Why did Zhu Yunwen suddenly want to give officials a boost?

Do you have a conscience or do you want to pay a lot of money?

In fact, pragmatically speaking, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are indeed not high, or even very low.

The main body of financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty is the tax in kind, and the cash has been in short supply, so in the issuance of money, it is also distributed by means of grain and treasure money.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, the re-surveyed official grade of Lu, the annual salary of the nine-grade official is 60 stone grain plus 30 treasure money, and the purchasing power is converted, about 320 yuan per stone of grain, which is equivalent to 20,000 yuan in later generations.

But the account can't be calculated like this, sixty stone grain officials can't eat it all in a year, but what about the living expenses of the family?

The officials in the northwest are okay, the price of grain is relatively high, and half of it is sold for money, which is enough for the usual daily firewood, rice, oil and salt, but in the rich land of the south of the Yangtze River, the price of grain is cheap, and the money from selling grain is not enough at all, this is not the future generation, the two of them go to work together to earn money, in this era, even if it is a petty official from Jiupin, it is impossible to let the daughter-in-law go out and show her face, plus you have to raise children and Gaotang, this Yulu is really unaffordable.

Officials below the seventh grade are not corrupt or take bribes, and they are not enough to buy two new clothes for their families in a year.

Even if they are high-ranking officials in the six ministries, their annual salary is only 1,000 stone plus 300 yuan of treasure money, so each of their relatives will find a way to occupy more land in the local area, which is also tacitly supported by these high-ranking officials, otherwise, how can they live?

I am a scholar of the ministry, and I can't be a bad wife and an only son for the rest of my life.

Men only have two pursuits in life, one is power and the other is color, and if you have power, you will inevitably want to find money to find color. This is human nature, and it is the most basic desire and need, which Zhu Yunwen can never correct.

The low income of officials is really not a good thing.

At this point, Taizu was too harsh on officials,

Taizu started from the end of Wei, when he was a child, the officials at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were tyrannical and corrupt, and they greatly persecuted the people at the bottom, which left a very bad impression on Taizu's heart: the world is as black as a crow!

The official salary set by Taizu Hongwu in the sixth year was nearly half less than that in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, and it is conceivable that it was indeed difficult for a family of five to live in the early Ming Dynasty.

They are all about to starve to death, are you still afraid of breaking the law?

Officials soon began to be corrupt, and then became more and more rampant, and the county tax was 30,000 stone a year, and the county dared to withhold half of it, and only reported 15,000 stone, which is appalling.

Why so bold?

Since being greedy for one tael is also death, then directly be greedy for ten thousand taels!

If you do one vote, you will escape from office!

Taizu has zero tolerance for corruption, and he is also prone to punish this kind of fugitive officials, this kind of practice, just look at it is no problem, but it is indeed a bit too much.

There is nothing wrong with zero tolerance for corruption, but the premise is that officials can't at least live more tired than ordinary people, right?

You can't expect all officials to be saints and think that being an official is to burn yourself, to warm the place of candlesticks.

Even if there are such cadres, they also have families, and there are times when the parents are short and tight, we can't let these saints shed blood and tears, right?

A county official, who is also the county secretary, county magistrate, director of the public security bureau, court president and a series of other identities, should do is to worry about the livelihood of tens of thousands of people in the county, the responsibility is very great, the work is very heavy, a good county official, really do his best, since he has paid a lot, he deserves higher treatment.

As for whether it will have the effect of maintaining honesty after getting a high salary, it is necessary to look at the ideological consciousness of the Ming cadres in this era, which is not something that external forces can intervene in.

What Zhu Yunwen has to do is to ensure that the imperial court can support these cadres, and they are very good, if this is the case, you are still greedy, then don't blame the Ming Dynasty for not leaving a living mouth!

Zhu Yunwen never thought of correcting the corruption and skinning set by Taizu.

Whoever dares to be greedy will be killed!

"In the two years since I ascended the throne, my Ming Dynasty's cash income has become higher and higher, and the treasury is sufficient.

After all, there are many cash taxes, and there are many places to spend money, and now we can't completely use cash silver, otherwise, where will the grain income of more than 30 million stone a year be used?

The official warehouses in the south can be fully filled, and with so much grain, more than a million troops can't eat it at all.

As the head of the cabinet, he naturally took the initiative to show his head in this matter.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, how much are you going to add to this plus?"

The Ming official system has not been changed for the time being, and there are about ten governors of the five military governors' mansions, all of which are one product, and the two Zongzheng of the Zongren Mansion are also one product, and the two Zongzheng officials are also first-class officials, and there are not many in the entire capital, and they are too ruthless, and the court expenses will be a lot more.

