Zhang Ji was a serious Jinshi, and also worked as an editor in the Hanlin Academy. He was good at writing articles, and he was very good at flattering people. Moreover, he was very flexible and knew that being an official depends not on ability, but on relationships, so he was usually very good at flattery and building relationships.

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Therefore, this official was very successful in both the Ming and Qing dynasties.

This time, I even found a good job in Shanxi Food Road. As long as I manage this job well, it is not a problem to earn one or two hundred thousand a year. Even if I throw away the three festivals, two birthdays, three honors and expenses such as five or six thousand taels,

You can still make a lot of money.

But he has no money now.

I had made a lot of money when I was the prefect, but I had used it all up.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present Qing Dynasty, the officialdom was full of all kinds of bad rules. After all, it was about giving gifts, and it was not an ordinary etiquette, but a pure gift of money.

When foreign officials send gifts to Beijing officials, there is ice respect in summer and charcoal respect in winter. There is also a special respect when leaving Beijing to take up a new post.

Only when the letter from the capital is always open and the charcoal respect is always abundant, can you do well as an official. In fact, there are already unspoken rules for how much you should give. Officials of different levels have a fixed amount for giving to officials of a certain level.

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Even if you take a local office, you still have to give gifts to all your immediate superiors, no one should be missing, and the same amount is also stipulated.

In addition to those given to officials, salutes at the doors of all government offices and officials' homes are also indispensable.

Some large yamen even require forty or fifty taels of silver per door bag.

Zhang Ji, who was born in the Imperial Academy, worked as an Imperial Academy in Beijing for seven years. The Imperial Academy was a Qingshui yamen, and although he had a bit of Bingjing and Tanjing, it was very little, so he lived a very miserable life.

Later, he left the capital and was appointed as the prefect of Shuoping, Shanxi Province. Because his salary in the capital was meager and he didn't receive much salute, he couldn't receive as many tributes as usual when he left the capital. As a result, his job as an official was not smooth after he took office.

, and was even quickly impeached.

Later, after he returned to Beijing, someone gave him some advice, so he gritted his teeth and started borrowing Beijing debts. He made up for it everywhere, and sure enough, he soon had to pay off the debts again. After staying in the place for nearly ten years, he finally paid off the Beijing debts.

I also caught some.

However, this time I had already spent all my savings to get this lucrative job. Now that I am leaving the capital, as usual, I have to pay my respects, and even more, otherwise it will not be easy for me to sit in this official position.

Now that he had experience, he made some calculations in his mind while sitting in the sedan chair home, and finally came to the conclusion that it would cost at least eighteen thousand to twenty thousand taels of silver.

So next, Zhang Ji started to run Beijing Debt. There was a loan in Beijing specifically for Jinshi. The money that officials lent was called Beijing Debt, and the interest rate was quite high.

I successfully borrowed 20,000 taels, of which 9,000 taels were borrowed from a Guangdong bank with an annual interest rate of 9%, and 9,000 taels from a Shandong bank, also at 9%. In the same year, I borrowed 2,000 taels from a friend.

I got 20,000 taels of silver and gave it all away within three days.

The monthly interest rate of nine percent means the annual interest rate is ten percent, and the annual interest rate is two thousand one hundred and sixty taels. This interest rate is pretty good.

Before setting off, my father-in-law fell ill and asked him to borrow money. I had no choice but to borrow another three thousand taels, and gave one thousand taels to my father-in-law, one thousand to my wife and children, and one thousand to myself for traveling expenses.

However, enough money was given, the errands went smoothly, and various official documents were obtained smoothly, and then he took office.

Each of the academicians of the three inner academies presented 400 taels, six ministers, the General Constitution, 100 taels, and fifty taels each for the Minister, Dajiu Qing, and so on. Then officials at all levels, even those from the same hometown and the same year, with good family background, also

expressed,

After a while, the 20,000 taels were used up.

Later, I borrowed another three thousand.

But Zhang Ji didn't panic. He had been an official for more than ten years and had experience in giving gifts. This small amount of money was nothing. When he arrived in Shanxi, he had to borrow another sum of money as usual. The governor had to give 800 taels, and the governor had to give 800 taels.

Six hundred taels are given as gifts. In addition, these are also sent to the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, and so on. There are also the chief envoys, the inspection envoys, the patrol envoys, etc., and every Bodhisattva, big and small, must bow in place.

At that time, tens of thousands of taels of silver will be scattered.

But this is just a foundation. As long as the position of Grain Road is secure and in charge of the grain of Shanxi Province, not only 200,000 yuan a year, but a small 100,000 yuan can be obtained casually. When the cost is taken into account, it will still be able to

The one who dropped 50,000 to 60,000 taels of silver.

How about being an official for thousands of miles just for money?

This is only Mingli's income, which is semi-legal. If corruption is involved, there are no limits.

Of course, a smart person like Zhang Ji would not reach out randomly. It is enough to deal with such bad rules and other gray income. If the water is flowing slowly, it is really straightforward corruption, but it will lose your head.

The officials' income depends entirely on these bad rules. In Beijing, there are ice and charcoal greetings to bid farewell and wait, and local officials have three festivals and two birthdays. This is all tradition.

He heard that there was a saint and emperor in his hometown, who not only raised the salary of officials, but also created some kind of silver to support integrity. It was said that a governor directly gave 20,000 taels of silver a year to support integrity, and some county magistrates gave one thousand, and some

For two thousand.

Then it is said that these bad rules and rituals are prohibited, and accepting bad rules will be regarded as corruption, and the punishment is quite strict.

Zhang Ji felt that there might be something wrong with the emperor. He didn't care about such things. Who would be an official in that day?

The regent Dorgon, as the regent of the emperor's father, received a courtesy at the gate, and collected hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year. His wives and concubines also received tributes, and there were festivals and festivals, and all kinds of happy events were celebrated.

, the regent didn’t prohibit these, why did Zhu Yihai insist on prohibiting them?

Does he want to be like his ancestor Zhu Baba, who wanted to kill all the corrupt officials in the world, but can he kill him?

However, when he heard that Huohuo returned to the public and Huohuo raised integrity, he thought it was quite innovative. Would it be great if the Qing Dynasty also provided officials with more money to support their integrity?

I heard that there is no grain supervision department there, but it is called the Grain Department, the Water Conservancy Department or something like that. The Grain Department is still a junior rank, with a director in each province. It is said that the money for raising money is five thousand taels.

If Zhang Ji was asked to be the food supervisor and only be given a subsidy of 5,000 taels a year, he would definitely not be willing to do it. But if all the bad regulations are collected, he can get an additional 5,000 taels to support honest silver, and even increase his salary.

First of all, if you give him some job money or something, don't let his extra few thousand taels of income go to waste.

Now that food is so expensive, it would be a big deal if you just add a little bit of waste when collecting food. If you get some more food and sell it on the black market, you will be able to make a lot of money. It depends on your courage.

The price of rice in the capital has exceeded ten taels and one stone. Zhang Ji secretly planned that when he got there, he would definitely get some grain to sell in Beijing. Of course, he also knew that he would not be able to handle this kind of thing.

It definitely needs to be done together with the governors and governors, and even the princes of the Eight Banners, and even the ministers and ministers in Beijing must participate.

The more people involved in the matter, the more reliable the money will be earned. Even if he doesn't get the big share, he can still get a lot of it if he occupies this position.
Chapter completed!