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Chapter 590 I won't accept gifts from now on

"First, I'm not allowed to announce my birthday to the public, nor my wives, let alone the young lady and the young master. In short, nothing like three festivals and two birthdays is allowed."

"Second, in the past, Bingjing, Nianjing, and Tanjing have all refused to accept after I took office."

"Thirdly, no matter who visits me, they are not allowed to collect door bags. In particular, people around me are not allowed to take other people's money privately. Once discovered, they will be severely punished!"

On the carriage to Baoding, Jia Liu was explaining the precautions for the new official.

Fanwei, Shuanzhu, Baozhu, and Zamur squeezed across from each other. The two literate ones took notes seriously, while the two illiterate ones tried their best to listen, nodding from time to time.

It doesn't matter whether you listen or not, what matters is your attitude.

Baozhu felt that he had to say a few words, so he coughed lightly, and said, "My lord, being an official for thousands of miles is only for money. If you don't accept this, you won't accept that. Isn't it a loss for us, my lord?"

"If I lose one, the family will be happy. There is no loss or loss. What I want to earn is big money, not small money. In the future, if you want to talk, raise your hand. Don't cough. Are you an adult or am I an adult?"

Jia Liu picked up the teapot and took a sip directly to his mouth.

This will prevent him from interrupting the leader's speech at will in his previous life, no matter how capable he is, he will have to hide.

Although he doesn't like the bureaucratic style, but after working in the top position for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be a little shaken.

Therefore, officialdom is a big dye vat, and there are only a handful of people who can maintain their original intentions.

It is a great fortune for the country to have three or five clean officials out of a hundred officials.

He also ordered Shuan Zhu and Fan Wei to take over the staff of the former Governor of Zhili when they arrived in Baoding, that is, the institutions and offices under the Governor's Yamen of Zhili.

It is equivalent to the three classes and six rooms of the county government.

A few hundred years later, dividing national staff into civil servants and career establishments will be essentially the same.

However, in general, one can only be called an official from the seventh rank and above, and one can only be called an official from the seventh rank or lower.

Usually there are three to four assistant officials in a county, one is the magistrate, the other is the county magistrate, the third is the master, and the fourth is the history.

The county magistrate is in charge of comprehensive work;

The county magistrate is in charge of taxation and population;
The owner is responsible for water conservancy, food and horses, and dispatch;
It is equal to two deputy county magistrates.

The ranking is based on seniority, which is usually held by Juren.

Some large counties and developed counties are highly equipped with Jinshi.

Dian Shi is responsible for the arrest, that is, the chief of the Public Security Bureau.

Among the four, Dian Shi is not an official, but the leader of the officials. He has no rank and is not in the mainstream.

The "three classes" of the three classes and six rooms refer to the "soap, strong, and fast classes", which are actually government servants and township arrests, similar to criminal investigation, public security, and taxation bureaus.

The people inside are neither civil servants nor career editors, but belong to helpers.

It's just that these helpers have clothes issued by the state and have some special powers granted to them by the state.

Without this suit, anyone would dare to fight.

Yes, Mr. Ma has to make a detour when he sees it.

The "six rooms" refer to officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and workshops, covering all aspects of a place from life and death to eating and drinking.

The clerks are called Shuban subordinates, and they need a certain education, at least they must be a child, because Liufang needs a certain professional ability.

In the feudal era, the three classes may be replaced from time to time, and the six houses are basically an industry monopolized by the local gentry.

Those who have nothing to do with the family can't even enter.

From the county to the state capital and even the province, there are three shifts and six houses, the bureaucracy, but the name is different.

On the surface, the operation of the country seems to be in charge of layers of officials, but in fact it is a layer of bureaucracy that is deployed from top to bottom.

Without these institutions, Jia Liu, the governor, may not even be able to leave Baoding City.

The so-called governing the country, governing the locality, is to put it bluntly governing people.

Therefore, if Jia Liu wants to make the governor real, stronger, and more beautiful, the first step is to fully take over the institutions under the governor's yamen.

Only after the administrative operation of the governor's yamen is fast and efficient can a series of reforms be carried out on the subordinate units within the scope of their powers.

Shuan Zhu organized Jia Ban to enter the site to familiarize himself with the work process of the Governor's Yamen, and gradually take over the subordinate agencies of the Governor's Yamen after the business is smooth.

"The staff of the original organization must organize an examination, and those who pass the examination will stay in the post, and those who fail."

Jia Liu originally wanted to say that all unqualified people should be expelled, but thinking that this was not in line with his lenient work attitude, he asked Fan Wei to distribute the unqualified ones.

It is divided from provinces to cities and counties, and even townships.

The illiteracy rate is too high these days, and those who can write are called high-end talents, so there is no need to beat them to death.

A grown-up who smashed people's jobs as soon as he took office is obviously not a good grown-up.

This is a preliminary administrative arrangement, and the military must take it easy and not act too hastily.

