Economic Field. With the comprehensive development of enlightenment education and primary education, the literacy rate and quality of believers have been improved by leaps and bounds, coupled with the rapid innovation of production tools, the production efficiency has been significantly improved.

Under the fierce market competition, the major chambers of commerce are changing the old and bringing forth the new, all kinds of products are diversifying, the market has been further subdivided, and the products have initially shown a trend of a hundred flowers blooming. The division of labor in production has been further refined, driving the economy to develop rapidly with a gratifying momentum.

The completion of the construction of the Grand Canal in Yan, Qingdao and Xu has promoted the prosperity of commerce to a certain extent. A large number of important river ports such as Jinan Guoluokou Caoyun Port and Yanzhou Yutai Port have been formed, accompanied by a large number of local markets. The scene is booming.

In the field of political and organizational construction, a political system has been formed, with the imperial court as the main body, the church organization as the auxiliary, and the two-pronged political system of government affairs and religious affairs. In a sense, the court and the church are quite like two political parties, they complement each other in the process of daily management, and at the same time, the church assumes the responsibility of supervising the court at all levels, and the court officials at all levels can convey the operation of the local church to Luan Yi, who is also the head of the church and a member of the court, so as to check each other.

In this way, the atmosphere of corruption in the officialdom in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was greatly reversed, and the breeding of corruption was curbed.

Of course, there are also cases where local officials and church clergy are in collusion and work for women. For example, Sun Hao, the Shou of Donglai County, and Zhang Yi, the Archbishop of Donglai, jointly embezzled and embezzled the "Fengxian Yin" donated by local believers, used public funds for private purposes, and forcibly occupied land from local people with the help of their powers.

Whether it is in his past life or in this life, Luan Yi has a deep hatred for corrupt officials and corrupt officials. He has never been soft on such servants and officials.

On the one hand, he increased the punishment of Han Law for the crime of embezzlement and bribery. Upgrading embezzlement and bribery to a felony equivalent to homicide, and one person embezzles, and the whole family sits together. Whether it is a corrupt official or a bribe-taker, he will be decided. His family members were reduced to slaves and servants, and they were not allowed to return to civilian life; Excommunication, not allowed to enter the church for less than three generations.

For the world, a lifetime of servitude as a slave and a servant is miserable enough. And not being able to enter the church means that you will not have a chance to go to heaven after death, and you will sink into hell for the rest of your life, which is more cruel to the believers of Our Lady than to kill them.

It can be seen that the punishment of this law is not weak.

On the other hand, he further refined the definition of corruption in Han Law, and regarded the act of accepting more than 100 cents or gifts of equivalent value as embezzlement and bribery. At the same time, he knows that according to the current custom, it is too strict and a little hasty. As a stopgap measure, he relaxed the requirements slightly, stating that officials could receive a small amount of gifts during weddings, funerals, birthdays, and other periods, but he also quantified the number of gifts received during weddings, funerals, and birthdays. Requirements: When the three dukes, the highest-ranking officials of the cardinal category, and the servants of the gods hold a banquet at the beginning of the wedding, funeral, and birthday festival, the number of participants shall not exceed 100. The number of gifts received shall not exceed 100 pieces, and the average price of each piece shall not exceed 3,000 yuan.

At the end of the feast, the family is required to report the details of the order to the Church Supervision Office, which will be reviewed by the clergy under the supervising bishop Jia Xu. If the specified amount is exceeded, the excess amount must be returned to the giver. Those who are ordered to return the money and refuse to execute it within 30 days shall be punished as the crime of embezzlement.

At last. The income of Han officials has been very low for hundreds of years, and with Jiuqing as a benefit, the annual income is only 2,000 stone corn. Based on the price of 40 yuan of rice, it is estimated that it is 80,000 yuan a year, which is equal to 80 yuan. And a seventh-level craftsman earns at least 100 yuan a year.

Jiuqing's income is not as good as that of a seventh-level craftsman, so he can't say anything. Jiuqing is still like this, not to mention the county-level officials at the bottom, the annual income of two or three hundred stones is not enough to support the family, so it is strange not to borrow power and corruption to be corrupt.

Therefore, the low level of official income is another source of corruption.

Therefore, Luan Yi's first decree in the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan was to raise the salaries of all court officials, and in addition to paying the traditional rice taels every year, he used holy coupons as a medium to issue salaries equivalent to rice salaries, which was what he called honest silver.

Taking Jiuqing as an example, their original salary was only 2,000 stone corn, but after they had the incorruptible silver, they could get 80 yuan worth of incorruptible silver while receiving 2,000 stone corn every year. As a result, the income doubled, catching up with the eighth-level craftsman. The increase in the income of local and county-level officials, coupled with regular benefits, is not a problem at all to feed a large family.

In the Second Five-Year Plan of the Church of Our Lady promulgated in the sixth year of the Holy Dynasty, the synchronization of governance and rationality and the elimination of corruption were only one of the goals. In addition, while consolidating the achievements of the first five-year plan, there are also new actions.

