Sun Chunming and about a hundred people led by Song Aisi booked the entire second floor of Fengle Building to serve as a drink to apologize. Sun Chunming is not short of money and is not a stingy person. The delicacies of the mountains and seas are naturally delivered to them like flowing water, and they are naturally complete with food, drink, and fun.

"Brothers, I know that you are all consciences. The incident happened suddenly and I felt wronged. I will give you a cup and apologize to you."

Everyone dared not to give face. Another group of more than 100 people just slapped their butts in front of them, and the bloody ones were beaten. In addition, dozens of them were still in prison and not released. According to Sun Chunming, this is a conviction. If you should be exiled, you should be beheaded, and you will never be ruthless.

Everyone realized that the new Sun Zhizhe was a real and ruthless character.

Song Aisi, who was relatively proud, spoke on behalf of everyone, "We all understand what Lord Sun meant. We have indeed done some things that are in the bureau, but we have no choice. We have wives, children, and young people, and we have to support our families. If the court does not provide salary, we will... If Lord Sun can find a way to solve this problem and ask the court to come for salary, not to be rich and powerful, at least we can have a relatively good life. We promise that from now on, Mr Sun will follow the lead, but if we don't come for salary... Alas, we have no choice."

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "There is definitely no salary, and I don't care about the court asking for it, so you will die for this kind of heart."

"Ah? This..."

The more anxious person was already shouting: "Sun Zhizhe, do you want your brothers to clean your hands and feet without giving them money? Do you want your brothers to drink the northwest wind to support the whole family?"

Sun Chunming was not annoyed, but said lightly: "Don't worry, since I dared to touch this, I naturally made plans. The official family is not short of hungry soldiers, and Kaifeng Mansion cannot really point to you to carry forward the style and starve the family to death. But how can I pay this money, but I can't simply raise the salary."

When he said this, Sun Chunming's face was not flushed or breathless, but in fact he felt a little weak. The Song Dynasty's official system was the first cancer of the Song Dynasty. It has been thinking of ways throughout the dynasties, but all of them are useless without exception. Sun Chunming didn't know whether his trick could work.

The problem of the official system of the Song Dynasty was not just as simple as fish and meat. The provincial government level was relatively good. From the county and township level, basically these officials were in charge of the affairs. Generally, the chief officials were just empty shells, and even those awesome. The county magistrate had to give gifts to the escort, and even worse ones were not without them. For example, Song Jiang and Song escort in Water Margin were fictional, but they also had some establishments. Sometimes these people occupied the mountain and became kings. As long as they didn't openly beat the anti-flagship, there was no way to deal with them.

The Northern Song Dynasty court did not think about giving money. In fact, the Northern Song Dynasty court was the richest court among the feudal dynasties of all dynasties. Even during the reign of Emperor Shenzong, he even offered a "high salary" of 80 guan to senior clerks such as Kongmuguan. You should know that the salary of the county magistrate was only 20 guan (not counting the "bonus" of rice, silk and other rice gifts given by the court). In the eighth year of Xining, the annual expenditure was more than 370,000 guan, and it increased year by year. This is not considered the "warehouse method". But in fact, it is useless.

The reason for this is that in addition to the layers of deductions by officials, there are many very complicated reasons. However, the root cause is that the distance between the court and the clerk is too far, and the work of the clerk is too complicated, so it is impossible to analyze the specific situation in detail. To put it further, the local government has no money, the magistrate has too little power, and asks the central government for everything, and the central government cannot do specific work in every township and county, so this is actually a pot of strong and weak branches.

If Sun Chunming just wanted to solve the problem of clerks in Kaifeng, it would be quite simple. At the foot of the emperor, these clerks were really nothing. As long as they applied for their salary and then strictly supervised their kindness and power, they would naturally not be afraid of them causing trouble.

But as a time traveler, the first fire burned by the new official in office, if it was that simple, wouldn’t he be laughed at by Sun Yue? If he wanted to do it, he had to use a method that could be used as a pilot promotion nationwide, so that Zhao Kuangyin and the big men of the court could see what a true unparalleled national warrior is.

"I thought of a way and planned to try it in Kaifeng City first. If it is feasible, the whole country can use this as a basis for doing things in the future. The two kings have agreed to this."

"I wonder what wonderful method I have come up with?"

"It's not a good idea, it's just a three-word, the handling fee."

“Processing fee?”

"Yes, I plan to add a fee on the basis of taxes. The prefecture and even the county government will formulate it themselves and distribute it to the clerks of each prefecture as salary. Let me give you the simplest example. For example, if the constables catch gambling, they have to confiscate the gambling money in addition to labor, and they have to collect their fines. We can separate the money from the taxes and not pay the transfer envoys. Half of it is left to the brothers on the front line, and the head of the head will take the money back, and the other half will be collected by the yamen, and the escort will be responsible for distributing it to the brothers who do not personally go to the front line."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Sun Chunming said: "Simply put, anyone who asks you for your business must give you some money. Not to mention anything else, even with such a hard background behind me, I have been stuffed out for nearly twenty cents. Whether it is a lawsuit or a marriage book, I will collect at least tens and twenty cents. For the most, I can even charge two or two cents to force people to death. Right, what I mean is to use this money as a fixed number to form a system, not too much, nor too little, it is considered to be a hard work for everyone, but at the same time, an anti-corruption department will be set up. In addition to this money, if anyone dares to be greedy again, then he will serve the law."

Song Aisi said in disbelief: "Uh... Lord Sun, I understand, do you mean... can we legally make a clever name in the future?"

Sun Chunming was amused with a thud and laughed: "What do you think? You can still make it legal and corruption. There are standards for charging fees. Kaifeng City is set by our two kings. In the future, other places will be ordered by local officials. The county-level fee collection standard must be reported to the prefecture, and the prefecture will also send people to supervise and review, and the prefecture level handling fees must be reported to various supervisors and transshipment envoys. In this way, we can adapt to local conditions and put them under the supervision of the court. Do you think, what is this policy?"

The officials looked at each other and were a little confused for a moment.

The word handling fee is really new to them. Anyway, they can legally accept bribes in the future, but there is a limit on the quantity? Anyway, they are officials, since there is no opinion on the above, let's try it.

Sun Chunming's policy was exactly the part that the country was working hard to reform after the 21st century. However, although this one was outdated or even a cancer in the 21st century, it was not impossible to be a good strategy in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In essence, the practical significance of this policy is to take the right to embezzle and accept bribes from the minor officials to the hands of local officials and then send them on. Of course, officials will be helpless if they encounter borers, but at least officials can still be a little bit more shameful. They have read the books of sages and are directly supervised by the court, at least they are much better than these minor officials. The corruption of officials in the Northern Song Dynasty is still possible, at least they are much stronger than those in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

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