Huang Jincheng and Xiaosong stood at the door of the post station, with expressions of surprise and confusion on their faces.
Is this a post station? It looks similar to the house next to it, or even smaller. Is there something going on inside?
Huang Jincheng hesitated for a few moments, then stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
The postman opened the door and said in a hoarse voice, "My lord, I'm sorry, the post station is full and we can't receive you."
Huang Jincheng: "I'm here to look for Huang Laosan."
“Brother?!”
Huang Laosan was carrying a large backpack. He looked at his elder brother who appeared at the entrance of the post station and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. "Why are you here?"
Huang Laosan spoke weakly, and his eyes were dark blue as if he had been punched by someone.
His entire mental state was as if he had been drained of all his energy by a female demon.
Seeing this, not only Huang Jincheng, but even Xiaosong gasped.
Huang Jincheng was horrified. Duke Yun was indeed a fierce and vigorous man. He had actually exhausted his third brother to this extent.
Thinking of the many sacrifices his third brother had made for the Huang family, Huang Jincheng no longer blamed Huang Laosan for his inaction, and his eyes revealed guilt and heartache.
"Third brother, you have worked hard."
These words almost moved Huang Laosan to tears.
Huang Laosan hugged Huang Jincheng, his eyes full of tears, and said aggrievedly: "Brother, I really can't stand it anymore, please come and help me!"
Hiss!
Huang Jincheng was very moved but refused: "Everyone has their own strengths, and I am not interested in this."
"Brother, are you just going to watch me die without helping me? Am I still your most beloved third brother?"
I love you, but not to the point of feeding you with my own body.
Huang Jincheng patted Huang Laosan on the back and said, "Brother is old and not as strong as you. You should do more work if you are able!"
Hearing this, Huang Laosan burst into tears.
"You are cheating me! Big brother, how can you be so cruel? What did you give to Duke Yun? You said you would take good care of me, but in fact you pushed me into the fire pit!"
Thinking of the several mineral deposits given to Duke Yun, Huang Jincheng's heart ached. Looking at his third brother crying in front of him, he felt very disappointed.
"Didn't you write a letter home, crying and shouting that you wanted to enter the Konghe Mansion?! Have you entered yet?"
Huang Laosan sobbed and said, "It's in."
"Then why are you crying? Everything is going as you wish. What else are you dissatisfied with?"
Huang Lao San regretted it so much that his intestines turned green: "This Konghe Mansion is completely different from what I thought! I thought I only needed to eat, drink and have fun with Duke Yun and make her happy. No one told me that I also had to do errands!"
After saying that, Huang Laosan opened the backpack on his back.
I saw that it was filled with official documents.
Huang Jincheng picked it up and found it was quite heavy: "What do you mean?"
When Huang Laosan saw his eldest brother, he finally had someone to vent all his grievances.
"We followed Duke Yun to Yunzhou a few days ago, and Duke Yun learned that you sent us a lot of good things. In return, Duke Yun asked us what we wanted."
"Liu Guangxi said that he wanted to stay with Duke Yun and wanted to enter the Konghe Mansion. Duke Yun didn't say anything and recruited all of us into the Konghe Mansion that day."
When Huang Laosan thought of this, he felt sad.
What he wants is the life of a spoiled male concubine, not to be worked like a slave!
"We were quite happy at first, thinking that those who were close to the tower would get the moon first. We never expected that those who entered the Control Crane Mansion would be like a brick in Yunzhou, and could be moved wherever they were needed."
Huang Laosan patted his backpack sadly: "See, these are all the official business I need to handle!"
Huang Jincheng felt a little distressed when he sensed his third brother's inner grievance, but he was more worried: "Third brother, you have never been fond of poetry and songs, can you really handle these official duties? Don't let anything go wrong and be blamed by Duke Yun."
Huang Laosan finally stopped crying and started to cry again: "There is a crash course! We get up earlier than chickens and sleep later than dogs. There are twelve hours in a day, and we will learn for eight hours!"
I already had a basic literacy skill, and with such intensive training, I could barely put it to use.
Huang Lao San kept chattering: "It's so f*cking expensive! Yunzhou is so damn expensive! On the surface, they say we can have two days off every five days, but in reality, everyone is working overtime! There's really no way to finish this work, so I can only bring it back to the post station to do it."
The welfare benefits of officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were actually very good. Sometimes they didn’t even need to work in the office. They could just sign in in the morning and then go home.
There are also home visits and various festivals every year, and some officials would go out to travel for half a year and still receive their salaries.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, if an official held a real position, he would also receive a real salary and charcoal and firewood subsidies.
Some officials who are not short of money do not want to hold real jobs and just want to get a high position and live a carefree life.
The welfare benefits of officials in Yunzhou are also very good, but they cannot be sloppy. After all, the Duke of Yun is handling official business diligently, so who among his subordinates dares to be lazy?
So many people are watching them! Anonymous reporting boxes are not easy to use.
The work has been assigned, and we must ensure that it is completed in quality, otherwise individuals will be held accountable.
After learning about Yunzhou's policies, Huang Laosan felt very disappointed, and his later experiences indeed confirmed his ominous guess.
Life is so busy!
Huang Jincheng was skeptical. The biggest expectation he and his parents had for this younger brother was to let him live a life of idleness and wait for death, and not bring disaster to the family.
Is there any time when he can do his job properly? !
The official business that he could take home to handle must not be important. Huang Jincheng picked up a document and opened it.
What kind of document is this? Isn't this a brochure?!
Huang Jincheng picked a few more at random, opened them, and found they were all like this.
Postpartum Care Manual for Sows
"If the seedlings are raised well, the yield is guaranteed"
Pay more attention during pregnancy, more children and more blessings
"Cotton is good, cotton is wonderful, with cotton it's great"
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Huang Jincheng's expression was indescribable: "What on earth are you doing in Yunzhou?"
What the hell is this?!
Huang Laosan had a numb face and blurted out, "Go to the countryside to instruct the people and learn about Yunzhou's new policies. Lord Wang Bushi has counted that within Yunzhou and Shuozhou, the literacy rate of urban residents is 50%, while the literacy rate in rural areas is only 1-2%. "
In some villages there is not a single literate person.
This resulted in them being extremely isolated from information. Fortunately, Yunzhou had built a large number of dirt and cement roads, making it easier for them to leave the mountains.
As long as you enter a town, you can hear something about the new policy, but you only have a vague understanding of it.
Huang Jincheng looked at his younger brother with new eyes: "You can actually endure this hardship, you have really grown up! What about Cui Letian and Liu Guangxi? Did they also go to the countryside?"
"After Liu Guangxi passed the medical school assessment, he followed the epidemic prevention team to Shuozhou. Cui Letian was transferred to the External Relations Department to deal with foreign merchants. Lu Qing knew nothing and was young, so he was transferred to the Organization Department to help prepare for the political and economic conference. As for the others, after passing the crash course exam, they were assigned to Hezhong County."
Huang Jincheng stood there, thinking for a while, feeling ashamed of himself, and said three times: "High! High! It's really high!" (End of this chapter)
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