After Chen Jichuan took the list from Lin Yanchao, he went to Zhou Tongju to count and take the money according to the list.

After being busy, Zhou Tong sentenced him to a lot of private wealth, which was converted into more than 6,000 taels of silver.

One or two decades of accumulating this net worth for the official is okay.

Chen Jichuan transported the silver back to the Tongzhi Office and divided the account according to the proportion.

Seven is assigned to the account of the river worker, this is a clear account, every year the feudal division must check, or should temporarily send someone from above to check the account. The three points are not included in Lin Yanchao's own pocket, but into the private account of the Tongzhi Administration, that is, the dark account.

It is said that it is a dark account, but in fact, it is not something that cannot be seen.

In ancient times, large families assigned their housekeepers or relatives to do things, and generally gave them about the same amount of money, and allocated a part of the budget, but did not pay them.

What about the people below? It's all about spending your budget and earning a portion of the rebate. Become a tacit understanding, even if the big family knows it, it doesn't matter.

And when it comes to the government, what should I do if the court sends me to do something?

For example, in the river yamen, the imperial court only appointed one governor of the river, and the rest of the officials were not appointed. Therefore, the governor of the river can only go to conquer it himself.

The master below the governor of the river listened to the errand entourage and said a few hundred people, the salaries of these people, as well as the office expenses of the river yamen, let the governor of the river pay for this money alone?

That is definitely impossible, even if the governor of the river is a second-grade officer, but he is an official, and if he wants to maintain the pomp of the second-grade officer, his own food and clothing may not be enough.

Therefore, the governor of the river had to withhold a part of the river workers' public funds allocated by the imperial court for his own use, pay for his own expenses, office expenses, and set aside a part for emergency purposes.

So why is that? The reason for the practice of withholding money from the top to the bottom in the officialdom is a large part of corruption, but not entirely corruption.

Lin Yanchao's Tongzhi Office, the branch office is also the same after the fact.

With the Ming Dynasty's consistent urine of the officials below, the office funds allocated by the government are obviously insufficient, and the officials below them are all working in the yamen, and they can't maintain dignity by relying on the court's fortune alone.

Building rivers and embankments is the top priority of the River Engineering Department, and civilian servants can go to the private sector to solicit them.

However, for those who are familiar with river affairs and embankment construction, Lin Yanchao has to go to the private sector to hire such technical talents, as well as skilled clerks in the yamen, and send errands.

These people are not in the establishment of the imperial court, that is, the legendary non-economic officials, where do their salaries come from?

Of course, Lin Yanchao can also follow the practice of most officials, and let these non-economic officials go to the people to 'find food' by themselves, and do not pay wages from the yamen, but this is to exploit the people.

Therefore, Lin Yanchao paid a salary to the officials below.

For a technical official like Huang Yue, who works solidly. In addition to the money allocated by the imperial court, Lin Yanchao also gave him three hundred taels of silver a year from the account of the Tongzhi Administration.

For most of the people who follow him, Lin Yanchao has always come up with real benefits, rather than planning out a future. Sun Chengzong made an exception.

Of course, these costs are not all. There is also the use of sitting on the provincial governor with expenses, the officialdom ushering in the send-off, the charcoal of the Beijing officials respecting Bing Jing, and even the expenses of entering Beijing for the Hajj in the future (the Ming Dynasty only gives the officials the cost of going to the local office, and the rest is not reimbursed for the journey, Qiu Hu was in a diesel car when he went to Beijing) and so on.

After Chen Jichuan finished settling the accounts, he went out again, not elsewhere, but at his home outside the office.

After the killing of Yushi was revealed, the river yamen could not escape the blame, and Li Zihua, the governor of the river, was too busy to take care of himself.

As for Yu Wai, he also lost his backers. For such a businessman who started his business by colluding with officials and businessmen, as soon as he loses power, anyone can step on it. Not to mention the original river yard, even the family business he earned in the past two years has become fat.

The river yard has long been seized, and the river materials inside have been transported to the embankment.

In addition, in the past two years, according to the river engineering project, Yu Yuanwai has purchased hundreds of hectares of suburban land outside Yongcheng County, which has almost been sold.

Chen Jichuan is so conscientious and conscientious for Lin Yanchao.

After cleaning up Zhou Tong's judgment, after being outside the staff, Lin Yanchao's prestige in the mansion soared.

More than ten days later, the government in the house was lined up.

The officials of all sizes in the palace arrived.

The Pai Ya is like a regular meeting today. This is a very pompous ceremony for local officials.

How to say the ritual of the paiya?

The officials who had worked in the yamen made up a song, one called rabble, the second said fly gathering, the third said magpie noise, and the fourth said hoove.

It is said that the officials rushed from their homes to the yamen at dawn, and a group of people who were in a mess were called rabble and flies.

Everyone was noisy and shouting in the yamen, like crows and magpies, and with the sound of cannons in the hall, they stood solemnly one by one, like hooves.

"Five are cranes, six are tending, seven are fishing, and eight are herons."

After the two bangs were struck and the drums were beaten, the officials were startled, raised their heads and chests, and then took duck steps, and the swaying fish went to the hall to see the official seal.

Then the officials stood and bowed down, which was called heron.

"Nine are frogs sitting, ten are apes, eleven are ducks listening, and twelve are suspicious."

After saluting, the officials sat with their feet straddled, the stool touched half of their buttocks, and leaned forward to show respect, like frogs sitting.

Then sit down and offer tea. When the eldest man spoke, everyone listened like a dumb duck, and his face was at a loss, but in fact, he was suspicious in his stomach and guessed his intentions.

