Out of the second hall, Zheng Keyou was still waiting outside.

"Master Su, the former magistrate of Jiangning County, has been transferred to the capital, and the big seal and documents are sealed in the county office, and the lower officials will lead the adults to go through the handover procedures."

Su Tiancheng nodded and did not speak.

Such an inauguration ceremony, he did not expect, after more than a year, especially after the palace examination, he finally understood some of the situation, when the new official took office, after the Lord Yin of the palace as usual, arranged a meal to show welcome, but also to show respect for the court, and then went to the official office to take office.

But today's inauguration ceremony can be regarded as incomparably incorruptible, and I received some anti-corruption education, reported my thoughts, and went directly to the county government of Jiangning County.

On the surface, Fu Yin Wang Daozhi is very honest, but the real situation is by no means so simple, it is said that Tang Haitai and the fourth son of Donglin, no matter what way they demean themselves, there will be no such situation, there must be other reasons for this.

Thinking about giving himself a horse, there is no reason for this, he can't threaten Wang Daozhi, Wang Daozhi, as a third-grade official, there is no need to compete with himself, the newly appointed six-rank magistrate.

What is the reason, Su Tiancheng can't think of it for the time being.

After Su Tiancheng left, Wang Daozhi's expression became a little serious.

According to the custom, he had to at least arrange for the government to prepare a banquet, but he did not do so.

The emperor's secret decree has arrived a long time ago, and this secret decree was given to him directly.

It was precisely because of this secret decree that he did not arrange a banquet.

After so many years in the officialdom, it was the first time he had received such a secret decree, and there was nothing unusual about the secret decree, as long as it was not reflected in the newspaper, it was the so-called secret decree. But when it comes to employing people, it's not simple, you have to know Lu Dao, the local officials that the emperor cares about are basically prefects above the fourth grade.

The content of the secret decree is not very complicated, but there is one sentence that he doesn't understand, that is, decentralization.

Jiangning County and Shangyuan County are the two Gyeonggi counties in Nanjing, and they are also the two most important counties under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu.

The magistrate of Jiangning County, which has always been reused, Su Tiancheng's predecessor was transferred to the capital, entered the household department, and went to Langzhong, and was the rank of the fifth grade.

These two places are also places that should be of great concern to Tianfu.

Although there are eight counties under the jurisdiction of Tianfu, the biggest focus is still in Shangyuan County and Jiangning County.

These two places have their own characteristics, Shangyuan County is needless to say, the Imperial City, the Sixth Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Yingtianfu are all within the jurisdiction of Shangyuan County, Jiangning County is a vast place, there are many merchants, and there are also many fields.

The two places, because of the special terrain, have always received attention, and it is unceremonious to say that among the 1138 counties in Daming, Shangyuan County and Jiangning County are in front.

In the middle of the secret decree, the emperor put forward the meaning of delegating power, does it mean that he wants to support the work of Jiangning County.

Because the place is special, Shangyuan County and Jiangning County, subject to more constraints, is also more, pay attention to here, there are Ying Tianfu, as well as Ying Tian Governor, including the six departments and the town guard eunuchs, there are a lot of superiors, any level, the words spoken, the county is to pay attention to, sometimes, the opinions of the superiors contradict each other, the county is caught in the middle, at a loss, often delayed a lot of things.

The biggest trouble is still in the children of many official eunuchs.

Nanjing's six departments and the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have not changed much, many of them are because they are old, or they have been excluded, and they have come to Nanjing, and they will not be adjusted for many years.

Don't look at the officials of the Sixth Ministry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, there is not much power, but most of the officials, the relationship behind them is not simple, and the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household are adjusted more frequently, maybe when they will go to the capital, and they may directly enter the Sixth Ministry or the cabinet and become a prominent Zaifu.

In such a situation, naturally no one will offend them.

Nanjing belongs to a prosperous place, but also a place of high consumption, with that little bit of poor money, if you want to live a decent life, it is very difficult, poor then think about change, a lot of officials, it is not good to come forward directly, their children, come forward and businessmen tangled together, use all aspects of the relationship, earn silver.

This situation is already somewhat common.

Shangyuan County and Jiangning County belong to the rich land, but they can't pay taxes on time every year, and the county government's officials and tax collectors are similar to the turtle's grandson, for fear of accidentally offending the powerful businessman, losing their jobs is a trivial matter, and they will be wronged when they enter the prison, anyway, they can't collect taxes, and the responsibility lies with the county government, and they don't have much to do.

