Idle courtiers

Chapter 113 The oil and water of the basic staff (seeking a recommendation ticket)

Sun Shuban's face sank: "Don't be shameless, get out, get out!"

Zhou Nan had no choice but to help the two of them out again.

After walking for about a street, I heard someone shouting from behind: "Wait, little brother, I have something to say."

Looking back, it was the black and thin warehouse manager from before.

The man caught up panting, and said: "Brother, are you looking for something to do? Why don't you work under my hands? I'm short of talents like you."

Zhou Nan: "If you call me alone, it won't work."

The man sighed: "Soldiers are fierce and dangerous. They only care about running for their own lives. They even abandon their wives and children. I see a lot of people who don't even want their old parents. It's really rare to see loyalty like you. Just rush to your little one." Brother, your character, you and I are determined. As for your two companions, I only have one missing. However, there are many places to live. You can take them to live together. As for food, add two more The bowls and chopsticks don't matter."

There is nothing to show courteousness to, neither rape nor robbery, Zhou Nan immediately raised his vigilance and looked this person up and down.

The man naturally knew what Zhou Nan was thinking, and he paused and said, "Brother, I won't hide it from you. My surname is Yu, and my first name is Chongjiu. I am an old military household of Su Songdao, and he is currently the ambassador of warehouse management. The little old man has never read a book. Barely read a few words. You also know that there are too many things in this treasury, and the accounts are complicated, how to calculate it. Often because of wrong numbers, the boss punishes him, and the monthly military salary is paid into it. If you can come over and help me, the old man will suffer less."

"I have a lot of oil and water in my place. With all due respect, your two companions are seriously ill. If you don't get treated, you may not live for a few days. There are a lot of medicines in the warehouse. You just pick a few and boil them for them. At that time, we will balance the accounts.”

"If you agree, I'll talk to Shuban Sun and fill in your name."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Nan's heart moved, and she said: "Okay, the kindness is hard to turn down, so I will trouble the ambassador."

The three followed Yu Chongjiu for a while, and finally arrived at a place.I saw there were six or seven warehouses inside. I looked at the things inside and found that they were full of military supplies such as clothing, food, and medicinal materials.There is a circle of walls, guarded by two soldiers.

Soon, Zhou Nan settled down.

Naturally, Xia Yi and Zhan Tong couldn't live in the warehouse. Fortunately, to the west of the warehouse, there was a small temple of the God of Earth with a living area of ​​five or six square meters. It stood by the street and looked dilapidated and crumbling.

Yu Chongjiu was not polite, kicked the land father out with both feet, and asked Zhou Nan to get a broken door panel from the warehouse to block the wind, and brought a bunch of broken wadding over, finally letting the two sick men live.

As expected of a graduate of a prestigious university in modern society, he started working very quickly. In just half an hour, Zhou Nan cleared up the accounts owed before.

Yu Chongjiu was overjoyed, and shouted to his two subordinates: "Look, look at how beautiful this word is, just like a plaque in a temple. We finally have a scholar here, so we don't need to be fooled by others. Haha, unexpected, unexpected Well, I, Yu Chongjiu, a small official ambassador, also has a master, I think it is much better than the bird hair master under Master Qianhu."

He felt that Bel had a face.

Zhou Nan didn't like it when he heard that, I finally got back my reputation as a scholar, why am I now a teacher again?I used to work as pawns for Shi Jieren and Zhan Tong, who were at least seventh-rank court officials, and we served as their deputy, and at least joined the county standing committee team.Now it's a shame to be an assistant to a treasury manager who only manages two people.

Although feeling emotional in his heart, Zhou Nan is still very satisfied with his current situation.First, to be able to eat, and secondly to solve the identity problem.You know, Jin Yiwei took him directly from the county yamen, and he left Anton very hastily, Lu Yin was not prepared for anything, even if he wanted to escape, he couldn't escape, so he could only be tied to Xia Yi.

