In the county office, Dong Zhushu held the booklet, handed it to Du Zhongxiao, and said: "Zhixian, this is the list of public servants in this season, if the county thinks it is appropriate, it will be so." ”

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "I don't know any of these people, what's the use of watching them?" The chief bookkeeper is a public servant, so you don't have to ask me. ”

Dong Zhushu said: "How dare the lower officials! Now it's not as usual, the public will not break the money, and there is a full amount of money, and there are many people in the county who want to be on errands. I didn't know that the county agreed, so I set the post, but I was afraid that someone would come to the county office to make a noise. ”

Hearing this, Du Zhongxiao frowned, thought for a while, and said, "It's just greedy for money, and there is no one who harms the public with his own interests?" ”

Dong Zhushu was a little embarrassed, and hesitated for a moment before saying: "These things are inevitable. It is always inevitable that the public officials and servants are all from their own country, and they use many large households, so it is inevitable that they will evade taxes by using public harm for personal gain. These people must do their work, and they cannot be searched all, or there will be no one to us. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Yes, people do things, and they inevitably have selfish intentions." We are officials for several years, and we are not allowed to buy property under our rule, and at most we receive some money—"

Seeing this, Dong Zhushu's face flushed, Du Zhongxiao pretended not to see it, and continued: "Those public officials are originally big local families, who doesn't have some property at home? In the past, they were overwhelmed with errands, and they were satisfied that they could not break their family property, but now that there are so many more things to collect money in the county, I am afraid that they will not be satisfied. I have heard that in the few properties of the commune, there are powerful public officials in the county, and people from their own families are installed there as supervisors. If they are just greedy for money, they are afraid that they will go up and down their hands and fill their own pockets. ”

This time, the public took turns to do so, so Mo Lun coveted the money and the little power in his hand, and was reluctant to give up and bribed the chief secretary of the director. Dong Zhu's family had no money to spare, so he couldn't stand the temptation to accept it, and he was a little weak when he saw Du Zhongxiao. What Du Zhongxiao said just now seemed to know that he had taken bribes, which made Dong Zhushu extremely embarrassed. Fortunately, Du Zhongxiao did not pursue it, and Dong Zhushu was relieved.

In fact, where did Du Zhongxiao know that Dong Zhushu had received money from others, he just didn't care. This kind of thing can't be prevented, as long as you look at it and do it well, you will turn a blind eye to everything else. Today's officials are not allowed to buy industries under their rule, and officials have no incentive to participate in local economic affairs. They are already from large families, and the policy depends on them to implement it, and the benefits are of course they get first.

This is the reason why public officials in some positions must take turns, and since they can't be prevented from cheating, everyone should take turns to do it. What officials are most afraid of is not that public officials engage in private fraud, but that they are afraid that they will control government affairs in private. As long as the power is in your own hands, you can clean them up at any time.

Seeing that Du Zhongxiao had completely delegated power to himself, Dong Zhushu no longer insisted and took the booklet back. Before leaving, he remembered something and said to Du Zhongxiao: "By the way, before I came in, I saw an official letter from the state, saying that the governor of the state wanted to come to this county to inspect. ”

Hearing this, Du Zhongxiao couldn't help frowning: "It's all a general sentence to visit all counties every quarter, how do you know that the state is coming?" ”

Dong Zhushu said: "Which knows." Xu is the first to pay the summer tax in this county, and the governor wants to come to reward. ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head, not believing it. Although he didn't have much contact with Xia Zhu, Du Zhongxiao knew that according to Xia Zhu's temperament, if he wanted a reward, he would only call himself to the state city, and it was impossible for him to come to the county by himself. He is coming to Yongcheng this time, and he is afraid that it will not be a good thing for himself.

Zhu Wen walked on the embankment of the Bianhe River, and the roadside vendors kept greeting him.

Seeing a half-grown child carrying a basket of peaches to sell, Zhu Wenxing grabbed the largest one, took a bite, and said to the child: "You are clever, there are few peaches sold nearby these days, so you should be able to sell them at a good price." ”

The boy bowed down and thanked Zhu Wenxing, and walked towards the crowded place with the basket on his shoulder.

