In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 126 Prepare to Substitute
Zhao Yurui ignored the three infantry generals on the spot, and just said a few words to ignore it. Mo Ze and others saw it, and felt that Wei Wang's thoughts were really only on the navy and business .

King Wei didn't just talk about it. After he summoned the officials to say this, he left Qingyuan Mansion the next day and ran back to Dinghai County.

Qingyuan Mansion has a general judge, as well as Chang Shi and Sima. The three of them discuss all matters in the mansion, military and civil affairs, and the king of Wei sits and enjoys the success.

Zhao Yurui didn't have the time to fight for power with these people. If they wanted local governance power, Zhao Yurui would give it to them.

The chief officials of Qingyuan Mansion are all Shi Miyuan's people, so Zhao and Rui are of course far away.

After leaving the capital, he seemed like a dragon entering the sea, free and easy, and many ideas had to be implemented step by step, so how could he have the time to manage a whole family.

Making money, training troops, making firearms, building ships, all kinds of thoughts circled in his mind all day long, and he didn't know what to do first.

Dinghai County is still a little bit cheap, thanks to the local commercial development, salt, sugar and tea, and shipbuilding, etc., are all in the forefront of the counties in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the large population is very suitable for use as a Entrepreneurship base.

The first step for Zhao Yurui to return to Dinghai County was to prepare for a replacement, that is, to replace all the yamen in the entire county with their own people.

The main officials at the county level in the Song Dynasty were not only the county magistrate, but also the master book and county lieutenant. There used to be county magistrates for more than [-] households, but they were abolished in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In addition, depending on the population, there will be increases and decreases.

In counties with less than [-] households, the county magistrate will also be the head book or county magistrate, and some small counties even have only one county magistrate without a county lieutenant and head book. For a large population, there will be two county magistrates.

These officials were also called close-to-the-people officials in the Southern Song Dynasty.

And Quan Yong, Zhao Yurui’s cousin, is now called Jiandangguan. Usually, according to the Song system, Jiandangguan will serve for two rounds (every three years). An official close to the people can be promoted to magistrate even after two rounds of judgment.

But Zhao Yurui got Quan Yong the rank of military officer, obviously wanting him to go to the army in the future.

Dinghai County has a large population, so there is one master book, two county lieutenants, and four people-friendly officials in the whole county. Then, according to the county population, from 10 to 30 households, there are Cao Division (30-70 people), Hand Force (10-50 people), archers ([-]-[-] people).

In large counties with more than 150 households, a maximum of 200 officials can be established. Later, as the number of counties with 300 households increased, the establishment of officials also increased. There are probably more than [-] people, even in the counties of the capital, there are no more than [-] people.

The total number of officials in Dinghai County is 220.

This is not to say that it is better than later generations, even compared to the Ming Dynasty, there were still quite few people eating public meals in a county in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Among them, Cao Si refers to the recording (code history), manual division, and posting department. It can be understood that the bureau chiefs and civil servants of each county mainly do light mental work, documents and the like. In the Southern Song Dynasty, criminal case officials were added. handle the case.

Hand strength includes: Jiezi and foot strength (responsible for the transfer of state government documents to the county, and foot strength, Jiezi, etc. are also responsible for carrying sedan chairs, patrolling, etc.), douzi, Kuzizi, scales, etc. (this Several servants are in charge of weights and measures, quality inspection of government treasury money and materials, keeping cashiers and naturalization accounts), doctors, miscellaneous jobs, blocking (blocking roads to collect taxes), reasons (equivalent to arresting fast), and other pursuits Arrears of rent and tax, "serving and driving" for the county magistrate, providing various errands such as pick-up and transportation, and special deputy refers to the public servants set up in wine affairs, official treasury, posthouse, etc. with the main responsibility of collecting monopoly income.

These can be understood as contract workers and temporary workers in later generations, who basically do manual work.

Archers are people with weapons, originally intended to suppress the rebellion of the people, and later also served as prisons (prisons), responsible for guarding the cells, catching thieves and smugglers, guarding the city gates, etc., like the patrol archers of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, local chief officials had to serve in other places, and the term was once every three years. There were few officials but many servants, and these officials were basically local people, or clansmen of powerful gentry, or relatives of official officials, or recommended by wealthy merchants. , What's more, there are local green-skinned hooligans involved.

There are also many officials and servants who are passed down from generation to generation. The father works until he retires, and the son replaces him. The son retires and the grandson continues to work.

It's okay in peacetime, but in troubled times, it is easy to breed a bad phenomenon, that is, the so-called 'strong officials but weak officials'.

In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, there were many discussions in the court that "officials are strong and officials are weak", and public officials were called one of the biggest disasters in the local area at that time.

At that time, there were many subordinate officials at the county level who "called themselves magistrates of Lidi" and were called "officials of Lidi" by the common people.

It can be said that at this time, the scholar-bureaucrats in the Southern Song Dynasty generally believed that the local government had formed a situation of dictatorship and even tyranny, but no one came up with effective countermeasures.

The reason is that, on the one hand, there are major officials who only work for three years. Anyway, whether they have power or not, they will leave after three years. There is no need to fight fiercely with local officials for power; A local snake, many things really need the cooperation of the officials to do well. At that time, the whole Southern Song Dynasty was in a difficult situation. In order to ensure that the taxes were paid in full and in a timely manner, the officials kept government orders and people's sentiments up and down, and assisted the county magistrate in handling prison lawsuits to ease social conflicts, etc. All aspects have played an important role, and officials are willing to turn a blind eye; thirdly, the benefits obtained by the officials will be distributed to the officials, so why not do it.

