Xu Ping sat down, ordered the tea, and asked directly: "What's the matter, something happened in the yamen?" ”

Liu Xin and Zheng Jian glanced at each other and said to Xu Ping: "It's not a big deal, but the deputy envoy has not been here for more than a month, and there are public officials who collude with the powerful and powerful, and they are doing things in the field affairs." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

This kind of thing is impossible to ban, even if it is the big change of blood for the three officials a few days ago, it only makes them a little more restrained, and there are still many ways Xu Ping and these people don't know at all. Listening to Liu Xin's words, Xu Ping was not surprised, and asked casually: "Say, what did you find?" ”

Seeing that Zheng Jian just puffed out his eyes and didn't speak, Liu Xin had no choice but to say: "Don't hide it from the deputy envoy, when you first opened a new field business, you let the place where you live as a craftsman open some small shops and sell goods to people who work in the field business, and no tax will be charged." ”

Xu Ping nodded, there is such a thing. He also imitated the experience of his previous life, and opened some welfare cooperatives and commissaries in the workers' residential areas, not for the purpose of making profits, and of course he did not collect taxes, but regarded them as welfare for the workers. This was the usual practice in his previous life, and he didn't think about it deeply, he just ordered people to do it.

At this time, Zheng Jian spoke: "These small shops look inconspicuous, but there are a lot of them, and there are many people who go to buy things every day, and the amount of money they put in is not small, so they are targeted by the powerful family." At first, they just arranged for their own people to go in and occupy the shop, but later they became more and more unpopular, insatiable, and did not pay taxes, and the selling price was even higher than that outside. There are craftsmen who are not angry with them and do not buy things there, hehe, they have even found street idlers to beat and intimidate people who do not buy things there, and there have been several incidents. ”

As soon as he heard this, Xu Ping understood. Several of the new yards of the Third Division have begun to operate normally, and the various workers gathered there have exceeded 10,000, plus their families, it is a very large consumer market. It is very profitable to open a small shop in their residential area, even in the previous life, and not all the small shops in these factory areas have been given favors. He had seen a lot of monopolizing the market with various methods in his previous life, but he didn't expect this era to evolve so quickly, and it took less than a year to learn all these methods. This is a new thing, and it is no wonder that Liu Xin and Zheng Jian are like great enemies.

After thinking about it, Xu Ping said: "These small shops, at that time, they were just let them open, and it didn't seem that they should be in charge of it?" ”

Zheng Jian said: "Judge Liu is in charge of these miscellaneous matters of the Salt and Iron Division, so naturally he is in charge. It's just that the public officials who handle it are cunning, and they are all hired idlers on the street to do things, and they manipulate behind their backs, and they can't hold the handle in a hurry. ”

Xu Ping asked Liu Xin: "In that case, what do you want?" ”

Liu Xin gave up his hand: "Deputy envoy, a few days ago, the lower officials sent people out to visit everywhere, and the families of the powerful people who meddled in these small shops to make profits have been found out. I discussed with Zheng Gouyuan, and I was about to send someone to catch them all! Just waiting for the deputy envoy to give an order, we will arrange manpower to ensure that all of them are arrested and brought to justice! ”

Liu Xin likes this kind of espionage method of sending people to secretly investigate, and it is very taboo in the officialdom, but he just can't change it. Of course, his method is indeed very useful.

In Xu Ping's heart, he didn't see this matter as seriously as these two people, because in his previous life, it was also a familiar thing. The small commercial institutions in the large factory area, because of their huge profits, are not all people with backgrounds who use it to make a fortune? These small shops should not be inconspicuous, in the factory area of thousands or even tens of thousands of people, it is not uncommon for small shops and snack bars to make millions of profits a year, which is a means for the company's factories to bribe the real power departments. In this era when the legal system is even more unsound, it is even more inevitable in Xu Ping's mind.

However, seeing the light in the eyes of the two subordinates, Xu Ping couldn't say this anyway. Speaking of which, these are gray areas, and whether or not they commit a crime is between the two sides, even if they arrest people, it is very likely that they cannot be convicted by law. Of course, in this era, there was a court of counsel and a royal history platform, and punishment could be given without the law. But is it really necessary?

"I'll take a look at who they are."

Liu Xin listened to Xu Ping's words, reached into his arms and took out a piece of paper, and handed it to Xu Ping with both hands.

After reading the list, Xu Ping smiled bitterly in his heart. Sure enough, the emperor's relatives and relatives, plus several ministers and other high-ranking officials who have always been greedy for money, were all implicated, and the most conspicuous was the Lu Yijian family.

Just like Lu Yijian, you said that his father and son were really involved, it must be impossible, they are not so idle. But the Lu family has hundreds of people in the capital, plus thousands of slaves, so it is almost all the money-making businesses involved.

