Hearing that Shi Jinchen, the prefect of Shunqing, was arriving, he was training the scribes and the township chief who was dispatched. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After appointing everyone to the place, Yang Xuan was still not at ease, so he specially recruited everyone back and took turns to train.

In his previous life, Yang Xuan was a consultant and organized adult training many times, and this time it can be said that he is familiar with the road.

The content of this training is limited, mainly including tax collection methods, population registration methods, land measurement methods, etc.

Training is to reorganize one's own thinking and test one's own local autonomy strategy.

Every day of training, Yang Xuan first trained the major policies, then everyone discussed in groups, and then everyone conducted role-playing drills.

But what is disappointing is that many people are proficient in books and five classics, and some can also have some abacus, but they lack mathematical knowledge, such as various geometric area conversions, such as various addition and subtraction calculations.

After thinking about it, Yang Xuan asked the treasury to print the population registration form, the household to print the land measurement statistics table, and the tax collection registration form and other account books, so as to avoid mistakes as much as possible.

The originally planned seven-day training took ten days, and now it is the last day of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

After the ceremony, Shi Jinchen and his entourage were welcomed into the county yamen, and Yang Xuan waited beside him and asked: "The lower official is grateful to the lord for his love and acting magistrate, and he originally wanted to go to meet the lord after the place is stable."

Now that the adults are inspecting this county, I am really scared. ”

Shi Jinchen waved his hand, and Ling left and right stepped back and said, "Zixiu, you, you are really young and frivolous, and you are too inconsiderate of things.

Tell me, you successively sent documents to the prefect's yamen, the Taoist yamen, and the governor's yamen, claiming that a white servant had embezzled 3,000 taels of silver in 10 years, and that a household secretary had embezzled 10,000 taels of silver in 10 years.

What a big deal this is, why don't you want to think about it? ”

Yang Xuan was stunned in his heart and said: "Lord Futai, the lower officials have found out, and the words are conclusive, it is absolutely true, Lord Futai, this is all real money, it is impossible for the lower officials to fake, and the lower officials can't do this fake." ”

Shi Jinchen frowned slightly: "You, you are really bold, there are things you dare not do and can't do."

You changed the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, you sent the township chief to collect taxes directly, you, you are still quibbling in front of the government, you are too much? ”

I was stunned in my heart, it seemed that Shi Jinchen had begun to use threatening methods, thinking of this, Yang Xuan arched his hand and said: "My lord Mingjian, if Emperor Taizu Gao knew about it, he would not think that the lower officials had changed the ancestral system.

My lord, in order to encourage the gentry to supervise the local officials, the Taizu period stipulated that the squires could escort the officials into Beijing, and the local officials were not allowed to interfere.

In the past 100 years, many officials have acted recklessly, rampant and domineering, and the squires dare not speak out.

In view of this situation, the lower officials decided to strengthen the system of township chiefs, and sent the people who had nothing to do in the past to the townships, and cooperated with the township chiefs assigned by the officials, so that they could not only defend the localities in the future, but also greatly increase the local taxes.

My lord, if you really think that this system is contrary to the ancestral system, you can completely convene the squires of the Quartet to abolish the system, and you can completely impeach the lower officials. ”

This can choke Shi Jinchen, the Ming Dynasty is different from the Barbarian Qing, the Barbarian Qing pays attention to the ****, the Ming Dynasty court pays attention to the co-governance of monarchs and ministers, and the local government pays attention to the co-governance of officials and gentry.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, if the cabinet university was not served by the court, the group of officials would not look down on it at all.

Ming officials can scold the emperor, Yang Shen and others oppose the great etiquette, Hai Rui and others curse Emperor Jiajing, and more ministers insult Emperor Wanli's wine and wealth and become loyal and good, which is respected by everyone.

The emperor, on the other hand, was very helpless, sulking a little at most, and exiled the officials at most, and did not dare to punish him for the crime of great disrespect like the barbarians.

