Wu Huaiyu and Gao Jifu, who was newly appointed as the Censor of the Censor, returned to the Censorship Terrace with the Censor Doctor Xiao Yu.
Ordered to rectify Lantai.
Wu Huaiyu has been to Yushitai several times, but he has never really worked here. When the emperor asked him to concurrently manage books and serve as censor, it was just to facilitate him to better communicate with the Three Laws Department in the position of Criminal Xian Department and Yongzhou Bidong.
"All the officials in Taichung are summoned," Xiao Yu said as soon as he came in.
This imperial censor has a very high qualifications, and he also has the title of participating in the political affairs of the dynasty. He can be said to be the oldest person in the dynasty today. He entered the Tang Dynasty and served as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He served as Zhongshu Ling for six years, and served as the right servant for three years.
Zuo Pushe was many years old.
Compared to the previous imperial censors Du Yan and Wen Yanbo, this old man was also famous for his bad temper, and no one dared to neglect him.
After a while, all the officials at Yushitai arrived.
Wu Huaiyu saw an acquaintance, the imperial censor Zhao Renben, who was a friend of Ma Zhou.
When Ma Zhou was an assistant coach in Bozhou, he was made unhappy by the governor Da Xishu and resigned. He met Zhao Renben in Mizhou. Zhao Renben was very fond of his talent and gave him a sum of money to encourage him to seek an official position in Chang'an.
Zhao Renben and Ma Zhou are fellow villagers in Hebei. He is also a very talented person. He was born in the Zhao family in Tianshui. Li Yuan entered Guanzhong at the beginning. Zhao Renben was already an official in Menxia Province and was responsible for compiling imperial edicts. He had an excellent memory. After his
He could never forget the compiled imperial edicts.
When he went to Mizhou to deliver the edict, he met Ma Zhou. He admired his talent very much and believed that his talent would be developed in the future. He gave him a large sum of money to go to Beijing.
Nowadays, Ma Zhou is indeed highly appreciated by the king, and his status is higher than that of Zhao Renben. He was given the title of Purple Gold, made the son of Gaotang County, and became a member of Zhongshushe.
Zhao Ren was originally only a seventh-grade imperial censor.
Ma Zhou has always been very grateful to Zhao Renben. Zhao is also one of Ma Zhou's few friends in Beijing. The two families often communicate with each other, and Huaiyu is also familiar with him.
"Yu Shi Zhao, please tell me about the current situation at the Yu Shi Terrace."
Zhao Renben stepped forward and said, "The Yushitai now has a total staff of 136 people, with a total of twenty-six ranking officials. There is one Yushi doctor, two people who manage books and serve the Yushi, four people who serve the Yushi below, and the palace attendants.
There are six censors, ten supervisory censors, one chief bookkeeper, and two recorders, for a total of twenty-three censors.
There are also fifty-seven people in charge of the Lingshi, thirty-five people in the book Lingshi, six people in charge of the pavilion, and twelve people in charge of the affairs, all of whom are outsiders."
After Wu Huaiyu heard this, he didn't think there were many people, but felt that there were a little few people.
After all, as the highest judicial supervisory authority of the Tang Dynasty, there were only about a hundred people in total, and only twenty-six high-level officials.
For example, the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty had more than a hundred supervisory censors.
Although there were few censors in the Yushitai of the Tang Dynasty, their responsibilities were clear and each had their own division of labor.
"The Lingshi, the Lingshi and Shu Lingshi are all officials responsible for economics, right? What about the Lingshi who is trying to catch money?"
"The history of Taichung's money-catching order is also included in the collection of fifty people."
"How many money-catching orders are there? How much capital does Taichung public house have?"
"The capital of our censor Taigong is the same as that of Yongzhou Prefecture. The total capital is 3.8 million, and there are nine money-catching orders."
Wu Huaiyu said, "One person caught 50,000 yuan, but these nine people only caught 450,000 yuan. It's not right."
"Hui Yiguo Gong, it is true that there are only nine people in the history of the money-grabbing order, but there are also non-official supernumeraries, those who are not foreign officials."
Wu Huaiyu calculated that 3.8 million yuan, if one person borrows 50,000 yuan, would require 76 people to take the money, and only nine are full-time staff. Obviously the others are non-staff temporary workers without official status.
"I heard that there are more than seventy bureaus in the capital, each with nine people to catch money, and each person catches 50,000 taels of money. The capital of that company should only be 450 guan of money, and how can our Yushitai have 3,800 guan of money?
Hundreds of dollars?"
"The capital of four hundred and fifty guan is just the first payment, but ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the capital of each company and government has been increased. In addition, the public land of each government and the accumulation of public money income are also there.
Increase,"
Zhao Renben did not hide the secret from these three Taichung officials, and also informed the Taichung small treasury.
Four hundred and fifty guan, that was the very beginning. At the beginning, the imperial court did only use 30,000 guan as capital for more than 70 bureaus in the capital. But now, ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the imperial court's additional funds, plus their respective
The amount of money spent on running the yamen has increased a lot.
Even the 3,800 yuan capital of Yushitai is actually only the official capital, not counting the private capital.
"Private?" Huaiyu asked knowingly.
"Private capital can also be divided into two types. One is the money-making historians' own capital, which includes common people's businessmen's capital raised at low interest rates, and their own money, which is used as official capital for lending and earning differential interest. There is also another type of capital.
The private capital is the money of the officials in Taichung, our imperial censor, who puts it into the government office to catch the money and make the censor lend it out."
This is free riding.
