The members of the royal family enjoy the blessings

The government and business are integrated to strip the people's interests

For a period of time, the Zhongshu Department, the Privy Council, and the Third Division successively received letters of complaint from the Fujian Pacification Division, the Transshipment Division, the Quanzhou City Bo Division, and the Quanzhou Yamen, and the spearhead of all the problems was directed at the Quanzhou Nanwai Zongzheng Division, and then the Nanwai Zongzheng Division issued an official document to defend itself, accusing the Fufu Department and the Quanzhou Yamen of chaotic management, the declining public customs, the ineffective collection of imperial taxes, the arrears of funds, and the inability to maintain the normal operation of the imperial family's management work. It is a shame that these departments are far away in Fujian, otherwise, if they attack each other, they will definitely become a pot of porridge.

At this time, Wang Qiong, a merchant from Zhangzhou, was in Dengwen Drum Courtyard and sued the Quanzhou Yamen for forcibly detaining the boat, and Zhao Bujie, the governor of the Nanwai Sect, forcibly seized the boat, causing his family to be ruined.

On this day, Emperor Zhao Kuo asked everyone to discuss how to solve the matter. First of all, the introduction of the situation was made by the head of the household.

This dynasty followed the style of the previous dynasty and established the Zongzheng Temple, which was mainly responsible for maintaining the genealogy of the clan, managing the main sacrificial places such as the Taimiao, the Hou Temple, and the royal mausoleum, and supervising the marriage of the sons and daughters of the sect, which was one of the nine temples. There are two mausoleums and two offices of Zongxuan. All the royal family and foreign relatives are divided into five grades, set different grades, and give corresponding treatment.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhao Kuangyin identified the descendants of his three surviving brothers as the royal family, that is, the clan, personally wrote the imperial book, compiled the three factions of "jade" (royal family genealogy), and personally formulated the fourteen characters of the three factions, thinking that they were ranked; Another will was made: "My clan has no relatives, and the world is a line." "The fourteen characters of the three factions of the Song clan (later known as the Taizu faction, the Taizong faction, and the Wei King Zhao Guangmei faction) formulated by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin are: Taizu faction - only Shou (from) Shiling Zibo, Shixi and Meng Youyishun." Taizong faction - Yunzong Zhongshi is not good, and you Chong must be a good friend Ji Tong. The King of Wei faction - the Gongyan of Uncle Chengke, if the heir is Guguang. With the rapid growth of the clan population and the increasing congestion of the clan's residence, the Renjong Dynasty established the Daijong Shoji as the clan's own management department, and as a supplement to the Zongshoji Temple, it was ordered to correct the clan's faults and violations. In Nanjing (Yingtianfu, now Shangqiu, Henan) and Luoyang, Xijing, the Dunqin Yuan was built for the members of the imperial family, and the Southern Foreign Sect and the Western Foreign Zhongzheng Division were set up to manage the Zhangwaiju clan, and jointly manage the affairs of the clan with the Dangzhou Tongju.

In the second year of Jingkang, the Jin soldiers captured Kaifeng, Tokyo, and the imperial family members of the Taizong faction suffered a catastrophe and were wiped out. During the Shaoxing period, it successively gathered in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, where the imperial court set up the Western Foreign Sect and the Southern Foreign Sect.

Hearing this, Su Shicheng understood that in the Great Song Dynasty, there was such a special class that didn't do anything just for money.

Then, the Dali Siqing reported on the relevant situation of the book.

Wang Qiong, a native of Longyan County, Zhangzhou, is 34 years old. According to his own account, last summer, his father Wang Rugui spent nearly 200,000 yuan to buy a ship, took the goods to the South Seas, and made some money, in the spring and April of this year, he bought another batch of goods, and the two of them went to the South Seas, but on the way back, his father fell ill and encountered pirates, but his father was not saved, and the 300,000 yuan of goods were also robbed. Go ashore in Quanzhou and bury my father. All the creditors came to force the debt. Before, in order to purchase more goods, he borrowed 100,000 yuan from the shopkeeper Li, with an interest of 10,000, a trade tax of 30,000 yuan in Quanzhou, a shipping tax of 30,000 yuan from the city, and an interest of 10%. Zhao Bujie, the governor of the Central Prosecutor's Division, drove away other buyers and forced him to sell them to him for 100,000 yuan. The Quanzhou tax collector used the ship as a pledge and had to pay the tax first, so that even if his royal family sold all the family property, he would not be able to pay off the debt.

