Chapter 259: Prologue (5)
"See what I'm doing?"
Gong Dingyu took a look at the sun and smiled at everyone: "Without the prince's edict, I dare to announce the number of military supplies allocated at will?" I'm talking about you, even if it's those officials and subordinates of this department, if you want to know the detailed figures, are the people in the Secret Bureau eating dry food? Tang Qilong and Chen Hongfan were all caught and arrested, we people are better to be honest. Besides, Chen Baishi, you dare to announce the details of the seizure and the details of the beheading? Fang Mi jumped to his feet in a hurry, his battle report was brilliantly written, there were no detailed figures, and people dared to point to his nose and say that it was a forgery! ”
Of course, what he said was a joke, the people who followed the crown prince in front of him had to be a deputy chief at worst, all of them were high-ranking officials dressed in vermilion purple, and when they were young and cutting-edge, and they were dedicated to serving the country, everyone was busy with their feet, and at this time, they could relax a little and adjust their nervous nerves.
Gong Dingyu is just pretending to be amazing.
During this period, he, the quartermaster of the Quartermaster Department, slept for two hours at most every day, his face was dry and thin, and he was almost out of shape, and now he looked like Chen Zilong a few months ago.
The camp divisions are also joking, the crown prince employs people, I am afraid that in the end, they will use people like this, so that they can be regarded as the right ones to pay.
The Houlu method, which imitated Wang Anshi's reform in the Song Dynasty, has also been tried in Qingjiang.
It's just a slight difference, Wang Anshi's focus is not on the officials, in fact, the officials of the Song Dynasty are too generous, especially to achieve four or more grades, to feed a family of 100 and then buy thousands of acres of fertile land, there is no problem at all.
As for the position of ruler, then there is no need to worry about future generations.
The Song people are in charge, and the income on the bright side can at least throw off the Ming Dynasty cabinet scholars for at least a hundred streets!
Therefore, most of the doctors of Song Zhishi have a backbone but not a party. This is absolutely different from Ming.
Of course, the style of the Ming Dynasty is not bad, but many of them are above forming parties, or only targeting the emperor and not their colleagues, or not daring to damage the interests of the group, such as the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party, or the struggle between the civil officials and Sejong or Shenzong, and so on.
Like the Song Dynasty doctors, the atmosphere of purely starting from state affairs and putting state affairs first was really rare in the Ming Dynasty.
Naturally, there were also party disputes in the late Song Dynasty, but they were not quite the same as the Ming Dynasty, and they seemed to be the same, but they were actually far from each other.
As for Zhu Cihong's Houlu method, it is the integration of officials and officials.
After the reign of the new officials in Qingjiang, the number of officials has been greatly reduced, and the situation of those century-old families of officials controlling the localities, colluding with the gentry to hold local officials hostage, and controlling local government affairs will never happen again.
And it is not possible to only tell the horses to run, but not to give them grass to eat.
Officials, such as the first level of Si Zheng, originally according to the imperial court's standard of Yulu, was only less than 400 stone a year, converted into silver, according to the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River is only less than 200 taels of silver, of course, there was no such thing as Qi Yulu, folding money, folding things, and only less than 100 taels of silver and more than 100 stone grains really arrived.
Like Hai Rui's age is more than 100 years ago, he can receive 23 taels of silver and some food items at a time, and it is difficult to support himself, not to mention the expenses of personal contacts and official expenses.
Zhu Cihong's handwriting is very large, and now there is no shortage of silver or food in Qingjiang, and each department has a certain amount of minister's money, such as an occasional meal, or the purchase of official goods, or some overtime pay or something, all of which are from the minister's money.
Of course, this money is not used casually, and it will be reported at the end of the year.
As for human relations, the most popular autumn wind in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is also the source of officialdom [***], and it is also the root cause for officials to form interest groups, divide their interests from each other, and confront the imperial power.
As for personal money, it is divided into two types: physical goods and silver.
In the silver taels, each division has an actual payment of 600 yuan per year, which is also the annual salary of 300,000 yuan in later generations according to the price of grain.
It seems like a lot, but if it is linked to the ability and prestige of these people, it is not much.
In terms of physical goods, according to different grades, each official will be issued in kind differently every quarter.
There are two kinds of grain, rice and wheat, which are distributed twice a year, both of which are 120 stones, and then there are charcoal fires, silk, cloth, herbs and other materials, which are also distributed according to different seasons and different grades.
Zhu Cihong hopes that in the future under his rule, the officials will have real loyalty and centripetal force to the dynasty, this kind of thing should also be reflected in the details, every year when winter is approaching, each official can receive a hundred catties or a thousand catties of charcoal, this feeling, I am afraid than the discovery of silver is a little more intimate.
Even the Yuan Sui family servant, this layer has also learned a lot from the Song Dynasty.
Each division can be assigned seven yuan by the state to be responsible for security, chores, account book management, etc.
