Several people on the ground were so frightened that their faces turned pale. [No pop-up novel website] The stick is a "major punishment" used only by murderers or thieves in the county government. Even if you are a tough guy, you have to confess even if you pull two strings. Moreover, people who have used clamp sticks will be left with disabilities in their legs and feet.
It is common for subordinate officials in the county government to be criticized by the boss, ranging from the head of the clerk's office to the ordinary clerk. However, since the subordinates are colleagues, they usually share the same sentiments. Zaoli's playing is just a matter of meaning. Most of them are skilled in skills, and it is rare for them to have meat. Now this Australian man is about to be clamped with a stick when he opens his mouth, how can he bear it?
Several people immediately kowtowed and begged: "Master, spare my life!"
"Stop knocking." You Guotuan said, "Tell me carefully, how much have you freed up from the county treasury?"
How dare you guys?" The following people screamed injustice desperately.
At this moment, the four remaining yamen servants in the soap class were called in. As soon as they entered the door, they knelt down and kowtowed together.
"There's no need to kowtow, get ready to work." You Guotuan ordered, "Have you brought everything?"
"I brought everything back to the master." The yamen servant took a peek at the people kneeling on the ground. Seeing that they are all treasury officials, I know that the Australians are going to deal with these "fat pigs".
"Come on, give each person twenty boards first." You Guotuan ordered directly.
"Master, please spare my life. I am wealthy and willing to honor my master."
"It's a bit late now," You Guotuan waved his hand, "Do it!" "
These are all Zaoli who are known to be "proficient in business". They saw others being sent out of the city to unknown destinations, but they still stayed in the county government office. I was very scared. I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse. Now I heard that they want to be punished. This is the stuff of this work, just take it out. Everyone was full of energy. I started dragging the person over to clean up the recording.
The scribe who was dressed neatly just now was suddenly naked, like a naked pig. A few Zaobiao were really able to take action. They ignored his wails and struggles and pinned him to the ground. The two of them picked up the bamboo boards and started waving them around immediately.
The first sound of bamboo cutting meat caused a shrill scream, but there was no bleeding on Bai Huahua's buttocks. You Guotuan knew that these slaves did not dare to fake it. If you want to fool him, the skin on your butt will be pulled open with the first blow. It will look bloody, but in fact the injury is not serious. Such a bloodless beating is not only extremely painful. And the trauma is much more severe.
In the last few boards, the slaves followed the rules and broke the skin and bled it to prevent these people from bleeding and dying.
After the beating was finished, several ear officials lay on the ground unable to move.
"Okay, tell me carefully, how many benefits did you get from the county treasury? Where are they stored?" You Guotuan asked, "How many people in the county government received your benefits? Give them all to me one by one. Invite." As he spoke, he asked people to put down the pen and paper, "Write it in your own hand and write it neatly.
"After a lot of commotion, these guys all handed in their first assignment. They frowned and recognized these traditional Chinese characters and compared them one by one. What a chore. Fortunately, there is no need to look very carefully at this. Of course there will be other professionals to handle it, just see if they answer the questions honestly.
These treasurers were beaten hard and wrote a long confession. They had already lost their strength and lay on the ground groaning one by one. Some of them were young and strong, but some were older and usually too lazy to exercise. He simply fainted.
"Okay, give them fingerprints first." You Guotuan instructed the servants, "Take these few down first and give them medicine, and let them take care of them. I will ask them again in a few days after they are taken care of!"
Suddenly there was a cry of wailing: "Master, please be merciful, I'm so young, you can say anything."
"Take him down." You Guotuan waved his hand impatiently. It doesn't look like the matter is difficult, I just talked about it after a while. The modern appliances he had specially brought seemed to be of no use.
The confession was immediately sent to Zhang Youfu's house, where it was transcribed by people from the Chinese language team, copied and distributed to the relevant persons in charge. This list has also reached the hands of the person Xiong Bucai is about to introduce to Wu Mingjin? .
"Now Wu Mingjin is in our hands. Zhou Botao looked at the materials sent and patted the table.
"What's the matter?" Bu De was also studying this material. “According to the statement of the treasurer of the salt warehouse, Wu Mingjin’s close family members have repeatedly borrowed salt from the salt warehouse.
"Oh?" Bude and the people at the table were all interested.
"Look," Zhou Botao pointed to the document, "on page four, the clerk of the salt warehouse said. The Wu family has several servants, and they borrow a certain amount of salt from the salt warehouse every year. They will pay it back at the end of autumn."
"This is not surprising. Don't forget that a large part of the private salt produced after we took control of Ma Niao Salt Farm was distributed through his hands."
