"First, I am not allowed to announce my birthday, nor my wife, nor the young lady. In short, three festivals and two longevity are not allowed. ”

"Second, after I took office, I will never accept it."

"Thirdly, no matter who visits me, they are not allowed to collect door bags, especially the people around me are not allowed to accept other people's money privately, once discovered, they will be severely punished!"

On the carriage to Baoding, Jia Liu was explaining the precautions for the new official to take office.

The four groups of Fanwei, Zhuzhu, Baozhu, and Zamur crowded opposite, two literate ones taking notes seriously, and two illiterate ones trying to listen there, nodding their heads from time to time.

It doesn't matter if you listen to it or not, what matters is the attitude.

Baozhu felt that he had to say a few words, so he coughed lightly and said: "My lord, being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, and we don't accept this or that, we. . . Isn't it a loss for adults? ”

"If you lose one of me, you will be happy. There's nothing to lose, what I want to earn is a lot of money, not a little money, then you want to raise your hand when you speak, don't cough, are you an adult or am I an adult? ”

Jia Liu picked up the teapot and took a sip directly to his mouth.

This has to put aside his previous life to interrupt the leader's speech at will, and no matter how great his ability is, he has to nest it.

Although he didn't like the bureaucratic style, he was inevitably a little shaken after working for a long time.

Therefore, officialdom is a big dye vat, and there are only a handful of people who can maintain their original intentions.

There are 100 officials, and there can be three or five honest people, which is a great blessing for the country.

He also instructed Zhuzhu and Fan Wei to arrive in Baoding, and the latter was responsible for taking over the subordinates of the former Zhili Governor, that is, the institutions and offices under the Yamen of the Zhili Governor.

It is equivalent to three classes and six rooms of the county government.

In a few hundred years, the division of State workers into civil servants and career establishments would be essentially the same.

However, in a general sense, only officials can be called from above the seventh grade, and only officials can be called from below the seventh grade.

Usually there are three to four officials in a county, one is the county order, the second is the county officer, the third is the main book, and the fourth is the classic history.

The county order is mainly responsible for the overall work;

The county is in charge of taxation and population;

The main book is responsible for water conservancy, grain and horses, and dispatch;

Equal to two deputy county magistrates.

Rankings are based on seniority and are usually held by people.

Some large counties and developed counties have a high allocation of jinshi.

Dianshi is responsible for the arrest, that is, the director of the public security bureau.

Among the four people, the canonical history is not an official, but the leader of the officials, who has no grade and is not in the stream.

The "three classes" of three classes and six rooms refer to "soap, strong, and fast classes", which are actually government officials and township arrests, similar to criminal investigation, public security, and taxation bureaus.

The people in it are neither civil servants nor career editors, and they belong to helpers.

It's just that these gangsters have clothes issued by the state and have some special powers granted to them by the state.

Without this dress, anyone would dare to fight.

Yes, Big Ma has to take a detour when he sees it.

"Six rooms" refers to officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals, and workshops, which comprehensively cover all aspects of a place, from life and death to eating and drinking.

The clerk is called a clerk, and he needs a certain culture, and at least he must be a child, because the sixth room requires a certain amount of business ability.

In the feudal era, the third class may have changed from time to time, and the sixth room was basically an industry monopolized by the local gentry.

It's okay at home, and you can't get in if you want to.

From the county to the state capital and even the province, there are three classes and six rooms as a bureaucratic organization, but the name is different.

On the surface, the operation of the state seems to be carried out by layers of bureaucratic responsibility, but in fact, it is carried out from top to bottom by layers of bureaucratic institutions.

Without these institutions, Jia Liu, the governor, would not be able to leave Baoding City with his orders.

The so-called governance of the country and the governance of the locality is, to put it bluntly, the governance of people.

Therefore, if Jia Liu wants to make this governor solid, strong, and beautiful, the first step is to fully take over the institutions under the governor's yamen.

Only after the administrative operation of the Governor's Yamen can be made rapid and efficient, and only then can a series of reforms be carried out on the subordinate units within the scope of his authority.

The bolt pillar organized the Jia Office to enter the site to familiarize himself with the work process of the Governor's Yamen, and gradually took over the subordinate institutions of the Governor's Yamen after the business was smooth.

"The staff of the original organization should organize an examination, and those who pass the examination will be retained, and those who fail to pass the examination will be retained."

Jia Liuyuan wanted to say that he would expel all the unqualified, but when he thought that this was not in line with his lenient work attitude, he asked Fan Wei to distribute the unqualified ones.

It is from the province to the city and county, and even to the township.

In these years, the illiteracy rate is too high, and those who can write are called high-end talents, so there is no need to beat others to death with a stick.

An adult who smashed people's jobs as soon as he took office is obviously not a good adult.

This is a preliminary administrative arrangement, and the military should be relieved and should not be in a hurry.