The city shipping department explained that when merchants go to sea to trade, the city shipping department should send people to the ship for "spot checking" to prevent the entrainment of weapons, copper coins, women's mouths, fugitive soldiers, etc.; The import and export of goods are divided, that is, the goods are divided into thick and thin colors, and a number of copies are drawn according to a certain proportion to pay the city tax; According to the goods declared by the merchant, the people on board and the place to go, a certificate (notarized, notarized) is issued, that is, a permit to go to sea. According to the regulations, merchant ships going to sea must pay the city tax, in practice, as long as the merchant issues an IOU and agrees to pay interest, it can be owed first, and then paid after the goods are sold when they return. The market tax on the export commodities of the royal merchant ships is 30,000 copper coins and 3,000 yuan of interest, for a period of six months, and must be paid regardless of whether they win or lose.

Considering the particularity of overseas trade, the tax supervisor agreed that the merchant would not pay it for the time being, and as long as the merchant issued an IOU and agreed to pay interest, he could owe it first, and then pay after selling the goods when he returned. The market tax on the export commodities of the royal merchant ships is 30,000 copper coins and 3,000 yuan of interest, for a period of six months, and must be paid regardless of whether they win or lose. The existing IOU of the Wang family was here, so his merchant ship was seized.

Zhao Bujie explained, this is purely a slanderous accusation, I have never discussed, and I don't know anything about Zhao Buyi and the Wang family. However, there is one thing that everyone understands. No matter how much money you spend on a new ship, even if you don't use it once, if you want to sell it, you will never sell it at the original price, it will be discounted. The Wang family's merchant ship had an accident, and there were dead people, it was unlucky, no other merchants bought it, my brother Zhao Buyi negotiated the price with Wang Qiong, and regretted it afterwards, and also relied on me to buy and sell, and the typical wicked person sued first.

After talking so much, it's confusing. The emperor asked Han Yanxuan:

Master, look at how to deal with it.

Your Majesty, the management of the Nanwai Sect is chaotic, the expenditure is staggering, the Transshipment Department and the Quanzhou Yamen are complaining, and the taxes of the Municipal Department are declining year by year, and these problems must be solved. Weichen thought that the imperial court would send a senior official to go down and carefully check it, find out all kinds of situations, and then solve them one by one.

Okay, let's do it.

Liu Luan, the governor of the political affairs and the Privy Council, is in charge, and the members also have Deng Youlong, the palace attendant, Shi Miyuan, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Zhang Ci, the Shaoqing of Zongzheng Temple, and the Privy Council are all committed to Su Shicheng.

When the group arrived in Quanzhou, they first figured out the affairs of the Nanwai Sect.

Nanwai Zongzheng Division is located in the north of the big boat pavilion on the west side of the old hall in Quanzhou, and the northwest corner of the ancient banyan lane. At first, there were only more than 300 people, but with the multiplication of the population, the scale continued to expand, and now there are more than 2,000 people, mainly living in Mujongwon, Zixinzhai and Furong Hall are places for reading and activities for the elderly, Tianbaochi and Zhonghoufang are places of rest and entertainment, and there are also "Zongxue" specially designed to educate the children of the royal family. The whole building is magnificent, and the governor is generally the patriarch of the Zhao clan. The expenses of the clan, the widow's money, the dowry of the daughter, and other expenses are mainly borne by the Quanzhou Yamen.

This area, which is less than five miles in radius, actually looks like an independent kingdom. The Quanzhou Yamen could not manage anything except to supply funds. The adult men of each clan family had a rank and a job title, and even though they did nothing, Soshoji paid them on time every month, and also distributed "orphaned money rice" to orphans who could rely on those close relatives who were not officials. The specific criteria are: the clan living in the courtyard, the eldest of which has a monthly salary of thirteen yuan; For those over 20 years old, the monthly money is 91 guan, and the rice is 1 stone; Those who are 10 to 19 years old will have a monthly salary of 47 guan and 04 stone per meter; Those between the ages of 5 and 9 years old will receive 1 yuan per month and 04 stone per month. The eldest of the clans (10 years old and above) who live outside the courtyard will receive 2 guan of money and 1 stone of rice per month; For the small (5 years old and above), the monthly money is 1 guan, and the meter is 05 stones. In addition, according to the regulations, the daughter of the sect who is over ten years old can also get a dowry of 30 to 100 yuan.