Chapter 553: The Rush

Often times, when an issue is very complex, then the best thing to do is actually to spread the money.

Because it really works with silver.

Of course, silver can’t be pissed away.

Those who spend their silver indiscriminately are dilettantes, while those who spend their silver in a truly symptomatic manner often reap wondrous results.

In this Postal Service, Humu has obviously learned the ropes.

He has served as a clerical official, resettled stragglers, and fought with the laborers on the railroad, and naturally knows …… what these people are thinking.

You give them a steady job with a silver paycheck that can support them, and that’s enough to make them grateful.

But being grateful is not enough, because gratitude is just an emotion that fades over time.

The duties of the Postal Service require precisely a solid group of people, and it is important to ensure that all have a certain level of responsibility and centripetal force.

Otherwise, any time a letter or package is lost, it can greatly tarnish the reputation.

Especially the loss of parcels, for the reputation of the impact is extremely great, but it is …… in these times, the problem of banditry, often a family affair.

After all, this backward era, if a person if a moment to see the money, but where the greed on the parcel of some of the property, the big deal is directly for themselves, really to the point of no way out of the time, nothing more than to go up to the mountains for the bandits.

Where can you find people once they’re on the mountain?

Alternatively, it would be difficult to prevent someone from colluding with bandits to loot these packages.

It is therefore important to ensure the absolute loyalty of these people.

Loyalty, in addition to the initial harvest of gratitude, is to bind all, all together, one honor, one loss.

The annual incentive is a measure and a tool.

Encouraging the sons and daughters of stagehands to enroll in school was also means.

Essentially, it is to give them a hope, and when people have hope, they will naturally treasure what they enjoy at the moment, and put away all those possible bad thoughts that may come from a single thought.

Both to spend money, but also to spend worthwhile, then …… next, Hu Mu to do, is to design a set of complex payroll top system.

This was also inspired by Zhang Anshi, sometimes, Hu Mu had to admire the resourcefulness of His Royal Highness the King of Song, his one reminder, he completely let himself turn around and open his eyes.

A system of seniority had to be devised, with more favorable treatment the longer one stayed in the Post Office Department, in order to get all the stagehands to settle down and be willing to serve the Post Office Department for the rest of their lives and to be able to ensure the absolute safety of letters and parcels.

The main business of the Post Office Department for the time being, and for the future, he had largely sorted out.

One is the underwriting of the Diwan, and the other is letters and parcels.

Of course, maybe they also take on some money changer like duties.

The reason for taking over the duties of the money changers was not because they wanted to rob the money changers of their trade.

As a matter of fact, almost 99% of the business of the United Chambers is conducted in some important cities and various overseas clans.

This is not that the United Money Bank does not want to spread the business, in fact, it is …… the vast majority of farmers in the world, and even unusual craftsmen, simply do not need the money bank, a far away thousands of miles away, a certain unusual small villages, where people, even if the United Money Bank how to promote the United Money Bank is not able to produce any relationship with the United Money Bank.

And the advantage of the Postal Department lies in the fact that it can penetrate thoroughly into many villages, and as soon as credit is gained, it becomes …… possible to send money and goods.

Given the special nature of the Postal Service, i.e., …… all stagehands, it is not really necessary to have any special talents, their nature, in fact, is just to run errands.

But at the same time, they precisely because at any time may be holding a lot of wealth, then …… must have to ensure that their good family identity, and the best social relations are extremely solid, the ancestors of several generations, there is no history of treachery, and even more so, have not befriended any outlaws.

To a certain extent, this latter, in fact, is also considered a talent, people can be honest all their lives is not easy, the ancestors of several generations are honest, that is even more difficult, not to mention that this involves the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty such a world.

A copy of the statutes, after being agreed upon by the Postal Service, then began to be promulgated.

Every single one of them causes an uproar.

Among the scholars, there are quite a number of people shouting curses, and naturally, words such as wasting public money are not unavoidable.

But in the meantime, recruiting over there, it’s hot.

