The officials from various prefectures and counties who were staying in were suddenly excited!

Good things don’t go out, bad things go through a thousand miles.

Although everyone usually has five or six people, they are still human beings. We study hard and have been working for decades. What is the purpose of becoming an official?

To be high, they have a pursuit. They hope to educate the people, but if they pursue lower ones, their hope will probably be to make a fortune.

Money is necessary in life, not to mention that many prefecture and county officials are over 40 years old. By their age, there are already many children and nephews. If you don’t consider them now, when will you wait? Could it be that when your black hat is gone, and the whole family will follow you to eat the northwest wind?

The cabinet masters in the cabinet are greedy for ink and not for ink? They are not greedy for ink. Why do they have a house covering a hundred acres of land in the capital? Why do they have fertile land in the village? The only difference between famous officials and treacherous officials lies in their political views. It depends on whether you are doing good or bad things. Greediness is by no means a measure.

Just talk about the Sanyuan, Zhejiang, who was a top scholar, although he was not a good person in his later generations, he was also a famous minister. At least when scholars in later generations mentioned him, no one should be respectful. However, Shang Cheng was not from a good background and his family was not wealthy. However, when he was retiring, he had already had thousands of hectares of fertile land at home.

Not to mention the two cabinet ministers in the court, which one is now either rich or noble, and where does their money come from?

Even the cabinet ministers can make money, which will not prevent them from being respected. It can be seen that greed for ink is not a big stain.

But it is really easy for the cabinet ministers to make money. All they have to do is lie at home. Every year, officials in the world will obediently send money to their house. People don’t have to peel and knock bones or harm the truth, but local officials won’t do it.

The most important method of greed that local officials often use is the loss and loss of official grain and fire consumption. The loss of official grain is now strictly handled by the imperial court, and the Ministry of Revenue has already determined the loss. If you can't pay more grain, you will bear the consequences yourself. The fire consumption seems not very reliable, because the taxes collected by each prefecture are really small, and it is good to have a few thousand taels. How much can you get if you count the heat consumption?

After all, the Ming Dynasty, which earned two or three million silver marks every year, was not the court that earned hundreds of million silver marks a hundred years later. The taxes you collected were not even 100,000 yuan in others' taxes, and just one fire was spent, the Qing Dynasty's prefect could have 100,000 snowflakes in three years, but it was probably even a thousand that could be found on your head.

Of course, in addition to these, there are many other means, such as colluding with local tyrants to sue, and local tyrants kill people. What should I do? The yamen is open, so don’t come in if you have any money. In addition, the idea of ​​relief is to deduct it layer by layer, and you can also get a lot of oil and water. When building a river embankment, you can move your hands and feet on the river embankment.

These methods are the most harmful to nature, and even if they are greedy, they are not much. To put it bluntly

Still don’t have money, you are suffering from disaster, how much money can the imperial court allocate? You should know that the annual income of the imperial court is only so many. The Ministry of Revenue will deduct one floor, and the province will deduct another floor, and the palace will deduct another floor, and there will be almost only mosquito meat left in your county. You even take this little money and food, which will cause hunger everywhere. How can you bear it?

In fact, everyone is a scholar and still has moral values, but this moral values ​​eventually bow to reality. Everyone knows that doing this is harmful to the truth, and no one wants to do such things that have no anus when giving birth. But the problem is that if you don’t do it, you will starve to death, and your descendants will be in trouble and suffer poverty with you.

You see how good some stories are. A certain grandfather once served as a minister, but he was honest and poor, so he worked hard to study, and finally how he would embrace the beauty he had returned, how he could pass the imperial examination in high school.

This story ends in comedy, but the officials I heard were creepy. They are rich for three generations, not to mention that they worked hard to become officials and did not leave any of them. Is this still called an official? It would be better to win more money now than to rely on their descendants to be able to go high school in the future.

As a result, the officials developed a two-sided personality. On the one hand, they were full of sage classics and moral education. But on the other hand, they had to search for money everywhere. Even if they were impeached and even at the risk of losing their heads, they still enjoyed it.

And the incident in Zhejiang made them suddenly seem to have found a guiding light.

It turns out that money can be made like this, without any harm to the truth or force people to survive. You just need to let your relatives resell something casually, and you can make money and earn money for several lifetimes.

