During the Mid-Autumn Festival when officials were resting, Jia Cong achieved "a carnival for the whole people and a joy for the government and the people...... Well, in fact, he used his privilege to spend a honeymoon with Qing in the Red Leaf Valley of Qixia Mountain...... After that, I went back to Jinling Xicheng and ate again, almost all night.

There are mandarin ducks, Jia Cong never asks about the situation of the Jia family in Stone City, and he doesn't want to ask, this home seems to be just a hurried hotel for him, and the only benefit is that the officials of Shangyuan and Jiangning counties in Yingtianfu have less money for reception, why don't they do it.

Shaoxing Mansion is Huiji, Shanyin in the same city, Suzhou is also, Wu County, Changzhou, Yangzhou is Jiangdu, Ganquan, Yingtianfu's mansion, no exception is also West Jiangning, East Shangyuan, two counties Gongwei Mansion City, after the Midyear Festival, Jia Cong in Shangyuan County Yakai Hall sitting, limited time to receive the case, in the Yamen Pavilion posted notices, down for several days, dealt with a lot of sesame big things, all recorded.

In the second hall of Shangyuan County, the local student He Yi came to ask for the people's life again, accompanied by his colleague Zhou Wenbai.

Xiucai has a social status, seeing that the county officials don't have to kneel, Jia Cong in order to maintain his prestige as a royal historian, does not give a seat, the two Xiucai stand theoretically, the soap class pestle around the second hall holds a water and fire stick, standing solemnly, and there is a weapon rack on the far right, adding majesty.

Jia Cong touched the Taishi chair with pleasure, and felt happy with this kind of power: "If you talk about it carefully, where did the money and grain of the Yamen destroy the department, where did it harm your Shangyuan County?" ”

He Yi opened his mouth and closed his mouth, hesitated for a moment, Jia Cong came back to his senses and felt that it was wrong to ask like this.

Chongzhen asked the official how to be corrupt, and asked that person to say the specific name, but no one dared to offend the entire bureaucracy, so this kind of questioning is very stupid, except for being willful, what other purpose can be achieved?

Jia Cong changed his words and said: "If someone dies in the township, the people from the yamen must go to the countryside, buy coffins, and reconcile household registrations, Shangyuan has this rule, right?" ”

"Yes, sir." He Yi dared to answer: "When the official goes to the township, the people of Lijia must raise money to receive and hold banquets, and in a few years, the silver used up in this matter is higher than the tax......

"The government and the priest, have you been there?"

"I've been there, my lord, but these yamen won't accept it." He Yi sneered categorically: "Therefore, I am ready to go to Beijing to sue the emperor......

Jia Cong's face became sad and joyless, and he suddenly remembered that there was also such a thing in the prefectures and counties of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

It seems that many things in feudal society are strikingly similar.

It stands to reason that this thing is really strange, how much does it cost to go to Beijing to sue the royal court? It must cost a lot of money, travel expenses, food expenses, housing expenses, yamen dots, and the township raises money to go to Beijing to sue the emperor, isn't it better to feed it to the dogs of the yamen? Less cost?

It's just a matter of cost, what about the danger to lives on the road? What about the risk of offending the local yamen? So, is it worth it?

However, there are really many such examples in history, and some talents and people are still persevering in fighting against these evil forces! Handed the form into the capital!

The so-called "it's not strange, it's self-defeating", that's about it.

The class of Xu officials, roughly equivalent to modern civil servants, had to take the exam twice and could only be promoted after six years, and their low salaries and spiritual disrespect and contempt by the imperial court were part of the reason for their exploitation.

This stratum is larger than all the officials combined, there are hundreds of thousands of them in the whole country, and they are the ones who really come into contact with the people, so they are conducive to the upper and lower hands.