"Taking the opportunity of the addition, I just happened to add the quality of the cabinet."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the Hanlin students who were in charge of drafting the holy decree not far away, and the latter was busy picking up the pen.

"The quality of the Zongren Mansion will be gone in the future, and the officials of the imperial court will not need to be on duty in the Zongren Mansion in the future, they will all be handed over to my clan relatives to take care of, the five military mansions and the general staff will not move, and they will be awarded a rank, my fourth uncle is the chief of the general staff, and I promised at that time that it would be an annual salary of 10,000 stones, so let's follow this standard."

The bachelor of the three palaces, receiving the title of Zhengyi, has an annual salary of 5,000 stones and 2,000 taels of silver.

University scholar title, awarded from the first rank, annual salary of 3,000 stone and 1,000 taels of silver.

Associate Scholar, awarded the title of Zhengsan, with an annual salary of 1,200 stone and 500 taels of silver.

The second rank is 2,000 stone and 800 taels of silver per year.

From the second rank, the annual salary is 1,500 stone and 500 taels of silver.

is the third rank, the annual salary is 1,200 stone and 500 taels of silver.

From the third rank, the annual salary is 1,000 stone and 300 taels of silver.

is the fourth rank, 800 stone and 300 taels of silver.

From the fourth rank, the annual salary is 600 stone and 200 taels of silver.

is the fifth rank, the annual salary is 500 stone and 200 taels of silver.

From the fifth rank, the annual salary is 500 stone and 100 taels of silver.

is the sixth rank, the annual salary is 400 stones and 100 taels of silver.

From the sixth rank, the annual salary is three hundred stones and one hundred taels of silver.

is the seventh rank, and the annual salary is 200 stones and 100 taels of silver.

From the seventh rank, the annual salary is 300 stones.

Eight grades, two hundred and forty stones a year.

Nine products, two hundred stones a year.

The officials and officials are on errands, and the local government determines the range of 50 to 100 stones according to the situation. ”

As soon as Zhu Yunwen's lips touched, Storm Zhao quickly understood in his heart that the number of low-grade officials in this Lu Lu was probably more than three times and less than four times that of the past, and the number of officials above the third grade was about five to eight times!

The greater the power, the higher the seniority.

Tyrant Zhao was previously a scholar of the Criminal Department and entered the cabinet as an auxiliary minister, and his annual salary was 1,200 stones, but now he is a bachelor of the third hall of the first rank, and his annual salary has increased by about eight times!

Yang Shiqi turned the most ruthlessly, because he was an assistant scholar before, but at that time he did not have the title of assistant scholar, so he actually received the Hanlin Xuezheng, from the annual salary of the fifth grade, but only two hundred stones, and now it has increased thirty times in one breath.

"Your Majesty."

Xia Yuanji rushed out directly, but instead of being busy thanking him, he was panicked.

"Your Majesty Longen, you regard your ministers as if they were sons, and your ministers are grateful, but such an increase in expenses is quite huge."

In the first year of Jianwen, the official family continued to use the old Hongwu system, and the annual expenditure was about 2.7 million taels of silver, and now it is like this, and the annual expenditure is at least 10 million taels!

Daming is rich now, but how can money be spent like this?

"Is Xia Shangshu worried, is the household financial deficit?"

Zhu Yunwen asked with a smile.

The latter nodded violently without thinking about it, "Your Majesty, with such an addition, where is the extra money for national construction?"

Military spending remains high, Jiubian, Liaodong, Gansu, Southwest, and Beijing have one million soldiers, and His Majesty wants to expand the Minzhejiang Naval Division.

The imperial court also had to build roads, canals, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, floods were frequent, and it was even more urgent to break the embankment for flood control.

So far, the filial piety mausoleum has not been completed, and the selection of auspicious places for His Majesty to repair the mausoleum has been postponed again and again, and the household department really has no money. ”

What if the annual tax of Daming is now 40 million taels a year? Is it high? Really high, is it enough? It's not enough!

Originally, many people in Fengtian Hall had already glared at Xia Yuanji angrily, and when they heard the latter's report, they all trembled in their hearts.

"The border army cannot be dismantled, and Xiaoling cannot be stopped."

Zhu Yunwen said indifferently, "But my mausoleum, there is no need to choose another site to build, Dongling will not be built, after I die in the future, I will put it in the coffin, and I will pick a small side room in the filial piety tomb and bury me next to Taizu." ”

Xiaoling covers a wide area, with hundreds of thousands of square meters, how can it be enough to give Zhu Yunwen a place to live.

The hundreds of officials in the hall knelt on the ground and dissuaded.

"I beg Your Majesty to take back your order."

