Infrastructure masters in the red building

Naturally, Jia Fang did not choose Jiayintang according to the standard of "choose all C".His main starting point was to guess that the Jiayin Hall is the building where the public administration department is located, and his Taoyuan Village, the newly established departments, and offices cannot always be kept in simple prefab rooms like this.

There are several other options besides: Yihong Courtyard, he will get a headache when he hears it, the entertainment industry is okay, if it is really the custom industry, then he will really go crazy; He is not particularly interested in praying to gods and worshiping Buddha. If he really wants to worship, he might as well worship this scroll.

The last option is Qiushuangzhai, and he has no idea about it. He only knows that it is the residence of Jia Tanchun in the original book. There is another Xiaocui Hall in the courtyard, which is spacious and bright.

Therefore, Jiayintang became Jia Fang's most reliable choice.

But as soon as Jia Fang finished speaking, the scroll reacted immediately: the last option "D, Qiushuangzhai" in the blank space disappeared, and the nine characters "Jiayintang Fengyaoqiao Dicui Pavilion" appeared.And the pattern on the scroll was replaced with the appearance of the official building when option C appeared earlier, and the bridge and pavilion were drawn in ink and wash, which was very clear.

Jia Fang: Wow... Jiayin Hall hardly has a name in the original book of Red Chamber, but the attached bridge and pavilion are all places where famous scenes took place. "Concubine Playing Colorful Butterfly"① is more famous than Jiayintang.

He rubbed his hands, looked back at Shuangwen, and saw that the latter was still in the fog—the choice of four and the four Latin letters ABCD just now really made this girl dizzy.

So far, Jia Fang handed the scroll to Shuangwen directly, and said: "The renderings of these three places are all entrusted to you, there is absolutely no problem."

It was only then that Shuangwen came to his senses and asked, "Third Master, what were those strange things just now?"

Jia Fang then explained: "It's written by foreigners. I just happened to see some."

Shuangwen nodded, and said, "I feel like I've seen this strange way before. It's a bit like the words written by those foreign missionaries."

"Have you seen foreign missionaries?" Jia Fang asked curiously.

Shuangwen nodded: "I've seen it before. The Jiaofang Division turned out to be near Niuyang City, where foreigners built a small chapel. A sister in the division invited foreigners to come to pray, so I took a look at his prayer book—— —The pictures painted there are very special.”

Jia Fang nodded, thinking that as expected of Shuangwen, no matter what he looked at, the first thing he noticed was the painting method.So he encouraged Shuangwen: "That is drawn with perspective drawing. You can try it, and you will definitely be able to draw better than them."

Shuangwen laughed immediately, nodded and said, "Don't worry, third master, I will rush out the renderings of Jiayin Hall as soon as possible before I compete with foreigners in drawing."

On Taoyuan Village, they soon heard the news that an "office building" was going to be built.Everyone in the village is very happy: everyone from the owner to the shareholders of the cement factory is happy, and the cement and bricks and tiles are selling again; the workers who are used to building houses are also quite satisfied with their strength. They thought that the houses in the village The repair is almost done, who would have thought that another big project would come.

However, the happiest thing is the staff in each office, they rushed to tell each other: "Everyone, everyone, Taoyuan Village is going to repair the yamen!"

Jia Fang: ...

He secretly thought: let's wait for the construction to be completed and everyone will be happy again!

The Taoyuanzhai office building he is designing is naturally not the majestic and majestic classical Chinese building in the Grand View Garden.This office building is mainly in the style of stilted buildings, built on the hillside, between Taoyuan Village and Xinyu Villages, which is convenient for residents from all over the place to come and go.

The reason why the office building adopts the style of the stilted building is that Jia Fang took a fancy to the open and private architectural space of the stilted building.

When he used Taoyuan Village Chief Tao's house as his office, he found it very convenient. He sat on the second floor to receive all kinds of people who came to see him, and held meetings with the village chief and the villagers. To a certain extent, this is also one of the reasons why he won the hearts of all the people in a very short period of time when he first came to Taoyuan Village-everything can be said to others.

Therefore, he hoped that in this Taoyuan village, other office staff would have the same way of handling things as him, be able to handle all matters related to the villagers openly and openly, and serve all the villagers in a fair manner.Therefore, the second floor of this stilted building, like most of the stilted buildings of Taoyuan Village, is designed as an open dry column structure, with suspended corridors and curved railing chairs.The villagers stood outside the office building, and they could see at a glance who the office workers were upstairs, who they were talking to, and who were sitting together in a meeting.

But Jia Fang also considered that many times office workers also need a quiet place to think alone, so the third floor of the stilted building is designed as individual small offices, with only one desk and two seats at most. For office workers.

As for the first floor of the stilted building, it was a completely empty lawn.Office workers here can occasionally come down for activities, run and boxing, do Baduanjin, etc., and try to maintain good health after intense work.

In addition, another key point of the design of this office building is that this office building is a long stretch along the hillside, unlike Zhongyuan Courtyard, where each house has its own primary and secondary.

