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At the third quarter of the first day of the Chen Dynasty, the two people in the county government office looked out.

"Has the magistrate arrived yet?"

"It should be soon."

"What are you betting on today?"

"Of course it's a bet on whether the magistrate of the county will stage an apology, hahaha."

Laughter wafted out from the gatehouse, and Yuan San was annoyed when he heard it.

"Don't worry." He turned around, but was stopped.

Yuan San turned to argue, but saw Tong Ran holding the little tiger in one hand, and blocking him with the other.Yuan San immediately wanted to worship, but was supported. Tong Ran shook his head, motioning him to keep silent.

The conversation in the concierge continued.

"Master Gao is ruthless enough, I bet our grandpa of the small county will come to the door to confess before noon today."

"No, no, the magistrate of the small county doesn't want to lose face? He is a county magistrate personally handed down by the sage. I think I have to endure it until tomorrow." The man said, slapping his hand on the table, "One hundred coins I'll leave it here for tomorrow."

"What are the two big brothers pressing for? Can you bring me one?" A gentle voice interjected.

The voice was faintly familiar, and the two turned their heads, their faces flushed immediately: "Xian... the county magistrate, you are here." They said, bowing in a hurry.

Tong Ran paced over, passed between the two, and picked up the bunch of copper coins on the table.

"There is a decree in this dynasty that prohibits gambling. As a public official, you should abide by the law. Deng Qi, the former magistrate of Xiaoguo County, was arrested in a secret gambling room, and the example of dismissal and exile is the first example. Isn't it enough to remind you? "Tong Ran changed his usual gentle attitude, his voice was not high, but his words were stern, and the two gatekeepers' feet softened and they knelt down.

"My lord, the money belongs to him, the little one doesn't know, the little one doesn't know!" One of them said with a mole on his face.

The other person had a scar between his eyebrows. He gave the mole a hard look, and then cried loudly: "My lord, please forgive me, but the little one is also bored all day long, just looking for fun, and I will never dare again."

"It seems that the porters of the county government are really too busy, and they all need to gamble to pass the time." Tong Ran said, "Sang Le, tell the office to pay their wages for this month, and go back."

The faces of the two turned from red to white, and their mouths opened wide.

Sang Le took the order and left, Tong Ran stopped talking nonsense and turned to leave the porter's room.

"My lord." Yuan San came over and cupped his hands. After all, those two were his colleagues. He wanted to persuade Tong Ran, but he didn't know how to speak, so he had to follow Tong Ran into his study in the county government.

"Brother Yuan, do you have something to say?" Tong Ran saw his expression and asked.

"This..." Yuan San bit his lip, and said with a heart, "Those two people are just having fun, and the lord will just punish them, why bother to resign?"

Tong Ran didn't speak immediately, but glanced over. Yuan San met his gaze, his heart beating, and he unconsciously lowered his head.

"In my county government, I don't support idlers, let alone those with bad mouths." Tong Ran said.

Although this was not aimed at Yuan San, he still broke out in a cold sweat. When he came into contact with Tong Ran as a farmer, he only thought that Tian Yan was gentle and polite, but he didn't know that he also had a harsh side.

"My lord." Sang Le entered the door and said, "The accountant settled the money for them according to my lord's instructions. Originally, those two begged for nothing and refused to leave. I frightened them and left."

Tong Ran sat down behind the table and asked, "How did you scare me?"

"Hey, it's not a big deal, but they were punished for violating the gambling ban. The two of them were timid and scared away." Sang Le scratched his head, and then peeked at Tong Ran's face, "My lord, I will make my own decision." Is it not too good?"

"Good job." Tong Ran smiled, and looked at Sang Le twice more, "How old are you?"

"Thank you for your compliment, I'm 22." Sang Le said.

Tong Ran nodded, and at the age of 22, he would be able to ascend to the lower rank of the Yellow Rank. It is very rare to find a position as a government official among ordinary poor families.

