Now their family is close to a millionaire, and he is also rich and peaceful inside, and his temperament has gradually matched his appearance.
The look on his face now looked particularly like a domineering prince. He was handsome and noble. Li Qiao really loved him.
Li Qiao always had something to say in front of Tao Zhu. After the two of them had fun in the evening, Li Qiao expressed his opinion.
Tao Zhu was already drowsy, but after hearing his words, he immediately woke up with a smile.
"Me, the overbearing prince?" He pointed to his nose and asked Li Qiao in disbelief.
"It doesn't look like it now, and it doesn't look like it on weekdays. It looks like it when you are lecturing people with a stern face." Li Qiao said, tapping the tip of his nose: "The way you look when lecturing people with a stern face, if someone who doesn't know your background is exposed, If the boy or girl sees it, he will definitely fall in love with you."
Tao Zhu: "..."
Although Li Qiao was saying that he looked like a man, he was not angry at all, he just wanted to laugh.
"Then next time I deliberately wear your clothes to try on the street? See if there are any unmarried boys or girls secretly looking at me."
"No." Li Qiao shook his head without thinking, and said firmly: "You can only tease me."
"...That's what you call domineering." Tao Zhu said, poking his heart: "Isn't that right?"
"I'm so overbearing to you." Li Qiao grabbed his hand and pressed towards him: "You're not sleepy now, let's do it again."
Tao Zhu: "..."
He wrapped his hands around Li Qiao's neck, and the corners of his mouth turned up uncontrollably.
He likes Li Qiao to be domineering to him.
The days slipped by day by day, and soon it was September, and it was time for Li Qiao to pay his salary.
When paying wages, people from the Ministry of Revenue first sent him his salary slip for verification. If it was confirmed to be correct, he pressed his fingerprints. After pressing his fingerprints, the people from the Ministry of Revenue sent his salary slip to his home the next day.
In August, Li Qiao only worked for half a month, but his salary was paid for the whole month. As a sixth-grade official, his monthly salary was 200 taels, plus 500 kilograms of rice.
Of these five hundred kilograms of rice, three hundred kilograms are wheat and rice, and two hundred kilograms are miscellaneous grains.
These silver and lumi are enough to support a family.
Although prices in Shengjing are higher than those in Pingcheng, they are not exaggeratedly high. After all, although Shengjing has many noble people, there are more ordinary people.
Two hundred taels of silver is enough for Li Qiao's family to have meat for three meals a day. Plus the grain distributed, this is enough for everything.
After their wages were paid, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan, Zheng Qianqian, Li Ershan and Li Xia were even happier than Li Qiao himself. There was so much money, no wonder so many people wanted to be officials!
All the hard work was worth it, and the rewards are so rich.
"Huh? Didn't Meng Yue say before that he wanted to save money to pay off debts and buy a house? According to this salary level, he will be able to buy a house soon."
Tao Zhu was overjoyed and couldn't help but think of Meng Yue.
"He is from the seventh rank, and his monthly salary is ninety taels." Li Qiao said.
"That's quite a lot. Our house only costs 1,700 taels. He can buy a house after saving for two or three years."
"However, there is such a big difference between his and your salary?"
Tao Zhu was a little surprised.
There is only one seventh rank between Li Qiao and Meng Yue.
Xu Ying was a seventh-rank official, so he asked again without waiting for Li Qiao's answer: "What is Xu Ying's salary?"
Li Qiao smiled and answered one by one: "Meng Yue still has to socialize. It is impossible to save all the salary."
"The reason why the salary is so different from mine is because Dasheng's salary is rather strange. For example, Xu Ying is a seventh-rank official, but his monthly salary is only 150 taels. Jiang Zhixian was a seventh-rank official before , but the salary of Jiangzhi County is one thousand taels a month."
"ah???"
When Li Qiao finished speaking, not only Tao Zhu's eyes widened in shock, but also Li Dashan, Zheng Qianqian, and Li Ershan, Li Xia, suspected that they had heard wrongly.
This difference is too big!
"The county magistrate is the seventh grade, and you are the sixth grade. Why is there such a big difference in salary between you and the magistrate?" Li Dashan asked in surprise.
"Jiangzhixian is a local official and holds all the power in a county. The Emperor is worried that local magistrates will take bribes and oppress the people for money, so he specially increases the salary of the magistrates so that the magistrates of each county can be honest and will not A good official who caused public resentment due to lack of money."
"This is not only the case for seventh-grade magistrates, but also for officials in other places who have real power and can influence the people and the situation in a place, their salaries are higher than those of the same level or even high-level officials."
"There are also those real officials with real power in the capital. The Holy Emperor is afraid that they will collect bribes, so the salary given to them is also very high. The highest salary is five thousand taels of silver a month."
This is something Li Qiao only knew yesterday.
He really didn't know that Da Sheng's salary was so weird before.
But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense.
The Supreme Emperor and His Majesty first raised these officials comfortably so that they would have no worries. If these officials continue to be greedy for money, then the Sheng family father and son cannot be blamed for being ruthless.
He learned this yesterday morning, and at noon he couldn't help but run to the Ministry of Household Affairs to find Xu Ying.