Looking at this list, Xu Ping's brows couldn't help frowning. If you really follow this list to arrest people, there is no doubt that it will cause an earthquake in the capital, and I don't know how many powerful people will be implicated. But if the matter is suppressed, the two subordinates in front of him will not be convinced. Liu Xin is a good man, and the anger in his heart is not so peaceful. Zheng Jian's attitude is even stricter than Liu Xin's, if it weren't for this era of relatively loose politics, at another time, such as the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zheng Jian would be another Zhidu, and his methods were ruthless and spicy. If it doesn't involve Lu Yijian, these powerful ministers, he doesn't have such a big momentum, and he can copy the prime minister's house, it is estimated that he dreams of such a day.

Seeing that Xu Ping was silent with the list, Zheng Jian and Liu Xin glanced at each other, and their faces had sunk.

After all, Xu Ping still lacks the courage they imagined, the higher his status and higher his official position, and the more worries he has. There are either high-ranking officials or national relatives on this list, and there are too many people who will be offended with one knife.

After thinking for a while, Xu Ping asked Liu Xin and Zheng Jian: "After arresting someone, what should I do after that?" ”

Zheng Jian said proudly: "How can you cure the greed of these people if you are handed over to the company, go to prison and treat the poor, and do not impose heavy punishments?!" ”

Xu Ping sighed: "How these people punish crimes is a trivial matter, I'm talking about those small shops and shops, how should they be dealt with in the future?" How can I prevent this from happening again? You can't just catch someone every once in a while, right? ”

Liu Xin said: "The deputy envoy originally exempted these small shops from taxes, but he was sympathetic to the poor craftsmen, but he didn't think about it, but it became a place for the powerful people in the court to accumulate wealth, but the poor people couldn't get half of the real profits. In that case, it's better to leave it for now! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "What if it's scrapped?" So many families live together, they always have to eat, drink, and buy things. Either let anyone open a store, and let the merchant go in and sell it casually. Otherwise, it is to collect their taxes, and now these people will still do what they do, and the prices will be higher at that time, what should I do? ”

Zheng Jian said: "Since this is the case, it will be accepted as an official office!" ”

"Official?" Xu Ping smiled, "Let me tell you, the big field affairs officials can still do it, but these small shops can't do it." The public officials who go to manage are also human beings, and they also want to make benefits for themselves, but they will only get worse and worse. ”

Liu Xin and Zheng Jian are silent, they are both people who work in the third division, and this truth is still clear. Kaifeng Mansion is a little better here, and in the states and counties below, some local taxes are too small, and the government will do everything to scrape money. The most typical is the liquor store, and many places will be collected as government offices if they have a profit of ten or eight times a year. As a result, the government office lost money, and forced the officials who worked there to pay for it, which was also one of the errands that made the yaqian bankrupt. There is no way, or let the people buy it, and after a few years, the government will see that the money is red and then withdrawn, and the cycle is endless.

In the most powerful prefectures and counties, only those small liquor shops in remote villages are allowed to be operated by the common people, and those with a slightly larger scale are sent to take care of them. Sell a few hundred wen a day, and the head money is not enough, how to make money? Naturally, a quota is set every year for the officials in charge to pay for it themselves, and this errand in front of the yaqian makes people afraid when they hear it, which is also one of the reasons.

First of all, the government does not do money-losing business, and it is necessary to send people to take care of how much money it collects in a year. In order to pay less out of their own pockets, the people in charge naturally do everything possible to reduce their losses, and it is inevitable that they will be shoddy if they are short of two catties, and these are all counted on the head of the government, and they still use the reputation of the regime in exchange for this little profit.

The truth is clear, the key is who will do this wrong. Officials have the pressure of taking an examination once a year, and the officials in charge will never be the ones who are wronged after they are accepted as government offices, so they have to press on the officials in charge. And if it is not run by the government, the government will not be able to control the operation of those shops, and this situation will occur, and the powerful family will use their own power to pressure the people who consume to do this wrong.

This kind of field is not the same as ordinary urban areas, because the personnel are too single, and the managers have countless ways to make people who do not agree with their hearts unable to do it, and in the end, it is still the fat in the mouth of the powerful family.

Seeing that Xu Ping had been entangled in the future of these small shops and shops, Zheng Jian said: "Since you can't have the best of both worlds, then just don't care!" There are all kinds of shops in the city, and no one cares about the merchants in the countryside, and they don't sell their goods well! Firewood, rice, oil and salt, ordinary people are not lacking anything! ”

Xu Ping sighed in his heart, it was before, it was the era of natural economy, and he had already begun to release the monster of commodity economy, how could it still be the same? In the commodity economy, everything will become a commodity. Your daily food, drink, clothing, hobbies, habits, even etiquette, righteousness, and even your life will become commodities that businessmen use to earn profits. At that time, if you let it go as before, it will be a big mess.

Zheng Jian and Liu Xin are still officials in the traditional sense, and they have not really felt this change, or in other words, the ideological enlightenment that Xu Ping should do has not yet begun, and they still have the same eyes on the private morality of officials as before. (To be continued.) )