Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 66 The Twelve-Character Mantra
A small team of royal guards escorted two heavy-duty carriages and drove into the Yamen courtyard of the State Administration of Taxation. Inside were the first batch of tax stamps coming out of the printing workshop under the supervision of the inner treasury. The leader of the team was Liu Lexian's subordinate. A young chamberlain.

On the Yamen side of the State Administration of Taxation, officials immediately came forward to connect with the escort team, checked the seals, counted the quantity, signed and stamped the receipt on the receipt, and then temporarily stored it in a special warehouse for handling by the head of the handyman team. under supervision.

Zhao Dezhao led Wang Ziping and Shi Yuanliang to observe the entire handover process, and at the same time introduced them:
"The rules of my State Administration of Taxation are different from those of other yamen in the imperial court. As long as the results of other yamen are acceptable, then everything will be fine. Everything here requires six words: keeping records and supervision."

"For example, from the time the two carts of tax invoices are unloaded from the carriage to the time they are moved into the warehouse, the receiving officials need to check the seals, count the number, and sign for the bottom. , the same is to sign and leave the deposit, even the head of the handyman who is a porter has to count
If you know how many boxes of tax stamps you have moved, you need to print your fingerprints.

"Any step, any transaction must be signed and recorded by the person in charge, and these records will be kept and reviewed by a special person. If something goes wrong, call up these original records and compare them. Which one is it? Steps, who is the problem, can be seen at a glance, and no one can try to fish in troubled waters."

"This method is really wonderful!"

This time, Shi Yuanliang was no longer flattering, but admiring from the bottom of his heart.

Like Wang Ziping, Shi Yuanliang has no official status. He just used to manage the Shi family's property for his uncle Shi Shouxin as an official of the Shi family.

Ever since he was played by his brother Zhao Kuangyin to "release military power with a glass of wine", Shi Shouxin is like a castrated boar. He no longer has any ideas about military and political affairs. Uncle took care of the property, so naturally he had handled a lot of money and seen a lot of scenes. There were seventy or eighty shopkeepers who needed to reimburse him for his account alone.

This kind of experience made Shi Yuanliang deeply understand that any matter involving a large amount of money, the people who handle it will always try their best to come up with all kinds of tricks, and cheat and cheat for profit.

In the past, when he was managing the property for his uncle, he was often annoyed by the various frauds and mischiefs committed by his shopkeepers. However, he had no good way to control them. He often had to put up with those petty troubles that were not excessive, and took the extreme measures. A few people who go too far will kill the problem with a slap, but this is not a serious countermeasure after all, and it cannot solve the problem.

But the current set of control methods designed by Zhao Dezhao made Shi Yuanliang feel that he saw hope in controlling fraud. A question immediately emerged in his mind and he couldn't help but ask: "This set of methods is unheard of. It has not been recorded in history, and it has not been recorded in private business firms." I have never heard of anyone using it, so how did His Highness come up with such a wonderful method?"

Zhao Dezhao grinned, and said mysteriously: "Once upon a time, an expert outside the world gave me the twelve-character mantra for governing the world: separation of powers, process supervision, and after-the-fact review. Any public or private organization in the world, as long as it truly implements these twelve words There is nothing unreasonable in a single word."

"Separation of powers, process supervision, and post-event review."

Shi Yuanliang's lips moved and he murmured again. His face was extremely serious and his attitude was very pious, as if he was dealing with a Buddhist mantra that was enough to enlighten people.

Zhao Dezhao looked a little funny. The so-called "twelve-character mantra" he made up is just the most basic concept of modern management and the foundation for the effective operation of all modern public and private institutions. It can be said that any organization with more than ten people, even if it is as small as A community street office, as small as a small private company, is based on the concept of these twelve characters. After Shi Yuanliang listened to it, he actually regarded it as something terrible.

"Brother Xing, what do you think, what about my method?"

Zhao Dezhao turned to Wang Zixing who had never commented with a smile. He was a little curious in his heart. Could this uncle, who is uncomfortable without saying something harsh, still find fault for himself?
Wang Zixing was silent for a while, and finally said: "This method consumes too much paper and ink."

Zhao Dezhao was startled, and laughed out loud. Even Shi Yuanliang couldn't help laughing, shaking his head while laughing.

After laughing, Zhao Dezhao continued to tell Wang Zixing and Shi Yuanliang about the rest of the circulation process of tax invoices: what steps it goes through to distribute it from the State Administration of Taxation to local branches, and then what steps are completed before it is finally posted to the taxpayer on the deed.

Clarifying how tax invoices are issued from the State Administration of Taxation to local branches, and finally pasted directly on the tax payment deed, is equivalent to clarifying how taxpayers pay taxes to local branches, and then gather them to the State Administration of Taxation.

Counting the time for answering questions, it took Zhao Dezhao less than a quarter of an hour to explain the whole process clearly to Wang Zixing and Shi Yuanliang.

Wang Zixing and Shi Yuanliang immediately understood the essence of it: in simple terms, how the tax stamps are circulated, the tax money will be collected.

As a result, the two expressed their confidence that with such a set of things, they would be able to handle it and do it well.

Without delay, Zhao Dezhao immediately summoned all the officials of the State Administration of Taxation and announced an oral appointment in public.

"Appointment of Wang Zixing and Shi Yuanliang as tax assistants of the State Administration of Taxation, starting today."

As soon as the words fell, the dozens of officials present looked at each other in a daze, and even the two parties involved, Wang Zixing and Shi Yuanliang, were also in a daze, with only embarrassment on their faces, and no joy of being appointed officials .

Everyone has the same idea. What is a "tax assistant"?Although the names of official positions in the Song Dynasty have always been various, ranging from three or two characters to thirty or forty characters in length, but even if we have never heard of official titles, we can guess from the literal meaning. Get the approximate scope of authority and know what rank your official status is.

And this so-called "tax assistant", we have neither heard nor understood at all, it does not conform to the imperial court system at all, a title that does not exist in the imperial court system, can it still be called an "official position"?If you don't give an official career, who will work hard for you?Even the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers!
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