Mochizuki Pavilion, the largest restaurant in Quanzhou.

Quanzhou sentenced Tang Kezhi, recorded Guo Jianping, Xu Rusong, Xu Rusong, Zhang Chun, manager, and Miao Puyu, and Miao Puyu, who joined the judicial army, raised funds together to invite the newly arrived Zhizhou Li Yue to a banquet in the Moon Pavilion.

At noon, Li Yue came to the Moon Pavilion. Under the leadership of the general judge Tang Kezhi, a group of Cao officials in Quanzhou greeted him. After everyone exchanged pleasantries, they went upstairs and sat down.

During the banquet, Li Yue frequently raised his glass with everyone in a hearty manner, chatting and laughing.

After a tour of wine, Li Yue put down his wine glass and bowed his hand to everyone: "Thanks to the trust of the saint, this official has promoted the maritime trading house and the governor of Quanzhou. The maritime trading house is still in preparation, and the official must personally inquire about every detail. Therefore, the various government affairs of Quanzhou Prefecture have the help of your theorem! ”

"Li Zhizhou is polite, this is all within my share!" Tang Kezhi was the first to respond, and the rest of Cao officials also echoed it.

The administrative organs at the level of Daliang Prefecture are roughly as follows:

The number one governor of the state is generally appointed by the imperial court to serve as a civil official in Beijing, called "knowing the affairs of a certain state" or "the right to know the affairs of a certain state", the right is the meaning of temporary, and the meaning of knowing is the meaning of management. In other words, it is only a temporary assignment, and it is not a permanent official position.

The general judgment under the Zhizhou and the Cao officials such as Du Cao, Hu Cao, Li Cao, and Fa Cao are permanent officials.

Du Cao is the head of Zhu Cao, who is in charge of the state seal during the day and presides over the daily affairs of Zhu Cao. Therefore, the record of joining the army is also called Du Cao, and the office is the record hall. He also served as the state court, which was the interrogation agency and prison, which was responsible for detaining criminals and receiving lawsuits.

The household joined the army and was in charge of household registration and taxation, warehouse income and expenditure, and field and house litigation that were closely related to household registration. It is roughly equivalent to a mixture of the tax bureau and the land bureau in Li Yue's previous life.

The manager joined the army to supervise the prison and supervise the arrest of thieves, and his office was the manager's house. Approximate to the modern Public Security Bureau.

The judiciary joined the army, and the law was in charge of the judgment of the sentence. The main judicial power is in the hands of the secretary and the manager of the army. Judicial participation in the military is only after the trial of the case, and the appropriate legal provisions are searched for use in the judgment, but it cannot provide judgment recommendations, and the office is the Department of Justice. Its responsibilities are close to those of later prosecutors.

As the general judge of the governor of the state, his duties are to assist the governor in handling state affairs, participate in the recording of judicial cases, answer questions and draft judgments, and exercise judicial supervision powers. The Yamen is a permanent division, and its functions and powers overlap with those of the army to record and join the army.

In fact, the judge was only one of Zhizhou's staff members before. He was the governor of the state in order to monitor the Cao officials and show his authority. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Cao officials were hollowed out by the Zhizhou staff, resulting in the dominance of the Zhizhou, and the state capitals gradually broke away from the control of the imperial court, forming a separatist force.

After the establishment of the Great Liang Dynasty, the post of general judgment was dispatched by the imperial court, and the power was above the record of joining the army, and at the same time, the state decree must be countersigned by the general judgment before it can take effect.

In this way, the general judgment has changed from the staff officer of the Zhizhou to one of the means of the imperial court to restrain the Zhizhou.

Judging from the functions of the general judgment and the Cao officials, it seems that everything has been done for them, and I don't know what is going on in the state. It seems that the existence of a state or not does not affect the administrative operation of a state.

But! The governor holds the highest local judicial power, that is to say, the cases of the record of joining the army and the judgment of the division household joining the army, as long as the governor thinks it is unreasonable, can be pushed to a retrial; Moreover, major cases involving the determination of life and death must be tried by the governor himself. The most important thing is that all kinds of governance measures can only be implemented after the approval of the governor.

