Shen has never figured out what Luo Sigong needs, but he knows exactly what the emperor needs, and what his colleagues need, so he combined what the emperor needs and what his colleagues need and handed it to Luo Sigong.

Luo Sigong dutifully handed over the report to the emperor.

Of course, those hot silver coins, in order to prevent the emperor's hands from being burned, Luo Sigong dutifully accepted them on behalf of the emperor.

Things were as Shen Cheng and Luo Sigong expected, even if he only got a deleted version of the copying report, Zhu Yijun was still extremely angry.

He was annoyed that a five-rank Jin bureaucrat could have a family property of tens of thousands of taels of silver, but the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, the treasury of a country, could not even afford the military expenses of 100,000 taels of silver.

These rats!

If a family of five wants to maintain food and clothing, the annual expenditure of silver taels is only about 30 taels, but these bastards are actually ......

Zhu Yijun's anger is inevitable, and the death of those bureaucrats is also inevitable, but I don't know how Zhu Yijun would be angry if he knew that these data were all reduced by ten times?

Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that if the embezzlement of more than 60 taels of silver was killed, this was a very strict standard, and Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption was also unique in all dynasties, but time passed, and in the Wanli Dynasty, this kind of thing was almost unimaginable.

Murder for the embezzlement of sixty taels of silver? Then the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty can be beheaded.

Zhu Yijun is not Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang holds the power of life and death of anyone, that is his prestige and qualifications, Zhu Yijun does not have this qualification, if you want to kill, you must be cooperated, the emperor's power is directly proportional to his own strength, and an emperor's name is just a righteous name.

A five-grade bureaucrat with an annual income of forty-two taels of silver wants to accumulate tens of thousands of silver in his family property, even if he is an immortal, how many years does it take to eat or drink?

Since there is no such year, where does this money come from?

Zhu Yijun is angry! He hates! He's angry!

He blamed himself for not knowing!

Setting low salaries for officials is a means for the emperor of the dynasty, not only a helpless choice under financial difficulties, but also an important power trick, not every dynasty is like the Tang Dynasty to come to congratulate the rich flow of oil, not every dynasty is as rich as the Great Song Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty has never been very wealthy.

Subject to policy factors, never compromise with the outside world, from the founding of the country to the destruction of the country, there are wars almost every year, military expenditures are huge, Zhu Yuanzhang era can also use the guard military system to share one or two of the finance, the more later, the guard military system collapses, the more difficult it is to share the finance, to the later period, the Ming army is million, all need the imperial court to provide military pay and military expenses.

This means that a considerable part of the annual income of the Ming Dynasty is reserved for the army, and there is no other way to give subsidies, and the rest must be used to make up for the shortcomings everywhere.

The most important thing is that the commercial tax of the Ming Dynasty was extremely low, and the opening of the sea and trade could not become the norm, and it was often constrained, and it could not be like the two Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty to open the country to earn foreign exchange, and the Tang and Song dynasties earned a lot of foreign exchange through overseas business to supplement the shortage of agricultural taxes, and the Ming Dynasty did not have it for most of the period.

In this case, if the officials are given the same high salaries as the Tang and Song dynasties, it is inevitable that they will have to go back to the redundant official dilemma under the extremely high salaries of the Song Dynasty, and there is not so much money, and the national finances will collapse if they are not good, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born in a slight background, will definitely not do that.

Zhu Yuanzhang's humble background is one of the reasons why he hates corrupt officials, but time has passed, will a poor child who has become an emperor still treat the subjects of a country with the way of thinking of a simple poor child?

The reason why he set low salaries for officials can also be explained, on the one hand, it is indeed guided by the thrifty thinking of poor children, on the other hand, it is the practical reason for the country's financial difficulties, and secondly, it is necessary to consolidate the rule.

What will officials think if they are given a low salary and made him short of money, but then given the power that is not commensurate with the low salary? What will be done?

Can corruption be stopped? Are all officials saints?

In this way, corruption has become a fact for officials, only with power can there be money, and only with money can there be a good life, and for the sake of a good life, they want money, and for money, they want power, where does the power come from? From the emperor, then, in order to maintain his power and money, he must maintain the emperor's power and make the emperor safe.

