Wang Zhusi looked at the list in front of him, his face was cloudy, and he didn't know what to think. He was not from his hometown, he turned out to be a servant from Linlian, nearby Suzhou, and was recruited because of the Ma Meng case, there was a shortage of people here in Yongcheng. The priest is the head of the county officials, and the role of half official and half official does not necessarily use the people of the county. Even when there is a shortage of people in the state, they will be sent to the state to do things. Wang Zhusi was transferred to the state and came here to make up for it.

On the other hand, Zhu Wenxing, the new head of the dock, looked at the list and complained bitterly, and said to Wang Zhusi: "I want to pay ten times!" Ah, Oshi, this isn't killing us! The previous blockade colluded with Mamonna, and was sent to the army, so I was ordered to do it. Where in my family is like those people, there is no money! I only see that there are two or three hundred acres of land at home, but most of them are dry land, and no one cultivates them, how can I make money? ”

Wang Zhusi said lightly: "It's not for nothing, the list is clear, it's just a temporary loan, for a period of three years." If you have the county lieutenant of H county and the main book as a guarantee, are you afraid that you won't return it? The government borrows money, and it has to be given anyway. ”

Zhu Wenxing just complained, but said in his heart, when will the government borrow money? It is great to be able to borrow something to offset it, and it is great to avoid a little subject allocation, and let the yamen take the cash out to repay the money, and the three-year-old child does not believe that there will be such a good thing.

Wang Zhusi pointed to the list and said: "You see, even the amount of interest and the amount of money that should be repaid every month are clearly written, but it is not as unclear as before. The new magistrate is resolute and resolute, and there is no room for delay, so you still have to prepare the money early. ”

Zhu Wenxing shook his head again and again: "Where is the money?" I am a farmer, and at this time it is the time when the green and yellow are not available, and there is nowhere to borrow! ”

Wang Zhisi sneered: "Which one is here to serve on an errand and is not prepared to use dozens of dollars when he is on an errand?" I advise you not to touch the head of the male. ”

After speaking, he ignored Zhu Wenxing and strode into the yamen.

Zhu Wenxing looked at Wang Zhisi's painful shadow, was stunned for a while, and turned around and hurriedly went to discuss with the public officials who were generally serving with him. This time, because of Ma Meng's purge, almost all the middle and upper class households in Yongcheng County were affected. It turned out that the errand was punished for breaking his fortune, and Zhu Wenxing and these people were raised to fill the vacancy. But there are so many households in a county, and the number of high-class households is limited, and most of them punish the elder brother, and the younger brother comes to work as an errand.

When he entered the county office, he saw the newly recruited hand force Mo Lun coming out of it, stepped forward and grabbed it, and said, "Brother, let's go drink!" ”

Mo Lun looked at Zhu Wenxing, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Okay, it's okay to leave and right, bother my brother for a meal." ”

When the two of them left the county office, they found a tavern next to it, went in and made a dime of wine, ordered a plate of mutton, and sat at a table.

Without waiting for the wine and food to come up, Zhu Wenxing held on to the table, stretched his neck and asked Mo Lun: "Section level, there is a list outside, let us take the money, I don't know what kind of charter it is?" Ten times money, it's not easy for people like me to come up with things. ”

Mo Lun said: "It's not clearly written on the list, the county wants to run some industries, subsidize us officials, and borrow some money to make capital." ”

Zhu Wenxing's head shook like a rattle: "Who dares to believe this?" When I asked for money in the yamen, I always said that I borrowed it temporarily, but how many times did I pay it back? Even if you pay back the money, you don't know when, and you don't know what it will be repaid. A few years later, some rotten goods came out of the warehouse, saying that they were for a certain price, and they should be repaid, and it was not the same as nothing! ”

The words of the government are not to be believed, even if there is a loan and a repayment, there is no time to repay it at that time. What rotten tea, moldy sake lees, and tasteless herbs, all of them will be used as the original price and even increased to you, and the money will be repaid. Zhu Wenxing is a countryman, and he suffers from this method.