Especially the clerks, because it involves the calculation and some official documents, all the various post stations, including the provincial post offices need a large number of clerks, responsible for dealing with a lot of complex public affairs, actually …… in the recruitment time, there are a lot of readers come to recruitment.

These readers, not only arithmetic school or other university halls in Qixia graduated students, there are many carrying the title of Xiucai readers.

Xiu Cai this identity, in fact, is quite a bit of embarrassment, they, on the one hand, it is difficult to continue the imperial examinations, with this title, has been counted and the ordinary people can be distinguished.

But again, because, only merit, but the court does not give official positions, which makes them often puritanical, think they are people, favor …… and no way to engage in other production.

If the family has a thousand hectares of good land, it’s okay, big deal, for a lifetime of study.

But if the family is a little less well-off, it’s obviously not the way to go in the long run.

As a result, many people have to teach or help out as a way in and out, but in fact, it is very bad, because what Confucianism advocates is that a gentleman loves money and takes it in the right way, and Confucianism attaches great importance to education, therefore, for teaching and learning to understand, Confucianism, among the ideas, does not encourage the acceptance of high education fees.

This also leads to the fact that the vast majority of private school teachers, in fact, poor, even into the residence of the dignitaries to teach people’s children, basically, but also depends on people’s hearts to give some tuition.

As for the helpers, it is even worse, to put it bluntly is to accompany the game, can not help but be attentive to curry favor, so as not to upset the master.

But now we are more and more found, this railroad division or, or directly under the clerical also, actually are quite promising, that is, there is the hope of promotion, but also have a generous salary!

Many people despise on the mouth, but in the heart is secretly rubbing regret, if I had known that, early years if I could enter there as a mandarin, now perhaps it has long been different.

Just …… whether it is the Division of Railroads, or the clerical staff of Zhili, others have long been shortcuts, they go in again, not only need to start over, and the future vacancies …… are afraid that there are not as many as before.

Now, the sudden appearance of this Postmaster General has taught people to begin to rise to the occasion.

So in the process of recruiting civil officials, the proportion of recruited Xiucai even accounted for 40%.

It’s just even more breathless that even Humu is not immune to suffering the effects.

On this day, a clerk came cautiously, with a door sticker in his hand, and said, “There is someone outside who wishes to come and visit Ambassador Hu.”

Hu Mu looked down and instantly recognized the owner of the door sticker.

He narrowed his eyes as if he had thought of something and frowned, “Is the man still out there?”

“Yes.”

Humu mused for a long time.

This person is also Jishui County people, and is still a scholar, in fact, learning is not bad, is not good luck, in that the township of Jishui County of the Kaobao, but has been silent.

At the beginning, this person because of the family’s proximity to the Hu family, so had been to the Hu family’s clan school for a few years, and Hu Mu’s relationship, is also considered good.

This showman named Deng Da, occasionally repaired some letters with him and engaged in intercourse.

But I didn’t expect that this person would actually come all the way from his hometown to the capital, wanting to go through his door.

For this once good friend, remembering the first bits and pieces, Hu Mu’s face, but also unconsciously more than a few points of warmth, after all, counting, is both a classmate, but also hair small, temperament is also considered to be the same, just ……

He thought for a moment and said, “Go and tell him, his door sticker, I have received, I am now busy, and also inconvenient to meet, he both have the heart to enter the Postal Service, then ……”

Hu Mu paused, seemed to be thinking, then said, “This person s talent is good, people are also intelligent, considered stable, according to the rules, the Xiucai can indeed not be recruited, directly into the Postal Department, then …… let him into the Postal Department to come. Assign him to the Pingtan stage as a clerical officer, so that he can pack up early and depart early.”

Saying that, Hu Mu will be this door sticker put away, and then retrieved the mind, continue to head down to go busy on the paperwork.

Clerks have been instructed, out of the postal service, this outside, there are really spandex Confucian shirt readers here waiting anxiously.

This clerk came forward and smilingly relayed Hu Mu’s words.

When this Xiucai named Deng Da heard this, he immediately revealed a look of incredulity.

On the one hand, he did not expect that Hu Mu actually refused to see himself, in his imagination, Hu Mu is not the kind of person who disregards the righteousness of his friends when he soars.

