Guo Zhiyi, a hundred households in Jinyi, stood in front of the commander Luo Yangxing, and he was uncomfortable. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info There is a saying that the current official is not as good as the current management, Luo Yangxing is not only bigger than Guo Zhiyi, but also the top leader of their Jinyiwei. This can't help but make him have a deep awe of Luo Yangxing.

Even so, before being sent out on a dangerous mission, Guo Zhiyi still had the audacity to say that he had difficulties to command the adults to solve. Fortunately, the commander was in a good mood today, and he didn't care that he was suspected of taking the opportunity to blackmail, and happily asked him to tell what was going on.

"Can the commander ask the yamen to advance my salary for a few months? It may take me a long time to go, and there is no rice at home. Guo Zhiyi said in a low voice.

"Haha! No problem, I'll let them advance your salary for a year first, and then you can ask the master to receive a hundred taels of silver, which is considered a gift from me, and everyone who participates in the action will be rewarded after the deed. Luo Yangxing couldn't help laughing when he heard Guo Zhiyi's words, he saw Guo Zhiyi's submissive appearance, and thought that he would make some difficult requirements. But it turned out to be a matter of early payment of salary. Although Luo Yangxing loves money, he really doesn't care about the small amount of salary.

When it comes to the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty, the bigger ones can be called Yulu, which is also a strange existence in history. The standard of Ming Dynasty officials was first formulated by the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born in poverty, and he hated corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he himself thought that these officials were not good people, so they should not be given too much money. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the settlement was made by distributing rice and grain. At that time, a county ordered an annual salary of 90 stone rice, that is, 12,744 catties of rice. Considering that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, people generally did not have enough to eat, which was actually a lot, so the low salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were really not good to carry by Lao Zhu.

It's strange that in the future, Lao Zhu's descendants didn't expect to increase the salary of officials, and this salary standard did not change much until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, rice was hard currency, and it was good for officials to receive rice on time. Later, after the capital of the Ming Dynasty moved to Beijing, due to the departure of the grain-producing area, the court tried to find a way to send less rice, and nearly half of the official's rice could not be obtained and was converted into silk cloth, cotton cloth, and even some small things by the emperor. Sometimes a part of the Ming treasure banknotes was issued to replace rice and silver, and later the treasure banknotes went bankrupt, which was the same as waste paper.

Moreover, the officials' salaries were not specifically used to support their families. The state does not pay salaries to the staff and staff of each official, and they have to rely on the officials themselves to support them. If you rely only on the money given by the state, it will be difficult for low-level officials to survive. High-ranking officials can't maintain a luxurious life, and officials can only figure out their own ways. Most of the actual income of the magistrates came from the interception of local taxes, which is commonly known as "fire consumption", and a lot of the income of the Beijing officials came from the gifts of the magistrates. And low-level Jinyi guards like Guo Zhiyi can only collude with local underworld forces to extort merchants in the areas under their jurisdiction.

Guo Zhiyi is kind-hearted, not as ruthless as others, and he can not get much extra income, so the whole family has a difficult life, and they often can't make ends meet. This time, I was sent to Shanxi to carry out such a dangerous mission, and I don't know when I will come back. This made Guo Zhiyi very embarrassed, and after a long time, the family might be cut off. That's why he had the audacity to ask Luo Yangxing for a few months' salary first. Unexpectedly, Luo Yangxing not only agreed this time, but also rewarded him with a hundred taels of silver, how could this not make Guo Zhiyi grateful.

"Thank you to the commander, the little one must do his best to do the errand well, and live up to the trust of the commander." Guo Zhiyi immediately crawled on the ground and kowtowed to Luo Yang to thank him.

"Come on, remember my words, do this errand well, you are the hero of Jinyiwei, and you can't run away from being promoted and making a fortune after the deed. When you go, you must find out the number of thieves in Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, who the leader is, and all the circumstances related to the thieves. Report the situation directly to me, and you don't have to inform your superiors. Your departure from Beijing and other circumstances must also be kept secret, and no one else must know about it. This must be remembered. Luo Yangxing finally advised. This Jinyiwei's action must not be known to the ministers in the court, otherwise it will make noise to the emperor again, and the emperor changed his mind without seeing the results, and the Jinyiwei will really be finished.

"Yes, I'll be careful." Guo Zhiyi kowtowed and retreated, but Luo Yangxing did not forget his words, and ordered the servant to take a hundred taels of silver and give it to Guo Zhiyi.

Guo Zhiyi walked out of the Jinyi Wei Yamen with the silver, and his heart was very complicated.

Zhu Yuanzhang designed a series of hereditary systems such as military households and artisan households for the Ming Dynasty, although there are various drawbacks, the advantages are also obvious, and it ensures the specialization of all walks of life. Guo Zhiyi knew that his fate was linked to Jinyiwei since he was born. He is very loyal to the emperor, and he is also very sad about the decline of Jinyiwei, and he is in his thirties, and he has been in the position of a hundred households for fifteen years, and if he has no chance, this life will be over. He decided to seize this opportunity to fight and change his whole life.

However, Guo Zhiyi is still relatively well-informed about the news of Jinyiwei, and he has heard about the situation of the thieves. Shaanxi and Shanxi are full of hungry people, and they have reached the point of cannibalism. Thieves are everywhere, and swords and swords are everywhere. When you get there, you may be killed by thieves or eaten by hungry people. Thinking of this, Guo Zhiyi also felt a chill in his heart.

Guo Zhiyi stopped, raised his head to look at the sky of the capital, and shook his head vigorously, if it wasn't for the fear of being regarded as a mental illness by others, he really wanted to shout a few times on the street, and he finally made up his mind that he must do this errand well. How can a person have to experience so much suffering in his life, the unchanged life in the past few years is about to drive Guo Zhiyi crazy, the family lives on his meager salary, often eats the last meal without the next meal, and watches the colleagues who joined the company in the yamen continue to be promoted, and he will be ridiculed by them if he does not move, compared to the danger of these trips.

Through the command envoy personally assigned tasks to himself, coupled with Luo Yang's solemn appearance, Guo Zhiyi understood that this matter was important, but this could also be an opportunity for a turning point in his life.

Guo Zhiyi checked the silver bag in his hand, and his heart became steady, his family will not be hungry in the near future, and he will make his family's life better through his own struggle. (To be continued.) )