Although the external situation is still not stable enough, the overall impact on the Jingzhou Governor's Office is not great. Li Tai was also in a good mood, and today was Chinese New Year's Eve, so he arranged for welfare rewards to be distributed to the civil and military subordinates of the governor's office to comfort the people.

Even the Eastern Wei Dynasty, whose financial situation was much better than that of the Western Wei Dynasty, began to resume the distribution of official Yulu in order to buy people's hearts after it was changed to the Northern Qi Dynasty this year.

Although there is no regular salary, these officials do not work on a voluntary basis, and there are many unconventional sources of income within their authority. In the imperial court and the overlord's mansion, there are usually various rewards, although they are not customized, but it is usually possible to maintain the life of a family.

Of course, in a difficult year for the hegemon's finances, it is inevitable that there will be no revenue for a few months or even longer. It was not until Huazhou and other places had a fairly large amount of tuntian income that the income of the officials of the hegemony was relatively stable.

Compared with the central officials, the magistrates had fewer occasional gifts, but they also had more ways and means of obtaining income. They can usually eat and rent in the public land in the governance, and Ding Yong eats and serves, and the big clans in the realm usually give certain gifts when they celebrate the New Year and usher in the time of sending. And they can also do business, and through the deterrent power of official power, they can get to all sides.

Of course, some generals like to see the way to generate income is to plunder the population and wealth through war, although the risk is not small, but the harvest is also large.

Li Tai's Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, the welfare of officials is also very good.

First of all, the public party in the governor's house provides meals, two meals a day, meat and vegetarian, not only can be eaten in dine-in, but also packed in the evening. As long as you enter the governor's mansion to work, if nothing else, the family's diet is still guaranteed. Of course, if you want to say that your family of more than 100 people has to drive several cars to pack meals, it is impossible.

The expenses for the meals of these public houses were maintained by the rent of 100 hectares of public land, which was then replaced by different food ingredients for the public chefs. The Governor's Office fills the shortfall throughout the year, and the surplus food is distributed to everyone according to the rank of the officials.

In addition to food and drink, the governor's office will also give a certain amount of silk and brocade silk and other fabrics for spring and autumn clothes change in spring and autumn according to the grade of officials. Of course, the surplus fabrics are also allowed to be sold in the market.

These two benefits alone have already thrown off the official income of many local governments. In addition, there will be some additional rewards for overtime, business trips and some special tasks, and even the lowest-ranking civil and ink officials can usually earn more than 100 stone of grain in a year, plus food and clothing subsidies, enough to support a family of five.

At present, there are more than 600 officials with specific posts in the entire Jingzhou Governor's Office, and this does not include the posts of the local assassins and county guards, and the welfare distribution of maintaining such an administrative body is also a large expense.

Of course, the Chinese and foreign governments and the imperial court will not be responsible for this part of the administrative costs, and everything will be raised and taken care of by the Jingzhou Governor's Office.

Of course, the advantage is that the Jingzhou Governor's Office has relatively independent administrative and financial powers, and in addition to the personnel appointments of the Assassin History, the County Guard, and the Prefecture and County Governors, they also need to obey the Chinese and foreign governments, and the Chinese and foreign governments basically do not interfere much in what policies Li Tai pursues in the territory and what kind of financial plans he formulates.

It's just that in such a major event as the expedition to the Northern Qi Dynasty, the governor's office must obey the decrees of the Chinese and foreign governments and invest manpower and material resources. But like Wang Sizheng did before, he sent troops without authorization, in fact, the Chinese and foreign governments can't restrain it, of course, the consequences of these actions must be borne by yourself.

Therefore, in addition to a subordinate title, Li Tai can basically be said to be the princes of Jingzhou, and the personnel resources he has and can dispatch are far from being available to the important officials of the Chinese and foreign governments.

Of course, in addition to the Guanzhong prefectures, these prefectures and counties scattered on the four borders are basically in a similar situation, and each has a well-functioning internal order to maintain, but it is not as powerful as the Jingzhou Governor's Office.

This year, all internal affairs are operating in an orderly manner and the momentum of development is good, and it is reasonable to give generous rewards to all the bureaucrats and their subordinates. After all, even if the decision-maker is Li Tai, the specific implementation of the policy depends on the efforts of these subordinates.

In fact, in the middle of the month, Changshi Cui Qian had already issued a welfare reward to the bureaucrats in accordance with the explanation made by Li Tai before the expedition. However, at that time, I didn't know what the final result of the work would be at the end of the year, and Li Tai only gave a range quota. In the case that Li Tai has not yet returned, Cui Qian will distribute it according to the bottom limit, which is still a little unworthy of the achievements achieved today.

After Li Tai returned, he doubled the issuance on the basis of Cui Qian's previous distribution. The crowd in the hall applauded happily after hearing the words, and they were in a very comfortable mood when they received this reward during the festive season.

By the time these things were taken care of, it was already noon. Originally, the group of officials had already been on vacation, but after hearing that the general had returned to the town, they each withdrew to worship, so Li Tai asked them to receive their rewards and then go home, and those who lived in the countryside outside the city also arranged for carriages and horses to escort them.

