The implementation of any new policy will inevitably touch old interest groups.
What's more, it involves the fundamental tax system, which affects all aspects. This is almost to tear down the old everything and establish a new system.
Zhao Renben felt that although he had the prime minister standing by to support him, there always seemed to be a pair of invisible hands obstructing the implementation.
Under the green money willow tree in the Wu family's round fortress, Zhao Renben was very haggard.
"If you feel powerless, it means that many people support you on the surface but are actually blocking it. Secondly, there is something wrong with your team."
Wu Huaiyu poured him a cup of tea, then turned to the former county magistrate Liu Rengui, "Zhengze, what do you think?"
"Big landowners, if they own a hundred acres of land, they will need to pay two liters of grain, two inches of silk, and three minutes of cotton per acre in the future. The more land they have, the more they will pay. One hundred acres more.
That would be equivalent to doubling the original lease. If there were an extra thousand acres, it would be equivalent to ten times the amount...
How can I not feel distressed about the in-kind tax on yellow rice and white silk? Once the tax is established, it will have to be paid every year." Liu Rengui said bluntly.
Zhao Renben said, "Recently, all the county government officials, including the village head of Lizheng and even the village elders, are busy with this matter. Everyone is working very hard."
"The hard work is real, but there must be many people who are not active."
Zhao Renben wanted to speak for his subordinates, but Wu Huaiyu waved his hand, "You don't have to defend them. In fact, I don't blame them for not doing things well. If the horses are running, how can they not eat grass?"
"Nowadays, many officials have problems. Some people take the opportunity to accept money from large households in order to help them underestimate their property and lower their household status. Some people change the good farmland of large households into medium and poor land.
There are also people who prey on the common people, valuing worthless things at a lot of money and valuing poor land for farmland. In fact, they just want to take the opportunity to extort money from the common people.
how so?
Don't imagine how tall these subordinates are. In fact, they are just to support their families.
I know that the yamen used to have public money and public land, public grain and interest to use for public expenses and food money, as well as some subsidies for officials and subordinates.
In addition, when taxes are collected every year, there are various apportionments, surcharges, and fire expenses. A large amount of money is also used as extra money for these subordinates and even county officials. I will not talk about other various gray incomes.
Usually when they collect taxes, they have to spend a lot of money on grain. With the new tax law this year, many landless people have become customers. Rent transfers and free warehouse grain are exempted. People who are not satisfied with the land of a hundred households are also exempted from rent transfer and free warehouse grain.
A lot of reductions and exemptions,
Additional charges, fire consumption, etc. are also clearly stipulated, along with reductions and exemptions,
In their eyes, what this reduces is their income. The income has been greatly reduced. Where do these subordinates get their enthusiasm?"
Wu Huaiyu's words hit the nail on the head.
"These are all bad rules and old habits. Your subordinates must supervise them carefully." Zhao Renben gritted his teeth.
"How to supervise? Some things are actually forbidden. In other words, originally, the court was not unaware of these things and turned a blind eye to them. The previous routine was still barely maintained, but
Now that there is a new law, there must be a substitute for this, otherwise your county government will not be able to operate."
Even if the Tang Dynasty was a Ji county, the real officials in Liunei were actually one county magistrate, one county magistrate, one registrar, and two county lieutenants, a total of five officials. The county magistrate was the sixth grade, the county magistrate and the
The chief registrar and the county lieutenant are all officials of the eighth or ninth grade.
In addition, there are also magic officers, that is, one with a doctor of Confucian classics and one with a doctor of medicine.
These officials below include Liang Lushi, Liucao's assistant, historian, city magistrate, warehouse governor, assistant teacher, etc.
Twenty-one assistants, forty historians, and two account historians, these are all miscellaneous tasks.
The other ten wardens, four interrogators, and ten Bai Zhi all belong to miscellaneous positions.
In addition, there are 40 county economic students and 20 medical students. Compared with civilians, these people are relatively special. They have the privilege of being exempted from class service, and enjoy food and accommodation, which is equivalent to the status of reserve officials.
To be honest, a large county like Sanyuan in Gyeonggi Province cannot manage with just such a small number of people. In all aspects, there are several officials and dozens of officials. To put it bluntly, for future generations, there are not as many people as a county bureau.
