The Dog Official of the Qing Dynasty (please subscribe, please vote)

Author: Da Luoluo

The Dog Official of the Qing Dynasty (please subscribe, please vote)

While Yu Wang Fuquan was shopping, he was still looking at Wang Zhongxiao's concubine Yang Xiaohuan with great interest. Today he and Wang Datou came to Zhengyang Gate together, mostly because of Xiaohuan, a concubine like Xiaohuan.

This little ring is so good! It has more ingredients than the wet nurse in Fuquan Mansion. If you keep one like this at home, you will definitely not run out of milk!

Fuquan also heard that this Yang Xiaohuan also practiced wrestling, and often played wrestling with Wang Zhongxiao, which made him excited just thinking about it. Wrestling with such a girl, no matter whether he wins or loses, he will be happy!

Uncle Fu also heard that Yang Qilong had many good sisters, most of whom were as plump as Yang Xiaohuan. Just when he was thinking about becoming brother-in-law with Wang Zhongxiao, the voices of Guo Jinbao and Wang Zhongxiao came.

"Uncle Fu, Ruixin Hall is here!"

This kid didn't learn well either. Wang Zhongxiao had obviously arranged for him to work in the Central Army of the Green Camp New Army, but he was unwilling to do so. He had to shamelessly hang out in the Sticky Bar. He also said that the Sticky Bar was close to the nobles and could easily be promoted.

.

Later, Wang Zhongxiao forced him to have no choice, so he simply pushed his father, Gunpowder Guo, out as a shield, and made Gunpowder Guo Guo Dequan the firearms general of the Green Camp New Army. He also asked his father to collect his big guns.

My uncle, Li Jixiang, is my apprentice and I don’t care whether he passes it on to his son or not to his daughter!

The work of arranging gunpowder is dirty and tiring. Who is really willing to learn it? If you have that kind of time, you might as well help the prince go to Bada Hu and go together to accumulate virtue.

King Yu Fuquan looked up and was stunned. He blurted out: "Oh, why are there so many officials? What day is it today? Why are there so many officials queuing up at the entrance of Ruixin Hall?"

It turned out that there was a large group of officials queuing outside the gate of Ruixin Hall, which was converted from Yangsan Tea House and two nearby rows of houses.

"So many officials are queuing up to save money? Are these all officials who had an affair with Obei?" Fuquan continued.

His mouth was locked when he was in front of Kangxi, Obai, and Bumbutai. As long as the three of them were not around, he would be the master of saying whatever he wanted, and he would just start yelling randomly now!

As a result, a large group of officials who were queuing up turned to look at him, and some of them even got angry.

"Where did you come from as a child? How could you accuse someone of innocence?"

"That is, your adults don't care about it?"

"Yes, Jing has been campaigning in Beijing since high school. How could he be one of Obai's traitors?"

"Zhang was also a Jinshi in the sixth year of Kangxi's reign. Since being elected in Beijing, he has never even met Ao Bai."

"Alas, you are still Jinshi, and Zhu is just a candidate who failed in three subjects. He has been selected in Beijing for several years. I don't know when he will be the winner!"

"Jiang is also a candidate. He has been selected in Beijing for nine years. It's hard."

"I have also been choosing in Beijing for eight years."

A group of high-ranking officials attacked Fuquan at first, but soon they began to complain.

It was only then that Fuquan and Wang Zhongxiao saw clearly that these officials were all sesame and mung beans, most of them were seventh- or eighth-rank officials, there were also a few sixth-rank officials, and some were even wearing official uniforms.

These officials looked unlucky at first glance. They definitely had little money. The material of their official uniforms was naturally very poor (official uniforms in the Qing Dynasty were usually prepared by themselves). There were not many followers lining up to accompany them. Most of the officials were alone.

.

Some of them looked pretty and thin. Foreign medicine was not popular in the Qing Dynasty these days. Is it that the officials with this appearance are sick, or they often don't have enough to eat?

Guo Jinbao, an old Beijing man, smiled and came to Yu Wang Fuquan's side. He pointed at the group of poor officials with a look of disdain and said: "Your Majesty, these are all waiting for selection in Beijing. The selected sesame and mung beans should be borrowed from Ruixin Hall."

Usury."

