Calculated the number of field taxes with the six departments of the Senate and Monk Department of the Tianwang Mansion, and reviewed the relevant regulations of the public office, the public bureau and the ticket house they drafted, and was busy for several days, Li Xi was seriously deprived of sleep, and he really had some hard time at today's county meeting.

Cheng Guijue is recording the actual amount of money and grain collected in Dianbai County, the county actually levied silver grain land, that is, tax land, about 120,000 mu, about 6,000 taels of silver, because the county has long implemented Ding with the grain, and there are more than 1,000 taels of Ding silver spread in, which is 7,000 taels, and 5,000 taels of grain are also levied, which used to be converted into silver by the county, roughly 4,000 taels, and the positive tax is 11,000 taels, and the positive tax of Dianbai County is basically the average level of a province in Guangdong.

This number is both the governor and the yamen of the Guangzhou Mansion, and Cheng Guijue was originally a household scrivener, so it was easy to fill it in. But in the column of the county government's actual collection, he hesitated, he knew how much he had collected before, but he was not sure about the attitude of the new dynasty, after all, the county actually collected, which was a county fund, and it was also the county official's own small treasury. Let's report it as it is, is this new court going to be scraped up? Underreport, the new dynasty will check according to this number, and he will have to eat and hang up in the future.

He looked around and found that many people were also in trouble with him, and the common items collected by Dianbai County were fire consumption, deed tax, tooth tax, and city tax, but this was only on the surface, and it had to be floated when it was actually collected, and this part had already exceeded the positive tax. As for all kinds of filial piety of businessmen and officials, they get tens of thousands of dollars a year, which is not taken the initiative to stretch out their hands, in addition to dealing with their own errands, filial piety to Shangguan and the government and the yamen, a year to drop three or five thousand taels of silver, that is the top Qing official...... Seeing that Cheng Guijue's pen stopped at the county yashi levy column, his eyes were dripping, and his brother Cheng Yingde coughed, and said in a low voice: "Don't think too much, come according to the numbers." ”

Cheng Yingde has participated in the previous decision-making meeting, and the actual amount of money collected by each county has long been mastered by Li Shi through various channels, and now Li Shi wants these acting magistrates to write it again, but it is to see if they are down-to-earth. What is written according to the truth may not be reliable, and what is not written according to the truth, whether intentionally or unintentionally, is not reliable.

After being reminded by his brother, Cheng Guijue knew what to do and honestly filled in the numbers.

After this item was completed, Cheng Yingde and the others began to be busy as soon as they were the head of the household department of the Shangshu Hall, checking the numbers, marking the problems, and then sending the number of field taxes received by the counties, Cheng Guijue looked at it, his eyes were almost black, 21,000 taels! This new dynasty is too ruthless, right, do you really want to roll up all the local miscellaneous factions?

Cheng Guijue didn't dare to speak, but there were many county affairs that couldn't help but complain, the imperial court wanted to pressure the state and county so hard, even if they were unintentionally greedy, they had to consider the county governance, and the bold people spoke out in front of the court.

"The king of heaven said in Yong'an that if the people are hardworking, they can get rich, and kindness can do the world. But I never thought that now I have seen it in person, and the rule of the king of heaven is even harsher than that of the Manchurians! Although Ba is humble, he is unwilling to help the abuse, Li Tianwang is on top, Ba Mou is leaving! ”

A person got up and brushed his sleeves and made a generous statement, but his feet did not move, and it seemed that he was ready to be taken down by the black-clothed guards around him.

Ba Xuqi?

Li Shi recognized him at this time, isn't this the Yongan County Cheng who volunteered to enter the city to fight against thieves in the Battle of Yong'an? Right now...... Liu Xingchun muttered in his ear: "Before he was transferred by the Qing court to Yangjiang County, after the incident, he took Yangjiang County to surrender, thinking that the people of Yong'an had a good relationship with him, and after Fang joined the army and said that after he surrendered to Yong'an, he was transferred to the county affairs of the Yong'an Bureau." ”

Li Xian must have signed and approved the transfer of county affairs, but where did he remember so much, he had to be reminded. Knowing this dealing, Li Xi felt that this Ba Xuqi was really sincere and available.

"Make noise in court, demote and appoint!"

Li Xian said leisurely, and then saw that everyone in the hall, including Ba Xuqi, was at a loss, and secretly said that his little humor was really unintelligible, and he touched his nose curtly, and the conversation got to the point.

"This figure is to include the previous positive tax miscellaneous. Let you see this figure, not to give you a quota of money and food, but to let you know the actual burden of governing the people of a county. From now on, you county officials will no longer care about taxation. ”

This sentence is like a cold storm, and it is wrapped in two eyes, and everyone has just been shocked by the first eye of the wind, that is, all the classes are limited to this number, and then the second eye of the wind, saying that the county officials do not send classes, even made everyone almost faint, and they all wanted to pinch themselves, wanting to confirm whether they were in a dream.