This time Jia Liu went to Baoding with four battalions of guards, together with more than [-] guards. It can be said that the current chief official of the frontier, except for the alien Feng Sheng, has no one else who is as popular as Jia Liu.

"The two of you go down first, and the crouching dragon and phoenix chick will stay behind."

Jia Liu asked Baozhu and Zamur to go down to convey the spirit of his instructions, not only to reach the Baoding guards and guards without any offense, but also not to invade places along the way.

"Tell my brothers, the spring wheat is growing right now, if anyone tramples on the people's fields, even if I, the governor, don't cut off his head, I will have to cut off his braid!"

After speaking, he glanced at the carriage behind him.

After Yi Jiang'a got out of Beijing, he spent most of his time studying Buddhism in the carriage except for taking a break to urinate.

In order to give this newly promoted Manzhangjing Jiejie Lezi, Jia Liu specially asked someone to give him a famous scripture of Thousand Buddhas.

At first glance, the Buddhist scriptures look ordinary, but there are really three thousand taels of silver notes inside.

Jia Liu has a rule that people are not allowed to give him gifts, but he does not have a rule not to give gifts to others.

Although Yi Jiang'a is only Zhang Jing of the fourth grade, his father Yonggui is the secretary of the household department. If Jia Liu wants to start an industry in Zhili, it is impossible to deal with the household department. Make this friendship fade over time.

Gift-giving is very particular. For example, "Plum Blossom Poem Eight Rhymes" should be written on the envelope, which means that there is an eight-liang bank note inside.If you write Ershun, it is 60 taels, sixty and Ershun.
The famous scriptures of the Thousand Buddhas start with a thousand taels, which is already the treatment given by princes and ministers as gifts.

However, Jia Liu's side raised it a few more levels and directly treated the emperor as a gift.

For the regular thousand taels, he gets 3000 taels.

In short, he does not allow anyone to give gifts more cool than him.

Just as he may not remember who gave him how much money, but he certainly remembers who didn't.

As for gift giving, don’t give it. If you want to give it, you have to highlight the impression and make people deep.

Yi Jiang Ah, this will definitely be very profound.

Of course, Jia Liu would not take advantage of the fact that Zhong Yubao, the official secretary of the Ministry of War, gave him 3000 taels because of his rank and lack of background, so he just asked Shuan Zhu to give him a good ear.

60 taels is more than enough.

"After I take office, the province's finances must be figured out. You should spend some effort to find some professionals to do it for me. Well, you can do it in the name of the Zhili Finance Department."

"My lord, in the past two days I have made a point. The main income of Zhili's finances comes from the four aspects of land silver, consumption silver, salt tax, and tariffs. The annual tax revenue is about 4 million taels. Others include reed tax, fish tax, Tea class, landing miscellaneous tax, deed tax, Yadang mining tax combined, less than 300,000 taels”

Jia Liu, Finance Minister of Zhili, heard from Quini that they generally belong to provinces with a balanced budget, that is, they do not belong to provinces like Jiangsu and Zhejiang that are rich and capable of handing over to the treasury, nor do they belong to provinces with fiscal deficits like Sichuan and Guangxi. The provinces where the imperial court asked for money barely managed to get enough food and clothing.

This is also in line with Jia Liu's cognition.

The territory of Zhili is actually dominated by Hebei, supplemented by Tianjin, and there are also some large provinces in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and Henan.

The best place in terms of economy must be Tianjin, but other places are so-so, and many places even belonged to poverty-stricken areas for a long time.

No way, who would let the essence of Zhili, Shuntianfu, not belong to Jia Liu, and half of the fertile land in Zhili's prefectures and counties adjacent to Shuntianfu was occupied by the Eight Banners at the beginning of the country.

In the feudal era, land tax was definitely the biggest source of fiscal revenue.

The fertile land has become a banner property, which of course will reduce Zhili's fiscal revenue.

Jia Liu looked at the map badly, and the result was that industry must be developed in Zhili, so as to drive the economy of Zhili to take off. Otherwise, because of the existence of the capital in this area, the common people would not want to live a good life.

If he does not start to change and let history develop forward, in the end, the people in Zhili area will use part-time jobs as the main way to earn money, and it is impossible for the local area to develop industries.

"Fuzhongtang exempts me from this summer's tax. There must be more funds that can be used by then. When you get to the place, check the accounts and give me an accurate income and expenditure statement. Where it is paid, the accounts must be clearly defined.”

Jia Liu is just explaining his general idea to Wolongfengchu. He can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and no one has arrived at the work unit. How can he wave his hand and sneeze and the whole province will be shaken.

Fan Wei said that the largest financial expenditure of the province is nothing more than three yuan, one is the expenditure of officials' salaries; the other is the expenditure of money and food for the garrison;

These three expenditures are also fundamental to maintaining the stability of a dynasty.

However, these three expenditures are often unclear, or unreasonable, and no matter which expenditure it is, it will have a butterfly effect, leading to catastrophic consequences.

