In the final analysis, Liu Mengren still didn't understand Beihai Town. But this is normal. He is a county magistrate in a remote mountainous area. No matter how well he is, he is at most a township in a county. It is impossible to have a correct understanding of the "Beihai Pirates" who are thousands of miles away and are severely blocked by the Qing Dynasty.

Four years ago, the Northern Hair Army attacked Rongcheng and Wendeng counties. When recruiting poor farmers in the surrounding villages, Liu Mengren was just a clerk of the household house. Later, the Beihai Army left, and the original magistrate and Dianshi were both dismissed and punished by the court, and the people of the six houses also had a major change. After the new county magistrate Zhou Luduan took office, he relied on curbing the easy-going staff who bribed Zhou Luduan, and used a curved strategy to please the magistrate's wife, hollowed out the family's wealth, and borrowed more than a thousand taels of silver to become a clerk of the household house.

Now that Liu Mengren has been working for less than two years, the borrowed money has not been paid off yet, the Northern Hair Army has arrived. And unlike four years ago, the Northern Hair Army has even opened the sign of the new yamen this time, which is obviously not to take root.

Faced with his wife's constant criticism and complaints at home, Liu Mengren thought about it for a day and night, and finally decided to take the lead in seeking wealth while the "New Dynasty" was just coming, so as to gain wealth. He came to visit Kong Shaoan today, hoping to leave a good impression on the other party and find a way to continue to take over the annual money-taking work in Wendeng County.

Unexpectedly, Kong Shaoan mentioned the "Shunzhuang Book" without saying a few words. How could he not make him nervous? Although Liu Mengren knew who the private book of the 50-limites in Wendeng County was clearly in the hands of the private book of the 50-limites in Wendeng County, once he said it, he would offend all the clan families in Wendeng County!

The full name of "Shunzhuang Book" is "Shunzhuang Book of True Collection", which is also called "Red Book", "Fish Scale Book" and "Jian Jun Book" in some provinces; it lists the changes in grain, silver, rice, collection and taxes that each household in the county should receive, as well as changes in land ownership rights, which are important basis for finding out the taxes and arable land at the grassroots level.

Before August of each year, the county government will determine the total amount of money and rice to be collected in the next year, and then the household clerk will convene the letter of the Li family. According to the taxable land and tax rules of the county, the letter of A will be distributed to each capital, the map, the flower household, and the flower household of A will be registered in the book and submitted to the county magistrate.

After that, each prefecture and county will submit the "actual collection book" to the provincial governor's bell and stamp it before the end of October, and will be sent back to each prefecture and county before the second year. The county government office will issue a rolling order based on the data on the booklet - that is, the Sanlian tax notice form, the inner book, the A book must send the order to each flower household, and let them go to the village or county government office to submit the order to the counter.

The actual enrollment book is in the hands of the county government and the inner books, and the content should be the same. However, in the process of compiling from the bottom to the top, the actual enrollment book in the clerk is the most primitive and realistic grassroots actual enrollment book, also called "private book", while the book in the county government is called "Storing the County Book".

From ancient times to the present, it is the nature of all people in society that there is no distinction between high and low, and it is the nature of all people in society. The flower owners who pay food dare to fool the county magistrate in order to evade taxes, but they cannot hide the books. This is mainly because the "private book" in their hands can track the transfer and sale of households and land at any time, and know who to collect money and grain from.

Because the court does not pay wages to the lower-level clerks, if you want to be a fat man, you have to spend money on the books of the house. You have to give the relevant staff of the house, invite a banquet, and connect with each other, and corruption will become inevitable. They will first make a fuss on the "county book". The method they usually use is to write sloppy or list the tax rules and payments, and the unit of measurement is obscure and lengthy, even if the county magistrate reads it, it will be like a heavenly book.

Some county magistrates are forced to do so because they cannot complete the tax task, so they will preside over the compilation of actual collection or clearing the land, and obtain control of tax sources such as rural population land by re-compiling measurement books; some will also adopt the method of "killing chickens for monkeys to see" and privately agree to spend a lot of money to buy back control of the private book. However, when the term of the county magistrate is transferred to the end, the next one will have to return to the old path.

For Kong Shaoan, although he could go to the countryside to clear the land and compile the household registration book to grasp the actual situation of the local area, he would inevitably waste most of the energy of the team on the fight against the clan and the flower households, and it would not take a year or two to complete it!

Therefore, before going to the countryside, the North Navy work team must grasp the whereabouts of the "private book" and even get it in advance, so that they can be clear and targeted.

Liu Mengren was fighting against heaven and man at this time, and said nodded: "Director, another actual entrustment book is not in the hands of the villain... Wendeng has a total of six capitals and fifty miles, each with one book. You need to ask the village chiefs and the armor chiefs for this matter."

Kong Shaoan probably understood a little when he saw him like this. At present, he needed Liu Mengren to help him, familiarize himself with the local situation and restore economic order, and could not be punished directly as soon as he came up. He then stretched his eyebrows, thought about his words, and said in a gentle tone: "Mr. Liu, I know that under the Qing Dynasty, you are not as good as a scholar. If you don't have a reputation as a scholar, you will be at least as long as you can be a clerk in your life. Many people don't even have a staffing."

