People are emotional animals, since they are animals, they have their own joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, although Gao Lishi is a eunuch, the disability of the body makes him more rare family affection, and he has established his own family, hoping to want a normal person like an old wife to accompany him, children and grandchildren, after death, someone wears linen and filial piety to send himself to the final memorial.

People are greedy, greedy for money, power and beauty, from the emperor to the common people have their own desires and dreams, without considering the evil of human nature, they cannot see the goodness of human nature!

Colliers doesn't need money, and he is not greedy for money, money is not something outside the body, but he doesn't need it.

For the sake of power and money, there are two ways to make money, one is to enrich oneself by embezzlement and bribery, and the other is to use power to use power for personal gain and do business.

The Tang Law stipulated: "All officials and cohabitants who have made great contributions to their relatives, who are self-employed in industry and commerce, and who specialize in their own business, are not allowed to enter the office."

That is to say, if I or my relatives who have made great contributions or above are engaged in business, I am not allowed to hold an official position. It is an offence for an incumbent official to concurrently engage in business in his jurisdiction. The purchase and sale of goods, even if the transaction is fair, is still fifty lashes, which is obviously unfair, and the crime is judged in vain by comparison with the law. Officials who do business for the government or who lose money and owe debts shall be punished according to the second-degree penalty of sitting on stolen goods. If an official sends a subordinate or market manager to do business, if he or she makes a profit, the official does not know about it, and he is not guilty; Know, compare with the official's family doing business in the jurisdiction, the official's knowledge of the crime is punished. Depending on the severity of the offense, subordinates or market managers should also be punished with 40 to 80 canes. If an official's family makes money by doing business in the jurisdiction, the crime of doing business is reduced by two degrees compared to the crime of the official himself. Officials know about it and punish them with their families; I don't know, but the sins of the family are reduced by five degrees. Officials in custody are punished more severely than non-officials and their families in business.

Since ancient times, there have been policies and countermeasures, and the means of making money by officials have emerged in an endless stream, and they do not let their families do business, so they will privately buy shares and share fertilizer, and open the door to convenience for private use of public power, which is not essentially different from the collusion between officials and businessmen in later generations, and it cannot be said that the ancients were not as smart as later generations.

In this regard, the Song Dynasty did the best job in curbing the collusion between officials and businessmen among the previous feudal dynasties.

For example, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt and corrupt, and the income of officials in the Tang Dynasty was not high, and there was no Qing Dynasty's theory of raising honest silver, and the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty were based on a dual-track system.

When Tang Gaozu established the Tang Dynasty, he also formulated the specifications for officials in the Tang Dynasty, and compared with the Sui Dynasty, the salary level was lowered, because it was related to the destruction of productivity and people's livelihood due to the war.

There are two interesting facts: in May of 807 AD, the great poet Bai Juyi was a county lieutenant in Shaanxi, and saw that the local people were cutting wheat in the summer heat, "steaming and exhaling, and the back was burning and the weather was hot", he couldn't help but sigh greatly, and cherished his existing treatment, and did not need to farm and do farm work. He opened the salary slip and looked at it, and there was an annual income of 300 stones, "300 stones", so he said to himself: Mr. Bai, you are content, be grateful!

Han Yu used to be a doctor of Guozijian, which is equivalent to the president of a national university in Datang, what is his annual salary? Check the historical data, and the county lieutenant is at the same level: 20,000 yuan. This is the standard of Tang Wuzong's time, and Teacher Han is a little earlier, and it is estimated that eight or nine is not far from ten. During a morning training, the students laughed at him: Teacher, you are so poor, the child is crying from the cold, and his wife is screaming with hunger. Teacher Han shot back: I don't have to plough the land, my wife doesn't have to weave, and the family "sits and eats", I am quite content.

In fact, this is Teacher Han crying poor through the mouths of students. Of course, he has a way to generate income, and that is to help others write epitaphs, which is said to be quite expensive.

The salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty were higher than those in the Ming Dynasty, but even this was not as high as that, and if they had supported their families with their meager income, their families would have starved to death.

Some people may look at the income of Tang Dynasty officials from the perspective of later generations, and if they measure it longitudinally, they find that the salaries of Tang Dynasty officials are much higher than those of later officials, which is biased.

First of all, the salary of officials in later generations is a real income, of course, there is no gray income here, and it is only a lot more to support a family of three or four, and the parents have a retirement salary, and the wife and children also have a salary, and the income that is really spent from the salary is not much.

Look at the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty, the small income has to support a large family, not to mention a group of wives and concubines, not to mention, there are still a bunch of slaves and maids who need to be rewarded, these all have to use money, and the officials of the past dynasties do not belong to the imperial court establishment, these people usually have to be rewarded, and if they don't want to be corrupt, they can only pay out of their own pockets to save money, otherwise there is a way to do business!

Gao Lishi is different from the situation of officials, he does not need money, but he does not have to worry about money at all, the emperor's rich rewards and the annual filial piety of officials are enough to squander ten lifetimes.

After all, it was a fast and rare person's energy was a little unable to keep up, so he rubbed his sour temples and closed the documents on the table, preparing to go back to his room to rest. As soon as I walked to the door, I opened the door through a crack, and a cold wind whistled into the study, and the flame of the oil lamp in the study swayed, and the study became bright and dark, like a ghost floating in the room, and the documents on the table were "whooshing".

Colliers was stunned for a moment, gently closed the door, walked to the table again, picked up the documents on the table again, and muttered words ...... his mouth.

After a long time, Gao Lishi slightly shook his snow-white eyebrows, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, and he snorted coldly in his nose, "A bunch of waste ......!" ”

ps: There are two completely different voices in the evaluation of Gaolishi in history, there are arguments about eunuchs messing with the government, and there are also records of loyal ministers and protectors, but if I let the author say, Gaolishi is more like a real and vivid historical figure, plump character, there are joys and sorrows, those black and white historical figures in textbooks are not real people, and there can be no such person in life, more like a kneaded clay puppet, a tool to serve those in power.

There is no absolute difference between good and bad, only the difference between relative and historical periods, it is biased to look at historical figures from the perspective of modern people, in the environment at the time, for Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, Gao Lishi is a perfect courtier, and he has fulfilled the duty of a courtier.

People are hypocritical and multi-faceted, Gao Lishi is a eunuch who is good at figuring out the thoughts of the superior in front of Tang Xuanzong, and in front of the minister, he is a powerful minister who holds the power of life and death, and even the emperor's relatives have to call Gao Lishi "Ah Weng" and "General"!

Tang Xuanzong was infatuated with Yang Yuhuan in his later years, but he valued Gao Lishi who had been with him for forty or fifty years, and it was also because he was assured that Gao Lishi would neglect his government and not go to court, and he didn't believe that Gao Lishi could help him deal with state affairs, so that he had time to concentrate on studying music, opera and dance, is this wrong? As far as human nature is concerned, an emperor who has been an emperor for more than 40 years, diligent and diligent in running a huge empire, the hardships in it are only known to himself and Gaolishi, and the feudal dynasty system can only be blamed.

The seventy-year-old man has retired at home, enjoying the modern retirement system at the same time, the absolute power brings absolute fear and crisis, Tang Xuanzong can not give up the power in his hands, and Gao Lishi can not either, the dumping of power has always been bloody, without the slightest humanity at all, is this the fault of Tang Xuanzong and Gao Lishi?

There are no characters with distinct personalities in the author's book, only living people, who have their own careers, families and friends like later generations, as well as their own political enemies and preferences to scold, the reason why I use such a long space to explain this point is just to show the historical figures and the social background at that time in front of the readers, good or bad only personal comments!