It's not just the magistrate's salary, but everyone in Chenliu County who receives a salary is pleasantly surprised.

It turned out that a non-mainstream economic official only paid three stones a month, and he had to divide his true colors. And now, the economic officials who do not enter the stream also have 10 yuan a month, and after the subsidy, there are also 30 yuan. The average bookstore also has fifteen yuan a month, and the number of archers and catchers has also risen to six, and even the number of cooks and porters has risen to three.

The salary increase is very large, although there is no Lu rice in the new salary system of the imperial court, and there is no additional payment of food for the officials below, but there is no in-kind distribution of true colors, and silver dollar coupons are uniformly issued, which is actually to improve their treatment.

The imperial court actually has many different attitudes towards Liu Jun's salary increase. It is generally believed that it is too high, especially the pension and the subsidy.

The subsidies are five times that of the regular income, and the maintenance of incorruptible silver is even higher. A county has 200 yuan a month, and a governor has an annual income of 30,000 yuan of silver, a governor also has 20,000 yuan, a political envoy and a press envoy of 10,000 yuan, a Taoist of 5,000, a prefect of 4,000, a governor of 3,000, and a county of 2,004.

However, Liu Jun still resolutely raised his salary, not because of anything else, because the salary increase was actually just a change from the past when the imperial court did not give money, and let the officials take the money themselves, which became the court to issue money, and officials were not allowed to take it privately.

It's like having a dog to take care of the chickens and ducks, if you don't feed him, he will definitely steal the chickens and ducks.

The officials are not ordinary people, they are officials who are divided into local areas, hold real power in their hands, and the court gives them low salaries, and it is almost impossible to make them honest.

A high salary may not necessarily support corruption, but a low salary will inevitably encourage corruption.

And the salaries in the past were really too low.

Although a high salary does not necessarily support integrity, a low salary will inevitably lead to rampant corruption. Just like the rules and regulations in officialdom now, this is actually a tacit corruption.

What is the state used to collect taxes? It is used to support officials and the army, as well as disaster relief, water conservancy construction, and so on. What do you do to raise officials? Manage. It not only manages the government but also manages the local people, which is not only management, but also guidance and leadership.

These leaders, the sheepdogs, must be raised, or how to lead the flock.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the atmosphere of officialdom was generally corrupt, and corruption became commonplace.

Liu Jun is now figuring out the gaps on the one hand, and raising his salary on the other hand, and the next step is to crack down on corruption. In the Han Dynasty. Liu Jun just wants to tell all the officials that he will not treat them badly, but he will never allow these people to be corrupt on a large scale.

Now that these people have received high salaries, there is no reason to stretch out their hands everywhere. Whoever stretches out his hand again, then he will not be polite.

On the other hand, the imperial court does have money now. Now it is not as good as before, and he lives with his belt tightened every day. Under Liu Jun's new policy, the imperial court can be said to have grasped the money bag very well.

Through banks, lotteries, and sea trade, Liu Jun earned his first pot of gold. Later, the successful operation of many important projects such as the manufacturing bureau and the transportation of salt, tea, tobacco, alcohol, and grain not only allowed the imperial court to make a lot of purchases, but also mastered these important national strategic materials in hand.

A new tax law was introduced. It is also a wide range of financial resources.

And instead of the previous dynasty, the new dynasty also accepted a large amount of property from the previous dynasty, such as Huangzhuang, Wangzhuang, Huangdian, Guandian, Mine, etc., which are all money. Several wars. Although it cost a lot, it did not lose money in every war, and even made money.

Annexation of the Mongol tribes. It also caused a large number of materials and commodities to flow into the Central Plains from the grassland.

Not to mention, the collection of debts also made another big move for the imperial court.

Of course, if you have money, you have to spend it, otherwise the money will be piled up in the bank to earn interest? What's the point of that.

But Liu Jun will not spend money indiscriminately, many officials proposed to complete the east, west, and north sides of the outer city that Jingshi had not completed that year, and also proposed a huge budget, Liu Jun directly denied it.

Now that the new dynasty has just begun, there is indeed some money in hand, but there are many places to use the money.

Liu Jun didn't give a lot of money to the heroes, and the rewards and punishments were moderate, and they couldn't be rewarded indiscriminately.

He did not treat these heroes badly, the salaries of the soldiers were raised again and again, and every time he fought, every New Year's Festival was also a lot of rewards. Liu Jun now has money in hand, and his most important thing is to expand the army, improve the treatment of soldiers and soldiers, and let them put down rebellions in various places for him as soon as possible. The second is to raise the salaries of officials, refresh the rule of officials, remove those unhealthy tendencies, and restore local order.

The world is so big, Liu Jun can't take care of everything, what he has to do is to formulate a system and then choose someone who is good to implement.

Liu Jun insisted on a salary increase, and the first time he paid his salary, he also increased his salary for an additional three months.

"In December of each year, an additional month's salary will be paid, which will be regarded as a year-end bonus. and the other four seasons and eight seasons shall also be rewarded. The consumption of the officials of the Beijing division was higher, so all the officials of the capital were doubled. ”

However, at the same time as the salary increase, Liu Jun also began to prepare for anti-corruption.

The salary has already been raised, and so much more, and if anyone reaches out his hand everywhere, it is clearly ignoring his will.

Liu Jun asked the seven departments of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Jinyiwei, Dongchang, Dali Temple, Criminal Department, Officials Department, and Household Department to transfer personnel to form a joint inspection and investigation team of multiple temples.

