Chapter 230 The Salary of the King of Eaters

Chang'an City, North Taicang.

The imperial court finally began to open warehouses to distribute Lumi as salary a few years ago.

All the officials in Beijing drove to collect money and food with their servants.

Qin Qiong, the Duke of Qi, received six hundred shi of corn and three hundred and seventy-two coins.

"Ping Zhangshi please sign!"

The soap-robed subordinate respectfully presented the list to Qin Qiong, asking him to read it and sign it.

Qin Qiong glanced at it, but there was actually nothing to look at. The current salary system of the imperial court is based on the salary of scattered officials, so scattered officials are also called Benpin, Jilu officials. Moreover, no matter what your actual job is, whether you have concurrent jobs or not, Datang will generally give you a salary.

Qin Lang's current Sanjie is Dr. Zuo Guanglu, and Kaifu Yitong Sansi is the first-rank rank, so his yearly Lumi is six hundred stones, which is one hundred stones less than the first-rank one.

The salaries of officials are paid on a monthly basis, regardless of the first-rank officials, the monthly salary is 8,000, the food is 1,800, the miscellaneous is 1,200, the defense is 20,000, and the total is 31,000.

In the first half of this year, the Lumi was actually distributed, and the monthly salary has been distributed for several months, but this time the emperor borrowed one million yuan, and he has money in hand. Bonds, as well as the exemption of real rents, etc., the emperor specially decreed that this time the capital officials will pay the whole year's salary and salary for the whole year.

Six hundred shilumi is a lot.

The monthly salary is more than 300 guan, but the regular salary is actually only 96 guan. The rest is food money, miscellaneous money and other benefits. Miscellaneous servants, etc., are conscripted by the common people. There are fanghe for the first to fifth ranks, and common servants for the sixth to ninth ranks. First-rank officials have a total of ninety-six fanghes. This fee is actually the food and drink expenses of these people during their service.

State and county officials have Baizhi, and the palace has Shili and so on.

Qin Qiong signed a pen to express that he would receive these salaries, and then some subordinate staff took the slips and began to distribute money and food to Qin Qiong's family.

This year Qin Qiong made donations to the imperial court several times, donating tens of thousands of guan of silk and thousands of shi of grain, and just claimed 5,000 guan of national debt.

It seems like a lot to receive now, but in fact it is not much compared to the donation.

Qin Lang's share had already been signed, and Xiao Yi came over to receive it with a trilogy. He was the Wensan class of the third-rank doctor Ziguanglu, so the salary was received according to this.

There are four hundred stones of Lumi, and the monthly salary is seventeen guan, of which the regular salary is 5,000, the food is 1,100, the miscellaneous is 900, and the anti-combination is 10,000. The annual salary is 204 guan.

Qin Qiong looked at the lively scene and asked Qin Lang, "This time the imperial court will pay a year's salary all at once. Isn't it a lot of expenses?"

"This time the Beijing officials issued salaries, a total of more than 180,000 shilumi and more than 180,000 salaries."

Qin Qiong couldn't help being amazed when he heard this. In fact, many officials in the court were opposed to such a waste of money and food. The salary that had been cut before was ignored, but the emperor still thought that it would be paid, and not only did he send what was not paid, but also gave it away. It is necessary to make up for the previously reduced issuance, and even to issue additional ones.

The emperor has the emperor's considerations, the disaster has been brought under control, the situation is improving, and the new year is coming, especially this year will be the first year of the new year of Zhenguan, of course, we must show our energy and spirit, and let the officials live better.

Not to mention, the money is actually the food provided by the officials' families, and it is the debt they subscribed for.

"The money is spent too quickly!" Qin Qiong said.

"There's no need to worry about that. Once the transshipment department is established, money will not be a problem in the future." Qin Lang has this confidence.

Qin Qiong lowered her voice and said to her son, "When you go out, bring more family members with you, be careful!"

He couldn't stop the emperor from using his son as a swordsman. He could only remind him to be careful. The young man was too aggressive and touched the interests of many people. There were many people who were dissatisfied with Qin Lang. They accumulated time and time again, and he was afraid that he would be very dissatisfied Yes, we have to prevent someone from taking risks.

"Grandpa, don't worry about this. His Majesty not only gave me forty-eight defenses, but also pulled out sixty-nine marriages and tents. I have a hundred servants myself. I would like to see which one is really that big." courage."

As a high-ranking official, he not only has the defense of handyman, but also attendants.

The sixth and seventh grades are for marriage, and the first grade is in the account. The three princes and princes and officials with honors of the third rank and above are all given to the marriage account. , to one hundred and thirty people in the marriage account, and Qin Lang was a transfer envoy to bring to Zhuguo, sixty-nine people.

These marriage accounts are filled by the children of officials of the sixth to ninth grades who have reached the age of eighteen. As the attendants and guards of the high-ranking officials, it is also a kind of sex service for these officials' children. You can take the exam, and those who pass can get the official official background.

"I just left the Zhenfu Division, and now I am entering the Transit Division again, hey!"

Qin Qiong sighed.

The Zhenfu Division supervises all officials, which makes the officials fearful and fearful. Now, the power of the Transshipment Division does not fall to the Zhenfu Division, but it specializes in the economic aspect.

