A trip starting from the courtyard

Chapter 201
But the plaque hanging directly above the gate is missing half.

Then there are 2 wooden doors at the gate, which look like two rotten boards.

Wang Lidong suspected that if he opened the door with a little force, the two door panels would fall apart immediately.

"Sir, why is half of the plaque missing? This is the county government office!"

Zhao Ligong was also a little puzzled, it was still a whole piece when he came last time.

"Boss, you're here."

Suddenly the door was slowly opened, and then a person came out from the crack of the door.

Hearing this voice, he knew it was his servant Lin Jian.

Yesterday Wang Lidong sent Lin Jian to arrive here ahead of schedule.

The main reason is to ask him to come and clean up the inner house, so that I don't have a place to live after I come here today.

"Lin Jian, why are you alone and no one else?"

"Young Escort, Li Dagen and I are the only ones in the entire yamen today, and there are four or five people who haven't arrived today.

Li Dagen, I haven't paid my respects to the county magistrate yet. "

Following Lin Jian's words, another short, fat middle-aged man came out of the door.

This man named Li Dagen was wearing a black soap suit, with a pie face with a pair of mouse eyes embedded in it.

As long as you see his person, you will acquiesce that this person must be a cunning person.

When Lin Jian found the yamen yesterday, Li Dagen still didn't believe it.

He knows best what is going on in the county government.

The officials and gentlemen have already gone to find their own way.

And the yamen servants below also left one after another, and there were only six of them including him.

The main reason is that since the Japanese pirates took over Rongcheng, their county government has never paid any food and salaries.

Who can support this, the family is waiting for dinner.

If he had no place to go, he would have slipped away long ago.

Some people would come here to die.

Later, after learning some general information from Lin Jian's chat, Wang Lidong had already pasted the words 'take advantage of' on his forehead.

Seeing Wang Lidong wearing a green official robe with an oriole pattern on his chest at this moment, he was even more convinced of his guess.

Li Dagen hurriedly ran to Wang Lidong, then knelt down on the ground, and then hummed his lines.

"Congratulations to Mr. Lin, all blessings to Mr. Lin. The little one is looking forward to this day day and night."

I thought it was just a naughty one, but I didn't expect to add three words now—shameless.

In the Ming Dynasty, subordinates didn't have to kneel and salute when they saw a superior official, they usually bowed their hands.

But Wang Lidong didn't have any prejudice against this kind of person.

There are all kinds of people, and these people are relatively well-informed. There is really no shortage of such people in a Yamen.

When he knew that there were only six people left in the entire yamen, it was still beyond Wang Lidong's expectation.

In his mind, all the officials have fled, but half of the servants below should be left.

Fortunately, I brought over twenty people here, otherwise I would be caught blind.

"Get up and show us the whole yamen."

Although Wang Lidong's voice was very soft, in Li Dagen's ears, it sounded like a thunderous explosion.

This move immediately blew away some of his small thoughts, knowing that although the person in front of him is young, his martial arts are very powerful and he is not easy to mess with.

So he got up obediently, and together with Lin Jian, he and Lin Jian carefully opened the two doors made of broken door panels.

Seeing this situation, Wang Lidong said to Zhao Ligong beside him:
"I'll find a carpenter to come over and repair this door first.

Then find someone to make two new doors, remember to make them stronger.

The gate of a county government has only two broken door panels, which is outrageous.

By the way, there is still this plaque, and a new one is also made. "

Zhao Ligong hurriedly persuaded:

"Engong, you just took office, so you don't know the truth inside.

I heard that this county government has not been repaired since the Taizu Dynasty.
As long as it doesn't collapse, don't replace it with a new one. This is called 'officials don't repair the government'. "

Although Wang Lidong has never been an official in this era, he has heard this saying in later generations.

