Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 405 Auxiliary Police

Chapter 405 Auxiliary Police

The administration of officials in the Northern Song Dynasty is indeed a bit outrageous.

In fact, most of the people in charge of local affairs are officials. Even in many decision-making, officials still have the right to make decisions. Officials know how to eat, drink and have fun every day. Zhang Fei's uncle Xu Lingxiao also belongs to this part of officials.

Xu Lingxiao is good at poetry and essays, but not good at handling public affairs, far inferior to Xu Zhiqian.

Under this system, it is indeed unlikely that officials such as Jiedushi will appear.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this, whoever cares, in many details, officials are more reliable than officials, but the key point is that officials do not have salaries, they can only get some subsidies, of course, the officials themselves The hired officials are paid by themselves, it depends on the financial resources of the officials, and if they hang out with Han Qi, they must be popular and hot.

When these two points are combined, the problem is big.

On the one hand, they have power, but on the other hand, they have no money.

The results speak for themselves.

If the common people ask the government to do something, they can't put some money in it.

As a result, under normal circumstances, people are unwilling to go to the government office for help.

If this point is not changed, no matter how good the law is, it will have no meaning.

But what Yu Da said was quite right, those officials had no choice but how to make a living without making money.

The imperial court actually knew about this, but they could only turn one eye and close one eye.

There is one thing to say, there were indeed relatively few officials in the Northern Song Dynasty who were corrupt, but there were countless corrupt officials, far better than those in the Tang Dynasty.

In history, when Wang Anshi promulgated the Recruitment Law, there was an inconspicuous decree hidden in the middle, which was the "Cang Law".

In fact, it is very simple, that is, to incorporate officials into the national salary system.

Then, Wang Anshi began to rectify the administration of officials.

Although Wang Anshi was not as cautious as Sima Guang, he was limited to details. On key issues, Wang Anshi thought very clearly. To rectify the administration of officials, he must first pay salaries to others.

To punish dirty officials without paying salaries is purely playing hooligans, and they will not do it.

However, due to the emergence of the police, Wang Anshi did not rush to introduce the Cang Law, but hoped to use the entire police system to implement the Cang Law.

The unprecedented success of the police is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Incorporating officials into the police system can quickly gain the approval of the people.

Compared with Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and the others, Zhang Fei lacked the mind to cultivate himself, govern the country and bring peace to the world. He was a trainee lawyer, and he lived a well-off life, so he didn't have this mind at all.

Although after coming to the Northern Song Dynasty, this kind of thinking began to germinate in my heart, but it is still not comparable to the current literati.

But having said that, his professionalism is not possessed by Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.

Since he wants to develop the business of household rating evaluation, he will definitely do it seriously and will never be perfunctory.

Moreover, if Wang Anshi could not promote the new law, then his plan would not be successful.

The entire judicial reform is not because of Wang Anshi's New Deal, otherwise, Sima Guang would not have done it.

Therefore, Zhang Fei will definitely support Wang Anshi with all his strength.

It's just that at the moment, he has to be busy moving. Today he came to the flower market, wanting to buy some better flower seeds back, because Gao Wenyin likes to grow flowers very much, but he is reluctant to spend money on expensive flower seeds.

"Oh! It's Saburo who came."

The shopkeeper of a flower shop saw Zhang Fei coming and greeted him warmly.

Zhang Fei smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to buy some flower seeds."

The shopkeeper asked, "I don't know what flower seeds Sanlang wants?"

Zhang Fei said: "Peony flowers, rose flowers, these two kinds are essential, the rest of the shopkeepers will see and sell them."

The shopkeeper said: "I heard that Sanlang bought a big house recently, presumably these flower seeds are used for the new house."

Zhang Fei smiled wryly, "How do you know that I bought the house?"

The shopkeeper said whoops: "Don't Sanlang know that wherever you buy now, the rent will rise wherever you buy."

"Is it so exaggerated?"

Zhang Fei smiled helplessly, thinking to himself, when I was beaten back then, I didn't see the rent of that house being lowered, these nasty houses would only go up, not down.

Just at this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of arguing behind me.

"What? You said that this method of recruiting is good?"

"I think it's pretty good."

Zhang Fei looked back and saw two scholars coming out of this tea shop arguing.

"Where is it?"

"In the past, it was only targeted at the upper-class households, causing many families to be ruined, but now everyone is sharing it equally, and everyone only needs to pay a little money. I think this is quite reasonable."

"A little money is nothing to the upper-class households, but to the poor people, it may also ruin their families. How many households are there in the upper-class households, and how many households are in the lower-fifth-class households? One less rich household will be ruined, and the cost will be huge." It may be that a dozen poor families were destroyed, so is the life of the poor not their life?"

"Your words are simply unreasonable. It is clearly written in the newspaper that the poor households pay less than half of the rich households, so what else?"

"Is the wealth of the poor family half that of the rich family? Forget it, I will not argue with you. This difference is not against each other. Let me leave."

The two parted ways.

Hearing the shopkeeper sigh again, "Oh, these past two days, people are arguing about this labor law every day!"

Zhang Fei turned around, "Really?"

"Compared to the previous method of losing everything, this recruitment method is really terrible. There are many people who support it, but there are also many people who oppose it. Let's talk about our shop. I support it, but my guy is very dissatisfied. "

"Why?"

