Within a few days, the fifteen-day pilgrimage began again. And the civil and military officials of Chang'an have come up one after another, and according to Jingwen's estimate, this time he also proposed the use of the last five percent of the highway income, which is related to the income of the Qing officials across the country, so I can't ignore it!

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have something to say, just say it." Li Shimin didn't talk too much nonsense, and said it directly.

Jingwen immediately went out of work and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." ”

"Speak!" Li Shimin said.

Jingwen immediately said: "Your Majesty, during the ordinary inspection, the ministers found that many middle and low-level officials in the imperial court were living a relatively hard life. Especially for the officials of the eighth and ninth grades, the money of the imperial court is just enough to live, and it is very reluctant to live a relatively wealthy life. Therefore, he couldn't bear it, and deliberately wanted to seek benefits for the low-level officials of the court now. ”

The big guys immediately talked about it, obviously not knowing what medicine was sold in Jingwen's gourd. Although Tang Dynasty officials had many benefits, their salaries were not high. Moreover, the real high-income people are those high-level figures, because high-level people have a lot of benefits, but there are relatively few ordinary officials in the eighth and ninth grades. Ordinary officials of the eighth and ninth grades are actually not much higher, especially in the heyday, the salaries of officials are relatively low.

There were several salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the normal income, there was copper money income, but this can be ignored. Because the income of this copper coin is a few yuan per month for middle and low-level officials, and it is probably more than 1,000 or 2,000 in later generations, this income is not very high, and many ordinary people can reach it. And the real thing is Lu rice, which is not very high, probably enough for the family's rations. What can really solve the problem of officials, that is, the division field and the Yongye field. In fact, the post field and Yongye field did not directly give the land to the official, but collected rent according to a certain proportion, that is, about six liters of grain per mu. But this is also very problematic. Because food prices fluctuate. Now, because the world has just been peaceful, the price of grain is still very high, so the income of officials is very high, and that is because the price of grain is relatively high. And once two years have passed, when the prosperity of Zhenguan begins, the price of grain will plummet. In the end, according to historical statistics, the price of grain even plummeted to only a few dozen cents per bucket. In this way, although the income of those officials still seems to be so much food, in fact the income has plummeted.

In this case, although the high-ranking officials seem to get a lot of food, once they sell it, they don't get much money. As for those officials at the bottom. It was even more miserable, there was not much food in the first place, but their food prices plummeted again, and their income was even lower. In this case, the only benefit is that you don't have to worry about going hungry. But as an official, it is impossible not to go hungry as a goal, and their quality of life is very problematic. According to the recognized law of all countries in the world, if you want civil servants to work hard, it is necessary to ensure that the salary income of civil servants is relative to the middle and upper level of the whole society. This is still the standard for ordinary civil servants. The income of high-ranking officials must be at least up to the standards of the upper class.

However, according to the salary payment standard of the Tang Dynasty, the income was naturally very high in troubled times, but the income was very low in prosperous times. This kind of wage payment standard, and even some county orders, the salary income is not as good as the income of their subordinates who receive fixed copper coins. The legal salary income of the boss is not as good as that of the subordinate. How do you make your boss balance? What's more, in the laws of the Tang Dynasty, this arrest is still a slut, not a good citizen. A high-ranking official, but his salary income is not as good as that of a pariah. This can really make people vomit blood. Therefore, in the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, it was not a good thing for the income of officials! If the officer pursues just not to go hungry. That, of course, is no problem. But this situation is almost impossible. When they are full, they always want to eat better, so it is obviously unrealistic to expect officials to have this requirement for the quality of life. If an official's income is not as good as that of an ordinary person under his subordinates, then this official is really not interesting.

And this qiē is due to the collapse of grain prices, coupled with the unreasonable wage payment model, which happened to meet the prosperity of the era to produce this result. If it is not expected by Jingwen, in the future Zhenguan prosperous era, the middle and low-level officialdom will definitely be full of moths. It's just that these moths have been covered up by the prosperous era. Although these moths are big and corrupt, they don't dare, eat some and take some of them. And now there are signs of prosperity in the imperial court, although the high-ranking people have not noticed this problem, because they have a lot of benefits, and they also have their own property, and they are not afraid of their own quality of life. But the low-level officials are miserable, they have no industry, and they use grain as a wage payment model, but after a few years, they will be pitied. Once they start to eat and take cards, then the atmosphere of the entire officialdom will be damaged. Therefore, these low-level officials must be allowed to live a better life, otherwise they may not be able to resist taking the first payment. After taking the first one, the second one is not far away. With the second time, it is not far from the complete corruption of an official. Didn't the salary model of the Ming Dynasty officials also let the officials take the first payment, and in the end, the atmosphere of the entire officialdom deteriorated?

"Your Majesty, the income of middle and low-level officials will definitely be greatly reduced in the future, and this is a very important issue. If the lords of the imperial court don't pay attention to it, then I'm afraid this will make a bad start. And after that, a prosperous era may be the beginning of corruption in the imperial court. Jingwen said very seriously.

Only then did everyone realize that using grain as the salary of officials would probably cause great instability along with the rise and collapse of grain prices. In the prosperous era, perhaps for a middle- and low-level official, the income is also the beginning of a greatly reduced. Once something goes wrong with this, I am afraid it will be very huge, and it can drive the corrupt atmosphere of the entire officialdom. And this situation is very dangerous, this kind of atmosphere is hidden in the prosperous age, so it is even more dangerous.

"Jingwen, according to what you mean, is it to change this method of distributing money?" Li Shimin asked.

But Jingwen shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, that's not what the minister meant. In order to make everyone honest and honest, the minister set up a system of raising honest silver to maintain the integrity of middle and low-level officials. (To be continued......)