Jia Liu couldn't help but ponder.

When he went to the local area to take up a post this time, he was definitely going to set it on fire.

If you don't let go, you can't show his ability.

Generally, arson is nothing more than three things, one is to rectify the rule of officials; 2. Clean up the backlog of cases; Third, water conservancy should be greatly developed.

Rectifying the rule of officials and clearing up the backlog of cases are essentially the same thing, and generally the major unjust, false and wrongly decided cases involve the part of the rule of officials, because without corrupt officials and corrupt officials, there would be no unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, or relatively few.

The reason why Sun Lehe's case was turned into an unjust case by officials at all levels directly under the government is the reason why Zhao Bingen used money to get through all links.

Therefore, he is ready to take advantage of Sun Le and the unjust case to do it ruthlessly.

First take down the officials involved in the case, and then dig deep from these officials, and pull out the radish to bring out the mud, how can we dig out hundreds of corrupt officials.

If you are more ruthless and continue to expand, I am afraid that you can overturn the officialdom of Zhili.

The reason is that there are really few officials in the Qing Dynasty who have clean butts.

The famous Liu Yong and Ji Yun are all embezzlers, not to mention others.

In this way, he sat on the blue sky, and thus became the only infant old monster in the Qing Dynasty.

As soon as the new policy is completed, as soon as the new army comes out, looking at the world, there are at most a few golden pills, so why worry about the emperor's success.

But what Lao Yang said is also reasonable, and it is an objective fact.

There are thousands of officials of all sizes, involving several systems of military, political, and criminal affairs, and if Jia Liu, the new governor, pays close attention to it, he will definitely have a poor life as an official, and this is the two results.

First, the officials of the Zhili Dynasty collectively boycotted the new Governor;

Second, the officialdom of Zhili was paralyzed.

No matter which result it is, it will be unfavorable to Jia Liu.

There is no official to do things for him, and he, the governor, is not a.

It is not without precedent for officials to jointly boycott the governors sent by the imperial court, and the "southeast mutual protection" in the late Qing Dynasty was a collective boycott of the imperial court, which made Cixi helpless.

Jia Liulai Zhili is doing things, if he spends all his energy on fighting wits and courage with the officials below, or even fighting ruthlessly, it is undoubtedly putting the cart before the horse.

Therefore, Yang Jingsu's reminder is reasonable.

Knowing that Lao Yang pointed it out, when he had an idea, he asked him what he thought.

"The officials involved in this case can be severely punished, and the lower officials will never cover up, but it is only for the people involved in this case, and it should not be expanded."

Yang Jingsu gave his thoughtful advice.

After all, he is young, and it is the first time to preside over the overall situation of the local area, so he must not come by temperament, it is easy to mess up the situation.

Therefore, Sun Lehe's case can be investigated deeply, but it cannot be dug deeply, otherwise everyone who is an official will be in danger, and this mess will not end.

Jia Liu listened to Lao Yang's suggestion, and frowned: "Then how can it be done, an ordinary homicide case in Ansu County can involve more than ten officials, and there are all provincial capitals and counties, and I don't know if there are such nest cases in other places. ”

Lao Yang hurriedly said: "My lord, what the lower officials mean is that the backlog of cases in the province can be cleaned up, and the administration of officials should also be rectified, but in the past, the officials with problems could give them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so that they could be self-effective. ”

"Huh?"

Jia Liu felt that Lao Yang's proposal was a little familiar, strange to the Ha people, and the bun in his hand subconsciously moved forward.

"My lord, if you are not a sage, you can do no wrong."

Lao Yang started from the overall situation, and implored him not to be in a hurry to make political achievements, but to plan slowly.

Otherwise, there will be a big incident, which is not conducive to stability.

"That's it, the ten-year cold window is also difficult, and it is not easy for the imperial court to train an official, so let's do it, you send an official document to the following in the name of the political envoy, one is to highlight the governor's determination to rectify the rule of officials, and the other is to let the officials below have problems take the initiative to confess and discuss the guilt."

Jia Liu adopted Lao Yang's reasonable suggestion, and added a prop of guilt silver to this suggestion.

It is not to collect money in the name of cracking down on corruption and rectifying the rule of officials, but to raise start-up funds for the upcoming new policy of Zhili.

"The officials involved in Sun Lehe's case don't have to hand over the guilty silver, if you let them take off their crowns and go to the governor's yamen to listen to the Hou for disposal, and if they refuse to take it off, then don't blame the governor for asking for the king's flag."

The Sun case was Jia Liu's first shot at the sky, and the officials involved in the case must be severely punished, which is non-negotiable.

Lao Yang has no opinion on this, even if Song Mou, the prefect of Baoding, was personally promoted by him when he was the governor, according to the deputy envoy of the Inspectorate Department, he did not give him gifts during the New Year's holidays.

No way, who let them hit the muzzle of the forehead.

Besides, Sun Lehe's case is indeed too rough.

Cutting off a few heads is no longer inevitable.

Jia Liu asked Lao Yang how much silver he had in the treasury of the Zhili Domain.

Lao Yang said that there are about 1 million taels, and this year's summer tax will probably be about 2 million taels, and the balance after deducting the regular donations will be at least 1.5 million taels.

