When Wei Yanghao woke up, it was already dawn and he heard someone talking outside the window. ⊙, he stood up while dressing and stood by the window, and happened to hear his book boy say, "Have you heard that, the yamen pays his salary today."

"I heard that, but I probably don't have any meaning. Since the founding of the new dynasty, our master has paid for this official. Looking at the court, he probably won't pay much money. Maybe he will have to pay it back and forth." The reply was his Changsui, and he then said, "It was said that the Hongwu Dynasty was the most difficult to be an official back then. I think it was even harder to be an official in the Longhan Dynasty. He had to pay for it. It was nothing that any dynasty had."

"Actually, I finally worked hard for ten years, once in high school, I became an official and made a fortune, and I glorified my ancestors. But I finally got an official in the past two years, saved some money, and now I still took a lot of money out. How could this happen?"

Chang Sui replied, "That's not the case, otherwise how could countless gentry in the world make the rebellion of the new dynasty?"

Wei Yanghao couldn't listen anymore, and he coughed, and there was no sound outside the house immediately.

These little bastards are becoming less and less arrogant. They dare to say anything. Wei Yanghao is the magistrate of Chenliu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province, and a seventh-rank official. This is his third year in office and his first time to be released. He was born in the Jinshi list, but in the past, he was poor and his family gritted his teeth to support him. He finally passed the imperial examination when he was almost thirty years old. He was lucky and then he passed the imperial examination. He then took a free position in Beijing and was able to be released from Henan to become a magistrate.

When he was a magistrate, he was much better than being an official in the Qingshui Yamen in Beijing. When he was in Beijing, he was an eighth rank with a salary of 84 s. He had no other income in the Qingshui Yamen, and his living expenses were high in the capital, so life was really difficult. Especially since he was from a poor family in the countryside, he became an official, and his whole family followed him to Beijing and wanted to enjoy his happiness.

Parents, siblings, sisters, sisters, sisters, sisters-in-law, nephew, etc., a family of more than a dozen people even hired coachmen and servants. It was extremely difficult to live with this salary, and they had to borrow money.

After finally borrowing money and trying to get a magistrate through the relationship of a postmaster, the situation finally improved a lot.

The seventh-rank magistrate's annual salary is only 90 stones, which is only six stones more than before. However, the local officials are still regular seal officials like the magistrate. The difference is still very big.

As soon as he took office, local gentry and merchants gave him a welcome silver, which was a full 2,000 taels. This is also the current custom in the officialdom. New officials will receive silver, and officials will also give silver when they leave.

In addition to this money, Wei Yanghao has been the magistrate of Chenliu for several years, and there are still common cases every year.

Common examples are actually hidden rules, gray income. A thing that has long been defaulted by the upper and lower levels. The common example of Chenliu County Magistrate has more than 20 incomes in total, which is unchanging. Every official has the same, and everyone defaults on it.

Among them are more than 20 items such as 160 taels of summer silk, eight pieces of summer silk, twenty taels of long autumn grain, and so on. Together, more than 20 items are about 3,000 taels of long summer silk, etc.

This is no longer a matter of soliciting bribes or accepting bribes. It is a common example. When the Qing Dynasty official Hai Rui was a county magistrate in Zhejiang, he also accepted these common examples and recorded them in his own collection.

These projects are just the default common examples. If you encounter corrupt officials, you will embezzle, misappropriate, or even publicly demand bribes.

Wei Yanghao, like his name, wanted to cultivate a strong spirit, so he disdained those corruption and bribery matters, but often he took a lot of money into his pocket.

After serving as the magistrate for three years, Wei Yanghao not only raised a family, paid off his debts owed in Beijing, but even saved up ten thousand taels of silver.

However, as soon as the new dynasty was opened, the higher authorities carried out the clearance and recovery of debts, and Chenliu County also had many deficiencies and taxes. The higher authorities implemented a responsibility system and included a section to complete the contract. Whoever wiped his butt and pursued the deficit, whoever embezzled and filled it, and if he couldn't find out, the official would pay for it himself.

Wei Yanghao also turned his head blank after this official document. He took his master and his subordinates to check for many days, but in the end he only found some of the deficits and arrears. He gave them a document to fill it, but there were still many dead accounts that could not be matched, and in the end he could only make up for it and his subordinates.

Wei Yanghao suddenly replenished 10,000 silver dollars, and half of the property he had accumulated was gone.

It would be false to say that he did not feel dissatisfied. Fortunately, he did not have a long time in his career, and although he felt that the imperial court's laws were correct.

Fortunately, during this period, I was busy clearing the fields and chasing taxes every day, and I was so busy that I had no time but felt distressed.

