Xu Shiyang does not want his family to carry this inexplicable economic shackle in the future.

The emperor should also have his own private money, right?

What's more, this will help to eliminate the divinity of the emperor to a certain extent, so while the discussion on the budget of Schönbrunn Palace has not yet continued, Xu Shiyang proposed to implement a salary grading system for civil servants throughout the country.

This system is naturally plagiarized from the early days of the Red Dynasty in another era, but Xu Shiyang stretched the original 24-level salary system to 28-level.

And contrary to the 24-level system, the 28-level salary system is the lowest in level 1 and the highest in level 28.

To put it simply, under the salary system of Qi State, level 1 is a clerk at the local level, such as a village teacher, a barefoot doctor, etc., and in the army it is an ordinary private in the new army (this position is already an officer in the 24-level system).

Looking up, the 23rd level of Qi State is the Six Shangshu, the 24th level is the cabinet deputy minister, the 25th level is the prime minister, the 26th level is the county king, and the 27th level is the prince.

At present, there is no prime minister and deputy prime minister in Qi State, although Xu Shiyang is the son of Wang Shizi, but in the new salary system, he can only enjoy the salary of 23 levels with the position of two Shangshu, of course, this situation will soon be changed.

And the nominal supreme leader of the Qi State, Xu Muhe, the king of Qi, enjoys a 27-level salary as a prince.

Xu Shiyang did not specifically mention which level corresponds to the highest 28th level salary, but everyone can understand why that position is prepared for the position.

After the salary and treatment are determined, the budget of the Qi King Gunnajin, which was originally prepared every year by the household department, will be completely abolished.

In this way, in the future, the king of Qi and the emperor's family property will be completely separated from the treasury, and the king of Qi will not be able to use the state's money privately, and the state will not go to the king of Qi to subsidize the treasury - unless the king of Qi is consciously willing (or forced to do so).

For the Xu family, the benefit of this policy is their own money, and no matter how they spend it in the future, the officials have no right to interfere.

The disadvantage is that in addition to a fixed salary, even if the royal family goes bankrupt and starves to death at a loss, the household department will not subsidize them.

The royal family has effectively become some kind of special high-ranking official who can be inherited, rather than a supreme demigod.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of the people, Xu Shiyang also linked the salary level to the aristocratic level.

For example, below level 26 county kings, level 25 cabinet prime ministers can be crowned dukes, level 24 corresponding marquises, level 23 six books automatically correspond to earls, level 22 automatically correspond to viscounts, level 21 automatically correspond to barons, and level 20 automatically count as lords (newly added titles).

All those above level 10 are counted as national soldiers, and all those above level 1 are citizens.

Citizens have the right to participate in and discuss state affairs, have complete political rights, and naturally have corresponding obligations.

If the position will be lowered, the salary will be lowered, and the nobility will naturally be lowered.

In addition to changing the level with the transfer of work, the noble level of retired and retired personnel will not be reduced because of normal departure, but they will not enjoy the corresponding salary, and the noble level will automatically drop one level when inheriting, unless the descendants will be promoted again through their own efforts, otherwise the generation will be reduced to the civilian position.

This policy of demotion starts from the 27th level prince, that is to say, if Xu Muhe does not take the last step to ascend to the 28th level, then Xu Shiyang can only inherit his throne in the future as the county king.

Of course, now everyone knows that King Qi will definitely take that step, it is just a matter of time.

Xu Shiyang's suggestion was naturally supported by officials at all levels attending the annual meeting of the Qi State.

The reason is simple: the new policy has broadened everyone's upward path.

It's very simple, at present, there is one level above King Qi, and there is five levels above Xu Shiyang, and if they go up, others will naturally have the opportunity to rise higher.

In addition, Qi Guo visualized the criteria for knighthood, so that everyone could see how far away they were from the title of nobleman, which actually reduced the difficulty of becoming a nobleman.

Since everyone thinks that they are good, then naturally everyone will support it.

At this time, more than half of the meeting season at the end of the fourth year and the beginning of the fifth year of Longdao had passed, and in the previous meeting, after passing the evaluation standards for public servants introduced by Xu Shiyang, a round of official promotion was carried out in Qi State.

Xu Shiyang himself stepped down from his post as secretary of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, and was promoted to the first prime minister of the Qi State, and at the same time obtained the title of duke.

In this way, he can be more justifiably in charge of the overall work of the Qi State and become the de facto "vice king" of the Qi State.

The current secondary prime minister is only Xu Mujiang (according to regulations, it should be two).

The position of the secretary of the military department was taken over by Gongsun Sheng, and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry was Tang Long, who had previously performed well in the arsenal.

Xu Muhai, the third elder of the Xu family, secretly poked at the relationship between the two brothers, hoping to get a knighthood - since the second brother is the prince and the eldest brother is the marquis, then as the only younger brother, at least one earl should have it, right?

However, it was not, because he was still under residential surveillance and had not made any contribution to the country, so he did not even obtain Level 1, but continued to take care of the royal grange in his hometown of Juzhou as a civilian.

However, Xu Shizi, the illegitimate son of the third master and a nun, was recognized by the family, entered into the family tree, and obtained his own rank because he was admitted to the intermediate military academy.

In addition to personnel grading, the most important tasks of the conference season are always the annual summary and New Year's resolution.

By the four-year low of Longdao, the data of Qi State are:

The population at or above the civilian level was 2.8 million, an increase of almost 800,000 over last year.

Among them, the largest source of population is immigrants from other places, especially the displaced people who gathered in the Jianghuai region in the past, and found that instead of going to Jiangnan to be slaves and maids, it is better to go to Qi to be an upright person.

Now the country of Qi has surpassed the Great Zhou and has become the first destination for displaced people.

However, with the relatively high proportion of newborns among commoners in Qi and the gradual introduction of various new policies to encourage births, Xu Shiyang believes that within a few years, the newborn Han people of Qi will surpass the displaced people to become the largest civilian population growth point.

The population of the common people is 300,000, the largest growth point comes from Goryeo, Longdao is low for four years, and tens of thousands of Goryeo people with 74 surnames in Hamgyong Province and Pyongan Province, which originally belonged to Goryeo, took the initiative to ask for it, and the King of Qi agreed to their request and counted them all into the common people.

The rest of the increase came mainly from the active participation of other peoples, as well as the promotion of slaves after accumulating credit.

The slave population remained at around 400,000, mainly because of the extremely high mortality rate of slaves, and the fact that the Qi state did not carry out much conquest during the year.

In this way, the total population of Qi has reached 3.5 million, compared with the 2.6 million counted at the end of the third year of Longdao, the growth rate can be described as overspeeding.

In terms of finance, the taxable land has increased to 47 million mu, and the actual tax grain is equivalent to 1.5 billion catties.

However, the share of agricultural taxes in Qi's finances has further declined.

At this time, the profits and taxes paid by Qi Industry were actually 900 million catties, which exceeded the expectations at the beginning of the year.

The salt tax revenue listed separately is 800 million catties, and the commercial tax, another major income item, has directly reached 1 billion catties, surpassing the agricultural tax to become the biggest pillar of Qi's finances in one fell swoop.

In this way, the actual financial income of Qi in Longdao for four years is equivalent to 4.7 billion catties of grain, which far exceeds the estimated 4 billion catties at the beginning of the year.