"In the future, whoever dares to accept ice and respect carbon will get out of here." Ai Husheng's roar resounded throughout the Shangshu Mansion. The lady was so frightened that she sat down on the ground, thinking that her master had gone mad.

In these years, if you are a Beijing official, is there anyone who does not accept the local officials? The ground of the capital is not as good as that of Liaodong, without these gray incomes, how can you let the family live.

Ai Husheng doesn't care if his wife can figure it out or not, and he doesn't care if his colleagues' faces can get down or not. With an order, he was stunned to return this summer's Bing Jing. The Henan officials who were so frightened that they gave gifts were sincerely frightened, and they didn't understand how they had offended Lord Shangshu.

Other yamen can say that this household yamen is a yamen in charge of money. Henan is poor, and this year it is still thinking of allocating a little money from the state treasury to complete the road construction plan. Now the gift that was given out has been returned, what a neat thing. The little steward of the clan and the yamen was so anxious that he almost hanged himself.

Ai Husheng not only returned the things he received now, but even checked his wife's account book and sent back the Bing Jing and Carbon Tribute he had received before. For a while, there was a lot of noise in the capital, and I don't know what kind of wind Lord Hubu Shangshu smoked.

Officials were soon surprised to find out that the wind was contagious. The high-ranking officials, led by the secretaries of various ministries, were busy withdrawing their gifts. And resolutely stated that it will not accept any form of gifts in the future.

The big boss above began to return the stolen money, and the little brothers below couldn't watch it. All of a sudden, officials at all levels in the capital suddenly became honest and honest. All gifts will not be accepted, and previous gifts will be returned as appropriate. And I followed the boss to learn, and firmly said that I would never accept ice and carbon respect in the future.

When the news reached the local governor, these feudal officials were more and more confused. I don't know what the hell the Jingshi is doing, there is an endless stream of messengers and carrier pigeons running out of the capital every day. They are all governors from all over the country to inquire about the news of the capital!

At the end of March, the imperial court ordered officials to pay a premium. This was a matter of joy, and all the officials applauded and expressed their support for the benevolent government of the imperial court.

"Officials' salaries should have risen a long time ago, and officials would not even be able to afford to eat without fire consumption and other unplanned income. Seventy-nine stones for the ninth grade, one hundred and twenty-one stones for the eighth grade, one hundred and fifty-four stones for the seventh grade, one hundred and seventy-eight stones for the sixth grade, and one hundred and ninety-nine stones for the fifth grade......!

The Yulu formulated during the Hongwu period has not changed much for more than 200 years. Jingshi's price, how can you let these officials live. Li Xiao took a sip of the tea bowl, and he didn't know where Sun Chengzong got the tea. The tea soup is golden and golden, and you can see that it is a good thing at a glance. It is estimated that this old guy is not less corrupt.

Looking at the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the first assistant is in addition to Yu Qian's dead-eyed child. Generally like Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng, Yang Tinghe, Xia Yan and so on, which is not a rich man on the rich side. Mr. Sun received two bags of good tea, and he was really a clean official among Qing officials.

"Bad rules can't be killed with a stick. You have to do it little by little! Now that Bing Jing and Carbon Jing have been suppressed, the next step is to celebrate the New Year and festivals, and the local government will send local products to officials.

In fact, if it is a simple souvenir, it is nothing, and it is not a big deal to send some crab mooncakes or something on August 15. However, in order to tie up with the Beijing officials, the governors in some places took the opportunity to send special gifts. Individual shameless and beautiful women are sent to the capital as souvenirs.

So much so that it has developed to the point that the Qingming Festival has to give gifts to the capital. His mother's Qingming Festival is a gift for the dead, and you give a hair to the living. Sun Chengzong lit a cigarette and took a puff rather impatiently.

"Didn't you send a clear decree to the local governor that no gifts will be allowed during Qingming this year? This matter is still something you have to worry about, this year Qingming I want to go back to Liaodong to pay tribute to my dead parents and sisters. It's also unfilial to say it, it's been ten years, and I've been busy every year. I don't even have time to go back and see the ancestral grave! ”

"Huh! You don't have to worry about your ancestral grave, there is such a character as you. I don't know how many feng shui gentlemen have gone to the mountain of your ancestral grave to conduct research. The magistrate of Liaodong has already repaired your ancestral tomb to carve dragons and phoenixes. The tomb of Nurhachi is worse than your house. Oh! I heard that some of the stone carvings in the Nurhachi cemetery were moved to your cemetery.

