Peach Fortune Ring

Money and power are naturally the most attractive, but Su Bingwen is neither greedy for power nor likes money. No wonder he was excluded and sent to this wilderness.

After gaining the power, Song Yan did not summon the officials in the government office, but first found some books related to Liangzhou to read.

He reads very fast, but in half a day, he read all the books about Liangzhou.

Liangzhou Prefecture has three counties under its jurisdiction, one middle-class county and two lower-class counties.

The middle-ranked counties are called Xifeng County, and the lower-ranked counties are called Longshan County and Fengyuan County.

Xifeng County has a population of about 11, Longshan County has a population of just over 5, and Fengyuan County has an even smaller population of just over 3.

Therefore, the population of the entire Liangzhou Prefecture is less than 100 million, just over 60.

Liangzhou Prefecture is a border city, bordering the Black Eagle, Red Wolf, and Huhuo tribes respectively.

Among the three major alien races, the Black Eagle clan is the strongest with a population of more than 300 million, followed by the Red Wolf clan with a population of more than 200 million, and the last Huhuo clan with a population of more than 100 million.

Among the three barbarians, the red wolves are the most ferocious, and they often come to Liangzhou to plunder. The black hawks are not very aggressive because they also farm by themselves, but they have to send out soldiers once a year.

But the Huhuo tribe, they all live in the forest, and they are very good at taming ferocious beasts, and often drive the beast soldiers to fight. Therefore, even the red wolf tribe and the black eagle tribe dare not provoke them at will.

But the Huhuo tribe rarely attacked them. Only three years ago, a profiteer bullied a member of the Huhuo tribe. As a result, the other party led the beast soldiers to besiege the city. In the end, Su Bingwen sent someone to arrest the profiteer and hand him over to the Huhuo tribe. It calmed down their anger.

Therefore, among these three clans, the Red Wolf Clan is the most threatening to Liangzhou Prefecture, the Black Eagle Clan is next, and the Huhuo Clan is hardly a threat.

Before you know it, a few days have passed.

These days, Song Yan summoned officials of all sizes successively, and also learned about this year's tax revenue and the state of the treasury.

To Song Yan's surprise, more than [-]% of this year's taxes have not been collected. As for the treasury, it is almost empty, and it can almost run away with mice. Simply put, Liangzhou's execution is very poor, and it is still very poor.

According to his knowledge, the government officials have not received their salaries for more than half a year.

I have to say that Su Bingwen is too stupid to be an official, but think about it, if you are any prefect, it is impossible to give you all the rights to a new magistrate, and only Su Bingwen can do it.

Because they didn't get their salaries, all the officials in the Yamen seemed weak.

It's just that before Song Yan could sort out these matters, Xu Xing sent his deputy to the yamen to ask Song Yan for military expenses.

Not bad.

The military expenses of the military town need to be borne by the magistrate's yamen. In addition to food and grass, 5000 taels of silver are also given every year.

But today's yamen can't even pay the salaries of their own officials, so there is no money for military expenses.

"Lord Song, if you don't pay me the military expenses, I won't leave as an official!" Wu Jingwei said as if he wouldn't leave unless you gave me the money.

"It doesn't matter, although the magistrate's yamen is poor, he can afford a few meals!"

Song Yan said lightly.

"you!"

Wu Jingwei was angry about it.

"Come here, please invite Vice General Wu to the wing room to entertain him with good tea. I still have to work!",

Two yamen servants came in: "General Wu please!"

"Master Song counts you as amazing, I will leave today, and come back another day!" Wu Jingwei said depressedly and left.

Subsequently.

Song Yan sorted out the tax books, and found a lot of old taxes, and there were dozens of large tax owers, who owed more than 20 catties of grain and more than 3 taels of tax money.

As for the tax and food owed by ordinary people, it is only tens of thousands of catties, and the tax silver is only five or six thousand taels.

In addition, the three counties have not paid official taxes for many years, and the official grain owed has reached more than 40 catties, and the official bank has reached more than 6 taels.

"Hey!"

Song Yan sighed again, Su Bingwen was too stupid as an official, no wonder the government office was so dilapidated, probably not because he didn't want to repair it, but because he couldn't afford the money to repair it.

Therefore, Song Yan summoned officials to understand the situation of these dozens of large tax owers.

Only then did I know that these big tax debtors were all landed households in Liangzhou, each of which had built a fortress, and there were private soldiers in the fortress.

With less than a hundred servants in the government office, there is nothing they can do to those guys.

As for the officials who collect taxes, they can't even enter the gate of the fortress, and they still collect taxes.

In fact, Su Bingwen could ask Xu Xing for help, but the relationship between the two was quite rigid, so after so many years, these big families were allowed to evade taxes, and the magistrate's office couldn't do anything to them.

Today's magistrate's yamen is already unable to make ends meet. If these taxes cannot be collected, the entire yamen will not be able to operate.

Therefore, the most important thing at present is to collect the taxes of those big households.

As long as the big households are willing to pay taxes, there is no reason for ordinary people not to pay.

"Is there any way for you to recover the taxes of these big households?"

Song Yan looked at the dozens of officials and asked.

As soon as his words fell, these officials began to complain.

Some said they couldn't get in at all;

Some also said that they were beaten back halfway;

Some even said that the other party not only refused to open the door, but also insulted them loudly.

After they finished talking, Song Yan continued: "Everyone knows what's going on in the yamen. If the tax cannot be collected, I'm afraid everyone's salary will not be paid out. Seeing that the end of the year is approaching, everyone can only drink the northwest wind. Therefore, I have a proposal here. Each of you can collect taxes from those big households. No matter who receives the tax grain or tax money, you can take [-]% of it, so that you can also live. A fat year."

Hearing this, all the officials present were shocked, and immediately, some people began to think.

One hundred taels, if they can receive 1000 catties of grain, they will have a hundred catties, and if they can receive [-] taels of silver, they can also get ten taels.

But soon, they extinguished this idea, how could the taxes of those sitting tigers be so easy to collect.

Don't say give them a [-]% commission, even if they can't do a tenth, they all started to complain again.

Some people even clamored for Song Yan to pay his salary, claiming that the family was already in trouble.

Seeing the behavior of this group of officials, Song Yan was secretly disappointed, there was really no useful talent.

[Author's digression]: The second update is over

Chapter 82 Anti-thief