For the emperor, corruption has become a fact, the handle is in his hands, you are obedient, I will let you continue to be an official, if you are disobedient, I will fight corruption and get rid of you, the name is justified, and you can also conform to the will of the people, make a wave of fame, and make your image in the hearts of the people more positive.

The centralized emperor is always most concerned about his own security and status, and everything else can take a back seat, anti-corruption is not the goal, anti-corruption is just a means of political struggle, they need to be corrupt, they need corrupt officials.

Lao Zhu came from a humble background, and he had just founded the country, just sat in the world, his status was unstable, and he was surrounded by wolves.

Don't use this way to make a big deal of fame, don't do this to make the people feel close, and have the illusion that Lao Zhu is standing with them, so as to identify with Zhu Ming's orthodoxy in the shortest possible time, in case one day the Northern Yuan comes back, or someone rebels, and he doesn't have enough supporters, what can he do?

For this reason, sacrifice some stupid officials whose hands and feet are not clean but have enough skills to hide the facts, or officials who are disobedient and disloyal, so that Zhu Ming's orthodoxy will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that his position will be as stable as Mount Tai, so that the bureaucrats will be terrified, let the nobles bow down, and let the world become his own private property.

It's just a pity that this is Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, a high-level game that can only be played by emperors who have completely mastered all the power, but not by Zhu Yijun, and now this game will be played by the cabinet chief assistant who has real power, and Zhu Yijun is no longer qualified to play.

So he hated himself for not being able to play this game, not being able to be a real arbiter.

It is not that people hate corrupt officials, but that they hate themselves for not being corrupt officials.

As for the corruption itself—

He was also educated as an emperor, so how could he easily think that corruption itself was a problem?

Luo Sigong didn't understand this truth, Shen has always been unclear for the time being, but he will understand it soon.

"Your Majesty, please quench the wrath of thunder!"

Luo Sigong hurriedly knelt down.

"Rest the rage, stop the rage! What can I do but quench my anger? A bunch of rats are about to empty the treasury! It's just wanton! ”

Zhu Yijun made a fire, and then quieted down a little.

One million taels of silver should be enough for Xiao Ruxun to deal with it for a while.

"Luo Sigong, give a little bit of the amount of silver, and then hand it over to Shi Xing, let Shi Xing arrange to transport it to the border and hand it over to Xiao Qing, and sell the rest of the things as soon as possible, and exchange them all for silver, and send them to Xiao Qing when the time comes, so that he must completely defeat the Beiyu."

Zhu Yijun took a deep breath: "Don't let go of any of those who are corrupt and pervert the law, and the rest will continue to be investigated!" I'm going to see what these bold Jin people can do! ”

Luo Sigong immediately paused: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

With Zhu Yijun's roar, the process of cracking down on the Jin Party within the imperial court has been greatly accelerated, and in this context, the new candidate for the governor of Datong has been released - a Fang Shoushi who is well versed in military affairs and border affairs and has practical talents.

The death of the previous governor of Datong, Mei Guozhen, still caused a wave in the imperial court, this person did what Zhang Xun did in order to defend Datong City, and after receiving reinforcements to rescue, he knew that he could not be forgiven, so he committed suicide and only asked the court to forgive his family.

Although the moral masters wanted to criticize him, but the person was dead, and it would be too harsh to scold him again, and no one wanted to violate this bottom line, so the strongest mouth artillery regiment in the Ming Dynasty actually let Mei Guozhen go and did not scold him.

The two committed suicide together, which made some courtiers with a clear conscience sigh, and Zhu Yijun ordered to pardon the two for the crime of failing to fulfill their duties, and did not involve their families, but the court did not give a nickname to show that the court could not tolerate such measures.

People die, the matter is over, but the officials of the governor of Datong still want people to do it, after the war in Datong, there is a lot of waste to be rebuilt, it is the time when a suitable person is needed to do it, although the civil officials allow a military general to serve as the governor, but more to encourage him to lead the army, rather than really want him to manage government affairs like the governor.

That's impossible!

Therefore, the governor must be in office to prevent Xiao Ruxun from doing something unpredictable to the civil officials when the governor is not there.