"The entrance fee and various fines are just to support these patrol officers!" Chen Lifu said: "This is really ...... What a ......."

Chen Lifu was speechless for a long time, this kind of thing, to be honest, is beyond his understanding.

In fact, there are many things he doesn't understand, for example, there is no distinction between officials, from ancient times to the present, officials are officials, and officials are officials, but when it comes to the Li Tang Dynasty, there is no distinction between officials and officials, and they are all uniformly given to officials, only the difference between high and low grades.

Just a patrol officer, this kind of lowest tolerance can even have the official body of the ninth grade, and I heard that in Li Tang's various yamen, even if it is the lowest level of the clerk, it also has the official body of the ninth grade.

In this case, the number of officials in the Li Tang Dynasty is probably an extremely terrifying number, and the pressure on the finances will also be huge.

Chen Lifu is naturally not clear, in fact, the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty is naturally more than that of all dynasties in a narrow sense, and it is much more, but in a broad sense, although the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty is more than that of all dynasties, it is not too exaggerated.

Although there were few officials in the previous dynasties, there were many people like government servants and helpers, and these people also relied on the government to eat to a certain extent.

What's more, the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty are high, which is for senior officials, while ordinary clerks and patrol officers are actually ordinary incomes, only a few taels of silver a month.

Of course, in general, there are still more people in the Tang Dynasty who eat public meals than in the previous dynasties, and there is no way, who let the power of the Tang Dynasty go directly down to the village level, which is the number of officials who can have a lot more at the two levels of villages and towns.

And to support so many officials, there is naturally a lot of money, but the Tang Dynasty adopted a financial separation system, the central finance is not responsible for the salaries of officials in the provinces, and the salaries of local officials are based on the unified standard interval implemented by the imperial court, and then each province establishes a unified standard for the province within this interval according to the financial situation of the province.

The state capitals distribute funds from local finances according to the standards set by their own provinces!

Of course, at this time, some state capitals are relatively rich, some state capitals are relatively poor, and the poor ones need provincial appropriations to be able to pay official salaries, and the rich state capitals can also issue some additional benefits in addition to the standard salary.

Of course, since all the benefits are carried out, it means that your state capital has money, and if you want to build any water conservancy facilities, infrastructure and the like, don't expect to be able to get the provincial finance or even the central government's allocation.

Well, the above is an ideal situation, but in fact, because of the current financial difficulties of the Tang Dynasty, in order to meet the huge military demand, the imperial court has repeatedly increased the proportion of central financial taxes, and many of the local finances are poor.

But it doesn't work if you don't have money, so now the officials of the local yamen under the rule of the Tang Dynasty are all bent on improving their finances and striving to generate revenue, otherwise, the local finance will have no money to pay their own salaries.

This is true not only at the local level, but also at the cabinet ministries.

The Ministry of Industry opened factories and made money to subsidize office expenses.

The Ministry of Rites opened the Royal Publishing House to subsidize office expenses, and recently tried to print a few more commercial advertisements in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, so as to increase advertising expenses to subsidize families.

Other departments are also showing their own powers, how to say, the living can still suffocate urine, and the dignified cabinet agency, if you want to make some money to pay salaries, this can still be done with a little effort.

Among them, the most abundant means and the most nourishing are the patrol police department.

No way, although they have all kinds of messy fines, although the fine part must be handed over to the Ministry of Taxation, and the rest must be handed over to the local finance, but how to say, such a big piece of fat, this is a little rubbing two handfuls of oil, which can also make the patrol police department full.

Therefore, when the Patrol Police Department recruits people in the cabinet departments, it is quite arrogant, second only to the Ministry of Taxation, which is a big money bag.

It is natural for the tax department to be arrogant, and everyone in the cabinet can have less money, but they are indispensable, but they collect taxes, how can they collect taxes if they don't have enough office funds!

Chen Lifu and Zhong Cai said that since they talked about fines and entrance fees, it was naturally easy to lead the topic to the sanitation in the city, because Chen Lifu heard Zhong Cai say that the biggest fine and the most income is this health fine!

Chen Lifu was not very surprised by this matter, because he had also seen it in the Tang Dynasty newspaper, and the Li Tang Dynasty was simply crazy in paying attention to hygiene and rectifying the appearance of the city, and it was rumored that the city would be cleaned up every time he went to a place.

But now it is the first time I have seen it in Jinling City, as a decent person, he naturally thinks that it is a good thing that the city is clean and tidy, but the punishment is a bit strong, and it is said that there is a lot of chaos, according to him, this kind of thing is to be done, but there is no need to rush to do it in just a few days, it always needs to be guided slowly.

However, the Li Tang Dynasty didn't think so.

Then, he asked curiously, where are the beggars and homeless people in this city?