Now, the mountainous area where your family is buried is forbidden. Soldiers are guarded when they enter and leave, and no one is allowed to set foot except for those who repair the cemetery for your house. Speaking of stammering, your local magistrate is really called a stammer. Sun Chengzong took a puff of cigarette and glanced at Li Xiao lightly.

"Really?" Li Xiao's jaw was about to fall to the ground, and he had never heard of his own cemetery being made like this. I heard Li Hao say before that the magistrate repaired the family's grave. Thinking that it's just a grave, it's not a big deal. As soon as things were busy, Li Xiao forgot about it.

I never expected that the magistrate would be so big. Old Mr. Nurhachi, if there is knowledge underground. Knowing that the Li family actually came to rob their own things, it is estimated that they can gnaw through the coffin.

"This time, you happened to go back to your hometown in Liaodong to promote the local official. To this point, if you don't give people a promotion, you won't chill people's hearts. The old immortal Sun Chengzong flicked the cigarette ash and looked at Li Xiao's eyes, which were full of schadenfreude.

"I said Elder Sun, this is your mistake. You know all these things, and you can do it with just a few words. Why wait for me to go back and talk about it? You also know that for so many years, I have been running around, either on the battlefield or on the way to the battlefield. When have you been idle!

People have built a grave for my family, and we can only thank them. Your disgusting expression is a bit excessive. ”

"You know human affection here, but don't others know human affection? There are magistrates in your hometown, but don't you have them in the old man's house? So, you kid wants to make the water clear, be careful that there are no fish in the pond. ”

"What then?" Li Xiao spread his hands, he really has no relevant experience.

"The world is full of knowledge, and the practice of human feelings is the article! Being an official is an extremely complex science, and if you want everyone to sit down and be honest, it's simply impossible. We in China came here thousands of years ago. The sophistication of human feelings is engraved in the bones. If you want to frame this thing with a law, there's no way!

To put it mildly, if you don't get into the favor of these privileges, who is addicted to being an official? Sun Chengzong nestled in the sofa, crossed Erlang's legs, looking like an old god. After a few puffs of a cigarette, he smoked the butt of the cigarette.

"Then let's discuss it, be honest and clear about the ...... of official expenditures in various places!"

"This thing has to be done, in the past, the imperial court was too indulgent to the localities. As a result, the authority of local officials is too heavy, and the dynasty wants to be stable. First of all, the financial rights of the local government must be confiscated! You propose the division of national and local taxes, and the national taxes are managed by the state, and most of the taxes are collected. The local tax is managed by the local yamen, and the tax collected is used for local administrative expenses. The old man thinks this is feasible.

Oh! As he grows older, he tends to get interrupted when he speaks. Let's talk about being officials!

When the imperial court selects officials from all over the world, the first thing is to see if this person can manage the place well. The second is to consider whether this person is honest or not, you find someone who is as clear as water and as clear as a mirror. But the talent is low, and the people who can't govern the place well. Such a person, I'm afraid that if you use it for a year, you will let him go.

As long as the local government is well managed, the policies of the imperial court can be implemented well at the local level. If the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and do not make trouble everywhere, such an official should be regarded as a capable official. I want the old man to say that the more such officials, the better. ”

"But if there's a fish ......!"

"The imperial court has just occupied the whole country, and the people's hearts have not yet stabilized, so how can you have time to manage so much. Now the priority of the imperial court is to stabilize the next day. Everything else has to be in the back row.

First stabilize the world, our court can gain a firm foothold, and then talk about the matter of attacking the officials. Right now, our foundation is still too shallow. It looks like the whole country has been unified, but in fact, there is an undercurrent! Sun Chengzong taught Li Xiao Dundun, and his face was full of seriousness.

Li Xiao listened quietly, and there was a constant battle between heaven and man in his heart.

I'm still too young, and politics is the most complicated thing in the world. The old fox who had cultivated to perfection was right, but what he said was 108,000 miles away from his ideals.

According to Sun Chengzong's words, his ideal country under the rule of law cannot be realized at all. I have to admit that Sun Chengzong is right, human affection has been engraved in the bones of Chinese people.