Your Majesty, please resign again

Chapter 114 There is Zhang Qingtian in Kaifeng! (Here he comes! Please vote!)

Zhao Zhen was ridiculed, but he did not feel resentful towards other officials because of this, but he was still unwilling to accept it. He calmed down and thought about it, and decided that the matter would still fall on Zeng Gongliang, so he asked someone to invite Zeng Gongliang to come over.

Zeng Gongliang heard about the official summons and came quickly.

After the monarch and his ministers saw the ceremony, Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "Congratulations to you, Ming Zhong, for educating a disciple who has achieved the rank of Sanyuan. It is really remarkable."

Zeng Gongliang said with a grateful face: "I didn't teach you anything, it's mainly because of your Majesty's contribution..."

"ah!……"

Zhao Zhen suddenly panicked. Why did Zeng Gongliang know about his cheating?

But then he realized that this was just a minister's routine thanking the emperor for his kindness.

Zeng Gongliang looked at Zhao Zhen with some surprise, but when he saw that Zhao Zhen was busy smiling at him, Zeng Gongliang quickly lowered his eyes.

Zhao Zhen felt proud, and then explained the matter, and then said: "...Ming Zhong, I want to keep Ju Zheng in the capital, but I can't think of a way for the moment. You are his teacher, otherwise, you can think of it

think?"

Zeng Gongliang couldn't help but be stunned, and then he realized: The official family couldn't push it on their own, so they wanted to let him, a teacher, push it!

Zeng Gongliang's mind started spinning rapidly.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Zeng Gongliang immediately made a conclusion - it must be a good thing!

No matter how you say it, Jane is in the heart of the emperor, which is the greatest benefit.

Although there is nothing wrong with the opinions of the Menxia Province, as a recent Jinshi, it is indeed a good way to train in prefectures and counties, but according to what the officials say, staying in the capital is not necessarily bad.

If he is an ordinary Jinshi, it is naturally a good thing to follow the traditional training method, but is Zhang Heng an ordinary recent Jinshi?

From Zeng Gongliang's perspective, it wasn't.

Zhang Heng is talented, knowledgeable, and very experienced in dealing with people. To be honest, Zeng Gongliang sometimes even feels that he is as good as himself in many places. If he is given a good platform, he might really be able to accomplish a lot.

Things come up.

But, is Sansi a good platform?

Zeng Gongliang frowned slightly.

Zhao Zhen saw Zeng Gongliang frowning and asked quickly: "Is it difficult, or does it feel inappropriate?"

Zeng Gongliang smiled bitterly and said: "It's difficult, but also inappropriate."

Zhao Zhen was a little disappointed, but he still managed to keep his spirits up and said, "Ming Zhong, tell me."

Zeng Gongliang said: "There is nothing difficult, I just feel it is inappropriate. The inappropriate thing is that the Third Division is too huge, and once you enter, it will be like falling into the vast ocean. There are too many problems left over from history, and you have to do it even if the gods have gone."

Staring, it doesn't matter if I can't accomplish anything, I'm just afraid of delaying Juzheng."

Zhao Zhen was shocked, and suddenly felt a little lucky: he almost missed a good seedling.

Zeng Gongliang was right, Sansi was indeed a place where even gods would have to stare at it.

Due to historical reasons, Sansi is different from the Household Department before the Tang Dynasty. Its most prominent advantage lies in its high degree of unity and integration.

It can not only unify the management of tax collection, but also unify the management of financial expenditures to a certain extent, and can even effectively unify the intentions of financial planning through the power of financial supervision.

But shortcomings also arise from this.

The Third Division not only oversees provincial financial planning, but also intervenes in local financial planning, is responsible for financial inspections, is responsible for financial accounting, and is also responsible for civil construction, weapons manufacturing, water conservancy projects, and some civil affairs.

This makes its responsibilities too heavy and there are too many things to deal with.

The structure of the Three Divisions is extremely complex and huge, but there is nothing we can do about it.

The three divisions were in charge of the country's tea, salt, mining and metallurgy, industrial and commercial taxation, rivers and canals, and military affairs. They also had to coordinate financial revenue and expenditure and grain transportation. In order to cope with such a huge revenue and expenditure, the three divisions could only get bigger and bigger.

There are seven cases under the Salt and Iron Cases, namely the Military Case, the Zhou Case, the Commercial Tax Case, the Capital Salt Case, the Tea Case, the Iron Case, and the Establishment Case, etc., which are in charge of the national mining and metallurgy, tea, salt, commercial tax, rivers, canals, and military weapons.

