Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 461
Lu Chunqiu invited Fan Ning into the official office. It was the first time for Fan Ning to come to the official office. To his surprise, the outside was very imposing, with tall gates, double lions, long steps and high walls, but the inside was very shabby. After passing the screen wall, there is actually a large mud yard behind it, surrounded by a circle of low mud houses, just like the township government compound in later generations.

The high wall encloses ten acres of land, and only this yard covers an area of ​​about three acres, and the rest are open spaces.

Lu Chunqiu smiled wryly and said: "This is the official office of the commander-in-chief on Jingdong Road. Last year when Taishi Zhang came to inspect, he even praised Zhao Qian for being frugal and managing the family. It's really shabby!"

"How could this be?"

Fan Ning really couldn't believe it, the gate was built so grandly, but the inside was another extreme. Is this the majestic Jingdong Road appeasement officer's office?

"No way, I met a more eccentric boss. He spent most of his time in the barracks behind. There was a tent for him over there. We went to the barracks to report everything. He moved here for three years. He has been here five times, always accompanying others to inspect, and his own official room has never been used."

Fan Ning pondered for a while and asked, "What did the old commander-in-chief in the city do?"

"It's still closed. There is a Taizu's memorial pavilion in the government office. It can't be demolished at will, otherwise it would have been razed to the ground for other purposes."

Fan Ning nodded, "Let's go to the main hall first!"

In the main hall, Fan Ning showed Lu Chunqiu the emperor's secret letter to Lu Chunqiu for review, and the letter clearly stated that he would concurrently serve as the pacifier of Jingdong Road.

Lu Chunqiu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "According to the usual practice, the magistrate of the state where the government is located should also be the pacifier. Back then, Fu Xianggong served as the magistrate of Yingtian and concurrently served as the pacifier of Jingdong Road. Lu Xianggong also served as the same post. The lower officials think that Fan Zhifu is not a temporary substitute, but a formal concurrent post."

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "It's hard to say, let's leave him alone and tell me about the department structure of the Yamen."

"In fact, the settings of the pacification envoy's official office and the Yingtianfu's office are similar. The deputy position of the Yingtianfu's office is the general judge. Here we are the deputy envoys. The subordinates who join the army correspond to the secretary who joins the army. There are judges and pushers. , Household, Gong, Law, Warehouse, Worker, each Cao has one person to join the army, and four people to engage in it.

There are also officials such as left and right patrol inspectors, chief bookkeepers, horse supervisors, medical officers, garrison farms, treasurers, secretaries, etc. There are 22 officials above the ninth rank and 84 subordinate officials, a total of [-] people.

In addition, the civil servants in the military camps in the nine regions are also directly under us, and there are also people hired temporarily. Counting all kinds of establishments together, there are at least 600 people. "

"There are five or six hundred people?" Fan Ning was a little surprised.

"No way, there are eight people repairing carts, more than 700 people raising horses, more than [-] people working in warehouses, and craftsmen responsible for repairing armor, repairing barracks, etc. After all, they have to serve [-] soldiers. Six to seven hundred people is still a small number, but the imperial court only gave us an establishment of [-] people, and the rest can only be solved by recruiting odd jobs."

"Where do they get their money from?"

"There are two main sources of expenditure, one is the income from farming, and the other is the rental income. The appeasement officials have a lot of land in the cities of the prefectures, and they build shops and rent them out. In fact, all the offices are the same. The number of people is huge, and they all rely on various means to make up for it.”

Fan Ning suddenly remembered that when he took office in Zuo Jianyuan, he went to Yan'an Mansion to investigate. In Tongguan, the tax office was contracted to a private person. In fact, the local organization was huge and needed to find ways to make money to make up for the expenses.

His current Yingtian government office is not the same. There are 87 people in the establishment, but in fact there are 240 people, and they all rely on official land and rental income to make up for the gap.

"It seems that you have a lot of income."

"The income is quite a lot, but all the money went to the barracks. Zhao Qian even cut off our winter and summer charcoal money, car materials, and house materials. I don't know how much he hates us government officials!"

Anyway, Zhao Qian had been arrested, and Lu Chunqiu was not too cautious in his speech, and there was obviously resentment in his tone.

At this time, all the officials were almost there. When they heard that Zhao Qian had been arrested, everyone was excited and rushed to the lobby to meet the new pacifier. However, everyone was full of resentment and denounced Zhao Qian for being unkind.

