Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 469 Autumn Fu (25)

Although the yamen servants are usually invincible and seem to be a tyrant over the people, they actually completely rely on the power of the system.Once you encounter "hard goods" that the system cannot control, you will only be deflated.The Australians naturally didn't buy into Ming's system, and the yamen servants were all very sensible. Wu De originally planned that they might have riots or something, but he didn't expect that after seeing the shiny spears and swords around him, he would say There was no nonsense, so they lined up obediently and went out of the city one by one.Not even the rope that was ready to bind people was used.

Among them, the team leaders and backbones enjoyed special treatment, and they were directly tied up and stuffed into the loaded ox cart and pulled out.They will enjoy a separate room in the study class.

The place where the yamen servants go is the "study class". Of course, this study class is not for "study", but mainly for screening and interrogation.Before finally solving these people, Wu De intends to get as much information from them as possible.

As for Liufang, Hufang has been fully accepted by a special group of the Planning Commission.Because of the county-wide financial problems involved in the household housing, except for the arrested Chen Minggang and a group of "grain workers" under his command, the rest of the people are temporarily retained and left to be cleaned up slowly.Zhou Qi's appointment as the Household Book Office has not yet come down, but he has officially taken over the place—of course, under the bayonet escort of the Crossing Group.

Wu De also doesn't trust Zhou Qi. In his opinion, none of the people who come out of the old system can be reused.Zhou Qi is only a temporary transitional figure. He has another plan for how to deal with households and how to carry out the work of collecting grain and tax in the future.

For the time being, all the personnel in the punishment room are reserved, but Zhang Shi, the secretary, has been arrested.His arrest was mainly related to Chen Minggang.Since he is Chen Minggang's brother-in-law, he can no longer stay in such a position.I would rather catch the wrong one than let it go.

The book offices of the other houses needed them to deal with their daily business, so after they were called into the county government office, Xiong Buyou announced that they would continue to work in the government office and "serve the emperor and the court with all their heart."But you are not allowed to leave the yamen.The retained personnel in each room are also treated in the same way.

"Although the personnel in the official room will not move, you must immediately send special personnel to take over, and they are not allowed to move the archives inside." Wu De instructed Zhou Botao.

The official office controls the personnel systems of Lijia, Baozheng, and township officials in the county, as well as the files of officials and subordinates in the yamen, all of which are managed by the office. All appointments, removals, promotions, transfers, and salary additions must go through their hands.It is equivalent to the county personnel bureau plus the organization department in modern time and space.Great authority.

The Crossing Group needs to have a clear grasp of the "local cadre" system in Daming Lingao County. The archives of this department are very important, and special personnel are assigned to control the archives in the county.

Another important place is the county's warehouse.One of the objects arrested that night was the treasury official who was in charge of the treasury.Immediately after his arrest, this person was detained in the county government office, awaiting disposal.The planning committee has no confidence in how much rice can be collected from the county warehouse in Lingao County.However, there will always be a little bit.And the treasurer's family's property will not be less.

As for other subordinate officials in the county government, including jailers, gangsters, executioners, cangdou-levels, and skewers, they are all professionals. Although there are drawbacks in almost every link, cleaning them up is not the top priority.Just keep it for now.

That night, the Lingao County Yamen was brightly lit and busy all night.Every family in the county closed their doors and dared not come out to visit, and the whole county fell into a tense atmosphere.Xiong Buyou sits in the county government and directs everything, he is very busy.

Wu Mingjin and Wang Zhaomin had no idea what happened in Qianya.After the interrogation in the Flower Hall ended at noon, Wu Ya came in and told the whole story.This result made him quite satisfied.

"It seems that Australians are quite aware of the key points of local governance, and appeasing the gentry is the top priority." Wang Zhaomin commented.

Wu Mingjin frowned: "It's a good thing to appease the gentry, but Chen Minggang was reprimanded, and a whole grain manager was dismissed. What should I do if I receive half of the autumn gift?"

"Don't worry about this, Dong Weng." Wang Zhaomin was confident, "Since they dared to arrest Chen Minggang, they naturally had countermeasures."

Wang Zhaomin volunteered, saying that he was willing to contact the Australians, and asked them to come up with practical solutions on how to pay the autumn tax, and then return the favor.

"Just don't make any more tricks this time." Wu Mingjin sighed, feeling that his role as an official was a bit thrilling, and the good mood he had cultivated for more than half a year was not much left at this time.

In the afternoon, he fell into a panic - the servant suddenly reported, and the county government was blocked.Even the passage to the front office was guarded, and no one was allowed to enter or exit.

"The clothes I see are brothers from Zaoban, but I don't know any of the younger ones!" the servant reported.

"There is such a thing?" Wu Mingjin was taken aback.What is this for?

"Mr. Wang, please come here!"