Basically, this is a common situation nowadays where money is being loaned out by yamen and government offices at all levels, from the capital to the localities.
Convert your private money into public money and lend it out, the interest rate is high, and you don’t have to worry about not getting it back.
Private capital often exceeds official capital.
This situation is actually quite harmful to the reputation and credibility of the imperial court.
Originally, public money was used as a last resort because of the financial difficulties of the imperial court, so that business profits could be used to cover office expenses and official salaries. But now everyone uses this banner to make money by hitchhiking.
Even because there is too much capital that cannot be released, we can only force the rationing to the big merchants, who often pass it on to their tenants or products.
Xiao Yu and Gao Jifu didn't say anything, and they knew this very well.
I also know that now the imperial court is going to cancel the capital of public houses and the order to catch money. The emperor will directly select 7,000 large households as assistants, let them pay for the teaching, and pay protection fees in disguise, and continue to recruit new batches every three years.
Wu Huaiyu did some calculations and found that not counting his private capital, the official capital of Yushitai was now 3,800 guan, and he earned 3,800 guan a year, and more than 300 guan a month.
This interest is mainly paid for public office expenses, working lunches in the canteen, and official salary money.
A third-grade official, the Censor, has a monthly salary of RMB 5,000 and food and miscellaneous expenses of NTD 900. There are two people who serve as Censors, and each of them has a monthly salary of RMB 3,000 and food and miscellaneous expenses of RMB 600.
The total for the seventh grade is only 2,010 yuan per month, the total for the eighth grade is 1,850 yuan, and the total for the ninth grade is only 1,500 yuan per month.
Four junior ministers of the sixth rank, six senior ministers of the seventh rank, and ten junior censors of the eighth rank, a total of more than twenty high-ranking Taichung officials, whose monthly salary and miscellaneous materials only add up to tens of thousands of dollars.
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There are one hundred and ten migrant officials. These official migrant workers have very little salary. The salary of the ninth-grade official is only 1,500 yuan. They only have a few hundred yuan a month. However, they still have public houses.
He also had a share of the rented grain from the fields.
Of course, the main source of income for subordinate staff is not salary. They mainly rely on various bad rules to earn gray income.
Such as paper and pencil fees, etc.
Therefore, if we only count the official income, the current Yushitai Gong's official account can earn more than 300,000 yuan in interest per month, while the official's salary can only account for 100,000 yuan at most.
The remaining 200,000 yuan was used for office expenses, such as pens, ink, paper, lamp wicks, oil candles, and expenses such as welcoming and delivering meals, as well as expenses for working meals in the canteen.
Of course, there are many temporary workers outside the establishment, which also require expenses.
But in general, it is only the official capital now. If you can guarantee the almost 100% annual interest, you can save a little money a month and maybe still have a hundred thousand dollars left.
This money can be used to pay New Year's benefits to officials, and some left over can be rolled into capital to continue making profits.
Of course, this is not considered private.
The officials' private money was put into lending together, and after deducting some of the benefits from the money-catching order, some of the money earned was handed over to the yamen, and the rest was their own.
If you calculate it this way, although the salary of officials in the Tang Dynasty has been quite low since the Wude era, with the income from officials' Yongye fields, job-related fields, and public land, it is not considered gray income or anything like that, but it is pretty good.
"Zhang Yushi, the imperial court has issued an order to stop the lending of public money to collect interest and disturb the people. From now on, it will stop lending to other countries. If it has been loaned out, the capital will be recovered immediately when it expires.
Sort out all these accounts, and all the officials and non-staff members will also sort out their own accounts and submit them."
Everyone, both inside and outside the staff, has to stop doing this job.
"Then what will we do in the future?" A money-catcher couldn't help but ask, this job is pretty good. If you become a money-catcher, you don't have to do other services, and this job is quite profitable.
It suddenly stopped, which was like a slap in the face.
"The imperial court wants to establish a new branch office of various branches, and allocate the capital of public houses as the capital of the court to enter the market and purchase. All the history of money-grabbing orders can be assessed by the Ministry of Personnel. Those who are admitted will be the people of the branch office.
As for whether it is an outflow or a non-staff job, it all depends on one's ability."
"The 3.8 million yuan capital of our Yamen will be taken away?"
"Um."
"Then what will happen to office expenses, canteen meal expenses, and everyone's salary in the future?"
"In the future, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will allocate funds from the unified finance. For example, your current salary of 2,100 yuan a month for the imperial censor will be directly distributed by the court on a monthly basis."
"But, but." Several officials hesitated for a long time and were speechless. Huaiyu could guess what they wanted to say. Now with this public money, not only can they lend money and collect interest for free, but the public can also
The income from Xianqian is indeed quite high. Basically, there is a monthly savings, and a benefit is given during energy saving during New Years and holidays. In addition, the salary is paid during the winter, which can also subsidize a lot.
If there is no public money, it will really have a big impact.
For those censors who are only in the sixth, seventh or eighth grade, living in Chang'an is not easy. If their income is suddenly reduced, it will indeed affect their lives.
"Lending public money is not allowed. Everyone has to understand."
"but."
But now the 3.8 million public money does not have to be turned over. After all, a lot of it was accumulated from previous loans and interest collection, and the real capital is not that much.
If you hand over part of it, you can still keep part.
Whatever is left behind, whether it is given out as welfare or kept to do other things, can be used.
However, it can be seen that as soon as Wu Huaiyu's decision was announced, the Yushitai was still disappointed, especially those who ordered the officials to be full of confusion about the future.