Fan Ning can understand their resentment. After Lu Chunqiu's various subsidies were cut off, his income dropped by at least [-]%. This is undoubtedly a huge pressure on officials who need to support their families.

Fan Ning pondered for a while and then said: "I remember that the appeasement envoy has a large piece of land outside Beicheng, at least three thousand acres, that's right!"

Lu Chunqiu nodded, "That's the old barracks, which have been abandoned for more than ten years."

Fan Ning smiled and said, "That piece of land is close to the county seat, surrounded by farmland, it's a pity to be abandoned, so how about it! Yingtian Mansion also has hundreds of acres of extra vacant land in the city, and I will exchange it with you. The vacant land can be reclaimed as official land, and shops can be built along the official road.”

"But what do we use the hundreds of acres in the city for?"

The speaker was Li Xing, who joined the army, his voice trembled a little, not only him, but also Lu Chunqiu and other officials' eyes lit up, with an uncontrollable longing in their eyes.

Fan Ning stood up and said with a smile to everyone: "I have always believed that one can live in peace and contentment, so the first thing I did after I took office in Yingtian Mansion was to solve the housing problem for low-level officials. Therefore, the consideration of land exchange is to use hundreds of acres in the city to build small official houses and dormitories to solve the housing problem for the officials of Fusi.”

Fan Ning hadn't finished speaking, the hall immediately burst into cheers, thunderous applause, Fan Ning waved his hands with a smile, and it took a while for everyone to quiet down.

Fan Ning continued: "In addition, I have to announce two decisions. First, all the benefits that Zhao Qian gave to everyone will be restored in my hands; second, I will start to repair the old office. Now, let's move back to the city."

Cheers resounded through the courtyard, everyone's face was full of excitement and laughter, the new official took office three fires, and punished his subordinates to establish his prestige. Having obtained three major benefits, such a boss is a rare occurrence in a hundred years!

Songcheng County knew nothing about what happened in the barracks last night. Before dawn, the main store of Zhang’s Grain Store on Songzhou Street was crowded with people who came from all over the city to buy rice. Fu was really a little tired. The three consecutive days of rushing to grab rice made the shop assistants and shopkeepers in a state of high-intensity excitement. Although they were extremely exhausted, they still woke up on time before dawn.

Zhang Fu's father was the chief steward of Zhang Yaozuo's mansion. His original surname was Yu, but he changed his name to Zhang Fu when he was born. Thanks to his father's connections and contributions, Zhang Fu was appointed as the chief shopkeeper of Yingtian Mansion's grain shop and tea shop at the age of 30. I have been doing it for nearly ten years, and I am going to be transferred to the capital to be the big shopkeeper of Zhang's Grain Shop in the capital.

Just as Zhang Fu finished washing and putting on his turban, he heard a commotion outside. He seemed to be in a great mood, and he frowned. Was it so noisy just after opening the door?
He turned his head and asked, "Go and see if the army is here?"

A tea boy ran away, and for a moment, only the sound of hurried footsteps was heard, and a shopkeeper at the front desk came running, and said angrily: "Boss, something happened!"

"What are you panicking about!"

Zhang Fu glared at the shopkeeper, and then asked calmly, "What happened?"

"People outside come here to return the rice, saying that there is a problem with our food."

"what?"

Zhang Fu raised his brows, and he immediately thought that this must be a trick of his competitors. A few days ago they failed to protest, so they came here to play tricks, hum!Is it so easy to be Zhang's grain shop?

He immediately ordered: "Tell the front, any grain sold will not be returned!"

"This is not good!"

"What's not so good, this is food, it's something to eat. If you don't want it, you want to return it. What if there is poison in it? If you sell it again, who will be responsible if someone dies?"

The shopkeeper at the front desk didn't dare to push it any further, so he could only say: "I'll go and order!"

He rushed to the shop in front of him, Zhang Fu only heard the noise in front of him getting louder and louder, and suddenly there was a sound of 'bang!', a stone flew in from the window, hitting the teacup on the table, the teacup shattered, and the tea flowed There is a table.

That was a high-quality teacup from the Ru porcelain folk kiln, no less than the porcelain from the official kiln, it was his most beloved item, he cared for it carefully, but it was smashed unexpectedly.

Zhang Fu felt a throbbing pain in his heart, and then flew into a rage, these bastards were simply deceiving people too much, he got up and rushed to the front counter angrily.

(End of this chapter)