Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 192 Chapter 190

"Why doesn't Mr. Gao Lang go to the camp and hire a gentleman to teach those young and strong boys how to read.

Not to mention that it is a position with a staff, but on weekdays, he only teaches and reads in the greenhouse, and can enjoy the benefits enjoyed by Tianjin corvees, and the most important thing is to get food stamps, which is a great thing.

It’s just those of us who are sweeping the snow, old and weak, and have no skills. If we want to enter the Tianjin corvee, we can’t get in! "

The corvee sighed, "Hey, I was born 20 years earlier. It would be great if I was born in this world. It's a pity that King Yan doesn't want me!"

Gao Jifu looked at the corvee and sighed, his body looked thin, but his bones were strong.

Generally speaking, these people are the main force of the corvee, but I didn't expect that Li Tai would not use these people to recruit corvee.

Gao Jifu thought of this and said to the corvee, "Mr. Zhang, do you think it would be good to be a lifetime of corvee with King Yan?"

"Is there such a good thing in the world?" Zhang corvee looked at Gao Jifu and said,

"Brother still has this connection, can let me enter Gaoling's corvee?

Sure enough, when I saw Mr. Gao Lang, I was absolutely extraordinary, but what does it have to do with the recruited steward? "

"Probably!" Gao Jifu thought for a while but didn't deny it, just said,

"It's just why Mr. Zhang Lang has to serve the corvee with the King of Yan. Isn't it good to wait until the corvee is over and go back to farm?"

"You are indeed a son of a wealthy family who has fallen into poverty, and there are still many acres of Susukida in your family, so it seems that Youzhou is only nearby.

So I came to serve for a month, saved the mediocre money of this service, and went back after this month's service was over.

In the past, because the service was far away, it should be taught mediocrity, and then exempted from corvee. " Zhang corvee sighed.

When Gao Jifu heard this corvee's words, he opened his mouth and didn't say anything more, but acquiesced.

"I don't think your hands are like holding a hoe. You have the habit of cleaning up every day, so you can tell a thing or two!"

Zhang corvee smiled complacently, but with a somewhat sad expression on his smile, he said,
"Mr. Gao Lang, go back and farm the land after serving it. This is a stable world. Keeping more food at home is better than anything else!"

"Where's that old brother!" Gao Jifu said, "Whether you want to tease your grandson when you go back, maybe we can get together!"

"I, I'd better take advantage of the lack of people here in King Yan to work more!" Zhang corvee said,
"A good official like King Yan may not be able to meet one in this lifetime.

If you don't save more when a good official like King Yan is around, if King Yan comes with a corrupt official, you may not even be able to prepare food on the road if you want to flee famine. "

"Is King Yan a good official?" Gao Jifu asked in a daze when he heard what Zhang corvee said.

"Naturally he is a good official!" Zhang corvee affirmed, "Brother Gao, it's your first time as a corvee, so you don't know much about it.

But my brother, when the Sui Emperor fought in Liaodong, I sent food to the army at that time. Let’s not talk about those days. Thinking about being able to survive, I feel blessed by God.

In today’s Zhenguan Dynasty, saints are good saints, and officials are also good officials, but the imperial court asked us to serve as corvee because we had to bring dry food, prepare clothes, and go to serve corvée!
But now that the King of Yan is recruiting corvees, and you have been sweeping the snow here for a few days, tell me, what will the King of Yan do to us when you work here? "

"I only care about the food for two meals. Because of the winter, I prepared a few cotton-padded clothes that will eventually be returned. It is a good policy to pour the daily hot water. Without this hot water, I don't know how to survive this winter!" Gao Jifu sighed. road.

Hearing Gao Jifu's words, Zhang corvee's expression turned cold, and he said, "You are lucky.

Although I can't do things myself, and I have ancestors who have never done hard work, this King Yan is a great official, how can I tolerate your evaluation like this!

You think that anyone who works as a corvee can eat two meals of steamed buns is not enough. When the Grand Canal was built for the previous dynasty, how many people worked because they didn't have enough to eat, and they coughed up blood.

Even in today's Zhenguan Dynasty, when did the corvee not prepare food by himself.