Today is payday, and he has not received his salary from the New Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he was a little worried and didn't know what the salary would be. Although the emperor issued an edict at the beginning of his ascension to the throne that the salaries of officials in the world doubled. However, a seventh-rank magistrate turned out that the annual salary was only 90 stones, which was equivalent to only seven and a half stones of rice per month. Even if it doubled, it would only be fifteen stones of rice per month.

Besides, the original salary also had its true colors, some were given silver, most of them were given rice, and many were given real items such as silk, cloth, etc. When you get the things, you have to sell them yourself. After you change the goods, you will lose a lot.

If this is the doubling, it will not be enough to support the family.

Now even the taxes are collected by the special departments of the court, and their local governments are just cooperating. Without the right to tax, there is naturally no interception of fire consumption. The superiors are not allowed to charge additional taxes. Seeing that the common routines of each year are not going to be eliminated, Wei Yanghao is really upset recently.

Wei Yanghao also wanted to be fair and honest, and did not want to be a corrupt official, but he had to support his family and eat and dress. He did not ask for bribes, but his salary was so low, so there was no way to collect some common rules. Moreover, although he received many common rules every year, he also had to give regular rules to the prefect, prefect, Taoist yamen, even the governor's yamen, the governor's yamen, and the governor's yamen. If he was in the year of going to Beijing for examination, he had to give gifts to various capital yamen.

After getting dressed and going out, Shutong and Changsui stood there with uneasy expressions.

"Converge later."

When we arrived at the yamen, the hall and the front yard were already full of people.

There are only a few official officials in Chenliu County, and only a few are not as good as the officials, but there are hundreds of people who receive work and food in the yamen. Among them are three yamen runners, inspectors and archers, etc. In short, there are many people, such as those who are sedan chairmen, prison heads, offenders, warehouse heads, etc.

These are not official officials, or temporary workers who have no formal establishment. The work and food silver they receive are also the levy silver, service silver collected in the county, and then hired. Some people are only temporary assignments, while others are full-time jobs.

However, these people's labor and food are very high. They may only be six or seven taels a year. Many people only have a few coins in silver a month, so this little money is certainly not enough to eat. Therefore, they rely on the power given by the government in their hands to generate additional income.

To put it bluntly, these people's income was actually not low in the end, and the burden was transferred to the people in the end. Moreover, in the past, those big families did not bear this, and they were all borne by ordinary people.

Everyone was looking forward to the first salary payment in Xin Dynasty. They came to the yamen early and some people asked him about it.

Wei Yanghao didn't know how his salary was paid. This time the salary was paid by the Chenliu County Business Office of Kaifeng Branch of the Henan Branch of Sihai Bank, so he still knew nothing.

Wei Yanghao had a headache. Today, the court paid his salary, and he himself also had to pay his salary. There were many people under him who were hired by him personally, including four divisions, in charge of criminal, famous, money and grain, etc., as well as sedan chairmen, chefs, doormen, servants, etc.

"Here's here, the bank's people are here."

Eight bank security guards came over with three carriages. Several bank salesmen got out first, carrying a few cowhide briefcases, while the few behind them were carrying a few wooden boxes with locks.

"Director Wang, everyone has been waiting for you for a long time." Wei Yanghao saw that the person who led the team was Director Wang, and hurried forward. He had a smile on his face. There was no way. Sihai Bank is still an imperial shop. In name, the bank is not now official property, but the emperor's private property.

Director Wang, the director of the business office, is not even considered a business officer, but he cannot even take care of him as an emperor. Moreover, Chenliu is a relatively developed county, and the business office managed by Director Wang is quite large in size. The money is very large, so they have to look at their faces in the yamen.

"Are you all here? If you arrive, you will start paying your salary. This time it is the first time, so we come to pay in person, but in the future, you will have to go to our side to get your salary." Director Wang said with a smile.

Without being too polite, the table had already been laid out. Eight tall security guards were carrying long knives on their waists and holding a short stick in their hands, standing in line on both sides of the table. They also drew a line five feet away in front of the table.

Every time someone calls his name, he can cross this line and get his salary at the table, and the rest can only stay outside the line.

The first one to be sent was naturally the magistrate.

Wei Yanghao sat in front of the table, feeling a little nervous, as if standing under the imperial examination list just posted.

I don't know how much my salary is.

"Mr. Wei, please provide your ID card, official seal and private seal, thank you."

Wei Yanghao cooperated to provide these things at this time, and did not care about these offensive words. He was anxious to know how much his salary was.

Director Wang carefully checked it, then picked up the pen and registered it in a booklet.

"Xiao Liu, confirm your identity and pay."

"Okay, director." The employee named Xiao Liu took out a notebook first, then took a list, checked it and handed it to a person next to him. The person took the order and checked it again, and handed it to another person next to him. Finally, after the man looked at the order, he opened the wooden box, took out the silver dollar coupons from it and counted points.

