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Volume One One Hundred and Sixty-Four Finance

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    One hundred and sixty-four Finance

    Meng Ju put aside his harsh words. As for how the unlucky Li Minghua could solve the case within a month, whether he would hang himself or jump off the building, that was none of his business - being unreasonable was the prerogative of the leader. The new official of Meng Town Supervisor has arrived.  , there are so many things to be busy with, how can I have time to care about the life and death of a little inspector like you.

    Next, Meng Ju began to take over Dongping Lingwei in an all-round way.

    Dongping Province has seven counties and eighteen counties under its jurisdiction, including Fufeng County, Yansang County, Hutou County, Jing'an County, Lianjiang County, Baoxiang County, and Longjiang County.  According to the establishment of Dongling Guards, the Mausoleum Office is set up at the county level, so the Dongping Provincial Office also has seven local Mausoleum Offices under its jurisdiction. There are more than 9,400 officers and soldiers of all levels on the register, of which the number of soldiers in the various local Tomb Offices ranges from five to five.  The number ranges from one hundred to nine hundred, and there are a total of 4,700 officers and soldiers directly under the provincial administration.

    Having nearly 10,000 young men waiting to be dispatched is very satisfying to think about, but Meng Juke is not happy at all when he has nearly 10,000 mouths to feed.

    On the first day he took over the provincial office, Meng Ju summoned Ouyang Hui and his deputy from the Independent Commission Against Corruption to inquire about the financial income and expenditure of the Dongping Mausoleum Office.

    Looking at the account book in front of him, Meng Ju frowned.  The account clearly stated that as of the end of last month, there were still 217,200 taels of silver in the treasury of the Mausoleum Administration.

    Two hundred and seventeen thousand taels of silver seems like a lot, but this money is needed to maintain the normal operation of the entire Dongping Mausoleum Administration until July this year - for the Luojing General Administration, funds are allocated twice a year.  in January and July respectively.

    The Dongping Mausoleum Office's normal monthly salary to the officers and soldiers of the provincial office and local branch offices is more than 23,000 taels of silver. After six months, it will be 130,000 to 40,000 taels of silver - the remaining  How can we maintain the expenses of the provincial office and the seven local mausoleum offices with less than 100,000 taels of silver?

    Not to mention anything else, the training expenses and equipment wear and tear of the Zhenbiao and Black Room troops alone cost no more than fifteen thousand taels of silver every month, as well as the provincial office expenses, case handling expenses, and battlefield reward expenses.  , death pension, disability allowance, and settlement expenses for recruiting new soldiers, which one does not require a large amount of money to fill in?

    Meng Ju made a rough calculation and found that in the past six months, his own funding gap was at least 300,000 taels of money from the provincial department alone.

    There are also seven subordinate mausoleum bureaus. Even if the funding for each mausoleum bureau is only one-tenth of the provincial bureau's funding, the total would cost two to three hundred thousand taels of silver. Why does it seem that Ye Canaan is so important as the governor?  Happy, it seems like you haven¡¯t worried about money at all?

    Meng Ju frowned: "Inspector Ouyang, Deputy Inspector Lin, in previous years, how much funding did we allocate to the mausoleum offices below?"

    Ouyang Hui and Lin Sihai, the deputy inspector and treasurer of the Independent Commission Against Corruption who came with him, looked at each other. They both looked puzzled, as if Meng Ju had asked an incredible question.

    Inspector Ouyang Hui coughed dryly and bowed slightly: "Sir, as usual, the provincial department is not responsible for the funds of the sub-departments below. Unless funds are allocated for some special tasks, we are only responsible for the salaries of officers and soldiers. As for other expenditures,  The local mausoleum offices are responsible for raising funds themselves, and the provincial offices are not responsible for appropriating funds. On the contrary, the local mausoleum offices have to hand over a "pile of silver" to the provincial office every six months. The specific amount depends on the local income situation. For example,  The Jing'an Department's 'silver pile' is fifty thousand taels of silver."

    Although Meng Ju worked as a deputy inspector in the Jing'an Department, he did not do it very carefully and did not really understand the department's financial and funding situation.  He was surprised and said: "The mausoleum office raises its own funds? The local office does not do business. Where can they get the money?"

    Ouyang Hui looked a little embarrassed: "The provincial office doesn't care about this - just like the Luojing General Office doesn't care whether we have enough funds, we don't care where the mausoleum office below can find money. Anyway, if something goes wrong, they will be responsible for it themselves  Let's settle it, the provincial office doesn't care.

    "Lord Governor, what you just looked at was just the big account of the provincial department. We also have a smaller account.  "

    "Oh? Small account?"

    Treasurer Lin Sihai magically took out an account from his body and handed it to Meng Ju with both hands respectfully: "Sir, please take a look. This is the revenue of the provincial office except the big account."

