The third volume sailed in the Ming Dynasty

In the next few days, Qin Haoming was so busy that he barely touched the ground, and he had almost no time to separate. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Chongzhen first commended Qin Haoming's exploits in the early days of the Shuowang Dynasty, and then awarded the military department squire and the deputy capital of the Imperial History, the governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, and copied to the nine sides and the Ming provinces.

Under the leadership of Qian Qianyi and Xie Sanbin, the Donglin Party once again obstructed. However, Chongzhen's holy will had been decided, and he scolded them on the spot for being ill-intentioned and jealous of the virtuous.

and dismissed Xie Sanbin, the-stirring stick, from the court, and never used it.

Subsequently, the scholar Chen Yan was involved in the Jin Shang case, and was ordered by Emperor Chongzhen to be imprisoned to listen to the trial, and the family property was confiscated by Jinyiwei.

The resoluteness of his attitude and the toughness of his methods made the ministers of the DPRK and China tremble, and they no longer dared to make the slightest reckless move.

As the governor of the two upstart provinces, Qin Haoming received dozens of banquet invitations every day, but unfortunately he was so bored that he refused them all.

Even the first assistant Xue Guoguan entrusted the household department to invite Hu Nailong to him in the matter, but he was also closed, making him scold and not know what to do.

On the contrary, he was mixed up with the Guozi Supervisor and the giants of the Restoration Society, Zhang Pu and Yang Tingshu, and I didn't know what to do.

On June 18, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Qin Haoming completed the formulaic conversation of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Households, and the final process went to the Ministry of Officials.

"Congratulations to Governor Qin, congratulations to Governor Qin, he is young and promising, and he is really the first young talent in the Ming Dynasty."

Zhou Zuo, a scholar of the Ministry of Officials, was the most senior official in the six ministries, equivalent to the Minister of Quanxu and Personnel in later generations, and was nicknamed Otsuka Zai.

He is in charge of the appointment and dismissal, examination, promotion, transfer, and awarding of official officials across the country, and is the highest official of the Ministry of Officials, and is the head of the six central departments, with a high position.

But even so, the officials have no real power over the appointment of local governors, and Qin Haoming's arrival here is only a ceremonial process, just to receive official seals, documents and some of the governor's deeds.

Therefore, Shang Zhouzuo did not dare to underestimate the number one celebrity in the current court, and invited him to sit down in the ministry, which was very polite.

"The lower officials are ashamed, and they have won the love of the Son of Heaven, and they are terrified!"

Qin Haoming wore a civil official first-class crane robe, and in accordance with officialdom etiquette, he respectfully saluted Shang Zhou Zuo.

"I advise the heavenly lord to be vigorous and reduce talents without sticking to one pattern!

Qin Governor Wen Tao and Wu are all leaders, which is really the blessing of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Recently, Qin Haoming's reputation has long spread to the ears of the Gyeonggi magnates and their hundred officials with the praise of the country's eunuchs. Shang Zhouzuo, as the head of the six Shangshu, will naturally not be slow in information.

It's just that Daming has admired literature and suppressed martial arts for a long time, and compared with Qin Haoming's martial arts, it was the literary name that made him appreciate by Shang Zhouzuo. Originally, I was a little worried about Qin Haoming's age, but now it is gone.

"The graffiti work is difficult to get into the lobby."

Qin Haomingjun's face was slightly red, and he waved his hand to avoid talking about the matter. After all, it is plagiarizing other people's statements, and it is inevitable that the heart is empty.

Besides, Shang Zhouzuo is also one of the famous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and he is unwilling to deceive him.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli, he promoted the capital procuratorate to the right of the imperial history, governor Fujian, did not levy a penny from the people, captured and beheaded the thieves, and resisted the invasion of the Japanese invaders.

Therefore, on the day of departure, the Fujian people set up an ancestral hall for it.

The reason why Qin Haoming is so familiar with this prince is because he has two good daughters, Shang Jinglan and Shang Jinghui are both talented women in the Ming Dynasty.

His son-in-law was also a famous minister who resisted the Qing Dynasty, and later served as loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Shang Zhou Zuo smiled, admiring Qin Haoming's modest attitude more and more, and had the heart to mention him a few words, so he slowly spoke:

"Governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, from a product. He was in charge of governing the army and the people, comprehensively controlling the civil and military affairs, inspecting officials, and repairing the feudal territory.

Unlike the governor, who was in charge of the administrative affairs of only one province, the governor was in charge of several provinces, and at the same time was in charge of military affairs in addition to government affairs.

However, the Qin governor should pay attention to the fact that Fujian's geographical location has become increasingly important due to the repeated attacks on coastal defense by the Japanese from the Jiajing period.

Up to now, Fujian City is a key place that Qin Governor must master. Due to historical reasons, it has always been entrenched by the town guards......"

With Shang Zhouzuo's complaint, Qin Haoming only then knew that the Fujian City Ship Division began to guard Fujian from the fourth year of Jingtai, and was guarded by Dai Xibao, the lieutenant of the town, and concurrently led the city Ship Division.

Subsequently, he came to live and succeeded, but the city was not the statutory authority of the Fujian town guard.

In April of the twelfth year of Chenghua, the Fujian governor Ye Chou asked the city to return the city to the Fujian Yamen, but he was not allowed, but sent another internal official Wei Xing to lead the city.

The reason for this is still due to interests.

The City Shipping Division was an official government established in the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in the seaports to manage maritime foreign trade, which was equivalent to the customs office of later generations, and was the organ of the Ming Dynasty to manage foreign trade.

The main responsibility of the Municipal Shipping Department is to issue a certificate (notarization, notarization) of maritime trade according to the application of the shipping merchant.

