Li Yanqing said this task of supervision, then took out the silver medal of the army transfer from his arms and placed it on the table, "This is the silver medal of the army transfer from Xiangzhou. I am going to transfer three hundred township soldiers."

Wang Gui picked up the silver medal and looked at it, "This is the silver medal of the Privy Council. It can mobilize the wing army! Why did you think of transferring the village soldiers?"

"Because I can trust you, it's hard to say about the soldiers."

"There is no status for the village soldiers to go out. If you don't dislike me, I can transfer three hundred soldiers to you."

"What about you?"

Li Yanqing smiled again and said, "Are you interested in going with me?"

Before Wang Gui could speak, footsteps came from outside. Tang Yuaner brought two maids to them and brought wine and food. The maid put two pots of hot wine and six or seven side dishes on the table. Tang Yuaner smiled at Li Yanqing and said, "This year's tribe sacrifice, my Agui, was the main priest for the first time. Are you interested in taking a look together?"

Li Yanqing laughed, "I'm afraid I don't have time and I'm leaving tomorrow."

"That's a pity, you guys can drink!"

Tang Yuan'er smiled slightly and stepped back. Wang Gui sighed and said, "The biggest 'benefit' of marrying a wife is that she has no freedom. Her ears are always everywhere. You hear them too. I want to go but she won't let her go!"

"That's it, you are the main priest after all, so it's hard to leave."

"What does it matter? I will be the principal priest next year!"

At this time, Tang Yuaner said in the yard: "Agui, the fifth brother is here."

Li Yanqing and Wang Gui quickly stood up to greet him, and saw Yue Fei walking in quickly. He was dark-skinned, wearing a short coarse cloth, with leggings tied around his legs, and a white-washed flat towel. He hadn't seen him for nearly a year. Li Yanqing felt that Yue Fei seemed to have changed. He had a bit of a general's temperament, but now he is a simple young farmer.

However, Li Yanqing also understood that he heard Wang Gui say that Yue Fei's father had completely lost his labor force and was paralyzed in bed. He wanted to support the whole family alone. He also had a brother studying in the state and married his wife half a year ago. He was under great pressure.

Since Li Yanqing and Yue Fei parted on the battlefield, they were particularly intimate when they met again. Li Yanqing pulled Yue Fei into the room and sat down. Wang Gui poured them wine. Li Yanqing raised his glass and smiled and said, "For today's party, let's have a drink first!"

"Come on! Cheers."

The three of them drank the wine in one go, and Yue Fei asked with a smile: "Is Yanqing back for the New Year this time?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "It was a businessman who passed by his hometown."

He briefly explained the supervision of his visit to Hebei West Road. Yue Fei nodded, "The taxes in the past two years are too heavy. This year, I paid the land tax and exemption money, and I only had half of the food left after harvesting, which was only enough for myself. If I hadn't had part-time jobs in the government, my family would have to borrow money."

"You don't have to pay the exemption, do you?" Li Yanqing asked in confusion.

Yue Fei sighed, "But my father and brother want to pay, but my father is paralyzed, and he still has to pay the money, and there is no room for comfort."

Li Yanqing said: "It makes no sense to ask disabled people to pay immunity money. I went to Zhou Chun and told him that he must be exempted from your father's immunity money."

"Forget this, it's not a problem for the magistrate. I'm exempting my father from money. How can I make up for this gap? Besides, it's not just my father, but other people with disabilities are the same. It's also difficult for magistrate Zhou to handle it. It's better to open up sources than to reduce expenses."

Speaking of Kaiyuan, Wang Gui remembered something and hurriedly said, "Old Yue, I heard from my grandfather that Lushan Academy wants to invite you to be the martial arts teacher. Have you agreed?"

Yue Fei smiled and said, "Of course I agreed. Then I told my uncle that my brother would go to Lushan Academy to study so that he could go home to take care of his father every day, so that I could live in the academy and hold two positions, and go home during the busy farming period, so that my family would be more prosperous."

Wang Gui's eyes lit up, "It is a good idea to let Xiao Feng return to Lushan Academy to study. I am also worried that you don't have time! If I turn around and send him a donkey, he can go home every day."

"How can you be so embarrassed! I'll get my heart, donkey, I'll find another way."

"What's a donkey? My family just sells livestock and doesn't spend any money. It's just that the female donkey gave birth to a small donkey. Don't argue with me about this, otherwise I'll be upset."

"Okay then! Let's share your power."

At this time, Li Yanqing smiled and said to Yue Fei: "I plan to pay 300 taels of silver to hire a temporary bodyguard. I wonder if my fifth brother is interested?"

Yue Fei smiled and said, "With your martial arts, you probably don't need my protection!"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "It's not me, it's my officials. They are all civil servants who are powerless. I'm worried about their safety. This time we went north, we have enough funds. I have no idea about asking other bodyguards. I can trust my fifth brother."

Yue Fei was a little moved. His father was sick in bed for a long time and needed to take medicine for a long time. The family was really struggling. His brother Yue had to go to Lushan Academy to study and needed some money. He was at a loss for this. Now he can earn 300 taels of silver in twenty days. This money can not only solve the urgent problem, but also treat his father. It just so happened that there was nothing to do during the New Year. Instead of sitting at home, it would be better to go north to earn this money.

Yue Fei thought for a while and said, "I'll go back and discuss it, and I'll reply to you!"

Li Yanqing was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "We will pass by Lushan Town tomorrow morning. If the fifth brother is willing to come, we will meet in Lushan Academy. I will go to pay tribute to my master again."

"Okay! I'll go back and discuss with my family."

