Several people on the ground were so frightened that their faces turned pale. The clamp stick is a "big punishment" used by the county government to kill murderers or Jiangyang thieves, even if you are a tough guy with iron, you have to open your mouth to confess if you pull two ropes. Moreover, people who have used clamps will have disabilities in their legs and feet.

It is common for the officials in the county government to be beaten by the old man's board, up to the head of the book office, and down to the general soap officer. But since the officials are peers, they speak in unison on weekdays, and the soap is just a meaning, most of them are skillful, and it is rare to have meat. Now the Australian chief is about to clamp the stick, how can he stand it!

Several people immediately kowtowed like pounded garlic and begged: "Master spare your life!" ”

"Don't knock it". You Guotuan said, "Let's talk about it, how many things have you freed up from the county treasury?" ”

Where do the little ones dare to "The following are desperately shouting grievances.

At this time, the four remaining servants in the soap class were called in. As soon as you enter the door, you kneel down and kowtow together.

"Kowtow is not necessary, get ready to work." You Guotuan commanded, "Everything has been brought?" ”

"If you go back to the master, you have brought it." The official peeked at several 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 each of you twenty boards first." You Guotuan ordered directly.

"The lord spares his life, the little one is rich and rich, and he is willing to honor the lord,"

It's a little late to say it now, You Guotuan waved his hand, "Do it!" ”

These are all well-known "skilled in business" soap li, and when they saw that others were sent out of the city to unknown whereabouts, they still stayed in the county office. I was very scared. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. Now I heard that they were going to be tortured.,This is the color of this work.,Take it out.。 One by one, they were full of energy. I dragged people over and washed them up.

The scribe, who was still neatly dressed just now, was suddenly recorded, like a bare pig. A few soap lily were really able to get their hands down, regardless of his wailing struggle, pressed to the ground, and the two of them picked up the bamboo board and immediately waved it.

The first muffled sound of the bamboo plate on the meat caused a terrible scream, but there was no bleeding on Bai Huahua's buttocks, and You Guotuan knew that these soaps did not dare to fake. If you want to fool him, the skin on your ass will be pulled off at the first time, and it looks bloody, but in fact, the injury is not bad. Such a bloodless beating is not only extremely painful. And the trauma is much more severe.

Zuihou a few boards, the soaps broke the skin and bled according to the rules, so as not to let these people bruise and attack their hearts.

After the board was played, several ear guards lay on the ground and could no longer move.

"Okay, hello haode, tell me, how much benefit did you take from the county treasury? Where are they stored? You Guotuan asked, "How many people in the county government have received your benefits?" Give me all the tricks." As he spoke, he told people to drop the pen and paper, "Write it yourself, and write it neatly." "It's been a lot of commotion, and these guys have all handed in the first one" The homework frowned and identified these traditional characters, and compared them one by one. It's a chore. Fortunately, you don't need to look at this very carefully. Naturally, there are other professionals to handle it, as long as they answer the questions honestly.

These few treasurers were beaten by this board, and wrote a large confession, and they had long been exhausted, and one by one they lay on the ground and moaned, the young and strong ones were okay, and the older ones, who were usually lazy to exercise, simply fainted.

"Okay, let's put a mudra on them first." You Guotuan instructed the soap subordinates, "These few will be brought down for medicine first, and let them raise and raise." I'll ask them again in a few days! ”

There was a wail below: "The old man is gracious, the little one will say everything."

"Bring it down," You Guotuan waved his hand impatiently. Doesn't it seem like things are tricky, and it's all open in one swoop. The modern appliances he had brought with him seemed to be of no use.

The confession was immediately sent to Zhang Youfu's house, where it was transcribed by the language team and copied and distributed to the relevant responsible persons. This list has also arrived at the people Xiong Bu estimated to be about to introduce to Wu Mingjin.

"Now Wu Mingjin can fall into our hands, Zhou Botao looked at the materials sent and patted the table.

"What's the matter?" The ministry is also working on this material. According to the confession of the treasurer of the salt storehouse, Wu Mingjin's personal family members had repeatedly borrowed salt from the salt storehouse

"Oh?" Bude and the people at the table were interested.

"Look," Zhou Botao pointed to the document, "on page four, the treasurer of the salt warehouse said. The Wu family has several servants, and every year they borrow a number of salt from the salt storehouse. Pay it off in late fall. ”

"That's not weird. Don't forget that a large part of the illicit salt produced after we took control of the Horse Salt Works was also distributed through his hands. ”

"It's not the same nature. That's pure private salt. It's a matter of turning public into private." After reading it, Dong Weiwei said that in fact, this is also a means of cheating, borrowing the salt in the county treasury and selling it directly to the smugglers. By the autumn salt production has increased dramatically... The floating harvest of the enemy in the sea and the enemy's field, the hole is filled and the six salt is easy to deliquescent, and the loss is very large, so the salt is also floating. It is also a big burden for the salt cubes. The salt collected by the government at a low price is sold at a high price, and then the floating income is used to fill the shortfall.

