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Li Tuo sneered: "That's a lot? Of the 24 provinces of the Qing Dynasty, except for Xinjiang, Tibet, and Mongolia, there is no Bing Tan Jing, and that province is not allowed to spend this money? In particular, the relatively wealthy areas like Jiangnan and Liangguang have provided more than half of Bing Tanjing's share......

"On average, it's really not much, a province is only about one million taels, and those superintendents are fat and oily, and that is worth millions or tens of millions of taels?"

"Bing Tanjing is just a tip of the undercurrent of Jingshi's wealth, in fact, Bing Tanjing is now a semi-laundered money, and the imperial court doesn't use this silver as corruption at all, the last account I mentioned is really a bribe!"

"Why do you look at me like this? Big brother, don't you look down on us? Do you think that a petty official like us who is a fly and a mung bean has no money at all? Do you think that no one will give us money at all?"

"Big mistake! I'll tell you the truth today, the more small characters like us are, the bigger people who really change history!"

In the night, only one room in the small building of Quanjude is lit up, and the children on the street are running around with lanterns, holding firecrackers and incense in their hands, and the snowdrifts in the corner are full of firecrackers.

The entire Sijiu City is immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, according to the old reason, even the most vicious people have to say good things with good intentions, and they have to ask for good luck for the new year.

Therefore, this month, even usurers are not allowed to collect debts, on the contrary, they have to give some rice and grain to those borrowers who really can't survive, and the importance of the New Year to the Chinese can be seen from this.

But in such a festival where the whole world was jubilant, Yang Zhi took a profound political lesson, and the name of the course was Officialdom.

"Bing Tan respects that is not a matter, the wedding and funeral gifts are a big head, how many foreign officials want to give gifts to the big people in the Beijing division to get a step higher, how many poor Beijing officials would rather borrow money from the seal than go out of the way to ask for a fat difference, the guilty want to spend money to avoid crimes, and the innocent want to pay money to get promoted......"

"What's so great about the prince? Let's take our Prince Gong as an example, the court's reward is a double salary, how much is that? The prince's annual salary is only more than 10,000 taels, let the devil eat six portions and add an additional reward, 30,000 taels is enough, right? But for such a big Prince Gong's mansion, 30,000 taels is not enough to reward the next person for a year!"

"What are you waiting for if you don't embezzle? Wang Fu buys a new drama troupe and sends a post to receive gift money, and the prince also has to buy a manor outside the Beijing Division, and he also has to invest in a business in Jiangnan to earn dividends, otherwise he will starve to death!"

After Li Tuo finished speaking, Lao Jiang continued: "Bing Tan respect, weddings, funerals, and even buying a dog can hold a few tables...... That's not all, there's more money to be made!"

"Fare, have you ever heard of this term? Haha, I haven't heard of you like that...... Ministers, especially foreign ministers, ask the emperor for approval to do something, and the court usually submits it to the competent department for discussion. ”

"There is also the routine fee reimbursed by the imperial court, it is even more a bottomless pit, do you want to allocate grain, grass and military salaries for the war? The military expenditure of one million has gone out of the household department, how can you also score 100,000 and 200,000 yuan of the regular expenses? Yongding River embankment repair reimbursement of 15o thousand taels, if you can withdraw 12 million taels of silver from it, I will call your grandfather ......"

"It's all routine fees, even if there are routine fees in the wood procured by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but they call it a kickback ...... that kind of small money."

Li Tuo waved his hand, "Don't say it, don't say it, the water in here is too deep, and you can't finish talking about three days and three nights...... Let's not mention those well-dressed beasts, let's talk about the survival of our little officials!"

"Brother Yang used to look down on us petty officials, but I repeat, sometimes many major events that change history are changed by us petty officials, such as ......"

Li Tuo's ancestral home is Baoding Mansion, and he was able to enter the military aircraft department by the recommendation of Li Hongzao and Li Daren, a fellow countryman, but in fact, Li Tuo grew up in the home of relatives in Beijing since he was a child, and has been living in Beijing since he was fourteen or fifteen years old.

He really knows the doorways in Sijiu City too well, there is nothing he doesn't understand about the black, white and gray, do you want to sell the official mantle? It's very suitable to find him, do you want to buy a murderer and do bad things? He can also pull out a few ways for you to pick up.

Now he has eaten the golden rice bowl of Zhang Jing of the Military Aircraft Department, which gives him a place in the gray area of black and white.

Now Li Tuo is actually not short of money, his small life is very comfortable, but he knows his identity very well, small officials can never stand up to a piece of the sky, they will always be vines wrapped around a big tree, no matter how powerful they are, they need a big tree to support them in search of sunshine.

I don't know what Li Tuo and Lao Jiang think, they actually pressed the treasure on Yang Zhi, so Yang Zhi heard some unprecedented secrets tonight.

Li Tuo's face was close to the lamp and candle, and the transfer of light and shadow made his facial features look very hideous, "Xinyou Palace has changed...... You should have heard of it, right? Eight Ministers, you don't know it, do you?"

"But you only know what is in the rhetoric on the surface, and what is the role of us petty officials? I'm afraid you can't even dream of it......

With the gloomy voices of Li Tuo and Lao Jiang, the Manchu power struggle that shocked the world eight years ago appeared in front of Yang Zhi with a new look, and the protagonist of the story is the famous Minister of Military Aircraft Su Shun.

Su Shun is a descendant of the serious Aixinjue Luo clan, the son of Prince Zheng, and his identity can be described as very noble. But Su Shun was an idle clan in the Daoguang Dynasty, and he didn't have any actual position at all, and he didn't have the slightest power in his hands as a so-called cabinet scholar and commander of the army.

Why couldn't Su Shun be reused at that time? In the final analysis, this man had a bad temper, and he was so arrogant that he had no friends, and he not only looked down on his subordinates and petty officials, but even looked down on the big officials within the Manchurian people.

At that time, Su Shun's spoken language was just a sentence, it was useless to be full of duties! You said that people who were scolding the streets in the Forbidden City every day could have good popularity?

But Su Shun, who had no good popularity, waited until Emperor Daoguang died, but he fell into the eyes of Emperor Xianfeng, and was promoted all the way and was reused.

The root is still made by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!