In this way, there is no longer a distinction between the offices. Everyone stays on the same floor. There is no such thing as an ordinary government office. Who stays in the main room, who stays in the side room, who has the sun, Who is huddled in the shade...all the departments, all the office staff, everyone is the same, it is impossible to say who is the most favored, and it is also impossible to say who is the most wronged.In short, the bowl of water is flat - this must be considered in advance, after all, it is easy to cause small friction when there are too many people.

In addition, Jia Fang also sent a message, saying that after the office building is repaired and the various departments move in, if there are still vacancies, villagers are welcome to use them. You can rent the meeting area on the second floor or the small meeting on the third floor Room, ordinary companies want to hold a meeting or something, just come and report to the floor manager.

The news of the construction of an "office building" in Taoyuanzhai quickly spread to Wuyuan County.

Yuan Hua, the county magistrate of Wuyuan County, asked clearly about the regulations and forms of the "office building", and couldn't help rubbing his hands again, thinking: This Taoyuan village has been built for those Gongmen people.And Yuan Hua, the county magistrate who had been to Taoyuan Village once, knew very well what kind of changes Jia Fang wanted to see in Wuyuan County. He rubbed his hands for a long time, and finally called Master Li.

"Youwei, I called you here today to ask about the officials in this county." Since Yuan Hua visited Taoyuan Village, the more he looked at the officials in this county, the more unpleasant he felt.

"In this county... how many officials and government servants are literate?"

County Magistrate Yuan asked Mr. Li, but Mr. Li shook his head, expressing that he didn't know either.

"Why don't you even know this? Didn't I ask you to ask everyone one by one when I took office?"

Master Li sighed and said, "My lord, it depends on whether you want to hear the truth, or just answer in the face of it?"

Yuan Hua's tone immediately became a little hard: "...I just want to know why."

Master Li said anxiously: "My lord, when you first took office, you counted the resumes of the subordinate staff. Do you think those resumes will be true?"

Yuan Hua was speechless.When he first took office, he met several important officials, and they were all eloquent, but he really didn't know their details.All he knew was that most of these officials came from several big families in Wuyuan County. These families were connected and related to each other, and most of the county government offices and commercial roads were controlled by these families.His county grandfather is more like a mascot.

For example, a young man like Gui Xiaxue was forcibly forced into the county government office by the Gui family of a local rich family, saying that he was extremely talented and learned.Yuan Hua took him for two years, admitting that the little guy is indeed talented, but he just doesn't want to work in this county government office.

Yuan Hua is not a fledgling and a rookie in the officialdom. He has served as county magistrates in several places, and of course he knows that this is the case everywhere.The county magistrate only served for a few years, no more than those subordinate officials, they were all native-born locals, and they even dominated the local business and political circles for several generations.County magistrates have to rely on these people to carry out all their daily affairs. Don't they have to turn a blind eye to these subordinates?

At this moment, Yuan Hua walked up and down the hall with his hands behind his back, then turned to Master Li and said, "Go and ask again."

Master Li Youwei was shocked immediately, he went to Taoyuan Village with Yuan Hua to see it, and naturally he could guess what the county lord was thinking.

But the question is, why, why is he Wuyuan County?

Master Jiedu enacted Laoshizi's new policy in his fief, why does Wuyuan County want to copy it?You know——Wuyuan is not like Taoyuanzhai, Wuyuan County is a big place with a total of nearly [-] people including the jurisdiction of the four directions!

All the things that have to go to various towns to collect taxes, maintain law and order, read notices, and even arrest fugitives... all these big and small things have to be done by these officials and yamen servants, so Master Li can't be allowed to go.

"If I ask you again, and they all claim to be able to read and write, then two days later, an exam will be held to let everyone reveal their true colors." Yuan Hua dropped this sentence and went back to the inner hall, leaving behind panicked Master Li.

Yuan Hua thought about these things on the way back from Taoyuan Village.He was indeed moved by the scene he saw in Taoyuan Village, but the emotion cannot be eaten as food. He is very clear about the difference between Wu Yuan and Taoyuan.

Taoyuan Village is between Jia Fang and the villagers, and there is no such class as the gentry.

The last time he went to Taoyuanzhai to celebrate the completion of the Qingfang Bridge, Yuan Hua asked foolishly: Where is the merit monument? Why is this bridge not called "Jimin Bridge"? You can tell them all the affairs in the village, and you don't have to pay attention to those grassroots.

And the squires in Wuyuan are also used to it, they can do whatever they want on their territory, as long as they serve the county lord well.No matter how big the matter is, while drunk, I will put a concubine in the backyard of the county lord.If one concubine is not enough, then send two concubines.

Yuan Hua is used to the current situation in this village.

But in Taoyuanzhai, Yuan Hua had the honor to directly face the most simple villagers, witness their hard work and creativity, and see the changes they made in such a short period of time.

Yuan Hua was deeply moved? ——No!

