"Since the establishment of the yamen by the Ordinance Editing Institute, the officials in the Yamen have worked together to compile the new regulations, and now they have been on trial for some days, and the results are quite satisfactory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Xu Ping said in a calm tone as much as possible, "There is another important thing now, that is, the accounts that have been backlogged for many years need to be sorted out. This is not difficult in the first place, but because it has to be done in accordance with the new regulations, all the people are new, and they can't do it in a hurry, so things are a little difficult to do. ”

Zeng Gongliang said: "The three divisions are in charge of the world's money and grain, and things are naturally difficult to do. The deputy envoy called us here, just say anything clearly, as long as we can help, the lower officials will naturally spare no effort! ”

"Well, it's good that you can think like that. That's the case, the earliest personnel in the regulations editing office, Liu Xin went to the Salt and Iron Division as a judge, and Wang Gongchen went to Dongming County to manage the camp and field affairs, and now except for some officials of the Third Division, there are no officials on daily duty in the office. Recently, I have to transfer some people from the pavilion, and I think about it left and right, and you are the most suitable. I called you here today just to ask, would you like to transfer you to the editing office? ”

After listening to Xu Ping's words, Ye Qingchen said with a smile: "If the deputy envoy wants to transfer us, he can just play the political affairs hall and give an order, so why ask us?" Weichen and others are all doing things for the imperial court, so how can they not listen to the announcement! ”

"That's not the case, the three divisions have been busy recently, and the officials have been transferred here, so there is no leisure time compared to other yamen. Although there are some merits, not all officials are willing to come. I don't want to force people, so I must ask you, if you are willing to come, then you must do things with peace of mind. ”

Ye Qingchen, Zeng Gongliang, Gao Ruone and Ji Ying glanced at each other, and arched their hands together: "Let the deputy envoy dispatch!" ”

"Good! Since you have no objection, I will submit a petition to the Chinese book! Xu Ping said, picking up the pen and filling in the vacant name of the document on the table. The ministry of your pavilion is still there, and all the things that are done here are here for duty. Affiliated to the Editorial Institute of the Regulations of the Third Division, he will be given 10,000 yuan per month, and he will be reduced for half a year after serving for one year. ”

After writing the names of several people on the petition, Xu Ping raised his head and saw that several people were happy, and said: "These are unwritten treatments, you only need to receive money every month, and I will transfer it to the court when my term of office expires, don't go out to publicize it." ”

The four of them made a promise together.

Ten yuan a month is just a little repaid, the consumption level of Kaifeng City is just a banquet in a better restaurant, and it is not a small benefit to do it for a year to reduce the grind and survey for half a year, which is equivalent to moving officials beyond seniority.

According to the grinding system, officials are transferred in order after their term of office, and attendant officials, officials with background, and officials with military merits are double-transferred. These people are all from Jinshi, and they enjoy the treatment of super-qualified double relocation, coupled with the grinding and grinding survey of the editing institute, one term is equivalent to the fourth order of super-relocation, which is quite attractive to lower-level officials.

Of course, like Xu Ping, who combines the conditions of attendant, Jinshi background and military merit, he is the only one in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and he will immediately reach the official rank where the grinding and investigation stops, so this treatment is not attractive. The Xu family is withered again, and when the term expires and the official is moved, Xu Ping can only give it back to Xu Zheng, everything is cheap dad.

After sealing the petition, Xu Ping called in the miscellaneous officials and asked him to send it to the government hall immediately. He had already negotiated the matter of transferring people to the deacons, and what was missing was only a specific list, and now it was decided.

After all this was done, Xu Ping asked the miscellaneous officials to fetch a stool and let a few people sit together.

Everyone sat down, and Xu Ping said to Zheng Jian: "I called you here today because the accounts of previous years not only have to be recreated, but also checked one by one." I have already told the lord of Kou Province about this matter, and the Gou Yuan of the Salt and Iron Division will do it, and the Gou Yuan of the other two divisions will not participate. You have been busy with many things lately, and you are short of manpower, so you borrowed people from the editing office. ”

Zheng Jian arched his hand: "The subordinates obey the orders of the deputy envoy." ”

"Although the three divisions have done it over the years, and the officials are also familiar with it, the effect is unbelievable. You are all people who have served in the local government and have passed the judgment and the county, not to mention anything else, as for the leap year to be made this year, most of the local states and counties are copied from the accounts of previous years, and the books are recorded by the three divisions. It's not that the three divisions don't pursue it, it's because the three divisions can't tell whether the numbers on the account books are new or not, so what if they don't record them? This time, the Editorial Office will not only make a record of the past account books, but also let the officials and officials who do this learn how to distinguish the truth of these figures. ”

Zheng Jian said: "How can you tell the difference? If the Gou Yuan felt suspicious, he sent someone down to the state and county to inspect, but the three divisions did not have so many manpower. If you let the local self-inspection, it will not be in vain! ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "You don't have to go down to inspect, the numbers will naturally speak." Although it may not be 100% true, it is not a problem to catch most of the love cheats. ”

"The deputy envoy laughed, how can numbers speak? Even if some local officials are really stupid and unreasonable, they can only go to the book and ask them to remake the book, can they still see these things from the figures? ”

Zheng Jian has been in charge of the Salt and Iron Division for some days, and what he does every day is to check the accounts, and of course he has the energy to do this. But looking at those numbers, I was dizzy every day, and I didn't see them say anything.

