Chapter 854
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Cheng Yeran started to make a table after returning home, first writing down what he wanted to know on a piece of paper. Shen Yuntang followed beside him and watched, "Are you going to check their ancestors for three generations?"
"After all, he is someone we need in our government.
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, we need to be stricter. If we recruit bad people, it will be a disaster for the people. "Cheng Yeran thought that now that he was the prefect, and it was so far away from the capital, the emperor had no right to interfere with what he wanted to do. He could do things according to his own ideas, and he could arrange welfare benefits himself, and he could recruit girls and boys if he wanted.
He suddenly remembered what Shen Yuntang said before, why girls and boys can't go to school. Now is a good opportunity. "We can open a school and recruit boys, girls and boys. After graduation, students with excellent academic performance can work in the government office. Will the families of girls and boys agree to send them to school?"
Shen Yuntang: "If there is such a good opportunity, it will definitely be snatched away by a man, unless there is only one daughter or one son in the family, then the daughter or son will be sent here to study. If there is only one son in the family, it will not be the turn of the daughter or son to come here to study."
"Get more places." Cheng Yeran said.
"Adding more places is only a temporary solution. It would be great if we could fix the number of places for girls and boys. Let the word go out that if we can't recruit enough students, the school will be closed. Also, girls and boys can get tuition waived or reduced. Who knows," said Shen Yuntang.
Cheng Yeran thought about it. This is ancient times, and many people's highest expectation for girls and boys is to marry into a good family. "If we tell them that they can marry better if they come to work in the government office, who knows, many parents may send their daughters and boys here."
The two of them sighed at the same time when they said this.
Cheng Yeran said, "Let's open the school first and see how many people we can recruit. It's fine if we can recruit two or three, or assign jobs to one or two. We should do it step by step."
Shen Yuntang nodded, "I'm looking for a place to open a clothing factory. I've decided on a few places. Sewing machines are very large. If I want to open a large clothing factory, the site must be large. I looked at a few yards and they seem okay. I'm ready to decide."
"I'll go with you some other day. I want to see the yard too. I also want to buy a bigger one." Cheng Yeran originally wanted to buy a building, but this place is too poor. The economic level of such a big city is only slightly better than that of the county town where they live, and there are very few two-story buildings.
"Why did you buy the yard?" Shen Yuntang asked him.
"I want to hold a selection competition and ask the people to come and watch me select constables," Cheng Yeran had many ideas. He felt that the routine life was too boring, and the assessment had to be made more interesting. "If it was just a written test, it would be too boring. I want to buy a yard to set up a suspense case scene, and then invite people to play NPCs. After the scene is set up, let the contestants enter to investigate the murderer. Whoever performs well can stay. After the selection is over, I can use the venue as an immersive script-killing venue and charge admission fees."
Shen Yuntang found it very interesting just by listening to him, but he didn't know what script-killing was, so he asked Cheng Yeran to explain it in detail.
Cheng Yeran thought about it and decided to let Shen Yuntang experience it first after it was ready. "I'll take you to play when the time comes. I'll go buy a suspense script with an ancient setting and a detective character. I'll also need a team of detectives. This will not only help us test who has the best abilities, but also their teamwork skills."
Cheng Yeran was afraid that there would be loopholes in the script he wrote, so he might as well just buy one and then read it and play it again himself to see if there were any loopholes.
"You have so many ideas, and they are indeed very interesting. However, not many people will go back to play. If you open one in Beijing, it will be packed every time." Shen Yuntang thought that people here were so poor that they would have no time to think about leisure and entertainment. People in Beijing were wealthy, and many of them did not have to struggle for a living. They had free time and money to enjoy life.
"Let's do it first, and then build one in Beijing at the same time, and then we can set up experience stores across the country in the future." Cheng Yeran said, "This place will be as prosperous as Beijing in the future, or even more prosperous."
Shen Yuntang believed in Cheng Yeran's ability. If they changed this place with their own hands, that sense of accomplishment would be something that could not be bought with any amount of money.
Shen Yuntang took out a pen and paper: "I will write a letter to Liu Ya and ask him or Yuan Bao, whoever is free, to do this script-killing."
Shen Yuntang thought of what Cheng Yeran said before, that he wanted to buy a building to set up the venue, but there were few buildings here, and there were many in Beijing. "Why not let him buy a few brothels in Beijing, and let those poor girls and boys who were sold into the brothels be NPCs. Doing this is better than engaging in the flesh trade. I hope there will be fewer girls and boys like this in the world."
Cheng Yeran asked in surprise: "You can say the English alphabet now?"
Shen Yuntang: "...I've been reading elementary school English books recently."
