Qiantang County Ya, two halls.

Wang Zhixian in the hall is still talking, and all the subordinate officials in the hall are drowsy, their hearts are like ten thousand horses galloping, and they even secretly draw a small circle to greet the eighteenth generation ancestors of Wang Zhixian------ they are not afraid of scolding, they are afraid of hearing the county lord's tirade.

Wang Lun is just a scholar after all, and he really can't scold a lot of swear words in public, which would lose his status as a saint's disciple. So, he had no choice but to say a bunch of big truths to vent the sullenness in his heart.

I was refreshed, and I suffered a lot of officials and officials.

But to be honest, the person who made Tangzun angry was Zhang Fu, and the others were purely implicated, and it was fake to say that they didn't complain about him. It's just that everyone knows that he is a pawn of Lord Futai and the county government, so his dissatisfaction with him can only be put in his stomach, and no one will be stupid enough to be an enemy of him.

About an hour later, the county lord finally finished speaking, and everyone was secretly relieved in their hearts, and said in their hearts, let you put on an official stand for a few more days, and there will be no such opportunity in the future.

The ceremony of ascension to the seat was carried out in a programmed manner, and the morning hall ended. After Wang Zhixian left, a group of officials also dispersed one after another, and only Zhang Fu and his subordinate Luo Dianguan were left in the hall, and they were all the henchmen.

Luo Dianguan is in his forties this year, and this knife and pen official has been working for 20 years, and he is considered an old man in the county government, and now he is mainly responsible for the grain department. Zhang Fu is such a young junior who weighs on his head, and he has never shown the slightest dissatisfaction, but he has done a lot of things with Zhang Fu on weekdays, and he is deeply relied on by the other party.

He looked around, then approached Zhang Sihu and asked in a low voice, "My lord, is this going to do something to our household?" In the Ming Dynasty, "adult" is not a noble title, even if it is a small official like them, the subordinate can be used to address the superior.

Zhang Sihu glanced at him lightly, and then swept his eyes at the subordinates, and saw that everyone's faces were not very good-looking, so he couldn't help laughing and said, "What are you panicking about?" Do you really dare to touch our house? Don't look at what he said, in fact, there is no way to take us, otherwise why not find an excuse to hit us? ”

"That's ------" Everyone nodded, and then someone asked, "What if the hall is in charge?" ”

"Inventory?"

Zhang Sihu sneered, and said with disdain: "Who can he find to help him settle the accounts?" That hairy little master? Can it help? If the accounts of my household are so easy to check, the heads of our county officials will not know how many times! Hmph, what if he could really find out the problem? If you force me urgently, he's in big trouble with the county master! What about a full 1,500 taels, how many lives does he have enough to fill? At that time------ I'm afraid that our Qiantang County Ya will have another skin, tsk------"

When the subordinates heard this, they couldn't help but shudder.

If you really want to follow the standards of the emperor today, none of these little officials can run. However, it is obvious that the case is unlikely, and now that the imperial court has stopped for a few years, the old state of corruption has recurred, and the same situation exists in the yamen of all prefectures and counties in the world, but no one will be stupid to lift the lid.

In fact, local corruption has always been prohibited, and in many cases, it is not the officials who directly intervene to get money, but these officials who go up and down, and finally "honor" them a little, and the people below give them a share.

And these officials are all local snakes, and they have long been familiar with these things, so it is impossible for the court to find out easily. And those county officials sent by the imperial court are generally from other places, and many of them are still scholars who have just entered the official career, and have no experience as officials, so that these local officials can join forces together, and after the handle falls, of course, they will have no power to fight back, and in the end they can only choose to go with them.

The most critical point is that the official salary of the Ming Dynasty is not high. The salary is distributed in kind, and the annual rice of the seven-grade official is 90 stones, twelve months a year, and the monthly salary is seven and a half stones.

In the Jiangnan area, there are many merchant families, but there are relatively few people who cultivate the land, and many families even buy rice to eat, which leads to the price of rice being higher than in other places. If we calculate according to the current market price of rice, it seems that more than seven stones of rice also cost five or six taels of silver.

The key is that officials generally have wives, concubines, and domestic servants, so it is naturally impossible to exchange all the rice for money. Another is that grain merchants sell rice for more than one or two silver, but if they collect it, it is not so much, and many times these merchants also bully officials from other places who do not know how to do it, and they calculate less when they fold silver, which leads to officials can only sell rice at a low price------

Perhaps, this is also the reason why scholars and doctors like to belittle merchants?

Who made them all profiteers!

After such a calculation, it is considered good that the annual salary of the seven-rank official can be thirty or forty taels, so a large family wants to eat and drink, and can they live without making some extra money?

Ten years of cold window, what is the title of the gold list?

In order to be able to become an official and embark on a career as an official, but if the life of an official is too poor, what is the purpose of so many years of hard work? Just to live more and go back? Not?

Now that you have the power in your hands, why not make a little bit of oil and water?