"I belong to a third-class family. Every year when it's my turn or my family's, I have to spend a lot of money to take care of it. I don't need it according to my plan. And once the service collection law is promulgated, he will have to pay the exemption money every year. "

"Won't you give the guy a little more wages?"

"Do you want some rose flowers?"

"Ah? It's okay."

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded.

After buying the seeds, just after leaving the flower market, a white-faced boy came over.

Zhang Fei recognized him, only Zhao Xu's attendant.

The palace, in the attic.

"minister."

"How many times do I have to say that?"

When Zhao Xu saw that Zhang Fei wanted to salute, he was quite dissatisfied.

"Uh, hello the emperor, no no, hello to the official family. Not really!"

"Ha ha."

Zhao Xu smiled, and then stretched out his hand to lead the opposite side, "Sit down. Sit down."

"Thank you, officer."

Zhang Fei sat down awkwardly.

Not polite, he doesn't even know how to say hello.

Zhao Xu asked with a smile: "Do you know why I came to you?"

Zhang Fei said: "The recruitment law?"

Zhao Xu asked again: "What do you think about this?"

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Is this the fifth or sixth official to ask me this question?"

Zhao Xu said: "Then how do you answer?"

Zhang Fei said: "I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to say."

"Then what should I ask you?"

"It is [-] times better than the labor law, but the obstacles encountered may also be great."

"There are also many ministers in the court who oppose it. For example, Sima Junshi, they all oppose the collection of tax exemption for the poor. What do you think of this?"

"I think it's the best thing to do right now."

"is it?"

Zhao Xu hurriedly asked, "How do you say that?"

Zhang Fei explained: "The poor are the majority. If the money of the poor is exempted, then all the burdens will be concentrated on the second, third and fourth-class households. This situation may be worse than the labor law. In a few years, the upper-class households may all will all disappear.

And those rich people who are really rich can't collect too much tax. In the service collection law formulated by Wang Xueshi, this official household is only collected half of them, but if we talk about wealth. "

The richest people in the world are relatives of the emperor and court officials. Their taxes must not be collected, so they can only be shared by the poor. Otherwise, such a huge expenditure will be all on the middle class.

Even if he was asked to do it, he couldn't think of a better way, after all, it wasn't typing on the keyboard.

Zhao Xu nodded, and couldn't help sighing: "It can be seen that this recruitment law is only an expedient measure! But even this expedient measure has been opposed by many people, such as Mr. Zhao and the others. Corrupt officials can take advantage of this opportunity."

Zhang Fei nodded: "Govern the country first by governing the officials. Before this step is completed, Mr. Zhao's worries will inevitably happen."

"That's why I asked you to come here today."

Zhao Xu said: "Actually, Xueshi Wang is also aware of this, so he proposed to assign most of the duties to the Royal Police. While reforming the law, he will also rectify the administration of officials. I also agree with this very much, so I will assign all the exemption tax to the police station What do you think of using the money to expand the police?"

Zhang Fei said: "I knew about this in advance, and I think it is feasible, but it can only be used as a long-term policy, and it cannot be directly expanded to the whole country. big burden."

"I know this. Regarding this matter, I will still count it in the judicial reform." Zhao Xu frowned, and said again: "But will this affect the people's perception of the Royal Police?"

It can be seen that he cares about the Royal Police very much.

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Some people will definitely think so, but it doesn't matter, as long as the Royal Police maintain their current attitude, I believe they will change their views on this matter."

Zhao Xu said: "But the police station suddenly has to take on so many things, so it must expand its team. Can you guarantee that the Royal Police will not have any problems?"

Zhang Fei said: "There will definitely be problems, so I suggest the development of auxiliary police."

"Auxiliary police?"

"It's the police who specialize in assisting the Royal Police."

Zhang Fei said: "Their treatment is not as good as that of the Royal Police, so that they can reduce the financial pressure in the initial stage, but they can also work hard to become the Royal Police, giving them the opportunity to advance and spur them to make progress, and the Royal Police will supervise them.

Of course, I think that the royal police should be given better treatment, such as organizing to study the law at the law school, so that the royal police can be both civil and military.In this way, the Royal Police will be more attractive for talents to join. "

Zhao Xu nodded: "It should be so! Most of those officers understand the law. If the royal police don't understand the law, it will only make people laugh."

Zhang Fei added: "Besides, it is inappropriate to assign most of the duties to the police station. After all, the authority of many affairs is not in the police station, but in various departments. However, through the platform of the police station, Train the police and send them to various yamen.

For example, the tax bureau can set up a royal tax police, and the procuratorate and the imperial court can all be equipped with special police. "

Zhao Xu suddenly said: "Isn't the tax bureau going to develop secretly?"

Zhang Fei giggled, "Those are elites. In the future, they will be specially used to deal with those big landlords and rich businessmen who evade taxes. On the surface, we should arrange some people to handle some daily affairs."

"That's right, that's right. That's reasonable. If all of them are assigned to the police station, whether the police station obeys the various bureaus or all the bureaus have to ask the police station for help is inappropriate. I thought it was too simple before,"

Zhao Xu said again: "Then who should do this matter?"

Zhang Fei said: "Of course it's Cao Dongdong."

(End of this chapter)