Su Ze's head was filled with questions. Bribery is also a life skill?
But if you think about it carefully, it seems that this is indeed an ancient skill.
If you have skills, you must learn them. After Su Ze chose to learn, some simple hidden rules of bribery came into his mind.
After all, these are some agreed-upon rules, and this set of unspoken rules is implemented everywhere in Daming County Yamen.
To enter the county government office, you have to pay a bribe to the government servant on duty at the door. To work in the county government office, you have to pay a bribe, and depending on the identity of the person doing the work and the content of the service, you have to pay different amounts of money.
For example, when Su Ze registered for the county examination, his current status was not even considered a child, and he was considered a scholar from a poor family.
Naturally, there is no psychological pressure when such subordinates bully people.
If Su Ze passed the boy student examination and became a student student like Zhou Xiucai, then the subordinate staff in the ceremonial room would not only not accept payment, but would also respectfully come to deliver the materials to Su Ze for signature.
If Su Ze could pass the provincial examination like Hai Rui and be qualified to be elected, then these subordinate officials would in turn send gifts to Su Ze and ask for his protection.
This is the unspoken rule contained in bribery. Su Ze is very disgusted with this set of rules, but he has to admit that this kind of thing has never been forbidden through the ages.
Su Ze had an idea. Since the county government office is a location, can other "skills" be discovered?
When he thought of this, Su Ze immediately said goodbye and left the ceremony room, joining Lin Xianyang who was waiting outside the door.
"Is it done?" Lin Xianyang asked when he saw Su Ze's happy look.
"It's done. Thank you brother Xianyang. Come on, I'll accompany you to your house to pay the fine."
Su Ze didn't see Hai Rui's figure and asked, "Where is Master Hai?"
"Master Hai said that he went to the Chengfa Department to read recent reports from the imperial court. He asked us to finish our work and go to the Chengfa Department to wait for him."
Dibao is a newspaper distributed by the imperial court to the grassroots. However, this newspaper is not for ordinary people to read. After it is delivered to the county government from the express delivery shop, it will be stored in the Department of Shipping.
The officials of the Chengfa Department will copy three copies of the county magistrate, the county magistrate, and the chief registrar. If the other officials want to read it, they can only go to the Chengfa Department to read it themselves.
Without Hai Rui around, Su Ze felt more relaxed. He didn't know why he felt a little uncomfortable seeing Hai Rui after he had just paid a bribe.
It is true that "people can be used as mirrors to understand gains and losses." Standing with a Hantan mirror like Hai Rui is quite psychologically stressful.
Su Ze and Lin Xianyang arrived at the household room together. The structure of the household room was similar to that of the ceremony room, except that the incense table in the middle was not dedicated to Confucius, but to the God of Wealth.
Su Ze only felt that it was a bit absurd. The Ming Dynasty Yamen openly worshiped the God of Wealth?
The God of Wealth on this road is dressed in red, holding a wishful thinking and a cornucopia, and there are two naive boys in front and behind, namely the boy who attracts wealth and the boy who brings in treasure.
Su Ze's level 2 religious knowledge allowed him to recognize that this was Li Kuaizu, known among the people as the God of Wen and Wealth.
Li Guizu, the government service is fine.
The Ming Dynasty inherited the Song Dynasty's sacrifices, and the Ming Dynasty's sacrifice system basically followed the Song Dynasty. Li Kuaizu himself was the official canonized God of Wealth in the Song Dynasty, so it was no problem to worship him in official uniform in the Ming Dynasty.
This God of Wealth himself was a county magistrate during the period of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. He was honest and loved the people. He often used his salary to give to the poor. He was also a God of Wealth who conformed to Confucian political correctness.
However, it seems that the incense ash on the incense table in front of the God of Wealth is much more than that on the incense table 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 and couldn't find the round-faced clerk who issued the fine. He had to find a skinny middle-aged clerk and handed the fine to him.
This clerk has a mustache, which is the standard look of a cunning subordinate in traditional TV images. After taking the receipt, he checked it with the county government's fine book, and then said:
"The fine is thirty-two taels of silver. Do you want to pay in silver or in copper coins?"
"Silver, silver!"
Before coming, my old grandpa had asked someone to exchange the copper coins for broken silver, so that Lin Xianyang could send them to the county government.
Lin Xianyang put the cloth bag in his arms on the table. The cloth bag was filled with small and large pieces of silver. The clerk looked at the pile with some disgust, but he still counted it carefully.
[I found that the location "County Government Office" can learn the skill "Accounting Room". Do you want to learn it? 】
Sure enough, there are new skills!
It makes sense when you think about it. County government offices need to settle accounts, and it is normal to learn the skill of "accounting room".
And Su Ze is in a better mood. In "Hundred Scenes", accounting is also a very practical skill. After mastering accounting skills, whether in business or officialdom, it can reduce the corruption of subordinates.
In fact, in reality, accounting is also a practical skill. Even if an official does not have accounting skills, he must bring his close associates who know accounting skills to his post. Otherwise, his subordinates who are proficient in accounting will torture the official to death.
This is definitely not alarmist. The famous "Empty Seal Case" in the early Ming Dynasty was a major case that shocked the government and the public because of false accounting. In the end, a large number of officials, including Fang Xiaoru's father, were investigated and executed.
"study!"
Su Ze was delighted to gain a skill again. Starting from today, he will start keeping accounts, so he can use this skill as soon as possible!
After the mustached scribe finished counting, he said: "The fineness of the silver is fine, but the weight is thirty-two taels, and you need to pay another one tael for fire consumption."
Fire consumption is the consumption of smelting broken silver into silver ingots. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, fire consumption was one of the current shortcomings, and it was also a key direction of historical research on the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Yongzheng's return of fire consumption to the public was to turn the collection of fire consumption silver into a tax and change it to a unified collection by the central court to put an end to arbitrary local levies.
However, Su Ze read the history books and found that the Huo Hua Dynasty came into being after Zhang Juzheng's whipping method, which unified the tax revenue in kind into silver. Why is the county government collecting Huo Hua now? Is this clerk targeting Changning Guards?
"Why do you still need to collect fire and waste silver?" Su Ze asked.
The eight-character Hu clerk glanced at Su Ze. Lin Xianyang quickly grabbed Su Ze and said: "It is a rule that fire consumes silver. The clerk is not targeting our Changning Guard."
The clerk with the mustache snorted coldly and said: "This silver is going to the warehouse. The county government is going to melt it into silver ingots and send it to the capital. For thirty-two taels of silver, I charge you 20 taels of fire. It's not high! This is all from us in Nanping."
The county magistrate is merciful! Find out how much fire consumption is charged in other counties!"
However, with the clerk's explanation, Su Ze understood that this should be an unspoken rule of the county government, and not directed at Changning Wei.
Taicang was the emperor's private treasury. The reform of Taicang was much earlier than the reform of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Starting from the Chenghua Year, many of the physical taxes in Taicang were changed into tribute silver.
Lin Xianyang took out another cloth bag from his chest and handed over some broken silver. Then the scribe with a mustache picked up his reed pen, dipped it in ink, wrote out a new bill and said:
"Here's the bill, you can go."
After coming out of the house, Su Ze's eyes lit up when he saw the plaques on other houses of the county government. Can he learn other skills?