This is the case in the imperial court, and even more so in the locality, Xiucai does not need to kneel when he sees the magistrate, and the magistrate needs to have a good relationship with the local official when he takes office and leaves office.

The official township chief is mostly the local squire who gets the benefits. Those people may be appointed as township heads, and they are local capable talents, local capable and long, and they are all local figures.

Unless anyone does not want to be promoted and make a fortune, no one dares to prevent the squire from participating in politics.

Being pushed back by Yang Xuan like this, Shi Jinchen's face was cloudy, but it was not easy to attack, and he sighed for a long time: "Zixiu, this, this, the grain chief is appointed by the government, have you thought about how much you need to pay more every year, have you thought about this?" ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "Lord Futai, the lower officials have deduced. A township is equipped with 1 township chief (grain chief) and 2-3 officials.

Township chiefs and outsiders are earning 5 taels and 5 yuan, but the amount of commercial taxes they collect in the local area is far more than this.

In the past, the imperial court levied the merchant levies and handed them over to the local white servants, which was like Shen Wansan's cornucopia, controlled by those evil servants.

Take the Sandao set as an example, the annual merchant endowment alone can be levied up to 500 taels of silver (deliberately said less).

Even if calculated according to the calculation of 1 township chief and 3 servants, the annual income is only 22 taels of silver, if you add such and such molecular money, it is less than 100 taels, so calculated, each bazaar can receive an extra 3 or 400 taels of silver a year (deliberately said less. ）

Besides, the burden on the people is much smaller, in the past, the white servants occupied one side and levied it entirely by personal preference, and the people were miserable?

Besides, enriching the authority of the head (grain chief) can not only supervise the township, but also prevent the homeless people and local rioters from getting involved. ”

Shi Jinchen is also a local official, and thousands of taels of silver are paid in the account every year, of course, he knows that these white servants are local land officials, and they are all fat.

At that time, in addition to receiving 100 taels of silver to the magistrate, each township also sent silver to the Liufang Bookstore, so that more than 300 taels of silver entered the pockets of officials in a year.

But these are gray incomes, Shi Jinchen is not good at entanglement, if people feel that they have been collecting these shares of money for a long time, it will inevitably be detrimental to their careers.

Besides, this time to Yilong County, the main thing is the corruption of Tan Wanjin, Yu Erye and others, in the early years, some mobs claimed to get rid of the five beetles in the countryside, that is, the royal servants, the official servants, the gentry and scholars, etc., and now Yang Xuan preaches to the public that Hushu Tan Wanjin has embezzled 10,000 taels of silver in ten years, and Yu Erye has embezzled 3,000 taels of silver in ten years, isn't this a target for others?

After thinking about it, Shi Jinchen continued: "Zixiu, Tan Wanjin and Yu Erye's corruption has too much impact, and it also affects the local reputation, can you take a look?"

I was overjoyed in my heart, this time the prefect inspected here, it seems that it is still for this matter, after thinking about it, Yang Xuan seemed very open-minded and said: "My lord, I just became an official in Xia, and I didn't think about it.

But in any case, we must show our attitude and tell the officials that we are not at odds with the corrupt officials. ”

When Shi Jinchen heard this, he nodded in agreement, although all officials in the Ming Dynasty were greedy for public funds, everyone still cherished their feathers and did not want to be openly accused of corruption and bribery.

After some consideration, it was decided to reduce the amount of embezzlement, Yu Erye's embezzlement of 3,000 taels was changed to 300 taels, and Tan Wanjin's embezzlement of 10,000 taels was changed to 1,000 taels.

And this kind of joke is mainly due to the fact that the new secretary made a mistake in transcribing, and now the yamen has taken the initiative to asphalt the facts.

The government also showed its determination to fight corruption, and sentenced more than a dozen officials with relatively large amounts of corruption, such as Tan Wanjin and Yu Erye, to prison and behead the others.