I think the effect is good, the princes and ministers no longer dislike my people for their soft words, they all listened attentively, greatly encouraged, continued to talk endlessly, like a river on the top of the splendid hall, in front of the eyes of the public unscrupulous said: "Third, the villain wants to talk about the issue of our Great Song Dynasty officials, this issue is also a top priority, and I have to talk about it. Since Zhao Yi said in the "Twenty-two Historical Notes" that the Song Dynasty officials were caught by hundreds of officials for fear www.biquge.info of their insufficiency, and those who took wealth from the people did not leave their surplus, everyone thought that our Song Dynasty officials were the highest, and they all said that the officials of the past dynasties were no more generous than our Great Song Dynasty, in fact, after the founding of our Great Song Dynasty until the first emperor Yuanfu period, the average salary of officials was only equivalent to one-fifth of that of officials in the Tang Dynasty, and they often could not be paid. After the signing of the "Alliance of the Yuanyuan", from the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu, officials at all levels finally began to raise their salaries sharply, and the salary system of the Great Song Dynasty was basically established. It is divided into three categories: regular salary, plus salary, and vocational field, that is, the basic salary plus various bonus subsidies, but we also have a convention called Provincial Mo, that is to say, the salary in hand will only be 77% of the standard, and the salary in hand is not all paid, two cents of cash, one cent of discount, so that the money is less.

It is true that the vast majority of our officials in the Great Song Dynasty sound very wealthy and look like a lot, but when they are really implemented, there is very little left, so most of the court officials are actually very poor. We can take a look at some famous quotes, such as Yang Yi in the period of the first emperor who claimed that he could not make ends meet, Hanchen was hungry and wanted to die, and it was inevitable that the dwarfs would scorn, Li Zong's Lu was not enough to give marriage, and Wang Dan borrowed a lot of money before and after. Yang Yi is also expensive for the knowledge system, Li Zongge is still in the position of a bachelor in Hanlin are too busy to take care of themselves, and the lower-level officials are even more miserable, looking around, there are poor people who pick wild vegetables and rice with their wives to cure hunger, and those who want to go to the government to sell medicine, there are relatives who are poor and can not support, and those who hear that Lingnan are cheap, because they ask for their officials, there are those whose families are poor and cannot return after death, and those who take their two sons to beg in the city, and there are those who sell their daughters to think that they will be buried in the city, and there are countless and innumerable, abounding, and uncountable. Even if he is in charge, he can't guarantee that his children will live a worry-free life, Yan Shu's son Yan Jidao is very poor, hungry, and unclothed, Lu Yijian is in high spirits, and his son is still short of money to spend, and he has to be reduced to the point of selling the house. Why are the officials of the Song Dynasty so poor? It is difficult to support their families?"

I continued to say: "Then do you know? Why do we have such a phenomenon? First of all, the reason is that after the Great Song Dynasty proposed to reduce talents without sticking to one pattern and advocating the imperial examination, gate politics turned into bureaucratic politics, and a large number of people from poor families entered the official career. There are pros and cons to everything, although many people who were born poor and became officials changed their own and even their families' fate through the imperial examination. However, in contrast, most of the officials of the previous dynasty were born in the clan of the lords, they had no worries about food and clothing, had a family background, and did not need to rely on money to support their families, but now the officials are generally from thin families, and the family burden is very heavy, even if the income is not high, they cannot afford so many people. The officials before the Song Dynasty were the second generation of officials and the second generation of riches, and they did not expect to live on salaries. And the officials of the Song Dynasty were typical phoenix men, who earned money alone and spent it together with their families. Secondly, it is related to the Great Song Dynasty waiting for election system. The same position is related to several people, and people are superfluous. It is necessary to arrange an exam for a few years, and only after passing the assessment will you be assigned the next job, and the time to stay is generally relatively long, Wang Anshi said that he would cover seven or six years and then get three years of Lu. That is, the other six of the nine years were idle and had no money. Again, our Great Song Dynasty is not static in terms of both prices and prices, but according to economic development, and there are changes, on the whole, the increase in prices cannot keep up with the increase in prices.

