When Fusang Dongying is in full swing!

On the day of the beginning of winter, the new Beijing Division, the Forbidden City of Nanjing, the new and old driver's palace. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Minister, Sun Chuanting knocks on my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" In the palace, in front of hundreds of officials, Sun Chuanting was too chaotic due to the current situation and inconvenient transportation, and he was unable to find him many times, and this time he was finally summoned to Nanjing.

After a long time, the slightly tired voice of Emperor Apocalypse (Zhu Zilong's emperor clone) came from above: "I want to destroy the remnants of the thieves and the Eastern Slaves, how many soldiers and horses do you need?" ”

Hearing the emperor's reuse words, Sun Chuanting raised his head suddenly.

Years of experience in the work, in his eyes, the original unconcealed proud sharpness seems to be deeply introverted and latent, and it is becoming more and more mature.

He thought for a moment and replied in a loud voice: "If you want to break the thieves, you must have 30,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers and millions of food!" ”

If it was a few years ago, not to mention millions of food, even hundreds of thousands, the state would not have been able to take it.

However, the last few years have been different.

Aside from the emperor's and Zhu Zilong's temperament, he first received Li Zicheng's wealth and grain and grass in the capital. Then, according to the plan, he borrowed the hand of Haoge to wash the wealth of the Donglin Party and the major landlords in Jiangnan in blood.

The so-called wine strengthens the hero's courage, and this money naturally strengthens the emperor's courage.

As long as the problem can be solved safely and can be solved with money, can it be regarded as a thing?

So, in response to Lao Sun's request, Zhu Zilong's emperor clone waved his hand, not only asking for money, but also distributing it in full. He was also promoted to the governor of the capital, a united front party.

gave money and officials, and sent away the old grandson.

Zhu Zilong's doppelganger of the emperor, according to the staff team, worked out in person for a few days, and designed a plan to improve the national bank and officials.

The day at this time.

The sky is covered with light snow, sometimes tight and sometimes falling slowly.

On the eaves of the Nanjing Cultural Palace, it is white. The room was warm, the charcoal fire was burning red, the delicate hot pot was boiling, steaming, and there was a little wine on the copper rack next to it.

Wen Tiren, who was wrapped in a fur coat, and other new cabinet ministers were in a good mood.

As if looking at the emperor's central decree plan, when it was written about raising the salaries of officials and the contents of the schedule, he sometimes commented a few words, which was very pleasant.

I can't help but be happy, how many years. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, the official salaries of Ming officials have never been raised.

Gu Yanwu, a famous thinker in the Ming Dynasty, once lamented that "since ancient times, hundreds of officials have been thin, and there has never been such a thing."

In August of the 25th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang promulgated an anti-corruption textbook called "A Brief Record of Awakening Corruption". This textbook records in detail the theoretical basis for Zhu Yuanzhang to formulate the salary standards of officials.

In the Ming Dynasty, the official of Zhengyipin was 57 stones per month. A stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty is about 155 catties now, and the annual salary is about 200,000 yuan according to the current value of 2 yuan per catty.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhengyipin officials were equivalent to the current prime minister and vice premier, and the annual salary of more than 200,000 yuan for the prime minister of a big country could not be considered high.

In the 21st century in the future, imagine that the prime minister's annual income is only more than 200,000 yuan, which is not as good as a repair mechanic.

Even the prime minister of the country only has an annual income of more than 200,000 yuan, so it is conceivable that the county order of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the prefect, or something, how much the income was gratifying. It can be described as unbearable, and it is not an exaggeration at all.

You must know that being an official and doing business in China basically depends on connections and connections.

This is no different in the Hereafter!

Think about it, you are an official, and your salary is pitiful. It sounds good to say, but in fact, life is just barely enough to eat!

However, if an official wants to be promoted, he must have a good relationship between his colleagues and his superiors, and the cost of favors between officials is the biggest expense of officials in ancient times. There are also hired servants, palanquin drivers, maids, and the master's staff, which were paid by the officials themselves in the Ming Dynasty.

There are also some scholars who rely on their families to support them, and they must also support their clansmen after becoming officials. Otherwise, they will say that your character is not good, which will be scolded by others at most in the future life. But in ancient times, it would have been terrible!

In addition, the Ming Dynasty officials' fortunes were issued in three parts: silver, treasure banknotes, and rice, of which the treasure banknotes were seriously shrunk. His calculations are difficult to even satisfy the family's food and clothing.

Of course, if you insist that the whole family of an official only needs to eat, and goes out bare-chested without clothes (so you save other expenses except for eating), then it is also a statement.

It's just, in that case, still be a fart official?

According to the bad rules, all the expenses of the yamen are borne by the shopkeepers---- of course, this is an ugly rule, Hai Rui is famous for anti-bad rules, because ......

Modern scholars often claim that the Ming Dynasty only needed 1.5 taels to maintain a family's life for a year, which is actually unrealistic. Especially in the late Ming Dynasty!

Taking the poor life of the Ming Dynasty as an example, the military tun household (about 50 acres) has a burden of 12 stone of tuntian grain and 12 stone of grain for inspection, the latter is the ration of a family of 4 in the military tun household.

Military households serving in the guard are considered pure service, which is used to offset the tax benefits they receive in the military family of origin ---so the military household in the guard is regarded as a pure pawn and does not receive a salary but only rations).

The basic living expenses of a family of four are 12 stones a month, and even in the early Ming Dynasty, they need at least about 4-5 taels of silver!

None of the officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived on Yulu, and if they lived strictly on Yulu (like Hai Rui), they would really starve to death. It's best to barely mix one, and the living conditions are similar to those of the bankers.

Hai Rui only bought 2 catties of meat for his mother's birthday, which is a joke in officialdom, but it is a true portrayal of the life of ordinary farmers (small landlords).

Therefore, in order to make a living, the officials of the Ming Dynasty could only be corrupt in the past, and even if they could kill their heads, they could not stop it.

(If this kind of official environment, if you change me, I will also be corrupt!) ）

If we want to reduce the existence of corrupt officials as much as possible, only a good system can be done slowly.

As a traveler for later generations, Zhu Zilong knows that he must take care of his subordinates, so that officials do not want to be greedy, cannot be greedy, and dare not be greedy. This requires the improvement of the system!

First, the so-called lack of greed: a large part of the difficulties can be solved by improving the treatment of officials.

It's like Bao Qingtian in the Song Dynasty, do you really think he doesn't want to be corrupt? People's legal salary income is as high as 10 million yuan a year, and it is necessary to embezzle?

Second, the so-called "no corruption": this requires a restraint mechanism so that officials cannot be corrupt. For example, the implementation of the family property declaration system!

Third, the so-called dare not be corrupt: it is necessary to make corruption high-risk.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang's killing, killing, killing. This is actually good, but he didn't do it at the same time, and the first two did it too.

Of course, you may say that there is no cure, and high salaries and incorruptibility are also palliatives rather than cures, and killing is also palliative.

However, is there a better way to do it within the human social system?

------ (To be continued.) )