Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 471 Autumn Fu (27)

The few people kneeling on the ground turned pale with fright. The stick is a "big punishment" that the county government only uses to torture murderers or gangsters. Even if you are a tough guy, you have to confess with two ropes .Moreover, the legs and feet of those who have used the stick will be left disabled.

It is common for the subordinate officials in the county government to be punished by the master, from the head of the book office to the general clerk.However, since the subordinate officials are in the same industry, they usually share the same voice, and Zaoli's hitting the board is just for meaning, most of them hit the ground with the head of their staff, and it is rare for them to have meat.Now the head of Australia is going to be pinched when he speaks, how can he stand it!

Several people immediately kowtowed like pounding garlic, begging: "Master, please spare me!"

"Stop knocking," You Guotuan said, "tell me about it, how much have you freed from the county storehouse?"

"How dare you little ones—" The following few desperately shouted for grievances.

At this moment, the four remaining yamen servants in the soap class were called in.As soon as they entered the door, they knelt down and kowtowed together.

"You don't need to kowtow, get ready to work." You Guotuan ordered, "Have you brought everything?"

"I brought all the words back to the master," the yamen servant peeked at the few people kneeling on the ground.Seeing that they are all treasury officials, I know that the Australians are going to clean up these "fat pigs".

"Come on, give everyone twenty boards first." You Guotuan ordered directly.

"Master, please forgive me, the young one is rich and rich, willing to honor the master..."

"It's too late to say now." You Guotuan waved his hand, "Do it!"

These few are all well-known "business-savvy" Zaoli, seeing other people being sent out of the city to unknown whereabouts, but they still stay in the county government.I was very frightened.I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse.Now it is heard that they are ordered to be punished, this is a piece of work, just take it out.One by one, they are full of energy.He dragged the person over to wash and peel off.

The scribe who was neatly dressed just now was stripped naked, like a naked pig.A few Zaoli were really able to do it, regardless of his wailing and struggling, they fell to the ground, and the two picked up the bamboo board and waved it immediately.

The muffled sound of the bamboo board hitting the flesh at the first time caused a shrill scream, but there was no blood on Bai Huahua's buttocks, and You Guotuan knew that these saponins didn't dare to fake it.If you try to fool him, the first blow will pull the skin off your butt, which looks bloody, but the damage is not serious.Such a bloodless beating is not only extremely painful, but the trauma is also much more serious.

In the last few boards, the soap slaves broke the skin and let the blood out according to the rules, so as to prevent these people from bruising and dying.

After the board was beaten, several treasury officials were lying on the ground and could not move.

"Okay, let's talk about it carefully, how much benefit did you get from the county treasury? Where are you storing it?" You Guotuan asked, "How many people in the county government have received your benefit? Give me one by one." Invite!" As he spoke, he asked people to put down the pen and paper, "Write it with your own hand, and write it neatly."

... After a long commotion, these guys all handed in their first "homework".Frowning to identify these traditional characters, but also to compare them one by one.What a chore.Fortunately, there is no need to look very carefully - this is naturally handled by other professionals, as long as they answer the questions honestly.

These treasury officials suffered from the board and wrote a long confession. They were exhausted for a long time, and they all lay on the ground moaning. The young and strong ones were okay, and the older ones were usually too lazy to exercise. He just fainted.

"Okay, give them fingerprints first." You Guotuan instructed the slaves, "Take these few down and apply medicine first, so that they will raise them. I will ask them again after a few days!"

All of a sudden there was a wail: "Master, please be kind, the little one can say anything..."

"Take it down," You Guotuan waved impatiently.It doesn't look like things are tricky, and all the openings are opened after a meal.The modern utensils he had brought with him seemed useless.

The statement was immediately sent to Zhang Youfu's house, where it was transcribed by the language team and distributed to the relevant responsible persons.This list also reached the hands of the person Xiong Buyou was about to introduce to Wu Mingjin.

"Now Wu Mingjin is in our hands." Zhou Botao looked at the materials and patted the table.

"What's the matter?" Wood was also studying the material.

"According to the confession of the officials of the salt depot, Wu Mingjin's close family members have repeatedly borrowed salt from the salt depot."

"Oh?" Wu De and the people around the table were all interested.

"Look," Zhou Botao pointed at the document, "on the fourth page, the official of the salt depot said. The Wu family has a few servants, and they borrow some salt from the salt depot every year. They will pay it off at the end of autumn."

"This is not surprising. Don't forget that a large part of the private salt produced after we took control of the Mayiao Salt Field is distributed through his hands."

"It's different in nature. That's purely private salt. It's turning the public into private," Dong Weiwei said after reading it. In fact, this is also a means of cheating. The salt in the county treasury is borrowed and sold directly to the private Saltmonger.When the output of sun-dried salt increases greatly in autumn, the salt will be floated in the salt field to fill up the holes.