It was now obvious that one had been wrong.

Can hear really teach himself as a mandarin, he was more shocked, because he thought, with their own and Hu Mu’s relationship, at least they can also be allocated to the side of Hu Mu, not less, but also to start from the heart, it is not allowed to say, can be in the postal service, mixed with a either the Division of Railway Division of the Secretary, or else is the local stagecoach station of the Postmaster General, or else it is the main book of the Provincial Railway Bureau also or the official position such as a mandarin.

But where did he think that Hu Mu really let him be an ordinary civil official.

Deng Da’s previous mood with anticipation sank all of a sudden, saying, “This Pingtan stage, where is it?”

“In the Fujian Prefecture of Government.” The clerk replied.

Dundas: “……”

Deng Da anger, to know, this Fujian is a lot of people and little land, and the mountains surrounded, from the town of fish and rice in Jiangxi Deng Da, do not feel that Fujian Buzhengji, is what a good place to go, not to mention …… still an unknown small stage, which is in the amusement of his Deng Da ah.

Instead, this clerical officer said, “Now the Postal Service, everywhere is short of people, especially the Pingtan stage ……”

“I know.” Even if his heart is no longer painful, Deng Da did not show his anger, but only calmly said, he is quite a bit of self-esteem, only feel that Hu Mu do this, the real is to cut the robe and abandon the righteousness, and he …… can not accept such a humiliation.

Anger made it impossible for him to stay any longer, so he immediately said, “Farewell.”

He turned and was about to leave.

But suddenly, another clerk caught up and said hurriedly, “Mr. Deng.”

Dundar stopped, pursed his lips, and glanced back indifferently.

This clerk panted, “Ambassador Hu also remembered something else and said he had something to show you.”

Saying this, the clerical official pulled out a silver lock from his sleeve.

The silver lock had long since blackened, and the surface was pitted, I don’t know if it was due to oxidation, so it didn’t look like anything valuable.

The clerk said, “Ambassador Hu said that this lock has been in his hands for seventeen years, and he carries it with him at all times.”

When Deng Da heard this, for a moment, he actually froze in place, his body trembling slightly.

He recognized the silver lock even though it was old.

This silver locks, indeed, seventeen years of things, when they are still students, one day the two met, together to go to the Deng family dinner, because of the relationship, so naturally not inevitably go to see Deng’s parents.

Deng Da’s parents also liked Hu Mu, and immediately, this Deng mother took a silver lock and gave it to Hu Mu as a gift.

Witness, this former matter, Deng Da naturally long forgotten, but now suddenly memory is evoked, also can not help but realize that their own grievances for Hu Mu, perhaps some unjustified.

This piece of ordinary silver locks, both by Hu Mu carry seventeen years, can be seen its weight.

Clerks look at his several times changing color, smiled and said, “Ambassador Hu said, he wants you to go to Pingtan stage, there …… you can see a lot of things, the world is vast, while you are young, why not take advantage of this opportunity to see a lot of things?”

Deng Da pondered for a moment, he had originally planned to walk away, after all, he had been insulted, and his pride would not allow him to have anything to do with Hu Mu anymore.

But when he saw the silver lock, Deng Da took a deep breath, stopped immediately, took another deep breath, and said, “Can you teach the students the line to Pingtan?”

The clerk smiled and said, “Just come to the Railroad Division tomorrow to pick it up.”

“Good.” Deng Da nodded, looked at the silver lock, and added, “This silver lock ……”

This clerk, however, said, “This silver lock, must also be returned to Ambassador Hu, who wears it on weekdays.”

Dundar nodded, before excusing himself and leaving with a sense of humor!

……

By the end of the year.

Nowadays, the Jiangxi Railway Division, the railroad has been repaired for more than a year and a half.

The railroads of this era were pretty quick to lay down; after all, they ran only small steam trains, not so much by standard.

This Nanchang station, Ruizhou station, Raozhou station, Fuzhou station, Jiujiang station, half of Jiangxi’s railroads, actually through, to Nanchang station as the center, began to radiate to the north of Jiangxi open, just Jizhou, Ganzhou and other places, the project is a protracted period of time, there are many mountains, but also need some time.