"Oh, it turns out they are a group of poor officials, bad luck!" Yu Wang Fuquan obviously looked down on these officials who came to Ruixin Hall to borrow money. After cursing, he swayed into Ruixin Hall.

Several palace guards who followed Fu Shen immediately rushed forward like wolves and tigers, waving their fists to scare the poor officials: "Get out of the way, get out of the way of the good dogs! This is the prince! Who wants to collide?"

My lord, don’t take this official skin anymore!”

When the officials heard that Fu Quan was the prince, and then looked at Fu Quan's temperament and the appearance of Wang Zhongxiao who followed Fu Quan, they were all half shorter. They all knelt on the ground where the snow had not yet melted and kowtowed to Fu Quan in greeting.

Even though he was called a dog, he was still so low-spirited. What a dog slave. Don't compare with the civil servants of the Song Dynasty. Compared with those officials of the Ming Dynasty who were easily spanked, there was a huge difference.

However, Wang Zhongxiao, who has been in the Qing Dynasty for almost two years, actually understands the difficulties of these dog officials.

Officials in the Song Dynasty had high salaries to keep them honest, and officials in the Ming Dynasty had great tax-free privileges, so a lot of the income that was donated and sent in came from wealthy owners.

The officials of the Qing Dynasty, to be precise, most of the Han officials and dog officials, were just one word - loss!

It is really risky to be a dog, so you must be cautious when entering the officialdom!

It is still the early years of Kangxi, and the Qing Dynasty has not yet opened many donation classes, so these officials are all meritorious, either Jinshi or Juren. According to the system in the early Qing Dynasty, Juren can only participate in three to five examinations (far provinces).

Three subjects, five subjects from nearby provinces), if you don't pass the exam, you can only try your luck in the civil service selection.

And those who are particularly lucky and get the Jinshi, although they can be awarded an official position, but having an official position does not mean that there is a vacancy. Most of the officials who get the Jinshi have to go through a long process of candidate and candidate, and finally get a real vacancy.

Candidates (selection) and alternates are two hurdles. Among them, Beijing officials only need to be candidates (selected), and if they are selected, they will be vacant. However, Beijing officials are poor, especially for Han members who have no connections or property in Beijing.

Local officials, on the other hand, need to be selected (selected) by the Ministry of Personnel first. If selected, they can get an alternate official, and then go to the local government to continue waiting.

As far as Wang Zhongxiao knows, it takes an average of eight years for a serious Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty to go from high school to becoming a county magistrate!

Eight years! The Anti-Japanese War was victorious, and these Qing Dynasty scholars were waiting for the vacancy of a county magistrate. Of course, eight years of waiting for a county magistrate seemed quite worthwhile, but according to the system of the Qing Dynasty, there were no candidates or alternates.

Salary.

What's even worse is that the candidates have to wait in Beijing, and the candidates have to wait in the provincial capital.

What are the expenses in Beijing? What are the expenses in provincial capitals?

Moreover, being an official comes with the dignity of being an official, and all kinds of communication, all kinds of greetings, and all kinds of dealings all cost money.

And when you become an official, you no longer have to work. Is it acceptable for a candidate who has passed the imperial examination to carry a big bag on the Tongzhou Canal Pier? If the workers are not paid, it is even more impossible to beg for food. The imperial court orders officials to beg for food. What a loss.

It was the dignity of the imperial court.

In addition, just because you finally get a job doesn't mean you can live in peace and stability for the rest of your life.

Because most official positions have a term of office, which can take as short as three years (expires) and as long as five years. After the salary is over, you have to go back to Beijing for election. No more money!

In addition to the salary being expired, there is also the issue of the deceased father and mother returning home to be a dutiful son for three years. There is no salary for observing filial piety. After observing filial piety and resurrecting, you have to go back to Beijing to be elected. Still no.

Take the money!

After being selected as a local official in the Quanxuan election, he will have to be on the waiting list again and continue to have no money!

What should I do if I have no money? Of course, I have to borrow loan sharks.

This kind of usury is called Beijing Debt in Beijing.

Therefore, these Jinshi in the Qing Dynasty, Han members who came from Juren, if their family is not particularly rich, or they have a background and connections, or they do very well in the exam, and they are ranked first, second, third flower, etc., if they want to make a lot of money, then

It's really difficult. If you don't pay attention, this corrupt official will be in trouble.