After commending a few more officials who stayed in the mansion, Li Tai got up from the hall and wanted to go to the inner house, but as soon as he walked to the porch, he found that his cousin Cui Qian was also following him, so he asked with a smile: "The festival is coming again, my cousin will not stay in the mansion, where will he go?" ”

Cui Qian's expression was stunned when he heard this, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Li Tai with some sadness and said: "In previous years, I spent time in the side compartment of the inner mansion, and if there is an emergency in the mansion, I can also deal with it nearby." ”

When Li Tai heard this, he was immediately ashamed and embarrassed, and then realized that this cousin had been sitting in the mansion for him for a few years since he entered the town, and he had never left, and he himself went back to visit his relatives every year except for the first year of entering the town. Although I didn't have time to return to Guanzhong this year because of the levy, there are still ladies who stay in the house to celebrate the festival together.

As for his cousin Cui Qian, he has been lonely and alone for several years, which makes people feel sad when they think about it.

"I, I'm still worried that my cousin is going somewhere else, and I'm about to tell my cousin to remember to come back early even if he goes out. In previous years, my cousin stayed alone in the house, but this year my wife and I will definitely entertain at the mansion. I miss my relatives every festive season, and I hope that I can accompany me and comfort my cousin's pain of missing my relatives! ”

After laughing dryly, he quickly changed his mind. It's going to be the New Year, and he drove this cousin out to wander, then he is too unconscionable!

Cui Qian couldn't hear how blunt his words were, and after hearing the words, he gave him a blank look, and then sighed and said, "Knowing that your nobles are complicated and have a lot of scheming, it's hard to care about these little things." Early in the morning, my brother-in-law came to sue me to celebrate the festival with you, so I rejected the invitation of my colleagues early in the morning. ”

Li Tai's embarrassment decreased a little after hearing this, and he took Cui Qian's arm and walked towards the inner mansion, and at the same time said: "After a few years in the town, the government affairs are very good, and it is all up to my cousin's diligence to preside over internal affairs, although I don't have the brilliant achievements of Han Zu, but my cousin has Xiao He's shrewdness and diligence!" The world only said that I had done a lot of work, but I have not been able to give my cousin a proper praise and evaluation, and when the time is right, I must praise my cousin and make a name for himself! ”

After Cui Qian heard this, he couldn't help but smile on his face, but after laughing for a while, he still put on a straight face and said: "Such crazy words, relatives and friends in the household can enjoy themselves a little, but they should be cautious and humble to the outside world. Especially Ah Pan, you are showing in the forest, even if you are not afraid of twisting, the wind will inevitably disturb the pace! ”

"What my cousin said is that I must keep it in mind and never be disturbed by my words!"

After Li Tai heard this, he responded with a smile, even if he remembered He Ruodun's big mouth, he always felt that there was such a thing under the door, and his popularity was probably not better.

In the inner house, Miaoyin has already arranged for the family to decorate the courtyard with lights, and with these decorations, the inner house is no longer as deserted as Li Tai's return last night, adding a lot of festive atmosphere.

Cui Qian entered the hall first and sat down and waited for the meal, and before the evening, Li Tai took his nephew Li Zhenjingtian, who returned to the town with him, to worship his ancestors. The etiquette flaunted by the family is more often to distinguish them from the Hansu family, but it is not strictly abiding by the etiquette rules inside, and there are still many adaptations.

After finishing these and returning to the inner hall, Li Ya, who returned to the town together, was showing off his increasingly proficient knife skills next to Cui Qian's seat, and there were already a few plates of thinly sliced mutton on the table, and he didn't care whether Cui Qian could eat it or not, he continued to plane. Sometimes the reason why people are obsessed with a certain skill is not necessarily because of interest, but because it allows Shuai Du Governor Li Ya to find the self-esteem that has been lost for a long time in front of the friends of the Grand Governor.

There are still many customs between Jing and Xiang on this New Year's Day, but Li Tai did not stay here for the New Year in previous years, and this year he only returned before Chinese New Year's Eve, so the mansion was not prepared, but it was very rich in food.

Several people in the hall are relatives and friends who know each other, and Miao Yin did not avoid suspicion, and after arranging various trivial things to serve food and congratulations, he also entered the hall and sat down.

When Cui Qian raised the wine glass to toast and thanked her, the lady in charge, for giving her a meal to stay overnight and spend the festival together, this lady was not rigid, and she should also drink a glass of brightly colored fruit wine.

Dumplings are always eaten during the New Year, and after three rounds of wine, there are servants who bring several large food boxes and small dumplings, which are directly placed in the copper pot in the hall. This is also the eating habit that Li Tai has prescribed since he came to this world, no matter what the dumpling is called elsewhere, it is called dumpling at his house.

Full of wine and food, the lights are on.

It is rare for Cui Qian to have relatives and friends to accompany him for the New Year this year, so he drank a few more glasses of wine and fell asleep soundly. A few teenagers had already eaten enough, Li Tai saw that they were uneasy at the table, so he ordered them to cut down bamboo and burn firecrackers, and he hugged the lady to climb the small building, and the lights of thousands of homes in the entire Jingzhou city were in full view.

(End of chapter)