Cousin Ji Xiaosi pushed the door open and came in.

"Didn't your brother rest yet? I'll get up early tomorrow. Brother, hurry up and take a break!"

Ji Ping shook his head, "I can't sleep! When I think about managing a county, I have no idea what to do and how to start."

"Didn't my brother decide the strategy during the day? Start with the land reclamation?"

"It's not enough! The strategy is too rough, far from enough."

Ji Ping was very anxious and full of thoughts, but he couldn't understand it.

Ji Xiaosi hesitated and said, "Brother is the county magistrate of a party. There must be people around him who can trust run errands and pass messages. How about me? I have been a shopkeeper in Siji Clothing for a few years. It is no problem to welcome or send off anything. I have trained my words and expressions. Moreover, I have known 300 words... I can definitely help my brother."

Ji Ping turned around and stared at Ji Xiaosi, his eyes slightly fierce.

Ji Xiaosi was shocked. He had heard of his elder brother's great achievements in Fugui Villa. He was a ruthless and cruel man.

The entire Ji family is not afraid of his ancestors, but Jiping.

Even Jiping's biological parents were afraid that he would die.

Just one look can make the greedy couple close their mouths and retract their hands that were stretched out. Stay honestly in the house and dare not go out to harm Ji's reputation.

He was trembling, "If my brother doesn't want to, then forget it. I've never said it."

"You can't do it!" Ji Ping said solemnly: "When you arrive at the county government office, you can only do some errands and mails, the yamen runners do the work. I need scholars now, so I have to find at least five or six scholars for me and get the county government office first."

Ji Xiaosi said carefully: "The scholars in Pingyang County have already run away. Not to mention five or six, I can't even find half of them. Where can I find scholars now?"

Ji Ping looked at him viciously, "If there are no scholars in Pingyang County, they go to other places to find scholars. Following the example of Mr. Han and the others, they will specifically look for those down-and-out scholars and offer salaries that they cannot refuse, but they don't believe they can't find anyone."

Ji Xiaosi hurriedly asked, "Does my brother want to follow the example of Fugui Villa recruiting scholars back then? This method is good! But, where should I find a down-and-out scholar?"

Ji Ping glared at him, "You are welcomed and sent to the Four Seasons Clothing Village, but have you met a few foreign merchants? Don't have any connections?"

This reminded Ji Xiaosi. He slapped his thighs suddenly, "If I remember correctly, there are a few old customers in the counties next door. Brother, don't worry, I will go out tomorrow to find someone, and I will guarantee that I will find five or six scholars to enrich the county government. In any case, our Ji family cannot lose to the Han family. Sooner or later, our Ji family will also have a few scholars."

"Then you study hard and don't always make people laugh at you. After studying for a year and a half, you only realized 300 words. You must be lazy every day."

Ji Xiaosi was wronged and wronged.

"Brother, I really can't learn. I can do anything else, but this reading and literacy cost me my life. I finally completed the shopkeeper's exam and now I have to continue studying. It's really worse than death."

Doing things under the boss is good, everything is good, good treatment and good benefits.

The only thing that is bad is that the manager and the shopkeeper are getting higher and higher requirements, and they have to be able to read.

It’s not enough to be able to read and write just by being able to read.

You have to know more words.

I heard that the requirements for this year's assessment will be increased again.

You have to know at least five hundred words and write neatly.

It's my life.

He was afraid that he would not be able to pass the exam, and he was so proud of being an official, so he jumped out of the Four Seasons Fabric Shop and went to the county government to help him.

As for the county government, we must raise a group of idle friends.

He will definitely not be able to do anything like county magistrate, household house, and punishment house.

However, it is still OK to be a free agent.

However, he seemed to feel that he had made a wrong decision.

It seems that he jumped from a small pit into another big pit.

My eldest brother looks like he is obsessed with reading, so he will definitely not let him go easily.

Maybe it is even stricter than the requirements of the literacy class teacher.

Huh huh huh huh...

Is it still time for him to regret it now?

He should go back and be his shopkeeper of the Four Seasons Clothing.

When the branch opens, he will be far away from his elder brother, the farther the better.

"Why are you running? I asked to go to the county government for help, but now I want to go back on my word?"

Ji Ping's face darkened, and Ji Xiaosi's legs were trembling with fear.

He said tremblingly: "Brother, please forgive me. I just remembered that the cloth shop had arranged a lot of errands. I'm afraid I can't help my brother."

Ji Ping sneered, "Where is the branch of the Four Seasons Clothing Village? What are you busy with without a store? Pingyang County is in trouble. If you want to reopen the Four Seasons Clothing Village, you have to wait for half a year. When the autumn harvest is about to be almost the same. You are idle now, so you can run errands for me and recruit some talents.