The state is also responsible for the issuance of its money.
Of course, whether there are people from the Secret Service of the Military Intelligence Department or people from the Department of Integrity and Integrity among them, this has to be said.
In short, under the Houlu Law, the actual income of officials increased at least tenfold, and this range also included ordinary officials.
As long as the good officials who have not been dismissed will be able to get much more benefits than the previous corruption and fraud under this heavy law.
As soon as this method came out, the world immediately attracted attention.
Originally, after the abolition of the two yuan and the change of yuan, the fire was exhausted and returned to the public, coupled with the matter of centigold commercial tax and silk payment, the crown prince was already standing on the cusp.
A month ago, Gao Hongtu, the head of the household, categorically concluded that Zhu Cihong, the crown prince, was afraid that he would not be in power.
The attack of the public [***] words, and Emperor Chongzhen has never been a person who is determined to ignore public opinion.
Many things in the Ming Dynasty were caused by the emperor's insistence on things that should not be insisted on, but a weak attitude on things that should be insisted on.
At least, in the eyes of many people, Chongzhen has gone far enough to indulge the crown prince to this point, and it is difficult to predict what is going on at the bottom.
But as soon as the Houlu Law came out, the world was suddenly silent.
The Ming officials are too thin, and the origin of this discussion is not the same.
The key lies in Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.
Lao Zhu was born as a farmer, and he was reluctant to give up the money of those officials, while the fourth master of Zhu Di was a ruthless character, with a steel knife in his hand, he just wanted you to sell your life and not give money.
In Zhu Di's era, there were a lot of things to reward Ming treasure banknotes and fold spices to become officials, which formed a fine tradition, and the officials who were not generous were stopped from everything, coupled with rising prices, public expenses such as hiring masters, officials were not corrupt and had gray income, and the result was that they could only become a pervert who couldn't afford to eat meat like Hai Rui.
After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu summed up a lot of things, the key sentence of which is to complain that the official salary is too low, Gu bluntly said that since ancient times, the thinness of the official salary has not exceeded that of this dynasty.
He never thought that after the Ming Dynasty, there would be such a strange thing as the Qing Dynasty, and the official Yulu would be discounted by seven percent.
Of course, this kind of thing can't be done for a long time, even with the backing of the Eight Banners Armed Forces Group, the middle of the Qing Dynasty still came out with a system of raising incorruptible silver, otherwise, it will not be able to play.
The official was the elite of the people at that time, and tens of millions of people squeezed a single-plank bridge, and if he succeeded, of course, he had the side of implementing his political ambitions, helping the people and benefiting the country, and normal people would be like this.
But he has to support his wife and children, repay his parents and family, if you don't give it, he will definitely figure it out by himself.
As soon as the Ming Dynasty was low, many problems were born from this, and the officials were even lower, and there was no way to make progress, which simply encouraged the officials to be corrupt and corrupt, and there was nothing more stupid than this.
As soon as the Houlu Law came out, the world lost its voice, and the discussion of the crown prince's courage in private was very loud, and it was almost everything.
But this kind of thing, people of insight know that as long as it comes out, it will never be stopped.
Even the most unlucky officials dare not speak out against this kind of thing. Whoever speaks out against it will not be able to get along with the officials or officials of the whole world, and will not only be unlucky for himself, but will also bring disaster to his children and grandchildren in the future!
It has already begun to be implemented here in Qingjiang, and all officials will receive their monthly salaries at the end of October, and because the weather is getting cooler, the lowest officials can receive 12 catties of charcoal, and the highest officials can receive as many as 1,000 catties.
The matter was first reported by the Jiangbei News Division, then Nanjing, the Jiangnan area, and then to Huguang and Yungui, and from mid-September to early October, the whole world had heard about it.
In addition to the Houlu Law, the reform of administrative laws such as the regulations on clean government, local administrative norms, and the criminal sub-division is also under discussion.
The major affairs of the imperial court are invisibly discussed by people, and this layer alone, the crown prince's broad-mindedness and magnanimity are admirable.
Coupled with the recent war reports, the Ming army rarely took an offensive against the Qing army, although they were mainly small-scale battles, but it is undeniable that this was the only time when the Ming army took an offensive in the decades after Nuerhachi raised troops during the Wanli period!
At this moment, the crown prince's prestige is high, and it is also unparalleled for a while.
"You Gong Xiaosheng don't talk about me yet," Chen Mingxia glanced at Gong Dingxiao and sneered: "The Military and Political Department didn't report the details, but it was just to review, don't make jokes." Now that a lot of war horses and weapons and armor have been reported, and most of the heads have been sent over, you see, within a few days, Fang Mizhi will have to smile crookedly. ”
Everyone sighed, and there were many who were envious.
Originally, everyone was talented, and they were all talented people in Jiangnan, but Fang Yizhi asked for a good errand, and a group of comrades from the Restoration Society were stationed in various places, and they started writing news every day.
(To be continued)