a violation of human relations."

What a tragedy.”

Hai Rui once saw the tragic situation of hungry people in the capital, but at that time he was just a minister with a low profile, and now he is also a county magistrate with a low profile.

Su Ze nodded heavily and said, "Students should do their best!"

Hai Rui said blankly: "I am a great Ming Dynasty, why can't I even pacify the Japanese pirates?"

Hai Rui was indeed confused. After reading the books of sages and sages for so many years, after entering the officialdom, he found that the officialdom was completely different from what he read in the books.

To be fair, the two chief officials of the second government office of the prefecture and county in Nanping City were considered quite good in the Ming Dynasty.

Bai knows that county power is scheming, but he can also do well in county government affairs.

The prefect was a bit lazy in his administration, but he never oppressed the people.

But even so, the situation has deteriorated to this point.

Su Ze said: "The government of the world is corrupted by 'privacy'."

"For the officials in Fujian, if each person has more private interests, the common people will have less public interests. If they are selfish and forget the public spirit, they will suffer a little loss today and a little more tomorrow. If the predecessors suffered a little, future generations will have to learn from their predecessors and lose a little more.

This world is going to hell."

Hai Rui stroked his beard and said, "That's true. If all the officials in Fujian could avoid selfish motives, this wouldn't be the case."

Su Ze smiled and said: "Teacher, how can there be any selfless person in this world?"

Hai Rui was stunned for a moment. Even he himself could not be said to be completely selfless, let alone apply this standard to all officials in Fujian.

Discussing human nature is naturally not the scope of debate that Hai Rui likes. He thought for a while and said: "It's all because of the traitorous ministers in the government who are in power and follow the example. That's why Fujian is so corrupt!"

Su Ze asked again: "Since everyone knows that there are traitors in the government, why can't we eliminate them?"

Hai Rui said: "It's not like the Holy One has been deceived by a traitorous minister who is both treacherous and loyal!"

Su Ze thought to himself, as expected, Hai Rui had just entered the officialdom at this time, and he was still thinking in his mind that "the emperor is good, but there are treacherous ministers below".

This set of things has been played for hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, when the official scolded the chief minister, the chief minister would take off his hat and wait to be played.

If you scold the emperor, you will be dragged out to court.

"The teacher said that if the superiors follow the example, the subordinates must follow it."

After saying this, Hai Rui stopped the topic.

He said to Su Ze:

"The prefect Fang just sent someone here, asking you to write a few eight-part essays. The prefect is familiar with the Fujian academic administration, so he will give your article to the academic administration for a look. Someone from the academic administration can give you some pointers, which will be beneficial to you.

Passed the provincial examination."

Hai Rui also had high hopes for Su Ze and warned Su Ze:

"The eight-part essays of this dynasty are not allowed to talk about current affairs. You must not write those remarks that are disobedient to the emperor."

Su Ze said: "Thank you, teacher, for teaching me. I will write as soon as I get home."

Hai Rui gave Su Ze some help and answered several questions he encountered while studying. After his imperial examination skills were increased by 40 points, Su Ze came out of Hai Rui's room.

Then he went to the editorial office of Lin Qingcai and Chen Chaoyuan. To Su Ze's surprise, the situation was tense these days, but "Surprise" sold very well.

Especially after the number of people in Nanping County increased, it became a pastime for many ordinary people to spend three coins to buy a copy of the book and watch it in amazement.

Especially after Su Ze serialized "The Peony Pavilion" in "Surprise", after every issue was sold out, the bookstore had to rush the stock and ask for more prints.

Su Ze also heard that the bookstore purchased by Huang Shixing also started to pirate "The Surprise". However, they only pirated one issue when they encountered the chaos in the southeast. They originally planned to sell the pirated newspapers to the neighboring counties, but had to continue selling them in Nanping County.

After receiving the report, Chen Chaoyuan immediately asked his clan brother who was a lawyer to file a lawsuit against Cai Yuanwai's bookstore for selling pirated newspapers to the county government.

Yuan Cai was naturally dissatisfied and found a lawyer to respond to the lawsuit. However, Lin Xianyang went directly to Sun Dianshi, who was in charge of the county's criminal department, and Sun Dianshi immediately sealed up the pirated newspapers in Cai's bookstore.

Huang Shixing stole the chicken but lost the rice. The pirated newspapers were sealed by the county government, and the engraving and printing fees invested were in vain. I heard that Mr. Huang was in a bad mood and even asked for leave from the academy courses.

Su Ze also laughed after hearing this, but rampant piracy is a problem that all publishers in Ming Dynasty cannot escape.

Su Ze asked again: "The city of Jianyang is in ruins. Brother Chen and Brother Lin might as well keep an eye on it and see if there are any printers with good fortune. You might as well recruit a few of them."

"Brother Su is planning to open a printing shop in the city?"

Su Ze nodded and said: "The printing shop is located in Changningwei, and transportation back and forth is really inconvenient. Besides, the editorial department is also in the city. From now on, I will leave the review of the manuscript to the two brothers. You can just decide on the typesetting and printing."

Both Chen and Lin were overjoyed that "Surprise" is now the most famous publication in Nanping County and even Yanping Prefecture. As editors, their reputation in Nanping County is also growing.

Now that Su Ze has handed over the entire "Surprise" to them, the two of them feel that the burden on their shoulders is even heavier.

Su Ze continued: "In addition, I have some ideas. I can hire some homeless children and give them newspapers to sell on the streets."

Chen Qingchao immediately understood what Su Ze meant and said, "Brother Su, are you going to use newspapers to support these children?"

Su Ze nodded and said: "Jianyang City is in ruins. I see that there are more orphans in the streets and alleys in the city. Letting them sell newspapers can be considered as giving them a livelihood. It is also our merit that we can survive a few people."

Lin Qingcai said: "Brother Su, what you mean is to give them to newsboys for free and let them sell them on the street in exchange for money to make a living?"

Su Ze nodded and said, "That's exactly it."

"But how can the newspaper make a living like this?"

Su Ze said: "Then we have to talk about another thing, and that is advertising."
To be continued...