When he came in, Li Yanqing had already glanced at the lobby, and if he hadn't said that he was sure that he was in the yamen, he would never have thought that it was the lobby. The whole house is already crumbling, I don't know when the house will collapse, and working in it is indeed risking my life, or rather, working with my life.

The Ming Dynasty has rules, and officials do not repair the government. The maintenance of this yamen is a matter for the imperial court, and it is public money. If the official repairs the yamen too well, he will be reported by others, saying that he is expropriating and exploiting the people. Generally speaking, no matter how rich the magistrate's pockets are, most of the yamen is in tatters, which is also the façade of the magistrate. However, there are limits to this kind of façade, and if it gets to the point of a dilapidated house, it will be too much.

"Hurry up and clean up the lobby, let's talk in the lobby." This official is new, shouldn't he be lined up according to the rules? Also, if there are any of our people, they are all called, I have something to say. ”

This magistrate is not as noble as the Beijing official, but he also has his own benefits, and this majesty is also one of them. When the new official takes office, all the officials will come to see the new official, and all the officials will kneel down to meet him. This is the system of the county order and the majesty of the big order.

After a long time, they finally cleaned up the lobby that looked like a garbage dump. Li Yanqing changed into his official uniform and put the two-headed desk away. Mend the round-collared official robe and sit upright in the center. Under the hall, there are three classes and six rooms, and the public gathers. These people have all changed into official uniforms, but when they see that there are soapy clothes and hats on one side and green shirts and scarves on the other, they kneel down and row up, which is also quite majestic.

It's just that in terms of quantity, it seems to be a little less. Xiangshan is an inferior county, but according to the regulations, there are also more than 40 people, that is, these people belong to the regular service. Generally speaking, there will be helpers in each county of Daming, or deputy errands, if you add those people, then Xiangshan County must have more than 100 public servants to be more suitable.

However, when the county's public servants were gathered in one place, they counted three times before and after, but there were not even thirty people, and this still included the six-room bookstore office with basically zero combat effectiveness, so that the yamen of the five scum did not blame others for pasting the threatening letters of debt collection all over the eight-character wall.

Looking at the guys in everyone's hands, they can't even make a water and fire stick in their hands, and the iron ruler is a single knife, so don't even think about it. There is only one pair of chains in the county's yamen, and the force value is obviously insufficient.

"Sir, you can't blame us for this." Zhang Yuande also looked helpless when he talked about this, "Our Xiangshan is a poor place, the people are poor and the land is thin, and they can't collect taxes." This regular tax can't go up, and those miscellaneous taxes don't even think about it, and there is no money in the yamen, so there is no way to buy a guy. Everyone's food and wages are still owed, and they haven't been there for months. ”

"I see, I also looked at this place when I entered the city, and I saw that there are many mansions and big houses here, and it is not that there are no rich people, why can't the money and grain be collected?"

"The eldest lord doesn't know, our Xiangshan County is a poor county sealed by Yongle's grandfather Chrysostom, and the poor are scum. Half of the land is soaked in the sea, and there is no harvest in the fields. As for those rich people, how do you say this, most of them rely on the sea to eat the sea, you know this? These people who rely on the sea to eat the sea do not have the royal law in their eyes at all, can you still expect people who don't take the royal law seriously at all to be willing to pay taxes? Therefore, it is not that there are no rich people in this place of Xiangshan, but there are no rich people who are willing to pay taxes. The people who do the sea trade business are all local families, there are many Ding Zhuang children in the clan, and most of the people in the inspection department are their clansmen. ”

At this time, the Ming Dynasty also implemented the policy of forbidding the sea, and Wang Zhi, known as the King of Hui, had been killed, but the problem of the Japanese invaders had not been solved. The so-called maritime trade business is, to put it bluntly, smuggling. All kinds of forbidden items were sold overseas, and some were even sold directly to the Japanese pirates, and the two were traded to make money. This trade is illegal, how can anyone pay taxes legally?

Li Yanqing nodded, "The official knows about this, you first hand over the official affairs of your predecessor, and I will check the file to see if there are any prisoners in custody and whether there are any problems in the case." ”

Zhang Yuande said: "If you go back to the eldest lord, if there are any disputes and lawsuits in our Xiangshan, most of them will be in the township, and the clan leaders of the eleven capitals of Xiangshan will come forward to solve them." Especially since the previous eldest man committed suicide, everything in this place has been solved by the township, and no one has come to us to complain, so there is no one in our prison now. If there were anybody, the brothers would use it to torture and torture them, and ask for money from their families, and because there were no prisoners and nothing to do, we gambled here. ”

Outside the Bazi wall, those vendors selling things turned out to be the public in this yamen. It's just that I lost all my money in gambling, so I went outside to set up a stall to make a living. As for why the public is not even staffed, Zhang Yuande spread his hands, "I can't even pay for food, let alone oil and water." It's not interesting to stay at such a yamen. If everyone has a way, they all have to think of a way, and those of us who have no choice are waiting to die in the yamen. ”

A scribe's salary is three stone per month, one stone of real rice, and one tael of silver, and the monthly salary of catching fast is about one-third of the book's office. The secretary office of the official who was present gathered together, and Li Yanqing took stock of his savings, and he still made a fortune. At the moment, he said, "This official is new, and I don't care about the past, but I am the first to pay for this month." As for the future, we will talk about it later. I went from Jingshi to Xiangshan empty-handed, not to be a bodhisattva, nor to accumulate virtue and make wishes. However, I have always been the most righteous person, and if I eat meat, everyone will drink soup, and I will never eat alone. So if you have a way, tell me and work hard to generate income, if our yamen is still like this, I will not be able to pay next month's salary. ”

Seeing that the chief spoke crisply, and after another month of money and food, everyone's morale also improved a lot. Zhang Yuande gave a few more orders to the two officials, asking them to go out and buy wine and meat and come back, which can be regarded as local dukes, and catch the wind for the new lord.

"Everyone works hard, and they are all their own people in the future, so there is no need to talk about these rituals. As for everyone's happiness, it's not impossible to play a few hands, but since they all know that the new official is coming, they still gather people to gamble money, which is not smart enough. In the future, everyone should learn to be smarter. ”

He instructed a few words, and a public servant went to take his horse to the stable to drink, feed and scrub it, and someone patted his head, "Master, you don't have a house in the local area, right?" ”

"No, I don't. Isn't this the back hall where I live? ”

"Oh no, we don't live in the yamen like our predecessors. The back hall is still messy, and there is no one living at all, I said brothers, come with me, let's quickly clean up the back hall. ”

Li Yanqing is good-tempered, "Don't worry, it's still early, and I won't live." Let's eat first, and then clean up after eating and drinking. My ex doesn't live in the yamen, where does he live? Does he have a house in his own area? ”

When Zhang Yuande heard this question, he smiled strangely, "Your predecessor doesn't have a house in the local area, but he doesn't live in the yamen, he has always lived in Chunfeng Building." ”

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