It may have been a joke in other dynasties that corrupt officials suffered losses, but it often happened in the Qing Dynasty. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, when there were too many officials and real shortages were even more rare, there were even cases of officials starving to death.

It's such a tragedy!

However, most of the officials who lost money were not because they borrowed money to make ends meet while they were candidates, but because they borrowed loan sharks and paid bribes to get through.

In the officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, it was a normal practice to borrow money, pay bribes, and pay off the debts after taking office. Most of the Han officials had no background, did not do particularly well in exams, and did not meet noble people. They wanted to be early

To fill the vacancies, most people have to borrow money from usury to buy the vacancies. Otherwise, the number of years for candidates and candidates will be too long - the eight years from being a Jinshi in high school to becoming a county magistrate is an average!

And this is still a non-commissioned officer. If you want to promote someone to become an official, it will be too difficult to do it without spending money.

However, it is risky to borrow loan sharks to buy short supply, because in Beijing you can only buy reserve supply, and it is hard to say whether you can buy the real supply you like when you go to the local area.

In addition, even if you buy a good thing, you won't be able to protect it. If the old man at home is gone in a few days, you have to go back to being a filial son, and all the money you spent on buying the good thing will be wasted.

And for such a group of upright officials who owe a lot of loan sharks and get a lot of interest every day when they open their eyes, they want to be upright officials, but the conditions don't allow it!

Most of the capital used to lend Beijing debt to these Han officials elected in Beijing came from the bannermen and nobles. Of course, the nobles themselves generally would not come forward, but they would definitely get the big share of the money when the money was divided in the end.

To put this matter more clearly, even though the bannermen and nobles of the Qing Dynasty had already enjoyed most of the official power, they would not let go of the part assigned to Han officials. They used financial means and created officialdom involution, and then ruthlessly

Scratch a brush with Han officials.

If all the Han officials in the officialdom were to come together and issue a financial report every year, even if they did not lose money, the net profit would not be too high. Overall, they would be a group of "officials working in vain."

And this kind of "office labor" that can be lost if you are not careful, has become a very fragrant pastry due to the relationship between supply and demand and the few outlets for Han intellectuals.

However, Wang Zhongxiao had no objection to the Qing Dynasty's bad habits of bullying and exploiting Han officials. Even corrupt officials could be blamed for your losses. Why would such a court want it? How could it not be revolutionary?

After the revolution, don’t we no longer have to pay back the loan sharks we owe? So before the revolution, shouldn’t we borrow a little more?

Thinking about the possibility of not repaying the borrowed money, Wang Zhongxiao had already accompanied Yu Wang Fuquan into the hall of Ruixin Hall - the hall of the original Yangsan Teahouse, which was now transformed into a bank hall and built

There is a row of high and sturdy counters, and jujube wood fences are erected on the counters. Each one is as thick as the mouth of a bowl. The openings leading to the inside of the counter and the second floor are covered with iron-covered wooden doors. It is very strange at first sight.

It was sturdy, and there was a strong man holding an eyebrow-level stick guarding the door.

When Wang Zhongxiao accompanied Fu Quan into the lobby of Ruixin Hall, business was booming here. In front of each counter stood a candidate official or elector who was doing business. Most of them had sad faces.

to silver.

Yang Qilong, Yuan Linjing and Wang Sanshun, the three shopkeepers, arrived early in the morning. When their subordinates reported that the prince had arrived, they all came downstairs to greet him. They knelt down when they saw Fuquan. The "official white laborers" who were doing business

They all felt that a noble person was coming - they all knew that behind Ruixin Tang was Yu Wang Fuquan! So now they all knelt down to the big boss Fuquanfu. Look at this business, the customers knelt down to the store, and there was really no one else.

However, Fuquan didn't want to tangle with them anymore, so he ran up the stairs with a quick step, and then went up to the second floor in a hurry. Wang Zhongxiao, Yang Qilong, Yuan Linjing, Wang Sanshun, Guo Jinbao and the others immediately followed, and they all went up the stairs, and then

Then I heard the sound of the door slamming.
To be continued...