A number of central inspection and investigation teams will inspect the provincial capitals, prefectures and counties. Those who do not do well will be demoted, and those who do not change their ways will be dismissed from office and punished.

Ni Yuanlu said with some concern, "Now that the rebellion in various places has not been quelled, at this time, I am afraid that it will cause more turmoil." ”

Liu Jun had already thought about his worries, but he couldn't compromise and retreat because of his worries. In this way, how can the rule of the new dynasty be refreshed? After a long time, the officials will only continue to be the same, taking what should be taken, and being greedy when they should be greedy. Now is the time to take advantage of the beginning of the new dynasty to make our attitude clear.

Anyway, it's the opposite, and Liu Jun doesn't care about a few more dissatisfied officials.

"After you go down, you must focus on checking the tax, grain, salt, transportation, customs, and postal services, although these yamen are all newly built, but it is also necessary to prevent them from becoming corrupt."

"There is also a task, which is to supervise all localities, investigate the property of all the former Ming clan relatives, and recover all the contributions and encroachments."

"The property of those rebellious and rebellious parties must also be supervised and confiscated and registered, and no one will be allowed to embezzle and occupy it on the basis of this."

After the conversation, Yuan Jixian, the first assistant, asked to stay in the right place.

"Your Majesty, are the former Ming clan members really going to be exiled overseas?" He hesitated a little and said, he has always been a little entangled in Liu Jun's will. "Isn't it too much?"

"I've been thinking about it for a long time, and I originally planned to leave a line. But you've seen it now. Clans everywhere rebelled, and I was disappointed. There are so many pre-Ming sects, it will always be a problem. I don't worry about what these people can really do, but now that the imperial court wants to implement a new policy, it will inevitably touch the interests of many landlords and gentry, and these people will raise the descendants of the Zhu family to fight against the imperial court. ”

"It's not so bad to send them overseas. Although it may lose today's brocade clothes and jade food, the days of the earth emperor who are powerful and blessed. But I will also make proper arrangements, and the places I go to are actually not bad. They are all big islands, and they are not a miasma land, which is actually better than Hainan. ”

"I have been running it there for the past few years, and now there is a very prosperous town and market. When they passed, they would be given a plot of land, and if they were willing to cultivate and support themselves, they would be able to be self-sufficient, or even live well. I. I just don't want them to be used again, and I don't want them to be mistaken to the end, after all, I don't want to end up and become an irresolvable situation. ”

The new dynasty is for the clan of the previous dynasty. There's nothing too preferential. Qin unified the world, and the nobles of the six countries did not have a good life. Han has the world, and even the heroes are all birds, not to mention the nobles of the six countries of the Qin Dynasty. Later, the Three Kingdoms fought chaotically. The Han Dynasty clan did not end well.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was an era when fathers, sons, and brothers had to kill each other.

Sui usurped the Northern Zhou, and Yang Jian killed the Yuwen clan. Later, he pacified the south, although it was not bad for Xiliang and Nanchen, but it also destroyed Jinling, forcibly moved all the Nanchen clans and ministers to Chang'an, and then placed the children of the Chen family in Longyou, which was actually no different from the army.

When the Tang Dynasty won the country, there were only a few clans left in the former Sui Dynasty. Even the puppet emperor who gave the Zen throne to Li Yuan was killed.

Relatively speaking, the Song Dynasty treated the former dynasty better, but this is also the fact that there are few people in the Later Zhou clan, and the orphans and widows are also very honest.

Now there are too many clans in the former Ming Dynasty, so many that they are too many to count, thousands. And these people have lived in luxury for too long, and they are not willing to accept reality at all.

preferential treatment, nor can you raise a group of ancestors.

If they don't rebel, Liu Jun can still treat them better. But now, Liu Jun didn't bother to think about these anymore, and sending them to overseas islands such as Tamna and Geoje was already the greatest preferential treatment for them.

"Each man gave them a piece of land, gave them a sum of money, and then they had to fend for themselves. If you can't adapt, then you can't help it. The Ming Dynasty is gone, and it is impossible for the Han to support them anymore. I think back then, Emperor Hongwu was also a farmer, he had to be a monk for dinner, and all kinds of hardships were paid, if his children and grandchildren couldn't even support themselves, there was no way. ”

At this point, Yuan Jixian couldn't say anything more.

"Yuanfu, I hope that you will personally take the imperial examination for this year's imperial examination. This is the first imperial examination in this dynasty, and I hope to get off to a good start. ”

Yuan Jixian was not surprised, and nodded.

"Yuanfu, do you have any opinions on the imperial examination?"

Yuan Jixian thought about it, the imperial examination has a history of thousands of years, from the Sui and Tang dynasties to the current Han Dynasty, and now, it is already an extremely mature system.

"I think the system is perfect now."

Liu Jun shook his head, what kind of perfection is the eight-strand article.

"Yuanfu doesn't think that some of the students who are selected in the end are elites, but there are also a lot of nerds, and there is no distinction between grains. These people became officers after the imperial examination sergeant, but they didn't understand anything. When they take office, they either do nothing or do nonsense, and every official has to bring a few masters when they take office, not so much that they are in charge of the government, but that the masters are manipulating behind the scenes. ”

"Many people don't know what governance is, let alone how to be a good official. These people have nothing to do but put on a show, shake their prestige and then go around being greedy. ”

"Yuanfu, I want to make some changes, change the outdated system of the imperial examination, get rid of some shortcomings, and select some real talents for the empire." (To be continued.) )

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