Sir, you have to pay more

Chapter 597

Jia Liu couldn't help thinking.

This time he went to a place to take office and seal off borders, he must be set on fire.

If you don't let go, you can't show his ability.

Generally, arson is nothing more than three things, one is to rectify the administration of officials;

Rectifying the administration of officials and clearing up the backlog of cases are essentially the same thing. Generally, the major unjust, false and wrongly decided cases involve the administration of officials, because there would be no unjust, false and wrongly decided cases without corrupt officials, or relatively few.

The reason why Sun Lehe's case was turned into an unjust case by all levels of Zhili government is that Zhao Bingen used money to get through all the links.

Therefore, he was going to take advantage of Sun Lehe's unjust case to deal with it severely.

First take down the officials involved in the case, and then dig deep from these officials, use the points to bring out the face, pull out the radish and bring out the mud, no matter what, you can dig out hundreds of corrupt officials.

If it is more ruthless and continues to expand, it may overthrow the Zhili officialdom.

The reason is that there were very few officials in the Qing Dynasty with clean buttocks.

The well-known Liu Yong and Ji Yun are all corrupt criminals, let alone others.

In this way, he became famous in the sky and became the only Nascent Soul monster in the Qing Dynasty.

Once the new policy is completed and the new army is out, look at the world, there are at most a few golden pills, so why worry about the failure of the emperor's career.

But what Lao Yang said is also reasonable, and it is an objective fact.

There are thousands of officials in Zhili, big and small, involved in military, political, and criminal systems. If Jia Liu, the new governor, takes special measures, he will definitely be an official. There are two results.

First, Zhili officials collectively boycotted the new Governor-General;

Second, Zhili officialdom was paralyzed.

No matter which result, it is not good for Jia Liu.

There is no official to do things for him, and he, the governor, is not a fart.

It is not without precedent for officials to jointly boycott the governor sent by the imperial court. The "Southeast Mutual Protection" in the late Qing Dynasty was a collective boycott of the imperial court by officials, which made Cixi helpless.

Jia Liu came to Zhili to do things. If he spent all his energy fighting wits and courage with the officials below, or even fighting fiercely, it would undoubtedly be putting the cart before the horse.

Therefore, Yang Jingsu's reminder is reasonable.

Knowing that Lao Yang pointed it out, when he had an idea, he asked him what he thought.

"The officials involved in this case can be severely punished, and the lower officials will never cover up, but it is limited to the personnel involved in this case, and it should not be expanded."

Yang Jingsu gives his thoughtful advice.

After all, the son-in-law was young, and it was the first time he was in charge of the overall situation of the local area. He must not let his temper go, it would be easy to mess up the situation.

So Sun Lehe's case can be investigated deeply, but not deeply, otherwise everyone who is an official will be in danger, and this mess will not end.

Jia Liu listened to Lao Yang's suggestion, and frowned: "How can it be done? An ordinary murder case in Ansu County can lead to more than ten officials, and it happens in all provinces and counties. I don't know if there are any other places. If such nest cases are not strictly investigated and dealt with, and the common people are treated fairly, I, the governor, might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes."

Lao Yang hurriedly said: "My lord, the meaning of the next official is that the accumulated cases in the whole province can be cleared up, and the administration of officials should also be rectified. It's just that the officials who had problems in the past can be given the opportunity to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, so that they can act on their own. If you commit fraud, take money and pervert the law, or cover up the real culprit, then we will never tolerate it and punish it severely."

"Ok?"

Jia Liu felt that Lao Yang's proposal was a bit familiar. It was his fault, and the bun in his hand subconsciously moved forward.

"My lord, people are not sages, and there is nothing wrong with them."

Lao Yang started from the overall situation, and begged his son-in-law not to be in a hurry to make political achievements, but to make progress slowly.

Otherwise, there will be major incidents, which will be detrimental to stability.

"Forget it, the ten-year cold window is also difficult, and it is not easy for the court to train an official. How about this, you send an official document to the subordinates in the name of the chief political envoy. The first is to highlight the determination of the governor to rectify the administration of officials. Officials voluntarily pleaded guilty.”

Jia Liu adopted the reasonable suggestion of Lao Yang, a local tyrant, and added a prop to discuss crimes for this suggestion.

It is not to collect money in the name of cracking down on corruption and rectifying the administration of officials, but to raise start-up funds for the upcoming Zhili New Deal.

"The officials involved in the Sun Lehe case don't have to pay for the crime. You let them take off their hats and go to the governor's office to handle them. If you refuse to pick them up, then you don't blame the governor for asking for the king's order." flag."

The Sun case was Jia Liu's first shot in the sky, and the officials involved in the case must be severely punished, which is not negotiable.

Lao Yang had no objection to this, even though Song, the magistrate of Baoding, was personally selected by him when he was governor, the deputy envoy of the procuratorate often sent gifts to him during the festivals.

No way, who let them bump into the muzzle of the forehead.

Besides, Sun Lehe's case was indeed too rough.

Cutting off a few heads is inevitable.

Jia Liu then asked Lao Yang how much silver he had in the treasury of the Zhili vassal.