"When you do things, remember not to be too radical and leave some room." Qin Qiong reminded her son that he should not put himself all in for the sake of doing things.

"You have your own measure!"

After chatting for a while, Qin Lang brought Qin Qiong to the other side.

"According to His Majesty's will, the six armies of the Beiya, with a total of 27,000 troops, will each be rewarded with 10,000 yuan for settling expenses this time. The captains and senior officers will be given another 20,000 yuan to buy horses, and the cavalry will also be subsidized with 20,000 yuan each." Thousands of horses, equipment money."

Qin Qiong is now the Secretary of the Ministry of Peace and the Minister of the Ministry of War. Although the Sixth Army of the Beiya is not under the control of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of War, this time Li Shimin still ordered Qin Qiong to be responsible for the rewards and distribution of food and salaries for the new Sixth Army of the Beiya.

There are 27,000 forbidden troops, including 10,000 cavalry troops and 17,000 infantry troops.

Just the ten guan settling expenses per person is as high as 270,000 guan. In addition, the Ma Jun needs an additional 200,000 guan for raising horses, and the officers also have to spend a lot of money to buy horses.

These are 500,000 guan.

The one million yuan that the emperor had just borrowed cost more than 180,000 yuan to distribute the official salary in Beijing, and now it is another 500,000 yuan, and more than half of it is gone in a blink of an eye.

"This time, the guards in the Beiya government paid six stones for rations, three bolts of silk, three bolts of cloth, twelve taels of cotton, and three thousand for clothes."

This is actually two months of food, and the production of silk cloth and money for winter and spring clothes.

Qin Qiong carefully calculated in his mind. Before that, the imperial court built barracks and dormitories for the 27,000 recruits and forbidden troops. These soldiers had to eat in the barracks, and other military expenditures were not included.

"There are still expenses in the palace, the million pens should have been spent already?" Qin Qiong asked.

Qin Lang nodded.

It is indeed spent. In fact, one million pennies seems a lot, but if you really need to use it, it is really useless. You are waiting for money everywhere. Li Shimin still wants to have a good year in this disaster year. It is so easy.

"What should we do next?" Qin Qiong asked. You can't just borrow one million and then borrow again?

"Having this one million solves the urgent need, and there will be a period of time to breathe, and there is no rush for the time being."

Qin Lang issued this bond mainly to understand the burning urgency and relieve his immediate thirst. If he really wants to make money, he has many ways. It's just that those methods are far away, so you need a cash flow first.

"You really have a way?" Qin Qiong was a little suspicious.

After all, the matter of money left the prime ministers in the Zhengshitang helpless.

"Actually, there are many ways. It's not that the princes of the court have no way, but they haven't thought about many ways, or they don't want to mention them."

"Since you don't want to mention the method, it means that this method has problems and hidden dangers. Have you thought about it?"

"I thought about it, but isn't there no other way now?"

After handing over the money, food and supplies to Qin Qiong, Qin Lang rushed to the East Palace again.

In the hall of Xiande.

Li Shimin sat in the hall with his eyes glazed over. After another night, he just dozed off for a while, but woke up soon.

can not fall asleep.

Upon waking up, Li Shimin became even more anxious when he thought that the one million coins he had just borrowed had been spent.

Now the one million yuan has been used up, and the interest of 1.2 million yuan is still on the back.

"minister······"

Li Shimin raised his head to interrupt Qin Lang, "Come here, have all the money and food been distributed?"

"All have been distributed according to His Majesty's decree. The salaries of the capital officials and the food and clothing of the Sixth Army have all been dispatched in an orderly manner."

"Is all one million used up?"

"used up."

Li Shimin let out a long sigh.

"One million, it will be used up so quickly."

He was like a gambler who lost his last chip.

Although the one million dollars spent was divided and arranged by him, but when he really ran out of money, his heart ached again.

"Huailiang, what should we do next?"

"You told me earlier that you only need to borrow one million guan, and you can solve the rest. What is the best way?"

The emperor was very anxious, which made Qin Lang feel as if he was back before the fourth day of June.

"Your Majesty, as long as His Majesty orders an imperial edict, the subject only needs ten days to get millions of coins!"

Li Shimin frowned, "Is it necessary to issue national debt again? This is not possible, the old debt has not been repaid, how to issue new debt, besides, the interest rate of this bond is also high."

Although compared with the imperial government's public money with a monthly interest rate of eight cents, the monthly interest rate of this national debt is only two cents, but Li Shimin still feels that the interest pressure is too great. The public money is a loan to collect interest, but now the national debt is borrowed to pay interest, and the feeling is completely different. up.

"Your Majesty, I have also said before that borrowing debt is only to alleviate the emergency, not a long-term solution. To really improve the financial crisis, we still have to start with taxes."

"You want a new tax? What tax?"

"The new tax has not been levied so quickly. It has to go through court demonstrations, and then publicity and collection in various places still need a process."

"Then you said that within ten days, you can get several million guan, what do you mean?"

Qin Lang smiled.

"Your Majesty, who do you think is the richest person in the world?"

"The nobles, powerful nobles!" Li Shimin said without hesitation.

"Your Majesty is right, but not complete, and some people have been left out!"

"who?"