"It's of a different nature. It's purely private. This is turning public affairs into private interests." After reading it, Dong Weiwei said that this was actually a way of cheating, borrowing salt from the county treasury and selling it directly to private salt dealers. In the autumn, the production of sun-salted salt increases greatly...the food enemies in the sea battle field are harvested, and the holes are filled up. Six salts are easy to deliquesce, and the loss is large, so the collected salt also has a floating harvest. It is also a big burden for Salt Cube. The salt collected by the government at a low price was sold at a high price, and then floating revenue was used to fill the gap.
It’s simply a business without capital!
"Why doesn't he engage in private salt production directly from the salt farm?"
"At that time, Ma Niao Salt Farm was controlled by the Gu family. If he intervened directly, he would have to collude with the Gu family. The Gu family's reputation is too bad. This is probably something he was unwilling to do."
"No wonder when Wang Zhaomin came out for negotiations last year, he immediately hit it off with our proposal of a partnership to sell smuggled salt. It turns out that they have been doing it for a long time!"
"Otherwise, why have so many people throughout the ages struggled to become officials?" Dude smiled, "Yan Ruyu, golden house, is not just talk."
"Does our cleaning up the county treasury mean that we have touched his cake?" Xiong Buyou is very concerned about this issue.
"He now gets the income from the salt from us, so cleaning up the county treasury will have little impact on his gray income. The second treasurer's account book is very clear: starting from last year, such borrowing and debiting has completely stopped. We’re involved.”
In the afternoon, Xiong Bucai brought a "fashionable thief" whom Wu Mingjin and others had never seen before to ask for an audience. This person was Yan Ming, the president of Delong Grain Company.
Although Yan Ming is not yet at the level of People's Commissar in the official position list of the Cross Group, Delong already has the vague intention of being the central bank of the Cross Group, and the importance of his position is self-evident. He has an important position and possesses complex financial knowledge. Therefore, he rarely leaves Bairen City on weekdays. Except for a few visits to Bopu and Dongmen City when inspecting work, he never sets foot outside the Green Zone.
This time he actually appeared in the county government office in order to sell his plan of acting as county treasury to the county magistrate - of course, it was forced in nature. Regardless of whether Wu Mingjin is willing or not, Delong's agency county treasury system will still be implemented. This is also an important measure to refresh the county government. This measure is closely related to the reform of the taxation system.
According to the estimates of the leading group, under the dual effects of Tiandihui's agricultural technology promotion and the new collection system, Lingao's tax revenue will increase on a large scale in the next five years.
However, this kind of growth is not to contribute to the consolidation of Ming's rule. The right to use this increased income must fall into the hands of the Chuanchuan Group. Just as the executive committee is constantly strengthening its financial control over various departments under the system. The Financial Power Executive Committee of Lingao County also needs to control.
The method of control is to bypass the county government. This is the agency county treasury business.
The county treasury agency business existed in the late Qing Dynasty. The emerging bank accounts and banks at that time not only acted as agents for the county treasury and government treasury, but even for the feudal treasury. Local tax payments and administrative appropriations are carried out through these financial institutions, which not only eliminates the need for treasury custody at the county and government levels, but also makes fund transfers more convenient than in the past with cash withdrawals and transportation. Yan Ming just wanted to advance this system to the late Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this reform will affect the interests of a group of people, and theoretically Wu Mingjin is one of them. However, judging from the confessions of treasury officials and the seized account books, Wu Mingjin generally does not directly pay the county treasury to the county treasury, except for collecting the "fixed money" given to him by the treasury each year and smuggling some salt from the food bank. Reached out. In this regard, this person can be regarded as quite honest among local officials. As for other petty officials and petty officials, there are many so-called "borrows" that are "borrowed" in name only but are actually used to replenish the finances of the treasury officials.
Now since Wu Mingjin himself does not have much selfish desire for the county treasury, and the benefits he received from the crossing group are not small, the matter of acting for the county treasury will not encounter much obstruction.
As for whether other people object or not, Bu De doesn't care. Of course, if Wu Mingjin was really determined to object, he would have ways to make him submit. Although Wu Mingjin's black material is not enough, the weight is not small.
"Acting for the county treasurer?!" Hearing Yan Ming's request, Wu Mingjin was a little confused, but his first reaction was that it was ridiculous. The county treasurer is the country's warehouse. How could he ask a grain store to act as his agent?
When I thought about it, I realized that this was just a trick used by thieves to rob the county treasury. Thinking of this, Wu Mingjin's face showed an expression of anger, and a bit of the scholar's backbone emerged again. I am a dignified Ming Dynasty Lingao County official selected by the imperial court! If you can't even keep the county treasury, why should you be an official?
"I'm sorry that I can't obey my order in this matter." Wu Mingjin said coldly, "Although the county treasury is also an important place of the government, how can it be lightly entrusted to the care of businessmen?"
"Mr. Wu, you misunderstood." Yan Ming expected his reaction and said patiently, "Delong's acting county treasury mainly handles the collection and payment business. The biggest benefit to the county is that Save yourself from the encroachment of subordinate officials."! ~!
