The salaries of the staff of various sections at the local and county levels are between 10 and 20 yuan according to the different places, for example, the ordinary clerks in the business zone have the lowest monthly salary of 18 yuan.

This salary level is not low, with an annual income of at least 350 yuan, which is enough for a family to live in the business area, and you can also hire four or five servants to live a more decent life.

However, it is worth noting that the income of the lowest level of staff members still does not represent the income level of the entire group of civil servants, and according to the positioning of the Organization Department, from the ministers of the cabinet to the ordinary patrol police, to the guards who work on the watch, and the cleaning masters who sweep the streets, they are all 'state civil servants'.

Taking county-level institutions as an example, a county has many departments, and there are more than a dozen or so sections in a section, and there are only five or six section members at the minimum, and at present, there are no town-level and township-level institutions below the county level.

Therefore, there are only about 100 civil servants above the level of clerks in an entire county.

And is it enough to manage a county with only these 100 people? Absolutely not enough!

Taking the trade zone as an example, in order to manage the hundreds of thousands of people in the trade zone, they have nearly 1,000 patrol officers in one patrol police station and hundreds of people in the Jianghai patrol police station.

In addition, there are many civil servants in various public institutions.

At present, there are more than 8,000 civil servants eating official meals in the business zone!

Of these 8,000 people, the vast majority of them have an annual income of less than 100 yuan, while only more than 500 people have more than 350 yuan, and only more than 50 people have more than 1,000 yuan.

Fortunately, the salary given is high across the country. Even a second-class patrol officer earns ten yuan a month, which is at least twice as much as that of ordinary manual workers who are tired to death.

But why be greedy?

On the one hand, it has to do with people. From ancient times to the present, there is no one who is not greedy, and you give him a monthly salary of five yuan. He will be greedy, and if you give him a monthly salary of ten or twenty dollars, he will still be greedy.

On the other hand, it is also related to the fact that the current empire has relatively few regulations on the administration of officials, and the management is relatively lax on the whole.

Now that the Chinese Empire is newly established, it is very lacking in all aspects, and at present, everything in the empire is to unify Kyushu, and the first consideration is military issues. The second is how to quickly take over the vast area, and relatively little attention is paid to other aspects.

At present, the government system represented by the cabinet is mainly to support the actions of the military, and everything else is secondary.

Unlike the officials who stayed in Nanjing for a long time, Song Guanqian was often in Shanghai, and he often went out to observe all aspects of social development.

Although he was in charge of foreign affairs, he could not interfere in this work. But Song Guanqian still chose to write an excerpt, as a courtier of the empire, it was necessary for him to let the Son of Heaven know how serious the problem of government in the empire was.

That night, after returning to the official residence. Song Guanqian just picked up a thin brush and wrote on the paper, he didn't use the dipped ink fountain pen that was now quickly popular in the imperial officialdom. Instead, continue to use a brush.

The entire administrative system of the empire was based on the administrative system of the previous trade zones, which were very different from the traditional yamen and even the official institutions of Western countries. At that time, the administrative system of the business zone greatly referred to the administrative system of those foreign banks, and then there was some intervention by Lin Zhe. In the past, officials reported a thing, at most a thousand words, and it was written like classical Chinese prose, but now it is not possible.

The document must be simple and straightforward, but it must also be described in detail, and the data of the design often has to be tabulated.

There are many official documents, and the number of words written has increased exponentially, and people who are officials are also tired, so many people have begun to use foreigners' ink fountain pens, which are much faster and more convenient.

Not every official can be like Song Guanqian, who can write a good hand!

I saw Song Guanqian write a fly-headed small letter, his writing speed is extremely fast, not much slower than the pen writing in later generations, and at the same time of writing fast, each of them is clear and standard.

At the beginning of the article, he did not use the style of ordinary official documents, but used the traditional format of folding and folding, the empire does not have a perfect folding system, and the correspondence of official documents is generally not directly sent to Lin Zhe, but to the hands of various departments.

However, it still maintained the situation that middle and high-level officials made folds to Lin Zhe alone, and this kind of folds were generally kept secret and sent directly to Lin Zhe, which was similar to the Manchu system.

Therefore, at the beginning of the article, Song Guanqian used 'the co-organizer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supervising the foreign affairs of Europe, and the minister Song Guanqian kneeling and playing', followed by a large article on the governance of officials, and after writing it, he also impeached the inaction of the Inspectorate!

As he writes, he occasionally stops and looks up a bunch of papers on his desk!

