The big rivers and lakes that attack

Chapter 724

Although Zhongdu is on the territory of General Zhao's Mansion, it does not belong to the General's Mansion. In other words, it does not belong to any of the seven major surnames, but it also belongs to the seven major surnames.

It's like the upper capital is on the territory of Li Gonghou's mansion, but it is shared by the four northern surnames, and the lower capital is on the territory of the Eastern Sikou, but it is shared by the three southern surnames.

There is only one official department in Zhongdu City, which is the Department of Public Security. The name seems to be dedicated to maintaining law and order in Zhongdu City, but it is not the case.

The power of the Department of Public Security is relatively large. In addition to maintaining law and order, they also take over taxation, urban planning and construction, household registration and so on.

Legend has it that at the beginning, the Secretary of Public Security still had the power to judge, but it didn't take long for everyone to stop talking about it.

Because most of the people who commit crimes, especially those who commit major crimes, are from your family, and you are used by your family to judge?How old are you?

The Secretary of Public Security controls the tax revenue of the entire Central Capital, and then uses this tax revenue to maintain the law and order, planning, construction, etc. of the Central Capital.

The Department of Public Security does not belong to any of the seven major surnames, as if it exists outside the seven major surnames. The highest chief of the Department of Public Security is called the "Secretary of the Law of the People's Police".

The name is relatively long, and everyone usually only has two words: "Secretary Officer".

The judges of the Department of Public Security do not belong to any of the seven surnames, but some people with reputation and virtue in the city are selected, and then the seven surnames of the "Eternal Family" and a group of noble surnames vote to decide.

The person who gets the most votes will become the so-called "big secretary" and serve him for 20 years, and everyone will change after 20 years.

This chief official looks majestic, he is in charge of the entire Zhongdu City, he seems to have a lot of power, but there are a bunch of ancestors sitting on his head, he dare not offend any of them, so he only manages those low-level people with no background strength.

Although such a position of being angry everywhere and serving people everywhere, every time it comes to the "change of office", how many people in the city of Zhongdu break their heads and want to become "big officers".

Some people even went so far as to go bankrupt and travel between many families with noble surnames in order to get a "nomination of a judge".

The reason for this is that, without him, the tax revenue in Zhongdu City is too generous. After one term of chief officer, even if it is the money embezzled openly and secretly, it is enough for him to enjoy it for a lifetime.

Even during this period, he can still get a lot of convenience, which is very profitable for him to open the door to his business in Zhongdu City.

Isn't it just 20 years of anger?Won't I get it back from the bottom if I get angry from above?

The annual tax revenue of Zhongdu City is almost tens of millions of gold. Naturally, the previous officials did not dare to stuff all this money into their own pockets. After all, they need to maintain the normal operation of Zhongdu City, and there are seven surnames watching over it. .

But a small part of the flow is still possible. After a long time, after 20 years, won't he be happy with a fortune of tens of millions of gold?

"Mr. Haoran may ask, with such a huge tax, don't the seven surnames covet it?"

At the dinner party, Bai Shengfei asked Li Dao about the actual situation in the capital city after drinking three rounds and eating five flavors.

In this banquet, apart from Li Dao and Bai Shengfei, there were also Jiang Wan and the three sisters of the Bai family. It was considered a small banquet. As for the others, Xiao Chu, Zhu Wan and Xiao Ma were not eligible to participate.

They were arranged to be entertained by the butler of the Bai family in another place. After all, they were all "servants, servants", how could they participate in the banquet of the masters?
According to the past, when Jiang Wan was not a "boss lady", she was not qualified, but who made her "promoted" now?
And along the way, I had a lot of contact with the three Bai sisters, and she was also a speedster, and she would come again, so the three Bai sisters quickly accepted her, feeling like a "best friend".

Therefore, Bai Shengfei recognized Wan'er's identity as "the wife of the head of the famous family" instead of "an employee of the White Camel Villa", and he was quite respectful to her.

Hearing Bai Shengfei's question, Li Dao smiled jokingly and said, "Yeah, I'm also very puzzled. The tax revenue of nearly ten million a year is put in other places, even if it is the land I sent to control the fifteen states, Not so much."

Bai Shengfei laughed and said, "Because your surname doesn't like this 'fly head'..."

Hearing what he said, Li Dao actually felt quite sour in his heart. When he was in Ming Tang, Hong Anming, Hong Qi and his sixth elder brother, took Li Dao to visit Ming Tang's "Zang Treasure Building" when he had nothing to do.

There are countless treasures inside, a small teapot, which is said to have been used by "Xuanwu Sword Master" Lin Jing 300 years ago, and they are all worth millions of gold.

There is also a bronze statue of a human body and a bird head in the old era, which was photographed in Xiadu City by Hong Patriarch who spent 3000 million gold.

There is also a seven-foot-high god corpse without any "activity", which was picked up by Hong Patriarch and bought from the "magic sword" Chen Yu and Chen Mingxuan for 500 million gold.

But its real value, if it is auctioned in Dazhong Prefecture, it will cost more than 2000 million gold. If someone likes this thing, it is likely to bid up to 5000 million gold...

From that time on, Li Dao had a preliminary understanding of the financial resources of these "family with noble surnames".

Mingtang is very rich, and their combined wealth may have surpassed the "Wanshi family", but other noble families are not far behind.

The total amount of power, land and wealth held by any of them may have reached one billion, tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of gold, so how could they care about such a small tax in the capital city?
To give an inappropriate example, if a big money, a silver sentence, and a gold baht are compared to a penny, a dime, or a yuan.

Then, the transactions in Border Desert are settled in "cents", while Zhongtu is settled in "gross". When it comes to Dazhong Prefecture, it is upgraded to "yuan".

This example is actually not appropriate. After all, outside Dazhongzhou, when you stay in a hotel, you can live in a presidential suite (inn compound) for one yuan (one gold baht). It sounds so mysterious.

Li Dao didn't know anything about economic and financial exchange rates, and he hadn't done any research in this area, but in the face of all kinds of things in this world, how he looked at them felt distorted, even deformed.

Can't they be unified?

In the border desert, people fight to death for dozens of dollars. The "first-class sects" that dominate a state in the middle and earth are only worth a million dollars, but in the central capital, the annual tax revenue is nearly ten million dollars.

And this income of nearly ten million gold, in the eyes of the noble family, is nothing but something bigger than a "fly head", they still don't like it...

If there is no comparison, there will be no harm, and Li Ba[-] felt sore in his heart.

Anyway, he is also the head of the land that governs the fifteen prefectures. It stands to reason that such a large piece of land can be compared with the snowy bamboo forest in the northeast, the sword main peak in the southeast, and the big aunt in the southwest. What about the face?

There is no way, people are poor and short-sighted, and horses are thin and long-haired. He also needs to have the strength of a bamboo blood master, a big aunt...

(End of this chapter)