    Meng Ju opened the account book and read a few pages, and his eyes suddenly lit up: there were a bunch of messy income and expenditure items in the account book, such as "silver for piles", "silver for households", "monthly silver", "tea silver", "consolation"  "Gold", "forfeiture of gold" - although the names are unclear, Meng Ju can still understand the numbers. There are a total of more than 1,107,000 taels of silver in the account.

    Meng Ju was very happy, but he still maintained the reserve of a governor on his face: "Is there anything wrong with this balance?"

    "There can be no mistake, sir, we have all checked it."

    With more than one million taels of silver in hand, Meng Ju suddenly felt reassured. He leaned back on the Grand Master's chair easily and said, "Follow me."Tell me, what happened to the money in the small account?  What are these messy words like "silver for piles", "silver for households", and "silver for each month"?  "

    "My lord, this is also a long-standing practice. The big account is for the imperial court to see. The money on it is the money and food allocated by the imperial court. The small account is the income raised by the Dongping Provincial Office."

    Ouyang Hui explained to Meng Ju that the "pile of silver" was the tribute paid by the mausoleum bureaus in various places to the provincial bureau - just as Meng Ju knew at the beginning, gangsters such as Zhu Gong and Da Jiaoluo wanted to pay tribute to the Jing'an Mausoleum Bureau.  Similarly, the Jing'an Department's various overt and covert incomes must also be commissioned and turned over to the Provincial Department.

    "Household silver" is money sent by local officials to comfort the Dongling Guards - Dongping is a frontier fortress and under military control, and local officials do not pay much attention to the Dongling Guards, so "household silver" is pitifully small.  Less than thirty thousand taels of silver.  Ouyang Hui said that if it were an inland province, the local officials would be terribly afraid of the Dongling Guards, so it would not be a problem to get millions of silver a year.

    The "tea silver" is the money collected from criminal justice. Dongling Guard is in charge of local judicial and criminal laws, arresting and arresting thefts, and people naturally have to spend money when they file lawsuits - Meng Ju also worked as a criminal case officer.  Before Ouyang Hui finished speaking, he nodded: "I understand this, so there's no need to say it."

    "Solace money" is the benefit of large local households paying tribute to Dongling Guards in exchange for protection from harassment - this income is not high, only 50,000 taels of silver.

    On the other hand, the "finance and confiscation" is quite large, with a total of 530,000 taels of silver - Deputy Inspector Lin Sihai explained: "Under the leadership of Supervisor Ye Zhen, the Provincial Department handled several major cases last year, especially the Qin family's rebellion.  In this case, their property was confiscated, so the fines and confiscations went up. In previous years, the fines and confiscations were only three or two hundred thousand at most."

    The money confiscated by confiscating a house can be put into the private treasury of the provincial department - doesn't this kind of law encourage Dongling Guards to rob?

    Meng Ju disagreed, but his face showed no emotion: "Then, what's going on with Yue Li Yin?"

    Speaking of "monthly silver", Ouyang Hui felt much more relaxed. He smiled and said: "Master Governor, this is the income from the cooperation between our Dongping Mausoleum Office and several commercial banks. This is also the good governance left to us by Governor Ye.

    When Governor Ye first took office, the provincial department's finances were so tight that they couldn't even come up with money to repair the town's equipment, so they were stretched thin.  But after Ye Zhendu took office, she had a wide network of contacts and connections. She contacted several big merchants in Luojing and cooperated with the merchants. The merchants organized caravans to come to Dongping to purchase furs and sell daily necessities. Our Dongping Mausoleum Office was responsible for  Give them safety protection, and then everyone will share the income equally - sir, this income is pure and legal income!  "

    Meng Ju glanced at him coldly, thinking to himself, you also know that the income just now was neither clear nor legal?

    Looking at the numbers on the account book, Meng Ju was silent. The two subordinates also wisely remained silent. There was silence in the room.

    After a long time, Meng Jucai asked, "Does the General Administration know about this small account we have in private?"

    Ouyang Hui and Lin Sihai looked at each other, both of them a little nervous: unspoken rules are unspoken rules after all. Although everyone agrees privately, it is still a bit risky to put it on the table.

    Ouyang Hui said solemnly: "Sir, we have not reported the small accounts to the general administration. However, we know privately that the mausoleum offices of the surrounding provinces also have secret treasuries.

    All the mausoleum bureaus across the country are like this. Everyone has two sets of accounts, and the methods of getting money are pretty much the same. This is almost an open secret. It is impossible for the general bureau not to know, they are just pretending to be confused - otherwise, the general bureau will  The funds allocated to us by the mausoleum bureau are so small, and there are frequent deductions and delays. If there were no small accounts, all mausoleum bureaus across the country would be closed.  "

    Deputy Inspector Lin Sihai also said: "Sir, our small account only has an income of one million yuan, what does this mean? Look at wealthy places like Shaanxi, Shandong, Jianghuai, and Luojing. Which department has less than five or six million yuan?  Two silver dollars of funding?

