In just three days, the tax collected in Guihua City reached nearly 10,000 taels. The desire to buy that had been suppressed for many years burst out, and the effect was terrifying.
The Commercial and Taxation Department grinned with joy and kept reporting to the Ministry of Revenue, asking for additional personnel and expanded levels.
Last time, the emperor demanded political reform.
For example, a county has six departments, starting from the ninth level, the government has six departments, the governor's office has six offices, plus the department level of each ministry, it can be said that it is a link between the previous and the following.
Under the Ministry of Household Affairs, there are fourteen Qing officials, plus the Commercial Tax Department. Cangke, Jinke, etc., which were originally under the Qing officials, are also organized into departments, with the head being Langzhong and the deputy Yuanwailang.
That is, the level is the same as the local department level, both are from the fourth grade.
For example, under the Commercial and Taxation Department are the Customs Department, the Customs Department, the Customs Department, and the largest local department.
The so-called local office refers to collecting taxes and delegating them to the household houses of the county government, which are divided 50-50 with the household department.
Below the divisional level, there are departments, which are analogous to various prefectures, starting from the sixth rank. The chief officer is the chief officer, and the deputy is the chief minister, and the main rank is the sixth rank.
Under the department, there is a room, which is equivalent to an office. The chief is the inspector, and the deputy is the history officer. They are respectively the seventh rank and the seventh rank.
These people are still officials and cannot be used unless they are from the imperial examination.
The rest can only be regarded as officials with swords and pens, called officers. They are all of the ninth rank, and only talented people can be qualified for the job.
From this, the house, department, department, third level and sixth rank make the six departments no longer hollow, and promotions can be achieved step by step.
Nowadays, there are only a few officials in Guihua City, and there are only ninth-grade officials. If they are promoted to the room level, they will be the seventh-grade yamen.
After all, the dignified Governor of Monan is not even a room-level official. Doesn’t that mean he is looking down on the Governor of Monan?
After nearly two months in Guihua City, in mid-August, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the new Governor of Monan took office.
The person who came was unexpected.
"It's actually him?"
Liu Tingjie was surprised and sighed: "I don't know if he knows how to fight. This Monan is not easy to deal with!"
"Now that the Duke has conquered most of Monan, Governor Zhao has come here just to appease his people. I still count on you for the war."
Because he successfully took refuge in Shanxi and now serves as the prefect of Guihua City, Wan Lian is extremely respectful to Liu Tingjie.
He was born in the frontier army, and he knows best that these warriors like to flatter.
"That's true." Liu Tingjie laughed.
Outside Guihua City, Zhang Guowei, who was coming from all the travel and dust, looked at this weather-beaten grassland city, stroking his beard and sighed:
"I never thought that I would be able to come here one day."
Zhang Guowei was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. He started from the county magistrate, dredged water conservancy and put down local bandits. He worked hard.
During the Chongzhen Dynasty, he served successively as governor of Yingtian and governor of water transportation. From Chongzhen's appointment, he went to Jiangnan to supervise and train elite troops. Just ten days after leaving Beijing, Chongzhen committed suicide.
Later, the Hongguang Dynasty dismissed his official position and appointed King Lu to supervise the country in Shaoxing. Everyone thought that his official career had come to an abrupt end, but they never expected that he would now be appointed governor of Monan.
His full name is Governor-General Monan Xingdu, a member of the military and government affairs department, and the second rank.
Of course, for many civil servants, coming to Monan is equivalent to being sent to the Mongolian Tatars every day. Who can bear this?
For Zhang Guowei, being able to serve as an official again and serve as governor was a great recognition for him.
However, when Zhang Guowei came to Guihua City, he did not show his sign immediately. Instead, he sneaked into the city to observe the reality of Guihua City.
Although there are ruins inside and outside the city, many constructions are already in progress, and it is mixed but not chaotic.
"only--"
He walked away looking for the sound, only to see a commotion in front of him.
"This saddle only sells for ten silver coins today, why do you sell it to me for thirty?"
"Can we still regret a deal that we made consensually?"
"Profiteer, profiteer——"
A Mongolian man and several followers were making a lot of noise in front of a shop. The jabbering Mongolian language made people's heads hurt.
However, the Mongolians passing by were filled with indignation and started making noise, blocking the shop.
"What's going on?" Zhang Guowei couldn't help but ask when he saw that the shop assistant on the side was watching the excitement with great interest, and he was sure that he would understand.
"This gentleman!" When he saw that the other person was wearing a robe, the clerk immediately said respectfully: "That shop sold a saddle to that stupid Tatar for 30 silver coins, but today it only costs 10 yuan."
"Unexpectedly, the Tatars happened to be passing by. When they saw the price, they naturally felt uncomfortable, so they started to make a noise."
"I see."
Zhang Guowei nodded and looked at each other in silence for a while. The two of them blushed and neither of them gave in.
The businessman knew his background at first glance, and he was not unreasonable about the Tatars.
Although the Tatar's face turned red with anger and his hands kept touching the knife, he did not use it.
After all, if the Ming army started to fight in Guihua City, they would definitely be partial to the Ming people, so they could unilaterally massacre them.
"Every businessman pays attention to the word "faithfulness". Your company came all the way to be naturalized just to ruin its reputation?"
Zhang Guowei stepped forward and immediately caused waves.
When the clerk saw him, he was wearing a green robe and a square scarf. This was the attire of a scholar. How could there be a scholar in Guihua City?
He didn't have time to marvel, so he walked over and said, "This talented scholar is so polite."
"It seems that you have also learned to read and write, why have you forgotten the words of the saint?"
Zhang Guowei criticized without fear, and the latter could only keep nodding in agreement and did not dare to refute.
The Mongolians on the side looked at it in amazement.
They never expected that a frail old man could be so respectful to another stranger, who was so domineering just now. It was simply incredible.
It completely violates the prairie principle that strength is king.
"Return it to him!"
Zhang Guowei taught him a lesson for a while and then said.
"I'll give it back to him right here."
The waiter said hurriedly.
There is a reason why he is so respectful and obedient.
Because at this time, the public opinion in the small rural town was in the hands of the gentry. He was not afraid of the Mongols calling him a profiteer, but he was afraid that the scholars would miss the word "profiteer".
And if such a label is mentioned a few times when a scholar is making friends, the company will be completely ruined.
There is no point in offending a scholar because of a Tatar, besides, it was originally his fault.
"Take it!"
Zhang Guowei handed over a bag of silver coins, which was quite heavy.
"Hmph!" Abuza unexpectedly took out ten silver coins from the bag and gave it to the boy: "This is the money I paid for the saddle."
With that said, he smiled gratefully at Zhang Guowei, turned around and left.
"interesting!"
The crowd dispersed, but Zhang Guowei felt that the Mongolians were indeed different from the Han people.
He wandered around again, and on the next day, he went out of the city again, displayed the governor's ceremonial guard, and appeared outside the city in a swaggering manner.