If we say that the controversial national policy in history is undoubtedly our Song Dynasty's high-salary and incorruptible national policy, it looks beautiful, but in fact there are many problems. In particular, the gap between the high-ranking officials and the low-level civil servants of the Great Song Dynasty under this policy was very large. Officials of different levels, the gap between the rich and the poor is vastly different, ice and fire are two heavens, one in the sky and the other underground. Therefore, there are only a very few, very few central prime minister-level officials with huge salaries, and most of the grass-roots officials are actually extremely hard-working, such as the county order level, the basic salary of the county order in the big county is only 20 pieces of silver, of course, the subsidies for grass-roots officials are also very rich, but the officials are in office, dragging their children and daughters, supporting the old and the young, the economic burden is heavy, and the life is stretched to the limit, and there is no way to continue. ”

I continued to say eloquently: "By the way, the villain has the corresponding table of Zhang Da Song's various official positions in his hand, you can take a closer look." "Everyone was attentive and attentive.

While pointing to the picture, I talked eloquently: "Let's take a look at the following table to get a glimpse of the leopard, the salary of the Zaizhi is indeed high, and in addition to the monthly salary of 300 yuan, all kinds of rewards are also difficult for other officials to match, and they can be compared. Therefore, there is no doubt that the salary level of the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty is high. Let's take a closer look, the prime minister's monthly salary is 300 guan, 100~150 stone of Lusu, a number of silk, silk, cotton, Luo, and various miscellaneous expenses such as food and clothing for hundreds of servants, as well as penny, charcoal, salt, etc., as well as other subsidies of various names, which are converted into salaries and prices. All kinds of subsidies, such as meal money (catering subsidy), charcoal money (fuel subsidy), corn (horse raising subsidy), food and clothing (nanny subsidy), and "incorruptible money" (job field rent), etc., really dazzled us, dizzying, the spirit is uplifted, these add up to no less than 600 yuan, in addition to the New Year's festival, royal sacrifices, you can also get rewards, including gold, silver, silk satin, etc., converted into cash is also quite rich, higher than a year's salary. In particular, the triennial suburban festival has the largest scale of rewards and has a great impact on the state finances and the economy of officials. Even the monthly salary of the prefect of the Song Dynasty (Zhizhou) - the capital, the salary plus the minister's money (special office expenses), the rent of the field and various subsidies, is about 500 yuan, "I secretly calculated it in my heart, this is amazing, equivalent to an annual salary of 400,000 US dollars, and the annual salary of the President of the United States is half a catty and eight taels, which is about the same, it can be said that it is rare in ancient and modern times, there is no ancient, and there is no one in the future."

I continued to say vividly: "Next, let's take a look at the salary level of other officials, only Zai Zhi and Sansi can get 100 yuan and live a more decent life by relying solely on the regular salary. Even if the magistrate is not of high grade, he generally has forty or fifty monthly salaries, a number of silk silk, food and clothing for servants, etc., and there is a government subsidy to the magistrate as a remuneration for the job field, this part of the job field is still exempt from taxes, in order to hold them honest and responsible, to prevent corruption and bend the law, in fact, it is a disguised payment of incorruptible silver. From this point of view, it is more than the upper than the bottom, and the life is nourishing. Let's lower the standard again, and see how many people can barely meet the food and clothing level of 30 guan per month? Judging from the chart, it is necessary to have a five-grade official like Langzhong. Mr. He Zhongli quoted the historical materials of the first year of Yuanyou in the "Long Edition" in "The Song Dynasty Officials", and more than 10,000 people were selected from the Chenglang to the court doctors. Mr. Ho Zhongli believes that the number of senior officials above the rank of the court is very small, and it is estimated that there are less than 200 officials above the fifth grade, and the total number of civil officials is about 13,000. In other words, among the more than 13,000 people, less than 200 people can barely maintain the food and clothing of their families, which is really very few. Of course, in addition to the money, the officials will also have other income, clothing, millet, all kinds of additional expenses, and rewards for suburban sacrifices. But these incomes are linked to the rank of officials, and the lower the grade, the less they get.