There are nine deputy county magistrates in a county, and one county even had fifteen deputy magistrates.
There are thirty or forty bureaus in a county, and each bureau has four or five deputy directors.
Sanyuan County has fewer soldiers than Jing County, only five soldiers. Each soldier has three fewer soldiers and four more soldiers. This is equivalent to the chief's assistants, with a total of only twenty-one.
There were only three or five people under each Cao Cao.
Further down, there is no more in the economic system.
A Hucao with a heavy task has four Sihuzuo, seven Shihushi, and one account historian. Since there are more than 10,000 households in Sanyuan County, two more Sihuzuo, four household historians, and one account historian are added.
How could Hucao, Liuzuo, Shiyishi and Liangqianshi be in charge of the money and food affairs of more than 10,000 households in the county?
In fact, under them, there are a large number of non-staff writers. Without establishment means no salary. Their income is the responsibility of the county itself, including welfare.
Each of the six Cao offices has non-staff personnel.
In the same county government office, the three-class government officials officially only have four interrogators, ten white officers, and ten prison wardens, but in reality there are not enough. Therefore, there are a large number of supernumerary three-class government officials who are responsible for executions and standing guard.
Guard prison prisoners, catch thieves, open roads, etc.
Although the local government will assign various errands to young men in the county to serve in turn, some tasks are more professional and require permanent services, such as catching thieves, so these people do not rotate and become salaried yamen.
Non-staff personnel are different from the color slaves who are on duty for ordinary people.
They all have to be paid by the yamen.
Where does this money come from?
It mainly relies on old customs, such as kicking the stems when harvesting grain, piling the people's grain into buckets and kicking it hard, and everything that falls out belongs to the subordinates.
Another main source is the fire cost. Each tax must be levied an additional fire cost. There is no unified standard for this fire cost. You can charge as much as you want. It depends on how much money the subordinate officials in the yamen want. When it is powerful,
The fire energy consumption may reach 30% to 40% of the normal value, or even double. When it is less, it may reach 20% to 30%.
Other small money, bundled money, warehouse money, etc. are also collected in bulk.
As for going to the Yamen to do business, let alone charging you paper and pen fees.
Subordinate officials are also human beings. They cannot use their love to generate electricity and work for the court for free. Even if they are somewhat upright, the clerks are local wealthy people, children of rich families, and even have the status of honorary officials. They may not be short of money, but they control the affairs of the government.
, in fact, the self-interest that can be achieved is greater.
In fact, all local officials and below are local people, and they are basically selected from landlords and large households. After all, subordinate officials must first be able to read and write, and the servants must also have a certain degree of authority. This makes the county government,
In fact, the county officials appointed and dismissed by the imperial court, together with the subordinate officials of these local powerful representatives, and the village chief of Li Zheng in the township, ruled the entire county.
"Now that the new law is being tried out, various problems have been exposed. If we find one, we have to face it and solve it. Today we will talk about the salary of the subordinate staff, as well as the salary and food money of the non-staff subordinate staff.
Where to come from, how much to give, and how to ensure their income without harming the people."
It’s hard to hear that you both want and want.
"Boldly raise your opinions. We are now in a pilot project, so you need to be bolder. Don't be afraid of making mistakes, just be afraid of doing nothing."
Liu Rengui proposed two items: public land and public money.
It turns out that there was a public house lending money, and Wu Huaiyu was a money-lender. At that time, there were nine money-lending officials in Sanyuan County. Later, Sanyuan merged with Chiyang, and the county had a larger population and a higher level.
However, the central department of the imperial court had already canceled the history of the money-grabbing order. The original six or seven hundred people were compiling the history of the money-grabbing order. After the cancellation, the capital of the original public house was handed over to Chang Pingcang for management, and seven thousand were selected from all over the world.
Wealthy households were replaced every three years and paid a sum of money to the court every year, called Xu Shi. The court directly allocated a sum of officials' public money to each government office every year to use it for office expenses and official food and miscellaneous items. This is equivalent to
The yamen's own small treasury was cancelled.