It goes without saying that the salary of the garrison cannot be paid, and it directly kills people.

The cost of water conservancy and river channels is also important. If there is a problem with the water conservancy facilities due to inadequate allocation of project funds, causing floods or something, there will definitely be displaced people, and they will die.

There is a lot to be done about officials' salaries.

The reason is that the Qing Dynasty was opaque and confused about the salary expenditure of officials.

That is to say, there is room for man-made manipulation in Yanglian Bank, which has the largest income for officials.

Because the Qing government stipulated that the maintenance of honesty and silver was ten to one thousand times the official salary.

Whether to give ten times or a thousand times, there is a lot to be done.

Jia Liu intends to start with Yanglian Bank, and for the first time in Zhili, he will initiate wage integration, that is, to set a system for how much Yanglian Bank will be paid to officials, instead of depending on the people in the past.

While discussing how to make Zhili a civil servant's salary transparent and time-saving, the front reported that the Zhuozhou officials heard that the new Governor-General had beaten him, and came to see the Governor-General specially.

I just hope that the governor can meet them and say a few words to them by the way.

"They are all local elders, and they are all local talents. I will rely on their support for my work in the future. Since you are here, let's go down and meet."

Jia Liu didn't want to see these people in Zhuozhou, but he couldn't stand Shuan Zhu saying anything, so he had no choice but to get out of the car and go to have a look surrounded by the crowd.

I have come to say this all the time, and I don’t know how many aspiring young people have missed it.

When I went to the place, Wu Tongming, the magistrate of Zhuozhou, led a group of assistant officials, and dozens of respectable local gentry were waiting respectfully.

The next thing is the same old way, nothing more than saluting first, then talking about the hard work of the governor to come to Baoding to take office, what's the place, and finally a bunch of money according to official practice.

There are silver ingots in boxes and copper coins in bamboo baskets.

The silver ingots must be to honor the governor, and the copper coins are to condolences to the governor.

It's just that I didn't expect the governor's entourage to be as many as 3000 people, so the copper coins were obviously not prepared enough, so I probably touched a dozen baskets.

Jia Liu coughed lightly, and Shuan Zhu immediately stepped forward and raised his voice: "My lord has something to say before I come to Baoding to take office. I will not abide by the previous official practice. Please take back the things you sent! If you have the heart, manage the place well and treat people well." Good people are!"

As soon as these words were said, there was a cloud of applause and flattery at the scene.

Hearing this, Jia Liu felt as if his feet were off the ground and he was about to float.

Sure enough, people cannot hear the truth.

However, after the officials and gentry of Zhuozhou praised the new Governor-General for his honesty and integrity, they still strongly demanded that the Governor-General must accept the things. What they said was the local will.

Shuan Zhu couldn't make up his mind, so he turned to look at the young master.

Yijiang'a and Yubao in the rear were alarmed by the movement here, and also touched them.

"That's it,"

Jia Liu is bad because he is soft-hearted, and he doesn't see others making things difficult, so he went straight to the place where the money was piled up, first looked at a dozen or so silver boxes, and estimated that there were only three to 4000 taels. pick up.

Not much, after all, my level as a governor is here.

One piece of copper coin is worth three 400 taels.

Seeing the young master's hesitation, Shuan Zhu said in a low voice, "Master, anyway, you haven't taken office yet, why don't you just accept it? Wait until you take office."

"You think I'm farting?"

Jia Liu glared at Shuanzhu, who wanted to break his Dao heart, and frowned slightly, then turned to look at a group of Zhuozhou officials and gentry who looked at him with kind smiles, "In that case, it's not good for me to call you Han Xin, how about this, I will accept the copper coins, and you take the silver box back."

Zhuozhou officials and gentry obviously did not agree with the governor's move to accept the small but not the big, and they were about to publicly recommend Wu Zhizhou's advice, but when they saw that the governor's face had already been put down, and there were many who dared to speak out, they would hit the board on the spot, and they were frightened Don't dare to say anything.

Wu Zhizhou also hurriedly asked someone to carry the silver box away, so as not to spoil the eyes of the governor.

Jia Liu spoke a few words with the Zhuozhou officials and gentry symbolically, but really only a few words, not a single sentence, because the cold weather affected his speaking speed, and he couldn't express himself.

The happy scene ends soon.

On the way back to the carriage, Fan Wei was puzzled: "My lord, you either don't accept it, or you accept it all, and you only accept copper coins."

This means that doing so does not comply with the rules of non-receipt of gifts.

"You don't know that copper coins are the legal currency of our dynasty, and no one in our Qing Dynasty can refuse them for any reason. As the governor of Zhili, how can I break the law knowingly?"

After saying that, he stepped into the carriage, picked up the thermos and continued to keep warm.

Outside the car, Fan Wei and Shuan Zhu glanced at each other, both seeing business opportunities in each other's eyes: Will it be considered a violation of the adults' regulations if they accept other people's copper coins in the future?

(End of this chapter)