Wan Niang saw Li Xiao's confession handed over, and looked at it carefully for a long time, still looking incredulous.

Although the scroll framed by brocade silk in his hand is of a very high grade, especially the large seal of the 'Seal of the Scribe's Department' on it.

But Wan Niang still couldn't believe it,

"Husband, don't dare to joke, the concubine can't be frightened." Wan Niang held the brocade silk and refused to let go, looking excited.

Although the imperial court had to give her husband a seven-grade military position before, it was a military position, and he had to go to Liaodong to fight. Liaodong is bitterly cold, and Wan Niang really doesn't want her husband to go to Liaodong. The Li family has only one person, what if there are three long and two short for her?

thought that Li Xiao had been gone for five years, and it was not easy to come back, but she didn't want her husband to leave again.

Therefore, when her husband refused the military position of the imperial court, she felt a little pity but was happy.

But now it is different, from the civilian position under the sixth grade, or a Beijing official, there is no need to go to the army or fight, and there is no need to even go to other places to take up posts.

As for being an official of Sinong Temple, she doesn't care.

"Have you seen this seal of the scribe's body? This is the seal of the official department Shangshu himself, the official department Shangshu Li Yifu, or the current prime minister. Who would dare to pretend? Li Xiaoxiao smiled and pointed to the red mark.

"Look at this again, the word under the head of the door, this is through the signatures and seals of the prime ministers under the Zhongshu Gate, this farewell is no more formal. The edict, the entire appointment procedure, was ordered by the Zhongshu Province, in the tone of the emperor, the written book, reviewed and approved by the subordinate province, and then drawn by the emperor. ”

When Wan Niang heard this message, she not only had the seal of the official book, but also the seal of the prime ministers under the Zhongshu Gate, and even the emperor's painting, and she was even more excited at the moment.

"Where, where?"

"This, this, this."

Li Xiao's book is not the original. The imperial approval was originally archived separately, and this is a copy of the official appointment letter sent to the Ministry of Shangshu Province for processing, so although there are many seals on it, the emperor's imperial approval is not.

Such as Li Xiao such a six-grade official, generally by the Ministry of Officials to remove the award, but Li Xiao after all special, he was personally selected by the emperor, the prime ministers of the Zhongshu Sect passed, this kind of treatment, in the court, originally only the ministers above the third grade, will be selected by the emperor and the prime ministers, this level of officials is also called the removal of officials.

Li Xiao, a middle- and low-level official of the sixth grade, enjoyed special treatment.

"Li Xiao, male, twenty-one years old, with a short white face and a short mustache, is more than six feet tall. Guanzhong Province, Yongzhou Lantian County, in March of the fifth year of Yonghui, awarded the corn supervisor of Sinong Temple, hereby sued. ”

This is similar to Li Xiao's photo, the Tang people have no photographic skills, and there is only one paragraph describing the physiognomy characteristics on the body, which is quite simple, but it also contains some basic physiognomy features, as well as age and origin.

On a brocade silk scroll, Li Xiao's hometown, origin, year and appointment words were all copied on it, and from the copying personnel to the officials who were examined step by step, all signed and sealed, and finally stamped with the seal of the special scribe's department.

One scroll is very long, but Li Xiao's personal identity and appointment are very short, but there are dozens of signatures and seals of all kinds.

From the scribes and officials of various departments, to the squires, Shangshu and even the prime ministers under the Zhongshu Sect, and even the emperor, there are signature seals.

Li Xiao thought about it, it seems that the number of official-grade officials in the Tang Dynasty is not much, and there are only a few thousand, as if it is the same as later generations, there will be tens of millions of officials at every turn, and these prime ministers don't have to do anything every day, and it is too late to sign and seal there all day.

Just this farewell did make him clearly feel the preciousness of the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

"It's not cheap to get this thing, I haven't earned this money yet, I have paid several times for the Zhu Jiao silk scroll, I didn't bring any money today, or my boss Liu Sinong paid for me, and I have to remember to pay him back when I look back."

Zhu Jiao silk shaft money, which is commonly known as the official fee, is equivalent to the cost of later generations. In addition to this official fee, Li Xiao also paid a sum of money for official uniforms, and the official uniforms are not gray, so they have to pay money, which is estimated to be equivalent to clothing fees.

The point is that this thing is quite expensive, the two add up to seven or eight yuan, plus the money for the reward, it costs ten yuan.

Ten dollars, 10,000 copper coins.

It is said that there are really some new recruits who can't come up with this money, so the officials can also issue a paper record of the official document instead, which is equivalent to the appointment letter is collectively referred to as the edict or the book.

Of course, it is said that the official fees and official uniform fees of high-ranking officials are usually given by the emperor, and they don't have to pay for their own Zhu Jiao silk scrolls or anything, but this is a five-grade official class, and Li Xiaocai is six-grade, which is not enough for the qualifications granted by the emperor.

If Liu Sinong hadn't taken the initiative to help him pay the money, in fact, Li Xiao would not have been willing to pay it, and it would have been okay to get a piece of money anyway.

But Liu Sinong helped hand it over, and Li Xiao couldn't say no.

In the end, he received both an official notice and an edict, for according to the rules, whoever received the edict would also receive the edict.

"Corn supervisor, is it the rank of the sixth grade?"

