As soon as the words of the apocalypse came out, they immediately surprised everyone, how could this emperor turn his face faster than turning a book? I just had a relationship with Yan Yuese, and I'm about to raid someone else's home, don't you know that doing so will make everyone very uncomfortable? Thinking of this, many people were immediately dumbfounded, and their minds were thinking about whether Zhu Yanxi had started to say something wrong.

Zhu Yanxi was also puzzled and confused, but he didn't seem to be very angry when he saw the apocalypse, so he asked: "Your Majesty, this economic review is a procedure that officials must accept when they take office, what do you mean by this economic review even after retirement?" However, the minister's house is surrounded by four walls, and I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to find anything. ”

Tianqi said: "It is because you, Lord Zhu, are Qing officials that you have to check your family property, but you can choose not to accept the inventory, and I will not blame you." ”

Ye Xianggao, the associate minister of the State Council, is also sixty-eight this year, and when he heard that he would have to undergo an economic review after retirement, but he could choose to accept it or not, he asked Tianqi strangely: "May I ask the emperor, can you elaborate on what considerations are there?" The minister is almost seventy years old, so he is also very concerned. ”

Tianqi looked at Ye Xianggao and said: "Lord Ye is rich, I'm afraid I don't need my care, so Lord Ye still don't worry about it∞ which means that there are many people like Lord Zhu in the court who have been honest all their lives, and when they retire when they are old, they haven't saved two belongings, and they will be very faceless in Beijing or when they return to their hometown." To put it mildly, when you return to your hometown, your children and grandchildren point to you to help, and you are not able to help, those who know that you are honest, and those who don't know will complain that the court is mean, and they will also complain about the widowhood. ”

Associate Minister Han Yi seemed to understand at this time, and asked: "The minister probably understands what the emperor means, the emperor's intention to clean up the family property of retired ministers is to give them subsidies, I don't know if the minister understands correctly?" ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "The officials of all dynasties and dynasties are clean and greedy, I am not an immortal, I can't let all officials abide by the rules and become clean officials, but I can do two things, one is to use the system to restrict those who do not follow the rules not to go too far, and the other is to find a way to let those honest people who abide by the rules not suffer ♀ from the economic review of officials, and if you don't accept it, you must accept economic review, and if you don't accept it, you will leave, even if your ability is stronger than Zhuge Liang, the purpose is to let those people not do too much ♀, and officials must also accept economic review when they retire, Because you say goodbye to officialdom, it is a definitive conclusion for you, and at the same time, you will be given a subsidy to those who have too little property. ”

Zuo Guangdou, the head of the household, said: "The emperor is benevolent and admired, but what is the amount of this subsidy?" Where does the money come from? ”

Tianqi said: "How much to subsidize the Government Council, the Ministry of Households, and the Holy Academy, and finally consider comprehensively, I mean that it is only limited to retired officials above the third rank now, and others I can't help it now, and I will talk about it when the conditions are better later." As for the source of the silver, I considered taking out the money from the sale of the title to set up a foundation, and the forty percent of the income from the imperial court and the thirty percent of the income from me were taken out, and all of them were deposited in the money bank for lending, and the interest generated every year was used to give subsidies to honest retired officials. ”

Zhu Yanxi was moved by the words of the apocalypse at this time, and his eyes were red, and he choked up and said: "The emperor cares about the ministers and makes the ministers grateful inexplicably, and the ministers can only die with all their efforts and then come to repay the emperor, but I don't know how the emperor thought of these things?" ”

This is that people like money, but many people are affected by the words they learned when they were children, such as "the rich and the noble can't yin, the poor can't move, and the mighty can't bend", and they are embarrassed to reach out and make money generously, these people are fools who have been poisoned in the eyes of others, and Zhu Yanxi is one of the fools. Sometimes in the middle of the night, when no one is around, they think about what they have gained in this life, and then look at other people's delicious and spicy food, they will feel panicked, but when there is not enough silver to break through their moral bottom line, they will still be poor and happy the next day.