Not to mention the consumption of corvee, but the food, salt, cloth shoes, and clothes consumed on the road, when will the court report it!

They only care about whether we have gone to serve corvee or not, and they can't wait to send small officials with whips to force us to work. "

When Zhang Yanyue said this, his expression was a little excited, and his words were even a little choked up.

"Mr. Zhang Lang..." Gao Jifu looked at this scene in a daze for a while, he didn't expect Zhang corvee to be angry!
No, are you chatting properly?

Today's saints are good saints, officials are good officials, and there is no year-round corvee like Emperor Sui Yang.

Why did he get angry after working under King Yan for a few days? Gao Jifu was at a loss!
"Oh, Mr. Gao Lang, I lost my composure!" Zhang corvee came back to his senses and murmured,

"You, although your family has come down, but you have encountered good times and you can read and write, so you will definitely be more promising than me in the future!

Unlike me, I wanted to be a corvee in Tianjin, but I couldn’t even get the establishment. I was afraid that I would have to finish the corvee, and maybe leave! "

"...Is the Tianjin corvee good?" Gao Jifu was a little dazed when he heard Zhang corvee's words.

"Okay, that's naturally good!" Zhang corvee said, "Tianjin corvees are different from those of us conscripted.

They can eat three meals a day, and there is even fresh fish soup in the meals, and mutton for half a month.

Although it was only a small bowl of mutton soup, each person was given a piece of meat, but it was mutton!

Even the king of Yan bought clothes for each person, two sets of linen clothes in summer and two sets of cotton clothes in winter, and even the house he lived in was a kang room for two people.

More importantly, as long as the Tianjin corvee has food stamps every week, they can go to the warehouse to get food with these food stamps.

Not only does corvee work not cost food, but you can also receive food. Mr. Gao Lang, tell me, is this a good official, is this good governance! "

"What King Yan did is naturally good..." Gao Jifu's voice naturally lowered, but he said,
"But the only one who can do this is the King of Yan. At other times, the country can only recruit corvees, and let the corvees bring their own dry food!"

Zhang corvee also reinvigorated his heart, and said: "That's the truth!
There is really only one good official in the world who can be as good as the King of Yan. How stupid to send food to us lowly corvee... Good official!
So, Mr. Gao Lang, you are lucky, you can meet such a good official as soon as you come out to work in corvee.

For those of us corvees, meeting such a good official is a blessing in our lifetimes.

If you don't work hard and save more food while the good officials are here, don't you wait for such good officials to leave and wait for death! "

Gao Jifu suddenly came to his senses in the face of such a small calculation as Zhang corvée.

Obviously, Zhang corvee also knew that people like King Yan were definitely not normal.

Their vision made it impossible for them to see why King Yan did this, not even for themselves.

Obviously, the corvees also work in normal times, so why did King Yan give the corvees food.

But these low-level corvees are sometimes more calculating than the upper-level bureaucrats.

Because the officials made a mistake in their calculations, they might just lose their jobs, but the calculations of the people below are how to survive.

Under such circumstances, the common people finally saw such a stupid good official who exchanged food for his own labor, so why didn't he work hard.

After all, isn't it the most basic thing for the people of the world to be willing to work hard to survive?

In contrast, the grain paid by King Yan is the most precious thing in this world.

For a fool like King Yan, they have only seen Li Tai from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present.

Under such circumstances, what reason do they have for not working hard for King Yan?

In the whole Youzhou, facing the conditions offered by the King of Yan, if it were not for his own conditions, there is no way to meet the standards. Who would not want to work for the King of Yan?
There are people who are willing to work for the King of Yan, but I am afraid that the King of Yan will not want it!

Zhang corvee pulled Gao Jifu, enviously said,
"Mr. Gao Lang, learn to read and study hard, even if you are a corvee, King Yan will only accept corvees who can read and write.

I can't learn it anymore. If there is a chance, can my child know a few words with Gao Langjun, so that he can become a Tianjin corvee! "

Gao Jifu was silent for a while when he heard what Zhang corvee said, "When the corvee is over, Mr. Zhang Lang will send the child back!"

