Five days later, the Volcano Army found out that various accounts were found. Du Zhongxiao and Cheng Shimeng had a handover, and they saw that the deadline was approaching and were about to leave.

The news spread. After hearing about the foreign people in the past year, they slaughtered a few sheep, prepared a few jars of wine, carried them together to Volcano County to see Du Zhongxiao off. Du Zhongxiao and Cheng Shimeng thanked the people, left a few leaders, drank in the back yamen, and saw Du Zhongxiao off.

Looking at the gifts piled up next to him, Cheng Shimeng said: "From the doctor to the Volcanic Army, open up camp and start an industry, thousands of families have come to support him in more than a year, which is unprecedented. I have also seen these days. These people have a good meal and clothing, live and work in peace, and are naturally grateful."

Du Zhongxiao said: "This is the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Those people say they are foreigners, but in fact many of them are the people of the Central Plains. After hundreds of years of separation from their hometown, they are used to speaking foreign languages ​​and customs, and that's all."

Cheng Shimeng said: "That's right, just like Zhang Junde's family over there, they are all Han people in the Central Plains. How can they look like a little bit of a person?"

After the volcanic army was settled, Zhang Junde's group of people successively brought their families who remained in the north and had developed into a large ethnic group. They were originally Han people in Hexi and had not yet been transformed. Apart from some customs, they were no different from the Han people in the Central Plains.

After the banquet was held, Zhang Junde and Xiang Bu, as representatives, stepped forward to toast Du Zhongxiao, thanked him for taking in these people and helping to rebuild their homes.

In the minds of these people, Du Zhongxiao's entry into Beijing will inevitably be of importance, and he will rise step by step, filling the atmosphere of joy.

Du Zhongxiao himself knew that he would not be lazy at all when he returned to Beijing this time. Although the examination of the Bachelor's College is not difficult, it cannot be taken lightly. The articles he did should at least be reasonable, and there are examples of capsizing in the gutter.

Jingyou Jinshi Miao Zhen was the fourth in the palace examination. A few years later, the examiner Yan Shu specially told him in advance that many Jinshi would not study after they passed the imperial examination, so he asked him to review it early. Miao Zhen was very confident and replied that he would not be a 40-year-old lady who was too stubborn. Unfortunately, she had not passed the imperial examination and lost the opportunity to enter the museum. Du Zhongxiao was far inferior to Miao Zhen in terms of his academic qualifications, so how could he be careful? He got the opportunity to take the exam for the bachelor's college. If he failed the exam, he would not only lose the opportunity, but also become a laughing stock of literati.

In the past year, Xiangbu has changed the most. Thinking back to the beginning, he was a young leader of the British clan who had poor food and clothing. When he saw Du Zhongxiao, he tried his best to muster up the courage and was the first to be attached to him. With his careful and down-to-earth work, he had become a little rich man and the most enviable figure among the British. Although he looked at dozens of acres of land and hundreds of sheep, he was not a big family in the Central Plains, but the British people had dreamed of life.

The Volcanic Army has a sparse population and there are no rich people at all. Xiangbu is already a householder.

This banquet was drunk until the sun sets westward, and the host and guests had fun, and then they had a good time and parted.

Shisanlang took the gift back to his residence with his entourage, looked carefully, came to Du Zhongxiao's house, poured a cup of tea for Du Zhongxiao to drink, and sat on a stool. After Du Zhongxiao had finished drinking the tea, Shisanlang said excitedly: "Don't cut off people, I've checked it. These foreigners are really good. There are dozens of wool in the gifts, which are worth one or two hundred guan."

Du Zhongxiao took advantage of the wine and said with a smile: "Shisanlang, our family has a lot of fertile land. Are you missing these hundreds of stagnants of money?"

Shisanlang said: "That's not what they say, they always have their will. Besides, officials have been a military officer for more than a year, and their salary is not so much. I can't make money by becoming an official in the past year."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said nothing. There was a saying in later generations that the Qing magistrate for three years was 100,000,000, which meant that the amount of money was so great as a local official. The 100,000 taels of money was still there. If the greed was greedy, he would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life. Of course, because the centralized centralization of the finance in the Song Dynasty was too strong, he was not allowed to buy industries in the jurisdiction. Local officials did not have such a lot of money, but the benefits were always inevitable.

The volcanic army had good financial conditions, and Cheng Shimeng was very satisfied. He took 500 taels of silver from the Minister Kuri as the expenses for Du Zhongxiao's way back to Beijing. The Minister Kuri was for this purpose, and Du Zhongxiao accepted it with a smile. He had been on Hedong Road for nearly three years and should take some money home.

Shisanlang had no feelings for the Volcano Army. He had been away from home for several years and was a little excited. He sat in Du Zhongxiao's room and talked endlessly. From his longing for Du Zhongxiao's future to how happy his family would be to see him, he went on and over again.

Du Zhongxiao smiled and listened to him talking nonsense. He followed him for several years, and at this time, he could not discourage his excitement.

At the end, Du Zhongxiao said: "When we return to the Central Plains, the weather will be cold. Since someone else has wool, after arriving in the capital, I will find a master craftsman to make a robe for you and your parents and brothers, and go home with a glorious look."

Shisanlang said, "That's great. Thank you for the officials! However, as I am, my family wears such robes in the countryside, so I'm afraid they will be laughed at. It's better to distribute them as cash and I'll take them home."

Du Zhongxiao laughed when he heard this: "Money is money, and clothes are clothes. How can you confuse it? You have followed me for several years, how can you lose your money? Don't worry, you will bring you a big silver home, buy some land, and buy a house business."

When Shisanlang heard this, he was stunned: "Why, the official wants to send me home and don't want me to serve you?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "You are by my side, you have food and drink, and you have to take care of your family. After buying a family business, your family has enough food and clothing, and you have no worries about following me. In a few years, I will find an opportunity to help you become an official and become an official."

When Shisanlang heard this, Zhan Yan smiled. Although Chen Qin and Tao Shiqi were not free after becoming officials, he felt a little uncomfortable when he looked at it, to be honest, sometimes he was a little envious of them. It was quite interesting to think about it as a farmer, and being able to be a prestigious official.

Du Zhongxiao's official position will be promoted to a favorable position. His family has few people, and most of them will be cheaper than Shisanlang and Luo Jing. However, you don't have to be too envious of such small officials. They have little power and many things to do, just a job of eating imperial grain.

During the Qingli New Policy, one of the key points of reforms in Fan Zhongyan and others was that they felt that grace was too excessive and vigorously abolished them. But in fact, after a few years, everything was as usual. When studying history, the books also vigorously criticized the grace of the Song Dynasty, which was believed to be one of the important reasons for the intensification of social contradictions. Du Zhongxiao also felt this way at first, but later he thought about it. What is it? Officials with the power of grace were only a few hundred people, and how many places could they be given to? How many thousands? What is it for such a big country? Such things can't be prevented at all.

In the past, most of them were just civil servants in their previous lives. In that era, these historical shortcomings were criticized from beginning to end. As a practical city-level official, who had not assigned ten or eight civil servants. Now it is just on the table. Without such an open system, it is just as dirty as private. Political issues are not here.

It is said that it is a redundant official, but in fact, the fiscal expenditure of the court is seven or eight out of ten is military expenditure. If there are many officials, how many are because there are not enough officials. There are not many officials in this era. The real problem is how many people occupy positions and do not do things or are incompetent.

Du Zhongxiao himself knew that Shisanlang had done nothing less than a small official in the past few years. And because he had been by his side, he was familiar with the officialdom and was more than enough to be a small official. What's wrong with being a small official? If he didn't do it, who wouldn't have done it.
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