Xu Ping looked at Zheng Jian, then at the rest of the people, and said, "That's why I transferred people from Si Tianjian, to let those numbers speak, it is up to them to find a way." Between heaven and earth, there is a certain truth in everything, and if it is not based on facts, no matter how careful the officials who do things are, the numbers will not be reasonable. It's just that it is difficult for us ordinary people to grasp this truth, and only those who are specialized in arithmetic who study numbers every day can find out the hidden truth in this number. ”

Zheng Jian kept shaking his head: "The deputy envoy admires his subordinates for doing things for others, but I don't believe that the arithmetic theory is so mysterious." Yin and Yang gossip, I also learned the study of Liuren Dunjia in the pavilion, to be honest, I can't do this kind of thing. ”

"Haha, this has nothing to do with Liuren Dunjia, it is only related to arithmetic. I will go to do this with a few people from Si Tianjian to sort out some calculations, and then the check-off personnel can just calculate according to the table. However, what exactly these tables mean is for you to understand, and this is also the time to test you in the next month or two. ”

Zheng Jian looked at Ji Ying and the others next to him and didn't speak again. In his heart, he still doesn't believe it, what numbers can speak, can you see which one is fake by looking at the numbers? I've never heard of anything like this.

Xu Ping didn't explain in depth, and when they figured out a statistical system, they would naturally understand. It is said that with the wide scope of management of the three divisions and the huge amount of data processed every year, statistical knowledge is urgently needed. But in fact, today's officials do not have this concept at all, and even if they do not feel that they use it in some conveniences, they have not systematically sorted it out theoretically. In this era, many things are like this, obviously there is a demand, but in theory and technology, it is impossible to take the key step.

The more he learned about this era, the more he had a sense of dislocation.

Different from the previous generations, after more than 100 years of war in the late Tang Dynasty, the various autonomous organizations of the whole society, such as the wealthy clans in the countryside, have disappeared, and the cities have also developed and grown with the development of commerce. In line with this, the government has become different from its predecessors, and has become in charge of everything, eager to bring every family and every person under direct control.

But the bureaucracy did not follow this facilitation, especially the literati and doctors, who were always trying to restore their ideal political system, regardless of the differences in social outlook. One group thinks about the world of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the other thinks about the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, especially the latter trend of thought, which is the loudest. In their eyes, it is not normal to inherit the system of five generations of troubled times, and only the system of three provinces and six ministries restored to the prosperous Tang Dynasty is perfect.

There are thousands of reasons for them, but none of them are looking forward to the development of the times.

The redundant officials and redundant officials who are mentioned from time to time are the appendages of this trend of thought, and the reason why they say more is that they are compared with the previous dynasties, especially the Tang Dynasty. But I don't want the Tang Dynasty to care about many things that the government is in charge of now, and the current system does not allow the emergence of powerful local political entities, nor does it allow the emergence of economic entities that can threaten the government.

At this time, there were only more than 10,000 civil and military officials in the country, and according to Xu Ping's previous life, this number was really pitiful, and there was still room for reduction. If you want to reduce officials, you will inevitably have to push out some powers, in the fashionable words of his previous life, that is, to reduce government functions and make society take more responsibility.

In this way, the logistics supply of the frontier was pushed to the merchants, and as a result, the Shaanxi Road was turned into a big quagmire, and it basically lost its ability to support a large-scale war. Now that the war with Western Xia has not yet started, although Xu Ping can't remember the time when the war began in history, he has the two weather vanes of Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi's careers, and he knows that it will definitely be a few more years. At this time, Xu Ping had already seen that according to the current situation on Shaanxi Road, if there were no major changes, it would not be able to support a large-scale war at all. No matter how much money the imperial court invests, if there is no change in the system, fighting on Shaanxi Road is a dead end. As long as the war lasts for a few years, before the enemy is defeated, the people there will first rebel.

How can the logistics of the war, which cannot be organized by the imperial court officials, be solved by relying on businessmen? If the local people on Shaanxi Road are not forced to the brink of life and death, there is no need for merchants to transport grain and grass from other places, and this is the case for commercial interests.

What Xu Ping is doing now is to sort out the entire financial system, and it can no longer be a confused account. Only by settling this account clearly can the court know where the money should be invested, and without a clear goal, how much money will be wasted.

Looking at the sky outside, Xu Ping got up and said, "There is no business in the yamen today, so I will go out for a gathering in the evening." Wang Gongchen and I opened a small restaurant in the north of the city, and it was not bad at night, but there was no singing and dancing. (To be continued.) )