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Su Shi suspected that the money for official reception was too small, and even pulled Tao Yuanming into the water

author:The Great Song dynasty has an eastern slope

It is said that the officials of the Song Dynasty were good, the salaries were high, and there were various subsidies, and after the founding of the country, Zhao Kuangyin even established a minister's library, and officials from all over the country could use the money of the public treasury when receiving colleagues and superiors passing by, and did not have to pay for themselves.

Lao Zhao's purpose was to "make people without the sigh of tourists", and on the way back to Beijing, officials could find a sense of home everywhere they went, and they could always be grateful to the imperial court, such a result, "scholars and doctors do not produce grain in the dynasty, and those who save money still have more than enough to return home."

For the magistrates, it is also the indignation of the court, and there is no need to spend extra money on their own, so why not enjoy it?

As the saying goes, it is easy to change from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to do the opposite, and one of the things that Wang Anshi changed the law was to drastically cut the minister's money to enrich the government treasury.

No wonder so many people oppose the new law, this is the cheese that moves people.

Of course, most people probably won't say it bluntly, but will find a reason to say that this is the law of the ancestors, in order to reduce the local officials when they have no money when they entertain, to exploit the people's settings, to reduce this money, there must be some bad guys, will go to the people to make ideas.

However, Su Shi had no scruples.

He wrote in "Mo Xiao Silver Cup Little Answer Qiao Taifu":

Tao Qian ordered a county, drink alone or awake alone.

Judas will be two acres of public land and fifty acres, and will be planted as wine without planting rice.

My number is two thousand stones today, and I am drunk with a hundred stones.

Old Su, you are a bit out of shape, in order to prove that the winemaking grain distributed now is too small, he actually pulled Tao Yuanming into the water, saying that he has so many fields, not planting rice but planting sorghum to make wine, are you not a report letter?

Yo, forget, Tao Yuan is long gone tomorrow, no matter how you arrange it, there will be no consequences.

This incident shows that Su Shi has a great opinion on the reduction of minister's money.

Wang Shuizhao wrote in the Biography of Su Shi:

Su Shi has always liked guests the most and loved to be lively, and the minister's money has been sharply reduced, so that he cannot entertain guests as he pleases, so he complains.

It can be said that the minister's money, as a cost that the magistrates can dispose of themselves, is somewhat conscientious, and is only used within the norms, but in fact it is more, but it has become their small treasury.

The Song people recorded that the official Wu Mou was promoted and sent some wine money to Han Zhen. He asked, your boss has been handed over to the new official? The people who came said, no. Han Chun then said, "That is, officials have not been in office recently, and they have first impressed the minister's treasury, and Han will not receive this money in his lifetime." ”

On the one hand, this story shows that Han Chun is self-sustaining, but it also proves on the contrary that officials can use it at will.

Another story is related to Su Shi, saying that when he arrived in Fengxiang, there was a monk who "could use cinnabar to turn light gold into fine gold", but he was reluctant to pass it on to those who had selfish intentions, saying that it had been passed down before, but those people used it to get rich, and the result was either his own death or an accident at home, or a loss of office due to an incident. He thought Su Shi was reliable and passed it on to him.

Su Shi suspected that the money for official reception was too small, and even pulled Tao Yuanming into the water

Unexpectedly, Su Shi leaked his mouth in front of Taishou Chen Xiliang, could not stop begging, and gave him the book, "Not much, sit down and accept the wine of the minister of the neighboring county, and take the booty to go away."

Turning stones into gold and the like is naturally false, but it has become a common practice for officials to exploit loopholes in the system and for ministers to become gifts to each other.

In the two cases, Han Chun resigned and did not accept it, but Chen Xiliang took it and was found out and dismissed for accepting bribes.

From Chen Xiliang to Su Shi to Han Chun, it shows one thing, how difficult it is to reduce the money for official receptions, at that time Su Shi may have had a temporary effect, but then it returned to the old state.

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