"This year, the summer tax of this province will not have to be handed over to the Ministry of Households, and after you go back, you will make a detailed list of the distribution of the provincial officials' salaries, and I will institutionalize the provincial officials' salaries after I take office."

Lao Yang is the political envoy, and the official is the head of the Yamen of the Political Envoy Department, and Jia Liu wants to straighten out the finances of the Zhili, so he has to rely on Lao Yang.

The salary of the governor of his own direct subordinate government is paid by the household department in October every year, and has nothing to do with the financial affairs of the direct subordinate government, and the central financial affairs.

The same is true for the flag officer, every year, the household department also allocates the money to each metropolitan yamen, and then the metropolitan yamen pays the flag officer himself, or his family.

Lao Yang was a little puzzled, and he didn't know what he meant by the institutionalization of Yulu.

Jia Liu roughly explained, that is, after he took office, all officials who were directly subordinate to the province and enjoyed the maintenance of incorruptible silver (generally more than seven grades) should be open and transparent.

For example, Yang Jingsu, the official salary of the political envoy, is only 155 taels, and the maintenance of incorruptible silver is between 10,000 taels and 16,000 taels.

Under the new system, the salary and silver are combined, and 15,000 taels are taken for this customization.

According to the purchasing power of one tael of silver, Lao Yang has tens of millions of incorruptible silver a year.

Specifically, there should be a standard reference for how much to raise incorruptible silver.

Lao Yang deserved to have served as a governor, and he understood it as soon as he heard it, and immediately pointed out that the corresponding salary could be set according to the year-end performance appraisal of officials.

If the assessment is excellent, the top amount will be allocated.

If the evaluation is average, the median amount will be allocated.

If the evaluation is particularly poor, it shall be allocated according to the minimum.

In the past, local officials actually paid for the incorruptible money at the higher level, so there were a lot of drawbacks, and it was easy to have power-for-money transactions.

For example, the above is the full amount of the top ration of 3,000 taels of incorruptible silver below, but the problem is that the following may not be able to get all of them, and may only get 2,000 taels.

Where is the other thousand taels?

Herein lies the problem.

Opaque.

In the future, the payment of wages will be uniformly collected by the political envoy department, and the political envoy department will evaluate the performance of local officials according to the performance of local officials in one year, and then report to the governor's yamen for approval and payment according to the standard.

"yes, that's what it means."

The old bureaucracy is good, and a little bit is thorough.

By implementing his new regulations, he will be able to save a lot of money every year, and in addition, he will be able to control the "economic" life of the provincial officials in the hands of him, the governor.

In the future, the officials of Zhili Province will not eat the court meal, but the meal of Lord Jia.

If Jia Liu came up with a silver dollar, it would be the people of Zhili and the official Hua Jia Datou, eating Jia Datou and using Jia Datou.

The economy was immediately active.

However, Yang Jingsu soon realized a new problem, that is, if all the wages were paid to the provincial treasury, it would cause the problem of untimely payment of wages.

For higher-grade officials, the untimely payment of wages will not affect too much, but for lower-grade officials, especially in Qingshui Yamen, who actually work on the front line, it will be more miserable.

Who is Lord Jia?

What others thought of, he had already thought of.

It is natural to come up with the plan of Zhili Bank.

That is, "banks" were set up in the counties in the name of the governor's yamen, and all official salaries were paid through the bank, and the local taxes were also paid through the bank, and the local water conservancy and river projects were also paid by the bank.

For the time being, the concept of "absorbing savings" has not been proposed, but it is necessary to wait for the new thing of "banking" to be familiar to officials and have authority before promoting it.

This is different from the Bank of Sichuan.

There are more than 100 counties in Zhili, that is, more than 100 banks will be built, and then there will be government and provincial banks, not to mention 200.

With bank personnel, security personnel, docking with governments at all levels, and so on.

Undoubtedly a huge project.

It is not only the civil affairs that are involved, but also the military.

"Next month, we will pilot in Baoding, and the staffing will be transferred from the treasury first, and we will train while building."

Jia Liu talked to Lao Yang for half an hour.

Halfway through, Lao Yang excused himself for convenience, and when he came back, he had already taken a pen and paper, recorded it carefully, and gave his professional opinions from time to time, which made Jia Liu very happy.

simply told me about the ultimate goal of sorting out the finances of Zhili.

It is necessary to unify the expenditure of local personnel in three shifts and six rooms into the provincial finance.

Lao Yang was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"That is, in the future, the expenses of the three classes and six rooms will no longer be collected and paid by the local government, but will also be allocated by the treasury through the bank."

Jia Liu was studying the financial issue a few days ago.

After studying and studying, it was found that the biggest problem plaguing the fiscal situation was the problem of local expenditure.

To put it bluntly, local expenditure is the operation of three shifts and six rooms.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not pay salaries to local "public meals", but let the county collect and support itself.

To put it bluntly, it is to allow the local government to collect all kinds of miscellaneous taxes in addition to the regular tax, if these miscellaneous taxes are not collected, the county master will not talk about the salary of the three shifts and six rooms of the county government, he will not even be able to open the salary of the master he brought.