Xia Yuanji was more like a dead father, and he choked up, "Your Majesty is the father of the Ming Dynasty, how can you be frugal in this matter, then wouldn't we all become disloyal and unfilial people?" ”

"Hundreds of thousands of people in Xiaoling, I have been cultivating for more than 20 years, and it has cost tens of millions of taels before and after, so why is there any need for me to repair another one for myself?"

Zhu Yunwen sees this kind of thing very lightly, everyone is dead, and the burial is for future generations to see, and he can't feel it, it doesn't hurt when he is cremated, and he picks the ground.

To build an emperor's mausoleum, it will cost at least one to two years of Jianwen Dynasty's annual income, how much can you do with this money?

"Emperor Taizu opened the world and opened the world, it is the great savior of my Han people, slow to say that it will take twenty years, even if it is two hundred years, spend tens of thousands of taels, it is what my descendants should do, how can I be worthy of spending national strength and injuring the people's bodies?"

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand, "I have made up my mind, don't discuss this matter anymore, my mausoleum is not repaired, every year, at least two million taels can be saved, this money will make up for the deficit of the household department, and send it to the hands of the world's ministers to support the family, I don't feel distressed, I just hope that when you get the money, you can think of the people of the world." ”

There was a cry in the Fengtian Temple.

The hundred officials didn't know whether it was pretending or true feelings, and some even broke their heads, "I beg Your Majesty to take back your life, the ministers are enough to support their families, and there is no need to add money." ”

"Get up, don't knock."

Zhu Yunwen snorted, "I have a golden mouth, where is the reason to take it back, this matter is settled, there is no need to persuade again, it's just that my strength alone is not enough to make up for the shortfall, so I also plan to increase the commercial tax." ”

After Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he opened the four cities of salt, iron, grain, and cloth to and from the people, and all merchants who traveled to and from the four cities paid commercial taxes, but there was no commercial tax for the independent business behavior of other private businesses.

Because, there are no merchants in the Ming Dynasty!

Taizu set the status of the army, farmers, and craftsmen, but there was no business registration, and there was even such a decree, "Those who are not producers can be hunted and killed." ”

Therefore, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty are all affiliated with the registration, that is, buying land and hoarding land to hang the agricultural registration, or those who have many children collude with local military households, hang the military registration, and send a son to join the army, and do business as a farmer or military member. ”

Therefore, the merchants of the early Ming Dynasty were dressed in a legal skin, and as long as they paid a full amount of grain tax according to the number of acres of land every year, they did not need to pay additional taxes in their daily transactions.

From today onwards, my Ming merchants, no longer need to be attached to the registration of farmers, soldiers, and craftsmen, check the household registration, and issue documents, which are legal people, normal business, and the imperial court will encourage them, and all prefectures and counties should set up commercial and trade divisions to manage and audit revenues and set up taxes."

Collect the merchant's tax!

The emperor is really still the emperor, he doesn't do his job, and his mind is full of crooked tendencies.

But at this time, no one can persuade anymore.

In order to give them these officials and make up for the deficit of the treasury and household department, the emperor didn't even want his own mausoleum, who still has the face to accuse the emperor of doing this for his own selfish interests?

"The commercial tax is intended to be a tiered system, one tax of twenty taels below one hundred, one tax of fifteen taels below one thousand, ten taxes of ten taels below ten thousand taels, one hundred thousand taels to one million taels, eight taxes of one, one million taels or more, and five taxes of one!"

Tiered tax law, split all the rich and powerful households in the world!

Those who have many heirs in the family and have hundreds of thousands of taels in business a year, Zhu Yunwen is forcing them to split up!

"The tax on the imperial merchant's side, I will collect it personally!"

Zhu Yunwen's upper body leaned forward slightly, condescending, and his tone was full of coldness.

As a reward, the business tax levied at the provincial, government and county levels will be retained and paid seventy percent, but if there is collusion to evade the tax law, do not let me find out, otherwise, if a county avoids taxes, its county officials are all beheaded, and a government avoids taxes, and its government officials are all beheaded!

The center has added the General Administration of Commercial Tax Inspection, and the Ministry of Household has sent an experienced person to pick a beam, and the product is tentatively set as the three products, responsible for inspecting the commercial taxes of various provinces. ”

You don't even want your own mausoleum, who would dare to refute your face?

Accept it, anyway, our Yulu is now high enough to take concubines and have children, and it's a big deal that we don't do business for the rest of our lives, and this tax can't be collected on our heads.

Seeing the hundred officials and He Shengming, the corners of Zhu Yunwen's mouth finally hung a smile.

Don't worry, sooner or later, I will receive this tax from you.