But these 7,000 assistants only replaced the 700 who were originally in the capital department to compile the history of money-catching orders. The imperial court did not care about other yamen's own histories of money-catching orders, and the funds allocated were limited.
However, various yamen will also follow suit. For example, Sanyuan County will distribute the interest of 720 yuan from the original 18 money-catching orders in the two counties every year directly to the wealthy households in the county, and even behind them.
They also gave a sum of money to ordinary people from door to door, and the money collected was actually more than the previous loan sharks.
In fact, it's just a head-to-head fee.
"The money offered by Sanyuan County is completely baseless and random and should be cancelled," Liu Rengui said bluntly.
Zhao Renben said that if this assessment is cancelled, there will be a big hole, and where can it be plugged? The new tax itself has already caused a lot of new holes that cannot be filled, and the subordinates are not active in doing things, and even
Some daring ones have already begun to take bribes and extort people.
Wu Huaiyu thought for a while.
"Old Zhao, if we don't break it, we won't establish it. Let's simply break the old nest and rebuild a new set of rules. Taking advantage of the rare opportunity of piloting it now, be bold.
How many government officials, officials, and servants are there in Sanyuan County now, how many are within the warp system, how many are outside the warp system, how many are temporary, are they enough?"
"There is a fixed number of people in the economic system. There are many subordinate officials and servants outside the economic system. Plus the common people are on duty, it can maintain the operation of the county." Zhao Renben replied.
"As long as it can maintain operation, you can make a list for me based on the current number of officials, subordinates, and servants.
We will give them a salary and food allowance, plus some miscellaneous material subsidies, as well as the office expenses required by the Yamen, canteen food materials, etc.
Let’s see how much food we need,”
Zhao Renben was confused, "Is the Prime Minister going to include all these things that are not part of the economic system, and then the court will distribute the salary?"
"That's impossible. The county will solve it on its own."
Wu Huaiyu's solution was to compile a list or register regardless of whether he was a member of the Yamen, then set wages, subsidies, etc., calculate a total expenditure, and raise a sum of money based on this list.
"How to raise funds? Or should we allocate money to big households or common people?"
"It's still unreasonable to spread it on the acre. We should spread it on the acre. For example, the food money of people like the county government is 700 guan. It cannot be spread on everyone's ding. It should be spread directly on the land, and it should be spread on an acre basis.
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Those craftsmen and businessmen should also share their stalls appropriately, but the customers and tenant farmers should not share their stalls."
There are more than 500,000 acres of land in Sanyuan County. If we only pay more than 700 guan of public money, then in fact, one acre of land only costs less than one and a half cents.
And if it is spread to 10,000 households, each household will cost more than 5 yuan. If it is only spread to 1000 households, it may be more than 10 yuan per 100 yuan.
The specific amount of the wages and food money for the subordinates needs to be carefully calculated. Wu Huaiyu's idea is to include this money in the budget, and the government will collect it, manage and distribute it, instead of the officials and subordinates messing around on their own.
You can't just sell it as you want, or sell it as much as you want. It must have a formal name, have regulations to follow, and be supervised and managed.
"How much will the salary and food cost be?"
You definitely can't set it too high, you can only set it a little lower, but in this case, the subordinates will definitely be dissatisfied. They have the power in their hands and will still take advantage of it.
Therefore, Wu Huaiyu proposed another supplement, that is, the money and food consumed by fire should be returned to the public. The money and food consumed by fire should also be included in the management, part of which should be used as public expenses, and part of which should be used to subsidize officials and subordinates.
"Ms. sir, the subordinate officials are treacherous and greedy. Even if the court gives them salary, miscellaneous materials and even annual welfare subsidies, won't they be greedy and greedy?"
"This is different. In the past, the imperial court did not pay these workers. They had to eat, drink, and support their wives, children, and parents. So the yamen had to turn a blind eye, otherwise who would take care of things?
But now that the court has solved this problem for them, it is reasonable for us to punish anyone who messes up again. Another thing is that it used to be bad and unspoken rules, but now they are made explicit, with unified collection, reasonable burdens, and unified distribution.
, fair and just, much better than the previous one."
"Corrupt officials will always be banned, but we still have to find ways to reduce and crack down on them,"
