As Zhu Zilong threw money everywhere, sold officials, built momentum through newspapers, and had the support of the queen. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The big thing is decided!

Many local officials and businessmen associated with the Fan family and others have gradually been marginalized and become scapegoats for some. The interest groups behind them, weighing the pros and cons, have given up on them.

Even out of the consideration of killing people, he wished that Zhu Zilong would kill them.

In the rest of the Ming Dynasty, everyone is also in the same place. This is the wind of tense, which is really hateful, pitiful, and ridiculous!

When nearly 20 million taels of silver were sent to the capital, there were tens of thousands of carriages of supplies. (Zhu Zilong's private collection of more) The cabinet elders and the members of the six ministries were all red-eyed all of a sudden.

Not only do they want to be greedy, but many honest officials are also jealous, because they haven't paid their salaries for two or three years.

That's right, it's true.

Just like in later generations in China, some bosses owed their workers wages. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has also been in arrears with the salaries of some officials for a long time.

If someone told you that in ancient times, when you were an official and became a third-class officer, you would be poor, and your salary would not be enough for the whole family's expenses, you would definitely think it was ridiculous.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it was true.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty often "cried poor" and said that their fortune was "the thinnest". Even the compiler of the Qing Dynasty's "History of the Ming Dynasty" held grievances for the officials of the Ming Dynasty, saying that "since ancient times, there has been no such thing as a thin official."

So, how much salary did the officials of the Ming Dynasty have if they were not considered gray income?

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, stipulated the salary level of officials: Zhengyi product, 87 stone per month; From one product, seventy-four stones; Zheng 2 pin, 61 stones; From the second grade, forty-eight stones; Zheng three products, thirty-five stones; From the third grade, twenty-six stones.

four products, twenty-four stones; From the four grades, twenty-one stones; positive five products, 16 stones; From five pins, fourteen stones; is six products, ten stones; From six pins, eight stones; is seven products, seven stones and five buckets; From the seven pins, the seven stones; Eight products, six stones and five buckets.

From eight pins, six stones; is nine products, five stones and five buckets; From nine pins and five stones.

In this provision, grain is used as the unit of measurement for the stipulation. In addition to grain, officials are also issued a certain amount of banknotes according to their grades - "Daming Pass Treasure Bank"!

If it is really calculated according to the standard stipulated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the income of Ming Dynasty officials is not much lower than that of the previous generation.

Even a county official receives seven stones of rice every month, which is enough for expenses.

But yes, but here it is.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was a cheating father, stipulated that the salary of officials should not change, that is to say, it will be this standard after one year, ten years later, and still after a hundred years.

However, prices in the market fluctuate.

For example, in the past, pork cost one yuan per kilogram, but ten years later, it has risen to ten yuan per kilogram, and your TM salary is still fixed. If you are engaged in wool, you are not corrupt, and no official can get mixed up.

The first assistant of the cabinet during the Tianshun period, Li Xian (a first-class official, equivalent to the prime minister of the country)

It is said that after receiving his own money, "the daily expenses are only ten days", and a month's income is only enough for ten days' expenses. Therefore, if you want to be an honest official in the Ming Dynasty, you must have lived a very hard life.

Think about it, the prime minister of a country, the salary paid to his hand can only be used for ten days, it is extremely scary to think about it.

Therefore, ten officials and nine greed were also forced by Zhu Yuanzhang. He became the emperor at the end of the day, do you really think how high is he as an emperor?

What's even more deplorable is that the emperor behind him really implemented Zhu Yuanzhang's rules seriously.

Moreover, playing the hand of arrears of wages is simply the most angry emperor in Chinese history.

So, the officials and the emperor were opposed.

Of course, this does not mean that the DPRK officials should be corrupt.

In addition to the fact that the salary of the old Zhu family is too small, there are also institutional reasons.

Zhu Yuanzhang was an angry young man when he was young, and his verbal shouting was ineffective, so he simply participated in the revolutionary riot and won the country in one fell swoop. Because he has been harmed by corrupt officials since he was a child, after ascending to the emperor's throne, the first thing he did was to fight against corrupt officials, which is enough to see his resentment of corrupt officials.

At first, he did not open the killing ring, but talked to the officials individually: "I teach first and then punish, not punish without teaching." If you don't listen to me and insist on being greedy, there is only one way to die. ”

However, to a later date.

He was killed, and he embezzled 60 taels of silver (4,200 yuan), and all of them were executed.

He was also severely punished with torture such as picking tendons, cutting off fingers, cutting knees, and cutting off hands (these criminal laws can be used for 2,000 yuan). What's more, (those who embezzled more than 100,000 yuan) launched the torture of "peeling the skin and grass"!

These measures were elaborate and really played a role at the time.

But soon, the officials relaxed their outlook on life, and the torture did not work.

Why is this so?

It is because the officials who read under the feudal system do not treat the people as human beings at all, and the cost of reading is too high.

Think about it, they thought that they were "people who studied hard for ten years and no one knew them, and once they became famous all over the world", they finally became officials, and lower-level officials began to praise and coax them, and their self-desires swelled, and they boasted of being "parents officials".

So, I'm your parents, rightfully eat and drink you, right?

Over time, corruption flourished. only provoked Lao Zhu to sigh: "Why don't you kill and commit a crime in the twilight."

In other words, under the feudal system, the fight against corruption will never succeed. Because the emperor himself is the biggest corrupt official, he embezzled the whole world, and everyone's property is his.

Officials also follow his example, how can they be fair, open, just, and honest. That's just a show by a few officials!

But then again, even if you are a garbage official, if you are the emperor, you will be paid on time.

Two or three years in arrears, what's the matter?

At this moment, nearly 20 million taels of silver have entered Beijing, you say that these officials are not red-eyed, who is red-eyed?

The officials of the household department hoped that more would be paid into the state treasury, so that the urgent need of the treasury could be solved, and those physical goods could also be converted into a part of the silver and handed over. After all, Daming is now up and down, and there are too many places to use money.

The officials of the other ministries also watched with different purposes.

Thousands of miles of officials only seek wealth, from ancient times to the present, there is no change in this regard. What serves the people, have you woken up?

Regarding the robbery of the wealth of the family, in addition to the selfish profit sharing of each person, how much should be kept in the locality, and how much should be handed over to the court? This is the focus of repeated contention.

For a time, every morning court, the music was arguing. Every day comes and goes, but the postal staff of the Ming Dynasty are busy!

It is estimated that this time I am busy for money, and in the officialdom of Daming, there will be no half a year or a year, and it will be inexhaustible.

Alas!

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