Therefore, the majority of low-level court officials are stretched thin, living in poverty, living a dry life, difficult to support their families, to the county order to the county book level, about 5~15 yuan, Lusu 5~10 stone, may add a few dumping fields, but there is no other reward and subsidy. For example, Wang Anshi once wrote the famous chapter "The Book of Ten Thousand Words of the Emperor", mentioning that grass-roots officials have a meager amount of silver, and the state and county officials earn seven or eight thousand yuan a month, and even four or five thousand yuan. Looking closely at the surrounding princes and ministers, they all nodded in agreement, looking thoughtful and stunned.

I knew it with reason, and said with emotion: "So even the low-level officials are not as good as us ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty." So what is the daily income of the common people? According to the case provided by Cheng Minsheng's "Study on Prices in the Song Dynasty," this book is very brilliantly written. The book says that the per capita income fluctuates around 100 yuan, and the monthly income is about 3 yuan. ——A poem by the Northern Song Dynasty poet Zhang Lei wrote that mountain people are the easiest to make a living, and they have a livelihood of mountains and trees. Salaried people get 100 yuan a day, and their wives and children are steamed and boiled, and mountain people can get 100 wen a day by selling firewood; the helpers in Huaixi of the Northern Song Dynasty can pay 100 yuan a day for cooking; and the fishermen of the Yangtze River sell fish for less than 100 yuan a day, and their wives and children are poor and fry each other. The peasant women of Duchang County were spinning, soaking, sewing, cooking, and sweeping up for their neighbors, and they received tens of hundreds of dollars a day, all of which were paid to their aunts, and their daily income was about 100 yuan. This is the daily income level of rural people. The handymen in the Shuzhou government-run liquor department paid 250 wen per day for each worker, and their daily wage was more than 200 wen; Lu Sigong, a citizen of Raozhou, opened a food shop to cook pig and sheep blood for soup and sell it to support his wife. There are also two citizens in Wuzhong, both of whom are engaged in eel farming, and earn 300 yuan a day, and each of them also earns more than 100 yuan a day; a woman in Cangzhou, whose mother is sick and bedridden, has no father or brother at home, and sells fruits in the market every day, and has to earn dozens of dollars to support her mother." What is more interesting is that there is an Ehu man named Lesheng, who is allowed to work in the city and gives up when he gets 100 yuan. In addition to eating and drinking in the house, he frolicked in the palace play. After returning, he played the flute and sang every day, earning enough 100 wen a day, so he stopped doing business and went home to play the flute and sing. Therefore, whether it is working as a helper or doing a small business in the city, the daily income of our people at the bottom of the Great Song Dynasty basically fluctuates up and down at the level of "100 Wen". Then we need to consider the purchasing power of money. In the Song Dynasty, to maintain a person's basic food and clothing, it took 20 wen a day. The daily income of about 100 wen is just enough to support a family of five. The Song Dynasty was an era of high income coupled with high consumption. However, the price of goods in the Song Dynasty was relatively high, and the money could only meet the daily expenses of a few families, so the officials at the bottom were not even as good as ordinary people.

