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Su Hao's hesitation was not beyond Han Wen and Fang Mengjin's expectations at all. In their opinion, it would be a strange thing if Su Hao agreed very readily.

To clarify this matter, we must start with the official system and imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty.

The officials in the county government offices in the Ming Dynasty were divided into three levels. The first level was officials. There were only 4 people in the general county who could be called officials, namely the magistrate, the county magistrate, the chief clerk and the clerk. These were all directly appointed by the court. By the standards of later generations, they were so-called civil servants.

The second level is officials, including the heads and technical talents in various departments under the county government. The number of officials varies according to the number of affairs and financial resources of each county. The few are twenty or thirty people, and the most can reach hundreds. The source of officials is recruited from the people, and the earliest was even requisitioned by corvee labor.

According to the Ming Dynasty system, those who are willing to serve as officials must first apply for the application, which is called "receiving", and then the old gentry in the village will report it to the prefectures and counties. After the prefectures and counties find it appropriate, they will report it to the higher-level government, and the government will report it to the prefectures and the government will then report it to the prefectures and the government will then report it to the prefectures and the applicant will become a formal official.

In a county, there are very few officials, mainly responsible for grasping some major policies and guidelines. The specific affairs in the county are handled by officials, so there is a saying that "the actual governance of officials is the actual governance of officials", which means that the country is nominally governed by officials, but in fact it is governed by officials.

A county has a population of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and there are many kinds of affairs. Therefore, in the county government, many departments are set up, the main ones are the six departments corresponding to the six departments of the central government, which are the six departments, and they are responsible for one aspect of affairs. The person in charge of the six rooms is called the six-room clerk. In addition to the six rooms, there are also other departments under the county government, including horse departments, grain departments, pavilions, and cabins, and clerks, and there are also officials responsible for specific affairs.

In the county government office, clerks are technical cadres, and there are also officials responsible for working, called clerks. Above clerks and clerks, there are clerks in charge of personnel, called clerks.

Compared with officials, the status of officials is slightly lower. According to later standards, officials belong to county leaders, while officials belong to the heads of various committees, offices and bureaus in the county.

In later generations, there was only a level difference between county leaders and the heads of the committee offices and bureaus, but in the Ming Dynasty, there was a bottomless gap between the two.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty were selected through the imperial examination system. With the accumulation of political achievements, officials could gradually be promoted, from a small county magistrate to six ministers of the ministers or even cabinet grandsons.

However, officials are different. They recruited them by recruiting from the society and basically had no chance of promotion. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to give officials some hope, it was stipulated that officials could obtain the qualification to serve as an official position after three assessments, that is, after serving for nine years, they could obtain the qualification to serve as an official position, which was called "born". But in fact, the regulations were only stipulated that due to the large number of officials and the shortage of officials, the number of officials who could be promoted was very small, and most of them could only be supplemented with positions that officials from the imperial examination were unwilling to engage in.

If you can't be promoted in your own position, that's fine. A truly talented official can at least consider entering the official career through the imperial examination, right? But even more sad is still there.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was once a person living at the bottom of society. Even after becoming emperor, he was still full of resentment towards the bureaucracy. He believed that the officialdom was a big dye vat, and if a good person went in for a few years, he would become a bad guy. Out of this understanding, Zhu Yuanzhang introduced a policy that stipulated that those who had served as officials and clerks would not be allowed to take the imperial examinations for life. In other words, if you were once an official, you would not be promoted to an official in the position of an official, but you would not even be qualified if you wanted to change jobs to take the imperial examinations.

The policy formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang was passed down from generation to generation and continued until the demise of the Ming Dynasty. It is conceivable that with such a policy stuck, how could young scholars dare to join the government office?

Han Wen and Fang Mengjin are both people who have studied, so they naturally understand the mentality of scholars. In their opinion, Su Hao refused to accept the employment of Han Wen because he was worried that once he became an official, he would not be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future. He lost his future for the sake of immediate benefits, which is something that any scholar with ideals and ambitions would not want.

"Su Hao, I know your worries. I cherish you as a talent in this county, so naturally it will not delay your future. I want to hire you to work in the county government office, so you can not be included in the list of clerks, which is actually nothing but a name. In this way, it will not affect your future exams." Han Wen gave Su Hao a reassurance.

