When the new bureaucracy was officially introduced, most of the intellectuals who were looking forward to it were dumbfounded, completely unable to figure out what the hell this new bureaucracy was.

If it weren't for the correspondence between the nine grades and eighteen levels, plus a detailed comparison table of ancient and modern official positions, I'm afraid most of them wouldn't know what a director is and what a director is, let alone the true meaning of these things.

On the contrary, the identities of civil servants and internal servants are easier to understand, and they quickly understand that they are eunuchs who are not eunuchs, and civil servants who are civil officials.

In everyone's opinion, civil servants serve civil institutions such as the State Council and courts, and are ministers of the Son of Heaven, while internal affairs officers directly serve the emperor's internal affairs office and are ministers of the Son of Heaven. As for the appointed governors in various places, they are just similar to the royal spy system of the Ming Dynasty, such as Jinyiwei, Dongchang and the like.

In the past, because most of the ministers were in the hands of eunuchs, everyone was still a little uncomfortable, but now the new Chinese Empire has completely abolished the eunuch system, so that everyone's resistance is a lot less, so there are more people who want to enter the cabinet system.

Of course, some people think that this is the traditional internal and external minister system, the internal minister system is powerful, but it is easy to attract hatred, I am afraid that in the end it will not die well, and it may not be better than the foreign minister system, so there are many people who want to enter the foreign minister system, become a civil servant, and make a famous minister.

The reason why many people want to be famous ministers is also related to the public table of officials' income.

According to the new regulations of the official system, whether it is a civil servant or an internal servant, the salary is subject to a dual-track system, that is, the basic salary plus the post allowance system.

To put it simply, the basic salary is calculated according to the grade, no matter what official position you have, whether you are an internal servant or a civil servant, as long as you reach that level. Just pay the basic salary of that grade and enjoy the basic treatment of that grade.

As for the post allowance, it is an additional subsidy added according to the important process of the post, and the proportion of the subsidy is based on the proportion of financial expenditure and the income-generating capacity of the unit, which can be understood as a small treasury.

The amount of post allowance is not disclosed, but the grade treatment is made public, not to mention anything else, the series of grade benefits that are clearly marked with prices and general grades make most intellectuals not calm.

Very simple. Not to mention the post allowance, that grade of treatment alone is much higher than that of the Qing Dynasty. There are many knowledgeable people who have calculated that it is also a seven-grade, and the treatment above is three times higher than that of the seven-grade officials of the Qing Dynasty!

If the treatment can really be three times higher, then you can live well without corruption, not to mention the so-called job allowance, which is a real high salary and honesty!

In fact. Li Yongji's original intention was really not to pay high salaries and support the incorruptible, he just hoped to use these civil servants to spend paper money, in other words, to let these people stimulate consumption.

The silver dollar Li Yongji is not worried. But as Li Yongchang said, ordinary people are still a little hesitant to promote paper money, and it is not easy to forcibly promote it. In this case, it is better to simply issue paper money to the civil servants, internal affairs officers, and military personnel.

As long as the grain and tea. Clothes and the like can be paid for with paper money, and it is as effective as ordinary silver, and it is believed that it will not be long before these officials will get used to paper money. And the official is still called the adult deposit, which itself represents a kind of authority, and the common people are naturally willing to accept paper money when they see that the official master is useless.

Historically, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty also issued paper money, and the reason why it was finished was that it was overdrawn and there were no reserves at all, but Li Yongji had a large amount of silver as reserves, and he was not short of money, so it was completely different from the situation in the early Ming Dynasty.

But these intellectuals who want to be officials don't know this stubble, they still think that how many yuan is equivalent to one tael of silver dollars, then the Chinese yuan has long been circulated in small quantities, and the actual value has long exceeded one or two silver, they see that they are all Chinese dollars as salaries, of course they are happy.

But whether you want to enter the internal minister system or enter the foreign minister system, you must first go through the so-called high school examination and become a cadre, and then you have to take the civil service examination and the internal affairs examination.

The people who rejoice are naturally those intellectuals, but they are mainly of the younger generation, and they are not very resistant to the exam, after all, they feel that they are younger and have more opportunities.

Those who are worried are also intellectuals, but they are those old bureaucrats and intellectuals of the older generation, most of them are old and weak, and they are familiar with the old ways.

If in the past, the majority of intellectuals were relatively high-minded about the elite armed forces, and were a little hypocritical, engaged in a non-violent and non-cooperative attitude, and did not enter the ranks of the Chinese Empire, then after a series of blows, especially a series of dazzling new changes, the majority of intellectuals have bowed their heads in the face of reality.

In just a few months, Li Yongji, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, went north to the Qing court and the Taiping army to the west.

With a strong army and a hard-line style, most of the intellectuals, especially young people such as those who had been discouraged in the old system, now hope to enter the system of the Chinese Empire, become new officials, and embark on a beautiful road from now on.

Because of this, they are all working hard to learn the new bureaucratic system and promotion system, hoping to seize the special period when the new dynasty was just established, the political system is not perfect enough, and there are still few officials, and they will enter the new bureaucratic system in one fell swoop, and turn over and sing the songs from then on.