I continued: "If we are only optimistic about the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty who have raised their salaries, they are really so generous that they are the envy of the whole world, and the high-ranking officials at the level of privy envoys, with a basic salary of 300 yuan per month, secretly think in their hearts that it is equivalent to 90,000 yuan, and there are other "plus money" and "vocational fields", which are more and more subsidized income, there is no standard amount, and the bigger the official, the more the better. The prefect is like this, the prime minister can be imagined, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, high salaries and honesty still have a certain effect, from the aspect of public morality, most of the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty have never been corrupt and perverted the law in their lives, fish and flesh of the people, upright, jealous and hateful, good political performance, high reputation, some have been in and out for 30 years, do not buy private property, and are deeply praised and loved by the people. But from a private point of view, which of these famous ministers and nobles of the Great Song Dynasty is not a spendthrift of money, a snowstorm, and an indulgent life of wealth and prosperity? If the empty data makes everyone unable to feel intuitively, then let's talk about a few celebrities who are familiar with the Great Song Dynasty and are like thunder, and they can be more clear at first sight.

For example, Bao Zheng, when he was a waiter and a bachelor of Longtu Pavilion. According to the "Jiayu Lu Order", a civil servant salary regulation promulgated during the Jiayou period, the direct bachelors of Longtuge have material money every month, which is what we call the basic salary, and there are also some miscellaneous expenses and meal money every month, that is, subsidies, and in addition, they can also receive some clothing in spring and winter every year, that is, cloth. Therefore, Bao Zheng, as a direct bachelor of Longtuge, has an annual monetary income of 1,656 guan, as well as an in-kind income of 10 silk, 34 silk, 2 piro and 100 taels of cotton. Then Bao Zheng ascended to the sky, promoted to the right to know the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, according to the "History of the Song Dynasty, Career Officials", Bao Zheng is the leader of Kaifeng Mansion, with 30 stone monthly grain, including 15 stone rice, 15 stone wheat. In addition, there are 20 bundles (13 catties each) of firewood, 40 bundles of hay, and 1,500 yuan of minister's money every month (the small treasury issued by the imperial court to Bao Zheng can be at his disposal). In addition, as a high-ranking magistrate of the foreign domain, the imperial court allocated 20 hectares of professional land, that is, 2,000 acres of cultivated land, allowing him to collect rent every year and not need to pay grain. These 2,000 acres of cultivated land are estimated at one stone per mu of rented rice, and there are also 2,000 stone meters of input every year. Check the "Jiayoulu Order" again, and the right to know that the Kaifeng government still has 100 additional expenses every month, and 15 scales (15 catties per scale) of charcoal are issued every winter. Bao Zheng has an annual monetary income of 19,200 yuan, as well as 240 bales of firewood, 480 bales of hay, 15 weighs of charcoal, 180 stones of wheat and 2,180 stones of rice. Bao Zheng's income for a year: 20,856 copper coins, 2,180 stone rice, 180 stone wheat, 10 horses of silk, 34 horses of silk, 2 pieces of silk, 100 taels of cotton, 15 scales of charcoal, 240 bales of firewood, and 480 bales of hay. Using the relevant price data of Kaifeng rice price of 400 wen and 1 stone of wheat in the second year of Song Zhenzong Xining, we exchanged Bao Daren's annual income in kind for money, which added up to about 1022 yuan. 1,022 guan in kind, plus 20,856 guan in monetary income, for a total of 21,878 guan. This is Bao Zheng's annual salary when he served in Kaifeng Mansion. In addition to his salary, he has a monthly subsidy of 30 stone rice and a subsidy of 1,500 yuan for official expenses, and he still has an annual income of 2,000 stone rice from his vocational field, what a high income!"

