Chapter 41 - The Roster of the Guards (1/2)

Chapter 41: The Roster of the Guards

Translator: DragonRider

“The roster of the guards is here. You can pick out those who treat we Ling family as foolish spenders to earn living, and directly send them out.” Handing Ling Zhang the roster, Fu Caiwei said in all seriousness.

Ling Zhang took over the roster, and opened it to peruse. He first marked the names of those who were not qualified after these days’ observation. He checked their birthplaces and backgrounds one by one, to confirm that there was no mistake made, and then said to Fu Caiwei, “Aunt, these people can be laid off directly.”

Those marked accounted for twenty percent of the guards’ list, which amounted to 6 since there were only thirty guards in Ling family.

“These people just pretend to be hardworking, and they are actually gluttonous and lazy,” Ling Zhang simply explained to Fu Caiwei why he had picked out these six.

Fu Caiwei nodded, “Those people really shouldn’t stay in our family any more. Without your observation of the guards, they must plan to drift along in Ling family. It is really outrageous!”

“Aunt, don’t be angry. In fact, not only in Ling family, this problem must exist in other families. The situation in Tanyang is quite special, and most of these guards can only have a deterrent effect; they can only fight against those villains but can’t fight against the bandits at all. And they are very clear about it in their mind, so they dare to appear hard-working on the surface because they are sure that their master’s family will not let them go and fight the bandits,” Ling Zhang said.

Fu Caiwei was very angry after hearing about it, but in several years’ management of the Ling family, such people were not uncommon. So she soon calmed down, “Are there some others to be cleaned out?”

Ling Zhang nodded, and then marked other three people’s names, “These three people, although they don’t appear hard-working on the surface, they are sticky fingers and they all have debts outside either from gambling or something else. They are easily exploited by others, so we cannot let them stay in the guards’ team.”

Fu Caiwei had let Ling Zhang handle this matter, so she had no objection to Ling Zhang’s disposal, “With these nine dismissed, there are only 21 guards left.”

“Whether the rest guards can stay is yet to be decided; we still need to observe them for some time,” Ling Zhang said.