Yi Song

Chapter 78 Have you read The Legend of Lei Luo?

Early that morning, Liu Guozhang rushed to the Military Patrol Court to find Zhang Zeduan.

He was led in by the clerk and saw him sitting in the hall, giving orders majestically.

"Lieutenant Gao issued another Jun order, and all the camps of the Forbidden Army were in full swing to search for spies and prohibited weapons. Our Military Inspectorate cannot be content with others.

There are eight compartments in all directions in the inner and outer city. There are sixteen military envoys, thirty-two military inspectors, and sixty-four compartment inspectors. I need you to perform your duties and work conscientiously. Otherwise, I will recognize you. In the court The killing stick doesn't recognize you. "

Zhang Zeduan threatened him first, then glanced at the military attachés standing in the hall with their heads lowered and remaining silent, and then continued.

"I know that you are all collecting money from top to bottom. There are thirty or forty kinds of money for buying shoes, hats, socks, birthdays, door opening fees, writing pens, unsealing money, and congratulations money. Every day, there are thirty or forty kinds of money. Every street, every alley, every household, every shop vendor, artist, beggar, and even the stray dogs on the streets of Kaifeng City must pay a share to ensure their safety.

All your expenses for supporting your family and celebrating the New Year must come from here. Even I have it. I have only been in office for ten days, and I have already received sixty or seventy guan in autumn maintenance fees, sedan bearer fees, and bathing fees. Okay, this is really a good job. No wonder the Ministry of Personnel has to charge me 3,000 guan in benefits before it is willing to issue the official election document. "

Everyone raised their heads and looked at Zhang Zeduan eagerly.

It seems that this chief officer is also a sensible person. I hope that he will not be too evil-minded and suffer too much. If more leaks leak out from between his fingers, everyone's life will be easier.

"I have also seen that all this money has been collected from small businessmen, hawkers, foot shops and teahouses, and even a family with a foothold and background dare not accept it. This has caused resentment among the people. The people regard you as vicious dogs and jackals and hate them. It goes to the bone. I have decided that I will not accept a penny from this messy money in the future!"

As soon as Zhang Zeduan finished speaking, the people below started buzzing like sparrows.

"Zhiyuan, you are driving us to death!"

"Zhiyuan, the money and rice distributed by the court are enough to make several bowls of porridge and pull a few feet of rope for hanging. Without the money on the street, we can only lie at home and wait to die."

"That's right, if the payment for the test is stopped, we will stop working and go home to wait for death. Whoever wants to do this job will do it!"

Most people were making noisy noises, while a few older adults looked on coldly to see how Zhang Zeduan would end up.

The few people who knew about it remained silent and waited quietly.

"Pah-pah-pah!" Zhang Zeduan shot the gavel more than ten times in a row, causing the desk to fall apart, and finally suppressed the sound of the meeting of sparrows in the hall.

"I also know that the salary paid by the court is just a drop in the bucket, and it is not even enough for me to support my family. Stopping the salary is equivalent to starving your family to death."

Everyone looked at each other, they all knew the situation, what are you going to do, Zhang Zhiyuan?
  "What I want to say about stopping this money is to stop this mess of money. Today we collect shoe money and hat money, and tomorrow we collect door opening fees, writing pens, and unsealing money; today the west wing will be inspected to collect it, and tomorrow the east wing will collect it. The troops will be deployed to collect them, and the fire fighters will be collected the day after tomorrow.

We cracked the bones and sucked out the marrow, causing the vendors on the street to run away when they saw us and collect a few dollars, just like encircling and suppressing bandits. I had only confiscated a few dollars, and I was still half exhausted. My main job was neglected, and I was frequently involved in cases. I was restricted by Kaifeng Mansion every day.

Even if you are not tired, I feel tired. Therefore, I decided to stop the previous chaotic payment system and change it to a new, unified payment system. "

As soon as Zhang Zeduan finished speaking, everyone started talking.

What does the unified new payment system mean?
  Liu Guozhang, who was standing in the corner of the lobby, chuckled secretly. If you haven't watched "The Legend of Lei Luo", of course you don't know what it means.

"Okay, don't make any guesses. Inspector Yang will explain it to you now."

When Zhang Zeduan took office, Liu Guozhang took the opportunity to introduce Wang Xun, Di Wanren and Yang Xiaojie to him, hoping to "promote them".

He had just taken office, and he hoped to have a few trustworthy confidants in the Military Inspectorate, so he took advantage of the involvement of Jialan Temple and made major adjustments to the Military Inspectorate. He promoted Wang Xun to the rank of military inspector, and Di Wanren and Yang Xiaojie to the post of chamber inspector. .

Everyone was silent, Yang Xiaojie took a few steps forward, cupped his hands and said: "Brother Caishu, I have been ordered by the Imperial Academy to tell you the detailed rules for collecting money.