I thought to myself: "How much was 21,878 yuan at that time? According to the price of Kaifeng rice was 400 wen a stone, and in the Song Dynasty, one stone was 66 liters, and the rice was about 100 catties, which can be sold for 250 yuan according to the estimation of two yuan and five yuan per catty. So not strictly speaking, the purchasing power of 400 copper coins at that time and the purchasing power of 250 yuan now is similar, each copper coin is equivalent to 0.625 yuan, each copper coin is equivalent to 625 yuan, 21878 copper coins are naturally 13.67 million yuan, plus generous subsidies, it is uncountable, God, the famous, the famous Bao Daren is so rich, back to the modern society, in the Forbes list are famous, if I am in his position, I must also be Bao Zheng second, I must also be two sleeves of clean wind, petition for the people, just no, I have so much money, I am still corrupt and bribery, what do I do for personal gain？”

I continued to say in a beaming manner: "For example, Lu Mengzheng, a grassroots inspirational model that everyone is very familiar with, went from a poor scholar to a prime minister, and Mengzheng won the first place in the Jinshi examination, becoming the champion who is loved by everyone! This person was born to be the prime minister, open-minded, and extraordinary. The Shaw Brothers record that when Lu Mengzheng was still humble, he studied with Wen Zhongshu of Luoyang Longmen Academy, and one day, on the water of Xingyi, he saw a melon seller and wanted to get it, but he had no money in his hand, and the melon seller accidentally dropped one on the ground, and Lu Meng was stunned, picked it up and ate it. After he became the prime minister, he bought a piece of land in the southeast of Luoyang City facing Yishui, and built a pavilion as a memorial, called "Yugua Pavilion". Therefore, he Lu Wenmu was extremely poor when he was little, more expensive than Guisheng, and liked to eat chicken tongue soup, which must be used every day. Visiting the garden overnight, I saw a high house in the corner of the wall, thought that the mountain was also, and asked the left and right: Who is doing it? Lu Xiao said: How much do I eat chicken? He said: "The chicken has one tongue and ears, and the same soup uses a few tongues?" When will the soup be eaten? Lu Mo regretted it and did not use it again. said that Lu Meng was young and poor, and after the crow turned into a phoenix, he liked to drink chicken tongue soup. There must be a bowl every day. One day, when the sun was setting, I walked around the yard and saw a high bulge in the corner of the wall from a distance, thinking it was a man-made hill, so I asked the people below: Who is so powerful and builds a mountain?" Prime Minister Lu Cheng didn't understand and said, "Oh! I don't read much, you lie to me, how many chickens do I eat?" The following people replied: Master, a chicken has a good tongue, how many tongues do you have in a bowl of soup, and you drink it every day. Drink chicken tongue soup every day, make you a bowl of soup and kill hundreds of chickens, just ask which ordinary people, which ordinary low-level officials can live such a life?

For example, although the iron-blooded anti-Liao famous minister Kou Zhun is famous in history and evergreen, his other point is criticized by the people of the time, that is, he is extravagant by nature, profligate, extravagant and flashy, extravagant and wasteful, and likes to show off his wealth and show off. The prime minister of the same era, Xia Zhu, was dissatisfied and said that Kou Zhun was extravagant. In his personal life, he did his best to pursue the trendy and fashionable, and liked all kinds of lively singing, dancing and drinking banquets, and he would put on a lavish banquet every night. Because he didn't like to light oil lamps, his family liked to use huge candles all night long, calling friends around the clock, and holding banquets with singing and dancing. So Kou Zhun ordered his mansion, I won't go into details, you can imagine that giant candles are lit up and down, and they are as bright as daytime, even in the toilets and stables. His family consumes a lot of candles every day, and as we all know, candles were an absolute luxury for the common people at that time, generally lit by oil lamps, but he was drunk and slept in the room, and he also had to let the candles burn until dawn. It suddenly occurred to me that candles were a precious luxury in the Song Dynasty, and according to modern society, they had to levy a high consumption tax, so he didn't know how much personal income tax he had to pay. And Kou Zhun likes to sing and dance, Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Writings" records that Kou Zhun likes a large-scale dance called Zhezhi very much, banquets friends, and must pay a lot of money to hire first-class singers to perform, regardless of day, all night long, indulge in this, and is given the nickname "Zhezhi Dian". In addition to his obsession with dancing, Kou Zhun also likes to drink, and the amount of alcohol is amazing. Wu Zeng of the Southern Song Dynasty recorded the story of Kou Zhun drinking in the book "Can Change the Zhai Manlu", Kou Zhun invited guests, regardless of status, as long as he could drink, he must have a try with him, once someone was forced to get drunk and fell ill, Kou Zhun did not let go, but the man's wife released a word, and wanted to go to court with Kou Zhun, and Kou Zhun had no choice but to give up.