"My lord, do you understand? Today, the county captain said he was sick, and none of the yamen servants came." Sang Le said.

"So that's how it is." Tong Ran took a sip of tea. The tea was hot, and it should have been prepared by Sang Le and the others before his arrival.

Usually at this time, you can see the patrolling yamen servants in the county town, but he didn't see them on the way here today, and he was still wondering, so it turned out to be like this.The two disciples bet just now that he was going to confess to the county magistrate, probably for this reason.

Indeed, if all the yamen servants are not on duty, even a county magistrate is nothing more than a polished commander.

The yamen servants would not have the guts to confront him openly, the one standing behind must be Gao Zhuo.

Tong Ran pondered for a moment and said: "Yuan San, go for a run and pass on the word. From now on, all the people in the government office will be deducted monthly money every day if they are absent from work without reason. If you miss work for three days, you will be dismissed immediately. Sick leave needs to be ordered by a doctor, otherwise it will not be granted. Approval. Sang Le, you are responsible for the records, and the yamen servants who are on duty today but did not come will be treated as absenteeism for one day, and the total amount of money deducted will be reported by the accounting office at the end of the month, and will be used as a bonus for those who are fully present."

"Yes." Sang Le took the order and went to do it immediately.

Yuan San hesitated.He had been in the county government for many years, Deng Qi was a prostitute, and his predecessor was also moderate and conservative. He had never seen a county magistrate who acted like Tong Ran, and he was a little worried about him.

"You don't have to worry." Tong Ran saw his worries at a glance and said.

But Tong Ran didn't continue to explain, but looked at the documents stacked on the table.Yuan San was still worried, but he knew that this was not something he should ask. Tong Ran was patient enough to tell him these things, and if he stuck around here again, he would be annoyed.Then he gritted his teeth and sent a message for him.

After Yuan San left, the door of the study was closed, Tong Ran raised his head from the document, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Zai Zai," Tong Ran tilted his head on the paperwork, and the little tiger jumped onto the desk and turned around with his head held high, as if he was inspecting his territory.Tong Ran gently touched its tail, the little tiger turned his head and showed his teeth, Tong Ran immediately withdrew his hand, and said with a chuckle: "You have such a bad temper, if you were the county magistrate, would you kill me?" Everyone was killed?"

The little tiger turned his head, it was not so unreasonable.

However, if he were to handle the matter just now, he would definitely send those two sects to prison according to the law. Tong Ran just dismissed them from their posts. Just looking at this, he is still a little soft-hearted, but it is not bad.

Although those two sects were not punished heavily, it would definitely hurt the nerves and bones of ordinary small households to lose their errands. This incident spread to the ears of other people in the yamen, and Tong Ran's prestige was erected.

Afterwards, he promptly made a new regulation on punishing absenteeism. With these two examples as a lesson from the past, the rest of the people would not dare to take these words as a deaf ear. Tomorrow at the latest, those yamen servants who are on the side of the county lieutenant will be there one after another. defection.

After all, most of the clerks came from poor families, and they came out to work for the living money, and no one would have trouble with the guy who was eating.

Those in power pay equal attention to kindness and prestige. His prestige has been raised, but he has not forgotten his kindness. His last sentence is the most wonderful-the wages deducted by those who are absent from work are rewarded to those who are fully present.In this way, no one in the county government would be willing to shield absentees, and Tong Ran's new rules were not just empty words.

What was he going to do after that?

There are always a few confidantes of county lieutenants among the yamen servants, and they will not easily come back to be on duty. If Tong Ran dismisses them as he said, who will fill the vacancies afterwards?

The porter of the county government is not an official, but an employee of the county government, and anyone with or without integrity can be used.But the yamen servants are officials of the county yamen. Although the county magistrate has the right to appoint, he can only appoint people above the lower rank of the yellow rank.

There are not many such people in a county, and it is really difficult to fill so many vacancies.

