Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 184 Year-end Welfare
Around the time of Shenchu, Luo Cheng also stretched his waist and prepared to leave work as the yamen's Sanya drum sounded.

At the beginning of Shen, that is, at about three o'clock, the yamen got off work.But now it is not called off work, it is called casual office or casual value.Speaking of being an official, it is still very comfortable. The yamen officials in the Sui Dynasty continued the vacation system that started in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Also known as rest and mu, rest every five days.

In ancient times, Mu refers to washing hair, and Bath refers to taking a bath.Shuumu, the original intention is to give officials a vacation to wash their hair and rest. It is said that because the ancients have long hair, it takes a lot of time to wash their hair, and they can’t dry it for a while after washing their hair. Will not meet people.

The government also deliberately gave officials a day off every five days.

Since the Tang Dynasty, it has been changed to a ten-day rest, which is called a ten-day rest.

Luo Cheng is the captain of the county soldiers, which is considered to be a member of the county soldier system. Normally, he does not need to be on duty in the county government, but now it is the end of the year, and there are a lot of inventory work.

In addition, the end-of-year settlement initiated by Du Ruhui has become very popular.

With Luo Cheng taking the lead in repaying the arrears as an example, other wealthy and powerful households did not dare to perfunctory.Some people wanted to be perfunctory, so they paid some money and food to pass the test, but this time Du Ruhui had a coup.

He handed over the task of urging the payment to the county corps. Of course, there was no profit, and the emperor did not send hungry soldiers.Du Ruhui told Luo Cheng that there is a commission for urging the payment, and the county will reward the barracks for a stone of grain.If you come up with a consistent amount of money, you will be rewarded one hundred.

This is a [-]% commission, which is quite generous.

Luo Cheng's county barracks is a big spender, how could he miss such a good thing.

On the same day, Luo Chengcheng issued an order that the 500 people in the county barracks, except for the 100 on duty, the other 400 people all assembled, led by the brigade commanders and team leaders, and went down together with Zuo Shi and other officials of the county government office. Township clearance.

Still according to the old rules, the team responsible for urging the payment will share [-]% of the commission, and the remaining [-]% will be deposited in the camp for future expenses, and the other half will be shared among the brothers in the camp.

In short, whoever has the ability to get the money can get [-]% more.

Stimulated by this kind of reward, the brothers in the county barracks really worked hard.

The county soldiers are no more than ordinary yamen servants. These people go to collect debts, just like fighting a war, fully armed, carrying guns and knives.When you get to the place, you can’t do without paying, and they just sit there and search your family’s property directly.

You say you have no money, but the county soldiers don’t look for ordinary people. They only look for those big businessmen who owe a lot.

In fact, most of the rich and powerful are not without money, but unwilling to pay.

If it is true that they have no money to pay, ordinary people will not be able to survive.

The county soldiers directly check your warehouse and rummage through your cabinets. You still can’t resist. If you resist, sorry, they are fully armed. Even if the big households have servants in their homes, do you dare to fight with the county soldiers?These guys have seen blood killing people when suppressing bandits.

However, the county soldiers also have discipline, even if they are urged to clear up, they will not mess around.

He will not take the opportunity to rob, let alone beat people casually.

But you have to pay what you owe, and if you get money, you will pay it off. If you don’t have money, there will always be food.There is not enough food, and there is always gold and silver in the house. If it is not possible, the rich families still have horses, mules, donkeys, and slaves.

They are all clear and accurate, and there are special people to estimate the price for you, and they will never make random estimates.

If it's time for meals, you still have to take care of their meals, whether it's not enough or not.

Encountering such a group of Qiu Balai who can't be beaten, scolded, or touched to collect the bills, although the rich and powerful households are full of anger, they have no place to complain, because this is the county magistrate's intention, and the county magistrate also agrees, and the county magistrate personally sent someone Come and collect, what do these three heads mean, what can they do.

It's not too much to say that I owe a lot.

This family owed tens of stone grains, and that family owed more than ten pennies, no more, no less, just a little angry.

But no one would insist on turning against the county government and fighting the county soldiers for such a small amount of money and food.

In a few days, the debts of the wealthy merchants and landlords in the county government were almost paid off.

After several years of debts, they were paid off at once, and the warehouses of the county government were full.

But after clearing the debts of these big households, Luo Chengcheng is not responsible for the remaining common people's debts.

Firstly, the common people did not have any money to pay in arrears, and then they really did not have much money. Luo Cheng was not willing to let his county soldiers go door-to-door to rob other people’s houses. A few chickens, that family has a bag of grain.

He doesn't do that kind of thing.

Fortunately, Du Ruhui didn't force it. Anyway, those rich and powerful households owed a lot, and if they urged them, there wasn't much left.

Du Ruhui issued a notice to let the people in all townships take the initiative to clear the payment, but it was just a notice to make a show, and he didn't care about whether the specific people responded to it or not, whether they had money to pay or not.

Du Ruhui is a person who is good at handling things, and he is not rigid. He promised to give Luo Cheng a [-]% commission, and he gave it immediately.

Then he kept another [-]% as a small treasury for the county government, and used it as a year-end bonus to distribute year-end bonuses to public officials throughout the county. , Li chiefs and village officials in each township have a share, and even county soldiers and township soldiers also have a share.

Although they don't get much, everyone has a share.

This is the first time Zhangqiu County has encountered such a thing in all these years. Everyone was very happy and praised County Captain Du as a good official.Du Ruhui was more than that, he also sent some money and food to the elderly over 60 years old in the county, and also sent some money and food to the orphans, widows, and disabled.

There are not many people, but they represent the heart of the county.

Compared with ordinary county soldiers who only get one hundred coins, Luo Cheng, the captain, got a lot of money, a total of sixty coins. The huge amount made Luo Cheng a little worried. Too much.

It's not obvious that it's corruption, what if the higher-ups investigate it?
In the end, Du Ruhui and Zhang Yichen told him that this kind of thing is actually not a problem at all, and it was tacitly allowed by the above.After all, if state and county officials only rely on that little salary, life will not be easy.

Job-sharing land, public land, and public money are all considered public welfare income.

It is completely routine for Du Ruhui to set up a small treasury and distribute bonuses.

As a result, Luo Cheng accepted it with a smile, sixty pennies, not a small bonus.It is said that Du Ruhui and Zhang Yichen each won a hundred guan, much more than him.

The fourth child, as Fa Sizuo, has won twenty guan.The second brother, as the leader of the county strong team and the captain of the township regiment, won ten guan.

Everyone was smiling, and they all praised County Captain Du as a sensible person, and the fourth child even praised him several times, not remembering how he shouted to kill that dog thief surnamed Du.

The debts were cleared and the bonuses were paid, so when there were still a few days before the end of the Chinese New Year, the county was sealed off for a holiday, and only some subordinate officials on duty were arranged to guard, and the rest could go home to celebrate the New Year.

(End of this chapter)