The administration of officials in the Northern Song Dynasty was indeed a bit outrageous.

In fact, most of the people who are in charge of local affairs are officials. They even have the right to make decisions on many decisions. Officials know where to eat, drink and have fun every day. Zhang Fei's uncle Xu Lingxiao also belongs to this group of officials.

Xu Lingxiao is good at poetry and writing, but not good at dealing with official affairs. He is far inferior to Xu Zhiqian.

Under this system, it is indeed unlikely that officials such as Jiedushi would appear.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this. Who cares? In many details, officials are much more reliable than officials. But the key point is that officials do not have salaries. They can only receive some subsidies. Of course, officials themselves

If you hire officials and pay them yourself, it depends on the official's financial resources. If you follow Han Qi, you will definitely be popular and drink hot food.

When these two points are combined, the problem becomes huge.

On the one hand, they have power, but on the other hand, they have no money.

The results speak for themselves.

When the people go to the government to do something, they don't have to give it some money.

As a result, under normal circumstances, people are not willing to go to government agencies for help.

If this point is not changed, no matter how good the law is, it will have no meaning.

But Yu Da is right. Those officials have no choice but to make a living without making money.

The imperial court actually knew this, but it could only turn a blind eye or close one eye.

There is a saying that there were indeed relatively few corrupt officials in the Northern Song Dynasty during this period, but there were countless corrupt officials, far more than those in the Tang Dynasty.

In history, when Wang Anshi promulgated the Recruitment Law, there was also a less eye-catching law hidden in it, which was the "Cang Law".

In fact, it is very simple, that is, to include officials into the national salary system.

Then, Wang Anshi began to rectify the administration of officials.

Although Wang Anshi was not as cautious as Sima Guang, he was limited to details. On key issues, Wang Anshi considered very clearly. In order to rectify the administration of officials, he must first pay wages to others.

If you don't pay salaries and have to deal with dirty officials, that's pure hooliganism, and other people don't know how to do it.

However, due to the emergence of the police, Wang Anshi was not eager to introduce the Cang method. Instead, he hoped to use the entire police system to implement the Cang method.

The police have achieved unprecedented success and are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Including officials into the police system can quickly gain the recognition of the people.

Compared with Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and others, Zhang Fei lacks the kind of ambition to cultivate oneself and govern the country and bring peace to the world. He is a trainee lawyer and lives a well-off life, so he does not have this kind of ambition at all.

Although after arriving in the Northern Song Dynasty, this kind of thinking began to sprout in my heart, it is still not comparable to today's literati.

But having said that, his professionalism is also something Wang Anshi and Sima Guang do not have.

Since he wants to develop the business of household grade assessment, he will definitely do it seriously and will never do it half-heartedly.

Moreover, if Wang Anshi cannot promote the new law, then his plan will not be successful.

The entire judicial reform was not due to Wang Anshi's New Deal. Otherwise, Sima Guang would not really have done this.

Therefore, Zhang Fei will definitely support Wang Anshi.

But at the moment, he is still busy moving. Today he went to the flower market to buy some better flowers to plant back, because Gao Wenyin likes to grow flowers very much, but he is reluctant to spend money on expensive flower seeds.

"Ouch! It's Saburo here."

The shopkeeper of a flower shop saw Zhang Fei coming and welcomed him out enthusiastically.

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy some flower seeds."

The shopkeeper asked: "I wonder what kind of flowers Sanlang wants?"

Zhang Fei said: "Peonies and roses, these two are indispensable. Let the other shopkeepers watch and sell them."

The shopkeeper said: "I heard that Sanlang recently bought a big house. I guess these flower seeds are used in the new house."

Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said: "How do you know that I bought a house?"

The shopkeeper exclaimed: "Don't you know, Sanlang, that wherever you buy now, the rent will go up?"

"Is that an exaggeration?"

Zhang Fei smiled helplessly and thought to himself, when I was beaten, the rent of that house was not lowered. These damn rents will only go up, not down.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a quarrel coming from behind.

"What? You actually said this recruitment method is good?"

"I think it's pretty good."

Zhang Fei looked back and saw two scholars arguing as they came out of the tea shop.

"Where's the good?"

"In the past, it only targeted the upper-class households, causing many families to lose their lives. But now it is shared equally by everyone, and everyone only needs to contribute a little money. I think this is quite reasonable."

"A little money is nothing to the upper-class households, but for the poor people, it may also cause their families to be destroyed. How many upper-class households are there, and how many are the lower-fifth-class households? One less rich household is ruined, and the price is

Maybe more than a dozen poor households have been destroyed. Doesn’t the life of the poor count as life?”

"You are simply arrogant. It is clearly written in the newspaper that the poor households pay less than half of the rich households, so what else can you do?"

"Is the wealth of the poor households half that of the rich households? That's all, I won't argue with you. These differences are not mutually beneficial. I'll say goodbye."

The two of them broke up on bad terms.

Then I heard the shopkeeper sigh, "Oh, people have been arguing about this recruitment law every day these past two days!"

Zhang Fei turned around and said, "Really?"

"Compared to the previous method of losing everything, this recruitment method is really terrible. There are many people who support it, but there are also many people who oppose it. Let's talk about our store. I support it, but my clerk is very dissatisfied.

"

"Why?"

"I belong to a third-class household. Every year when it's my or my family's turn, I have to spend a large sum of money to take care of it, but my clerk doesn't need to. And once the draft law is enacted, he will also have to pay the exemption money every year.

"

"Won't you give the guy a little more pay?"

"Would you like some rose flowers?"

"Ah? It's okay."

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded.

I bought seeds and just left the flower market when a white-faced boy came over.

Zhang Fei recognized him as the attendant beside Zhao Xu.

Royal palace, attic.

"minister."

"How many times do I have to say this?"

Zhao Xu was quite dissatisfied when he saw Zhang Fei was about to salute.

"Well, the emperor is good, no, no, the officials are good. No!"

"hehe."

Zhao Xu smiled and extended his hand to the opposite side, "Sit down. Sit down."

"Thank you, officials."

Zhang Fei sat down quietly.

He didn't know how to say hello without being polite.

Zhao Xu smiled and asked: "Do you know why I came to you?"

Zhang Fei said: "Recruitment law?"

Zhao Xu asked again: "What do you think of this?"

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "This is the fifth or sixth time that the official has asked me this question."

Zhao Xu said: "Then how did you answer?"

Zhang Fei said: "I don't know. I don't know. I can't tell."

"What should I ask you?"

"It is ten thousand times better than the labor method, but the obstacles encountered may also be huge."

"There are also many ministers in the court who are opposed to it. For example, Sima Junshi, they all oppose the collection of free tax from the poor. What do you think about this?"

"I think this is the best approach right now."

"Yeah?"

Zhao Xu hurriedly asked: "How do you say this?"

Zhang Fei explained: "The poor are the majority. If the poor's money is exempted, then all the burdens will be concentrated on the second, third, and fourth-class households. This situation may be worse than the draft law. In a few years, all the upper-class households may be
To be continued...