That is to say, even a great traitor like Chen Huizu consciously took the initiative to send money to the prince to leave a way out. Should others follow suit?
According to incomplete statistics, since the bandit army invaded Huguang, thousands of bandit officials have been surrendered in the three provinces of Hubei, Hubei and Jiangxi.
From the governor-general, who is the highest level of provincial officials, to the low-level training officers, Dianke, Yi Cheng, and ambassador, it basically covers the complete civil service system of the Qing Dynasty in these three provinces.
The Xinghan Army's political control over the three provinces mainly relied on these demoted officials.
So, now that the Qing Dynasty has returned strongly under the leadership of Prince Rui, if all of these officials who surrendered to the thieves are like Chen Huizu and want to leave a way out for themselves, then shouldn't they learn from Lao Chen?
As the top official who surrendered the thieves, Lao Chen offered 300,000 taels. One hundred thousand taels for each of the following governors, chief administrators, inspectors, academic administrators, general soldiers, and deputy generals is not excessive, right?
Fifty thousand taels per person for the magistrate and prefect is not too much. If you calculate carefully, if you are good, the prince has not done anything, and you can make a net profit of tens of millions of taels just by sitting here.
This kind of money is earned without spending any brain cells. Once the policy is relaxed, the prince can earn hundreds of taels just by sitting there.
You have money, but are you still worried that you can’t defeat the rebels?
Lao Ji is sure that there are definitely a bunch of officials who are willing to spend money to buy forgiveness from the Qing Dynasty, because no one gave them the opportunity to use money to atone for the crime of rebelling. Now someone gives them the opportunity, and they are all sure to die.
die.
What a good thing, there really is no shop like this after passing through this village!
Immediately, he picked up the abacus beads and dialed them three times, five times and two, and said that as long as the prince delegates power to him as the director of the United Front, the military pay will be taken care of by him.
"If the prince cannot trust the official, the official can take over the job. For example, the prince sets a number such as five million taels, and the official only needs to complete this number, and the excess will belong to the official himself."
Lao Ji euphemistically called this method the "silver package system." Of course, he did not want to reap the dividends of this policy, but mainly wanted to increase the enthusiasm of himself and the people below him to work.
Everyone is motivated, and there are still many difficulties in this world that cannot be solved.
"Um, Director Ji, you are not good at financial matters and don't understand. Let's do this. You can take care of the general direction and I will handle the specific aspects."
Accountant Li obviously smelled the smell of copper, so he wanted to get a piece of the pie despite the difficulties.
Jia Liu looked at Lao Ji and Accountant Li, as if he had some realization: "Is this king usually too playful with you, which makes you think that I can't even lift the knife?
Do you have to let me show you what bastard spirit is, so that you can improve your thinking, sublimate your politics, and become positive in your vision and outlook?"
After speaking, he subconsciously touched his waist.
Confirm that Jatlin's small gun is in the gun case.
This action immediately made Lao Ji and Accountant Li realize that they were indeed too presumptuous, and they quickly bowed and expressed their opinions: "Your Majesty is wise!"
"I know whether I am wise or not. You don't need to talk about it every day."
Jia Liu snorted slightly and then thought thoughtfully, "What does Lao Ji mean by asking the officials who surrendered the thieves to hand over the crime money?"
"Your Majesty, you can't call it guilt silver, it must be called sin silver."
Lao Ji corrected the prince's terminology, because the crime silver is used to prevent crimes, while the atonement silver is used to fine people after committing a crime.
As for why officials are asked to pay money for crime prevention in advance without believing that officials have the basic consciousness of being honest, you have to ask the Fourth Japs who are trapped in the palace.
"Then does this money go to the Qing Dynasty, or does it go to the king himself?"
Jia Liu was very moved, because he thought that he had asked the peasants who participated in the Ever Victorious Army to surrender in Linqing, and then paid them travel expenses home. In the end, such a good policy did not attract many peasants.
Later, he changed his mind and asked the farmers to pay and go home. As a result, the canals could not fit in the people.
The same thing, different ideas, but the results are completely different.
