Large landlords like to hoard grain, and there are no hundreds or thousands of stone grains at home. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info ordinary people, there may be no overnight food. Generally, self-cultivated farmers only have one year's savings after three years of ploughing. And the big households, especially the landlords, tend to hoard a lot of grain.

Food is wealth, especially in these turbulent times, and the more food you hoard, the more you feel at ease.

Now Li Chao is going to take almost half of them when he opens his mouth, the so-called and buying, voluntary trading, of course they are unwilling.

"Li Xiang has collected all our grain, and he himself may not be of any good. Why don't we give Li Xiang some gifts......"

Many people in Shangzhou have already sent grain to the yamen, and even the Shangzhou assassin has taken the lead in asking the officials to buy grain, and many grain merchants have also sent grain to the yamen, but there are still some people who have not moved.

Until now, they haven't taken out the grain, and they are not the biggest local tycoons in Shangzhou.

Someone suggested sending some money to Li Chao.

But this proposal was immediately rejected, Li Chao is so young, the official is high, is he short of money? Not to mention that Li Chao has a high title and many fields, who doesn't know that Li Chao is a master who turns stones into gold, the Li family's industry has spread all over the world in just a few years, and the speed of making money can envy countless century-old and thousand-year-old wealthy families.

Even the five wealthy families like Cui Zheng follow the Li family to make money together, and how many prime ministers in the court and the princes also follow the Li family to make money, and Li Chao will be short of money.

I have never heard that Li Chao will receive any financial gifts, because he is not short of money at all, so he doesn't need to ruin his reputation for some money and gifts, even if it is an industry run by the Li family, it is the kind of good business that makes money and fame.

"Li Xiangguo doesn't collect money, it's impossible for the people around him not to collect money, right?" Someone else came up with a new idea. Li Chao is indeed rich, but the people around him can't all be so rich. Li Chao is outside, and he also has to rely on his subordinates to do things.

Many people are accustomed to giving gifts, and would rather give some money to an official than pay taxes and taxes to the government.

The most important reason why these local tycoons have always been strong at the local level is their local power and their relationship with the local government.

The situation in this place is actually very similar to the situation in the court, the nobles in the court are married to each other, and the local heroes are also married to each other, and they are still married from generation to generation, and the relationship is closer.

They advance and retreat together, watch together, and prosper and lose together.

In the face of Li Chao's peace and buying, he decided to go around to the end.

They have always been skilled at sending money.

Assassin Liu Ye's ability to control his subordinates is still good, and after sending money here, he got the news and rushed to see Li Chao in person.

"Did they give a lot of gifts?"

"The gift is indeed not thin, and there are many gifts, and the officials in the state basically have a copy."

Cui Yan also came to report that many people on their side had received gifts from the heroes of Shangzhou.

On both sides, Li Chao found that these powerful people were indeed generous, for Li Chao, these gifts may not be nothing, but for those officials in Shangzhou, as well as those officials he brought, it is a lot of money.

"I'll have the money all returned right away!"

"What to return, since they sent it, then stay. Register all the gifts you have received with you and me, and then these will be the hard work of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for everyone during this time. ”

Those powerful people give gifts, and they give a lot, which is completely enough to bribe, and the officials accept it, that is, bribery. However, Li Chao also knew that the water was clear and there were no fish, whether it was the people he brought or the local officials, they also had to support their families.

The money sent, with a word from Li Chao, can change from accepting bribes to rewarding the prince, and the nature is different.

The same amount of money received by the officials changed from dirty money to direct reward income. If you take bribes, you will make them soft on their money, and they will speak for the powerful. But to receive the reward, they don't have to stand on the side of Haoqiang.

"Send another list to those big households, there are still three days left, let them hurry up and hand over the grain. At the same time, send a fine to these people who dare to openly bribe the officials of the imperial court. The fine is doubled for the amount they bribe! Li Chao said with a smile, but the decision was a little ruthless.

This time it was just a penalty, which was already Li Chao's stern warning.

Li Chao brought a lot of people this time, in addition to a thousand guards, there was also a staff team. Among them, there are only a dozen officials with ranks, and the rest of the more than 100 people are officials.

No grade, no order.

Some of these people can be regarded as economic officials, and many of them are Li Chao's staff. These people are all scholars, and some of them have participated in the imperial examination.

However, today's imperial examination is not perfect, and among so many subjects, the Ming Jing and Jinshi subjects are heavy, and there are too few others such as Xiucai. Even if you take the Ming Jing and Jinshi exams, you can't be an official right away, in short, if you want to become an official, in the final analysis, you have to rely on your family background and background.

has no family background, and no good backer, and it is rare to be awarded an official within two or three years of being admitted to the imperial examination.

Many readers, especially those from poor backgrounds, most of them still choose to enter the curtain first as staff. Being a staff member is not to make money, but to look forward to the opportunity to be appreciated by the master and recommended in the future.

Li Chao served as a local envoy, an observer envoy, and a metropolitan governor as the prime minister, which was the prime minister. According to the system of the imperial court, he can open a government and build a government and recruit a team of staff members by himself. Some of these staff members can even be graded.

This is also a huge difference between the officials of the Tang Dynasty and the later Song and Ming dynasties, and the high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty were able to open their own government and set up their own subordinate officials. In the Sui period, even the assassin could set up his own subordinate officials, and now, the power in the hands of the assassin has been taken away by the imperial court, and the local officials are all appointed by the imperial court.

However, most of the officials are local conscriptions.

Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the central government was highly centralized, a county commander had to take office with a large group of people. There are several masters, as well as cell bosses, coachmen, menzi, etc., and the masters alone have to be divided into several according to the names of the prisoners, money, food, etc., and these masters with rich experience in actual administration will help those officials who rely on the imperial examination to actually manage the government.

And no matter what dynasty, in ancient times, officials took office, in addition to the staff they brought with them, they were also inseparable from the support of local officials.

The officials who run water are iron-clad officials.

In many places, most of the officials are actually hereditary. For generations, these local positions seem to be lowly, and even the court stipulates that the sons of state and county officials cannot take the imperial examination, but these people cannot be underestimated.

Li Chao is a person from the later generations, and in the later generations, he will eat public meals in any township and township, and he will be very majestic. Not to mention, at this time, the officials in the yamen, in fact, in the future generations, are all figures equivalent to the level of county chiefs. A county chief, can this be a small person?

Locally, these people are big shots.

Ling Yin, who broke the county order and destroyed the door, even the officials were all strong.

Li Chao doesn't mind these people charging some money, but as long as his feet don't tilt to the side.

This time, Liu Ye took the officials of Shangzhou to pay the grain, and the performance of the local officials was still good, and this time the money was allowed to stay, which could be regarded as making up for the loss of their previous grain payment.

During the meal, Li Chengqian asked Li Chao, "Many of these local officials are actually in collusion with local tycoons, or even have relatives. When they take bribes, why don't they hold them accountable, but reward them with money? (To be continued.) )