This time, Jia Liu went to Baoding with four battalions of guards, together with more than 2,000 guards, it can be said that the current feudal officials except for the Fengsheng heterogene, no one else has Jia Liu so popular.

"You two go down first, and the dragon and phoenix chicks will stay."

Jia Liu asked Baozhu to go down with Zamur to convey the spirit of his instructions, not only did he not commit any crimes when he went to Baoding Guards and Guards, but he was not allowed to invade places along the way.

"Tell the brethren that the spring wheat is growing now, and if anyone tramples on the people's fields, I, the Governor, will cut off his braids, if not his head!"

After speaking, he glanced at the carriage that followed.

After leaving Beijing, Ie A, except for taking a break to pee, spent the rest of the time studying Buddhism in the carriage.

In order to give this newcomer Manzhang Jing a piece of relief, Jia Liu specially asked someone to give him a copy of the Thousand Buddha Sutras.

At first glance, the Buddhist scriptures are ordinary, but there are really three silver tickets of a thousand taels in it.

Jia Liu stipulated that no one was allowed to give him gifts, but he did not stipulate that he would not give gifts to others.

Although Yijiang A is only a four-grade Zhangjing, his father Yonggui is a household secretary, Jia Liu wants to engage in industry in Zhili, and it is impossible to deal with different households.

Gift-giving is very particular, for example, the envelope should be written "plum blossom poem eight rhymes", indicating that there is a silver ticket of eight taels. If you write an ear order, it is sixty taels, sixty and the ear is smooth.

The Thousand Buddha Sutras are the starting point of a thousand taels, which is already the treatment of gifts from princes and ministers.

However, Jia Liu's side has raised a few notches and directly treated the emperor as a gift.

If the regular thousand taels, he will be three thousand taels.

In short, he doesn't allow anyone to give gifts to be more fashionable than him.

Just as he may not remember who gave him how much, but he certainly remembers who didn't.

If you give a gift, you either don't give it, if you want to give it, you have to highlight the impression and make people impressive.

Ijianga: This will definitely be profound.

Because of the grade relationship and the lack of backstage reasons, Jia Liu of course would not be the wronged boss and send him three thousand taels, but only asked Zhu Zhu to send a ear to the other party.

Sixty taels is enough to pass the time.

"After I take office, the provincial finance must find out, and you will take some pains to find some professional talents to do it for me, well, you can do things in the name of the financial department."

"My lord, I have sorted it out in the past two days, the main income of Zhili's finance comes from four aspects: Diding silver, consuming silver, salt tax, and tariff, and the annual tax income is about four million taels, and others such as reed class, fish class, tea class, landing miscellaneous tax, deed tax, and Yadang mine tax are combined, less than 300,000 taels."

Jia Liu, the finance officer of Zhili, heard some things from Kuini, and it generally belonged to the financially flat provinces, that is, they did not belong to provinces like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which were financially rich and had the ability to hand over to the national treasury, nor did they belong to provinces like Sichuan and Guangxi, which had financial deficits and reached out to the imperial court to ask for money, and they barely had enough to eat.

This is also in line with Jia Liu's cognition.

In fact, the territory of Zhili is mainly based on Hebei, supplemented by Tianjin, and there are also some large provinces in Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Henan.

The best place in terms of economy is definitely Tianjin, but other places are average, and many places even belong to poor areas for a long time.

There is no way, who let the essence of Zhili's Shuntian Mansion not belong to Jia Liuguan, and half of the fertile fields in the prefectures and counties of Zhili adjacent to Shuntian Mansion were occupied by the Eight Banners at the beginning of the country.

In the feudal era, land tax was certainly the largest source of fiscal revenue.

The fertile land has become a banner property, which of course will reduce the financial revenue of the direct subordinate.

Jia Liu looked at the map badly, and the result was that it was necessary to develop industry in Zhili, so as to drive the economic take-off of Zhili, otherwise, because of the existence of Jingshi, the common people in this area would want to live a good life.

Either he will start to change and let history move forward, and in the end, the people in the Zhili area will take part-time work as the main way to earn money, and it is impossible for the local government to develop industry.

"Fu Zhongtang exempted me from this year's summer tax, and there will definitely be more funds that can be used at that time, you will take a look at the accounts after you go to the place, and give me an accurate detailed statement of income and expenditure, how much to receive, where to receive, how much to spend, and where to spend, the accounts must be clear."

Jia Liu is just telling Wolong Fengxiao about his general idea now, he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and no one has arrived at the unit, where can he wave his hand and sneeze and the whole province will be shaken.

Fan Wei said that the largest provincial financial expenditure is nothing more than three parts, one is the expenditure of officials; the second is the expenditure of money and food for the garrison; The third is the expenditure on water conservancy and rivers.

These three expenses are also fundamental to maintaining the stability of a dynasty.

However, these three expenses are often unclear, or unreasonable, and no matter which part of the expenditure will have a butterfly effect, leading to disastrous consequences.

Needless to say, the salaries of the garrison cannot be paid, and they are directly killed.