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There are eight cases under the Du branch: reward case, money and silk case, grain case, Changping case, shipping case, cavalry case, Hudou case, and hundreds of officials case, which are responsible for the number of the country's wealth.

There are five cases under the Ministry of Household Affairs: household tax case, confession case, construction case, music case, clothing and food case, which are in charge of national household registration, two taxes, liquor tax and other matters.

There are twenty-one cases. Do you think this is all?

In addition, the subsidiaries of the three departments include the Mining and Surveying Department, which is responsible for the Revenue and Expenditure Department, the Inspection and Collection Department, the Debt Management Department, the Due Diligence Department, the Opening and Distribution Department, the Distribution Department, the Executing Department, and the Urgent and Driving Department.

, the responsible department, etc.

The broad powers of the three departments and the complexity of their affairs are really a headache.

Each case requires an experienced official to understand it, but the three envoys are often changed.

In the army, there are no solid camps and flowing soldiers, let alone permanent generals.

The same is true when it comes to finances. Almost every three ministers cannot stay in their position for long.

Not to mention Zhang Heng, a recent Jinshi, even if the experienced Third Division Envoy came in, in order to keep the Third Division able to barely operate, we could only let the senior officials occupy the important positions, and the senior officials bullied the superiors and subordinates.

The situation of transaction congestion has become a chronic disease.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhen felt a little lucky. Fortunately, someone stopped him, otherwise he would have made a big mistake.

Realizing his mistake, Zhao Zhen immediately humbly asked for advice: "Ming Zhong, Ju is your disciple, you will definitely do him good. Since the Third Division cannot go, then you see, if you want to stay in the capital, you must teach him

What kind of assignment would be good?"

Zeng Gongliang smiled and said: "Does the official have something for him to do, or do they simply want to train him?"

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "It's both."

Zeng Gongliang was quick-thinking and immediately realized why Zhao Zhen valued Zhang Heng. He thought about it and said, "The officials want him to join the Third Division... is it because Ju Zheng is good at business?"

Zhao Zhen seemed a little embarrassed and nodded slightly.

Zeng Gongliang suddenly felt that the hero had similar views. He thought about it carefully and said: "I have an idea. If this is the case, why not let your Majesty let him enter Nanya to practice?"

Zhao Zhen suddenly realized: "Haha, they say Zeng Mingzhong is smart and changeable. It is true. That's right. Let him go to Nanya!"

Nanya is the Kaifeng government office.

Zhao Zhen was inspired by Zeng Gongliang and continued: "... Nanya is also a state capital. Although there is no precedent for Jinshi to enter Nanya, it is not an exception. The position of general magistrate in Nanya is higher than that of ordinary prefectures and counties.

Tongyan, but if given the post of Qian Shu judge, that official rank would be appropriate.

In addition to the functions of the ordinary state capital, Nanya Li is also in charge of warehouse and treasury affairs. When the time comes, it will be handed over to him. Hahahaha, Mingzhong, you are really a talent! You can do this.

I can imagine it.”

Zeng Gongliang showed a reserved smile and felt happy for Zhang Heng.

The signing judge is the Kaifeng magistrate, an auxiliary officer under the general magistrate. Now that the magistrate is vacant, the magistrate can be regarded as the third person. Although there are four or five magistrates in Kaifeng Prefecture, the magistrates personally keep an eye on them.

Yes, it is estimated that his authority will not be too limited.

Just the warehouse and treasury affairs that the government had to entrust to him was a very huge function.

What are the warehouse and treasury services under Kaifeng Mansion?

Changping warehouse, contract yard, construction yard, extraction yard, pawn warehouse, Changping warehouse, exchange warehouse, minister's treasury, minister's wine warehouse, minister's vinegar warehouse, building store affairs, metropolitan taxation, market shipping affairs, general affairs

Wait, these are all!

Although Changpingcang is used for grain storage, famine preparation, etc., it is more like a commercial investment institution. Local governments mostly use Changping money as capital to invest in the lending industry and collect interest.

The envoy's treasury, the minister's money treasury, the minister's wine treasury, and the minister's vinegar treasury are not only warehouses for storing government supplies, but also commercial institutions based on national supplies.

The army in the northwest uses capital from the envoy treasury, reward treasury, border preparation treasury, Huiyi treasury and other treasuries in the northwest to lend money, and can collect more than 1.16 million guan of interest every year;

During the Tiansheng period, the minister's liquor store in the northwest "purchased more than 180 guan of raw wine every day, and the same number of boiled wine. The rate was 300 guan per day, 9,000 guan in a month, and 9,000 guan in a year.