If there is no salary, who will do it for the county master?

The number of personnel in the three shifts and six rooms is ten times or even dozens of times more than that of officials.

Taking Ansu County as an example, there are only three nominal officials, but there are more than 300 staff members around these three officials.

In his previous life, Jia Liu had read some studies and said that the common people in the Ping Dynasty supported a large proportion of officials, such as about 3,000 people in the Tang Dynasty to support an official, in the Ming Dynasty, more than 2,000 people to support an official, and in the Qing Dynasty, it seems that there were less than 1,000 people to support an official.

In modern times, it has evolved into dozens of people serving as one official.

It may seem frightening, but in fact the data from these studies is not accurate at all, because the researchers only studied officials and officials, and did not take into account the large number of people who eat public meals.

If you only count the officials, the more than 100,000 people in Ansu County will provide three, but in fact, the three classes and six houses, including the township catchers and miscellaneous soldiers, are all supported by the people.

The scale of the three classes and six rooms is huge, and their existence on the one hand maintains the imperial court's governance of the local area, and no county officials can manage a county well.

However, the existence of three classes and six rooms made it impossible for the imperial power to go to the countryside, and most of these people were the spokesmen of the local gentry, and some could even turn the county order into an ornament.

The exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes for these people are more than the regular taxes that go into the national treasury, so Jia Liu has to deal with this phenomenon, on the one hand, it is to control the local government more effectively, and on the other hand, it is to fall into the reputation of "reducing the burden for the people".

The people are exempted from miscellaneous taxes for supporting three shifts and six rooms, and they will naturally have to be more relaxed, which will also lead to the development of all walks of life.

Going a little deeper, it is to let all the people in Zhili Province who eat official meals have the surname Jia.

Master Jia was unhappy, and they were all hungry.

"This matter is very important, it has never been done before, and if it is done according to the will of the adults, the domain treasury will not be able to bear it at all."

Lao Yang also told the truth, Lord E, what you think is very good, the problem is unrealistic.

There are hundreds of counties in one county, and hundreds of thousands of people in more than 100 counties in the province, and even if you pay ten taels per person, it will cost millions of taels.

It's good to reduce the burden on the people, but where does the money come from?

"Don't worry, this is only the preliminary idea of the governor, if you really want to implement it, you have to wait for next year or the year after, this year's main work of your political yamen is to implement the issue of wage rectification that the governor just mentioned."

Of course, Jia Liu can't implement all the new policies now, and the premise of the previous dynasties to tax exemption and burden reduction for the people is that the treasury has money.

Where does the money come from?

The sea, of course.

The annual revenue of the sea trade in Guangdong is more than 50 million taels, and even if the trade in Beiyang is only half, it is enough for Jia Liuli to push the new policy.

"It's getting dark, I see you go back to Baoding with me tomorrow."

Jia Liu enthusiastically kept Lao Yang to eat, ate a few home-cooked dishes very plainly, and asked about his predecessor Zhou Yuanli during the banquet.

Lao Yang said that Zhou Yuanli had no objection to the imperial court's request for him to be a scholar, and after receiving the notice, he completed the handover procedures and was ready to return to his hometown in Zhejiang.

Jia Liu nodded, and after the meal, he went around the county government and went to rest.

lived in Qin Liang's house in Ansu Zhi County, except for changing the bed and bedding, nothing else had changed.

The bolt pillar led people to search, and a total of more than 17,000 taels of stolen silver were handed over, which is still Qin Liang's only two years as the governor of the county, and I am afraid that it will be 30,000 taels when his term expires.

"Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, don't deceive me, this Qin Liang is really in vain in the cultivation of him by the imperial court, and also in vain in the teachings of the saints, dog official, he really deserves to be killed!"

Looking at the silver box piled up in the corner, Jia Liu's teeth itched with anger, and he carefully folded the stack of silver tickets on the table and put them into his underwear pocket.

waved his hand to the bolt pillars: "Okay, there's nothing for you here, let's go and rest." ”

"Huh!"

They hurried out of the house.

Jia Liu suddenly thought that he hadn't washed his feet yet, and wanted to ask the bolt pillar to fetch a bucket of water for himself, but after thinking about it, no one smelled his feet anyway.

After burping and humming a sister-in-law's tune, she came to the big bed, and when she saw that there was a curtain on the bed, she couldn't help but wonder what kind of tent was hung in the winter.

casually lifted the curtain of the tent, and the scene that caught his eye made him change color, and he was also furious and threw down the tent, turned around and was about to push the door out angrily, asking who brought Liu from prison to his bed.

A hand had just touched the door, but suddenly stopped there.

All kinds of fragments kept flashing in his mind, and the scene he had just seen made his mouth even more dry.

Half a sound, touched his bare forehead, and muttered: "There may be any hidden secrets in this case, I better try it again, well, just try a few words." ”

Hold his breath and come to the side of the bed lightly, quietly reach out and lift the curtain, and pinch the quilt with both hands like a frightened bird, his eyes are both confused and helpless, and he seems to be flattering: "This governor asks you, do you know what is wrong?" ”

(End of chapter)