"Uh..." Su Hao was speechless. In fact, he pretended to be embarrassed. It was not because of Zhu Yuanzhang's brain-dead rule.

As time went by, in the late Ming Dynasty, many early regulations gradually stopped paying attention. As the saying goes, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. It is no longer rare for scholars to participate in the imperial examination after becoming clerks. Examiners turn a blind eye to such things, and are unwilling to block the future of a talented young man because of being a clerk.

Su Hao is a person with the soul of later generations. He is not very enthusiastic about the imperial examination, and he is even less likely to refuse an opportunity to become an official because he is worried about losing his imperial examination qualification.

From the moment Su Hao came through time, he was thinking about how to survive. In life, he had to have money or power, and had to take up the same amount of money to live comfortably. In a feudal dynasty like the Ming Dynasty, power was probably more important than having money. Therefore, when encountering opportunities that could be related to the officialdom, Su Hao would not let it go easily.

Su Hao was reserved before, but actually wanted to bargain with Korean. He had the technology to survey wells, and he could wait for a price during this drought. If Korean opened his mouth, he would accept it quickly, wouldn’t he lose his own value?

Unexpectedly, his hesitation made Han Wen guess the imperial examination. Su Hao also felt that something was right when he heard Han Wen say this. As a scholar, if he happily accepts the mission of a clerk, he will be looked down upon by others.

Thinking of this, he followed the Korean words and said, "Sir, the students are worried about this matter. It would be better if they could not bear this name."

"Don't worry, this county will not harm you." Han Wen said, "Will this be the case, this county will also hire you as a master and in charge of the workshop, so you should be called a workplace master."

"Students are afraid, how dare they be as famous as Master Fang?" Su Hao said.

Han Wen looked at Fang Mengjin and said, "Shi Ye Fang is responsible for all political affairs for the county, so you, naturally, cannot be compared with Shi Ye Fang. You, the master, are only responsible for work and room affairs and have the right to subsidize work and room clerks and subordinate yamen runners. When it comes to this matter of drilling wells and drought resistance, you can intervene as much as possible."

"As far as students know, the officers sent by the adults to dig wells in various townships are all clerks in the county government. I wonder if the students, the workshop master, can command them?" Su Hao began to understand his authority.

"Of course," Han Wen said, "You are my magistrate, and all the officials in the county government are your subordinates. In addition to the county magistrate, you should ignore the magistrate Bo and Dianshi."

I know who I am, Su Hao laughed in his heart. The position Han Wen promised him was almost the same as the position of the county leader's secretary. In addition to being a little smaller than the leader's personal secret recipe master, the directors, directors and the like below all depend on his expression. With such a position, as long as he does not offend Han Wen, he can basically walk horizontally within the scope of Fengcheng County in the future.

"Mr. Xie is favored by him, and the students will definitely live up to their expectations." Su Hao stood up and gave a big gift to Han Wen, which was considered accepting Han Wen's appointment.

"Su Hao, since you have agreed to do business for this county, you will have to live in the county town in the future. Do you have a suitable residence in the county town?" Han Wen asked. This is a good leader. In addition to arranging work for his subordinates, he is also concerned about his subordinates' life issues.

Su Hao said: "I don't have a suitable place to live yet, but I will go find a house later. I believe it's not difficult to rent a house and live in it first."

"Well, there are many idle houses in the county town, and you should be able to rent a good place to live." Han Wen said, and after that, he said to Fang Mengjin: "Master Fang, you can get 20 taels of silver for me to reward Su Hao. If he wants to live in the county town, it will cost some money."

"Sir, students dare not receive money without merit." Su Hao quickly stood up and refused. Although what he thought was completely opposite to what he said, he still had to do the necessary politeness.

Han Wen laughed and said, "This is not a reward for nothing. You helped Zheng Chun dig a few good wells in Zhegui Township. This is worthy of the reward of our county. You said just now that your family is in a difficult life. Since this county hires you to do things, you can't let you have any worries."

"Then the student thanked the magistrate for the reward." Su Hao then looked half-spoken and accepted the Korean money.
Chapter completed!