The opening of the railroad brought with it the beginning of the rise of new towns at each station.

And the old city in the past, but slowly depressed, which naturally caused a huge problem, at least this year, the Ministry of households side, the money and food received by the Jiangxi Provincial Government Division, it is enough to reduce by as much as half.

This Ministry of household side after the disk over the accounts, deliberately uploaded, for a moment, and then sparked a huge controversy.

The annual income has been reduced by a big half, and the grain tax is still barely as much as 70% to 80%, but other taxes such as tea, salt and iron have plummeted almost straight down.

The court also needs every year, in Jiangxi Buzhengji put so much gold and silver to build railroads, can be said to be the sea of wastage, household halved.

Natsubara Yoshi expressed concern about this after his appeal.

Others who have gone up are unknown.

Even on the Wen Yuan Ge side, it caused controversy.

Hu Guang and Jin Youzi, for example, also began to develop self-doubt.

Sometimes you have to admire Hu Guang.

He was obviously tied to the car by Zhang Anshi, but once there was a large-scale deficit, he still did not take into account the interests of the Railway Division and the Postal Service, instead, he felt that it was not overly hasty, and whether it would lead to other problems.

Hu Guang then submitted a report, requesting His Majesty to pay attention to this matter, or rather, whether to slightly reduce the size of the Railway Division, so as not to manipulate the matter too hastily, leading to the Jiangxi Misery.

Zaozhi to Zhu Di, Zhu Di can not help but say: “Now this Hu family hundreds of people, are in the Division of Railroads, Hu Guang this old man has a son, from the Division of Railroads to the Postal Service, he is hardened, actually want to move against their own family members.”

Yiluoha since it is not good to express too much opinion on such things, only dryly laughed: “Slave girl also can’t understand Hu Gong.”

Zhu Di set aside the zhangshi and sighed, “That’s all, no need to pay attention to him, this is an old fool.”

Although this is said, Zhu Di is still slightly worried: “From the Ministry of the household situation, indeed some bad, I am also worried that, once this time for a long time, will breed bandits, or …… cause other problems …… ”

He said, deep in thought.

And in the meantime.

Hu Guang, however, engaged in a heated debate with Zhang Anshi.

Hu Guang said, “Ruling a big country is like cooking a small food, not to say that the New Deal can not be engaged, not to say that the railroad can not be built, not to …… say that the railroad can not be built.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Duke Hu, well, well, I can’t speak to you.”

Hu Guang said, “It’s not a matter of saying yes, saying no, it lies in ……”

Present, and Xie Jin, Yang Rong and Jin Youzi three people, but all like a wooden man in general, only sitting still.

They are people with a heart of gold, and even though they have their own opinions in their hearts, they will never reveal them in public.

Instead, at this time, a sheriff came in a hurry, saying under his breath, “Urgent report, urgent report, urgent report sent by the Postal Service.”

The crowd looks on.

Zhang Anshi seemed to have been hitched out all of a sudden, and busily took the opportunity to hide to the side to drink tea.

Hu Guang said, “Where is the urgency, such panic.”

“From the Jiangxi Railway Division, in the handwriting of His Imperial Highness the Sun.”

When Hu Guang heard it, he shook his spirit, stretched out his hand, and said, “What is the matter of the report? Come, fetch it and take a look.”

Immediately, took the zhengshi, in front of the crowd directly open, but found that this zhengshi, is too thick.

Looked at a long time, Hu Guang raised his head, a look of shame, said, “All the gentlemen and look at it, this zhangshi …… old man see not quite understand.”

The people can not help but shake their heads in their hearts, the average person encountered this kind of thing that do not understand, at least it is also the Wen Yuan Pavilion University Sergeant, always still need to end up, a look of wisdom in the mold, and then gently will be handed over to someone else, said a sentence you also look at it.

So much for hiding your ignorance.

But Hu Guang was really over the top.

Zhang Anshi instead cheerfully came up and said, “Let me see, let me see.”