A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 421

The meeting is over.

Wu Huaiyu returned to Yushitai with Gao Jifu, who was newly worshiped as a curator and served as the censor, and Xiao Yu, the doctor of the censor.

Ordered to rectify Lantai.

Wu Huaiyu has been to Yushitai a few times, but he has never really done business here. At the beginning, the emperor asked him to serve as a secretary and serve as Yushi.

"The officials in Taichung are calling here." Xiao Yu said as soon as he came in.

This imperial historian has very high qualifications and the title of participating in the government. It can be said that he is the oldest senior in the court. He entered the Tang Dynasty and served as Minister of the Minbu. After more than a year, the left servant shoots.

Compared with Du Yan and Wen Yanbo, the former censors, this old man is also famous for his bad temper, and no one dares to neglect him.

After a while, all the officials from Yushitai arrived.

Wu Huaiyu saw an acquaintance, Zhao Renben, the censor in the palace, who was a friend of Ma Zhou.

At the beginning, Ma Zhou was working as a teaching assistant in Bozhou, and he resigned because of being upset by the governor Da Xishu. He met Zhao Renben in Mizhou.Zhao Renben was very interested in his talent, so he gave him a sum of money and encouraged him to go to Chang'an to apply for an official.

Zhao Renben and Ma Zhou can be regarded as fellow villagers in Hebei. He is also a very talented person. He was born in the Zhao family in Tianshui. Li Yuan first entered Guanzhong. He can never forget the compiled edicts.

When he met Ma Zhou when he went to Mizhou to pass the imperial edict, he admired his talent very much and believed that his talent would be developed in the future, so he gave him a large sum of money to go to Beijing.

Today's Ma Zhou is indeed deeply appreciated by the king, and his status is already higher than that of Zhao Renben. He was bestowed with Zijin, granted the title of son of Gaotang County, and entered Zhongshusheren.

Zhao Renben was only a seventh-rank palace attendant and censor.

Ma Zhou had always been very grateful to Zhao Renben. Zhao was also one of Ma Zhou's few friends in Beijing. The two families had frequent contacts, and Huaiyu knew him well.

"Zhao Yushi, tell me about the current situation of Yushitai."

Zhao Renben stepped forward, "At present, there are 130 officials in Yushitai, and there are 26 officials in total. There are ten censors in charge, one chief recorder, and two recorders. There are 23 censors in total.

There are also 57 Lingshi, 35 Shulingshi, six pavilion chiefs, and 12 Zhanggu, all of whom are exiles. "

When Wu Huaiyu heard this, she didn't think there were too many people, but felt that there were a little few people.

After all, as the highest judicial and supervisory organ in the Tang Dynasty, there are only a hundred people in total, and only 26 high-ranking officials.

Like the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 100 censors in it.

Although there were few censors at the Yushitai in the Tang Dynasty, their responsibilities were clear, and each had a division of labor, one carrot and one pit.

"Ling Shi and Shu Ling Shi Shu are all economic officials, right? How about arresting Qian Ling Shi?"

"The history of Taichung's money-grabbing order is also included in the compilation of those 50 people."

"How many money arrest orders are there, and how much capital does the Taichung Corporation have?"

"The capital of our Yushitai Palace is the same as that of the Yongzhou Mansion, with a total capital of 380 million, and there are nine orders to seize money."

Wu Huaiyu said, "One person caught 45 yuan, but these nine people only caught [-] yuan, isn't it right?"

"Duke Huiyi, it is true that there were only nine people who arrested Qian Lingshi in the official system, but there are also non-economical non-staff, those who are not outsiders."

Wu Huaiyu calculated, 380 million yuan, if one person seized 76 yuan for lending, then [-] people would have to seize the money, and there were only nine regular employees. Obviously the rest were non-staff temporary workers and had no official status.

"I heard that there are more than 450 divisions in the capital, and nine people in each division seized money, and each person seized [-] yuan. The capital of that company should only be [-] yuan, but how can our Yushitai have a capital of [-] yuan?" ?”

"The capital of 450 yuan is only the first sum at the beginning. However, since the founding of the country ten years ago, the capital of each department and government has been increased. In addition, the accumulation of income from the public land and public money of each government is also increasing,"

Zhao Renben did not hide the truth from these three Taichung officials, and also informed the Taichung small treasury.

450 guan, that was the very beginning. In the beginning, the imperial court really only took [-] guan as the capital for more than [-] divisions in Beijing, but now it has been ten years since the founding of the country. , the money has increased a lot.

Even the [-] guan capital of Yushitai is actually only the official capital, not counting the private capital.

"Private book?" Huaiyu asked knowingly.

"Private funds are also divided into two types. One is to seize money and make Shimen their own capital. There are common people's merchant funds raised at low interest rates, and their own money. They are used as official funds to make loans and earn differential interest from them. There is also a The private copy is the money of the officials in our Yushi Taichung, and it is put in the Yamen to lend money to Lingshi."

This is hitchhiking.

Basically, it is also a common situation of money lending by government agencies at all levels from the capital to the localities.

Use your own private money as public money to lend, with high interest rates, and you don't have to worry about not getting it back.

