In the county government office, Chairman Dong held the booklet and handed it to Du Zhongxiao, saying, "County magistrate, this is the list of public servants this season. If the magistrate thinks it is appropriate, that's it."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "I don't know any of these people, so what's the use of seeing them? The chief clerk ruled the subordinates, so don't ask me."

Chairman Dong said: "How dare you? Now it is not as usual. You will not lose money for the public. You will also pay the full salary. I don't know how many households in the county want to be a servant. If you don't know the county's approval, I will set a post, just because I am afraid that someone will come to the county government to make a fuss."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao frowned and thought for a while, saying, "Is it just greedy for salary and not harming the public?"

Chairman Dong was a little embarrassed and hesitated for a moment before saying, "These things are inevitable. The public officials and servants are all from the hometown, and they use large households to harm private individuals and evade taxes. These people are always required to work, and they cannot be investigated, otherwise no one will be available."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Yes, people who do things are inevitably selfish. We have officials for several years and are not allowed to buy industries under our rule. At most, we can only collect some money—"

Seeing this, Chairman Dong blushed a little, Du Zhongxiao pretended not to see it and continued, "Those public officials are the local wealthy families, who do not have any industries? In the past, they were overwhelmed with responsibilities and were satisfied without losing their property. Now there are so many more money-collecting activities in the county, I am afraid that they will not be satisfied with this. I heard that in the commune's industries, there are powerful public officials in the county who are in charge of their own families. It would be fine if they were just greedy for their salary, but they were afraid that they would take action and get enough of their own pockets."

This time, the man was forced to get the power of the man. Molun was greedy for his salary and a little power in his hand, and was reluctant to give up and bribed Chairman Dong. Chairman Dong had no wealth in his family and could not bear the temptation to take it away. He felt guilty when he saw Du Zhongxiao. What Du Zhongxiao said just now seemed to know that he had accepted bribes, which made Chairman Dong very embarrassed. Fortunately, Du Zhongxiao did not pursue the matter, so Chairman Dong felt relieved.

In fact, Du Zhongxiao didn't know that Chairman Dong had collected other people's money. He just didn't care. He couldn't prevent such things. As long as he was optimistic and got things done, he would turn a blind eye to anything else. Nowadays, officials are not allowed to buy industries under their rule. Officials do not have the motivation to participate in local economic affairs, so public officials are different. They are from wealthy families and policies are implemented by them. Of course, they have the benefits first.

This is the reason why some public officials in positions must take turns to deal with them. Since they cannot prevent them from cheating, everyone will take turns to do it. What officials are most afraid of is not the public officials’ fraud, but the fear that they will control government affairs in private. As long as the power is in their own hands, they can deal with them at any time.

Seeing that Du Zhongxiao completely gave power to him, Chairman Dong stopped insisting and took the booklet back. Before leaving, he remembered something and said to Du Zhongxiao: "By the way, before I came in, I saw a document from the state that the magistrate and the grandson were going to come to inspect the county."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao couldn't help but frown: "It's all the magistrates who patrol every county every quarter, why are the magistrates coming?"

Chairman Dong said: "Who knows? Maybe the summer tax in this county was paid at the earliest, so the magistrate would come to reward him."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head and didn't believe it. Although he had not had much contact with Xia Su, Du Zhongxiao knew that according to Xia Su's nature, if he wanted to reward, he would only call himself to the prefecture city, and it would never be possible for him to come to the county. He was going to Yongcheng this time, and it was probably not a good thing for him.

Zhu Wen was walking on the Bian River embankment, and the vendors on the roadside kept saying hello to him.

Seeing a half-old child selling peaches with a basket, Zhu Wenxing grabbed the biggest one, took a bite, and said to the child: "You are smart. There are few people selling peaches around these days, so you can sell them at a good price."

The child bowed to thank Zhu Wenxing and took a basket to the crowded place.

Zhu Wenxing was eating peaches and looking at the bustling crowds on the dock, and sighed in his heart that he had a good life. It was not a good job to do a jail at the dock. There was a daily quota in the yamen, and if it could not be collected, it would have to pay it up for it. The amount set by the yamen was never able to be collected by normal means. Either collect taxes illegally, or colluded with idle people to check the goods brought by pedestrians everywhere. But as soon as Zhu Wenxing took office, the county yamen abolished the daily quota at the dock and changed it to how much it was. Of course, corresponding to this, tax checkers were added.

Now the dock collects taxes, merchants buy tax paper, Zhu Wenxing fills in the seal after collecting taxes, and then another official checks. As for mobile vendors like that child, taxes are not allowed. Therefore, there are basically no fixed fruit stalls in the dock, and most of them are hawkers with half-aged children. As for the fixed fruit shops, they are prepared for those who buy and sell bulk goods on the Bian River.

Du Zhongxiao certainly knew that such management was actually not good for business, because hawkers do not collect taxes and their cost was low, which would make some specific stores unable to operate. For example, fruit snacks, if these hawkers are there, the store cannot be opened. If there are fewer stores, the taxes will be collected, which will eventually affect economic development. But the benefit of doing this is to provide the poor with a way out for a living and reduce the number of people who are idle.

Economic development and benefiting people's livelihood are not always in line with each other, and can keep pace. There is a balance between this, and the official grasps the general direction and enables the entire society to move forward smoothly. Mobile vendors are not allowed to do business. Of course, there will be more stores here, and more families with wealthy families, and the yamen can collect more taxes. Simply put, hawkers are prohibited, and those who benefit are yamen and upper-class households. But hawkers do not have taxes, while those who benefit are middle-class households with no extra wealth. Du Zhongxiao's choice is to give benefits to middle-class households.

Establishing commune industries between the wharf and the city gate is equivalent to snatching some industries from middle and upper-class households in the city, and exempting small merchants and giving benefits to middle and lower-class households. Du Zhongxiao artificially reduced the gap between the rich and poor in the county town under the conditions of affluent yamen. As for allowing large households to gather funds and destroy capitalism, it is simply a matter of no box. Not to mention that the current stage is not at that stage, there will be no demand for productivity development. Population gathering is actually to expand the market, and market demand will generate industries. Instead of aggregating funds, letting the rich pursue profit-making investment industries. No matter how much private funds are, can they compare with the government? The official has enough ability to promote industrial upgrading.

Zhu Wenxing was leisurely at the wharf, watching the busy people. It was his turn to stop the head, but he thought it was interesting. Anyway, the merchants who collect taxes were fixed, and even the tax papers were bought by themselves. They were a manager and did not have to intrigue with the merchants.

Just when Zhu Wen was tired of walking and leaning against a big willow tree to look at the little lady in the crowd, a slutty idle man came over and said to Zhu Wenxing: "There is a wealthy place over there. I wonder if the festival level is intended?"

Zhu Wenxing was not willing to believe the nonsense of these people and said carelessly: "What kind of wealth? If you don't take it yourself, come and tell me?"

The idle man said: "The ranks of the court are people in the yamen. Wealth can be obtained, but the small civilians do not take the job, but they can only watch it for nothing."

Zhu Wenxing waved his hand: "Don't use these words to coax me! You idiots, you don't do serious things every day, and you will be accustomed to cheating people. Do you want to cheat me for a few monday rewards from me so that you can buy wine? I've been cheated by you so much, so how could you even be fooled!"
Chapter completed!