Tax exemption is impossible, and you still have to pay taxes in the 21st century...... Internet writers with a monthly salary of more than 800 have to pay taxes obediently...... As for this bit of darkness, Jia Cong really doesn't pay much attention to it, in the modern era known as democracy and peace, the tragedy in Daoxian County is beyond the reach of the Nazis...... This is just the tip of the iceberg of a certain ruling class......

However, this student named He Yi gave Jia Cong a little interest, sometimes he was stunned and cute, Jia Cong smiled playfully: "Then according to you, what should the official do about it?" ”

He Yi was going around in the second hall, as if he was thinking of a way, Zhou Wenbai interjected: "My lord only needs to give an order, and the warning will be transmitted to the whole county, and the officials are not allowed to fabricate excuses to exploit the land, and kill chickens and monkeys, and severely punish them, and this evil will naturally subside." ”

Jia Cong played with the order sign and the shocking wood, shook his head and said: "You think too simply, this is only temporary, what about after the official leaves?" What about the succession of the officials? This is the spring breeze blowing and rebirthing, and it can never be extinguished......"

At that time, officials and officials exploited the people, and many times they were not above board, they would come up with a lot of excuses, or put a nice name on the expenses, such as the funeral expenses of the dead, they represented justice, fairness, and the government, can they not pay for it?

How dark hell is, how dark the officialdom is, and some of the darkness is outrageous and unimaginable, especially when you understand the truth of the lamb and the wolf, that kind of powerlessness will make people's hearts tend to be boundless and dark.

"There is a compromise method below, this burial fee has been tiring for a long time, it is better to go back to Shangyuan Township in the evening, convene the old man to raise money, and then give a name, and send an order to the officials of Tianfu, thinking that they go out to work hard, with these two layers, the two-pronged approach, and the funeral fee will be abolished in the future." He Yi, who thought about it for a long time, finally said.

Jia Cong groaned: "This method is feasible. ”

In fact, similar things happened in Sichuan in another time and space, and in the end, it could only be like this, which was the smallest loss that was gained.

Generally speaking, the ruler raises the common people's cattle and sheep, knowing that they have to be slowly exploited, and slowly squeeze their blood and sweat, not the end of the dynasty, there is always a limit to this kind of squeezing, because the ruler is not stupid, and hypocritically captive, in order to have hundreds of years of cow blood and sheep blood to drink, and the lowest level of the ruler Xu official class is also like this, so the method He Yi said is feasible.

Jia Cong finished writing the notice on the spot and stamped it with the official seal, that Zhou Wenbai was not impressed, but He Yi could conclude that he was a manufacturable material.

After all, as a talent in the middle class of society, there are not many people who can do this.

On the night before Jia Cong was about to leave Yingtian, in order to express his gratitude and gratitude, He Yi and Zhou Wenbai invited him to Chen Lou for a drink and invited Chen Ruan to play the pipa.

Chen Lou is the residence of Chen Ruan who came in Wu, in today's Jinling, is a famous place, and Li Xiangjun's former residence of Mei Xiang Lou opposite, in the south of the Confucius Temple, behind the building is a Qinhuai River that has washed the history of gold dust for hundreds of years.

Zhen Baoyu is also included, unfortunately, Fang Wuregret's group is also on the west floor of the second floor, Zhou Wenbai has always been polite, as if he intends to make friends and talk to Jia Cong, but Jia Cong is surrounded by everyone and has no time.

Chen Ruan's pipa, like the waves of the Qinhuai River, everyone present applauded, He Yi got up and arched his hand: "I have heard the name of the poem and the official name of the imperial history for a long time, I hope that the girl, the famous Hanmo, I want to ask the lord to give me a poem......"

Looking forward to Chen Ruan's words, Zhen Baoyu looked at Fang Wuregret and them, and understood that it was two people who competed, Jia Cong's poems are few, and in recent years, nothing has been produced, several people from the literary society have also slandered, Fang Wuregret and others looked sideways, and then looked at Jia Cong, but they didn't care at all, the official did this, and his face became thicker.