In the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court enacted a special law to prevent officials from corruption, which clearly stipulated that "(governments at all levels) shall not repair government buildings."This is the first time that the Four Seas has stipulated in the form of law that officials are not allowed to repair the houses of the yamen without authorization, so as to prevent officials on duty from engaging in corruption activities under the pretext of repairing the yamen.

Since the Song Dynasty, the custom of "officials do not repair yamen" has really been formed.Once an official makes a request to repair the yamen, it will not only easily impress the superiors as extravagant and wasteful, but will also be at a disadvantage in the evaluation of the officials (repairing the yamen is a deduction item for political evaluation), and it is likely to be detained by the inspector censor for corruption and bribery , Unscrupulous big hat.

Wang Lidong said disdainfully:

"Those bad customs in the officialdom don't apply to me, and I don't rely on evaluation to get promoted.

If it's changed, it won't be good if it breaks and hits people, even if it doesn't hit people, it will hit flowers and plants. "

After finishing speaking, let Li Dagen lead the way and let him introduce the situation of the entire county government.

After seeing Engong's attitude, Zhao Ligong stopped talking.

And I think what Wang Lidong said is a bit reasonable, even the official positions under his butt are bought with money, so he cares about his reputation.

Then everyone followed Li Dagen to look at the county government office.

The area of ​​the entire county office is very large, it is estimated to be at least three to four thousand square meters in size.

It is divided into main hall, second hall, inner house and garden.

In the small garden, there are actually a few houses.Wang Lidong went in and took a look. There were two bedrooms and a study. I don't know which county magistrate ordered the construction.

After carefully looking inside and outside the house, he liked it more and more. The environment here is much better than that in the inner house.

So he said to Lin Jian:
"I will live in the small garden from now on. You should arrange for someone to clean these three rooms right away."

After Lin Jian heard this, he immediately felt bitter. He didn't expect that the young escort could not live in the inner house, so he had to live in some kind of garden.

"Young Escort, it may be too late to clean today. There are not enough manpower, so we can only move here tomorrow."

Only then did Wang Lidong remember that Lin Jian only brought one as his assistant this time.

What Lin Zhennan and his wife meant was that every day after leaving the Yamen, they would stay in the Escort Bureau.

So no manpower was assigned to him in this regard.

"Go to Yaren and buy a few servant girls, and you will be the housekeeper of the backyard from now on."

"Thank you, Young Escort, I'll go find Yaren right away, and I promise you can come in tonight."

At this time, Lin Jian's face could not see the depression just now.

With a small face smiling, those who didn't know thought they had picked up a few taels of silver.

Becoming a steward means that he has become the confidant of the young escort.

And you won't have to do chores later.

He hurriedly walked towards the outside of the yamen.

At the end of yesterday's day, he had already walked around the neighborhood, and he remembered clearly where there was a dental shop.

Then Wang Lidong held a small meeting with his four masters and three head catchers.

Although he had never been an official in ancient times, the government office specially issued a "New Official Guidelines" to Wang Lidong. The content of this manual is actually a guide for officials for beginners.

Let officials who are officials for the first time understand what they should do after taking office.

Wang Lidong also flipped through it, and found it quite practical.

Of course, there were some procedures, but he didn't do them, and just skipped over them.

For example, on the first day of taking office, a new official needs to go to the Town God's Temple to worship and meet local scholars and gentry.

Wang Lidong arranged several masters to check out the 31 items that the new officials need to hand over.

Such as how many houses are there?How much money and grain?How many horses are there?How many prisoners are there?How much is there in the warehouse?
After arranging the work, Wang Lidong planned to go out to the yamen for a stroll.

Seeing that Wang Lidong was about to leave, Cai Butou, the oldest of the three headhunters, said:

"Young Escort, a total of 12 brothers have come with us this time, but this manpower is simply not enough, what should we do if we are short?"

Knowing that the Linjiang county government office was an empty shell, Wang Lidong asked Lin Zhennan to ask for a dozen or so bodyguards, and these people would become the various small bosses of the county government office.

(End of this chapter)