Chapter 36
When Yao Chunnuan took office, Chen Jin was also promoted to centurion. Although it was only a promotion of one level, it was still a step up in rank.
He had been sucked dry by Lin Hui for so many years, and he hadn't even been promoted half a level. If Zhao Hong hadn't protected him, with his rating always at the bottom, he wouldn't even be able to continue as a small leader.
Chen Jin's promotion attracted the attention of many small leaders and centurions, mainly because the reason for his promotion seemed ridiculous to everyone. He was promoted to select and send high-level talents to the superiors, and the superiors praised him for his loyalty to the master. How could he be promoted for such a reason?
At lunchtime, when these people squatted together with their meals, they couldn't help but bring up this matter again.
"Oh my god, isn't it just a recommendation to someone? Is there such a good thing?"
"Have you noticed that Yao and Chen Jin, who rose to prominence one after the other, completely achieved mutual success?"
"Oh my god, I found a new way to get promoted. Recommending one person will get me a promotion of one level, recommending two people will get me two levels. Soon I will be promoted to a lieutenant general, hahaha..." The young leader laughed as if he had discovered the code to wealth, and was very arrogant.
Bang! The bearded older man next to him slapped him awake, "Stop dreaming! You think people like Yao are cabbages? There are cabbages everywhere waiting for you to pick them up!"
His brothers also echoed, "Exactly. You've always had bad taste. You're not much better than Chen Jin before. Chen Jin was lucky, but you don't even have luck. Be careful not to recommend a piece of trash, or you'll get yourself completely stripped of your skin."
These words made the young leader tremble.
"Actually, I don't envy Yao's promotion. I envy Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi." said the bearded elder brother.
The bearded elder brother's words expressed the thoughts of many people in this military settlement. Rather than envying Yao Chunnuan, more people envied Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi.
Yao Chunnuan rose to power through her abilities, so becoming her is incredibly difficult. They're all adults, so shouldn't they have some idea of their own abilities? They can't become Yao Chunnuan, but they can become Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi. It's just a leg pendant, not that difficult.
"Why are you envious of them?" Some people hadn't figured it out yet. Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi, while rumored to have followed Yao to the South District, were indeed a guard and a maid. Guard was just a nice title, not officially recognized. They, after all, were either centurions or small-time leaders. Was there any point in envying them?
The bearded elder brother glanced at them and said, "Aren't you envious of me living off my wife? And it's just the two of us."
envious!
"And as long as the Yao family doesn't fall, they can keep eating this bowl of soft rice, and it will become more and more delicious..."
Please stop talking, they admitted that they were jealous.
They are not as foolish as Chen Jin, and the bearded old man understood immediately.
Although a large number of them also have masters to follow, their masters are not like the Yao family. Currently, there are only Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi. It can be said that if the Yao family can really gain a foothold under the command of General Champion, the future of Xiao Jieming and Luo Suyi will definitely be better than most of them.
"Why am I so sad? I also want to eat such a free meal." The young leader looked disappointed that he couldn't have it.
Nonsense, who wouldn't want that?
The speaker of this couple may not have meant it, but the listener took it seriously.
Yao Chunnuan's strong rise had indeed caught the attention of many in the military settlement. However, many of them remained patient, waiting to see how she performed under the general before deciding whether to follow her.
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After Yao Chunnuan moved, Manager Wu gave her another day to rest, and she officially took office the next day.
Yao Chunnuan assumed the position of acting chief clerk in the Guanjun General's office. Therefore, all necessary personnel needed to be assigned. Yao Chunnuan brought two people with her, taking up the positions of her guards and maids. General Wu only needed to assign her an assistant to assist her in her work.
On this day, Yao Chunnuan received two sets of uniform clothes and a waist badge, and her assigned deputy Gui Qi was also brought to meet her.
On the first day of work, Manager Wu specially took her into the General's Mansion to greet the members of the shogunate.
The Shogun's shogunate and the Yichun military settlement management, one public and one private, were two different systems, and their office locations were naturally different.
Yao Chunnuan became the acting chief clerk of the general's mansion and was a member of his mansion. It can be said that she worked for General Guanjun and her workplace was in the general's mansion.
The shogunate was located in the front yard of the Shogun's Mansion. Manager Wu led her to walk straight and then turn left.
As they arrived, everyone inside came towards them.
General Guanjun was transferred from the northern border to Yichun, and he brought his own team with him.
I heard that the general's shogunate had two chief secretaries, four military officers... four chief clerks, and several recorders. But Yao Chunnuan took a quick look and found that the shogunate was not very staffed at the moment. Yao Chunnuan only saw six people. It seemed that not all the staff had arrived.
Manager Wu told her that a small number of people had not yet arrived in Yichun. They were the first to arrive and needed to start their work first.
The members were quite curious about her. She was the first talent recruited by Manager Wu after he arrived in Yichun.
Strictly speaking, Yao Chunnuan was a convict laborer in a military settlement, and her promotion to the shogunate was considered misappropriation of public resources for personal gain. However, because she was also the acting chief clerk, this semi-public, semi-private role allowed her to skirt the fine line.