There is no beggars and homeless people in a huge Jinling City, which is simply abnormal.

Zhong Cai said: "Brother Chen, don't you know that Li Tang's side is a cash-for-work, and the beggars and homeless people in the city have been centrally contained whether they want to or not, many of them have been taken to the outside of the city to build roads and dig ditches, and some women and children have been arranged to enter a textile factory." ”

"Cash-for-work?" Chen Lifu said: "I know this, but doesn't it mean that it is only done in those disaster areas, how can it be done to beggars and displaced people, and it is mandatory, if people don't want to, isn't it the same as being imprisoned?" It's hurtful! ”

Some people are just lazy to eat, so they like to be beggars, although it is said that being a beggar is not good-looking or good-sounding, but people are happy! You Li Tang didn't say a word, all of them were forcibly contained, and they also arranged jobs for others, how can this be!

This is forcibly depriving others of the freedom to eat and be lazy, knowing that others would rather starve to death than work!

Zhong Cai was more open-minded, and he smiled and said: "Although there are many flaws in this matter, it is still desirable on the whole, at least now those beggars and homeless people also have a place to eat, it is better than freezing to death in the cold winter!" ”

Chen Lifu sighed, but he didn't say it anymore, and then the two of them talked about other topics, most of which were related to the Li Tang Dynasty, and they also expected the Battle of Jianping during the period.

"It is rumored that in the first battle of Jianping, all the 100,000 elites of the official army were wiped out, and Lord Wang was also killed by the Tang soldiers, the strength of the Tang soldiers, Chen has never seen it with his own eyes, but Lord Wang's Jiangnan New Army, Chen has seen them drill, advance and retreat as one, complete guns, even if it is invincible, but it will not be wiped out!" Chen Lifu sighed as he spoke.

"Although it is a bit too much to say that the whole army was annihilated, it is true that there are not nine out of ten, and there are less than 10,000 defeated soldiers who fled back to Jinling at that time!"

"In addition, I also heard that Wang Yiqi, the general of the defeated army of the traitor and thief, was not defeated and killed, but killed himself when he was defeated, so it can be regarded as a bit of backbone, but even so, this person is also extremely evil."

"That's an army of 100,000, a day of mourning, if the thief led the army to stick to Jiangnan, even if it is bad, it will not let all the land in Jiangnan fall into the hands of Li Tang in just one or two months!"

When Zhong Cai said this, he sighed loudly again.

However, Chen Lifu disagreed with Zhong Cai's opinion, and retorted: "Although Lord Wang led the army to meet the defeat, but that is also something that cannot be done, but if you don't go out of the city to meet the battle, wait for the thief army to conquer Hangzhou, and then this land south of the Yangtze River will also fall into the thief army, and then it will be helpless to trap this Jinling City, and when the Tang soldiers gather under the Jinling City, this Jinling City will also be unable to hold, and I am afraid that it will also be ruined at that time!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Lifu showed a wry smile, and then said: "It's okay now, even if you lose, but the luck of this Jiangnan is still preserved!" ”

The topic of the two chatting is a match, after drinking most of the tea, the topic of the two chatting is finally to talk about the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty, first routinely criticized the content of the imperial examination of the Li Tang Dynasty, how to go against the law, miscellaneous studies have become the imperial examination questions in a grand manner.

That's not all, it's intolerable to even engage in a liberal arts discipline, and it's still on a par with Jinshike.

Speaking of the imperial examination, it naturally means that the situation of the Tang Dynasty is a scholar!

After the two teased for a long time, they finally talked about another big thing, that is, what Chen Lifu did when he entered the city today.

Chen Lifu took a sip of tea, and then said, "I heard that the imperial court is recruiting officials to enrich the officialdom recently, and it is recruiting officials such as me?" I don't know if it's true or not? ”

Zhong Cai naturally also knew the purpose of Chen Lifu's visit today, in addition to the good relationship between the two, that is, because he had a slightly closer relationship with Li Tang's side, and was able to get in touch with a few officials on Li Tang's side.

Some time ago, Chen Lifu and his correspondence were to ask about this matter, but this matter is very important, he naturally will not say anything in the letter, but directly invite Chen Lifu into the city to talk!

After hearing Chen Lifu mention this, he said: "Yes, it is indeed true, and this is still a major event presided over by Lord Qian, the minister on duty in the imperial study, and the Ministry of Officials is presiding, and the imperial court intends to recruit officials like me and others in various places to re-emerge, although the detailed regulations have not yet come out, but it is a matter of the past few days!" ”

Chen Lifu said: "If this matter is true, Chen Mou has to devour the tiger with his body and ask for his life for the people, and he can't let so many chaos and tyranny continue!" ”