After all, if you want these officials to work for you, you must first let those honest officials and honest officials with high moral character have no worries about food and clothing.

Otherwise, isn't your entire bureaucracy forcing them to take bribes?

Therefore, it is necessary to increase the amount of money for them.

Last time, the color was raised, and this time the true color will be increased, and the true color of all officials from top to bottom will be doubled.

However, the increase is not rice, but other cereals, three percent potatoes, three percent sweet potatoes, and three percent corn.

Another 10% can be any of the five grains, which is determined by the provincial non-government envoys.

And the original natural color of the rice part remains unchanged.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen wanted to do this, of course, was not simply to raise the wages of officials, but to do it itself was also a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

First, this can solve the problem of survival or food and clothing for low-level officials.

After all, if you don't have enough rice, or if you don't have enough money to buy rice, you can also have potatoes and sweet potatoes to eat, and you won't starve to death.

Second, with the continuous promotion of cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, the vicinity of Gyeonggi Shuntianfu, Lu Xiangsheng's Hebei governor's jurisdiction, as well as the Caoyun governor Yuan Keli's jurisdiction, as well as the areas under the jurisdiction of Henan Governor and Shandong Governor, and even the Andong Town Shoufu under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, and the Rehe Town Shoufu under Beizhili, have gradually harvested a lot of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The yield of these things is much larger than that of rice, and there are more places where they can be grown, unlike rice, which can only be grown in relatively warm places in the south or north.

Therefore, these new types of coarse grains do not have to worry about shortages for a while.

In addition, with the gradual promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, the planting area has increased significantly, and the corresponding prices have also fallen rapidly.

As the saying goes, grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, whether it is in various reclamation areas, military and civilian areas, and the enthusiasm of the common people to plant them has declined, so it will be dangerous.

If the imperial court had made it the true character of the officials, then the enthusiasm of the provincial feudal departments and treasury to promote planting would have been maintained.

At the same time, the prices of these coarse grains will also improve a little in the short term.

With so many benefits, of course, we have to hurry up and push it.

In this way, it is much more cost-effective than buying rice at the market price and then distributing rice to officials, or directly increasing the color and distributing silver.

On the first day of the first month of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, the Zhengdan court meeting in the Emperor's Palace lasted until the end of the afternoon.

The Beijing officials, nobles, relatives and envoys who participated in this great court meeting received a fairly generous reward as usual at the end of the great court meeting.

This was also the practice of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the sacrifice to the ancestors of the Heaven and Earth Society, which needed to be distributed to the officials attending the court meeting, there was also a festival composed of silver and silk or cloth.

This is actually similar to the red envelopes that parents give to family members during the New Year.

It's just that the red envelopes sent by the Son of Heaven to officials are a little more valuable than ordinary people's homes.

The meeting of the envoys of the foreign domain, which was originally to be arranged by the Imperial Court, fell through because of the lengthy and lengthy of this imperial meeting.

After Wu Weiying's request, the meeting was postponed to the morning of the next day.

Because not only Emperor Chongzhen himself sat in the Imperial Palace for a few hours in a full set of ceremonial clothes, he was already very tired, but also those officials and envoys of foreign vassals who participated in the Great Dynasty Meeting, in such weather, running around inside and out, were already tired enough.

However, when the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Manchu Dynasty received the reward of the Zhengdan Dynasty and left the palace, everyone was full of smiles on their faces.

Even the most picky officials were satisfied with Emperor Chongzhen's reward for the whole army and the increase in income this time.

From ancient times to the present, people have always had the same and basic standard for measuring whether a family, group or dynasty is prosperous, prosperous, promising and promising.

This criterion is money.

For a family, it depends on whether you can pay the long-term workers or servants you hire.

If you are not only able to send out normally, but also continue to grow, it means that your family is running a successful and prosperous business.

For a country or a dynasty, whether you can pay your army as scheduled, and whether you can pay your officials as scheduled, is an important sign.

It is also the basic criterion for the generals and soldiers in the army, the officials of all sizes in the court, to judge whether your dynasty is worth supporting and following.

It's simple.

Just like the future generations of people running a business, raising wages is always the best means to quickly increase employee loyalty and cohesion.

For today's Ming officials, this emperor can not only prescribe a fortune, but also a fortune that can rise every once in a while, which is a thing to be happy about.

Don't care whether the rise is folded or the true color, and don't care whether it is rice or coarse grains after the rise, in short, the rise shows that the Ming Dynasty is going uphill under the governance of Emperor Chongzhen.

In other words, the Ming Dynasty is now moving towards revival and is on the right path.

Therefore, after the dispersal of the dynasty, whether it was Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the cabinet minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, or the noble relatives like the British Duke Zhang Weixian and the Dingguo Duke Xu Yunzhen, or other Beijing officials and courtiers who participated in the great court meeting, walked out of the palace gate in groups, chatted and laughed and left, and everyone was full of hope for the future.

During the Great Dynasty Meeting, Manzhu Xili, who had been waiting but had not been received, followed the officials of the Li Fan Yuan to the back, watching the Ming officials who came out of the Forbidden City talking and laughing, and once again sighed in his heart at the extraordinary Ming Dynasty, and the outline in his heart became clearer and firmer.

Faced with such a Ming Dynasty, the Horqin people should rethink their future, instead of continuing to follow the Jurchens all the way to the black land.

In the evening of the same day, the three decrees announced at the Zhengdan court meeting were posted on the wall of the newspaper outside the gate of the general government envoy in the form of a public release of the imperial court, and then caused a sensation in the city of Beijing the next day.

The common people did not know the specific rules of the imperial court's so-called amnesty for the world's prisons, rewards for the soldiers of the whole army, and the promotion of officials, nor did they care about these rules, but the themes of these three holy decrees were enough for them to talk about it after dinner.

Such a happy event, even in the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty, has not been seen for many years.

In this way, the newspaper of the General Political Envoy, which had not been publicly posted and published for a long time, quickly spread among the people of Beijing, and then spread from the Beijing Division to all directions.

Families who have joined the army are naturally very happy, because they are about to give out rewards.

Of course, it is better for someone in the family to be an official, because the emperor has increased the salary of hundreds of officials, and his true color has doubled.

And if someone in the family breaks the law and goes to prison, they also have hope and hope, after all, the emperor said that he would give amnesty to the world's prisons.

Even if there is neither a soldier nor an official in the family, let alone a prison, he is just an ordinary farmer in Beizhili, and he is equally happy to hear the good news of everyone else.

Because the large number of coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes harvested at home will soon be marketable.

In this way, starting from the second day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, with the spread of the imperial court newspaper, the inside and outside of the Beijing division soon entered the real universal celebration.

Over the past year, the southwest, southeast, Xuanda, northeast and other places of the Ming Dynasty have been plunged into wars and chaos, and the common people have long hoped for peace and a stable life.

Now the northwest of the Ming Dynasty heard that it was chaotic again, but the land of Gyeonggi, the Central Plains, and the south of the Yangtze River was still stable after all, and the emperor was amnesty to the world, and it was to reward the whole army, and it was to give hundreds of officials a big increase.