"The director is wise! The villain has also studied for several years and was a scholar, but he really has no life, so he had to ask someone to do a job in the yamen to support his family. Although the villain used to be a clerk of the county yamen, it was also served every five years and he had to retire when it expired."

The office staff of each department in prefecture and county in the Qing Dynasty were roughly divided into three categories, namely Dianye, Jingchenghe Serial Book. Taking the household house where Liu Mengren was located as an example, only he had a formal establishment, and the others were contract workers.

"Yeah!" Kong Shaoan nodded and asked, "I'll tell you what the situation in Beihai Town is. People like you and your subordinates are all professional management talents in our places. The so-called professional expertise is only about knowledge and experience in tax collection, household registration and land management. Even Hanlin, who was born in Jinshi, is beyond your reach. In Beihai Town, we classify you as a "technical talent" and you have to enjoy high salary."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Although Liu Mengren didn't understand what "technical talent" is, the other party still understood it when he was praising him, so he hurriedly bowed: "Director Yan Chong, these are all minor and idle affairs in the countryside, and they cannot be seen by Shangguan Fa!"

"No! It is precisely because of thousands of people like Mr. Liu, you who can build a country's fiscal, taxation and land management system. Without your hard work, those high-ranking governors, governors, monks, and even emperors cannot govern the country well. However, the salary and benefits given to you by the Qing Dynasty were too low, so I thought that it was better to say that you did not receive the corresponding reward for your work than greed by the clerks."

After hearing Kong Shaoan's words, Liu Mengren suddenly felt a heat surge in his heart and his nose felt a little sore. After being a clerk for more than 20 years, he has always heard people say "the harm of clerks" and "all clerks in the world should be killed". This is the first time today, Shangguan has said the status of people like him so high.

Indeed, people like me are a little greedy and have done a lot of favoritism and fraud. But the problem is that the labor and food silver issued to them by the court is at most 12 taels or 7 taels or 20 taels per year, and the average daily is only 200 cents for a meal for couples, so they often cannot be paid in full. In addition, the transportation, accommodation, food, and human relations costs to go to the countryside every month have to pay out their own pockets; every holiday, they have to give gifts to Shangguan and his staff; even worse, the labor and food silver will be deducted in the event of famine. If they do not use illegal means to take it from the people, it will be a desperate situation for the family to be in desperate situations.

Liu Mengren wiped the wet corners of his eyes, and was thinking about how to reply, when he heard Kong Shaoan say something amazing: "In our Beihai Town, a person with professional talents like you can be a deputy county magistrate. If you do well, you can still be a county magistrate."

Liu Mengren looked at Kong Shaoan in disbelief. The big cake thrown by the other party made him a little confused. He could still be a county magistrate or even a county magistrate? Oh my God! That is the position where only a genuine juren can sit in a Jinshi.

"I think it's incredible, right?" Kong Shaoan smiled slightly and continued: "Many county magistrates and deputy county magistrates under Beihai Town have worked step by step from farmers who don't know big words. As for their monthly salary, starting from 30 taels of silver, the highest one can get 50 taels per month. If you do well, there will be a bonus equivalent to one to three months of salary at the end of the year."

"Ah! So high!"

Liu Mengren was old and had a little mental calculation. He had to pay a salary range of 450 taels to 750 taels. The salary of the next seventh-rank county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty was only 45 taels of silver, 45 hu of rice, and a few hundred taels of silver for maintenance. Of course, the county magistrate had to be even more greedy, otherwise his little money would not be able to survive.

Kong Shaoan then drew a big cake and heard him say, "Mr. Liu, if we have verified that you have not committed any major oppression of the people, then I would like to represent the Wendeng County Military Control Commission to hire you as the deputy director in charge of agriculture. When the local area becomes stable in the future, the deputy director of the Military Control Commission will be the deputy county magistrate."

God! Liu Mengren shivered all over, his heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and his ears were filled with tinnitus. No matter what, he never thought that he would have the chance to become a second-rank officer. Perhaps as Kong Shaoan said, there would be a chance to become a county magistrate in the future?

Damn it! I've fought hard! What books are the books in the middle, what kind of clans are big, in front of the future of reaching the sky, that's nothing!

"Pu!" Liu Mengren immediately knelt down and leaned over to Kong Shaoan and said, "Although Liu had done things in the past, he had always done things that were not harmful to people's lives. I hope the director will be aware of it! Director Meng attaches great importance to it and entrusts high officials and generous salaries. From now on, I hope to serve the director's great kindness and virtues!"

"Get up quickly, why bother?" Kong Shaoan saw that the plan worked, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He then slowly stepped forward, reached out to support the other party, and then said, "After that being said, the procedure that should be taken must be left. You go back and wait first, two days... Within three days, a special person will be sent to your home for the appointment letter of the Military Control Commission."

"Yes, yes!" Liu Mengren's forehead was covered with dirt, and he didn't dare to wipe it. He said embarrassedly: "The villain was excited for a moment and made the director laugh."