Isn't that stupid, if you don't fish for nothing, you won't catch it!

Therefore, there are always a few clean officials, and the more corrupt officials are arrested, it seems that they will never be able to catch them all. But to tell the truth, only those officials who have been immersed in officialdom for many years have developed various means of making money, and it would be good for officials who have just entered their careers to get a little filial piety from the people below.

The corruption of an official has a reason for his corruption, but what about the officials?

Corruption among officials is all the more justified.

There are not many regular servants in the yamen, and there are really three economic officials who can be receiving, and there are only three places in each room, such as one secretary and two wardens, and the clerks and assistants under them are all non-economic officials, and the court does not care about their wages at all, only cares about food, which is equivalent to temporary workers. But with such a group of temporary workers, the number far exceeds that of regular workers, so where do their wages come from?

Of course, they relied on themselves, relying on some bad rules and conventions in the yamen!

As a result, these people wantonly use the power in their hands to make gray income for themselves, and they can often get much more oil and water than the money of the officials, why not?

Zhang Sihu admits that he has no problem with fake accounts, and he is not afraid of checking accounts at all. Therefore, when he led a group of subordinates back to the house, and when he saw Master Rong bringing someone to move the account book, he did not show any emotion.

The county lord wants to check the accounts, and he really can't stop a small household secretary, so just let him check enough!

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Xu Jie is very young among the leaders of the three classes, and he can become the leader of the first class at the age of less than thirty, which is extremely rare in any yamen in the world. Ordinary people have to be nearly forty years old to climb up in terms of seniority.

Therefore, in the eyes of neighbors who don't know the truth, Xu Jie is a role model for their children, and often preaches to their children in a tone like "other people's children", and when he speaks, he usually says, "Look at the kid of Xu's second family, he is the same age as you, but now everyone has become a catcher in the six doors------

Six doors is the common name of the state and county yamen.

Xu Jie's power is not a secret, almost everyone in the entire Qiantang County Yali knows that he is the confidant of the former magistrate. If it weren't for the murder case that brought down the county master, I am afraid that Xu Jie would have successfully replaced Wang Zhutou and became the nominal leader of the fast class, and the actual leader of the third class.

In the past few months, it has been particularly difficult for Xu Jie.

The county government is a small river and lake, and there will also be factional disputes, not to mention open and secret battles and intrigues between people.

The former Tang Zunren went to tea and cool, and several of his henchmen and subordinates were gradually eradicated, and the yamen was cleaned up, but Xu Jie was usually relatively low-key, and he had a good relationship with the people in the torture room, and he did have some real skills, so no one dared to touch him easily.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier.

At the beginning of Wang Zhixian's tenure, he also thought about working for the other party, but after a period of observation, he could only shake his head helplessly. This county lord is upright, but he doesn't have any ability, and he can't suppress those cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods------

In this regard, Xu Jie could only say that there was nothing he could do. He alone can't fight those people, and the final result will only be to attract hatred and be swept away.

Leading a few subordinates to wander the streets is regarded as patrolling, and he has probably been like this these days.

While walking forward, someone on the street would greet him from time to time, and Xu Jie only nodded slightly. Inadvertently, a white figure appeared in front of him.

White-clothed soap towels, people in the public gate. That person was Lao Wu, the secretary of the torture room.

For the scribes, such a costume could also show their identity. Therefore, even if they take leave and do not go to work in the yamen, they are not willing to easily change into this white clothes.

"Xu Bantou, are you busy?" Lao Wu looked at him and smiled, and took the lead in saying hello.

"Wu Shuban, didn't you take a leave of absence today, why did you appear here?"

The relationship between Xu Jie and Lao Wu is not too familiar, but they can't talk about looking at each other wrongly, they just belong to the kind of very ordinary colleague relationship------ a small bookstore, and it is not worth his condescension to deliberately make friends.

"Originally, I was on leave, no, someone invited me to this Jufu Building for tea and breakfast, can I not come?"

"Oh? That's a strange thing. Xu Jie's tone was a little ridiculous, not that he looked down on the bookstore, but that the bookstore was decent, and whether it would be scolded by others also depended on whether he had power in his hands.

If it is the secretary of the household and the confidant of the priests and officials, then it is naturally more popular. There is no way, there are too many things that can be managed by the house, and most of them are closely related to the people, and they usually can't be flattered and stuttered.

The torture chamber belongs to the category of not opening for three years, but being open for three years.

There are not many ordinary people who go to the yamen to fight lawsuits, and if they really want to get into this kind of trouble, the oil and water in their torture room will be relatively sufficient------ of course, if the secretary office goes to another level and becomes a serious economic official, it will be very different, and they are usually provided by others, and the people always look at the word "power".

"It's not unusual, it's not unusual------ Lao Wu smiled at him meaningfully, and sold it a little, "That person also asked me to come down and invite Xu Bantou to go up." I don't know if the team leader has any leisure? ”

Xu Jie frowned when he heard this, and glanced at him suspiciously, his face gradually becoming solemn.