Obviously, there are many opportunities for this, because according to the newly issued official position comparison table and the official promotion system, it seems that there are many officials in the nascent Chinese Empire, but they are just adhering to a posture of preferring shortage to abundance.

In other words, there are actually many official pits in the Chinese Empire, but most of the intellectuals were not willing to join this system in the past, and the requirements for these pits are relatively high, except for a few lucky ones who are directly recommended to be officials, all others have to pass the guò exam to enter this system, and if they can't pass the exam, the Chinese Empire would rather let this official position be vacant, and resolutely not find someone to fill the vacancy.

In the end, most intellectuals decided to re-study. And then succeed in the exam, after all, as many of them say, once a son of heaven and a courtier, the times have changed, the dynasty has changed, and they have to change with it, if it does not change, it can only become the dust of history.

The adaptability of intellectuals cannot be ignored at all. Thinking that when the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, intellectuals could immediately keep braids and pat their ass. Now that the Han people are in power, the psychological resistance is even lower, so most intellectuals have decided to follow the will of the new dynasty.

After all, compared to other assessments, it is fair to be an official in the Tongguò examination, and they have not left the imperial examination, and their status is still very high, for example, high school students can be called adults, so they are somewhat acceptable.

Compared to the hypocrisy of intellectuals. The implementation of the national debt has been somewhat unexpectedly smooth.

The first phase of the treasury bond is a five-year treasury bond, and the form of the promotion is directly issued everywhere, and the shape of the notice is also unified.

In the notice. It not only explains what the national debt is, what is its significance, and what are the benefits, but also names one thing in particular. That is, His Majesty the Emperor has taken the lead in subscribing for fifteen million treasury bonds.

According to the proclamation, the national debt is to borrow money that the people do not need for the time being, and concentrate on major state affairs. This is called taking from the people and using it for the people.

In addition, after five years, the country's economy is better, and when there is money, you can return these borrowed national bonds to the people with interest, which is called benefiting the people!

Therefore, subscribing to treasury bonds is to support national construction, to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, to contribute to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and to breathe and share a common destiny with the country and the nation!

If the country is strong, the people will be rich, and if the people are rich, the country will be strong, this is the meaning of the national debt!

In fact, the interest rate of the national bonds itself is not low, and the words of propaganda and agitation are all vernacular in simple terms, so most people can understand it at a glance, even if they don't understand it the first time, they will understand it after thinking about it one more time.

Everyone thinks about it, only when the country is strong can the people be rich, and the state borrows money with taxes as collateral, even the emperor has subscribed so much, there is no reason not to buy it yourself.

This is still the people of later times, as for the vested interests of the early Jingwu Army, such as those big businessmen, the families of the Jingwu Army, and the families of early workers, most of them have benefited a lot because of the rise of the Jingwu Army, and there is very little place for consumption or investment in China in this era, so many people have a savings, but it is just a savings.

Now seeing that the state can not only make money by issuing treasury bonds, but also support national construction, and do the same thing as His Majesty the Emperor, it is natural that they are all enthusiastic to buy.

In fact, there is a quota for the national debt, fifteen million taels, if it was really allowed to sell, it would have been swallowed up by those big firms a long time ago, what else is it for other people?

Therefore, the real national debt is to set aside a part for all strata, and strive to let people from all strata buy a little, which also makes the national debt a special commodity.

This is completely different from the situation when Red China, another time and space, just started issuing government bonds. At that time, Red China was really poor and white, and in this time and space, although ordinary people were still poor, some big merchants were not short of money, at least not so many thousands of taels of silver.

In this way, you subscribe for 100, I subscribe for 1,000, and fifteen million of the national bonds were quickly snapped up, of which more than seventy percent were robbed by the vested interests in the early days of the Jingwu Army, and only the remaining thirty percent were given to the ordinary people.

Of course, this is not a deliberate privilege for oneself, in fact, the purchasing power of ordinary people is too low, and it is really impossible to see that it is really not possible, so they re-sell it to their own people.

With the smooth issuance of treasury bonds, coupled with the fact that the banknotes and silver dollars that had been stored long ago were all published in batches in the form of imperial Chinese dollars, and through the hands of the army, military families, workers, workers' families, and officials and officials' families, they directly entered the circulation field, and immediately linked them to bulk commodities such as grain, salt, tea, cloth, and silk under Li Yongji's control, and received a positive response.

In this way, the new currency of the empire was smoothly transferred to the commodities on the market, and many departments of the Chinese empire only recognized the Chinese dollar, so the financial market began to slowly expel other currencies, and the common people gradually became accustomed to using this currency.

There is no doubt that as long as we can continue to operate steadily and maintain inflation at an appropriate level, over time, not only will the empire's economic growth run at a high speed, but the Xinhua Yuan will also be able to complete its dominance in China in the true sense of the word, and complete the financial reform smoothly!

At that time, it will be the time when the economy can truly take off at a high speed! And once the economy stabilizes, the economy improves and takes off, the political system will naturally adapt to the past, which is called economic decision-making!

Li Yongji believes that with his own strong checks, coupled with the acceleration and adjustment of the golden finger, the high-speed take-off of the Chinese Empire is only a matter of time. (To be continued......)