I thought to myself: "Why is Kou Zhun so luxurious, and why is he so respected in history, because according to the practice of the state in the Song Dynasty with high salaries and honest pensions, Kou Zhun's civil servants can enjoy a prosperous life with their legal income, and they are not corrupt and pervert the law. is like one of his self-portraits, in the lyrics of "Butterfly Loves Flowers": Forty years of wealth and wealth. Wandering in the haze, walking like flat ground. In the Purple Mansion Dantai Immortal Book, everyone knows that they are unique and beautiful. Who dares to compare with each other. The colorful phoenix wanders and bathes in the water of Xun Pond. A great man has made great contributions to the world, fragrant the world's songs and plums. It's really well described. In the end, he fell victim to the political struggle, was victimized by traitors, and died in a bleak evening. After Renzong's edict was rehabilitated by Kou Zhun, he was called Zhongshu, reinstated the Duke of Laiguo, posthumously presented the Zhongshu Order, Renzong personally sealed his head and said that he was loyal, and finally returned a generation of famous ministers Kou Zhun a fair, which is a later story. ”

I couldn't get enough of it, and continued: "Another example is to write the popular "Jade Mansion Spring" - Dongcheng gradually feels that the scenery is good, and the wrinkles and ripples welcome guests. The green poplar smoke is light and cold, and the red apricot branches are in spring. Floating hatred and entertainment are less, and willing to love the daughter and smile lightly. Song Qi great scribe who persuaded the sun to hold wine and leave evening photos among the flowers, Song Qi and their family were very poor, when the Song Qi brothers were studying, they learned to eat rice in the state on the Shangyuan Festival, and there was no money to invite people to eat on the winter solstice, so the scabbard with one or two coins left by the ancestors was taken away. Later, after becoming an official, Song Qi also sang songs every night, every day was either a tavern or a song building, or on the way to the tavern or a song building, he hugged the courtesan to drink wine every night, and was drunk every day!

For example, Pu Zongmeng, a scholar from Hanlin, is still extravagant, and those people mentioned above are as good as those people mentioned above, his family eats at least ten pigs and ten sheep every day, and consumes 300 giant candles for lighting. The difference between small and big baths is that they boil water alone, and every time they have to be served by many beautiful women to take a bath and change clothes, and even Su Dongpo wrote a letter to persuade him to be merciful and thrifty. Later, his health was so bad that he specially interviewed an old Taoist who was more than 100 years old and asked each other about the method of health preservation. The old Taoist said that he should be pure and have few desires, quit drinking, quit sex, quit greed, and abstain from indulgence. Pu student lowered his head and thought about it, and said: If this is the case, even if you live for a thousand years, it will be useless!

For example, Yan Shu, when he was a child, his family was very poor, and when Zhenzong took up the position of the museum, one day everyone else went out to play, and he was the only one who immersed himself in hard study. Zhenzong praised him very much, and as a result, he told the emperor very honestly that I just had no money, and if I had money, I would go out to play and have no pleasure in feasting, and I would be poor and have nothing to do. If the minister has money, he must also go, but he cannot give it out if he has no money). But after making a photo, he laughed at the rich poems and beggars made by others, claiming that every word of wealth and wealth does not say that it is golden and beautiful, but only about the weather. And the poplar flowers on the side of the building, the swallow fly in the middle of the curtain, the pear blossom courtyard dissolves the moon, and the catkins pond has a faint breeze to prove itself, saying that the poor family has this scenery and does not? It can be seen that Yan Shu lives in a big villa, and there is a courtyard pond at home.