It is precisely because the court and officials did not act, or did not want to act, that in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, local bureaucrats ran rampant, engaged in private fraud, violated the law and harmed the people, seriously dragging down the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty and affecting the well-being of the people.

Zhao and Rui took back the house this time, basically because of the collusion between the county officials and the county magistrate.

Zhao Yurui took back most of the house and offended quite a few merchants and officials in the county.

On the fourth day of February, Li Zongmian quarreled with others in the county government office, and it is said that he even slapped the table, because no one listened to his words in the county government office.

In the afternoon of the same day, Li Zongmian requested to change the head book and county lieutenant of Dinghai County.

When the official document arrived at the Qingyuan Mansion, Chang Shi Moze and Sima Chengyi originally wanted to dismiss it because the three-year period had not arrived, but they thought that this was from the King of Wei, so they asked for the opinion of the King of Wei, and this was the appointment and removal of personnel. As the top leaders of the local military and government , Wei Wang must know.

Zhao Yurui also happened to be in Prince Wei's Mansion in Qingyuan Mansion that day, and did not go to Dinghai County, because Chief Shi Moze, Sima Chengyi, and the three confidantes of Shi Miyuan who passed Nie Zishu were reporting to him the situation and interests of Qingyuan Mansion distribute.

The three of them are all new to the local area. After handing over to their predecessors, they summarized the situation in Qingyuan Mansion. A county cannot be moved.

Today Zhao Yurui brought a young man over and introduced them to them. This is his elder brother Zhao Yuju. Originally, the court wanted him to go to Yinshan as a county captain, but Zhao Yurui wanted to come here specifically to serve as a county captain in Dinghai.

The three of Mo Ze looked at each other. It turned out that King Wei wanted to change his brother, so of course he had no objection.

At this time, Zhao Yurui was sitting in the main seat, and Zhao Yuju was standing behind him.

The judge, Nie Zishu, was sizing up brothers Zhao and Rui.

He had worked as a magistrate before, and this time he was reduced to a general sentence, but considering that he was dismissed from office and stayed at home for more than two years, it was still acceptable.

Moreover, the general judgment was in the Song Dynasty, which meant to monitor the chief officials of a government.

According to the system of the Song Dynasty, the general judge could directly report to the emperor the situation of all officials in the prefecture and county, including the county (prefectural) officials and county magistrates. Except for the prison prefecture, all matters concerning soldiers and civilians, money and grain, household registration, taxes and servitude, and hearing of prison proceedings can be adjudicated, but they must be signed with the magistrate (prefect) for execution. Judgments are officials who are both administrative and supervisory , the authority is quite large.

Nie Zishu came to Qingyuan Mansion as a general judge for one purpose, to be optimistic about the king of Wei and to sway the power of the king of Wei.

He, Chang Shi, Sima, and Zhao Yurui are the four most powerful in Qingyuan Mansion. Now that the three of them have teamed up, they are absolutely sure to overtake Zhao and Rui.

Of course, they didn't expect Zhao Yurui to be very self-conscious after they arrived here, and directly handed over the power of Qingyuan Mansion to the three of them, thinking only about making money in Dinghai County.

Recently, King Wei and Qingyuan Mansion handed over, and all matters in the mansion were handled by three people. After they had to report to King Wei, they signed a joint report to the capital.

Mainly money, food, personnel and other parts.

Chang Shi Moze waited for the Zhao and Rui brothers to sit down, and then began to say: "All the taxes in the Qingyuan Mansion are divided into two taxes, salt revenue, wine revenue, business tax, tooth deed revenue, market ship revenue, Hutian income, occupational income and miscellaneous Fu nine categories."

These nine major incomes were also an important source of finance for the developed prefectures and counties in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Yurui listened carefully, and happened to learn about the source and expenditure of tax revenue in the Song Dynasty.

Among them, the two taxes are the regular tax and the additional tax: 'The official records of the second tax of the state and county are all provided for'.

In other words, the two taxes of the Song Dynasty were mainly paid.

Among them, the regular tax includes the summer tax collected as money (you can fold silk, silk, cotton, and silk thread) and the autumn tax as grain (in other places, the tax is levied from seven liters per mu to one bucket, and in the south of the Yangtze River, about three buckets per mu), etc.

Of course, his uses are not all used in the center. Among them, the silk cotton is mainly used for spring and winter clothes by the army in front of the palace and the people of all colors in the government.

That is to say, the front office of the Forbidden Army of the Imperial Palace and the main local officials (with silk distribution) are all paid out of this regular tax.

Miao Mi still needs to supply the local garrisons, and the rest is for the central government.

The additional taxes in the Song Dynasty are often more and heavier than the regular taxes, and the names are complicated, such as rice consumption, which means that the autumn grain tax will be lost during transportation, so for every stone paid, 4-5 buckets of rice are collected. With greed, one or two stones of rice may even be consumed, which is also called positive consumption.

There are also various additional taxes such as Minghui consumption, state consumption, water foot money, car foot money, righteous warehouse tax, agricultural implement tax, fragrant salt money, and market money. By the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, they even exceeded the regular tax. Many people have to pay one or two times more to be able to count.

In Mo Ze's words, apart from providing the Dinghai garrison with these two taxes, only Wei Wangfu and their main officials' silk came from here, and the rest had to be handed over.

(End of this chapter)