Within two days of entering the warehouse, Yu Chongjiu came over and said that he had obtained a military household registration for Zhou Nan, and had reported it to the Ministry of War for the record. Now we can be regarded as Brother Paozhe who eats with a spoon.

However, there is a very strange line of small characters on the waist card that was handed out. It is engraved with "Jizhou Town Miyun Guard Chaohe Thousand Households Garrison Week."

In this way, Zhou Nan inexplicably changed from a farm household to a military household.

Zhou Nan didn't take it seriously either. Anyway, this thing is just a fool. With this identity, it is convenient to move around in Jiangyin.Unlike before, as long as one step out of this town, people find out that they are black households, and if they are not good, they will be arrested as Japanese pirates.

After waiting for a while, leave Jiangyin and transfer the household registration back to Anton.

Liaodong town army horse case, coupled with the crime of killing good men and pretending to be meritorious service, will go to the capital in the future, so it's hard to say whether he can pass that test safely.Don't worry about debts, don't itch if you have lice.There is nowhere to wipe the scab all over his body, so naturally he doesn't care about it.

Zhou Nan was just wondering, and asked Yu Chongjiu: "Ambassador Yu, aren't you a soldier from Su Song? Why are you a military household in Jizhou?"

Yu Chongjiu replied: "Yes, I am a military household in Jizhou. I moved here with Tang Shunzhi to fight Japanese pirates last year. There are so many supplies here. Naturally, Mr. Tang has to ask us old people to take care of them. So , I was transferred to Su Songdao again. I will return to Jizhou Town after the battle.”

This matter should involve the conflicts between the upper echelons of the various armies fighting against the Japanese this time, and it has nothing to do with Zhou Nan when it is projected to the grassroots, so I don't take it to heart.

Another advantage of being Yu Chongjiu's accountant is that he has a fixed salary and a lot of money.In any era, it has always been a good job to make a fortune by receiving a large amount of supplies.

Sure enough, two days later, the first income was received.

The thing is, since the war against the Japanese pirates has been long-term and expanding.There must be casualties in every battle, and the wounded need to be treated. Naturally, there are a lot of medicinal materials stored in the warehouse.

Except for a small amount of minerals, most of the traditional Chinese medicines are animals and plants.These things are not resistant to long-term storage, and the climate in the south of the Yangtze River is humid, and many medicinal materials in the warehouse are moldy. Naturally, these things cannot be eaten by soldiers, and they need to be eliminated one by one and replaced with new medicines.

Of course, there is a set of strict procedures for the destruction of large amounts of materials.It is necessary to send people from above to check one by one, register and make a book, and then confiscate them and burn them or bury them in the designated places.

A system is a system, but it is people who implement the system, and there are inevitably loopholes in it.

The so-called silver is white, and the eyeballs are black.Yu Chongjiu, an old military family, used his brains on these expired medicines, preparing to use them as a refill, and quietly reported a batch of medicinal materials as expired, filling his own pockets.

However, he is an uneducated person, even if he has the heart and courage, because of this ability, can you make a bill? Do you know how to settle the bill?
It can be seen that being a corrupt official also requires ability.It is indeed sad to be an idiot with nowhere to go for corruption.

This is also the reason why Yu Chongjiu saw that Zhou Nan was good at arithmetic that day, and he was also a refugee with no identity and background, so he wanted to recruit him into his subordinates.With Zhou Nan as the master accountant, the plan to make a fortune can finally be implemented.

The rain had stopped and the weather was getting hotter day by day.In another month, it will be summer, and the south of the Yangtze River is a place of bitter heat and bitter cold.Fighting in summer will inevitably lead to heat stroke and outbreaks of epidemics.Therefore, a large number of medicinal materials for reducing heat and cooling were prepared in the warehouse.

Soon, medicinal material dealers from other places came to the door to buy at a low price.

After Yu Chongjiu sold a batch of medicinal materials, he got more than 20 taels of silver.He took ten taels for himself, and the other ten taels. The two soldiers got three taels each, and Zhou Nan got four taels because he had to make an account.