Collected more than 100,000 yuan."

As for institutions named "field" such as repair yards and disassembly yards, they are mostly handicraft workshops and commodity trading markets operated by local governments.

There are also some economic departments named after "wu", such as the Municipal Shipping Affairs, which is an agency that manages import and export trade, similar to the current customs;

The Ping Zhengwu Principle is equivalent to a government-run commodity wholesale company; the Metropolitan Taxation Bureau is the tax authority that collects commercial taxes.

The government has also established public housing management departments in the capital and various states and counties, responsible for the leasing, management and maintenance of government public housing. This is the business of building shop services.

Tokyo's Housekeeping Service, which has more than 20,000 public housing units under its jurisdiction, has a "Housekeeping Service" member who is equivalent to the general manager;

There are three or four "detention officers" each, equivalent to deputy general managers;

There are forty or fifty "house-grabbing marriage officers" each, who are equivalent to business managers and are responsible for recruiting and collecting rent;

There are also five hundred "maintenance directors" (maintenance workers) each. There is a duty system for the store and housekeeping, and a person in charge must be assigned to be on duty every night.

All empty houses that have not been rented out will be guarded by special personnel every day, and the "house-money-grabbing marriage officer" will post a "lease notice" (which is the rental advertisement in later generations) and call for renters - it is clearly a very large-scale house.

"Property Company".

In this way, Zhang Heng will have money in his hands, and money means power, and he can avoid many offending responsibilities in Kaifeng Mansion. It can be said that as long as Zhang Heng does these money-making tasks well, he will be promoted.

Then it won't be a problem, and isn't this Zhang Heng's specialty?

Zhao Zhen waited for the rice to be put into the pot, so he started to push it very actively. Under his push, Zhang Heng's Kaifeng Mansion Signing Judge came down and ordered him to take office in three days.

Zhang Heng was immediately dumbfounded. He quickly asked Zeng Gongliang and felt at ease. However, he was a little stunned when he heard that he had to manage such a huge industry.

Good guy.

Three days later, Zhang Heng stood at the gate of the Kaifeng government office and was stunned for a while. The government officials kept staring at him closely, fearing that he had some evil intentions.

After a while, Zhang Heng raised his feet and walked inside. The yamen servant hurriedly came up to stop him. Zhang Heng read the appointment letter. The yamen servant was very surprised, but he did not dare to stop him.

Zhang Heng walked inside with ease and met the newly appointed prefect of Kaifeng - Wu Yu.

Wu Yu was very happy to see Zhang Heng: "Ju Zheng, why are you here just now? I have been looking forward to it for several days!"

Zhang Heng took out the letter of appointment: "It says that I am coming to the Yamen today, but I'm afraid you won't recognize me because I'm early."

Wu Yu laughed loudly: "This is just the latest arrival date. From the moment you receive the letter of appointment, you will be the signing judge of our Kaifeng Mansion. Hahaha, very good. We, teachers and students, will join hands together.

Govern Kaifeng Mansion better!"

Wu Yu was a fellow scholar in the joint examination, and he could also be regarded as Zhang Heng's teacher, so there was no problem in calling him teacher and student.

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "Isn't this disciple in charge of the warehouse affairs? Managing the Kaifeng Mansion is not my job, right?"

Wu Yu sneered and said: "You have a good idea, but you want to hide and relax. You heard that the judge doesn't have to deal with other things. Don't you know what a pass is?"

Zhang Heng smiled and said: "I know this. Even the head of the job management department has to sign it. Your chief has already approved it, so there is no problem. I just second it and sign it. Nothing can go wrong."

The so-called signature system is like the companies of later generations. If there is a sum of money to be paid, it needs to be initiated by the salesperson, then the head of the business department, the head of the financial department sign one by one, and finally the boss has to sign, so that the money can be paid out.

If it is placed in the Kaifeng Mansion, it means that a certain matter is initiated by a certain official. In the end, it must be signed by the prefect, the general judge, and several judges, so that it can be passed.

Wu Yu curled his lips and said, "If everyone was as fooled as you, my matter would be easier to handle."

Zhang Heng smiled and did not answer. Wu Yu must have hit a lot of walls here.

In fact, Zeng Gongliang and others felt that the Third Division was too complicated, with complicated organizations and too many battles. But how could the Kaifeng Government Office be so simple?