This kind of profit is not only high, but the silver obtained is also much cleaner. Just like the relative of Tongzhi reselling wood, the wood itself has a great profit. Relying on the relationship between Tongzhi, they are afraid that the wood cannot be sold. Their price is the same as the price on the market. This is not a forced purchase and sale. Since it is! Relationship households, and the price and quality of wood are the same as those of others, people should prefer to choose Tongzhi's wood. After all, there will always be care for the future. Selling wood alone is said to have a year's income of up to 7,000 or 8,000 taels of silver. With this money, second-hand merchants directly purchase a large forest farm and resell it themselves. As long as the sales are not a problem, their income will be rising again in the coming year.

In addition to wood, it is said that silk spinning is also done. Now silk spinning is so in short supply, and there is also Tongzhi behind the scenes, and he is afraid of losing money.

What is a Tongzhi? To put it bluntly, Tongzhi is of high quality, but most of the people who live in this inn are prefects. Even the county magistrates of each county are overlords. After all, Tongzhi is an assistant official. Even the assistant official can earn so much money. Why can't we? It is said that the Tongzhi's steady income in a year is at least ten thousand taels of silver. Compared with this Hangzhou Tongzhi, these colleagues really feel ashamed because they risked beheading and had to do many things that harm the world. The annual income is far less than that of others. They are lying to earn money. Even if there is an imperial envoy impeachment, is they greedy? They are not greedy, they are just relatives doing business. There is no regulation in the Ming Dynasty that officials' relatives cannot do business. They neither forcefully buy or sell, nor use inferior products as good ones. They are simply a model of merchants and a model of the new policy.

This kind of news is circulating everywhere in the inn. Some people even say that the former magistrate of Hangzhou, who is now Wang Buzheng, now has a net worth of at least 100,000 yuan and 100,000 yuan. He not only has shares in the Money and Grain Bureau, but also has shares in many large workshops. His second son, because he is not motivated in his studies, simply doesn't even want fame. He has already set up a dock in Ningbo, specializing in the manufacturing of sea ships and a large sea ship. If he sells it, he will have more than 4,000 yuan in silver, making a profit of at least 1,000 yuan.

There are also rumors that Yuyao County Magistrate is now in a prosperous state. He bought production in Hangzhou and did not blink a single or two thousand taels of silver.

Many people can't sleep, some sigh, some regret, and some are still making various abacus.

I was so jealous that they were all officials. Why were officials different from officials? I had done so many consciences, so why were they not as good as them?

This night, many people couldn't sleep.

The next morning, everyone still got up early. If we said yesterday, everyone came here just to join in the fun, everyone was happy to watch, sighed at the scale of the boat and sighed at the strange tricks, it would be fine.

But now, everyone's mentality has changed.

The sedan chair of the new magistrate in Hangzhou has arrived. I want to take you to a new workshop area not far away on the outskirts of the city. There is a large area, dozens of miles in radius, and there are many silk spinning. But everyone surrounded Zhang Ye and said, "Sir, I am very kind, but I want to take a look by myself, but I am afraid that my kindness can only be appreciated.

"Yes, yes, yes, you have to see the benefits of this new policy by yourself. Adults don't have to worry about us. The new policy is about to be implemented, and adults are also very busy, so they don't have to wait with me."

"This..." Zhang Ye said hesitantly: "If so, I'm afraid..."

"Not afraid, no fear, nothing scares, don't worry, sir."

Everyone clamored together.

It is better to take someone to see it. After all, it is uncomfortable and it is better to move freely. Many people have already planned to see the Tongzhi's house again. They want to see what this house with a few thousand taels of silver looks like. Some people want to inquire about it privately, and perhaps there are many inside stories.

Zhang Ye had no choice but to smile bitterly and said, "In this case, I'm afraid I'll neglect you."

"Sir, don't have to do this. You're so kind, so kind."

Zhang Ye had to go home. These people flocked to the inn in groups, but they were not like officials. Fortunately, they were wearing casual clothes, so it was okay. They hired people to lead the way and inquire about various secret matters in Hangzhou. However, all secret matters were suspected of exaggerating. There were many rumors in Hangzhou, and the rumors were half true and half false. Someone went to see the legendary silk spinning of the relatives of the same master. Seeing countless people busy, trucks of silk were transported out and headed to the dock not far away. Everyone was excited. Silver, this was all silver. They knew the value of silk. They had so much silk. This...

In the evening, everyone came back one after another, talking about their own experiences, as if they had discovered sailors from the New World, and they couldn't stop being excited. They had a premonition that a bright future was right in front of their eyes.
Chapter completed!