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?
To be continued...