For example, Han Yi and Li Ruogu. The two went to the exam together, there was only one seat and one felt in total, and every time they needed to go out to visit guests, they couldn't afford to hire a coachman to fill the façade, so they took turns to be the coachman for each other. Later, Li Ruogu took the exam first and went to Xuzhou Changshe County to be the main bookkeeper, Han Yi helped him carry the box and see him off, there were still thirty miles away from Changshe, and he was going back. Li Ruogu said to Han Yi: "There are six hundred dollars here, I'm afraid that I will have to reward the county officials when they come." Later, both of them became governors, and Han Yi's sons all became high-ranking officials above the waiting system.

For example, Fan Zhongyan, his father died early, and his mother took him to remarry, and even changed his surname. However, later on, Fan's Yizhuang was built, where can I support it without money? I also saved a lot of money to help the township, run a township school, and help the people. And how many of them have been able to get to this point? Most of them have achieved domination, and they are extremely powerful ministers. On the other hand, those who cry poor are even more grasped, and the differential treatment is worlds apart, ice and fire. When people are more popular than people, in addition to worry-free food and clothing, high-ranking officials are well paid, and they continue to retire, as long as they do not make mistakes, they will receive full salaries in retirement. For example, after the prime minister retires, he receives a full salary subsidy, and dozens of sons, grandchildren, grandchildren, and students are all granted official positions and eat state finance. This is the grace system of the Northern Song Dynasty, this system developed to the end, the Huainan transfer during the Song Dynasty Huizong made Zhang Gen lament that he worked hard to collect taxes for the state and handed over 300 million yuan to the central government every year, which was not enough to support this group of retired old cadres in Luoyang City.

Of course, we can see that Song Taizong's original intention was to be honest and honest, and to spend a lot of money in order to maintain honesty, but what was the result of the imperial court spending so much money to support officials? Was it satisfactory and achieved the expected results? Are our Great Song Dynasty officials really honest and honest in performing their official duties? The answer is no. The direct consequence of these different levels of cultivation is a stubborn disease that has not been eradicated -- that is, corruption at the grassroots level! Because the salaries of grassroots officials are low and the treatment of petty officials is poor, but the state policy of the imperial court is implemented layer by layer, and relying on these people to maintain their work at the grassroots level, the operation of the imperial court cannot be separated from them. But it is these people who are up and down, engaging in personal fraud, corrupting the law, favoring one side, and having no court, and many good national policies of our Great Song Dynasty have been deviated by these people. Later, as Li Xin said, he was called 11 honest officials and 19 greedy officials, especially small officials, who had small officials and great power, and they would drill whenever there was a loophole, not only rolling their own financial resources, but also often pulling officials into the water. It is not uncommon, the severity, even Bao Zheng, who is known as Qingtian, has been pitted, Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" said one thing, when Bao Zheng knew Kaifeng Mansion, someone broke the law, and was exiled after the spine of the cane according to the law, and the prisoner privately gave Xu a lot of money, and the two met in the lobby to perform a bitter meat play. When Bao Zheng sat in the court to try the case, the prisoner did not admit his guilt and kept pleading. Before Bao Zheng could speak, the official loudly reprimanded the prisoner for contempt of the court, and shouted that he would be pulled out to serve with a cane. Bao Zheng was very angry when he saw this, thinking that the officials had exceeded their authority, so he ordered the officials to be dragged out of the cane punishment, and at the same time, in order to show his magnanimity, Bao Zheng specially ordered the prisoners to be lenient, only to be punished with canes, and no longer exiled, and they happily cheated the money. Shen Kuo sighed and said: The public knows that he is a man who is used to break the officials, but he doesn't know that he is sold. That is to say, the fair and strict Bao Zheng was finally deceived by the prisoner and the Xu officials. There is also a major corruption case that shocked the government and the opposition, the corruption case of Kaifeng Xiaoguan Feng Shiyuan, may be known to everyone in the palace, during the interrogation, he was familiar with resisting strictness, confessing the policy of leniency, not only took the initiative to confess his crimes, but also reported and exposed a group of officials. The imperial court then ordered a thorough investigation, and it was found that not only the former and current chief and deputy governors of Kaifeng Prefecture were corrupt, but also the officials of some important central institutions such as the Political Affairs Hall, the Privy Council, and the Imperial Historical Observatory were also involved. Seeing the subtle knowledge, peeking at the leopard, you can see from it the rule of our Great Song Dynasty, on the surface it looks like a splendid flower, incomparably brilliant, in fact, now it has become a bad fruit, the surface of the famous ministers gathered, incomparably bright, but there are all kinds of corruption hidden below, flies everywhere, flying all over the sky, it can be seen that the officials at the bottom are unable to make ends meet, have to be corrupt and pervert the law, fake public and private, now the corruption situation in our Song Dynasty officialdom is how serious and dangerous, but although the officials are corrupt, they still love the people like children, the law is sound, the officials are held accountable, and the people can also sue the officials, as well as the poor farmers and relatives of the emperor to fight lawsuits, and they won, and there are no fish and meat people, which is very rare。 This peculiar phenomenon of corruption can be made clear in connection with the high-salary system of our Great Song Dynasty, and those who really get high salaries for a long time are either high-ranking officials who are condescending, or they are idle and have nothing to do, and the vast number of grass-roots officials in our Great Song Dynasty, although their affairs are complicated, they must be thorough in all aspects, working day and night, immersed in hard work, but there are very few of them, relatively hard, plus ineffective supervision, dissatisfaction, and natural corruption.