Mo Lun said to Zhu Wenxing with a pleasant face: "Those of us who are on errands in the city have been specially called by the master to give a lecture, saying that this time is different from the past. The money borrowed from you will definitely be repaid at the right time, but borrowed from time to time, and time to repay, without discount. It is written on the list that from the third month onwards, a certain amount of money will be repaid every month with interest, and then you will see cash, and there will be no change. This is a special explanation from Shangguan, you can rest assured. ”

Where is Zhu Wenxing willing to believe, Jiaocai came up, drank a drink with Mo Lun, and hurriedly asked, "What my brother said is true?" ”

Mo Lun sighed: "Of course it's true! My brother was an errand boy in my family, but he was killed by Mamonna, and he was fined some money, and he was sent to the prison city two hundred miles away. We all want to take out the money, how can we lie to you? It was because of the Ma Meng case that our errand man couldn't get half a penny from the yamen, but had to put money in, and it was inevitable that he would be taken advantage of by the wicked, so he thought of this method. Now we have made up the capital, and the yamen has sent a special person to operate, and the money we make is our money. Do you think, if this business is really done well, not to mention how much money we get, just because all the official errands in the future will come out of it, how much less we will spend! It seems that I collect taxes in the city, and if I don't have this, when I am a few years apart, I will have to put thirty or fifty yuan into it. In this way, one or two runs can still be drawn. ”

Zhu Wenxing listened, rolled his eyes, and said, "In this way, you can get the section level." ”

Mo Lun smiled: "Do you think that being a barricade at the dock is a messenger who collects money, that is, he will take money in?" Brother, you thought a good thing when you were on an errand for the first time! There is a fixed amount of money collected at the dock, and it is not high or low, and you also have to pay for it! ”

Zhu Wenxing was taken aback: "There is still such a saying." ”

Mo Lun smiled, just drank wine and ate meat, and let Zhu Wenxing figure it out for himself.

Some of the management methods in Du Zhongxiao's previous life, such as quotas, responsibility systems, and last-place elimination systems, have long been familiar with this era. For example, Molun collects the residential tax of an area in the city, and Zhuwen Bank collects the tax of the wharf, both of which have a fixed monthly amount. Officials want to make political achievements, and this quota is set according to a certain stage when there is more tax, and after a period of time, if the tax collected is more than the quota, it will be reset, and if it is less than the quota, then the old amount will be maintained. If the amount received by the errand is less than the quota, he must pay from his own family to make up for it, otherwise the errand will ruin the family's wealth.

Zhu Wenxing is a countryman in Baoan Town, a small and remote place at the junction of several states, and he doesn't know these methods of the government. Although I heard that being an errand would ruin my family's wealth, I always thought that I was helping the government collect taxes, and I wouldn't be so unlucky, maybe there would be some benefits. After listening to Mo Lun's words, his heart began to be afraid. Of course, his family can get ten yuan of money, but it is indeed not a small amount.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Mo Lun said to Zhu Wenxing: "You have just recently been on an errand in the city, and you don't know many things, so I would like to advise you." This time, the county government collected money from us people, and said it politely, with a clear amount, and even explained clearly how to repay the loan on the repayment date, which was something that had never happened before. If the officials treat us like this, if they still don't know what to do, and they can't pay the money when the day comes, then we have to be careful! ”

Zhu Wenxing was frightened: "Didn't the list say that if there is really a difficulty at home, explain it to the official, don't you force it?" ”

Mo Lun sneered: "Then you can try!" How to deal with this difference, do you have the final say? Tomorrow, you will be asked to take some official goods to thousands of miles away, and when you come back, you will cry and shout that you want to pay the yamen! Spread on the head, come to be on an errand, the official is like a tiger, we are the obedient little sheep, do you understand this truth? The list is posted, and it is clear that we will pay the money, it is already the grace of the court, what else do you think! ”

Zhu Wenxing took a sip of wine, and was a little confused for a while. I didn't expect to go to the city on an errand this time, and I thought I had got a good errand, but I didn't expect it to be like this. It's better to apply at home and be upright, the people there are simple, but there is not much trouble.