The county lord knew very well that at such a young age, Jia Fang was entrusted with such a high official title by His Majesty the Emperor, and he was directly placed in this fief.Unfortunately, as the chief of the nearest county office, he must do something to cater to his wishes - if he wants to wear the black veil on his head for a longer time.

Seeing the current situation in Taoyuan Village, Yuan Hua's first thought was to use the "public servants" to get rid of those officials and officials who lied about their resumes and were entrusted by rich and powerful families to stuff them in the county government.

According to his estimation, half of these people are not very qualified, so it is impossible for him to offend all the big gentry at once. On the contrary, this is a reminder to the local authorities that there will be a new deal here, so don't blame me. I can't help myself, there are bigger figures on top!

In this way, not only will the local big family not be hostile to the county office, but they will also accept his affection.

After the county lord gave this order, Master Li, who was conscientious in his work, immediately arranged everything.On the second day, all the resumes were handed in again, and they were still full of hype. Everyone was talented and educated, and it was a pity that they didn't go to the Jinluan Hall to participate in the palace exam.

So Yuan Hua announced: Exam!

His subordinates are sympathetic: Although Taoyuanzhai's "Basic Cultural Education Diploma" exam papers are used, only the literacy papers are used, and the arithmetic papers are not used. Only the literacy of commonly used characters is tested.

That morning, all the subordinate officials of the county government were called into the lobby, and after roll call, they found that all the staff were present.

Yuan Hua took out the test paper with a blank expression: "This is the literacy test used by the recruits of the Gongmen in the nearby Taoyuan Village. The county also wants to see the level of everyone. Don't say much, hand in the test in an hour, and don't whisper to each other. It is not allowed to answer the papers for others, and anyone who violates the law will be expelled from the public office and will never be hired."

At this moment, half of the officials and yamen servants were completely panicked, they knelt down in front of Yuan Hua, and said one after another: "My lord, spare me!"

Yuan Hua smiled: "At least I can write my name. If I write it, I won't be handing in a blank paper, right? There is always a way to not hand in a blank paper."

Immediately, two-thirds of the people stood up tremblingly, and another third knelt on the ground.

Yuan Hua became angry immediately: "You can't even write your name? How did you get hired in the first place?"

He obviously couldn't get an answer to this question, because none of these people was hired by him during his tenure.In the end, Yuan Hua could only say angrily: "It's really not possible, put your fingerprint on the test paper."

And so the last third stood up too.

County magistrate Yuan turned to Master Li: "Youwei, you also finished this paper."

Master Li widened his eyes in shock, kicked his boss, and almost opened his mouth to ask: I want to do it too?

County magistrate Yuan nodded: "I treat everyone equally." In other words, this is also the gist he learned from Taoyuan Village.It also prevents someone from talking about this in the future.

Immediately, Master Li humiliatedly took the paper and took the common character literacy test.

The county magistrate Yuan supervised the exam himself, pacing back and forth in the hall of the county government to see if there was any whispering and copying each other's papers.Even though he was staring at each other like this himself, some people were winking at each other, indicating that he had to tell the family quickly after this matter.

Finally, everyone in the lobby handed in the papers in a hurry.But a person came from outside, clasped his fists at County Magistrate Yuan from a distance, and said: "Master Yuan is very interested, and I am here to test the officials of my county."

Yuan Hua took a closer look, and hurried forward to salute.The person who came was covered with white snow, thin and thin, but with a good complexion - this was none other than the prince Taifu Xia Shengshen who was demoted to the south to study politics.

Under the concerted care of everyone in the Jiedu Envoy's Office, he has gradually recovered, no longer swaying, his energy and appetite are improving day by day, and finally he can't sit still any longer, and walks from the Confucian Temple to the county government. , I happened to meet Yuan Hua presiding over such a "literacy test".

"Unexpectedly, Mr. Yuan also adopted the test papers from the literacy class in Taoyuan Village." After entering the county office, Xia Sheng looked at the test papers gathered in Yuan Hua's hands and said indifferently, "The so-called literacy class in Taoyuan Village only asks those villagers to be able to do it." Literacy, don't ask for anything else, teach them to recognize these commonly used characters in a very short period of time. Does Master Yuan think this is feasible?"

Yuan Hua heard the implication as soon as he heard it, and understood the disagreement between Xia Xingshen and Jia Fang.

"You need to be sensible when you study, and you need to be educated by saints to restrain people in the public office." Xia Shengshen asked in a bad tone. "Does Master Yuan think that these literacy rolls of commonly used characters can make the officials clean and honest?"

When Yuan Hua heard this, he didn't know where his quick wit came from, and he immediately cupped his hands to Xia Shengshen and said, "Of course what Master Xia said makes sense. But my subordinates also think...to understand the principles of the sage's enlightenment, they must first know how to read and write." Right?"

County Magistrate Yuan immediately pushed those blank scrolls with fingerprints on them to Xia Shengshen, and immediately used the question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg", to fool the old man opposite who had just recovered from his illness.