Therefore, the villain thinks that it is not wrong to have a high salary and be honest, but the money should be used on the cutting edge and in practice. First, we must reduce the huge amount of ridiculously high salaries of officials above the fifth grade, in fact, there are still a lot of less than half, and we should learn from the outstanding intellectual Minister Fan Zhongyan, learn from his spirit of worrying about the worries of the world before and enjoying the joy of the world after the world, and learn from the current Queen Mother, Your Majesty. As we all know, our officials also have to receive salaries, and the salaries are quite a lot. During the Northern Song Dynasty, ten taels of gold were worth one tael of gold, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty could get a salary of one hundred and twenty taels of gold per month, and I thought to myself that after converting one tael of gold at that time to be worth 3,000 yuan today, then the emperor's monthly salary would be 360,000 yuan. This was also an astronomical figure in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the country was poor and the officials were rich, and there were many multimillionaires! The place where the officials of the Great Song Dynasty received their salaries was called Zuozangku, and the Zuozangku was generally sent over by someone from Zuozangku and handed over to the personnel designated by the officials to manage it. Since Zhao Guangyi of Taizong in the Great Song Dynasty, almost every official family has 1,200 yuan of money per month. This is easy to use is the emperor's money, and every month, every official without exception, according to the regulations of today's official family also has a monthly salary of 1,200 yuan, but he carried forward the style of the monarch and the people, the wise official family gave up such a generous treatment, set an example, he took the initiative to give up such a large sum of money, but to the treasury, the queen mother herself is also thrifty, thrifty, clothes can not be old anymore, even the maids around us are a little dissatisfied, now we understand the queen mother's painstaking efforts, so we should learn from them, improve their political consciousness, the poor are good alone, the rich are the world。

The second point is to improve the income of grassroots officials, especially those below the fifth grade, because many of our national policies of the Great Song Dynasty should be implemented at the grassroots level, and we should not let the gap between the court officials be too big, and we must be fair and just, so that they can work diligently and conscientiously under the condition of worry-free food and clothing, live and work in peace and contentment, and contribute to the development of the Great Song Dynasty and take off, so that our high-salary and incorruptible policy can be truly implemented, implemented in place, and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people——"