Ba Xuqi opened and closed his mouth weakly, and it took a long time before he asked with difficulty: "Then what do I want to do when I wait for the county magistrate?" ”

Li Zhushou stood up, and the government went to the countryside to regulate the duties of the county officials, and he was scheduled to be in charge.

"Starting tomorrow, you and the county will have to attend classes, and learn the things that the county officials are in charge of one by one, and then you will ......."

Li Shi waved his hand to stop Li Zhushou, and at this time, he said a rough idea, which can also make everyone know in their hearts.

"Here I will briefly describe that you are waiting for the county to be a good parent in this county!"

Since the Qin Dynasty, the county officials have been the most important pro-people officials at the grassroots level in all dynasties, and the analogy of "parent officials" is deep-rooted.

"I haven't heard of a parent who squeezes the fat of their children!"

Of course, it is impossible to count on elected magistrates now, but dividing the responsibilities of magistrates from the level of power and taxation and allowing them to concentrate on political affairs lays the foundation for this goal.

"How do parents treat their children? Provide food and clothing, teach by word and deed, help their hearts to behave rightly, and help them to support themselves. The people are naturally different from the officials, the people are self-reliant, but the officials have to rely on the people for support. But the small people are short-sighted and shallow-minded, just like the children of minors, they must have you and other county officials, dedicate themselves to education, help them show their strengths, and make food and live in peace, this is the parent official! ”

"In the past, it was said that in the past dynasties, the county officials were allowed to send classes on the one hand, oppress the small people, and educate them on the other hand, and seek benefits for the small people. Now let you wait for the county officials to send classes, just concentrate on the welfare of the small people, and be a good parent of a county, are you willing to do this? ”

Of course, there is also an element of whitewashing in his words, and the county officials still have to manage the assignments, such as dealing with the county public bureau about the total amount of land taxes, supervising the tax payment status of the county, etc., but they are indeed no longer in charge of specific tax collection affairs.

After listening to Li Xian's words, everyone in the hall only felt that their minds were cleansed, this county official of the new dynasty turned out to be an idle official who specializes in earning a good name?

Ba Xuqi took a deep breath and said loudly: "Ba Mou is willing to do it!" ”

He was very excited, he was already disappointed, but now it seems that he didn't understand the path of the new dynasty!

Li Xi smiled at him: "You can't be a county official......

Ba Xuqi and everyone were stunned, thinking that Li Tianwang was really stingy, and settled the account on the spot.

"You go to manage the county officials of Huizhou Prefecture, but just now you made noise in court, and you will be demoted by one level, from the fourth grade."

Li Shi's little trick finally worked, everyone was envious and funny, the sound of poofing was endless, Ba Xuqi was embarrassed and moved, and he didn't say much, and he went to the end.

Then these county officials changed their minds again, listening to Li Xi's words, the grade of their magistrates, or did they follow the Manchu Qing setting? What about Yulu? If you still use the previous Yulu and don't let them manage the class, then this official is really a bitter official.

Seeing that everyone's faces were worried again, Li Zhushou understood their thoughts very well, coughed, and began to briefly describe instead of Li Xian.

The primary responsibility of the county officials of the British Dynasty is to mediate all kinds of contradictions between the central government, the local government and the county people, and the second is to plan the development of a county, expand the space for the benefit of the people, and examine the indicators of their performance.

Li Shi not only transferred the responsibility of the tax assignment from them to the public bureau, the ticket office, and the household under the county to the household department of the central government, but also removed the responsibility for punishment from them. Compared with the county officials whose main responsibility in the past dynasties was money, food and criminal names, their county officials are really in name only, which is actually the foundation for Li Xian to lay the foundation for the decentralization of society in the future.

Of course, from this, "three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver" has become history, after all, most of the power in the hands of county officials has been divided by the affairs officer, Li Shi will certainly not learn from Zhu Yuanzhang, requiring officials to be saints who do not eat fireworks in the world, at least let the officials have no worries about food and clothing. At the same time, because the officials are one, it is necessary to leave enough room for the original officials to rise, so that they are no longer limited to one place and one position.

Therefore, the county officials of the British Dynasty were set very high, and the county officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties were generally the seventh grade, while the county officials of the British Dynasty were counted from the sixth grade, and the highest could reach the fifth grade.

From the six-grade county official's salary, it is set at two hundred taels per year, twenty taels is one step, and the fifth grade is two hundred and sixty taels, and Lu rice is no longer issued.

"The county officials don't have to bear the miscellaneous expenses of the county government anymore, and they don't even have to hire friends, these two hundred taels are enough to spend ......"

Seeing that everyone in the hall frowned, obviously having scruples, and felt that this bit of silver was not enough to spend, Li Zhushou reminded him, and then threw out another piece of cake.