Because he did some calculations and found out that the salary set by the Holy Spirit was so weird, and there were so many officials in Dasheng. They only relied on the treasury, and half of the salary was spent every year just to pay the officials.
This is somewhat deformed.
The money in the treasury should be spent on infrastructure, people, and raising troops, but half of it was spent on official salaries. This really made Li Qiao not know how to evaluate it for a while.
But Xu Ying told him that he was worrying too much.
The salary expenditure of officials only accounts for 10% of the total annual expenditure of the treasury. The remaining part is made up by the private treasury of the Supreme Emperor and the Holy Emperor.
In other words, Dasheng's officials are now mainly supported by the Holy One, and the expenditures from the national treasury are limited.
Knowing this fact from Xu Ying's mouth, he really had mixed feelings.
The Supreme Emperor and His Majesty really paid too much for Da Sheng.
The father and son were so deceived that he almost wanted to go to pieces for Dasheng.
Not only Li Qiao thought this way, Tao Zhu, Li Dashan and others couldn't help but sigh after hearing his explanation: "The Holy One is so kind that he even uses his own money to support officials."
"No wonder our village is getting better and better!"
"The Holy One is a good emperor. But the Holy One is also very rich!"
He is so rich to be able to support so many officials.
After Li Qiao heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If he was really rich, how could he ask for ways to replenish the national treasury in such a serious occasion as the examination?
Even if the Sheng family father and son were rich when Dasheng was founded, after so many years of consumption, their pockets must be deflated.
However, this has nothing to do with him for the time being. He has already handed over the bread. The income from the Royal Confectionery Shop should give the father and son some relief.
Although Li Qiao admired the Supreme Emperor and Sheng Hong very much, he still forgot about the mess.
The royal family is ruthless. When he behaves too strangely, he believes that the Sheng family father and son will definitely not be happy, but will raise a butcher's knife against him.
Therefore, he should just settle down and be his sixth-grade petty official. The bread he handed over and the business tax he paid every year have already made a lot of contributions to Dasheng.
After the salary was paid, the holiday soon came.
This time Xiu Mu, Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and others were going to Xin Zhi's appointment.
Li Qiao was not very good at drinking and had to bring Tao Zhu with him, so Xin Zhi had no choice but to give up the restaurant in Shengjing and instead invited them to enjoy the chrysanthemums.
The chrysanthemums are blooming just right now. If you can't drink, you can only enjoy the chrysanthemums.
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu didn't know much about flowers and plants, and they didn't like them very much. However, Xin Zhi finally came up with the location, so it was not good to turn it down. They would definitely have to keep the appointment.
The place to enjoy chrysanthemums is outside the city. It is the famous Chrysanthemum Garden in Shengjing, where all chrysanthemums are planted.
And, coincidentally, not only Li Qiao, Tao Zhu and Xin Zhi are going to Juyuan today, Xu Yingchen Hua is also going.
An official from the Ministry of Revenue also made an appointment with Xu Ying to appreciate the chrysanthemums.
They went to Juyuan together, so Li Qiao Tao Zhu and Xu Ying Chen Hua set off together.
After leaving the city and walking for about an hour, Juyuan arrived.
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The author has something to say:
That's why Sheng Hong said before that he couldn't bear it anymore because he was the one paying to support a bunch of officials~
In addition, this treasury income is based on the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, so don’t take it too seriously~
Chapter 115 Chrysanthemum Appreciation Troubles Someone provoked
This chrysanthemum garden in Shengjing is quite famous. It covers an area of 2,000 acres and contains more than 20 kinds of chrysanthemums.
It was the season when chrysanthemums were in full bloom. Before I even reached the gate of the chrysanthemum garden, I saw colorful chrysanthemums blooming all over the mountains and plains, and a faint bitter fragrance floated in the air.
This was the first time for Tao Zhu and Li Dashan to see so many blooming flowers. The flowers they had seen before were all wild flowers blooming on the roadside, so it was so fresh now that they kept turning their heads to look around.
"Master Xin is really good at finding places." Tao Zhu said with a smile on his face.
Although he hasn't gone in yet, he already likes it a little bit.
There is a large yellow chrysanthemum in front of the side of the oxcart, spreading from the fence to the hillside in the distance. It is rich and beautiful. With the blue sky and white clouds today, it is hard to take your eyes away from him.
Li Dashan clicked his tongue: "How much money will it cost to plant so many chrysanthemums? If we go in today, it will definitely cost a lot of money, right?"
Li Qiao smiled when he heard this: "Don't be afraid, Mr. Xin will pay for all the expenses today."
Tao Zhu also smiled: "The mountains are still real."
He was so taken aback by the scene in front of him that he didn't think about the silver at all.
He has really changed, and he can't even think of money when he sees such an occasion.
"That will cost a lot of money." Li Dashan kept clicking his tongue: "It's a pity that Qianqian didn't come. He must like it here."
It rained lightly the day before yesterday and Li Xiaorui caught wind and cold, so Zheng Qianqian did not come with him today.
"Let's experience it first. If it's fun, let's play together next time. The chrysanthemums here can still bloom for at least a month."
Li Qiao said.
"Okay, okay." Li Dashan nodded hurriedly.
While talking, the ox cart arrived at the gate of the Juyuan.