Ships that are allowed to go to sea are inspected for any prohibited items such as gold, silver, copper coins, weapons, horses, and people.

On the way back to port, the ship sent someone to seal the goods and escort them back to port.

After arriving at the shore, the officer supervised the loading of all the goods into the warehouse and searched all the crew members to prevent the entrainment of foreign goods without permission.

The foreign goods are divided, and the fine color (precious goods) is taken out of ten, and the coarse color (general goods) is taken out of fifteen.

Later, it was changed to two out of ten for fine goods, and two for fifteen for coarse goods. A foreign tax is levied, one out of thirty. After that, the merchant sells it on his own.

"Thank you Shang Shangshu for your advice, the lower officials are grateful."

Qin Haoming stood up and thanked him solemnly.

Shang Zhouzuo has been an official in Fujian for many years, and these are all difficulties that he must overcome in the future.

Indeed, as he said, the market is the key to whether he has made a difference. It seems that Fujian is not only to solve Zheng Zhilong's problem, but also to the city.

You know, it's a money bag!

While the two were talking, the officials and a few small officials had already prepared Qin Haoming's official seal, documents, and some of the outfits they were equipped with.

So far, the procedures of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Officials have been perfected. From today on, Qin Haoming is the official governor of Fujian and Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that after listening to the narration of several departments, Qin Haoming found that it was not easy to be a good governor, and there were too many places to struggle.

Putting aside the fight with others for the time being, he has already realized and mentally prepared.

After a circle, he found that if he wanted to change, the key was to return the entire system of the Ming Dynasty, which was a headache.

If nothing else, the first is corruption.

The governor was already the largest magistrate, but his salary was pitiful.

Qin Haoming learned from the household department that his annual salary was one hundred and twenty taels of silver, which was the basic salary.

In addition to this income, there are various fixed subsidies every year.

There are 180 taels of silver for vegetables, 280 taels of silver for red paper, that is, 280 taels for office subsidies, and 60 taels of silver for clothes and goods.

The three subsidies are taken together, and the total is five hundred and twenty taels, which is four or five times the basic salary.

He doesn't have a knighthood now, and he has a few hundred taels of knighthood silver.

Therefore, as the governor of the two provinces, he could get six hundred and forty taels of silver from the official every year.

If you want to put it on ordinary people, it is definitely a high salary, and it is definitely more than enough to spend.

After all, in those days, the average annual income of the four trades, the small traders, the private school teachers, the skilled craftsmen, and the wealthy peasants, was only twenty or thirty taels of silver.

But for the Governor, the few hundred taels of silver a year were not enough to fill his teeth—the expenses were too great.

Not to mention anything else, just hiring a master, or a copywriter, costs a lot of money. From the Jin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, hiring a master has always been a rule in officialdom.

No matter how capable an official is, he must hire one or more masters, and let them help keep accounts, solve cases, draft chapters, write poems and essays, give advice, welcome and send them, and handle daily correspondence.

For example, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Huanxuan, the assassin of Jiangzhou, hired Tao Yuanming as his master, and Hu Zongxian, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, hired Xu Wenchang as his master during the Ming Dynasty.

But the problem is that the master is not a state cadre, nor can he be regarded as an ordinary civil servant, they have no establishment, they do not eat financial food, and their salaries are all paid out of the pockets of the officials who hired them, and the salaries are not low.

Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda at the time, was already the most incorruptible one in the Ming Dynasty, but his subordinates were in charge of bookkeeping, taxation, letter writing, and case adjudication, adding up to a total of 14.

Even if each person is estimated at three hundred and two years, he will have to spend four thousand two hundred taels of silver a year. Therefore, it is impossible to hire a master without spending a few thousand taels of silver a year.

Of course, the Governor also has an upright gray income, which consumes silver.

Or, embezzlement!

In fact, even if fire consumes silver, it is no different from corruption.

The fire consumption silver is similar to the village retention, township co-ordination and county co-ordination when the agricultural tax was not abolished before, that is, the additional tax imposed by the local government on top of the regular tax privately.

Now the common practice of the Ming Dynasty is that if the annual agricultural tax target of each county is 50,000 taels, but the county magistrate is ruthless, and on the basis of this index, he will add half and a half of the fire consumption.

That is, if the peasants are asked to pay an extra 25 percent of the tax, the gray income of 12,500 silver will be in hand.

The county magistrate did not dare to monopolize this gray income, according to the practice of officialdom, he had to give one-third of it to his subordinates, the other third to his superiors, and the remaining one-third into his own pocket.

The one-third handed over to the boss is usually distributed in layers, with the Taoist platform splitting a penny, the prefect dividing a penny, the procurator and the political envoy dividing a penny, the governor dividing a penny, and finally there is always a sum into the governor's private account.

The fire consumption in a single county does not bring much revenue to the governor.

The problem is that the Governor is in charge of several provinces, each of which has dozens or even hundreds of counties, and each county has made some contribution to the Governor.

And this is the reason for the corruption of Ming officials.

Because officials at all levels privately divide the fire consumption, it is very likely that the spoils will be unevenly distributed. For example, if the officials in the first place are ruthless, and the fire consumption is increased to 30%, then the county governor to the governor can share more.

However, the officials in B are not ruthless enough, and the fire consumption is only 10%, so from the county governor to the governor, they can only share less.

When these things were at Xuanda, Qin Haoming only heard about them slightly, and he didn't get involved too much at all.

Now, he is in charge of the two provinces alone, which can be said to be the place where he rises, and some things must be faced.

Otherwise, for him, it doesn't make any sense to not solve the bad habits of officialdom!