    The income of our brothers in the Dongping Department is considered low. We only receive salary and have very few other allowances and subsidies.  In the inland provinces, in addition to the royalties from the court, soldiers and officers also receive a monthly subsidy, which is even higher than the salaries - I heard that their soldiers are richer than our officers.

    "Mr. Meng, you came up from below, and you know the plight of the brothers.  We, Dongping, are a poor place with poor mountains and rivers. Apart from sheepskins, there are only demons.  Brothers abandoning their families and sons to guard the frontier, aren't they just looking for two pieces of silver?

    If there is no Xiaoku, how can we give bonuses and rewards for killing enemies to our brothers?  Without money, how can brothers work hard?  If the brothers refuse to help, what will happen next time the demons come?

    ????????????????????????????????????? "Meng Ju waved his hand and said: "Inspector Ouyang, Deputy Inspector Lin, I understand what you mean. You don't have to worry. This money was saved hard by the former Inspector Ye Zhen and his brothers. I won't go to it."  Submit it to the General Administration."

    Hearing this, both of them breathed a sigh of relief: This is what they fear most.  I heard that Chief Meng was a scholar. If this nerd's loyalty to the emperor and patriotism breaks out and he hands over the money saying it is ill-gotten gains or something, he himself might get a commendation, but the whole Dongping  Nearly ten thousand people in the mausoleum bureau will have to jump off the building this year, not to mention offending the mausoleum guards of other provinces - this is an open secret, why do you Dongping mausoleum guards tell so many things?

    Lin Sihai smiled and said: "Governor Meng, if you say this, I can rest assured. Lord Governor, if I say a word of praise, I will have more than one million yuan in small accounts to use when I take office. You are lucky."

    "Huh? How should I say it?"

    "This is also customary. I have served several town governors before. Before each town governor left office, they had to find a way to spend all the money in the small account - at most, they would leave ten or twenty thousand taels of silver.  If you give it to the next person, it will be worthy of him.

    When the new town governor comes over, the first thing he does is to find money. If you are lucky, you can get the money, but if you are not lucky, you will be in trouble!  In the past, Governor Wu Zhen was very clever and could make a lot of money. The subsidies for the officers and soldiers were very high, and everyone admired him.

    The governor Li who succeeded him was a nerd, and he was not familiar with the situation in Dongping. He couldn't get extra money, so everyone's subsidies were gone.  As a result, the brothers were very dissatisfied and had strong objections to him. The provincial governor even made jokes about mutiny. As a result, after only one year of service, Governor Li had to resign and leave.

    Governor Meng, you are very lucky. The previous Governor Ye was killed by the rebels before he could spend the money, leaving such a large amount behind.  .  .  "

    "Cough, cough, cough!" Ouyang Hui coughed hard. He glared at Lin Sihai, who then remembered that the relationship between Meng Ju and Ye Canaan was not an ordinary relationship between predecessors and predecessors - he was really confused, doing this in front of Meng Ju.  Talk about Ye Canaan!

    He was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he hurriedly stood up and knelt down: "I made a mistake, I am guilty! Please punish me severely, I am willing to take the military stick!"

    Secretary Lin was speaking openly, but he was telling the truth. Meng Ju sighed and shouted sternly: "Lin Sihai!"

    "Yes, yes! I am humbled by my duty, and I am guilty of my humble duty! I am willing to be punished by my lord!"

    ¡°Be careful what you say in the future, I won¡¯t do this again!¡±

    "Yes, thank you for your mercy, sir! Thank you for your forgiveness! I'm just a bad mouth, talking nonsense, I will definitely change my words in the future!"

    Meng Ju shook his head and sighed: "Actually, you are right. I am indeed accepting the legacy of Governor Ye - Governor Ye left us more than just these millions of taels of silver!"

    Not knowing what Meng Ju meant, neither of his subordinates dared to respond.

    Meng Ju looked through the account book again and raised his head: "Inspector Ouyang, Treasurer Lin, in the past, that was the matter of the former town inspector. I will not comment and let bygones be bygones. But in the future, when I am in charge, you must remember  My words: You can violate the laws of the country, but you can¡¯t violate the laws of nature!¡±

    "You can break the law of the country, but you can't violate the laws of nature?" Ouyang Hui thought about it, and asked respectfully: "Sir, what do you mean"

    Meng Ju waved his hand: "It is best not to generate income such as fines and tea fees in the future. There is too much resentment among the people and it will not bring in much money. It has ruined the reputation of our Lingwei. But for the monthly silver, we  You can chat with the merchants to see if there is any other business you can do business with.

    Actually, in my opinion, there are still many ways to make money, as long as everyone is not brave enough and can¡¯t think of it yet - I won¡¯t go into details about this, you can just think about it yourself.  "
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