When Shen Yuntang watched TV series or books from the future, he would occasionally see some English words. He felt uncomfortable because he didn't understand their meaning. He asked Cheng Yeran several times and found out that Cheng Yeran could speak foreign languages. He also wanted to learn, so he bought some books and online courses to study by himself.
It’s just that I’ve been too busy lately and didn’t tell Cheng Yeran.
Cheng Yeran was surprised to find that Shen Yuntang had a strong learning ability. He could already memorize a hundred words and also learned phonetic symbols and grammar through online courses. "If you were born in the future, you would definitely be a top student."
Cheng Yeran handed the form to Shen Yuntang and said, "Your handwriting is neat, just like printed text. Please write a copy for me and I will find someone to print it."
Shen Yuntang didn't find it troublesome and took it over to help him write. Cheng Yeran massaged his shoulders from behind and poured him water and fed him fruit from time to time.
Shen Yuntang still remembered that in his previous life, after Xia Xiaowu became the county magistrate, he never told him about official business in the yamen. He also despised him for knowing nothing and never told him about family matters.
Now Cheng Yeran tells him everything, even things in officialdom and business in the yamen, and sometimes he asks him for help with ideas.
"Has Xia Xiaowu not attended meetings with you recently?" Shen Yuntang asked him.
"No, he didn't come for several times. He said he was sick and asked for sick leave." Cheng Yeran had just arrived here and had no time to deal with Xia Xiaowu. He wanted to recruit the constables first.
He had seen Shen Yuntang's experience in his previous life, so how could he let Xia Xiaowu go?
"He is a local official and he is sick every day. Is he still suitable for this job? It would be better to let him go home and recuperate." Shen Yuntang said.
"Let him go home to recuperate? Wouldn't that be too easy for him?" Cheng Yeran smiled and thought that he must torture him well.
"What are you going to do?" Shen Yuntang asked him.
"Let's scare him first, and then deal with him when we have time." After Cheng Yeran finished speaking, he notified everyone that the meeting would continue tomorrow and everyone must be present. If anyone was frail and sick and could not be the official, he should go home to recuperate and give the position to someone more capable.
The new county magistrate who replaced County Magistrate Li has arrived in the past two days. He was transferred from another place. He used to read newspapers frequently and was also a little fan of Cheng Yeran.
Lord Li's dismissal sounded a wake-up call to Lord Lin and Xia Xiaowu. They both knew that Cheng Yeran could control them at will and they could not defeat Cheng Yeran at all.
Lord Lin originally wanted to claim illness like Xia Xiaowu did, but after hearing Cheng Yeran's words, he immediately gave up the idea and was the first to go to the government office. Xia Xiaowu also came reluctantly.
Only the new county magistrate was speaking enthusiastically to Cheng Yeran. Lord Lin and Xia Xiaowu both trembled with their heads down and said nothing.
Cheng Yeran: "Now that everyone is here, let's get started. I have three points to make about today's meeting."
He looked at the three people at the table, then reached out and knocked on the table in front of Xia Xiaowu, "Are you well?"
Xia Xiaowu didn't expect him to call him suddenly. He was so scared that he shivered and reacted a little slowly. "Ah, okay, okay."
"Now that you're ready, be serious. Take out paper and pen. Both of you should take out yours as well and write down what I'm going to say." Cheng Yeran waited for them to get paper and pen.
They didn't have this habit, so they quickly asked the people around them to go look for it. Cheng Yeran just looked at them and waited for them.
Xia Xiaowu felt very uncomfortable being stared at by Cheng Yeran like this. This was more uncomfortable than if Cheng Yeran had scolded him directly. He could only hope that paper and pen would be brought to him quickly.
After a long period of agony, the attendants finally brought them paper and pen.
Everything was ready, and Cheng Yeran spoke slowly, "I am going to re-select the constables for the government office, and the same goes for the constables for your counties. In ten days, all the constables will be asked to take the assessment, and those who fail will be replaced."
Lord Lin and Xia Xiaowu did not expect Cheng Yeran to be so cruel. He wanted to replace all of their people as soon as he arrived. The new county magistrate did not care. He had just arrived and was not familiar with the people here. It would be better if all of them were replaced to prevent the previous people from bullying him because he was a newcomer.
Cheng Yeran, Lord Lin and Xia Xiaowu were stunned and distracted. "Write it down, or you will forget it. Or do you have any objections to what I said?"
The two of them quickly wrote down what Cheng Yeran had just said on paper.
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Cheng Yeran said the second point: "Some of you often claim to be sick and don't work. This is not acceptable. The court does not support idle people. When we were in the capital, His Majesty also set up a system of elimination of the last. Anyone who is not active in work will be eliminated. You can't go against His Majesty."