In the words of later generations, they were members of the shogun's court. Some of them were given official positions by the imperial court and enjoyed court salaries, while some of them were not on the official positions and received salaries from the shogun.
But they all had one thing in common, that is, all members of the shogunate served the shogun and formed a community of interests.
Therefore, some individual members of the shogunate might have felt slightly uncomfortable with Yao Chunnuan's joining due to Wu Zongguan's courtesy towards her. But overall, the majority of them sincerely welcomed her joining. After all, the stronger her abilities, the more she could help the general.
After a brief introduction and greetings from friends, Manager Wu waved his hand and told them to go about their business.
The six people didn't stay for long. They nodded to her and returned to their work area and started to work step by step. Each of them was responsible for his own part. Everything is difficult at the beginning in Yichun, and they were really busy.
"During this period, you will be responsible for organizing the past information of the Yichun military settlement in the past two to three years." Manager Wu said to Yao Chun.
"Okay." Yao Chunnuan agreed readily.
This was different from Lin Hui's previous attempt to make her compile past records in an attempt to make things difficult for her. On the contrary, it was a sign of his reliance on her. The Champion General had just arrived, and nothing could help him gain a more comprehensive and rapid understanding of Yichun's ways than reviewing past records, so her work was crucial.
Manager Wu was very satisfied with Yao Chunnuan's obedience. He left without saying anything more. As the general coordinator, he was also very busy.
"Bring me the first year's materials first." Yao Chunnuan instructed Gui Qi, then she took out a crude charcoal pencil, which she had prepared over the past two days. Unexpectedly, it came in handy immediately.
Organizing information is a tedious task, but if you categorize it first, identify the key points, and then summarize it, it will be much easier. In this case, charcoal pencils are more practical than brushes.
She knew calligraphy, but it was something she learned later. Life wasn't easy, so she had to be versatile. She was just an undergraduate with no background. She'd taken a crash course to secure a client, a veteran calligrapher. She'd learned standard regular script, not the cursive script that veteran calligraphers excelled at.
Although Yao Chunnuan wanted to get closer to veteran artists through calligraphy, she was quite self-aware. If she couldn't learn cursive calligraphy, she would be laughed at.
Although she finally conquered the old artist, he disliked her. Calligraphy is an art, but she used it as a tool to make money.
The old artist was a senior with both virtue and talent. He saw that she was learning calligraphy for utilitarian purposes, but he still affirmed her efforts. In addition, since the company's products and services were good, he signed the contract with her.
Yao Chunnuan was utterly embarrassed by the lecture, but she could only listen obediently. She was still quite young then, and not as thick-skinned as she would later become. She had to maintain her dignity, and yet, after conquering the veteran artist, she didn't immediately abandon her calligraphy skills. Instead, she continued with the course for another six months. After practicing for the better part of a year, she discovered that it brought peace of mind, so she persevered.
But to be honest, calligraphy requires some talent, and Yao Chunnuan's mind is not on it, so even if she practices all the way, her calligraphy is just presentable, and it is still a long way from being a good hand.
But for her, whether in the past life or now, it is enough.
Gui Qi brought in a large pile of documents, and Yao Chunnuan calmed down. She took a quick look and found that, as expected, today's workload was quite heavy.
Gui Qi put away the documents and stepped aside to grind ink for her.
Yao Chunnuan ignored him and picked up the document, scanning it quickly, occasionally drawing horizontal lines with her charcoal pencil. After reading, she sorted the information, placing the important items on the left, the generally important ones in the middle, and the unimportant ones on the right.
Gui Qi, who was grinding ink and serving her, noticed that she read the documents very quickly. She started flipping through the pages almost as soon as she picked up the document. Except for occasionally drawing a stroke on it with that strange long piece of black charcoal, she hardly paused. Gui Qi doubted whether she could see clearly what was written on it.
While Gui Qi was complaining in his heart, the amount of information he moved was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
An hour later, Gui Qi discovered that Yao Chunnuan had sorted the materials he had brought in. The leftmost pile was the shortest, accounting for only about one-fifth of the total, the middle one accounted for one-third, and the right one was the tallest.
Then, Gui Qi saw her start to process the information on the far left, much slower than before. She would even occasionally flip through the information in the middle, accurately taking out one or two copies, and then spread them out one by one, looking at them while thinking about something.
After finishing, she put the materials aside, took out a blank sheet of paper, and began to write and draw. She kept writing and drawing, not even needing to look back at the previous materials, as if all the content and data were clear in her mind.
Gui Qi, assigned to run errands and serve Yao Chunnuan, was clearly no commoner. Born a page boy, he was literate. In later times, he was considered highly educated. He had been watching Yao Chunnuan since she began her work, and now he had a bold idea. If the information Yao Chunnuan compiled matched her previous work, he suspected she possessed a photographic memory.
Gui Qi was shocked by his own bold guess, but he was standing next to Yao Chunnuan, and the more he looked at her, the more similar she looked, and his heart was pounding.
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