Chapter 114 The way to win over the supervisor: first endure hardships and then enjoy the blessings
Chen Dayou is the son of a grain merchant in Tongzhou. At the beginning of this year, his father saw that he was not good at literature and martial arts, so he spent a hundred taels of silver to smoothen the relationship, and spent another sixty taels of silver to buy him a tribute supervisor.
If you have a quota, you can use it to pay the upper-level gold, so that you can go home and inherit the family business.
When he arrived at the Imperial College in Meishan, he acted with a dawdling attitude at first. However, when the Supervisory Office was established, an examination was organized, and two of his fellow supervisors actually passed the examination and were directly employed.
This is what people fear the most. We originally agreed to be trash, but suddenly someone becomes a traitor and no longer wants to be a free fish. How can people accept this?
Devastated, Chen Dayou became more competitive and prepared to work hard to get good results in the next round of employment recruitment exams.
As a result, his passion for progress only lasted for two or three days, and over time he returned to his old self. Just when he was about to continue to be decadent, Zhu Youjian issued a decree to recruit a group of people to go to Huangzhuang for inspection.
Members of the working group. There will be no exam this time. You can be selected as long as you sign up. Because this is a real temporary job, there is no need to make it too troublesome!
Chen Dayou was not very interested in this temporary job at first, but later there were rumors that this temporary job was not ordinary. If he did well, he would not need to take exams when he came back to find a job, and he could be directly promoted to an official.
Is there such a good thing? Chen Dayou, who was not very good at the exam, quickly signed up for himself.
Then he heard Zhu Youjian's inspiring speech at the mobilization meeting before departure. After receiving first-class merit, he was directly appointed to the seventh rank of official. This was not a temporary appointment like the supervising official of the Yamen, but a real official.
Granted. Although the grades awarded by their supervisory students are not the same as those of other yamen, they are regarded as private officials. What happened to private officials? It is enough for the number one figure in the Ming Dynasty to recognize this position. Strictly speaking, the group of eunuchs in the inner palace are not the same.
The emperor's personal official? You can become the emperor's personal official without cutting a knife. This deal is a good deal no matter how you look at it.
With the dream of becoming a seventh-rank official, Chen Dayou and a group of young people went to the imperial village outside the capital. Chen Dayou and his working group were assigned to an imperial village in Daxing on the outskirts of Beijing, and were escorted by Jin Yiwei.
It took a day and a long journey to get there.
After arriving there, the eunuchs in charge of the village, the village's top figures and other prominent figures came over like welcoming ancestors. They were also well-informed people, so naturally they had heard the news a long time ago and knew that if these young eunuchs were not serving well,
Something will definitely happen.
"Dear members of the working group, our Dawangzhuang is located in the wilderness and we have nothing to offer to take care of you nobles. They are just rough vegetables and wild vegetables, muddy wine and cheap meat. Please don't dislike it." Dawangzhuang manager.
The eunuch Wang Siyi humbly allowed Chen Dayou and the others to use the food.
Is this still rough vegetables and wild vegetables, but heavy wine and cheap meat? Looking at the large table of dishes placed on the table in front of him, there is no shortage of chicken, duck, fish, and sake. Chen Dayou and other members of the working group looked at each other,
Then he ate in silence.
Halfway through the meal, Chen Dayou took the opportunity to go to the toilet and pulled a member of the same group out of the dinner hall. Then the two of them entered the toilet while whispering: "There must be something wrong with this Zhuangzi!"
"Brother Chen, I've noticed it too. Let's put it together when we go to bed at night. We can't neglect the future when it comes to it."
After going to the toilet and eating some food and wine, Chen Dayou said that he was too drunk and wanted to go back to his residence to rest. Seeing this, several other team members also declined, and everyone dispersed and returned to their residence.
Seeing the members of the work team leaving in a hurry, the eunuch in charge Wang Siyi, the head of the village Lu Zhengfa, and several other leaders in the village looked at each other with gloomy faces.
"Wang Dutou, these guys are coming with bad intentions! I thought they were just a bunch of young guys, and if they poured some yellow soup, they would be able to reveal all their secrets. But it turned out that this group of people tonight were completely impeccable.
Don’t give us a chance to build relationships. Stop it, will you still give us the money we prepared?”
Wang Siyi pondered for a while, and then said coldly: "The terms offered by His Majesty are too tempting. These guys must be holding back their energy and want to use our heads to add color to their yarn. I won't give away the money for now. Tomorrow
Early in the morning, you specially arrange for people to lead them around the village, find some difficult roads, and let them suffer a little bit. These people are not diligent and do not know the grain. They are incompetent in culture and martial arts.
There are ways to rectify them."
Early the next morning, Chen Dayou and the others were woken up by several farmers who said that their father-in-law had asked them to go to the fields to inspect this year's grain planting situation.
Following the farmer, he shuttled back and forth on the farm paths, and walked for more than two hours before arriving at the end of the field. When Chen Dayou saw Eunuch Wang sitting calmly on a chair and drinking tea from a teapot, he understood.
This guy is deliberately trying to harass people.
"Don't be offended by the family members! Your Majesty said that you don't need a good land to grow grains, so the Za family arranged to plant them farther away, so that the family members can go longer."
"When our working group came to the farm, we were already prepared to endure hardships. Although it took some effort to walk the twenty miles, it was still bearable. When we were in Long Live Mountain, we could run close to it every day.
The exercises for ten miles are not in the way." Zhu Youjian specially set up a course for the supervising students to do exercises. Those who do not participate in the exercises will be expelled from school. After a few months, Chen Da will have people like them who are not diligent in all aspects of the body.
, has also been tempered to be able to walk long distances.
Seeing that the deliberate detour did not achieve the expected results, Wang Siyi came up with another plan.
Having made up his mind, Wang Siyi turned to Chen Dayou and the others and said, "Your Majesty has arranged for our village to grow 60% of grain crops this year. I think you guys want to check it out. Let's start with square fields today!"
The land in front of you is the land for planting potatoes. The Zajia family will lead you to cultivate this land first."
As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for Chen Dayou and the others to react, they took care of themselves and took the rope to start the field.
Is this old eunuch deliberately trying to make people feel uncomfortable? Chen Da exchanged glances with several others, nodded, and joined in.
Wang Siyi and the others squared the fields very carefully, and calculated the number of acres very slowly. It was already noon when they had barely cleared a large area of land.
"Several house owners, the land is a little far away from the village. Today's lunch can only be made on the ground. Come, please give the grain dumplings brought by the villagers to the house owners for you to use first. We ourselves will starve first.
You must let the people eat before you leave."
Eunuch Wang said hello, and a farmer not far away came to Chen Dayou and others with a basket of grain dumplings, and gave each of them two vegetable dumplings without any explanation.
"People, although this grain dumpling is crude, it is also a good food for us farmers to fill our stomachs. Don't dare waste it, otherwise the farmers will scold you."
Intrigued by Eunuch Wang's words, Chen Dayou and the others could only put the vegetable dumplings into their mouths. There was no oil or salt in the wild vegetable dumplings, so they had a bitter taste in their mouths. Including Chen Dayou, members of the working group
After a few mouthfuls, the person felt nauseated and vomited it out.
Seeing the embarrassment of these prison students, Wang Siyi couldn't help but sneer in his heart. Young boys, your troubles are still to come. I will punish you for a few days first, and then let you enjoy the blessings. I don't believe that I can't pull you down!