Yang Fan looked at the person in front of him, this person was dressed in a cyan coarse cloth shirt, with a cyan turban tied on his head, and a black belt tied around his waist, looking like an ordinary officer in the criminal department.!

Seeing that he is less than forty years old, his body is not fat but very strong, a black and red face, strong flesh and bones stretch the skin of a face tightly, except for some crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, there is no wrinkle on his face.

Yang Fan frowned and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The man breathed a sigh of relief, got up from the ground and said, "It turns out that Lang Zhong is still angry, are you okay?" ”

Yang Fan said: "Of course the official is fine, what can he do?" ”

The man sneered: "The little one came in just now, called Lang Zhong and didn't see the answer, the little one waited for a while, and saw that Lang Zhong didn't even seem to be breathing, so he took the liberty to try it, and sure enough, he couldn't feel any breath, which really frightened the villain." ”

Yang Fan smiled and said: "I see, this is just a kind of spitting technique, a method of prolonging life, nothing surprising." Who are you, and what are you doing in the officer's signature room? ”

That person had probably also heard about the matter of tuna health, and he was relieved when he heard it, and when he saw Yang Fan asking, he hurriedly bowed and said: "The little one is the head of the kitchen in the yamen of this criminal department, surnamed Wang Mingmaru, who is here to send food tails to Langzhong." ”

"Foodtail, what's that?"

Yang Fan was stunned, and asked carefully, only then did he understand the reason.

It turned out that this Wang Maru was the head chef of the public chef of the Criminal Department, and was responsible for the supply of lunch for the whole ya.

The officials in the yamen enjoy a free lunch, who pays for it? Of course, it was the imperial court, and the daily lunch expenses of the officials were called "food materials", and the corresponding money allocated by the imperial court was called "food books", that is, the imperial court allocated a huge amount of "food books" at one time, and the yamen used this money to lend money to earn interest, and the profits generated were used for daily food expenses.

Are you afraid that you won't be able to recover the principal and interest when you lend money? Therefore, this money will properly generate a stable income, and it is a very lucrative income.

Every day's lunch, everyone eats openly, and eats in different ways. It's impossible to eat it all. What about the rest of the money? The remaining money is called "food tail", and the kitchen officials distribute it to the whole government and others every day during the settlement of expenses, so that everyone can share the benefits.

Yang Fan listened to Wang Maru's explanation, and couldn't help but smile and said: "I see, this official has just arrived, and Yu Lu hasn't received it yet, but he got a lot of extra money first, haha." How much money do you have? ”

Wang Maru smiled and took out a heavy string of big money from his waist, put it on the table in front of Yang Fan, and said: "This is today's food tail, a total of eight hundred and forty Wen, this food tail is uncertain every day, and I will not know how much is left until after the day's expenses, and then distribute it to the big guys." ”

Yang Fan was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "There are so many food tails in a day?" ”

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, prices were cheap, although there were often fluctuations, but in general. At that time, the money was still very valuable, according to the price of Luoyang City at this time. A penny is equivalent to our current dollar, how much does this extra income have to be a month?

Seeing that he was surprised, Wang Maru said with a smile: "This is not much, the villain remembers that the most one day last month was 1,362 Wen." ”

Speaking of this, he took a step forward and lowered his voice: "Of course, it is impossible for everyone to take so much. The villain is based on the actual head plus some imaginary heads, and calculates how much a meal tail should be, and the officials add it according to the size of the official position. Cui Shilang took ten times. Eight times for each of you, six times for outsiders, and so on. ”

When Wang Maru said this, he sighed and said: "The villain is doing this errand, everyone says that he is full of oil and water, but the villain is not doing this errand, and he is a big official, and there are many names, so the salary allowance has long been paid according to the rank and level, and the lunch is better than everyone, so why share the food tail several times?"

They all said that the surplus of this meal money should be divided equally regardless of the position. But they only talked about it in private, and none of them dared to talk to their bosses, so they often came to bully the villain, the villain was just a powerless and powerless gangster leader, what could they do? Not to mention being bullied, they also pointed out that the villain is profiting from it, and that the yamen has to take account every month, what can the villain do? Hey, I'm angry......"

"Oh?"

Yang Fan's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked him carefully about the food tail, Wang Maru spit out a lot of bitterness to him, then slapped his forehead, and exclaimed: "Ouch, why did the villain patronize and talk to Lang Zhong, those little officials naturally went to the kitchen to get the food tail, and the officials need the villain to run errands to send them one by one." The Criminal Department Division is the first place where the villain came, Yang Langzhong is the first place sent by the villain, and there are many places to go, and it has been delayed for a long time, and the villain has not had time to finish sending it before the ya. Lang Zhong is busy, and the villain still has to do things. ”

Yang Fan smiled and said, "Okay, you go and get busy." ”

Seeing Wang Maru leave, Yang Fan looked at the string of big money on the table, thought silently for a while, and suddenly smiled mysteriously, and then leaned into his arms......

