Most of the people graduated from school before entering the society or taking up a job or employment. It is the beginning, the beginning, but it is not the case for me. I have been a civil servant for a while before graduating from school. Before the Northern Expedition more than ten years ago in the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, the king outside the pass, marched into the pass and stationed in Pingjin. The members snatched a thousand and two nets.At that time, there was a printing bureau under the Ministry of Finance. Although the yamen was small, bonds, banknotes, stamps, stamps, and even copper bills and silver dollar molds issued by the official money bureau were all printed by the printing bureau of the Ministry of Finance.As long as the machine is running, the money will come rolling in. Naturally, you will scramble and scramble for such a big vacancy. In the end, Yang Linge (Yu Ting) and Zheng Mingzhi (Qian) snatch it under the circumstances that the river is not fertile. Get it.Yang Zheng and Yang Zheng are both first-class celebrities under Zhang Dashuai's command, and neither of them can be downgraded to become the director of the printing bureau!So Pu Boxin (Yicheng), a well-known newspaperman at that time, was found to be the director of the printing bureau.

One of She's relatives is a close classmate with Yang Linge, and the other is Yituo Yinya with Zheng Mingzhi.Because the ancestors saw their backs in the early years, the hall was under the curtain, the mouth was thin, and they were only at the age of being a teacher. When there were weddings and funerals at relatives and friends, they had to join the family and set up a family. In and out.Relatives and friends all think that the opportunity is rare, and they are willing to try their best to ask Zhi Zhi to do it for him.At that time, there were many people who were paid salaries. Although they hadn't put on the top hat yet, it was good to be able to do some small errands to gain experience.

Unexpectedly, a few days after Director Pu arrived to pick up the seals, a courier from the Printing Bureau sent a dispatch order.After receiving the assignment as a clerk in the Printing and Documentation Division of the Ministry of Finance, the messenger stayed in the concierge for a long time, and suddenly remembered that the three-level report in Peking Opera had come, and a letter of dispatch was sealed. Four oceans of happy money sent the Messenger away happily. Since I was appointed, I should go to thank the commissioner Ruyi, and choose an auspicious day, wearing a blue robe and a black jacket with a tidy crown, and go to the Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, Baizhifang, Zhangyimenli, to report to the thanking commissioner.The Printing Bureau's Qionglou is stacked and the jade buildings are towering. Not only is it solemn and solemn, but it is daunting because of the strict prevention of disclosure, and the guards are both police and gendarmes.

The organization of the printing bureau in the Beiyang era was quite different from that of later times.There are two departments under the director. The General Affairs Department is in charge of administration and is presided over by Gu Bosheng.Gu's venerable, Mr. Zhuhou, is a famous collector of ancient coins from a wealthy family in Huai'an, and his younger brother is Gu Jigao (Yiqun), who Mr. Kong Yongzhi relied on as his right-hand man when he was in charge of the country's finances.It was the first time that my mother, Gu Bosheng, accompanied Jin to meet Director Pu. Pu was plain and simple, with a graceful attitude and no bureaucratic air. He knew that I had not yet graduated from university, so he told me that I did not have to go to the office every day. Elder, let me, a young man with a hairy head who has just stepped into the society, be very excited.Later, the Office of General Affairs sent staff to lead the staff to the clerical section to meet with the head of the section, Xia Chengdong (Xia was the son of Xia Renhu, the then deputy director of the Ministry of Finance, and the elder brother of Mr. He Fan, a well-known Taiwanese newspaperman), and the deputy head of the section, Zhou Weize, was from Shandong. The vulgar official style, although the head and deputy head of the class sat opposite each other, but a wooden screen was erected between the two tables, and the Chu River and the Han border were clearly separated.Since Yin Xing avoids face to face, it is clear at a glance that there is definitely no milk between the principal and the deputy.The head teacher, Lin Changshou, was seventy-eight years old, and he came forward to greet me, probably seeing that I was too young, so he asked me how old I was, so I had to tell me that I was eighteen this year.Old Lin Nianxu laughed, saying that he is seventy-eight years old, and he has been away for six years, and the leader and the phoenix are all in the clerical class.Unexpectedly, the first day he arrived on business, he was nicknamed Fengwei.

The office of the clerical department is divided into three rooms, which can accommodate more than 30 colleagues at best.But I heard that there are more than 120 clerks alone, and I guess they are all friends who are waiting for money (banknotes), otherwise they will all come to the bureau to work!There are three more offices, I am afraid it will not be able to accommodate them.Although I was under the care of the bureau chief and didn't have to go to work every day, but the first time I did something, I always felt ashamed and uneasy, so every Saturday afternoon when there was no class, I always had to go to the bureau to sign in and walk around the class.In this way, I went to work once a week, and four or five months passed, but I never received a salary. I asked some old colleagues. Those who come to work will naturally be included in the Class B list (the personnel on the Class A list do not owe wages, and the Class B belongs to those who owe wages).I have never done business in the class, so according to my guess, it is a matter of course that it belongs to the category of wage arrears and is included in Book B. At the same time, I am young and tender, and I am afraid of being looked down upon when I hit a snag, so I put it aside and dare not ask any more questions.