As for the county lieutenant and Tongzhi, they are both the eighth-rank imperial officials. Tong Ran can govern them, but it is not up to him to dismiss or replace them. If Tong Ran wants to make a difference in Xiaoguo County, their cooperation will be difficult. It is indispensable, so although his actions today are good, they still cannot completely break the predicament.

The desk in the county government office was huge, and the little tiger found a corner where there was no pile of paperwork and lay down. It didn't sleep, but watched Tong Ran handle the paperwork with its tiger eyes open.

Tong Ran still uses a quill, which has almost become his trademark.Chu Jun also tried to use it, but the nib was so hard that he couldn't write with a pen, so he put it on the imperial case as an ornament.

Tong Ran looked at the documents for a while, and Sang Le came in to reply, and at the same time said: "Yuan San has passed on your words, and six people have returned to the county government."

There are about 20 servants in the Xiaoguo county government office. Excluding those who are on duty today, nearly half of them have returned. Sure enough, deducting money is a coup that has not changed for thousands of years. Tong Ran secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"Understood. In addition, you go and see if there are paperwork for applying for officials recently." Tong Ran said again.

"I was just about to tell you about this," Sang Le said, "The clerk in charge of personnel affairs told me that you handed over a lot of paperwork applying for office before and after you took office, and they were all locals under the administration of Xiaoguo County."

"Bring me all the documents and let me have a look," Tong Ran said.Sang Le took the order to do it.

Many people handed in paperwork applying for officials?

The little tiger changed the overlapping paws up and down, and lay down again.Not to mention aristocratic families, it is not easy for ordinary people to go to the yellow ranks.Except for a few descendants of aristocratic families and businessmen, most people will immediately go to the local or nearby yamen to seek employment after entering the Huang rank. There is absolutely no reason to wait for Tong Ran to take office before submitting applications, unless these people are all recently promoted. order.

Is it possible?So many people at the same time...

The little tiger suddenly raised its head, its front paws stood up, and half of its body stood up.

It turned out to be like this.Chu Jun figured out the reason, no wonder Tong Ran took his time and asked Sang Le to bring the documents.

Sang Le brought the documents, and Tong Ran read them one by one.

He is familiar with the names of these people. Each of them has different ways of cultivating righteousness, but there are two overlaps - reform and teaching people how to fish.

When Tong Ran was a farmer, he taught people in one village in nine townships how to compost and dig wells to irrigate the fields.When digging wells to irrigate fields was popularized in Xiaoguo County, it caused a vision of innovation and reform. Many people who participated in the well repairing gathered some righteousness in this way.

Later, the news of the good harvest in Xiaoguo County came out, and many people heard about it and came to learn the art.Because he was afraid of trouble, Tong Ran always thanked guests behind closed doors, but there were many people in Jiuxiang and Yicun who were willing to teach, and these people gathered the righteousness of teaching people a way by teaching these two methods little by little.

If there is no foundation at all, it will be very difficult to reach the yellow rank in more than two months. Most of these people who have submitted the materials now have some foundation.

Because of the promotion of digging wells to irrigate the fields, Tong Ran had some exchanges with these people. If some of them were selected to come to the county government, these people would be his own soldiers. So easy.

Today was the first day of the strike by the yamen servants, and he couldn't dismiss people immediately, but the original Xiaoguo county government left a group of people because of Deng Qi's incident, so there were still vacancies.

He carefully looked at the stack of documents and picked out three.

Tong Ran compared the information on the document, wrote three appointment letters, and called Yuan San and the few government servants who came back to be on duty to come in.

Those yamen servants were a little apprehensive and apprehensive, and they saluted after entering, but they didn't dare to make a single extra move, obviously Tong Ran's move today had already suppressed them.

"Are you back?" Tong Ran glanced at these people, "You have been recorded as absent from work today, and your wages are gone. You can come back tomorrow."

"No, no, my lord was joking, even if there is no salary, we still have to serve my lord and the imperial court." One of them said humanely, and the others echoed repeatedly.

