celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 253 The Only Clerk Without a Bonus

Luo Yi smiled.

"I'm a foreigner. Is it strange to find a foreign official to uphold justice when I am wronged?"

The deputy magistrate secretly thought: Of course it's strange!

The official position of foreign official was created by the king of kings, and the world of Dyson balls has never appeared before.There are many strange official positions in history, but most of them disappeared in the long river of history like a flash in the pan.

The responsibilities of the field officer are very clear, but the deputy magistrate is still not optimistic about the official position of the field officer.Because, since the establishment of foreign officials, basically nothing has happened.

In the feudal era, a manor was basically self-sufficient.Although the kingdom of the Dyson ball world is only a city-state with a small area and a small population, its self-sufficiency is also stronger than that of a manor.

The important thing is that the Dyson sphere world has a divine grace.Therefore, even for necessities such as salt and iron that cannot be produced by themselves, the kingdoms do not have a strong demand for outsourcing.Therefore, the population flow of the Dyson sphere world is less than that of the feudal era on the earth.

Since the foreign population is so rare, there are naturally very few things that need to be handled by foreign officials.Foreign officials basically have nothing to do all day long.In this way, in the bureaucratic system established by the King of Kings, foreign officials have become almost invisible.

If it wasn't for Luo Yi's request to find a foreign official at this moment, the deputy public security officer with a mustache would have almost forgotten that there is such a person as a foreign official.

The deputy public security officer with a mustache recalled the duties of a foreign official, and felt that Luo Yi's request could not be rudely refused, so he simply took him to the office of a foreign official.

The deputy magistrate did this, of course, not because he always kept serving the people in mind, but because he thought it would be better for Luo Yi to be present when he communicated with officials from other places.

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The thin foreign official looked at Luo Yi in surprise.It has been two months since he took office, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation.

The empire was founded, and the king of kings made various policies and regulations.And these regulations require a lot of officials.Although the attractiveness of other official positions varies from person to person who wants to become an official, it is already very attractive to the children of noble families who are not the eldest son.Only the two positions of tribune and foreign officials were lacking in interest from the noble children.

The office of tribune belongs to the magistrates and is not appointed by the King of Kings.A candidate can become a tribune only by gaining the approval of more than one percent of the local citizens and having no more dominant competitors.

The tribunes were almost as powerful as the consuls.Nominally all kingdoms implement a dual consul system, but in kingdoms with tribunes, the tribunes are actually one of the Big Three.

However, the tribune, an official position with such great power, was not popular among the aristocratic children.

For the office of tribune is simply contrary to human nature.

After serving as a tribune, personal property cannot be retained.All property before serving as a tribune needs to be donated to the treasury after becoming a tribune.

Measure the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain: if you destroy a family and build a country, there is the possibility of recovering the family property or even obtaining more property after the fact. Theoretically possible.

However, becoming a tribune is "destroying the family for the people", and the tribune is a lifelong system, and the position of the tribune cannot be given up except for death and imprisonment.In other words, after "breaking the family for the people" and becoming a tribune, it is theoretically impossible to own any private property.

Although after becoming a tribune, the central finance will guarantee all his consumption such as food, clothing, housing and transportation.But the King of Kings also stipulated that the standard of living of the tribunes should not exceed the median living standard of the citizens of the kingdom.

Calculated in this way, the living standard of the tribunes is actually not as good as that of the wealthy burghers.

If it is just that no private property is retained, and the standard of living can only reach the standard of ordinary citizens, then there will still be citizens living in extreme poverty who will consider becoming a tribune. Although the living standard of a tribune is not high, at least they can guarantee life No worries about food and clothing.For poor citizens who have eaten their last meal and worried about their next meal, becoming a tribune is a way out.

But the problem is that there is still the most basic requirement to become a tribune: literacy.

The specifics of each kingdom in the Dyson sphere world vary.In most kingdoms, knowledge is held by nobles.But there are also a few kingdoms where ordinary citizens can learn knowledge.So currently only a few kingdoms have tribunes.

However, the King of Kings emphasized that foreigners also have the right to serve as civil servants.Because the King of Kings believes that if foreigners can win the locals in the election, it can only show that there is a huge problem in the local area.The tribunes are also political officials, so in the kingdom where a few ordinary citizens can also read, there is a phenomenon that poor citizens go to other kingdoms to seek the position of tribunes.

Not to mention the reluctance of noble children to become tribunes.The children of nobles are also not interested in the position of foreign officials.

Luo Yi set up the post of foreign official in order to weaken local protectionism, reduce the phenomenon of local people's discrimination against foreigners, and facilitate population flow.

It's just that there are too few foreigners in various kingdoms, so foreign officials basically have nothing to do now.A position that does nothing all day is good for retirement.But now that the empire is starting up, most of the people who sign up to become officials of the empire are young people.Therefore, the children of nobles do not favor the position of foreign officials.

On the other hand, the reason why non-local officials are very unattractive is also because non-local officials are the affairs officers with the least income.

Although the remuneration of the local affairs officials dispatched by the central government is borne by the central finance, not all the officials' income is composed of salaries.

In fact, the "power" consuls elected locally or appointed by the king have great autonomy. One of the manifestations is that the "power" consuls have great influence on the distribution of local fiscal revenue.

In order to motivate the affairs officers, the "official power" consul has the power to allocate part of the local fiscal revenue, and rewards of different amounts to the departments under the jurisdiction of each affairs officer according to different performances.However, most kingdoms do not distribute rewards to foreign officials.

Although the consul of "power" can go his own way and reward the local officials, he will not do so.Because doing so will offend local citizens.

The duty of the non-local officials is to protect the interests of the non-regional officials. The better the performance of the non-local officials, the more the interests of the non-regional officials are protected. Even if the locals do not strongly dislike this, they will definitely not support it.

Other clerks can get rewards for doing a good job, and even a little bonus for work performance, but the clerks are not rewarded.Therefore, the income of the position of a foreign official is actually much lower than that of other affairs officers.

As a matter of fact, the children of nobles naturally dislike the position of foreign officials.

(End of this chapter)