Liu Chuan asked to lower the Tian Fu of the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but Yun Xi did not let it stay overnight in the palace, and was sent to the General Administration Department along with all the other excerpts, and then the General Administration Department recorded the contents of the excerpt and the emperor's reply in the palace newspaper, and then returned the original excerpt to the person who made the excerpt. The pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info and the excerpt for Liu Chuan's punishment was also issued.

At night, Liu Chuan ran to another mansion at the risk of being captured by the sergeant on the night patrol, but fortunately, the two mansions were not far from each other.

The man walked out with his clothes draped and said to Liu Chuan: "The excerpt you entered today will come out now?" So fast? What did Your Majesty approve? ”

Liu Chuan said in a panic: "My lord, Your Majesty has refuted the villain's excerpts, and also belittled the villain's experience as Shazhou Wei. ”

The man on the other side was taken aback and said, "Your Majesty actually dealt with you so heavily?" ”

Then he continued: "This time it was really a mistake, a mistake, I didn't expect Your Majesty to punish you so severely. Then he said to Liu Chuan: "Wait a few years, I will find a way to transfer you back to Jiangnan, as an important minister of the imperial court, and a cadre of Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials as a helper, I will definitely be able to do it." ”

Liu Chuan came here to hope that he would help him find a way not to go to the northwest to take up his post, how could he, a Huzhou person, be willing to go to the northwest! But looking at the attitude of the person opposite, I know that it is irreparable. said hatefully: "It's a big deal, I won't resign!" ”

The man on the other side immediately said: "You are resigned, and you must stay in the northwest for a year and a half." ”

Liu Chuan didn't dare to disobey his order, just now he was just a temptation, and when he saw that he didn't allow it, he could only agree to leave.

After Liu Chuan left, after a while, a middle-aged man who was about forty years old walked in and said to this person: "Your Majesty, it seems that he is not a person who does not know the feelings of the people, and it may not be easy for us to coax him." ”

"Tomorrow, I will go to find out Chen Xingshan and Zhuo Jing's tone, and I know what His Majesty said about this matter."

The person who was sitting sighed: "Your Majesty today, there are many actions that do not disagree with the way of the Holy Monarch. The Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven who rules vertically and leaves everything to the people below, but today's saints are the same as the first emperors. ”

"At the beginning, it would be good if the first emperor took King Guangze (Yunwen) as the emperor's grandson, King Guangze was modest and cautious, good at reading, he must be a good emperor, and he would definitely experience the people's livelihood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."

The man who came in later said, "It's too late to say anything." We will test how much Your Majesty knows about the people's feelings in the future, we have to be cautious, just now I read His Majesty's refutation, on the grounds that Liu Chuan said that 'the taxes on the land of the people in the five prefectures of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are high', and Liu Chuan was belittled as Shazhou Wei's experience, which is too harsh. However, if Your Majesty continues to administer officials like this, perhaps more officials will see the true face of Your Majesty's contempt for us and other civil servants. ”

One of the first people said: "However, Your Majesty will probably not be like this. Slap a sweet date, Your Majesty is very slippery. ”

The latter sighed and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow." The two dispersed.

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The next morning, I went to court. At this time, most people didn't know about Yunxi's punishment of Liu Chuan yesterday, and they didn't even know that Liu Chuan had an excerpt, and the news didn't spread so quickly. But Yun Xi knew that he couldn't always wait for the civil officials to make trouble, so he still had to take the initiative.

Therefore, after Yun Xi went down to the court, he made the following six wills:

The first way: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: all prefectures and counties learn professors, teachings, learning, etc., teaching and educating people,......, special promotion of professors from all prefectures are from the eight products, each state is learning from the nine products, each county is taught from the nine products, and the prefectures and counties are taught from the nine products, and the teachings of the prefectures and counties are from the nine products, and they are admiring this. ”

The second said: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Guozijian is a place where the world's elites gather,......, but the officials of Guozijian are not of high grade, how can they attach importance to Guozijian?" All the officials who have not entered the stream in the current Guozijian have been promoted to the ninth rank; Officials entering the stream, such as sacrificial wine, priests, supervisors, etc., have all been promoted by one level. ”

At this time, there were many officials in the court who came from Guozijian, and the current Xia Fuguan Bangzhao graduated from Guozijian, so Guozijian is quite important.

And at this time, Guozijian was still taught literature and martial arts, and those who came out could be both civil officials and military generals.

The third way: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: The officials of the world's economic system ,......, specially increased the annual salary to ninety-six stones, and Qin this." ”

After Yun Xi proposed to divide the land into the mu and pay the grain in one piece, because the right of the officials to exempt their fields from taxes was abolished, the annual salaries of the officials who were in the regular system were increased. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's old system, the annual salary of the second grade Shangshu is 732 stones, the annual salary of the fourth prefect is 288 stones, and the annual salary of the seventh grade of the county is 90 stones.

After Yunxi helped Zhu Yuanzhang to restructure, the annual salary of the second grade Shangshu was 768 stones, the annual salary of the prefect of the fourth grade was 360 stones, and the annual salary of the seventh grade of the county was 180 stones.

