Lord Li's sensitivity to salt merchants is not unfounded. But in the city of Yangzhou, it is true that there are few salt merchants who seek the county government, and many who seek the county government.

Jiangdu is a very special super county, because of the jurisdiction of Yangzhou City, the various expenses are very huge, but the local economy is very deformed.

First of all, agriculture is much worse than that in the south of the Yangtze River, and the money and grain in terms of land and land are relatively average, and those that can survive in the local area are even rarer; Secondly, the manufacturing industry is almost none, and is the mirror fat powder salted fish also considered a manufacturing industry? Taxes are negligible; Third, although there are many shops in the city, there are tens of thousands of stalls that can collect silver every year, but it is only enough for thousands of people in the county government to pay food silver. As for the four million taxes and silver per year for the customs and salt industry, it has nothing to do with Jiangdu County.

Therefore, the expenses of many things in the county have to beg the salt merchants to donate, and this word "begging" has made Master Li very unhappy since he took office. Others may be used to it, but he is not.

For the 300 salt merchants, through the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division, a big yamen with close interests to them, it is enough to settle the affairs of the officials, and there is no need to go to the county government to deal with it. At this point, just look at the attitude of Meng Mou, the former history of the county government, you can get a glimpse of the whole leopard, and the history of Meng Dian is nothing more than a close relationship with salt merchants.

On the issue of the salt class in Jiangdu County, Li You took a little thought and thought that he had grabbed some tricks from the legal theory. But none of the salt merchants concerned felt the slightest fear. They really can't imagine how a county government can treat a group of people with a minimum net worth of tens of thousands of taels, they just think that this county is really boring.

So far, Jin Million has only sent three posts to Li Xianzun, and he has never had the idea of coming to the door in person, in other counties, who can imagine that a businessman would dare to treat his parents like this?

On the third day of the fifth month, it is said that the notice board is released. Since the county government received the latest report from the express delivery shop in the early morning, Li You glanced at it a few times and postponed the time to go to court.

The content of this issue of the newspaper is very strong and worth savoring. The headline news was that Zhang Ruoyu, the former first assistant who had only made one public appearance in February, died at the age of 74 after two years of recuperation. Thinking of the old man who met the opponent in chess, Master Li sighed a few times, and others would not rumor that he was the one who made the old man angry to death.

A series of personnel changes are published later. Dongge University scholar Yang Ge Lao promoted to Wenyuan Pavilion University Scholar, Jin Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites was promoted to Dongge University Scholar, Zuodu Yushi Zhao Liangren moved the Ministry of Officials, Nanjing Rite Department Shangshu Haishushan moved the Ministry of Rites.

This series of names and positions is full of strong exchange flavor just by appearing on paper... At this point, Li You understands that the situation in the DPRK, which began to be rebrewed last year, has finally stabilized temporarily, and if nothing else, this structure will probably remain in place for a long time. The most fortunate thing for him is that the important position of the official secretary is still in his hands.

After studying the personnel of the imperial court, Li County was promoted to the director of the hall, put the billboard, and accepted the complaint.

According to the procedure, the receipt of the complaint is not a trial. It is necessary to read the situation first, approve it or not, and then publish the results. Where it is necessary to make an investigation, send a government official to conduct an investigation, and where it is necessary to go to court for trial, prepare relevant witnesses and physical evidence in advance, and choose another option for interrogation.

I have been receiving thirty or forty complaints, and Master Li calculated in his heart, based on nine notices per month, and then excluding the New Year's holiday, there are nearly 100 notices every year. Judging from today's situation, excluding the cases that are not accepted, I am afraid that there will not be 3,000 cases a year?

Even if today's large number is due to the fact that there was no announcement on 29 April, there are more than 1,000 large and small cases in a year after removing half of them, and Jiangdu County is indeed a county known as a county with a lot of trouble. No judge in the 21st century has such a workload, so it is no wonder that the pro-people officials of the DPRK are not part-time judges as administrative officials, but part-time administrative officials as judges.

In the end, it was said that burying the first case was like a knife and a pen, which was obviously inconsistent with Master Li's governance philosophy. He pointed to the case and said to Cui Zhenfei, the master of the criminal name: "In the future, the heavy responsibility of the criminal name will be entrusted to you, and the small matters will be approved and acted as an agent, and only handed over to the official for signature, except for serious cases such as robbers, human lives, annihilation, and non-amnesty." ”

Master Cui, who has rejuvenated the second spring, said that he was comfortable and said: "Live up to the trust of the proprietor!" ”

Master Li wants to free himself from the work of the writer, and it is obvious that the master is an indispensable role. Now it's not like the puppet Qing of another time and space to invite more than a dozen masters, and the number of Master Li's staff is a lot in this year.

But for the sake of ease and peace of mind, the price to pay is also heavy. Li County has hired three masters, and there is one potential, according to the current downward price and counting the New Year's gift, with four masters, a total of five hundred taels of silver will be paid every year... This accounts for half of the total amount of money plus regular silver in the main hall of a certain Jiangdu County. With the remaining five hundred taels, it is obviously a little difficult to raise a four-room wife and concubine, two children and about 20 domestic slaves, maidservants, and nurses who are becoming more and more luxurious.

However, Master Li is not worried about his financial crisis, and as a parent official, there will always be money.

After receiving the complaint, he retreated to the back office, but there was an official letter transferred from the Huaidong Branch Patrol Road and the Inspection Division on the desk. This Huaidong sub-patrol road has the same function as the Susong sub-patrol road where Mr. Chen is located mentioned above, and is responsible for the correction of criminal and prison cases, and the station is also in Yangzhou.

Li You opened and read the official document, but what he saw was a refutation, ordering the Jiangdu County Ya to re-report the detailed article on the suicide case in Jiangzhi County according to the sub-division, but did not elaborate on the reasons.

What does this mean? Master Li frowned and thought deeply.

There are also a few attachments at the back, which are the original detailed documents presented by Jiangdu County to the government office. Regarding the case of the predecessor's suicide, of course, Li Xianzun tried his best to describe himself as an innocent soy sauce party, and then described Jiang Daren as an official who did wrong things with good intentions for the sake of planning the salt class.

It is not surprising that the sub-inspector can obtain the original of this detailed document, and according to the procedure, the government will definitely report it to the sub-department. Li You flipped through it, but saw that the government added a few sentences of criticism to the detailed text before reprinting it, the predecessor committed suicide for the deficit is appalling, although most of it is self-inflicted, but the successor is not at fault? When there is a cool threat.

Syllable! Li Xianzun was furious about the case! What does this mean? No, what does this mean? Without the prefect's signature, how dare this comment appear in the official document?

The sub-patrol road has the responsibility of supervising officials, if this criticism is stored in the file according to the inspection division, wouldn't he Li Youkao have a very ugly attraction?

Since he took office, he has hardly been out of the county government, and there is no conflict with the government office.

Fortunately, the sub-division of the inspection department did not know for what reason, so he forwarded this detailed article back and ordered him to re-report it, and report it directly to the sub-division of the inspection department, without having to go through the government office again. This is clearly a refutation and a cover, and it must be a gesture of goodwill.

(To be continued)