Lord Lin knew who Cheng Yeran was talking about, and turned to look at Xia Xiaowu. The new county magistrate didn't understand the situation, and seeing Lord Lin looking at Xia Xiaowu, he also turned to look at Xia Xiaowu. He seemed to have guessed something.
Xia Xiaowu was sweating all over and his clothes were soaked.
Cheng Yeran then said, "I'm going to set up a clock-in system for you. You have to clock in before you start work and when you leave work every day. I'll send someone to manage your clock-ins. Do you have any opinions?"
The new county magistrate immediately said, "No."
Cheng Yeran looked at the other two people again. If it was when Cheng Yeran had just arrived, they might have resisted, but Lord Li had Cheng Yeran dismissed a while ago. How could they dare to go against Cheng Yeran? They nodded reluctantly.
"Of course, you can also take sick leave, but you need a certificate issued by a doctor, signed by the doctor, to prove that you are really sick. But we are the officials. If you are sick for half a month a month, or half a year a year, then you are incompetent. It is irresponsible to the people to continue staying in this position. You should vacate your position as soon as possible and give it to someone more suitable." Cheng Yeran thought that they could ask a familiar doctor to help issue a certificate, so he added this sentence.
They had originally planned to ask the doctor to issue a false certificate, but after hearing Cheng Yeran's supplement, they did not dare to do so.
Even if I am really sick, I want to stay in the county government office.
Cheng Yeran took a sip of tea and said, "Now let me tell you the third thing. We will have a meeting every seven days. Come to the meeting after seven days. Bring paper and pen. Okay, we adjourn the meeting."
After Xia Xiaowu returned home, he was extremely angry. When he faced Cheng Yeran, he was very scared and didn't dare to fart out of fear. But as soon as he got home, he started throwing things and losing his temper, and called the servants to beat and scold him to vent his anger.
Before, he always beat Shen Yunfeng at home. Later, Shen Yunfeng caught him, and he was afraid that Shen Yunfeng would tell the truth about his parents killing Lord Lin's daughter. He could only suppress his anger and stopped beating Shen Yunfeng. Instead, he took it out on the servants at home.
But now he felt that all this was because of Shen Yunfeng. After he married Shen Yunfeng, he encountered problems every time it was time for an exam. In the end, he reluctantly became a county magistrate. After becoming a county magistrate, he finally got lucky and married the prefect's daughter. But then something went wrong at home again. His parents died, and Lord Lin's daughter also died.
He felt that it was Shen Yunfeng who killed his family and suppressed his fortune. If he had married Shen Yuntang, this would not have happened.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He didn't want to endure it anymore and lost his mind. He rushed into the room, grabbed Shen Yunfeng who was coaxing the child to take a nap, and raised his hand to hit him.
Shen Yunfeng glared back, "What are you going to do? You still want to hit me? My cousin is the wife of the prefect. If you want to hit me, I will go to him to complain."
When Xia Xiaowu heard this, his hand stopped in mid-air, not daring to hit him, but holding his breath, "Do you think you got out of this door?"
"I can't leave this door. What do you want to do? Do you want to lock me up? Do you think anyone in the family will listen to you?" Shen Yunfeng had been on guard against him. "Can you lock up everyone in the family?"
Xia Xiaowu often beat the servants in the house. All the servants in the house were bribed by Shen Yunfeng. If he was locked up at home by Xia Xiaowu, someone would immediately go out to report it, or secretly let him go when Xia Xiaowu was not at home.
Not only the servants in the house, but even the children were on Shen Yunfeng's side. It was impossible for him to lock up Shen Yunfeng.
"You have no ability. You get bullied outside and you want to vent it here with me. If you have the ability, just be tough outside. Otherwise, you will be bullied outside and at home in the future. Where can you vent it?" Shen Yunfeng didn't want to live with him anymore. He had to hurry up and divorce him.
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Cheng Yeran and Shen Yuntang went to buy a house together. A yard was big enough to be used as a garment factory. They built a factory building in the yard and put sewing machines in it. They would recruit fifty people to try it out first. If it worked, they would demolish the house over there and build another factory building to make a garment factory with a hundred people.
Cheng Yeran bought an old house, which looked a bit shabby, but was still quite sturdy and would not fall down. It looked like a haunted house and was eerie, but this was exactly what he wanted, so there was no need to decorate it specially, he could just hire actors to play the NPCs.
But where to find this actor? Shen Yuntang suggested that just like when they chose the boy and girl groups, the girls and boys should go to the local brothel to look for them. This could be considered a kind of salvation. The boys could be bought from human traffickers or recruited.
Cheng Yeran thought for a moment and said, "There are fewer types of jobs here than in Beijing. We can just recruit some locals to perform and create jobs for the locals. As for brothels, we won't let them open them in the future. In my territory, they have to follow my rules. All brothels and gambling houses must be closed."
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