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Yang Fan walked out of the office with his hands, stood under the laurel tree, stretched his fists and feet from time to time, and moved his body, there were those who went to Chen Langzhong to do things, those who didn't know Yang Fan's identity, and those who knew that he was the new chief officer of the department, couldn't help but cast strange eyes on him.

Yang Fan is like a plain, turning a blind eye, only taking a leisurely walk in the courtyard, sometimes walking to the wall, leaning over to see the water lilies raised in the tank, sometimes walking to the wall carving, carefully appreciating the mighty image of the pig, caressing the delicate and mellow lines of the carving, and the expression is extremely leisurely.

Chen Langzhong's chief followed Luo Ling to hide in the door and quietly pay attention to his movements, the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became, he couldn't help but come out, pretended to patrol the door for a while, and then greeted him, and greeted him with a smile: "Yang Langzhong!" ”

Yang Fan was holding his hands, looked up at the pig, turned his head to look at him, and smiled: "Ah! It's Luo Ling, look at this hedgehog, this texture, this eyebrows, and scales, the carving is really extraordinary. In my opinion, it should be from the hand of the name,"

Luo Ling hummed and agreed, wanting to take his words and probe his thoughts, but he didn't know how to speak for a while. Yang Fan seemed to have seen enough, turned around and walked to his official room, and said to Luo Ling as he walked: "This official is very bored. If you have nothing to do, you might as well come and talk to the officer. ”

These words were exactly what Luo Ling wanted, and Luo Ling hurriedly agreed, and accompanied Yang Fan into the signing room. The two entered the room, Yang Fan sat behind the case, and said to Luo Ling, who was standing there: "It's just nothing to talk about, you don't have to talk so many rules, you can sit too." ”

Luo Ling agreed. sat down opposite him, and saw two strings of Huang Chengcheng's big money on the case, and couldn't help asking: "Uh......, Lang Zhong is ......?"

Yang Fan looked at the table and said complacently: "Before this official came to the Criminal Department, he still felt that this yamen must be very boring compared to doing things in the palace. I didn't expect this place to be really good, this is the food tail that the official just received, and there are such benefits to serving here, and the official really didn't know it before. ”

Luo Ling looked at the amount of money on the table. He said hesitantly: "Lang Zhong is the official of our Criminal Department, and he gets more food than others." In the case of the villain. It's just an ordinary tolerance, but it's far from being comparable to Langzhong, yo! Lang Zhong's share of this food tail, I'm afraid there is not a thousand dollars, right? ”

Yang Fan glanced casually at the table and said, "Oh, it's fifteen hundred dollars in total." You can have these many additional benefits in one day and in a month. But it's a lot of money. ”

When Luo Ling heard this, his expression froze, and his eyes widened suddenly. Quickly made a calm expression again, and hurriedly calculated in his heart: "Fifteen hundred dollars? Why did my family get a thousand dollars? Wang Maru, the first rat at both ends, what else did he say that he didn't take this new hall official in his eyes at all, and the food tail he gave him was far lower than that of my family......"

Luo Ling's eyes were slightly cold, and his thoughts were secretly turning in his heart.

Yang Fan slowly put away the two strings of big money, patted the bulging bag with satisfaction, and said to Luo Ling: "There can be such benefits in the yamen, thanks to the kitchen officials, the benefits fall into our hands, but the kitchen officials can't get a few pennies, it's not easy." I've heard that the people below have a lot of criticism of him. Such a capable cook, we should maintain a lot of it! ”

"What?"

Luo Ling exploded when he heard this, and said with a red face: "It's not easy for him to make a pill?" Is he as incorruptible as water? Lang Zhong, you are a new official, I don't know the details, our public chef, even if it is a waiter, he may not have more oil and water as a chef, he still feels wronged, is there anyone in this world who is not wronged? ”

Yang Fan said in surprise: "How do you say this?" I heard the king's cook say that the yali has to check the accounts every month, what benefit can he take? ”

Luo Ling sneered and said, "What about the audit?" Send a god down, and I can't understand this account. ”

Luo Ling first saw that Wang Pill was two-sided and stabbed, and the food tail for Yang Fan was half more than Chen Langzhong, and he was already extremely angry in his heart, and at this moment, he heard Yang Fan have the intention of supporting that Wang Pill and talking, and he immediately couldn't help it.

He blushed and said thickly: "Lang Zhong, you also saw the food grade of our public chef at noon today, it is extremely rich." The more abundant the tea, the more expensive it is to buy, the more expensive the dish, he Wang Pill is responsible for purchasing, and the bigger the oil and water, do you say this reason? ”

Yang Fan was obviously a little partial to Wang Maru, and said disapprerovingly after hearing this: "You don't know what happened in the kitchen, just take it for granted." If this purchase was really oily, the imperial court would have cut the grade of the public meal a long time ago. ”

Luo Ling slapped his thigh and said, "Hey! It's really called Lang Zhong to say, the court wants to cut the grade of the public meal, our court, to say that the highest grade of the public meal, is the prime minister's office of the political affairs hall kitchen, the hall kitchen is really delicious, everything, every meal must cost a thousand dollars.