First of all, all types of money are cancelled, and replaced by a unified standard money. It is due once a month, from the first to the tenth day of the lunar month, in the inner city; from the 15th to the 25th, in the outer city. How much should be paid? Here is a form. Hawkers and merchants belong to category D, foot shops and inns belong to category C, gourmet tile houses belong to category B, and gambling houses and restaurants belong to category A.

Category D is fixed, Category A, B, and C are divided into first, second, third, and fourth grades according to the location, the number of people employed, the length and width of the store, how many floors there are, etc. In the past few days, some brothers have been working with the book office to go around every lane and street. According to the requirements of the form, all the shops and traders have been classified and registered in a register. From now on, everyone will collect money according to different categories and levels. "

A clerk posted a large piece of paper on the wooden wall. Everyone gathered around to look at it and were speechless. "Zhouqiao, Xiangguosi East and West Streets, Maxing Street, and Yujie Left and Right Streets are all first-rate. This is reasonable, very reasonable."

"It's so detailed. Who has such a good brain to come up with this method of classification?"

Zhang Zeduan waited until everyone was talking about it, then he was stunned and said, "Okay, everyone, continue to listen to Inspector Yang."

"The money is sent to each compartment in turn every month and collected in a cross-border manner. For example, the left compartment in the inner city goes to the second right compartment to collect it this month, and the west compartment in the outer city next month collects it. The people in this compartment are responsible for supervising to see if there is more or less. Don’t collect money indiscriminately. After all, it involves money, so everyone can feel more at ease by doing this.”

Everyone nodded.

"The money collected is divided into three parts, security fee, sanitation fee and firefighting fee, which are divided into 43% and 43%. Security fee accounts for 4%, and sanitation fee and firefighting fee account for 3% each. The security fee is naturally between us and the soldiers below. Brothers, divide it according to position. The details are on another piece of paper. Everyone can see it clearly.

The sanitation fee is to hire people to clean the streets and collect garbage. The fire protection fee is to be distributed to the fire brigade brothers, as well as to purchase some fire-fighting equipment and maintain the fire watchtower. "

Someone asked in confusion: "Is it necessary to do this?"

"Confused!" Zhang Zeduan reprimanded him unceremoniously, "While we are collecting salaries from the court, we are also collecting money from the common people. There will always be admonishers who don't like us and want to impeach us. What should we do?"

Everyone looked at each other.

Someone said: "These admonishers are the worst of all. They hang out in the Wase Restaurant every day, but they wish that everyone else was as poor as water and did not receive a salary to serve the court."

"That's right, these admonishers just don't want to see others take another bite."

"Zhiyuan, can you stop those bastards in this way?"

"Of course we can block it. As soon as they impeached us, we pointed to the clean street, the fire truck and the fire watchtower and said, we collected money, but it was all used here. You want to check the account? Okay, From now on, the entire street's garbage will be piled up at the door of your house.

If your home is flooded, the nearby fire watch tower is in disrepair and the fire fighting facilities are not complete, so the fire fighting team can only be dispatched from a distance. "

Everyone laughed, "Okay, okay! The garbage is piled in front of their house. It will stink to death for these straight women and thieves!"

"When the fire brigade from afar arrives, we can only help collect the trash."

"That's it, look at what these birds have to say!"

There was a cheerful atmosphere in the courtroom.

"Besides!" As soon as Zhang Zeduan said something, everyone fell silent.

"The sanitation fee also includes the regular money for the Kaifeng Mansion, and the firefighting fee also includes the regular money for the gatekeepers. Brothers, our Military Patrol Yuan family cannot afford this money!"

Zhang Zeduan's words silenced everyone.

They also recognize this reality. The city of Kaifeng is surrounded by wolves, and the money will be divided among them. Besides, everyone has taken the money, and if the admonishment officer dares to make any nonsense, he must speak out together.

Crowds of people make loud noises.

Zhang Zeduan took a look at the crowd and said: "Everyone only thought about sharing the money out, but did not see that a large amount of money would come in."

Everyone was surprised and happy, there was still a lot of money coming in?
  Where did the money come from?
  Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Zhang Zeduan said calmly: "Pan Tower, Fan Tower, Renhe Restaurant and other large restaurants in the city, as well as hundreds of large and small gambling houses, brothels, and Goulan Houses, their money , the Military Inspectorate never received a penny before."

Everyone was shocked and said one after another: "Zhiyuan, we can't accept this money. These places are owned by powerful people, and we don't even dare to open the door."

Zhang Zeduan sneered and said: "Fart! I dare to go to the door that others dare not come to! I dare to collect the money that others dare not collect! I am the Kaifeng Military Inspection Bureau. All matters on the ground in Tokyo, big and small, are under my control." , this money, they have to give it even if they don’t give it!”

(End of this chapter)