It can be seen that as long as the thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
Lao Ji's idea is obviously based on the template he used in Linqing.
It's just that the goals are different.
One is for ordinary farmers and the other is for civil servants.
It is roughly an upgraded version of Linqing routine.
"Of course it belongs to the prince!"
Lao Ji and Accountant Li gave the same answer. The reason was that the forgiveness received after being demoted and paying money came from Prince Rui, not from the court.
To be more realistic, the county magistrate is not as good as the current one.
The imperial court is thousands of miles away, but Prince Kerui is right in front of you.
"If you do this, it will make me feel like I am running a pawn shop, only recognizing the notes and not the people."
Jia Liu was a little hesitant. Based on the customary virtues of the Qing civil servants and their integrity, he was sure that as long as Prince Tarui relented and gave the demoted officials a chance to atone for their sins, a golden phoenix would really come and the boss would make a fortune.
The question is, who can guarantee that these demoted officers will not be like the second-line troops of the Xinghan Army who surrendered earlier, relying on the prince's forgiveness to act unscrupulously and engage in final madness?
In that case, wouldn't it indirectly harm the people?
Lao Ji didn't think so, he said: "Your Majesty, you might as well change your perspective. We gave money to the Han Xing army to surrender before, but it turned out that these people were ungrateful and didn't know your peace-loving intentions.
Their organization is running wild
Now we are asking those people to be demoted to Prince Qian in order to gain His forgiveness, so this forgiveness itself is worth thousands of gold. It is impossible for them not to cherish this hard-won opportunity. In this way, don’t they know what is good and bad?”
After hearing this, Jia Liu showed appreciation: "Old Ji, you know politics very well."
Lao Ji was a little confused: "Your Majesty, this is not politics, this is logic."
Jia Liu immediately said with a face: "You don't understand politics anymore."
"Um?"
Lao Ji frowned and immediately realized that he had made a mistake again. He quickly bowed and said, "Your Majesty is wise!"
"The method is a good one, but it cannot be called guilt silver or atonement silver. Either one is inconsistent with the imperial government's policies."
Jia Liu disagreed with the idea of atonement. He thought about it carefully for a while and said, "I think it's called franchise fee."
"Franchise?"
Lao Yang and Accountant Li were both confused as to what this meant.
"This is the king's permission to allow those people to stay in the thief camp with a clear mind, and to allow them to continue to serve in the thief camp after paying the license fee, without having to return to the team immediately."
Jia Liu explained the meaning of franchising in this way. In plain language, as long as you demoted officials paid money to Prince Rui, then in the Qing Dynasty, it was considered a stay of employment without pay. According to the system, it was called operating with a license. You can return to work in the future.
Go to work at work.
On the other hand, those who refuse to pay the franchise fee will be deemed to be operating without a license and will be dealt with seriously. Whether it is a joint development association or a mutual aid association, everyone will be beaten.
In other words, there is no place for rebels like you to survive inside or outside the Qing Dynasty.
What a joke, if you dare to surrender or rebel without Prince Rui’s permission, you still have no regard for the law of the king!
Just now Lao Ji proposed the concept of the contract system, and Jia Liu liked it very much. He immediately set a requirement for Lao Ji, which is to ensure that 20% of the officials of the Xinghan regime pay the royalties to Prince Rui within one month, and this ratio must reach 50% within two months.
It needs to reach 80% in three months.
"The best thing is 100%, that is, except for a small group of people around the thief leader, all officials can get my permission from the king, and I have the final say in the appointment, dismissal and transfer of personnel there."
Considering confidentiality, I couldn't help but tell Lao Ji and Accountant Li to do it quietly and never make a big splash, because the concession and the previous preferential treatment are two different things.
Where to start? Of course it’s Lao Chen.
Before leaving, he thought about it and said to Lao Ji and Accountant Li: "You two cooperated well and got the job done. If it's done, I will give you a commission of 1%."
"oh?"
Accountants Lao Ji and Li were refreshed. One hundred taels can be divided into one tael, one million taels can be divided into ten thousand taels, and ten million taels can be divided into one hundred thousand taels.