Mr. Han has a large number of classmates, and he can write to his past classmates and ask them to be officials in Pingyang County. I can't do it! I am a man from a farmer, and I have been in charge of business for several years, but I have a group of people who can do things. However, there are only a lack of scholars.

Now sitting in the position of the county magistrate, I realized that a yamen lacks scholars. Scholars are indispensable for communication and official documents.

Criminal case determination, court laws, household registration... many things need to be done by scholars. If you say you want to help from the county government, I will give you this opportunity. I will set out to find scholars tomorrow, and I will give you money."

Ji Xiaosi looked embarrassed, "I'm not good at studying! I'm afraid of embarrassing my elder brother."

"If you don't study well, then spend half an hour studying every day. I don't believe it. If you spend a year, you won't even recognize a thousand words. If you can't do half an hour a day, you will only be one hour."

Ji Xiaosi was about to cry, "I, I, I don't want to study."

Ji Ping said sternly: "It's not okay not to read it! When doing things under the wife's hands, the requirements will only get higher and higher, not lower and lower. In the past, the wife had only one wealthy villa and could deal with anything.

Now, the wife has one county with five counties under her jurisdiction, and will have a population of hundreds of thousands in the future. The demand for scholars will increase. When there are more scholars, what can I compete with others? If you want to help, you cannot drag your feet. You must pass the reading and literacy level.

Our Ji family is both from Zhuang Ding. That is, we two brothers are a little clever and have made a fortune by relying on their natural cleverness. However, if you want to go higher and further, you need to work harder than others. In the future, you can no longer cope with your cleverness alone. Do you understand?"

Ji Xiaosi nodded repeatedly, shook his head again and again.

He doesn't understand it.

His eyes can only see the present, but not such a long-term future.

He did not have the ability and vision to prepare for the future, and he was born to live one day.

Now, listening to his elder brother saying what the future will be like, he is confused and confused.

How far is the future? What do you want to do so far?

Are you not satisfied if you can be a county magistrate?

Of course Ji Ping would not be satisfied.

He is an ambitious person, born with competitive strength, how can he be satisfied with the status quo?

He snorted coldly, "I'll tell you this, Pingyang County is just the beginning. I firmly believe that the wife's territory will become larger and larger, as large as several counties, several prefectures, and even become a prince. If we two brothers do not work hard, our current position will be the end of our lives.

One day, I was not worthy of continuing to sit in the position of the county magistrate and being replaced by a more talented and younger scholar. Are you willing? I am not willing! So, you are not allowed to be willing. You must cheer me up, read the books by rote, and keep them in your mind."

Ji Xiaosi was almost crying.

He regretted it, can it be done?

He is satisfied with being a shopkeeper, is that OK!

Ji Ping yelled twice.

I regret it now, it's too late!

Since you have boarded his boat, you can't think of getting off the boat.

Ji Xiaosi really cried, "What else can I do besides running errands and passing messages? Is it that important to recognize words or not?"

Ji Ping was angry that he did not fight, "Of course it's important! It turns out that I said so much to you just now, and you just played the piano with a cow, and you didn't listen to a word. Let me tell you, with your lazy temperament now, you don't even have the qualifications to be a shopkeeper in less than three years.

If you don’t work hard to read and read, some people will work hard. Those people are ready to take over you and replace you. Especially those little people in the capital who fled here with their wife from the capital, each of them is not lacking in knowledge and naturally understands the benefits of reading. If you continue like this, your errand will be taken away by those little people in the capital."

Ji Xiaosi disagreed.

The matter is not as serious as the elder brother said.

Pingyang County is poor and has nothing to do.

How could it develop in less than three to five years?

Those small people in the capital, sorry, all of them will go to open up land and farm!

If you want to steal his shopkeeper's errand, let's do it for the next life!

"Three or five years, you are dreaming." Ji Ping sneered continuously.

"With Madam's talent and strategy, Pingyang County will change its appearance within a year. I believe that Madam has now had an overall plan. Soon, the county government will become a large construction site, and countless poor families will come to Pingyang County to find work. At that time, you will find that the population will be more crowded than you imagined. When the county government plans it, each county government will become a large construction site. At that time, the most undesirable one is people like you."

Ji Xiaosi opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but he was not confident enough.

"It takes a lot of money to rebuild the county and county governments. Now, the cloth shops, miscellaneous soups, and grocery stores have been closed, and they cannot start work and have no income. Where can the wife get the money to recruit people to build a city?"

Ji Ping shook his head repeatedly, disgusted him very much, "How did you become the shopkeeper with your brain? That little bit of money earned in business is just a drop in the bucket for the wife, mainly to find something for everyone to do.

The real money-making business of Mrs. is not something you said at all, and you can’t even imagine the profits. Moreover, Mrs. went south this time and made a fortune. The money and food required to build the city are enough!"
Chapter completed!