The servant went out and came back after a while, saying that the passage to Mr. Wang's yard was also controlled, and no one was allowed to enter or exit now.

Wu Mingjin's fluctuating mood once again fell into despair-the delusion of living peacefully with the Kun thief until he left office was completely shattered.It seems that they are really going to rebel this time.I just don't know whether to accept the fake job by myself.Wu Mingjin was terrified by this terrible thought that had been haunting him since morning.Although he was prepared to die rather than surrender, it was still difficult for a person to face his own fear when he was about to die.

That night, everyone in the county government had a sleepless night.Wu Mingjin didn't close his eyes all night, listening to the sounds of the front office in fear.However, apart from more footsteps, there was no shouting or looting as he expected.The east is white, so Wu Mingjin got up in the signing room—in order to avoid family inquiries, he didn't go back to the inner house at all—washed hastily, and the servant brought breakfast.Question: Master Wang has come, do you want to invite him in?

"Of course! Please come in right away." Wu Mingjin almost didn't even want to eat breakfast, thinking that Master Wang probably hadn't eaten it, "ask the kitchen for another one."

Wang Zhaomin said that he had already eaten.Looking at his appearance, he didn't look frightened at all, but he was a little proud.Wu Mingjin couldn't help feeling suspicious.Master Wang didn't know what he helped the thief yesterday, did he?Kun thief has always been generous...

Master Wang didn't know that his boss had doubts about him, so he hurriedly told him the important news he heard in the morning.

"All the Australians have agreed to the Autumn Fu." Master Wang knew that his master was most concerned about this matter. "If the county's autumn grain is not harvested for a while, they will pay in advance..."

"Advance payment?!" Wu Mingjin was taken aback.Even with the consumption of rice on the forehead, it takes at least [-] shi for the brown rice to pass.This is Lingao, not Nanzhili. Not only is the population sparse, but the yield of the fields is even poorer.Even if the thieves have a secret method to grow rice, they have tens of thousands of people under their own hands, and these people still need rice to eat...

"That's right," Wang Zhaomin was obviously very relieved about the ability of the Time Travel Group, "Master Xiong and a master from Delong Grain Company will come to see Dong Weng soon, and talk about Qiu Fu."

"How much interest do they want?" Wu Mingjin knew that there was no such thing as a free pie in the sky, and there were also advance taxes in other places. For example, when some counties collected Xia Fu, the imperial court designated that wheat should be collected, but the local wheat was only harvested in autumn.Then, generally, the county borrows stored grain from the big households in the county to pay for it, and repays it after the autumn harvest. Of course, there is a sum of interest.

"No interest." Wang Zhaomin showed a smug expression, "Master Xiong said that because of Chen Minggang's incident, the matter of autumn tax collection needs to be sorted out again. In order not to miss the deadline for payment, they will pay in advance first. The positive amount and the consumption of rice. Even the transportation and payment of warehouses are handled by them.”

There is a large amount of miscellaneous fees for shipping and warehouse payment, which is cumbersome and has to be blackmailed by the carrier's owner.It takes a lot of trouble every year, which makes Wu Mingjin quite a headache.Wouldn't it be a great thing if the Australians were willing to undertake it.No wonder Wang Zhaomin looked proud.

Wu Mingjin suddenly remembered: "The front office was very noisy last night, and the front and back were cut off. What happened?"

"A big thing happened." Wang Zhaomin was invited by Xiong Buyou early this morning, and Xiong Buyou told him about the matter.

"What?!" Wu Mingjin yelled at the case, "It's unreasonable, who is going to win the world in Lingao County?"

In one night, so many yamen servants were arrested, and Chen Minggang was reprimanded.He actually took the head of the third class and the secretary of the punishment room away.This is simply rebellion!

It’s not about how powerful, loyal and useful these people are to me—on the contrary, none of these people are kind, but the Australians took them away without a single greeting from me. This is too much contempt for the government!

"Dong Weng!" Wang Zhaomin said, "It seems that this Australian wants to get involved in the county government..."

"Hmph, this is blackmailing the Son of Heaven to make everyone..." Wu Mingjin shut up at this point, what kind of "Son of Heaven" is he?Wang Zhaomin understood what he meant. The Australians were trying to evacuate the county government and completely take away the administrative power of the county government—in the future, they can use the name of Daming Lingao County to do things in the name of Daming Lingao County.

This trick may not be easy to succeed in the core area ruled by the Ming Dynasty, but it is another matter in Lingao, a small county in the southern frontier where the sky is high and the emperor is far away.The land here is sparsely populated, and it is almost isolated from the world. The exchange of goods is extremely underdeveloped, and there is very little population flow.Internal and external news spread very slowly. Most of the local gentry had never seen much of the world, the imperial examination was not popular, and they lacked influence in official circles.

(End of this chapter)