"Thirteen is crab walking, fourteen is crow flying, fifteen is tiger wei, sixteen is wolf meal, seventeen is cow sleeping, and eighteen is ant dream."

After the yashen was finished, finally there was no need to dress, and everyone put up a shelf and went out.

Leaving the yamen, the officials scattered like crows frightened, and then put up a tiger, called the sedan chair man, scolded the attendants, and after returning home, hurried to eat a good meal, and then went to bed to sleep.

However, this is for the officials who participated in the platoon office, but for Lin Yanchao, who is currently temporarily in charge of government affairs, it means something else.

Seeing that all the officials did not dare to come out, they stood trembling and standing with their hands down, with a respectful look on their faces, and that kind of majesty was not enough to describe in words.

Pai Ya is an occasion for Shangguan to show his authority, so it is full of pomp.

Otherwise, how could there be that officialdom allusion, one day the foreign official and the Beijing official met. Foreign officials are all envious of Beijing officials, I love Beijing officials have tooth cards. The Beijing official is reserved and authentic, and I love to have a row of officials.

That's right, in the capital, Pai Ya is the court meeting, and the people sitting on it will never have their turn.

This time, the government lined up in the house, and the officials sat down.

Originally, Zhou Tongju had already handed in his resignation and was absent from the office, and the only officials in the house were Wu Tongju, He Tongju, and Ma Tuiguan.

The rest of the officials could only sit and listen. In addition to the adjutant of the prefecture, Ma Guang, the governor of Suizhou, also appeared in the hall today.

The officials sat with bated breath and remained silent for a moment, Lin Yanchao said loudly: "Since the official temporarily appointed the government affairs, the official of Zhengyin has been vacant, and Zhou Tong, who is also the second official, has been sentenced to return to his hometown, and two of the six officials in the yamen have gone. ”

"This official is currently in charge of the river work, but he is only temporarily in charge of government affairs, and he is not a positive seal, so he cannot cover everything. Now that Zhou Tong is leaving, the grain capture sentence must not be left alone. The official is already in the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Officials is sentenced to catch grain, collect grain in the government, and arrest smugglers of salt, so it is necessary to use the skilled hands of the government, and it is easy to use foreign officials to rule the scruples, so let the official nominate an official from the current officials of the government, and then submit it to the Ministry of Officials. ”

After listening to Lin Yanchao, everyone moved in their hearts.

This grain capture sentence is a fat shortage, in charge of the transportation of a government, and the second position of illegal salt arrest, it is easy to be promoted, and it is also the official body of the sixth grade.

This is an extremely important personnel decision.

After Zhou Tong's judgment, Wu Tongju, who was in charge of Shangyu, became the second-in-command of Guide Mansion, and he immediately spoke out in support: "It should have been like this a long time ago, the grain capture and judgment office is extremely heavy, if you don't promote a competent person to take on this heavy responsibility, people from top to bottom will be uneasy." ”

There was no objection to the nomination, and everyone discussed for a while, and generally recommended two candidates.

One is Ma Guang, the governor of Suizhou, and the other is Ma Mingcheng, the government official.

(Correcting an error above, the prefecture of Sanzhou is the sixth product, and the Zhili Prefecture of the government is the fifth product.) Suizhou is a prefecture, so as the governor of Sanzhou, Ma Guang is the sixth product, not the five products mentioned above)

Among the officials, there are more Ma Guang, the reason is very simple, Suizhou is a subordinate state of the government, the location is important, it has always been an important place for money and grain, and it is also the station of the Daliang Road of the Political Secretary.

Ma Guang has been in office for a long time and can be described as experienced, and from the perspective of rank, Ma Kuang himself is the sixth grade.

And Ma Tuiguan can't say any merits, what the officials mentioned is conscientious and honest on weekdays, and the official reputation is not bad.

Seeing the election of the officials, Ma Guangchun's face was full of faces, and he arched his hand to the officials on all sides and said: "You have a good reputation, Ma is just a success, and he can't afford such praise." ”

Ma Guang was modest on his lips, but he was not modest at all on his face, and he looked full of ambition, as if the position of general judgment was already in hand.

Seeing that the officials spoke for Ma Guang, Wu Tongju also smiled and said: "Ma Zhizhou is known as a capable official, and since he became an official in Suizhou, the people have been respected, so the lower officials also recommended Ma Zhizhou." ”

After Wu Tongju finished speaking, he secretly exchanged glances with Ma Guang, and the two obviously had a tacit understanding.

Listening to Wu Tong's words, Lin Yanchao frowned slightly, the last time he summoned the officials of seven counties and one state under his rule to interrogate in the mansion, during which Ma Guang was quite presumptuous to himself, and he didn't say anything, and there were many untamed words.

Such a person is elected to be his deputy, can Lin Yanchao let him get his wish? Go to the side and dream!

Seeing that Wu Tongju opened his mouth, and there were many officials in the palace to support him, Lin Yanchao smiled and said: "Ma Zhizhou is shrewd and capable, and he is one of the few capable officials in the government, if he can serve as the judge of grain capture, this official also thinks that he will be competent, but ......"

“…… However, Suizhou is a place where money and grain are important in this government, and non-competent officials cannot keep it. When Ma Zhizhou was in office, Suizhou had always been safe, and if he was transferred to the government at this time. Who will serve as the governor of Suizhou, and where will the official find such a cautious and reliable good official as Ma Zhizhou. ”

Ma Guang said in a loud voice: "That being the case, Sima just advocates the promotion of Ma Tuiguan? ”1910