Hearing Gao Jifu's words, Zhang Weiyue's expression was gloomy, but he said in a deep voice, "Okay!"

Zhang corvee feels that Mr. Gao rejected his proposal. After all, when the corvee ends, Mr. Gao's experience of life may end. Who will know himself by then!

But Zhang corvee was not annoyed, after all, it was really not easy for the low-level people like himself to learn to read and write in this world.

I just want to fight for the child to some extent. If it doesn't work, I will see if I can try to arrange it in the corvee.

After all, King Yan seems to like young people, and his own children are also young, and literacy is still taught here.

Although Gao Jifu only did snow sweeping and salt spreading in this camp, Gao Jifu was a smart person after all, he chatted with the corvees from time to time, or observed Li Tai's corvee policy.

Compared with the corvée working purely for food and drink, Gao Jifu clearly found that Li Tai had a clear hierarchical control over the corvée.

The lowest level is the corvee conscripted by the imperial court. Although it should be the lowest treatment in the entire corvee group, the common people are still happy.

After all, in winter, hiding in your own home is pure food consumption.

But it’s different here. Although it only includes two meals, at least it will give you enough food, so the people are naturally very happy.

Some of the corvee workers even said that they were tenant farmers after the end of the service period, and they had nothing to do when they went back in the winter, so let me stay and continue to work as corvée.

King Yan didn't refuse, and continued to let them do it, but these people also issued food coupons, but the number of food coupons was not large, and it was only five catties of corn for a week of work, but even so, these people were grateful.

These corvee workers are the most basic and the most complicated. They do almost everything, but most of them are basic tasks, such as sweeping snow, spreading salt, transporting, etc., as long as one person can do it. Handed over to these corvée.

After that, there is a formal system of corvee. These people are based on the Gaoling corvee that King Yan originally brought from Gaoling as the backbone, and the local corvee that passed the assessment after studying are the wings. They have a strict system and weekly updated work. surface.

Every morning, the team captain and vice-captain in the corvee start to arrange the work of the day, the amount of work is clearly displayed, and it is reasonably arranged for each corvee.

To be honest, this kind of assignment of work tasks, especially the tasks specific to how much each person does, is really very rare in the previous corvee.

As the captain of the work, he will increase or decrease the work tasks every day according to the status of each corvee, so that everyone can complete their work tasks as much as possible.

And the corvee team that completes the best work every week will even be rewarded. Needless to say, at least on the first day of each week, they can enjoy a big meat meal, which makes other corvee teams drooling wildly.

To be honest, Gao Jifu is not surprised by such a distribution ability. What Gao Jifu is surprised is why the people at the bottom have such incredible execution ability under King Yan, at least this is something that his own corvee can't do at all.

Gao Jifu soon discovered that besides these two layers of corvee, there was a third type of special corvee in Li Tai's corvee team. They were very young and were basically students from agricultural colleges.

But in the entire corvee system, no one will despise them, because they will teach the corvees literacy and arithmetic!

Yes, from the beginning of the ordinary corvee, the younger ones will receive the teaching of these students, and educate them in literacy and arithmetic.

It is almost as long as they know about 30 commonly used characters of corvee, and addition and subtraction within [-], plus their own names, plus their age before [-] years old, they can basically pass the preliminary screening and become a corvee.

But the corvee age among them will be further subdivided, among which the corvee before the age of 20 will be selected again.

They will take further education, such as teaching them more characters and mathematics, especially related to job assignments.

Gao Jifu can naturally see that it is not easy to master these things at once.

But even so, every night Li Tai would let the students from the agricultural school teach these people for an hour, and there was a burning charcoal fire beside him, but King Yan was quite devoted.

If you don't want to learn, you can give up. Li Tai never engages in coercion.

But Li Tai also made it clear that if they want to become team leader, this is their only chance.

So even though it was very difficult to study, these young corvees still gritted their teeth and started to study.

Watching these corvees live and work in peace and contentment in the camp founded by King Yan, Gao Jifu also left silently after finishing his corvee.

Back in Youzhou Governor's Mansion, Gao Jifu saluted Du Ruhui who was handling government affairs, "Pu She, I'm back!"

(End of this chapter)