Two months later, the Accounting Office suddenly sent me a notice, which was handed over by the clerical department, saying that the year was coming to an end, and I hoped to bring my seal to the Accounting Office to collect my salary from Monday to Friday.I would like to express my gratitude to Director Pu for his concern. When I was about to approve the salary amount, although my salary was only forty-eight silver dollars, there was also seventy-two yuan for food expenses.As a rule in the bureau, anyone who has food is regarded as an official official, and is included in the Class A list of non-payment.The office hours of the accounting office are the same as that of the bank. I go to work every Saturday afternoon, and the accounting office does not work on Saturday afternoons. Therefore, for half a year, I have never met my colleagues in the accounting office.

Half a year's salary and food amounted to more than 700 yuan. The office gave me a Yanye Bank demand check and asked me to cash it at the Yanye Bank counter.When I arrived at the counter of Yanye Bank, the clerk in charge of receiving and paying was hesitant, because at that time the monthly salary of the director was only 280 yuan, and I took more than 700 yuan at once.At that time, the manager was Yue Ganzhai, and the assistant manager was Han Songge. After the conversation, Mr. Yue had a girl who was still unmarried.Otherwise, you might be able to get a wife back because of this! The Printing Bureau has a unit called the translation office. For example, all kinds of printing inks, various pigments, paper for banknotes, printing machines purchased from abroad, and all English documents are translated and submitted to the director of the translation office for review.This work has always been presided over by a director Xiao Ziyu. Xiao Yin received the letter of appointment from the Tianjin Law and Business School and has to go to Tianjin to attend classes every Saturday. I only come to work at the bureau every Saturday. According to the working hours of each other, it is just in line with each other. , so he transferred me to the compilation office to work.Take care of everything for him, but fortunately, they are all routine official documents, so you can just explain them to me.

After working for about three months, the political situation suddenly changed, the Fengjun forces withdrew from North China, and the director of the printing bureau was replaced by Zhu Chunlin, the director of a military depot of a certain department.According to the situation of each yamen at that time, as long as there is a change in the head, except for a very small number of old team members who are still working in the yamen, the rest of the staff will go home and wait for orders. work.Everyone else went home and waited for orders. I, who only work one day a week, have a local dialect in Peking, so I naturally go home to pick up the children.

After three or five days, Brother Lin Changshou came to visit us suddenly. While congratulating me, he took out a dispatch order, saying that the new director Zhu promoted me to be the deputy director of the warehouse department.He obviously sent an official document to express his congratulations, but in fact the main thing was to ask me to talk about something, to find out about my relationship with the new boss.Mr. Lin brought this dispatch order, and after much deliberation, I couldn't figure out the reason why I stayed in the post and was promoted, but since I was ordered to do so, I had no choice but to thank the commissioner first and see the situation before making a decision.Who would have thought that Director Zhu, regardless of whether he came from the army, was refined and refined, and if he didn't want to be annoying, he just said to me, "I know that my brother's work is serious and upright, and I will borrow a lot from you in the future", and served tea. Seeing off guests.Although we have met each other for a few words, Monk Zhanger is still baffled. Fortunately, the school is on summer vacation, so he goes to work every morning and evening, and officially goes to work.

Because Mr. Lin is usually old-fashioned, he is not welcomed by the Documentary Department, and they have a friendship between the leader and the tail, so they have to sign and transfer to the class full-time to send and receive.In the past, there was a shortage of large-denomination stamps printed by the Printing Bureau, so the staff went off work and searched them very strictly. Unexpectedly, this inspection task fell on me.Stamp stamps are very small, so they are not easy to be found wherever they are placed. Although there are regulations on naked body searches at the gate guard room when workers are off duty, it has been a long time, and naked workers pass by in a flash.One day I suddenly remembered the story of Kuding stealing silver in the Qing Dynasty. In the early days, the money was released from various places in Beijing, and all of it belonged to Kuding, who promised to move the silver into the warehouse.Back then, there was a kind of hooligan who specialized in eating warehouses and warehouses, which was to blackmail Kuding and divide them into fat.Now, if you roll stamps or stamps into small rolls and stuff them into the valley, wouldn't it be easier than carrying four taels of Songjiang silver ingots?Thinking that this might be an omission, I personally supervised it the next day and focused on spot checks. On the first day, I found out that there were as many as 20 or 30 dear friends who had stuffed stamp rolls into the "Rear Army Commander's Mansion" and were carried out.The strange thing is that the amount of money varies. I later learned that the printing department has layers of controls, and you can steal whatever you get.Three days later, the news spread and the whole situation became known, and the fraud was cleared up immediately. The daily statements and returns of all securities were consistent, and there was no shortage.

After two months, the director was soon rewarded by the ministry order to record his meritorious service.Once the summer vacation is over and the school starts, I can't be absent from class every day, and I can't be absent from work every day because of my responsibilities, so I have to petition to resign, return my first uniform, and go to school as usual.At the end of the Lunar calendar, the director did not abandon Fenfei, and sent someone to send fifty copies of the Palace Museum cultural relics calendar printed by the Printing Bureau to Shexia.I didn't expect that a warrior who spent half his life as a soldier would be able to cherish his old friendship so deeply, and I didn't expect that it would be so rare to meet such a humane officer before leaving school and entering the official career.After more than fifty years, I happened to think of Gao Yi's handsome demeanor at that time, which made me unable to cherish it for a long time.