After Wang Daozhi took office, he once thought about changing this situation, but unfortunately it didn't have much effect, and the top and bottom were all yang and yin, which involved the interests of many officials, who would support it.

The biggest problem is that the salaries of officials are too low.

Wang Daozhi is the palace Yin of the third grade, and the annual income is only more than two hundred taels of silver, if there is no maintenance of thousands of taels or even tens of thousands of taels of silver, it is estimated that eating is a problem.

Where does the usual silver come from, it is impossible to fall from the sky, and it does not rely on the offerings of merchants and lower-level officials.

As for the amount of regular silver, it is directly related to the authority, for example, the officials of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other departments, the regular cases are pitiful, that is, the regular servants of the three products, who can have a thousand taels of silver every year, which is very remarkable. On the other hand, the Gyeonggi Prefecture of Zhengliupin, the usual silver, will not be less than his mansion.

The polarization of officials in Nanjing is very serious, there are officials who are so rich that they are flowing oil, and there are many officials whose poor lives are unsustainable.

Wealthy officials have power in their hands, and power can be turned into silver, fattening up fat, and officials without power try their best to tie up with their superiors, make friends with merchants, and get silver from it, as for the taxes that the court should collect, it is not their own business, and no one really cares.

Such a vicious circle, to the greatest extent to protect the interests of large landlords, big businessmen, the loss, or peasants and small merchants, the imperial court's taxes, simply can not be collected, some counties, even a tael of silver does not pay, this in the rich Nanzhili, seems unimaginable, in fact, it is universal.

There are so many bodhisattvas on it, and whoever says a word, you have to listen, otherwise you can't sit still, and you can't sit still, and in the end you will suffer, and there is no place to complain, and people will laugh at you, and you don't know the current affairs.

Wang Daozhi felt that although Su Tiancheng was the eye of the palace test, although he wrote so many amazing poems, but after all, he was young, only nineteen years old, less than the age of the weak crown, and it was impossible to have so much political experience.

Could it be that the meaning of delegating power is to ask Su Tiancheng to collect taxes to change this vicious circle.

Thinking of this, Wang Daozhi sighed.

The emperor sent such a young Su Tiancheng to come, if he wanted to change the situation in Nanzhili, it would be an improper use of people, Su Tiancheng has no background, at least in Nanzhili, without deep support, how could he complete such a difficult task, Ying Tianfu Mansion Yin can not shake the relationship network, just a county magistrate of Jiangning County, I am afraid it is not cannon fodder.

Su Tiancheng didn't expect so much.

Zheng Keyou is indeed flexible, and on the way to the county government of Jiangning County, he was introducing the situation.

Jiangning County Yamen, six miles away from the Shuntianfu Yamen, in the northern part of Nanjing City, the jurisdiction is very large, the entire Nanjing City, that is, Shangyuan County and Jiangning County, the six departments and the location of Yingtianfu, are in Shangyuan County, the two camps of Nanjing Jingying, are in Jiangning County.

Shangyuan County has the flavor of a political center, while Jiangning County has the flavor of an economic center.

Jiangning County has a total of 117 scribes, including 37 clerks, 42 wardens, and the rest are clerks. As for the number of servants, there are more than 1,000 people.

Zheng Keyou's meaning, Su Tiancheng understands, in Shangyuan County, the magistrate is flexible, and it is easier to be promoted, but in Jiangning County, the magistrate is flexible, and it is a small matter to make money.

As for the establishment of scribes, the number of officials and wardens is fixed, which is like the director and deputy director of the county in a few hundred years later, there is a fixed establishment on it, but it is difficult to say that the clerk office can be more or less, some bookstores have a roster on them, and some bookstores can be mastered by the county government.

The number of government officials, according to the actual situation in the county, the huge Jiangning County, and the land of Gyeonggi, the task of public security is very heavy, relying on the inspection department of the yamen, it is not very realistic, it is necessary to expand the ranks of the government officials, besides, the collection and payment of taxes is also the task of the government officials, most of the county officials, wardens and clerks will not do it personally.

Interestingly, the scribes all had a salary, and the officials did not have a salary, and lived on a pitiful subsidy.

In a word, the scribe is a regular staff member of the state, the official is a temporary worker, and the hard work is done by the temporary worker, and if there is a problem, the temporary worker is also responsible.