My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 50 Accounting Skills

Su Ze has question marks all over his head, is bribery a life skill?
But thinking about it, it seems that this is indeed an ancient skill.

It is natural to learn skills. After Su Ze chose to learn, some simple unspoken rules for bribery entered his mind.

In the final analysis, these are some customary rules, and this set of unspoken rules is implemented everywhere in the Daming County Government.

To enter the county government office, you have to bribe the yamen servant who stands on duty at the gate, and you have to pay bribes to do things in the county government office, and depending on the identity of the person doing the work, the content of the work is different, and you have to give different money.

For example, when Su Ze went through the county examination registration, his current status was not even considered as a child student, but as a scholar from a poor family.

Naturally, there is no psychological pressure on this kind of subordinate staff to bully them.

If Su Ze passed the Tongsheng Examination and became a student like Zhou Xiucai, then the subordinate staff in the ceremony room would not only not accept money, but would respectfully come to Su Ze's door to send the materials to Su Ze for signature.

If Su Ze can pass the provincial examination like Hai Rui, and obtain the qualifications to be a man, then these subordinate staff will in turn give Su Ze a gift and ask for his asylum.

This is the unspoken rule contained in bribery, which Su Ze dislikes very much, but he has to admit that this kind of thing cannot be banned through the ages.

Su Ze had an idea. Since the county government is a place, can other "skills" be discovered?

Thinking of this, Su Ze immediately said goodbye and left the ceremony room, meeting Lin Xianyang who was waiting outside the door.

"It's done?" Lin Xianyang asked seeing Su Ze's happy look.

"It's done, thank you brother Xianyang, let's go, I will accompany you to the household room to pay the fine."

Su Ze didn't see Hai Rui, so he asked, "Where is Master Hai?"

"Master Hai said that he went to the Chengfa Department to read the recent imperial court report, and asked us to go to the Chengfa Department to wait for him after finishing our work."

Dibao is a newspaper issued by the imperial court to the grassroots, but this newspaper is not for ordinary people to read. After it is delivered to the county government from the courier shop, it will be stored in the Chengfa Department.

The officials of the Chengfa Department will copy three copies of the three masters of the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief bookkeeper. The rest of the officials can only go to the Chengfa Department to read it.

Without Hai Rui around, Su Ze felt more relaxed. I don't know why he bribed himself just now, but he always felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Hai Rui.

Sure enough, "taking people as a mirror can reveal gains and losses", standing with a mirror like Hai Rui in the cold pool is still very psychologically stressful.

Su Ze and Lin Xianyang came to the house together. The structure of the house is similar to that of the ritual house, except that the incense table in the middle enshrines not Confucius, but the God of Wealth.

Su Ze just thought it was absurd that the majestic Yamen of the Ming Dynasty openly enshrined the God of Wealth?

The God of Wealth is dressed in red and holds a wishful and cornucopia, and there are two naive boys in the front and back, namely Zhaocai and Jinbao.

Su Ze Lv2's religious knowledge made him recognize that this is Li Guizu, who is known as the God of Wealth and Wealth by the people.

Li Guizu, the official enshrinement is fine.

The Ming inherited the Song Dynasty, and the sacrificial system of the Ming Dynasty basically followed that of the Song Dynasty. Li Guizu himself was the official God of Wealth conferred by the Song Dynasty, so it doesn't matter if he was enshrined in the official clothes of the Ming Dynasty.

The God of Wealth himself was the county magistrate during Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. He was honest and caring for the people. He often used his salary to help the poor. He was also a Confucian politically correct God of Wealth.

However, it seems that the incense case in front of the God of Wealth has a lot more incense ash than the incense case in front of Confucius in the ceremony room. This God of Wealth should be more popular than Confucius in the county government.

Lin Xianyang looked around, but couldn't find the round-faced clerk who issued the fine, so he had no choice but to find a thin middle-aged clerk, and handed him the fine.

This clerk has a mustache, which is the standard appearance of a cunning subordinate in the traditional TV image. After receiving the receipt, he checked it with the county government's ticket booklet, and then said:

"The fine is 32 taels of silver. Do you pay in silver or copper?"

"Silver, silver!"

Before coming, the old man had asked someone to change the copper coins into silver coins, so that Lin Xianyang could send them to the county government.

Lin Xianyang put the cloth pocket in his arms on the table, and there were big and small pieces of silver in the cloth pocket. The scribe looked at the mess with some distaste, but he still counted it carefully.

[Discover the location "County Office", you can learn the skill "Accounting Room", do you want to learn it? 】

Sure enough, there are new skills!
It's right to think about it, the county government households need to settle accounts, and it is normal to be able to learn the skill of "accounting".

And Su Ze is in a better mood. In "Hundred Scenes", accounting is also a very practical skill. After mastering the skills of accounting, whether in business or as an official, it can reduce the corruption of subordinates.

In fact, in reality, accounting is also a practical skill. Even if an official does not know the skills of accounting, he must bring cronies who understand accounting to the post, otherwise the subordinate staff who are proficient in accounting will be tossed to death as officials.

This is definitely not alarmist talk. The famous "Kongyin Case" in the early Ming Dynasty was a major case that shocked the government and the public because of fraudulent accounting. In the end, a large number of officials including Fang Xiaoru's father were investigated and killed.

"study!"

Su Ze rejoiced to gain a skill again. From today onwards, he will start keeping accounts, so he should use this skill as soon as possible!

After the scribe with the mustache finished counting, he said, "The fineness of the silver taels is fine, but the weight is 32 taels, and you need to pay another one or two taels of silver for fire consumption."

Fire consumption is the consumption of smelting broken silver into silver ingots. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fire consumption of money was one of the current disadvantages, and it was also a key direction of Ming and Qing historiography research.

Yongzheng's return of fire consumption to the public is to tax the collection of fire consumption and silver, and change it to a unified collection by the central court, so as to prevent random taxation at the local level.

However, Su Ze read the history books. After Zhang Juzheng's whipping method, the fire consumption of silver appeared after the tax in kind was converted into silver for taxation. Why is the county government collecting fire consumption now?Could it be that the scribe targeted Changning Wei?

"Why do you still need to collect fire money?" Su Ze asked.

The Bazihu ​​scribe glanced at Su Ze, Lin Xianyang quickly pulled Su Ze back and said, "It's also a rule to consume silver with fire, and the master of the book office is not targeting our Changning Guard."

The book office of the character mustache snorted and said: "This silver is in Taikuang. The county government wants to melt it into silver ingots and send it to the capital. 32 taels of silver will charge you two taels of fire consumption. It's not high! This is our magistrate of Nanping Mercy! Find out how much other county fires cost!"

But with the secretary's explanation, Su Ze understood that this should be an unspoken rule of the county government, not against Changningwei.

Taikuang is the emperor's private treasury. The reform of Taikuang was much earlier than the reform of the Ministry of Households. Since the Chenghua year, many taxes in kind in Taikuang have been changed to tribute silver.

Lin Xianyang took out another cloth bag from his chest, and handed in some other pieces of silver. Then the scribe picked up the reed pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote out a new slip, saying:
"Here's the statement, you can go."

Coming out of the house, Su Ze's eyes lit up when he saw the plaques of other houses in the county government. Can he learn other skills?

(End of this chapter)