Come and see what officials there are in Kaifeng Prefecture. There is a magistrate, a general magistrate, four or five magistrates, Si Lu joins the army, six cao joins the army, left and right army patrol envoys, left and right army patrol magistrates, doing official business for the left and right chambers...

And the order of scholars, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and workers is the six Cao Cao, there are two department officials, two members each of the six Cao Cao, eight military personnel, and hundreds of officials;

The envoys set up eleven cases, and issued various documents such as money, grain, taxes, and prison sentences every day. There were dozens of officials, officials in charge of arrests, and dozens of people in the front row, back row, and head office, and hundreds of officials.

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The left and right army patrol envoys, the judges and the left and right armies patrol the court, there are four official officials in the left and right chambers, and 600 officials...

Just these alone, there are already thousands of people in the government office. If you add in the thousands of people in various warehouses and warehouses under its jurisdiction, this is a huge organization with tens of thousands of people, which is not much simpler than Sansi.

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Although Wu Yu is the top leader in such a complicated organization, he has just arrived and it is not that simple to implement a government order. Various constraints are always inevitable.

Therefore, Wu Yu was indeed looking forward to Zhang Heng's arrival.

After all, Zhang Heng has a teacher-student relationship with him, and he must be naturally on his side politically. If a signing judge is on his side, then he has one more person he can use. Moreover, Zhang Heng is

The person who took office with a mission on his back was personally appointed by the emperor to be responsible for the warehouse and treasury affairs, so other officials did not dare to impose too many restrictions on the public.

Of course, Zhang Heng had to work hard to overwhelm his subordinates. Then again, if Zhang Heng couldn't even do this, then he shouldn't be an official anymore.

Thinking of this, Wu Yu didn't say much, but just asked people to arrange many matters for Zhang Heng when he first took office.

Wu Yu arranged for an old official named Chen Ding to take Zhang Heng to handle the matter.

"... Your judge's hall has been reorganized. The inside has been cleaned by the old man a few days in advance. All kinds of tables, chairs and the four treasures of the study have also been collected and placed for you.

You see, I have collected a quarter's worth of items for you at once and put them in the cabinet. Various types of writing brushes, inkstones, black and vermilion ink ingots, three knives of rice paper, paperweights, etc. are all ready. You

If you want to use it, just take it here. If you are short of it after using it for the quarter, you can withdraw it at that time. If it is in stock, you can also take it home for use..."

"...Tables and chairs look a little shabby, but you can use them with confidence. They are all very sturdy. I carefully selected them when I selected them. They are not beautiful, but they are practical...

There is also a basin here. Don't move it casually. This is for water leakage. If you accidentally move it, the whole room will be wet when it rains. You still need to be careful.

Oil lamps and other things are here. At night, if you are diligent in political affairs and need to light them up, there are fire lamps here. If they go out, you can ask the officials to come over and replace them at any time..."

The old official Chen Ding explained everything clearly to Zhang Heng one by one. Zhang Heng nodded while listening. Looking at the environment of the court, it was indeed shabby and shabby, but because he had seen the Kaifeng government office before,

I was prepared for the shabby situation, but I was actually quite satisfied with it.

Zhang Heng smiled and said, "Thank you. With these arrangements, I feel confident. I will ask you for more advice in the future."

After Zhang Heng handed over a handover, Chen Ding quickly declined and said: "There is no need to do this for the judge. I am a member of the prefect's family. You and I are teachers and students, so I should serve you."

Zhang Heng stuffed Jiaozi into Chen Ding's body and said with a smile: "It's better this way. If you take this, there will be many things that will trouble you in the future. Don't think it's troublesome."

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Chen Ding had no choice but to scream: "You are so polite, so polite."

Chen Ding explained a lot of things to Zhang Heng, and then called in the exclusive officials of the Justice Hall: "This is the new signing judge, the new champion scholar of our country's Song Dynasty, Sanyuan Ji

The top scholar, the student of Hanlin bachelor Zeng Gongliang, is also a student personally admitted by our prefect. You must remember this relationship. If you are a good student, I will keep an eye on you, you know?"

The official was dumbfounded by what Chen Ding said, and hurriedly patted his chest and said: "Brother Chen, don't worry, I am the best at caring. None of the adults I have served said that I was not good at serving you.

Just be at ease!"

Zhang Heng was also stunned: "Your name is Care?"

The clerk was all smiles: "Yes, sir, my surname is Guan Minghuai."

Zhang Heng thought to himself: Caring is not a bad thing, but don't label it as hospice care.

(End of chapter)