For example, as mentioned above, the wide trade route from Jinan through Yanzhou to Runan County in Yuzhou.

Besides......

Since the third year of Han Yanxi (160 AD), the smoke of gunpowder in the vast land of the Han Dynasty has not been extinguished, Taishan peasant uprising, Changsha and Lingling barbarian anti-Han, Guiyang peasant uprising, Zhu Gai, Hulan uprising, Yellow Turban uprising...... There are all kinds of them, not to mention the current melee of the princes.

Man-made disasters have never stopped, and natural disasters have never stopped. The Yellow River, the mother river of Chinese civilization, while nourishing generations of Chinese children, also regularly demonstrates its violent side. In the past 20 years, there have been four floods, flooding countless fertile fields, tens of thousands of people directly killed by the floods, hundreds of thousands of people displaced after the floods, and direct economic losses of tens of millions of yuan. In addition to floods, severe droughts in Qingdao and Henan prefectures have led to a significant reduction in grain and grass production......

Natural disasters continue to occur, resulting in a significant reduction in the population. According to incomplete statistics from the Church of Our Lady, in the short period of 13 years from the first year of Zhongping to the fifth year of Shengyuan, more than 500,000 households were lost in Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Jinan, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou, about 3 million people died in war or famine, and more than 200,000 people left their homeland to escape disasters in other places.

This situation has been relatively under control since the entry of the Notre Dame Church into Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yanzhou, but the death rate of the Han Chinese will remain high for years to come, as the war continues and will continue for a long time.

Luan Yi is well aware of the important role of population in promoting the development of power. To this end, in the Second Five-Year Plan of the Church of Notre Dame, he proposed a series of policies and strategies to "encourage fertility" in the major dioceses.

According to his plan, starting from the sixth year of the Holy Dynasty, all couples who have lived in the diocese for more than three years will be able to enjoy the benefits of the childbirth encouragement policy. After the birth of a child, the family of a boy or a woman receives a monthly voucher of four pieces of fine corn or a face value of 20 wen from the local government, and every week before the age of two can go to the local church to receive a small jar of goat's or mare's milk.

Although it may not seem like much, it is enough for an ordinary family in a parish to pay half of the cost of raising a baby. And this number will increase as the child gets older.

At the age of five, the benefits are doubled to a bucket of corn or 40 cents, which is enough for an adult for a month.

Teenagers over the age of 12 are no longer entitled to the benefits of the policy, and the local government has stopped paying them welfare money and food. For Dahan, a twelve-year-old boy can already do many things for the family, and he can support himself.

As soon as the policy of encouraging childbirth was proposed, it was immediately unanimously approved by both the imperial court and the church. But at the same time, there are also many people who have raised doubts.

The crux of the question is only one word - money.

The first to question was none other than Luan Yi's father-in-law, Situ Wang Yun. At the New Year's court, he spoke freely for more than an hour, first stating that the policy of encouraging childbirth is indeed a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but at the same time he also made it clear that he did not support its implementation. The specific reasons he gave were roughly as follows:

Obviously, a large sum of money will be spent on the successful implementation of the policy of encouraging childbirth. And this money will increase year after year with the increase of the implementation year, until the first beneficiaries of the first batch of childbearing encouragement will reach the age of 12 after 12 years, and the expenditure will become normalized, at this time the corresponding annual expenditure has also reached a peak, and its amount can be described as sky-high.

The current imperial court can't make ends meet year after year, and such a large sum of money, don't say that it can't be taken out, even if the situation improves, the money and grain are very reluctant, which is a big burden. Instead of spending money on this, it is better to do something good for the people through other means.

Wang Yun's statement has been agreed by many people, and even Luan Yi has to admit that the shortage of money and food is now the biggest problem he faces.

Yang Biao came out at the right time and said: "The emptiness of the treasury is indeed true. But......" He glanced at Luan Yi and said, "The treasury is empty, but the church has money!" Ziqi, can you let the church fund to encourage people to have children? ”

"No way!" Luan Yi shook his head in opposition without hesitation.

As Yang Biao said, the good men and women of the diocese donate a lot of money to the church every year. In addition, there are many industries under the church, such as the Luanjia Chamber of Commerce and Shengtian, which have brought huge benefits to the church.

However, although the church has a lot of income, it also costs a lot. Not to mention the expenditure of the local church on supporting the poor, the military expenditure consumed by successive wars alone is astronomical.

In general, the church has no extra money to pay for encouraging the people to have children.

Luan Yi explained the church's lack of money to everyone, which caused everyone to sigh for a while.

"That'...... It's not going to be easy! Yang Biao stroked his beard helplessly and returned to his original position.

Qingzhou Thorn Shi Lu Bu hesitated a little and said, "Isn't it just a lack of money?" Why don't Ziqi let the church print more holy coupons, so that there will be no money? ”