At this time, Chen Qing was passing through Taiyuan. He was going to Datong Prefecture to inspect the defenses and inspect Taiyuan by the way. The officials accompanying Chen Qing were the Hedong Military Envoy, Niu Gao, who was in charge, and Cao De, the prefect of Taiyuan.
Cao De was originally the instructor of the Yanwu Hall, that is, the principal of the military academy. Because Shi Zhangchunxiao, the former prefect of Taiyuan and director of the Hedong Road Shang Shuxing, was seriously ill and resigned and returned to his hometown, Chen Qing appointed Cao De as the prefect of Taiyuan.
Cao De is a descendant of Cao Bin, the founder of the Song Dynasty. During the reign of Renzong, the Cao family became important relatives of the Song Dynasty because of Queen Cao. They had high prestige in the Song Dynasty. However, after the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, these former relatives were not
He was valued by the new emperor Zhao Gou.
Cao De is the legitimate son of the Cao family and was originally an important general under Liu Guangshi. Liu Guangshi suffered several disastrous defeats in Huaibei. He was protected by the Empress Dowager Wei and was not held accountable. However, the blame fell on Cao De in the end and he was demoted from the position of commander.
as commander, and deprived him of his title.
Cao De felt deeply unfair and went to Jingzhao to seek refuge with Chen Qing in anger. He was highly valued by Chen Qing and served successively as the military envoy of Lanzhou and the envoy of Liangzhou. Later, he became a civil servant, prepared to build and served as the instructor of the Yanwu Hall.
The next time Chen Qing promoted him to the position of Taiyuan magistrate and Hedong Road transfer envoy, and made him Gaoping County Duke. Although this was a kind of win-over, it was more of a trust in him.
As for the Hedong Road Shangshu Xingtai, it has actually existed in name only and is in a state of being cancelled. The Shangshu Xingtai was originally a temporary administrative measure taken because it was too far from the ruling center and traffic and communications were inconvenient. It was an external agency of the Internal Affairs Hall.
, the Internal Affairs Hall has successively set up Shangshu Xingtai on Sichuan Road, Hedong Road, Jinghu South Road, Henan Road and Lingxia Road.
However, as Jingzhao's ability to govern continues to strengthen, and its control over government affairs, finance, taxation, and supervision becomes more and more powerful, the Xingtai Shangshu is gradually being cancelled. The first to be abolished is the Lingxia Road Shangshu Xingtai, where only Lingzhou needs to be established.
The Mansion and Xiazhou Mansion are enough, and there is no need for an additional layer of Shangshuxingtai.
Next is Hedong Road. Hedong Road is also relatively close to Jingzhao. Even the Beijing News began to be published on Hedong Road, only two days later than Jingzhao. Hedong Prefecture is even closer to Jingzhao than to Taiyuan.
Therefore, when the government orders from the Internal Affairs Hall can be delivered to Hedong Road in just two days, it is imperative to cancel the Hedong Road Shangshu Xingtai.
However, the cancellation of the Hedong Road Shangshu Office required an opportunity. Zhang Chunxiao's medical retirement was such an opportunity. The Internal Affairs Hall did not appoint a new director of the Shangshu Office, Shi, and the deputy envoy Han Qiao was also transferred to serve as the prefect of Hanzhong. Other supervision, finance and taxation, and transportation were all subordinated to
Among the various offices in Jingzhao, the Hedong Road Shang Shu Xing Tai has only its name.
I've gone a bit far, so let's get back to it.
Chen Qing came to a house next to the east gate of the county. This was a Beigui family. Beigui people are a name for locals and officials in Taiyuan. They refer to the captive Han people released by the Kingdom of Jin. Many of them are relatives and officials.
Guards, maids, craftsmen, etc. Because Henan Road was still in the hands of the Jin State at that time, and the place of release happened to be in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the population of Taiyuan City was insufficient, Chen Qing placed the captives released by the Jin State in Taiyuan.
Within the city.
The family that Chen Qing inspected was named Zhang. The male owner was the son of Zhang Gao, a doctor in the Ministry of Rites, named Zhang Chun. He was only a teenager when he was kidnapped to the Kingdom of Jin. Both his parents were unable to adapt to the cold weather in Liaodong and stayed in the Five Kingdoms City for a few days.
He died a year later.
Zhang Chun also married a single palace maid when he was twenty years old. The two depended on each other and gave birth to a son named Zhang Sinan.
After the Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu Envoys and the Jin Kingdom reached an exchange agreement, more than 50,000 surviving Han people were released back to the Song Dynasty, including Zhang Chun's family. Chen Qing paid special attention to these released Han people and ordered Taiyuan Prefecture to deal with them.
housing and life issues.