"This is just a job, the officials have another salary, this dynasty will treat the scholars and doctors like the Song Dynasty, you can know it in your hearts."

Li Zhushou's words made everyone's hearts flutter, and they wanted to learn from Song Shi! Then this county official is just sending, and they still have the official of Shilu!

This set is in the making, of course, the British Dynasty will not learn from the Song Dynasty and engage in any stacking of beds and frames, but the separation of positions, grades and ranks, and there will be knighthoods in the future, these separations, with the improvement of the supervision system, coupled with more detailed decentralization, the corruption situation will be limited to a controllable range.

The next day, Ba Xuqi and others began to attend classes, and after roughly understanding the affairs of the county officials, their hearts were shocked again, and they realized that this new Yinghua Dynasty was actually going to carry out government reforms that were beyond the past and the present.

With county officials as the carrier, Li Shi's set of local government affairs reforms made the civil officials who were said to be floating on the surface feel that they were pressed into the soil, and the officials who sank under the water felt that they had been dug out and exposed. Originally, the focus was on apportioning the land into the mu, but it was expanded to a big action of the government going to the countryside, the officials being integrated, and the separation of power and taxation.

The core idea of the whole set of measures is three points, one is to introduce the public bureau, the other is to introduce the ticket bank, from the perspective of the political axe, these two policies are measures to reduce the cost of taxation and improve efficiency. The third point is to rely on the integration of the government and the officials in the countryside, so that the political axe can go deep into a more detailed level to promote development and regulate society.

"Where did so many people come from?"

This is Ba Xuqi's biggest doubt, there are 1,200 officials in each county, and 20,000 in the province, where can so many scholars be these officials?

"There are no less than hundreds of officials in each county, and it is enough to choose those who are good. I also know the roots, the officials are from a meager background, they have been entrenched in the township for generations, squeezing money with power, and their surnames are worrying. But this strategy is to pull the officials out of the hidden ground, and also give them a future as officials, which is always stronger than in the past. Moreover, the new dynasty was established, and the deterrence was very heavy, and the villain did not dare to be too presumptuous. When the situation is ripe, other scholars will have to join in, and they don't have to worry about no one being an official. ”

Li Zhushou's answer was very thoughtful, and most of the worries of Ba Xuqi and everyone disappeared.

"If the expenses of all the things under the county are raised by the public bureau, if the public bureau shirks the tax resistance, won't the affairs of a county be wasted?"

Ba Xuqi then asked, Li Zhushou didn't know the bottom of this question, and found Peng Xianzhong, who was responsible for promoting the construction of the public bureau.

"When you wait for the county officials, you have to explain to the representatives of the people of a county, that is, the public bureau, how to make the countryside peaceful, the agriculture prosperous, and the people safe and secure. For example, building bridges and roads, such as watching and helping each other, it is up to you to explain clearly to the people. During this period, it is best to learn more from the merchants, learn to sell your ideas for the government of a county, and let the people pay for this ideal government. ”

Peng Xianzhong opened his mouth to be a businessman's tone, and Ba Xuqi and the others frowned when they heard it, and they were very insightful. Originally, the county officials of all generations also had this responsibility, but unfortunately the more important duty was to collect taxes, and now they are concentrating on it, and it is really a stage to show their strength.

"You are lucky, you are the first batch of administrative officials, and the future administrative officials will have to sharpen their skills in the affairs officer before they can sit in your position."

Peng Xianzhong revealed that the other officials were in charge of their own professional affairs, and these chief officials of the county government had to deal with all parties, and the scholars who only read the books of sages and had no actual political experience in the past could not afford this responsibility at all.

Hearing this, everyone's faces were pale, and this is the benefit of early conglong.

The Lantern Festival is approaching, and these county officials are still studying hard in Guangzhou, and people from all walks of life come to give lectures. Su Wencai talked about the future operation process of government affairs, Li Zhushou talked about how to set up grassroots government offices in townships and towns, and Peng Xianzhong talked about how to set up public bureaus. Liu Xingzhao, who was originally the leader of Qingtian Mengxue, and is now preparing for Guozijian in the Zhongshu Hall, talked about how to promote the construction of county-level Mongolian education, and Cai Langzhong Cai Meng, who is preparing for the Medical and Health Department, talked about how to build a county-level health care system. Liu Xingchun, who received the transformation of the Manchu and Qing flood pond systems and set up post stations and flood ponds as civilian posts, military posts, and patrol internal guard systems, talked about the work of protecting the territory and the people in a county.

Ba Xuqi's head in the county was washed to pieces, and he could only take notes vigorously, and then slowly digest it later, thanks to the fact that most of them were born as officials and last officials, and they could withstand the torment, and they could not persist if they were replaced by other scholars.

(To be continued)