Tong Ran smiled, and stopped embarrassing them, but took out three letters of appointment: "You guys go and send letters of appointment to these three people."

The few yamen servants didn't dare to neglect, they immediately came up to pick them up, but they were afraid for a while.

The county magistrate has only been here for the second day, and he has already written three letters of appointment. If they still insist on not coming to be on duty, they are afraid that their positions will be replaced by others.Fortunately, they came back. It's okay to work for nothing for a day. It would be a big loss if they lost the hard-earned iron job.

Three yamen servants took orders to leave, and the remaining three and Yuan San still stood and waited for orders.

"Do you all know how to read? Can you write?" Tong Ran asked.

"Yes, yes." Several people replied immediately.

"Bring a pen and paper and go out with me," Tong Ran said.

"Wow!"

Tong Ran turned and left, but her leg got caught.

The little tiger bit the corner of his robe, staring at him with green eyes.

"Hehe, I almost forgot about you." Tong Ran said with a smile, squatting down and picking up the little tiger.

The little tiger got into his arms and skillfully found a comfortable position. Whether it was intentional or not, he flicked his tail to Tong Ran's face. The force wasn't too heavy, but it hurt a little.

Unprepared, Tong Ran was slapped across the face, and she leaned closer and threatened: "Be good, don't make a fuss, and don't let you be sent back."

"Wow!" the little tiger roared.

Tong Ran rubbed its head and coaxed: "Okay, don't be afraid, brother will take you."

Little Tiger:……

It was barking fiercely, not begging for mercy!

In broad daylight, the county magistrate took several yamen servants to the street, which of course attracted crowds of spectators.But this is the county magistrate after all, and everyone didn't dare to look at it blatantly, they just looked at it quietly.

Tong Ran first took people around Xingde Street, and then went to several other crowded streets and alleys and several city gates.

Everywhere he went, he asked a few yamen servants to randomly ask someone to ask them. The questions were quite simple, but they asked where they came from, where they were going, and if they wanted to buy something, what to buy, whether it was convenient, etc.

The people on the street panicked when they were stopped by the yamen servants, but because of Tong Ran's warning, those yamen servants were all gentle and asked questions in a friendly voice, and the people gradually let go of their courage, and some even felt that it was new and bold. Come up to answer actively.

Tong Ran was also doing the same job, because he had to record, so he didn't hold the little tiger.The little tiger followed beside him, surrounded by crowds of people, and it was a bit difficult to shuttle between the legs of the crowd.

Chu Jungui was the emperor, and even before he ascended the throne, he was still a prince with golden branches and jade leaves. When he was treated like this, he was so irritable that he scolded his little servant seventeen or eight times.

After narrowly passing through the legs of another group of people, the little tiger ran to the side of the road, jumped onto the window sill of the store, and jumped onto the roof with his strength.There was no one with a wide view on the roof, so the little tiger finally breathed a sigh of relief and got down on the ground with peace of mind.

The roof of this house is quite high, and the little tiger went up a little bit, and he could see most of Xiaoguo County. The layout of the county is the same as the map that Tong Ran brought back yesterday.

Chu Jun went back and forth on the roof many times, looking at the place where they had gone before, a thought appeared in his heart.

Although he only glanced at it but didn't see it all, Tong Ran seemed to have circled these places on the map he copied. Today, he led people to understand the flow of people and crowds.

The conflict between Tong Ran and the county magistrate yesterday was about setting up a stall. The county magistrate strictly enforced the outdated laws and regulations, while Tong Ran advocated a lenient punishment and even revised the regulations.

Chu Jun originally thought that he didn't directly change it today because he wanted to delay it for a few days and make changes after he had further control over the county government, but it seemed that he had underestimated Tong Ran.

Not only did he want to revise the established rules, but he also set up his own set of rules. Not only did he want to control the county government, but he was already starting to use his status as the county magistrate to improve the current situation in Xiaoguo County.

This kid was able to do this for the first time as an official, so I still underestimated him.