Table salt is easy to deliquescence and consumes a lot, so the collection of salt also has floating income.It is also a big burden of salt.

Sell ​​the high-priced salt collected by the government at a low price, and then use floating revenue to fill the gap.It's simply a bargain!

"Why doesn't he get private salt directly from the salt field?"

"At that time, the Maliu Salt Field was controlled by the Gou family. If he intervened directly, he would have to collude with the Gou family—the Gou family's reputation is too bad. It's probably because he didn't want to do something."

"It's no wonder that when Wang Zhaomin came out to negotiate last year, he hit it off with our proposed joint salt smuggling business. It turned out that they had already been doing it!"

"Otherwise, why have so many people throughout the ages squeezed their heads to become officials?" Wu De laughed, "Yan Ruyu, the Golden House, is not just talking."

"Would we have touched his cake by cleaning up the county treasury?" Xiong Buyou was very concerned about this issue.

"He has already obtained the income from salt from us, so cleaning up the county treasury has little effect on his gray income--the treasury official's account book is very clear: since last year, such borrowings and payments have completely stopped ——With our participation."

In the afternoon, Xiong Buyou brought a "kun thief" whom Wu Mingjin and others had never seen before to ask for an interview. This person was the president of Delong Grain Company——Yan Ming.

Although Yan Ming is not yet at the level of a people's committee member in the timetable of the time-traveling group, Delong already has the faint intention of being the central bank of the time-traveling group, and the importance of his status is self-evident.His status is important, and he has complex financial knowledge, so he rarely leaves Bairen City on weekdays. Except for visiting Bopu and Dongmen City a few times during work inspections, he has never been outside the Green Zone. not involved.

This time he actually appeared in the county office, in order to sell his plan to act as an agent of the county treasury to the county magistrate-of course, it was essentially coercive.Regardless of Wu Mingjin's willingness or not, Delong's agency county treasury system will still be implemented. This is also an important measure to refresh the county government.And this move has a great relationship with the reform of the taxation system.

According to the estimates of the leading group, under the dual effects of Tiandihui's agricultural technology promotion and the new collection system, Lingao's tax revenue will increase on a large scale in the next five years.

However, this increase is not for the purpose of consolidating Ming Dynasty's rule. The right to use this increased income must fall into the hands of the Transcending Group.Just as the Executive Committee is constantly strengthening its control over the property of various departments under the system, the Financial Rights Executive Committee of Lingao County also needs to control.

The means of control is to bypass the county government.This is the agency county library business.

Acting county treasury business has existed in the late Qing Dynasty.At that time, the emerging bank and money bank not only acted as the agent of the county treasury, the government treasury, but even the feudal treasury.Local tax payment and administrative appropriation are carried out through these financial institutions, which not only saves the county and government-level treasury and storage affairs, but also transfers and transfers funds is more convenient than withdrawing cash and transporting in the past.Yan Ming just wanted to advance this system to the end of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this reform will affect the interests of a group of people, theoretically Wu Mingjin is one of them.However, judging from the confessions of the treasury officials and the seized account books, Wu Mingjin generally did not directly send money to the county treasury, except for collecting the "regular money" that was given to him every year from the treasury and smuggling some salt from the food treasury. Reach out.In this regard, this person can be regarded as quite clean among local officials.As for other small officials and officials, there are many so-called "borrows", which are "borrows" in name, but in fact they share the oil and water of the treasury officials.

Now that Wu Mingjin himself doesn't have much selfish desire for the county treasury, and the benefits he got from the Crossing Group are not small, the matter of acting as the county treasury will not encounter too much resistance.

As for whether other people object or not, Wu De doesn't care.Of course, if Wu Mingjin was really determined to object, he also had a way to make him submit.Although Wu Mingjin's black material is not enough, the weight is not small.

"Acting the county treasury?!" Hearing Yan Ming's request, Wu Mingjin was a little puzzled, but his first reaction was extremely absurd——the county treasury is the warehouse of the country, how can a grain company be called as an agent?

After thinking about it, this is just a trick by the thieves intending to plunder the property of the county treasury.Thinking of this, Wu Mingjin showed a look of indignation on his face, and a bit of the backbone of a scholar emerged again.I am the main hall of Lingao County, a dignified Ming Dynasty selected by the imperial court!If you can't even keep a county treasury, what kind of official will you be?

"Forgive me for this matter." Wu Mingjin said coldly, "Although the county treasury is small, it is also an important place for the government. How can we lightly entrust businessmen to take care of it?"

"Master Wu, you misunderstood." Yan Ming expected such a reaction from him, and said patiently, "Delong acts as an agent for the county treasury, but actually handles the business of collection and payment on behalf of the county. The biggest benefit to the county is that it saves money. The encroachment of subordinate officials."

(End of this chapter)