All in all, in this one-third of an acre, Zhizhou is the boss.

Li Yue thought so, and after scanning his eyes, he said: "On the way to take up his post this time, I saw that Quanzhou had experienced drought and locust disasters, the people's livelihood in various places was withered, and the people were blue. It's really heart-wrenching, can you give money and food to help the poor people? ”

"The people of Zhizhou care about the people of Quanzhou, and the officials are full of admiration." The matter of money and grain belonged to the Sihu to join the army, so Xu Rusong replied: "It's just that the Quanzhou treasury is not abundant. Don't hide it from the people of Zhizhou, there is still a deficit of 50,000 yuan that cannot be filled last year. ”

"What?" Li Yue was stunned in surprise, "Quanzhou doesn't have the benefits of the market, how can it be so poor?" ”

"This ......"

Xu Rusong's face was embarrassed, but Li Yue still stared at him and waited for an answer. Li Yue was domineering, Xu Rusong was stared at so much that dense fine sweat oozed from his forehead, and he kept wiping it with his hands.

"Li Zhizhou doesn't know something, and this matter is bad for the benefit of the city. What's more, this Quanzhou City Bosi is under the jurisdiction of the Fujian Road Transfer Envoy, and the Quanzhou region can only get less than one percent of the profits. Fortunately, there was a general judgment Tang Kezhi who relieved Xu Ru of the siege: "And the Nanwai Sect is in Quanzhou, and this cost is only a small part of the imperial court every year, and the rest is borne by the Quanzhou government." ”

"Every year, the Quanzhou Mansion will pay 143,700 yuan for the monthly money of the children of the Zongzheng Division of Nanwai alone, and the expenses of the Zongzheng Division's officials and professors will also be 11,000 yuan, plus 1,500 white stone rice."

Although Xu Rusong is timid, he is obviously conscientious in his work. With Tang Kezhi lifting the lid, he has no worries and can casually say such detailed data.

Li Yue smiled helplessly after hearing this, he was still a little naïve, and when the sheep grew fat, there were naturally more wolves to worry about. I know that Quanzhou City is rich in profits, and the royal family of Daliang will not let it go.

And what's even more troublesome is that during the years that Tang Zhizhou has been in office, he has responded to the needs of the Southern Foreign Sect. The amount of monthly money has been increased for them every year, so the Quanzhou government has become more and more unable to make ends meet in recent years. Tang Kezhi said bitterly: "It is estimated that the king of Jing'an County, who knows the affairs of the Southern Foreign Sect, will soon come to Li Zhizhou and ask for a continuous increase in the monthly money of the clan. In order to smooth out the deficit, Tang Zhizhou borrowed a lot of money from private merchants in the name of Quanzhou Prefecture, and it was about to expire. ”

"Isn't it distressing for the cub to sell Yetian?" Li Yue couldn't help but scold.

Although Tang Hao has returned to his hometown, his protégés and former officials are all over the Liang government and the opposition, and his forces are intertwined. So when he heard Li Yue scolding Tang Yuan, the son of the Tang family, even Tang Kezhi was silent.

It is no wonder that Tang Yuan's political achievements in recent years have been the first in the assessment of state-level chief officials every year. It turned out that he used the financial income of Quanzhou Mansion to hug the big tree of the royal clan. As for the big trouble of the Quanzhou government's financial constraints, that is the problem that the successor officials will have to face.

It seems that officials of any time and space do not like to do the things of their predecessors planting trees and enjoying the shade of their successors, but are willing to use the method of fishing with all their resources to satisfy their own political and economic interests.

Thinking of this, Li Yue shook his head, and at this moment he remembered the six words that the old man gave him when he saw off the king of Wu'an in Lin'an - do more things and talk less.

So Li Yue arched his hand and said: "Li is out of shape, I hope you colleagues Haihan!" ”

"Lord Zhizhou is also anxious about Quanzhou's government affairs." Donk's Circle Road.

"What the Judge said is very true." Others chimed in.

Then after Li Yue chatted with them, everyone said goodbye to each other and dispersed.