Yun Xi felt that the gap between the annual income of the middle and lower-level officials in Zhu Yuanzhang's system was too large, so the annual income of the middle and lower-level officials increased more, and the increase of the upper-level officials was less, although in Yun Xi's opinion, the gap was still very large, and no matter how much the mayor's annual salary in later generations would not be more than twice that of the county magistrate, but he could only do it here, and the monthly salary of fifteen stone of grain was also enough to spend.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's old system, the economic system officials are equivalent to the grassroots civil servants of later generations, but they are only 36 stone of grain per year, which is only 3 stone of grain per month (one stone is 118.8 catties of later generations). If you are in a poor county, you can still spend enough money, and you can even be rich; But in the capital or wealthy places, three stone of grain a month is definitely not enough to spend.

However, at that time, Zhu Yuanzhang firmly believed that officials should dedicate themselves to the country, so he resolutely opposed the promotion of officials' salaries. At that time, Yunxi said that he couldn't say that Zhu Yuanzhang, but after he succeeded to the throne, he decided to promote the seniority of the officials.

You must know that in this era, women can't go out to work to make money to support their families, and the family's expenses all depend on the young men in charge, and there are many children, which doesn't force them to embezzle, take bribes, and extort money.

For the same reason, there is the following decree:

The fourth way: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: The medical officials of Fuzhou County, the officials of the Monk and Taoist Division, and the officials of the Inspection Department, such as Zhengke and Dugang, are all given according to their grades. ”

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's old system, the official hospitals in Fuzhou County, as well as some other official units, were all set up and not given to Lu. These officials and officials will definitely not eat their own, so these organizations at the grassroots level of the Ming Dynasty have been extorting and extorting everything from the beginning when the politics were still clear, because they also have to make money to support their families!

Yun Xi took advantage of the fact that the politics were still relatively clear, paid them salaries, and then carried out a period of 'hard crackdown' to get rid of some people who were still breaking the law, so that it is estimated that the grassroots will be better. However, corruption and bribery cannot be eradicated in feudal society, and no matter how much it is changed, it can only be curbed.

The fifth way: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Kedao officials,......, are now authorized to give them according to the five-grade officials, and they are here." ”

This one is to pat the fart of the officials of Kedao, so that they feel that the emperor values them, so as not to make trouble for Yunxi.

Yun Xi felt that the officials of the six departments were just that, after all, they had real power, and they would be set up, but it was a waste of food for the people who could only fire empty cannons in the imperial history, and there were more than 100 people. Although the imperial history also has some practical functions, such as going to various places to inspect and play the role of supervision and inspection, it is somewhat useful.

However, the imperial historians spent an average of four months a year patrolling in the field, and the remaining eight months were spent in the capital firing empty cannons, and Yun Xi was very unhappy, thinking that they had to patrol the field for at least eight months a year.

Although Yun Xi did not dare to delete the official system set by Zhu Yuanzhang without authorization, he could not appoint officials with an empty official position! Then merge the functions, and that's it.

Yun Xi asked Zhuo Jing to draft the decree after he went down to the court, before he began to deal with today's excerpts. Before formulating the sixth decree, Yun Xi asked the officials present: "Do you think that if I set up a public house for officials below the fourth rank, will these officials below the fourth rank be willing to live in it?" ”

Chen Xingshan asked, "Your Majesty, what is the system of this public house?" ”

Yun Xi said: "It is to build some houses, divide them into one by one, and provide them with free accommodation for officials. It's about the size of a room," Yun Xi gestured in the hall, "Although I have never seen a family of five or six people living together, but in such a large place, it should be possible to live a family of five or six." ”

"I think because the houses in the capital are more expensive, many officials are alone in Beijing to share houses with them; I couldn't bear it, so I set up a public house. ”

Chen Xingshan said: "It's not just five or six people, if it is arranged properly, it can accommodate five or six adults." I just don't know where His Majesty plans to build it? ”

Yun Xi said: "Not far from the south of the imperial city, there is also a piece of land in the imperial court, which was used to supply vegetables for the imperial palace. Now I will take out this land and build a public house for the officials. ”

Chen Xingshan, Zhuo Jing and others just thought that this was Yun Xi's welfare for officials, and Yun Xi always gave his subordinate official benefits in the past, so Chen Xingshan said happily: "Your Majesty, most of the officials in Beijing can only barely get enough, and now Your Majesty is willing to set up a public house for officials to take over, and the officials must be happy." ”

Zhuo Jing also said: "Your Majesty considers the officials so much, which is really a blessing for officials like us. He thought a little more than Chen Xingshan, so that if the officials wanted to get together in the evening, they would not have to worry about the curfew.

Yun Xi continued: "Because there is only one family, there is only a public toilet. In addition, we have set up a restaurant in the courtyard of the public house for the officials to eat. ”

At this time, Tyrant Zhao also praised Yun Xi's approach, so he had the sixth will:

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said: The capital is expensive, I can't bear to see hundreds of officials living alone in the Beijing ,......, special public house for hundreds of officials to stay, Qin this."