Ambassador Yu was overwhelmed with victory in the first battle, and was overjoyed. He generously gave three taels of silver, bought a lamb, cooked a big pot, bought wine, and rewarded three able-bodied men.

Zhou Nan was speechless for a while. After drinking half a catty of rice wine, he finally couldn't help teasing Yu Chongjiu: "Ambassador, do we think we are tight in the front and tight in the rear? I feel that it is not good to hold the money."

A soldier smiled and said: "Master Zhou, are you pedantic in your studies? Every year, the imperial court gives so much military expenditure, but it falls into the hands of the army. It's not bad to have three achievements. It's not about embezzlement and embezzlement. You The reason is that we are greedy, but our superiors are much more greedy than you and me. Let’s take the military supplies that are shipped to Guanning, Liaodong every year. First, the Ministry of Households deducts part, and then the Ministry of War deducts part. Part of it will be deducted. When the court asked, where did so many supplies go, they replied that they were lost in the wind and waves. They fell into the water, how to check?"

Zhou Nan: "Isn't there a delay in deductions? If there is a war on the front line and the supplies are not enough, won't the court be afraid of losing the battle?"

Yu Chongjiu interjected: "The court is clear about Yemen, so naturally there are ways to deal with it. For example, a war requires 3 taels of silver military expenditure. In order to ensure that the 3 taels will not be deducted, an extra [-] taels will be allocated to the various departments. Run."

Zhou Nan was speechless for a while, isn't this institutional corruption?That's right, the salaries set for officials by Lao Zhu in the Ming Dynasty when he founded the country were too low. To maintain the operation of the yamen, officials at all levels had to think of their own way.This kind of deduction, to put it bluntly, is equivalent to raising money.

In fact, if we want to put an end to corruption, we can only allocate funds in full.In the end, the total is about the same.

It can be regarded as the unspoken rule of the Ming Dynasty to acquiesce in the deduction of officials at all levels.The reason why unspoken rules are unspoken rules is that they rely on the self-moral restraint of officials and are difficult to define.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng couldn't stand the corrupt atmosphere in the officialdom, so he decided to return the fire to the public, and then gave officials a large sum of money every year to support the system.

At any rate, Zhou Nan is also a modern person from a society ruled by law, and still has a sense of shame: "I still feel a little ignorant, we have taken away the medicinal materials here, what should the frontline soldiers do?"

One soldier was not happy: "Master Zhou, it's boring for you to talk like that. If you don't want it, just give us the money you have."

Yu Chongjiu said: "Don't make trouble with your own people. Master Zhou is a kind-hearted person. In fact, there are a lot of things in the library. The things we reported for loss are just a drop in the bucket, and the superiors also acquiesced. Tell Zhou Nan the truth You, we are military households in Jizhou Town, Su Songdao will not give us military pay, but tell me to wait to raise money. If we rely on mountains and don’t eat mountains, is it possible that we will starve to death?"

"Yes, yes, we are greedy. In addition to our military pay, this small amount of money also includes starting money, money for hard work during the war, and rewards after the war. The calculation is about the same."

Only then did Zhou Nan understand: "So that's how it is. We deserved the money for co-authoring, but we made so many twists and turns." Since it wasn't a crime, there was no problem, and I finally felt better.

I couldn't help but think that the military system of the Ming Dynasty was chaotic enough, and there were too many fucking rules.No wonder that when Zhang Juzheng reformed later, he wanted to drastically rectify the army.

Yu Chongjiu: "Understood, Mr. Zhou, you are a new military household. Our military households are different from the civilian households outside. We have our own rules in the army. Come, come, let's eat as fast as we can."

Everyone laughed, and the chopsticks in their hands quickly reached into the pot.

Zhou Nan: "Leave me a catty of meat, I still have two brothers lying on the hospital bed."

(End of this chapter)