Private copies often exceed official copies.

This situation is actually quite harmful to the reputation and credibility of the court.

Originally, the public money was a way to make money from the business to cover office expenses and official salaries due to the financial difficulties of the imperial court, but now everyone uses this banner to hitchhike to make money.

Even because the capital is too much to release, it can only be forced to allocate to those big merchants, and the big merchants often pass it on to their own tenants or commodities.

Xiao Yu and Gao Jifu didn't speak, and they knew this very well.

I also know that the imperial court is going to abolish the capital of the public house and the history of seizing money, and the emperor will directly select [-] big households as Xushi, let them pay the money and pay the protection fee in a disguised form, and change the batch every three years to continue to collect.

Wu Huaiyu did the math, not counting the private book, only the official book of Yushitai now has 300 guan, and the profit is [-] guan a year, and there are more than [-] guan in a month.

This interest is mainly used for public office expenses, working lunches in the cafeteria, and officials' salaries.

The third-rank official of the censor doctor has a monthly salary of five thousand and one, and nine hundred for food and miscellaneous uses.

The monthly total for the seventh rank is only [-] coins, the total for the eighth rank is [-] coins, and the ninth rank is only [-] coins per month.

Four of them served as censors from the sixth rank, six served as censors from the palace of the seventh rank, ten from the supervisory censors of the eighth rank, a total of more than [-] high-ranking Taichung officials, and the monthly salary and miscellaneous materials added up to only tens of thousands of dollars .

There are 110 out-of-state officials. These out-of-state officials have very little salary. The salary of ninth-rank officials is only [-] yuan, and they only have a few hundred dollars a month. There is also a portion of food.

Of course, the main income of being a subordinate official is not based on salaries. They mainly rely on various bad practices to earn gray income.

For example, what kind of paper and pen fee and so on.

So if you only count the obvious, now Yushitai’s public office can earn more than 30 yuan in interest a month, while the salaries of officials account for at most [-] yuan.

The remaining [-] yuan is used for office expenses, such as pen, ink, paper, wick oil candles, and expenses such as welcoming and sending hospitality, and working meals in the cafeteria.

Of course, there are still many temporary workers outside the establishment, which also require expenses.

But in general, it is only official now. If the annual interest rate of nearly 100% can be guaranteed, it will save a little money a month, and there may be [-] yuan left.

This money can be used to distribute New Year's benefits to officials, and the rest can be rolled into capital and continue to make profits.

Of course, this is not a private copy.

The officials put their private money into lending together, and deducted a little of the profit fee for catching Lingshi from the money they earned, and then handed over a little to the yamen, and the rest was their own.

In this way, although since Wude, the salary of officials in the capital of the Tang Dynasty is quite low, but with the addition of the officials' Yongye land, job-fen land, and public land income, it is not a gray income or anything, but it is quite good.

"Zhang Yushi, now there is an order from the imperial court to stop lending money from public houses and collecting interest and disturbing the people. From now on, stop lending to outsiders. If the money has already been released, the principal will be recovered immediately when it is due.

Sort out all these accounts, and those who have been caught by Qian Lingshi and non-staff also sort out their own accounts and hand them over. "

Everyone inside and outside the editor must stop this errand.

"Then what shall we do after that?" A catching money Lingshi couldn't help asking, this job is not bad, as this catching money Lingshi, he doesn't have to serve other services, and this job is quite lucrative.

To stop suddenly is tantamount to a blow to the head.

"The imperial court wants to set up a new branch of the branch, and the capital of the company must be allocated as the capital for the imperial court to enter the market and buy. All the history of arresting money can be examined by the Ministry of Officials. After being admitted, it will be a member of the branch office. As for whether it is a non-staff or a non-staff, it depends on the individual's ability."

"The 380 million yuan capital of our yamen will be taken away?"

"Ah."

"Then what about office expenses, canteen meal expenses, and everyone's salary?"

"In the future, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will allocate funds in a unified manner. For example, the monthly salary of the censor in your palace is [-] yuan, and the imperial court will directly distribute it monthly in the future."

"But, but." A few officials hesitated for a long time and couldn't speak. Huaiyu could guess what they wanted to say. Now that they have this public money, they can not only hitch a ride to lend and collect interest, but also pay interest for the company. The money income is really high. Basically, there is a monthly surplus, and a benefit is given for saving energy during the New Year. In addition, charcoal is paid for the usual salary in winter, which can also subsidize a lot.

If there is no corporate money, it will indeed have a great impact.

For those censors who are only six, seven or eight ranks, it is not easy to live in Chang'an. If this income is reduced all of a sudden, it will indeed affect their lives.

"It's not allowed to lend public money in the future, everyone has to understand."

"but."

But now the 380 million public funds are not all handed over. After all, many of them are accumulated from the interest collected from previous loans, and the real capital is not so much.

Turn in a part, or you can keep a part.

The remaining ones can be manipulated whether they are paid out as benefits or left to do something else.

But it can be seen that once Wu Huaiyu's decision was announced, Yushitai was still disappointed, especially those Lingshi, who were full of confusion about the future.

(End of this chapter)