On the hall of Zhangqiu County.

Luo Cheng and Jia Runpu drank tea.

"Do you know what the nickname of the third class is in the yamen?" Lao Jia asked.

"I don't know." Although he was a fast catcher before, he actually didn't do anything in this county government at all.

"The soap class is nicknamed the wolf class, and it is specially designed for learning wolf howls and show majesty. When the old man sat in the hall, they stood on both sides and roared. When the old man went out on patrol, they walked in front and shouted, and there were many errand boys. There are two main ways for them to make money, one is to use the execution of criminal punishments, and the other is to buy goods while they are purchasing. ”

In the lobby of the state and county yamen, the use of criminal punishment counties is commonplace, because in ancient times, the government combined administration and justice, and the pursuit of forced taxes required punishment, the trial of litigation cases required punishment, and the punishment of indecent assault, violation of regulations or bad behavior also had to be moved. And this procedure is handled by the soap class, and all the selling favors and blackmail come out from here.

Luo Cheng nodded, knowing that this should be the unspoken rule in the yamen, something that everyone knows.

For example, if the county order sentenced him to forty strokes, if he made money, then although the soap class of the execution was beaten forty times in public, it was actually estimated that only five or seven strokes were actually hit on the meat, and they could still do it, for example, they looked the outside, but actually hurt some flesh and skin, or they didn't look seriously injured, but they could beat you to hurt your muscles and bones or even cripple.

In a word, this is a technical job and a means to make money.

You give money, and he beats lightly. If you don't give money, he will scrap it, so you still have to give money in the end.

This money is called cane money, unless the family really has no money, otherwise this money must be paid. As for the oil and water purchased for the official office, not to mention, dry procurement is a fat difference, which is the same in ancient and modern China and abroad.

"Brother Shicheng, do you know how much income a soap class in Zhangqiu County has in a year?"

Luo Cheng was not used to drinking the sencha of the Sui people, so he took a small piece of tea from the tea cake and crushed it, put it in the teacup, and did not add any condiments for the green onion and salt, and directly rushed into the boiling water.

"I've heard a lot." He said as he made tea.

"It's not just a lot, but it's very fat. In their business, there are at least 60 yuan of money to be taken every year, and they are undefeated and prosperous for life. Sixty times a year, this is not a small amount, and it can be compared to the money on the surface of the county order. ”

And that's just the case money, and the exception of bribery doesn't count.

From this, it can be seen that this errand is very fat.

The eyes of the fourth child listening from the sidelines were red.

"Mother, do a soap class with sixty times a year?"

"If you are more qualified, it will not be a problem to do 100 times a year."

"Grass!" The fourth child is envious and jealous.

"Xiao Wu, you must take a good look at those bastards, and let them all vomit out what they eat."

Luo Cheng ignored it.

He is not here to chase dirty and punish corruption today, as long as he is willing to cooperate, he will not delve too deeply. Of course, if it is those who are ignorant of current affairs, he does not mind investigating in depth.

"Fast class is also called fast hand, fast catching, commonly known as dog class. They rely on their quick hands and feet and a keen sense of smell to mess around, and they are specially used for summoning cases with tickets, arresting criminals, spying on detectives, and transmitting official business. ”

"Our Da Sui's fast class also has a common name for a bad person."

This bad does not mean to catch the bad quickly, but to catch the bad.

There are many ways to mix money in the fast class, and the methods he spit out before interrogating Liu Shouyi are basically the way to catch fast people to make money, what shoes and feet money, wine and meal money, grace money, buy and release money, lamp oil money, painting money, hidden newspaper examples, nets, autumn winds, etc., basically the same as the soap class, they are all using the ministry power at hand to make money.

It's just the so-called power rent-seeking.

The biggest responsibility of catching fast is to catch thieves and catch thieves, but Zhangqiu County's fast catching is actually the umbrella of thieves, which is divided into dirty shelters in the back, and there are even many fast catchers, they are actually thieves, but they have to protect them, and they have become an identity of catching fast helpers, openly swaggering through the city, I have to say, Zhangqiu County's fast catchers have been black to the bottom.

Liu Shouyi Yang is a fast catcher, and Yin is a thief.

"Like Liu Shouyi, Fan Hu and Lianming must have known about it for a long time, right?"

Lao Jia took a sip of Luo Cheng's tea, but immediately spit it out.

"Haven't you ever drunk tea before? What the hell is this? I didn't put ginger, I didn't add green onions, I didn't have orange peels, but you have to at least put some salt, it's nothing, what are you drinking? ”

"I think it's very delicious, tea, you have to be bitter, so that you can be sweet."

Lao Jia directly poured out the tea, and then asked someone to get the condiments for the sencha and re-fried the pot of tea for himself. "You, you just haven't seen the world, how can you drink tea like this, you have to fry it. You must know that those nobles in Daxing City have special sencha maids in the house, and the tea they fry can also fry camellias, just that set of actions can make people pleasing to the eye. ”

The fourth child agreed with Lao Jia's words, "I also think that the tea has to be condiments, and if there is a chance, Jia Duwei will take me to Daxing City to see the world of flowers there." ”

Luo Cheng refused to drink tea with chopped green onions and other condiments, such tea is soulless, it is called green onion tea soup, not tea.

"Fan Hu and the other head catchers must know what Liu Shouyi did, and I dare say that they must have always been a part of it."

This is all an unspoken rule, Liu Shouyi raised thieves, while Fan Hu and others turned a blind eye, in return, Liu Shouyi gave part of the money he got to Fan Hu, so he was fine.

"Hehe, don't talk about catching the head of Fan Hu, it's those assistants and Ling Shi, it is estimated that they all have a share, and they can't even receive filial piety from the county and the main book."

This kind of thing, in fact, is tacit.

The imperial court did not pay salaries to the officials, and the yamen did not have a small treasury, so these supernumerary servants could only make money on their own, and they took the opportunity to collect money with the power in their hands.

Even if these officials such as the county commander and the county magistrate knew about it, they would not be able to solve these problems. Sometimes you can only turn a blind eye and pretend not to know.

"What's that Zhuang class called?" The fourth asked.

"Fox!"

"Why?"

"Because the Zhuangban fox is a fake tiger."

The so-called Zhuangban distinction is that the 12 guards stationed in various parts of the imperial court, as well as the county soldiers of the county, are the local security teams dedicated to guarding the yamen of the prefecture and county, and are often responsible for escorting prisoners, escorting food and salary, and patrolling the local envoys.

In fact, Luo Cheng's current township regiment, as well as Jia Runpu's county soldiers, were actually the errands of the county Yazhuang class. It's just that the Zhuang class has long been unusable, so the new county commander Zhang Xutuo set up a separate system, and also established county barracks and township corps in each county.

The strong class in the county is the strong men recruited from the townships under the county, who come to serve in turns, and usually occasionally train and train, but they can show off their power in front of the people, but in fact they are just foxes and fake tigers.

In the face of the thieves and robbers who are now revolving, the strong class has no effect at all!

Luo Cheng shook his head and said, "The fast class can't catch thieves and thieves, and the strong class can't suppress bandits, what's the use of keeping them?" From today onwards, it's up to us! ”