The Hanlin Academy and the Guozijian continued to remain the same, and Zhu Youzhen did not think of making major changes to them.

The Ming Dynasty, which has restored China for more than 200 years, revived Chinese culture, and made today's Ming Dynasty still at the forefront of this era in terms of prosperity and open-mindedness in the field of social sciences.

Although Europe had just finished the Middle Ages, religious oppression still existed.

At this time, although many scholars still insisted on Cheng Zhu Lixue as orthodoxy, they did not brutally attack Xinxue and other ideas derived from it.

What's more, Zhu Youzhen did not have much enthusiasm for the transformation of the ideological field, because after all, he was the emperor and the dictator of the empire, and the current ideological field is nothing more than democracy and the rule of law.

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-third day of the lunar month.

Daming is now a long Spring Festival holiday from the 24th day of the lunar month to the 20th day of the first lunar month, so as soon as it passes today, there will be nearly a month of vacation time today.

This year, the Ming Dynasty has just defeated Jiannu, and the officials of the entire Ming court have not had a day of rest since June of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, so Zhu Youzhen will not be able to take away the official rest again this year.

In addition, he himself also needs to rest for a while, after all, next year will still be a year of wind and rain, and no one knows what variables will appear.

But at least this year is a good year.

On this day, Zhu Youzhen woke up early in the morning, and Dongyang also poked out half of his head from the edge of the snow-capped Jinling City, reflecting the entire Forbidden City.

Officials entered one after another through the left and right doors, and each person's face was filled with a sense of joy that the New Year was coming, and as long as there were no external troubles and social contradictions did not intensify, the monarch and the ministers could still get along in harmony.

Not everyone is willing to put on a bad face every day, especially now that everyone no longer has to worry about the Qing army going south to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen wore a winged crown, dressed in a gown, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and sat on the throne of the coiling dragon and looked at the officials in front of him.

And the officials also looked at their emperor His Majesty Zhu Youzhen, and they were both respectful and afraid of the current emperor, everyone knew that the Ming Emperor at this moment was no longer the person who was moody but easy to understand his temperament before Chongzhen seventeen years ago, and now Emperor Chongzhen, they have not been able to figure it out, and they dare not think about it anymore.

Because it was just an ordinary gathering a year ago, Zhu Youzhen did not wear a crown, and the etiquette was not so rigorous.

Zhu Youzhen also naturally stood up after sitting for a while, with a smile on his face: "Chongzhen's eighteenth year is about to pass, from the beginning of Chongzhen's seventeenth year of June when I moved south, to now the Ming court has been in the line for a year and a half, this year and a half, it is not easy for you, the Ming Dynasty has finally passed the most difficult period, the Jiangshan Sheji has not been defeated, although the northern capital has been lost, but there is still half of the country, I believe that in the future, whether Jitai will come, my Ming Dynasty will definitely reorganize the rivers and mountains, recover the northern capital, and hope that you Aiqing will continue to work hard with me;

Some people say that I want to be the Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, and I have the idea of being in a corner of peace, but I want to say that these people's words are demagoguery, and their crimes should be punished! I didn't dare to forget the Northern Expedition and the recovery of the Northern Capital! Do you dare to forget? ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhen asked like this, the officials present replied in unison: "The ministers dare not forget!" ”

"Very good, although we are trying to overcome the trend of Jiannu going south, we can't take it lightly, thinking that the world will be peaceful! You know, Jiannu still occupies half of the mountains and rivers in the north! Jiannu still has the ability to fight, the power of the southern expedition, so the road to revitalize the Ming Dynasty in the future is still the blue thread of the road, can not have the slightest slack, so I have given the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, etc.

I hope that by this time next year, there will be no more people who freeze to death and starve to death in the existing places of the Ming Dynasty, no more children who have not been enrolled in school, and no more officers and soldiers who have not made up for the military and pensions; The Ministry of Household should keep in mind the policy of encouraging commercial development and increasing taxes, while the Ministry of Industry should keep in mind the two major events of building water conservancy and improving technology, and the future war will focus on firearms and food, and what you should do at present is closely related to these two things, and there must be no mistakes; The Ministry of Rites should stabilize people's hearts, guide people's hearts, and promote the way of education; The military department should continue to train elite soldiers and strengthen the soldiers, and be ready to fight the Tartars at any time!

In short, I hope that all Aiqing will remember the instructions of the Emperor next year and continue to strive for the great cause of the great cause of the Daming Dynasty, and in recognition of the fact that all of you Aiqing have been willing to follow the Daming to fight against the Jiannu since June of the 17th year of Chongzhen, and even do not hesitate to take out their own family wealth and offend the family, Shu decided that from the first month of the 19th year of Chongzhen, both the central and local governments, officials at all levels will increase by 10%, and officials at all levels will be rewarded with silver for half a year before the year-end Chinese New Year's Eve, as a common practice, and if Daming pays taxes by another 10% next year, Then the year-end reward silver will be added to half a year! ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he asked Shi Kefa to announce the decree, which became a rule.

At present, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is overflowing, and commerce now only occupies two or three percent of the national economy, and the scale of lending is not large, so in order to promote market consumption capacity, speed up currency circulation, and improve the enthusiasm of officials, Zhu Youzhen has implemented a reward system that links official income with taxation in disguise, which is also equivalent to high salaries and pensions.

After all, there are too few officials in the Ming Dynasty at present, and it is okay to meet the basic life, but not everyone wants their quality of life to get better and better, and the same is true for officials, otherwise there is no motivation to work hard.

Although the current officials of the Ming Dynasty can already rely on the unspoken rules to get a large amount of income supplement from the wrong way, there are always some people who want to get rich material conditions and at the same time want to have high requirements for life spiritually.

According to the Ming officials' standards, a seven-grade official year is 12 stone grain and 27 taels of silver, now the Ming Dynasty has been changed to all with silver coins converted into more than 70 silver dollars, reissue half a year of silver, it has been nearly 1,300 silver dollars, equivalent to about 1,000 taels of silver before, which is in the Ming Dynasty even now just after the war period, a family of four with silver is only less than 20 taels of silver, 1,000 taels of annual income has been very high, and the Qing Dynasty Zhixian is not much different from the incorruptible silver.

But the difference is that Zhu Youzhen also added an article, that is, it is linked to the tax income of the imperial court, and the income of the imperial treasury increases, and the income of officials will also increase.

At present, Daming's tax revenue is mainly commercial tax, and the biggest problem of commercial tax is tax evasion, tax evasion and tax evasion, and Zhu Youzhen's move is undoubtedly to stimulate officials to collect commercial taxes more actively.

The officials were quite shocked, and they didn't expect to get a reward of half a year's salary, and it would become a regular practice.

No one doesn't like to have a higher income, so the court officials at this time feel that this should be the best news they have heard since they became officials, except for learning that they have been promoted.

This time, the ministers really bowed to Zhu Youzhen from the bottom of their hearts: "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

(End of chapter)