The expenditure on water conservancy and rivers is also very important, if the water conservancy facilities are not properly allocated for the project, there will definitely be displaced people and they will die.

There is a lot to be done in the area of officials.

The reason for this is that the Qing Dynasty was not transparent about the salary expenses of officials.

That is to say, the largest part of the income of officials, there is room for artificial manipulation.

Because the Qing court stipulated that the maintenance of incorruptible silver was ten to a thousand times the official salary.

Whether it is ten times or a thousand times is a lot to be done.

Jia Liu plans to start with the maintenance of incorruptible silver, and for the first time in Zhili, he will pioneer the integration of wages, that is, to set a system for how much incorruptible silver is paid to officials, instead of watching people cook in the past.

was discussing how to make Zhili a civil servant's salary transparent and time-saving, and the front came to report that it was the official gentry of Zhuozhou who heard that the new governor had beaten him, and he came to meet the governor.

I just hope that the Governor will meet them and give them a few words by the way.

"They are all local fathers and elders, and they are all local cadres, and I will rely on their support for my work in the future.

Jia Liu didn't want to see the gang in Zhuozhou, but he couldn't stand the bolt and said everything on the side, so he had no choice but to get out of the car and go over to take a look surrounded by everyone.

I don't know how many aspiring young people have been mistaken.

When I went to the place, Wu Tongming, the governor of Zhuozhou, led a group of officials, and was respectfully waiting with dozens of local gentry with heads and faces.

The next thing is the same old thing, it is nothing more than a first salute, and then what the governor came to Baoding to take office and what is hard, how the place is, and finally he gave a bunch of money according to the practice of officialdom.

There are silver ingots in boxes, and copper coins in bamboo baskets.

The silver ingots must have been in honor of the Governor, and the copper coins were for the Governor's accompaniment.

It's just that I didn't expect that the Governor's entourage was as many as 3,000 people, so the copper coins were obviously not enough, so I felt about a dozen baskets.

Jia Liu coughed lightly, and immediately stepped forward and said: "My lord has a word first, and I have come to Baoding to take up my post in the past, and I will not follow the previous officialdom conventions, and please take back the things you sent!" If you have the heart, govern the place well, and treat the people well! ”

As soon as he said this, the scene immediately resounded with cloud-like applause and flattery.

Hearing this, Jia Liu felt as if his feet were off the ground and he was about to float.

Sure enough, people can't hear the truth.

However, after the officials and gentry of Zhuozhou praised the new governor for his honesty and dedication, he still strongly demanded that the governor must accept the things, saying that everything is the will of the locality, and if the governor does not take it, it will chill the heart of the locality.

The bolt pillar couldn't make up his mind, and turned his head to look at the young master.

Ijianga and Yubao in the rear were alarmed by the movement here, and they also touched it.

"That's it,"

Jia Liu, a bad person, is bad because he is soft-hearted, and he can't see others embarrassed, so he went straight to the place where the money was stacked, and first glanced at more than a dozen silver boxes, which is estimated to be about three or four thousand taels, which is really the customary thing in officialdom.

Not much, after all, his governor level is here.

Copper coins plus a piece of three or four hundred taels to the sky.

Seeing that the young master was hesitant, Zhu Zhu said in a low voice: "Young master, you haven't taken office yet, anyway, why don't you accept it?" Wait until you don't accept it. ”

"Are you farting when I speak?"

Jia Liu glared at the pillar of the wealthy fan's heart and wanted to break his Dao heart, frowned slightly, and turned to look at the Zhuozhou officials and gentry who were looking at him with a friendly smile, "Since this is the case, it is not good for this official to make you feel cold, so let's do it, I will accept the copper coin, and you can take the silver box back." ”

The official gentry of Zhuozhou obviously did not agree with the governor's move of accepting the small and not the big, and was about to publicly promote Wu Zhizhou's advice, but when he saw that the governor's face had already hung up, he had the posture of hitting the board on the spot if he dared to speak again, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to squeak.

Wu Zhizhou also hurriedly ordered someone to carry the silver box away, so as not to stain the eyes of the governor.

Jia Liu's side symbolically said a few words to the official gentry of Zhuozhou, but he really only said a few words, but he didn't say much, because the cold weather affected the speed of his speech, and he couldn't play it.

The pleasant picture ended quickly.

On the way back to the carriage, Fan Wei was puzzled: "My lord, you either don't accept it, or you collect it all, and only collect the copper coins."

This means that this does not comply with the non-acceptance rule.

"You don't know, copper coins are legal tender in our dynasty, and no one in my Qing Dynasty can refuse to accept them for any reason, how can this official, as the governor of Zhili, know the law and break the law."

After that, he stepped into the car and picked up the kettle to continue to keep warm.

Outside the car, Fan Wei and the bolt pillar glanced at each other, and they both found business opportunities in each other's eyes: Is it not that they will be considered violating the rules of adults if they accept other people's copper coins in the future?

(End of chapter)