"Okay, you go back and rest first. It's tiring to stand for a long time."

Kong Shaoan watched Liu Mengren step by step and retreat out of the door. Until the other party's footsteps left, he clenched his fists and waved it, and shouted excitedly: "Ou Ye!"

Just a few days ago, when Wu Siyu went to Anping Port for inspection, he brought a handwritten letter from Zhao Xin to Kong Shaoan. In this letter, Zhao Xin not only encouraged him, but also told Kong Shaoan how to use people after he arrived in Shandong.

"...Xiao Kong, you must remember that when it comes to the use of Qing officials, try not to use "clever officials". You should know that the official's job is to serve as an official and benefit the people. A mediocre official is often more hateful than a corrupt official.

Secondly, for clerks and local bullies, we should suppress them again and again after collecting enough evidence, and establish the prestige of Beihai Town.

Finally, I would like to warn you that when appointing old officials, you should adopt the strategy of "making achievements is worse than doing mistakes". As long as there is no great evil and people can do it, you can use it. However, you must have an understanding of the past behavior of these people and have evidence of their past crimes. The purpose of this is to let the other party understand that you are not careless, but you don't care at the moment. Once you want to replace him, you will settle the new and old accounts together and completely kill them!

Discover talents well! There are many people in the local clerk’s clerk’s office who are doing specific affairs. These people are taught and inherited from generation to generation. They are both smart and capable, and are also tricky. However, I think that as long as they are reasonable salary and restrictive supervision, they can play a great role in our smooth takeover of local governments. In the future, some of them can be allowed to return to Beihai Town for one or two years, and then Lao Yu trains them a few more times, and our cadre team will become larger and larger..."

After lunch, Kong Shaoan met Yu Heli, the former clerk of the punishment room, and said almost the same thing. Like Liu Mengren, Yu Heli was very surprised when he learned that he could also jump into the Longmen and became the second-rank officer, and then expressed his loyalty. However, he was not as excited as Liu Mengren, because there were too many unclean places for this guy.

According to the Qing system, the prefectures and county magistrates did not leave the county government gate without special circumstances, which led to a large part of the detention and execution work in the prison lawsuits being handed over to the clerks of the criminal room. The criminal room is mainly responsible for filling out judicial documents, writing legal documents and summons, detaining suspects, filling out judgment documents and organizing custody documents. Specifically, it can be divided into judicial documents and litigation execution.

Because the format of official documents and strict words are used, county magistrates who are not professionals are often not as good as those of the clerks in the criminal room, the Criminal Office of the Criminal Room has taken on the official duties of issuing summons, legal documents, sorting evidence materials and writing documents.

However, unlike household houses, since coroners are also under the supervision of the punishment house, the investigation results of the murder case corpses can almost be said to have an authoritative effect of "decisive" and once you make trouble on this, innocent lives will often be ruined.

For example, the famous "Yang Naiwu Xiaobaicai Injustice" in the late Qing Dynasty was actually a crime of a criminal clerk who abused his power and colluded with officials to get in and out of the situation. By letting the coroner use tricks on the autopsy, the county magistrate trusted the coroner's inspection results, which eventually led to the unjust case.

Like other clerks, although the daily affairs handled by the chasing room are extremely complicated, except for the clerks, the salary of others is only meager labor and food silver and copying fees, which are all paid by the county magistrate from their own clean bank, which is difficult to meet the daily living expenses of the clerks. Many clerks will make a fuss on "subscriptions" and defraud money; the more unscrupulous one is to eat the plaintiff and eat the defendant, and they will stop until both the plaintiff and the defendant lose a lot of money and the punishment room makes a lot of money.

However, the above two are just cheating people's money, and the most outrageous thing is "slaughtering white goose" - that is, finding someone to take the blame and take the blame for the death. Some of them cannot survive by taking the family and are willing to be "white goose" for the sake of money to die in order to protect their families; some are bullied by clerks and gentry, and are forced to embark on this path of no return. No matter which one, the people in the torture room cannot escape.

At 5 pm, Kong Shaoan finally finished his official work on the day. In addition to meeting two clerks, he also kept interspersing the meeting, signing and approval of official documents and even the expense reports, issuing orders, signing and receiving messages, etc., and was so busy that he could not pay.

After dinner, Kong Shaoan accompanied the guards to the military camp outside the south gate of the county town. He chatted with Lu Shoushan for a long time, listened to the other party's report on the progress of the troops' operations, and held a small meeting.

By the time he returned to the county government, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. After the guard helped lay the bed, Kong Shaoan lay down and rested after washing up, and did not look at the dizzy account book again.

He was very tired this day, but when he thought about how he would be like this every day in the future, he couldn't help but feel anxious. In addition to considering official affairs, he was also thinking about what his sister was doing.

While he was thinking about it, he thought that Wu Siyu mentioned that Zhao Xin was going to Europe before, and he didn't know what was good about Europe at the end of the 18th century, so why did he have to mobilize a large number of troops to travel in person?
Chapter completed!