Two years ago, the prime ministers discussed this matter, saying that it was too expensive to provide food and soup in the political hall, and Di Xianggong (Di Renjie) proposed to reduce the food standard, but the other prime ministers did not agree!

Li Xianggong (Li Zhaode) said: "The public meal is rich, which is the importance that the imperial court attaches to the central cardinal affairs yamen. If I am incompetent, I will resign myself to make a meritorious person, and I will not have to reduce my dietary standards to make a name for myself. That's it. Whoever mentions self-cutting dietary standards again, isn't that admitting that he is incompetent? Therefore, no yamen dares to be so unconventional. ”

Luo Ling said, put his legs together, and said endlessly: "Therefore, each yamen strives for exquisite public meals. Do you think he can be a cook without getting fat? There's a rebate on everything.

Besides, from time to time, some people in our criminal department go out on errands, and the officials and others who come to work from all over the country actually invite each other to feast, many officials and errand officers do not eat lunch in the yamen, and the number of people who eat every day is actually less than sixty percent, but the kitchen has always opened accounts according to the full capacity, and Wang Pill is fat, and he is still crying and shouting grievances, is there any reason for this? ”

Luo Ling said that it is the trend of eating and drinking with public funds that has continued since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and this trend was only stopped by Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Qing Dynasty, this trend was revived, and it became more and more intense.

Yang Fan listened, and said with great light: "This slippery little official, this official was deceived by him." ”

Luo Ling saw that Yang Fan was annoyed by Wang Maru, and he was very happy in his heart, and said with a smile: "This kind of villain is the most treacherous, Lang Zhong don't believe their!" ”

Yang Fan was instigated by him, and became more and more annoyed, slapped the case, and said: "Such a villain, greedy as a mouse, why didn't Yali quit him and replace him with someone who was more peaceful?" I guess the newcomer always doesn't dare to be so presumptuous. ”

Luo Ling snorted, pouted, and said: "But all such people, no matter what kind of cat or dog, there is a great Bodhisattva squatting behind him, Wang Maru is a relative of Cui Shilang's family, who can help him?" This kind of fat difference has always been that whoever is in charge of the ruler is occupied by his relatives. ”

Luo Ling took out his ear droppings, flicked the void, and hummed: "In the past two years, we have changed three cooks in the yali, the first is Zhang Chujin Zhang Shangshu's distant nephew, and the second is Zhou Xing Zhou Shangshu's nephew. ”

Yang Fan couldn't help but gasp when he heard such an intricate relationship, and said with a dry smile: "It depends on the owner to beat the dog, so to speak...... That's ...... Inconvenient offense. ”

Luo Ling looked at him and felt disdainful in his heart, and suddenly felt that he had just said a little too much, and he shouldn't have revealed the relationship between Wang Maru and Cui Shilang to him, wouldn't it be better to ask him to go to Cui Shilang to touch a nail?

Thinking of this, Luo Ling secretly regretted in his heart, so he lost the interest in chatting, and hurriedly got up and said: "I'm sorry, the villain has been away for a long time, I don't know if Chen Langzhong has any instructions there, the villain has to pass." ”

Yang Fan bowed his head and said: "Okay, okay, you can go by yourself, when the official is bored alone, you might as well come over, let's chat and relieve boredom." ”

Luo Ling snorted secretly, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, if you say too much, you will lose, don't want to call Lao Tzu to accompany you again!" With a full of promises, he turned and walked out.

Yang Fan waited for him to leave, leaned on the desk slightly, supported his chin with his hand, and groaned: "This Wang Pill, the meaning of the words is clearly to encourage me to stand up for everyone and ask for an equal share of the food tails." In this way, without the exploitation of the officials above, he will be more like a fish in water, but ...... I'm afraid that his original intention is more than that.

What's more, even Di Renjie hit a nail on this point, the rules of officialdom are like this, if I go to do this, I won't be ridiculed, and if I do it, I will not only offend all the bureaucrats of the Criminal Department, but also the other officials of the yamen will be moved, and the officials all over the world will complain about Yang.

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing their parents; If you smash people's jobs, you will definitely complain about the ninth generation. At the bottom, there are 10,000 people saying hello, there is a fart, offending a boss, you have to wear small shoes. This cook is pushing me into the pit. He is Cui Shilang's person, could it be that Cui Shilang also wants to rectify me? The pool of water in the Criminal Department is not only a little muddy, but also a little deep......"

I'm going to be blown up by the chrysanthemum, two more than 10,000 words, ask everyone for a monthly pass!

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