But now I heard the emperor say that fools who usually don't make money can make a fortune, just like they can be promoted without having to give big gifts, which made many relatively clean officials in the court see the dawn, and they looked at the apocalypse ecstatically and couldn't believe their ears.

Tianqi smiled and said: "A while ago, an internal guard who was patrolling various places came back and told me that there was a veteran who participated in the past Korean war against the Japanese invaders in the Wanli period last winter and froze to death, before this veteran begged for food for three years because of his unsettled life, and the investigation of the situation by the internal guard was true ♀, and I was greatly shocked, a hero did not hesitate to fight bloody battles with the enemy in order to protect his family and defend the country when he was young, he did not die under the enemy's knife but froze to death on the land he defended, this is a problem in the system, if this kind of thing cannot be avoided." , then I am not qualified. ”

Seeing that everyone was listening, the eyes of several generals were a little red, and Tianqi nodded secretly and continued: "I have decided that I cannot let the soldiers who defend the country continue to shed blood and tears, and this situation must not occur again in the future." But then I thought about it, isn't the military general like this? Those old ministers like Hai Rui, who have worked hard all their lives for the Ming Dynasty, if I don't care about them, even if they don't freeze and starve miserably, the streets will be very desolate, who will be a clean official in the future? That's why I had this in mind. ”

King Xin was also moved at this time, and said in a low voice: "Brother Huang, this is the affairs of the imperial court, and it is enough to take out forty percent of the imperial court's gains from the sale of titles by officials across the country, and thirty percent of the imperial brother's still stay in the palace for use, and it is already very ashamed to borrow silver from the imperial brother and his subordinates again and again." ”

Tianqi smiled: "The business of selling titles is not very good now, and the forty percent obtained by the imperial court alone is far from enough, and it is a fund that can only use interest, so it is enough to take out seventy percent." And it is used in the brother's palace or by the court, and the truth that the skin does not have hair is attached to the brother is still understood. Besides, didn't the tabloid say that my act of selling my title was similar to Emperor Ling's selling of official titles, which would divide the country? I want to show them that the money that sells the title is not for personal use, but for meritorious officials and honest officials, so as to create cohesion. ”

As soon as Tianqi's words were finished, many old ministers were moved to tears, especially those who were born as military generals, listening to Tianqi's lifting of the officials of the DPRK and China who had always been regarded as ants' small soldiers to a very high height, they were even more moved to tears, and they all cried while shouting that they wanted to go to the front line to open up territory for the emperor.

In fact, Apocalypse has his own intentions in doing this, he knows that there are many people who are dissatisfied with him now, and these dissatisfied people can be divided into two parts, one is the old-fashioned people, and the other is the businessmen, that is, the vested interests who have obtained huge benefits.

Although the number of old-fashioned people is large, it is not a cause for concern, because they are basically people who have been poisoned by the idea of loyalty to the monarch and almost lost themselves. They fantasize about how to return the Ming Dynasty to the simple period of Yao Shunyu Tang all day long, and they don't understand or don't want to understand that society needs to keep pace with the times in continuous progress, and only think about how to restore it to the legendary royal paradise. For these people whose heads are full of adult fairy tales, the apocalypse feels that he only needs to coax them along with them, as long as the greed for power, greed for money and other greed common to mortals in them are restrained and restricted, they are all loyal and dependent.

And the other part of the people, that is, those with vested interests, is not simple, whether they wake up or dream in their eyes only silver, the emperor is just a decoration for them, loyalty is a joke to them, because they have not received any benefits from the imperial power since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, only endless restrictions and suppression ♀, although the number of some people is small, but the energy is very strong, if they are not guarded against, these people are likely to become the gravediggers of the imperial group.

For these people who have money in their hands but have no status, Tianqi will not regard them as flood beasts like Zhu Yuanzhang, because society is still inseparable from them. It is only necessary to restrict them from three aspects, one is to limit the amount of silver in their hands with capped profits, and the other is to absolutely restrict them from having anything to do with power, and the army is a forbidden place for merchants. The third is to put them in opposition to the common people as much as possible, without power and the support of the people, and they cannot get rich overnight, these businessmen can only be appendages of the imperial power.