The three of them drank another glass of wine. Yue Fei had something to do at home, so they got up and said goodbye. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Yanqing smiled at Wang Gui and said, "Then I'll leave too. We live at Tangnan Station, which is sixty or seventy miles away. It's time to get back and see you again. "

"I'll send you there!"

Wang Gui put on a coat and sent Li Yanqing out of the gate. He followed Li Yanqing all the way to the entrance of the village. Wang Gui pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind and said, "I still want to go with you. After all, you want to go to Anyang to lead the village soldiers, that's my business."

"But your home..."

"A Yuan was just talking. I really insisted on going, and she wouldn't stop her. As for grandfather's side, of course he hoped that I would focus on my career and I should be able to get out of here."

Of course, Li Yanqing hoped that Wang Gui would go north with him, so that he would have a right-hand man, but he didn't want to force Wang Gui, so he smiled and said, "Let's do it! Think about it again when you go back. If you decide, then meet in Lushan Academy like Lao Yue."

"Then it's just a matter of determination. I will wait for you at Lushan Academy tomorrow morning, and I will also pay tribute to the Master."

Li Yanqing turned over and said, "See you tomorrow!"

Wang Gui waved his hand, and he also hoped to go out and do something. He was really tired of being a group training in Xiangzhou.

The next morning, Li Yanqing led everyone to Lushan Town in three ox carts. Wang Gui and Yue Fei were already waiting at the intersection for a long time. Li Yanqing was overjoyed. He introduced Yue Fei and Wang Gui to everyone. Everyone heard that both of them were martial arts scholars, skilled in bows and horses, and were very skilled in martial arts. They all expressed their welcome.

The three of them immediately went to the academy to pay tribute to their master Yao Ding, and everyone quickly headed towards Anyang County.

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The biggest feature of local officials in the Song Dynasty was that they were appointed by court officials. For example, the doctor of the Ministry of War knew about the affairs of a certain state, and the title of the chief official was the court official, and the local officials were only temporarily served. The real local officials such as the governor and the governor were empty positions and were stationed in the capital for a long time.

Not only the state officials, but also the road officials. The Song Dynasty road seemed a bit similar to today's province, but in fact it was very different. The Song Dynasty roads did not have the chief officials like the governor. They were only responsible for transportation and material circulation and the criminal prison officials responsible for criminal law. They were only officials under the jurisdiction of the court, not local officials.

Transportation is in charge of the transportation and allocation of materials along the way, and it is actually the most powerful official along the way.

The prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty did not have any local financial powers such as local tax bureaus. All the taxes collected every year were paid to the court, and then the court allocated the most basic administrative fees such as employee salaries, office funds, education expenses, etc. according to the operation needs of one prefecture and one county. The rest of the expenses were not available. Therefore, the Song Dynasty was a famous rich temple and poor monk. The county governments in each county were in ruins and had no money to repair them.

But even the most basic administrative expenses are not enough. The court is compassionate to the situation and allows public housing and public land in various prefectures and counties to rent out, and use rent to make up for the lack of public party money, that is, office funds.

The transshipment officer is responsible for allocating basic financial funds from each prefecture and county, and it actually controls the local financial power.

Of course, the magistrates and counties also have their own ways to make money. Otherwise, how could they hire a staff member or marry a concubine? However, their gray income should not be used in the open space, such as building bridges, roads, city walls, and government offices. Otherwise, they would not be able to explain the origin of the money to the court.

The censors focus on these goals. For example, if the county government in Tangyin County has been renovated, the censors will immediately ask Zhou Chun, where does the money for the renovation of the county government come from? If Zhou Chun can't tell the reason, he will face impeachment.

Therefore, it seems that the prefectures and counties are fair and honest, with strict systems and no oil or water to make money. But in fact, behind this system is a huge corruption and darkness. Most of the funds are raised by gentry, and the government is responsible for the construction of the prefectures and county schools, and the quota allocation of the prefectures and county schools, etc. Once these money falls into the pockets of prefectures and county officials, the court has no evidence to investigate.

Because the Hebei Transportation Envoy was also in charge of the allocation of money and goods from both east and west routes of Hebei, it was called the Transportation Envoy. Liang Fangping, the Minister of the Ministry of Justice of the Criminal and the Secretary of the Criminal Procuratorate. Liang Fangping was about 60 years old and was also a second-rank official in the court. He was once Cai Jing's confidant. He was promoted by Cai Jing and recommended to be the Transportation Envoy of Hebei and the two routes of Hebei. He controlled the financial power of the two routes of Hebei.

However, after Cai Jing was dismissed from prime minister last year, Wang Fu and Li Yan emerged from another army and faintly replaced Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng. Liang Fangping changed his sect and submitted a letter of surrender to Wang Fu.

Liang Fangping's letter of surrender was to impeach the chief officials of the five prefectures, including Zhending Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Daming Prefecture, Jizhou and Xiangzhou.

These five prefectures are extremely important. After controlling these five prefectures, they also control the two routes of Hebei. These officials are almost all disciples of Cai Jing. As they were impeached or transferred, the officials recommended by Wang Fu entered the five prefectures, which means that Cai Jing's power in Hebei was almost destroyed. How could Cai Jing not hate Liang Fangping deeply?

This time, the military prison went to inspect the preparations for the two routes of Hebei. The background was that a military warehouse in Zhending Prefecture caught fire. It was found that the warehouse was empty, and the eight thousand stones of military ration on the tent disappeared. This warehouse was under the jurisdiction of Liang Fangping's Transportation Department.

Of course, if there is a problem with a warehouse, you can still shirk responsibility from below, but if there is a problem with multiple warehouses, Liang Fangping will be unable to quit his responsibility.
Chapter completed!