Before he knew it, two hours had passed, and when he had finished writing the last few words on the envelope, he put the ink dry fold into the envelope, sealed it with ink, and then put it into a small wooden box, and after sealing it himself, he called in and waited outside the house for a clerk.

"Send this fold back to Jingshi!"

The clerk asked, "Is it a fast horse rush or a fast boat rush?" ”

Song Guanqian shook his head: "It's not an urgent excerpt, just send it normally!" ”

The postal system in the empire is still not perfect, basically it accepts the postal system of the former Qing Dynasty, but it does not belong to the government, but belongs to the management of the car driving department under the staff of the General Headquarters, the military in order to quickly transmit the military newspaper, not only repaired and supported the postal system in the inland area, but also specially dispatched steam ships to transmit, which is the so-called clipper expedited, generally used in coastal and riverside areas, for example, the military newspaper of the third army in Fujian is expedited by clipper.

Not limited to military newspapers, at the same time, the government's official correspondence also relies on the military's post station to transmit it.

Naturally, there are three hundred miles of expedited and six hundred miles expedited in the post station, but even if this kind of expedited transmission is in peacetime of other dynasties, it is only limited to emergency military reports or major events, for example, not long ago Shi Qingxuan won a battle in northern Jiangsu, and in order to report the victory, he used six hundred miles to expedit.

When the command issued an order for the First Army to end the Lu'an Campaign as soon as possible and reinforce northern Jiangsu, the order was also issued with a six-hundred-mile expedited.

Moreover, when the military transmits urgent military reports, it often only uses the facilities of post stations, such as horses prepared in advance, but the personnel are generally carried out by the military's own heralds.

It can be seen that expedited delivery is not something that can be used lightly!

Although this excerpt in front of Song Guan is said to be a secret edict and will be sent directly to Lin Zhe, it is not to the point of urgency, and it is enough to use the speed of ordinary official correspondence, after all, it is not bad for a day or two.

After the clerk respectfully retreated, he took the sealed wooden box to the front yard, and then handed it to the person in charge of the delivery of official documents.

And this wooden box was boarded on a navy's steam transport clipper with several other official documents from the government of the trade district, or Su Song Taidao, or Shanghai County, and it was against the river with the rumble of the steam engine!

When the navy's transport fast ship arrives at Taicang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture and other ports along the river, it will also stop for a temporary attack, but it will definitely not be long, often not entering the dock, but mooring outside the pier, and the people on the shore will row a small kiosk to approach, and then send a bag of letters or packages!

Occasionally, a few soldiers or officials would go up and down, some of them officials who had gone to Nanking to do business, and a few of them were officers who had been allowed to take leave some time ago and were now going to report back to the Nanjing High Command.

Although the boat is stop-and-go, the actual speed is much faster than that of previous sailing boats, and even the boat can reach about eight knots per hour.

Waiting until the dusk of the next day, it was successfully arrived at the special wharf of the Nanjing Admiralty, and after the officials and officers who took the boat got off the ship, the people of the Nanjing Beicheng Post Station also moved out a few large packages from the ship, these packages and not to mention, and those official documents were specially taken away by two people, and soon there were many people riding out of the post station, each of whom was carrying a small package, which was naturally a variety of official documents.

About two hours later, Song Guanqian's letter was sent to the office building of the Secretariat of the Palace Affairs Department!

A staff member of the Secretariat received the wooden box and put it in one of the rooms, and there were dozens of similar wooden boxes in this room.

After a while, three middle-aged people in tunics walked in, the first one was about forty years old, and the last two were younger, about thirty years old!

I saw that the middle-aged man led by him said as he walked: "This should be the last batch of today, let's go, my brother is quicker, and I will go back after I finish dealing with these folds!" ”

The man at the back replied, "If there is no urgent military report at the back, this should be the last batch!" ”

At the moment, the three of them just sat down separately, and then did one thing, what? Unboxing ......

These folds were all loaded into wooden boxes, and they couldn't carry most of the wooden boxes in the room on Lin Zhe's desk.

I saw that they first carefully inspected the wooden boxes one by one, and each box had to pass through the hands of three people, and then opened the seals after the inspection, and then took out the letters in the wooden boxes, took the letters, and carefully checked them so as not to leave anything behind.

Then, they put these folds into a disc, and then the middle-aged man led by them took these folds out of the door and headed towards Lin Zhe's office building not far away, and the first two followed in time. (To be continued......)