Zhang Chun's family was assigned this small courtyard covering an area of half an acre. They received a monthly supplement of money and three sheepskins.
Soon, Zhang Chun found a job as a teacher in the county school, earning three thousand dollars a month. His wife was good at needlework, and also took on some work sewing military shoes and socks, earning three thousand dollars a month.
With a hundred cents, even though the family is not rich, they can still live happily.
The arrival of Chen Qing made Zhang Chun a little at a loss. Fortunately, the personal guards and a large group of officials were outside. Chen Qing was only accompanied by Niu Gao and Cao De. They did not enter the house and sat in the yard.
Chen Qing looked at the yard. It was not big, but it was very clean. There was a grape trellis set up in one corner, and the grape vines climbed up the trellis. Below was a stone table and benches. Zhang Chun was worthy of being a literati, and he still had a good heart in his heart.
Exuding an air of elegance.
Seeing that Chen Qing was interested in the stone table, Zhang Chun smiled sheepishly and said: "The villain bought this from the second-hand market. It only cost 50 cents. Plus hiring a car for 30 cents, the total cost was 80 cents."
The money probably belonged to a wealthy family, and Jin Bing didn't want this kind of thing, so he was eventually moved home and used it in exchange for some small money."
Chen Qing nodded and sat down on a stone bench. Zhang Chun's wife, Mrs. Li, brought hot tea. Chen Qing looked at the tea set and saw that it was a Ru kiln. Unfortunately, it was not an official kiln, but a private kiln, but it was also very good.
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"This tea set was also bought from the flea market?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.
"Exactly! This tea set cost only eighty cents. I bought it together with the stone table and stone stools. The seller didn't know the goods. He didn't know that this was a fine product from Ru Kiln. The price was one hundred cents. I counter-offered eighty cents and sold it to me.
, although it is not an official kiln, the quality of the folk kilns is not much different from that of the official kilns. It is said that the craftsmen who fired the kilns are all the same people."
"Not bad, very discerning!" Chen Qing praised.
Zhang Chun couldn't hold back the joy in his heart and said: "Actually, I also received several treasures, the prices of which are more than ten yuan."
His wife, Mrs. Li, couldn't help but remind her: "Husband, His Highness King Yong is not here to see your treasure."
Zhang Chun finally came to his senses and said embarrassedly: "Your Highness is laughing."
Chen Qing smiled, asked the couple to sit down, and said to them: "I'm mainly here to find out about your living conditions. I've been back for several years. How are you doing? I heard that Mr. Zhang teaches in a primary school?"
"Yes, I have been teaching in the county primary school."
"How much is the income?"
"Three pieces of money a month!"
"Just three pieces of money all the time?"
Zhang Chun nodded, "I've always paid three times since the beginning, and it hasn't changed now, but sometimes it's a little less."
"Are all teachers the same?" Chen Qing asked.
"No, they are much younger than me. They came a few years later. When they came in, they were paid four guan of money. After teaching for five years, when they were promoted to professors, they were paid eight guan of money."
"What's the reason?"
Zhang Chun hesitated and didn't know what to say. His wife touched him lightly. Zhang Chun smiled bitterly and said, "It's my own problem and has nothing to do with the government!"
Chen Qing said with some displeasure: "What's the difficulty? Let's just say it. Magistrate Cao is also here. If you have any difficulties, feel free to speak up. If it's a matter of rules and regulations, then think of a way to make changes within the permission of the rules.
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"It is indeed a system problem. Xiaomin is not from a major, nor is he from a government school. When he goes to teach, he is recruited temporarily. The money is calculated on a daily basis. If you teach for a day, you will be given a hundred words. There is no holiday or sick leave. If you fall ill one day and you can't go,
, just get a hundred less, so the common people are not even teaching assistants. If you graduate from the official school, or pass the Ming Dynasty Economics exam, your status will be different. You are an official civil servant, and you will be counted as a teaching assistant. You will get four guans per month and one day off every ten days.
, we will take normal rest during holidays and no salary will be deducted.”
"Wait a minute!"
Chen Qing suddenly realized something was wrong and asked: "There are ten days off during the New Year, three days off during the Lantern Festival, and two ten-day holidays. A total of fifteen days off. How much money can you earn in January?"
"Fifteen hundred Wen, the villain just said, I get paid by the day, and I get paid by teaching for a day."
Chen Qing's face sank, and he turned around and asked Cao De, "Is that so?"
Cao De wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "I really don't understand this issue about low-level positions. It should be like this. The system stipulates that civil servants must have official academic background or imperial examination background before they can become official civil servants. Teachers are civil servants, but
Because there are not enough teachers, we hired some from outside.”
Chen Qing asked coldly: "All the six officials in Yangqu County came from a major?"