Wei Yanghao looked at the man skillfully and flirted with a lot of heart.

The money was ordered twice, and then passed it one by one against the previous order.

The money finally came to Director Wang. Director Wang took the order and money, confirmed it again, and put it in an envelope.

"Mr. Wei, this is your salary, this is your list, which lists the number of salary and sub-items in detail."

Wei Yanghao reached out to take it, but his hands were trembling a little.

He felt the envelope was a little thick, and opened the list first.

There are a lot of writing on the list, which feels a bit dense.

"Wei Yanghao, the magistrate of Chenliu County of Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province: the salary in April is 20 yuan, the salary is 20 yuan, the salary is 20 yuan, the salary is 100 yuan, the salary is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan, the money is 20 yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival. The salary is 60 yuan for the first three months of the first year of the Longhan year, and the money is 300 yuan for each subsidy, the money is 600 yuan, the money is 60 yuan for the integrity is 60 yuan, and the money is 60 yuan for the minister."

"Total of all items: 1,400 yuan."

After reading it, Wei Yanghao was a little unbelievable. He read it again and was still the number. With a surprised mood, he asked Director Wang, "Director Wang, is this a mistake?"

"We counted it several times, there would be no mistake, right?"

"No, I mean, why is this one thousand four hundred yuan?"

Director Wang laughed, "It's not good to have too much money, this is the emperor's gift."

"But this is too much. Didn't Your Majesty say that he would double his salary? But it turns out that only seven and a half stones of rice per month, and only fifteen stones of rice will be doubled. Even if you pay three pieces of silver for one stone of grain, it will be only forty-five pieces, but these are more than one thousand."

"Oh, this is something that can't be wrong. We copied it according to the above list." Director Wang was not surprised by this number, although he was a little surprised when he first saw it.

"It turns out that the magistrate only has seven stones per month, but isn't that too low? So it doubled, but it wasn't three pieces of silver per stone. After all, the price of grain is a bit inflated now. The regular salary is twenty yuan per month, but the salary in the Ming Dynasty was indeed the lowest in history, which led to the rampant corruption."

"Your Majesty is not easy to be corrupt, nor is it easy for local officials to take the opportunity to recruit people. In addition to the local fire consumption has been cancelled, the court has added salary to local officials. In addition to the regular salary, various subsidies are given to everyone to live with peace of mind. This subsidy is even five times the regular salary, which is enough to hire coachmen, doormen and servants. There is also a minister's money, which is the cost of entertainment for officials, and is also given directly to you."

"There is also a bank that is different inclusive, and the number is different depending on the local area, grade, and number. The bank is mainly for the chief officials at all levels, such as the governor, governor, Taoist, prefect, county magistrate, etc. Some special departments, such as grain, salt, taxation, customs, postal and other departments, also have the bank for the chief officials. Most of the remaining officials do not have one, and although there are, there are not many. This is a preferential treatment for the chief officials at all levels. You are the magistrate of Henan, and the magistrate of Henan has 2,400 yuan in the magistrate of Henan every year."

"This time, there is another reissue for the first three months. Although the Han Dynasty founded in April, the reissue for the first three months is also an additional reward. In addition, the rewards for the ascension of His Majesty and the Dragon Boat Festival, it adds up to so much."

Director Wang smiled and said, "Oh, by the way, in the future, the court will issue silver coupons, and no longer have to pay for their true nature, nor will it be given any more money. From next month, the salary will be issued every month, and you will directly send the orders to you, and then you will go to the bank to collect it. There is no need to be such trouble."

Wei Yanghao quickly made up his calculations in his heart. Even if he eliminated the reissue in the first three months and the rewards for the Dragon Boat Festival that he ascended the throne, his salary in this April would be extremely high.

"The salary is twenty, the subsidy is one hundred, the money is two hundred, and the money is twenty. The sum of the money is three hundred and forty yuan, and the amount of the money is one hundred and seventy taels of silver. It is more than the past year. After a year, even if you don't have regular rules and do not embezzle, you will not be less than the past year's income."

After counting this, Wei Yanghao was amazed that his salary had increased by more than doubled, which was seven or eight times. In the past, there were also discounts, but in total, it increased by ten times.

Wei Yanghao's salary was ninety stones per year, but he had his true colors. His true colors were 54 stones and his true colors were 36 stones. His true colors were twelve stones of rice, thirty-five stones of silver, and seven stones of silk, totaling twenty-six taels of silver. His total of twenty-six taels of silver was 29 taels of silver, and five cents of silver. His true colors were 18 stones of cloth, five cents of silver, and four cents of silver. In short, after a while, it was equivalent to the final salary being paid in half.

"340 yuan a month, your majesty, God's kindness!"
Chapter completed!