Lao Yang said that there are more than one million taels, and this year's summer tax can probably collect about 2 million taels, and the balance after deducting regular donations and losses can be at least 500,000 taels.

"This year, the province's summer tax will not have to be paid to the Ministry of Accounts. After you go back, you will make a detailed list of the distribution of officials' salaries in this province. After I take office, I will institutionalize the salaries of officials in this province."

Lao Yang is the chief political envoy, and the official salary is distributed by the chief administrative envoy's yamen. If Jia Liu wants to straighten out Zhili's finances, he must rely on Lao Yang.

The salary of the Governor of Zhili himself is paid by the Ministry of Households in October every year. It has nothing to do with Zhili's finances and is a matter of the central finances.

The same is true for the bannermen. Every year, the Ministry of Households allocates money to each Dutong Yamen, and then the Dutong Yamen pays the bannermen themselves or their families.

Lao Yang was a little puzzled, not knowing what the eunuch meant by the institutionalization of salary.

Jia Liu roughly explained that after he took office, the salaries of officials in Zhili Province who enjoyed the Yanglian Bank (generally above the seventh rank) should be open and transparent.

For example, the official salary of Yang Jingsu, the chief envoy, is only 155 taels, while Yang Lianyin's salary is between 10,000 taels and 6000 taels.

Under the new system, the Wage Yanglian Bank will be merged, and 15000 taels will be used for this customization.

Calculated according to the purchasing power of one tael of silver, Lao Yang could raise tens of millions of silver a year.

Specifically, there must be a standard reference for how much Yanglian silver is given.

As expected, Lao Yang had served as the governor, and he understood it as soon as he heard it, and immediately pointed out that the corresponding salary could be determined according to the year-end performance appraisal of officials.

If the assessment is excellent, the top amount will be allocated.

If the evaluation is normal, the middle amount will be allocated.

Those who are extremely poor in evaluation will be allocated at the lowest level.

In the past, local officials used to raise money for honesty, which was actually allocated by the higher-level yamen. There were a lot of disadvantages in this way, and it was easy to generate power-for-money transactions.

For example, the upper level allocates 3000 taels of Lianyin to the lower level. The problem is that the lower level may not be able to get all of it, and may only get 2000 taels.

Where did the 1000 taels go?
Here lies the problem.

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From now on, the payment of wages will be uniformly collected by the chief minister, who will evaluate the performance of local officials according to the performance of local officials for one year, and then report to the governor's office for approval and payment according to the standards.

"Yes, that's what it means."

The old bureaucrats are good, and they can see through a little bit.

According to his new regulations, a lot of financial and salary expenses can be saved every year. In addition, the "economic" life of the officials of the whole province will be pinched in the hands of the governor.

From now on, officials in Zhili province will not eat court meals, but Mr. Jia's meals.

If Jia Liu came up with silver dollars, it would be the people of Zhili, together with the official Hua Jia Datou, eating Jia Datou and using Jia Datou.

The economy is buoyant.

However, Yang Jingsu soon realized a new problem, that is, if all wages were collected into the provincial treasury, it would cause the problem of untimely payment of wages.

For higher-ranking officials, the delay in salary payment will not affect too much, but for lower-ranking officials, especially in Qingshui Yamen, who actually work on the front line, it will be more miserable.

Who is Master Jia?

He had already thought of what others thought of.

It is natural to come up with the plan of Zhili Bank.

That is to say, "banks" were set up in each county in the name of the governor's office. All official salaries were paid through the bank, and local taxes were all paid through the bank. Project funds such as local water conservancy and rivers were also paid by the bank.

The concept of "storage absorption" has not been proposed for the time being, but it will be promoted after the new thing "bank" is familiar to officials and has authority.

This point is different from Bank of Sichuan.

There are more than [-] counties in Zhili, that is, more than [-] banks need to be built, and there are government and provincial banks, at least [-].

Along with bank personnel, security personnel, docking with various levels of government and so on.

It is undoubtedly a huge project.

It involves not only civil affairs, but also the military.

"Next month, it will be piloted in Baoding. The staffing will be transferred from the treasury first, and training will be carried out while building."

Jia Liu chatted with Lao Yang for half an hour.

On the way, Lao Yang made an excuse to make it easier, and when he came back, he had already taken a pen and paper, recorded it carefully, and gave his professional opinions from time to time, which made Jia Liu very happy.

He simply told his ultimate goal of organizing Zhili's finances.

It is to bring the expenditures of the local staff in three shifts and six rooms into the provincial finance.

Lao Yang asked puzzledly, "What does your lord mean?"

"That is, in the future, the expenses of the three shifts and six houses will no longer be collected by the local government itself, but will also be allocated by the treasury through the bank."

Jia Liu was studying financial issues a few days ago.

After researching and researching, we found that the biggest financial problem is the problem of local expenditure.

To put it bluntly, local expenditures are the problem of the operation of three shifts and six rooms.

The Qing inherited the Ming system, and did not pay wages to local "eating public meals", but let the county pay for itself.

To put it bluntly, it is to allow the local government to collect all kinds of miscellaneous taxes in addition to the regular tax. If these miscellaneous taxes are not collected, the county magistrate, let alone pay the salary of the third class and the sixth house of the county government, even the salary of the master he brought. no.