Wan Niang's excited voice trembled a little, although the Li family is also the richest man in Lanxi, they are just a small landlord in the township. In the past, the Li family was also a generation of landlords in the township, but a local tyrant of the Zhang family colluded with the officials in the county government to destroy the Li family, which shows the importance of the official body to the Li family.

"The corn supervisor is the official of the office, from the sixth grade. According to the system of the imperial court, if you have a position, you must first have a rank, so the imperial court also awarded me a Tongzhilang Wensan rank official from the sixth grade. ”

Rank and rank, this is also a characteristic of Datang.

If there is a position, there must be a rank first, and if this is put into the future, it is equivalent to a county order is at the department level, the county order is the position, and the department level is the rank.

The scattered rank of the Tang Dynasty is also divided into two levels, civil and military, the official first awarded a loose rank, which is equivalent to grading, which is also the standard for officials to receive the Lu, what rank will receive as much Lu, as for the official position, it may be higher than the awarded loose rank or lower than the awarded loose rank, of course, more is what rank is the official of what quality.

For example, Li Xiao, he was not an official before, he was an official in vain, or he used to be just a liupin who received a lot of money, an insignificant little official, and he still had no serious ministry. If he is awarded a substantive official from the sixth rank at once, the imperial court will first give him a loose rank.

Li Xiao's loose rank is the same grade as his actual job, both from the sixth grade, neither high nor low.

Tong Naolang, from the sixth pin.

In the Tang Dynasty, Lang and doctors are the mainstay, and the top ones are Kaifu Yi Tong Sansi and Tejin, and the rest are doctors and Lang, and the doctors above the fifth rank are doctors, and the lower grades are all kinds of Lang.

In addition to loose ranks and officials, Datang also has lords and knights, twelve awards for military merit, generally for military merit promotion, and there are also special awards for officers to enjoy a certain level of treatment, not to receive practical things, but equivalent to a kind of treatment.

The title is the most precious, the Tang Dynasty title is ninth, from the prince to the county, it is extremely difficult to get a knighthood.

Li Xiao now has a rank and a position, but he is not yet a knight.

Tong Zhilang, corn supervisor, this is Li Xiao's official rank, as a Beijing official, he is better treated than foreign officials, and the annual Lu rice has 90 stone rice, which is divided into spring and autumn and is issued twice. Foreign officials only have 85 stones from the sixth grade, and Beijing officials have more than 5 stones.

In addition to rice, there is also money.

As a six-rank official, Li Xiao also received 2,000 monthly salaries, 400 yuan for food and miscellaneous use, equivalent to 2,400 yuan a month.

Food and miscellaneous use, equivalent to the imperial court to the officials of the catering subsidies, etc.

Of course, in addition to the monthly salary and the New Year, the officials can also enjoy the free servants drawn by the imperial court, which is also a very good benefit.

A six-grade official, how can he also be a central department and bureau level official, only a salary of more than 2,000 a month, which must be a little low, but the benefits of officials are more than that.

Not to mention those gray incomes and the like.

As an official, in addition to the income and lu, there is also one of the most important incomes, that is, the income of the field.

Jingguan Liupin, give four hectares of land, a full 400 acres.

Under normal circumstances, the official government rents the land to the people for cultivation, and then collects the rent to the officials.

However, the actual situation is often higher than this number, there are eight buckets of corn per mu, eight buckets of wheat, and one cart of bran, and there are also one stone and one bucket per mu of corn, and some are even as high as one stone and two buckets per mu of corn, which is twice the rent per mu set by the government.

Moreover, the officials have to transport the rent to the capital and deliver the rent to the officials' homes, and this freight has to be paid by themselves.

Li Xiao's 400 acres of vocational land, even if he harvests six buckets per mu according to the standard, he will have to have 240 stones this year, which is nearly twice as much as his 90 stone of Lu rice a year.

Moreover, in addition to the vocational field, there is also a public office field in the yamen of each division in the capital, which is the field allocated to the yamen of each department, which is also a tenant to collect rent, and the income is used for both public and private purposes, part of which is classified as the office expenses of the yamen, and part is used as a small treasury of the yamen, as a bonus and welfare for the officials in the yamen, and as a supplement to the salary.

That's a lot of money.

Li Xiao is a six-rank official, and the court will give him fifteen servants, that is, his entourage. These people not only don't want Li Xiao to pay a salary, but they also have to do things for Li Xiao for free, they are actually ordinary people, they need to go to the yamen to serve a certain period of labor every year, and then some of them are divided into officials, according to the grade, six grades and fifteen, called servants.

The high-ranking officials of the first rank are called the defense cabinet, and there are even ninety-six people.

These people are driven by the body, the main guard, also the attendant, and the stationery, these people are actually equivalent to the orderly, acting as a guard, driver, nanny, secretary and other identities.

I have to say that being an official in Datang is quite refreshing.

Don't look like there are not many people and Lu, but there are a lot of benefits, not to mention that as a Beijing official, there are not only items issued by various seasonal solar terms every year, but also money and goods sent by local states and counties, and their own small treasury, being an official, that is drought and flood to ensure income, one person as an official, can fully support the entire family of more than a dozen or even dozens of people.

In comparison, Li Xiao, a small landowner in Lanxi, has more than 1,000 acres of land a year, which is quite a lot, but the annual net income is actually not even comparable to the income of an official from Jiupin.