It's a no-brainer deal!

"He doesn't directly engage in illegal salt from the salt farm?"

"At that time, the Ma Yuan Salt Farm was controlled by the Qi family, and if he intervened directly, he would inevitably collude with the Qi family, and the reputation of the Qi family was too stinky, which was probably something he was unwilling to do."

"No wonder when Wang Zhaomin came out to negotiate last year, he hit it off with the matter of partnering in selling smuggled salt, it turned out that they had been doing it a long time ago!"

"Otherwise, so many people will have to squeeze their heads to become officials?" Du De smiled, "Yan Ruyu, Golden House, it's not just talking. ”

"Do we clean up the county treasury and move his cake?" Xiong Buyou is very concerned about this issue.

"The income from the salt, he has now stopped getting it from us, so the cleaning of the county treasury has little impact on his gray income, and it is very clear in the account books of the second treasurer: since last year, such borrowing and lending behavior has completely stopped with our participation."

In the afternoon, Xiong Buyi brought a "fashionable thief" whom Wu Mingjin and others had never seen before, and this person was Yan Ming, the president of Delong Grain Bank.

Although Yan Ming is not yet at the level of the People's Commissar on the official position list of the crossing group, Delong already has the faint meaning of the central bank of the crossing group, and the prominent importance of his status is self-evident. He has a high position and complex financial knowledge. Therefore, I rarely leave Bairen City on weekdays, except for a few times when I went to Bopu and Dongmen City when I checked the work, I never set foot in places outside the green zone.

This time, he actually appeared in the county office, in order to sell his plan to the county magistrate to sell his proxy county treasury, of course, which was forced in nature. Regardless of whether Wu Mingjin wants to or not, Delong's system of acting as the county treasury still has to be implemented, which is also an important measure to refresh the county government. And this measure has a great deal to do with the reform of the tax system.

According to the estimation of the leading group, under the dual role of the promotion of agriculture and the new collection system of the Tiandihui, there will be a large-scale increase in Lingao's tax revenue in the next five years.

However, this increase was not to contribute to the consolidation of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and the right to use this increased income had to fall into the hands of the Crossing Group. Just as the Executive Committee is constantly strengthening its financial control over the departments under the system. The financial power executive committee of Lingao County also has to be controlled.

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

Acting as an agent for the county treasury business, there was in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the emerging ticket number and money bank not only acted as an agent for the county treasury and the government treasury, but also as an agent for the domain treasury. Local tax payments and administrative appropriations are carried out through these financial institutions, which not only eliminates the need for the custody of the county and government treasury, but also makes the remittance and transfer of funds more convenient than the transportation of cash and silver in the past. Yan Ming just wanted to advance this system to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this reform will touch the interests of a group of people, and Wu Mingjin is theoretically one of them. However, judging from the confessions of the treasury officials and the seized account books, Wu Mingjin generally did not directly extend his hand to the county treasury, except for collecting the "piece money" that the treasury gave him every year and engaging in some salt smugglers from the food storehouse. In this respect, this man can be called quite incorruptible among local officials. As for other petty officials and officials, there are quite a few so-called "borrowings" that are nominally "borrowing" but are actually sharing the oil and water of the treasury officials.

Now since Wu Mingjin himself does not have much selfish desire for the county treasury, and the benefits he gets from the crossing group are not a small amount, the matter of acting as the county treasury will not encounter too much resistance

As for whether the others oppose it or not, Bude doesn't care. Of course, if Wu Mingjin really has an iron heart to oppose it, he also has a way to make him comply. Although Wu Mingjin's black material is not enough, the weight is not small.

"Acting county treasurer?!" Hearing Yan Ming's request, Wu Mingjin was a little confused, but his first reaction was that it was ridiculous to the extreme, the county treasury was the country's warehouse, how could he call a grain store to act as an agent?

On second thought, this was just a trick by thieves to plunder the county treasury. Thinking of this, Wu Mingjin showed an angry look on his face, and a little backbone of the scholar surfaced again. He is the main hall of Lingao County in the Ming Dynasty! If you can't even keep the county treasury, what kind of official will you be?

"This matter, forgive me." Wu Mingjin said coldly, "Although the county treasury is also an important place for the government, how can it be lightly entrusted to businessmen to take care of it?" ”

"Master Wu, you misunderstood." Yan Ming expected him to have such a reaction, and said patiently, "Delong acts as the county treasury, and its tip is to handle the business of collection and payment. The biggest benefit to the county is that it saves the encroachment of the officials. ”