Without salary, who will do it for the magistrate of Yi County?
The number of personnel in the three shifts and six rooms is ten times or even dozens of times more than the number of officials.

Taking Ansu County as an example, there are only three officials in name, but there are more than [-] staff members surrounding these three officials.

In the previous life, Jia Liu read some studies, saying that in the Ping Dynasty, the proportion of people supporting officials was very large. For example, about [-] people supported one official in Tang Dynasty, and more than [-] people supported one official in Ming Dynasty. an officer.

In modern times, it has evolved into dozens of common people serving as one official.

It may seem scary, but in fact, the data obtained from these studies are not accurate at all, because the researchers only studied officials and officials, and did not take into account the large number of helpers who were fed by the public.

Counting only officials, there are more than [-] people in Ansu County who provide for three, but in fact, the three shifts and six houses, including the township arrest and miscellaneous soldiers, are all supported by the people.

The staff of the three shifts and six rooms is huge. On the one hand, their existence maintains the government's governance of the local area, and a county can be managed well without a county magistrate.

However, the existence of three classes and six houses prevented the imperial power from going to the countryside. Most of these people were the spokespersons of the local gentry, and some of them could even turn the county magistrate into a decoration.

The exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes to support these people are more than the regular taxes that go into the national treasury, so Jia Liu has to deal with this phenomenon. On the one hand, it is more effective to control the local area, and on the other hand, it is called "reducing the burden on the people". .

The common people are exempted from the miscellaneous taxes for supporting three shifts and six houses, so they naturally need to be more relaxed, which will also promote the development of all walks of life.

A little deeper, it is to make all the officials in Zhili province have the surname Jia.

Mrs. Jia was upset, and everyone was hungry.

"This matter is of great importance, and it has never happened before. If it is done according to the wishes of the adults, the treasury will not be able to bear it."

Lao Yang also told the truth, Mr. Forehead, what you think is very good, the problem is unrealistic.

There are hundreds of people in a county, and there are several 100,000 people in more than [-] counties in the whole province. Even if you send ten taels per person, it will cost several million taels.

It is good to reduce the burden on the people, but where does the money come from?

"Don't worry, this is just the governor's preliminary idea. If it is really implemented, it will have to wait until next year or the year after. The main task of your chief yamen this year is to implement the salary adjustment issue that the governor just said."

Of course, it is impossible for Jia Liu to implement all the new policies now. The premise of tax exemption and burden reduction for the people in the past dynasties is that the treasury has money.

Where does the money come from?
Of course it's the sea.

Guangdong's sea trade has an annual revenue of more than 50 million taels, and Beiyang's trade is only half of it, which is enough for Jia Liu to push the New Deal.

"It's getting dark, I think you will go back to Baoding with me tomorrow."

Jia Liu enthusiastically persuaded Lao Yang to stay for dinner, and he ate a few home-cooked dishes. During the dinner, he asked about his predecessor Zhou Yuanli.

Lao Yang said that Zhou Yuanli had no objection to the imperial court asking him to take up his post. After receiving the notice, he completed the handover procedures and packed up to go back to his hometown in Zhejiang.

Jia Liu nodded, and after dinner, he walked around the county government office and went to rest after eating.

He lives in the house of Qin Liang, the magistrate of Ansu County. Except for changing the bed and bedding, nothing has changed.

Shuan Zhu led people to search, and a total of more than 30,000 taels of stolen silver was handed over. This is because Qin Liang has only served as county magistrate for two years.

"Three years of Qing Zhifu, [-] snowflakes of silver, sincerely don't bully me! This Qin Liang has really failed the cultivation of the court and the teachings of the saints. Dog official, he really deserves to be killed!"

Looking at the silver boxes piled up in the corner, Jia Liu gritted his teeth with anger, and carefully folded the stack of bank notes on the table and put them into his underwear pocket.

He waved his hands to Shuanzhu and the others: "Okay, you guys have nothing to do here, go and rest."

"Whoo!"

Shuan Zhu and the others quickly exited the house.

Jia Liu suddenly thought that he hadn't washed his feet yet, and wanted to ask Shuan Zhu to fetch a bucket of water for him, but after thinking about it, no one could smell his feet anyway.

After belching, he hummed Mrs. Ah Qing's ditty and came to the big bed. Seeing that the bed was hung with curtains, he couldn't help wondering what kind of curtains were hung in winter.

Raising the curtain casually, he couldn't help but change his expression when he saw the scene in front of him. He threw down the curtain in a rage, turned around and was about to push the door out angrily, asking who brought Mrs. Liu out of prison. on his bed.

Just as his hand touched the door, it stopped there suddenly.

Various fragments kept flashing in his mind, and the scene he saw just now made his mouth dry.

After a while, he touched his bare forehead and muttered: "There may be something hidden in this case, I'd better try it again, um, just a few sentences."

Holding his breath, he came to the bedside lightly, quietly stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, and looked at the quilt with both hands like a frightened bird, his eyes were confused and helpless, and he said seriously, "I ask you , do you know your mistake?"

(End of this chapter)