Zhu Wenxing ate peaches, looked at the bustling crowd on the dock, and sighed in his heart that his life was good. Being a barricade at the dock was not a good job before. There is a daily quota in the yamen, and if you can't collect it, you have to pay for it out of your own pocket. However, it is never possible to collect the amount set by the yamen by normal means. Either collect taxes illegally, or collude with idlers to check the goods carried by pedestrians everywhere. But as soon as Zhu Wenxing was on an errand, the county government abolished the daily quota here at the wharf and changed it to how much it was collected. Of course, in line with this, there are additional tax inspectors.

At present, the wharf collects taxes, and the merchants go to buy tax papers, and after Zhu Wenxing collects the taxes, they fill in the drawings, and then another official inspects them. As for itinerant hawkers like that child, no taxes are now allowed. It is because of the current wharf, there are basically no fixed fruit stalls, and most of them are hawkers of this kind of half-grown children. As for the fixed fruit shops, they were for those who bought and sold large quantities of goods on the Bianhe River.

Of course, Du Zhongxiao knew that this kind of management was actually bad for business, because the hawkers did not collect taxes, and their costs were low, which would make it impossible for some certain shops to operate. For example, fruit snacks, with these vendors, the store can't be opened. Fewer stores are opened, and less taxes are collected, which ultimately affects economic development. But the advantage of this is that it provides a way for the poor to earn a living, and there are fewer people who wander and idle.

Economic development and benefiting people's livelihood do not always go hand in hand, and they can keep pace. There is a balance between this, and the official grasps the general direction to make the whole society move forward smoothly. Itinerant hawkers are not allowed to do business, of course, there will be people who will open a few more shops here, there will be a few more well-off families, and the yamen can also collect more taxes. To put it simply, the ban on hawkers benefited the yamen and middle- and upper-class households. The hawkers do not pay taxes, and the ones who benefit are the middle and lower class households who have no surplus wealth, and Du Zhongxiao's choice is to give profits to the middle and lower class households.

The establishment of a commune industry between the wharf and the city gate was equivalent to snatching some of the property from the middle and upper class households in the city, plus tax exemption for small merchants and hawkers, and giving profits to the middle and lower class households. Du Zhongxiao artificially reduced the gap between the rich and the poor in the county under the condition of the Yamen's economic prosperity. As for allowing large families to gather funds and destroy the germination of capitalist teeth, it is simply a matter of no head. Not to mention that it has not reached that stage now, and there will be no such demand for the development of productive forces. Population agglomeration is actually to expand the market, and the market demand will give rise to the production industry. Instead of gathering capital, let the rich pursue profits to invest in the industry. No matter how much private money there is, can it compare to the government? The government has enough capacity to promote industrial upgrading.

Zhu Wenxing wandered around the dock and watched the busy people. The drudgery of stopping the head is his turn, but he deserves it. Anyway, the merchants who collect taxes are fixed, and even the tax paper is bought by themselves, and they are a handler, so they don't have to intrigue with the merchants.

Just when Zhu Wen was tired of walking and leaned on a big willow tree to look at the little lady in the crowd, a ghostly idler came over and said to Zhu Wenxing: "Festival level, there is a wealth over there, I don't know if the festival level is intentional?" ”

Where is Zhu Wenxing willing to believe the nonsense of these people, and said casually: "What wealth? If you don't take it yourself, tell me? ”

The idle man said: "The section level is the people in the yamen, the wealth can be taken, and the small ordinary people should not be bad, but they can only watch in vain." ”

Zhu Wenxing waved his hand: "Don't use these words to coax me!" You idlers, you don't do the right thing every day, and you are used to deceiving people. Are you trying to cheat me out of a few pennies so that you can buy wine and drink? I've been deceived by you guys a lot, where can I be fooled! ”

Hearing this, the idler was a little anxious, stomped his feet and said, "It's wronged for the section level to say this. Frankly, I saw a guest on the other side loading a lot of wine on the ship, and it is forbidden to do so, and the first one will be rewarded. At the festival level, how about the two of us share the reward money? ”

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