Chen Jian proposed to 'kill people through sacrifice', but Liu Sheng was not allowed.

However, the fight against corruption has never been a simple problem that can be completely solved by touching the lips of the people in the upper echelons.

- You must know that in later generations, even small things like primary school students copying homework are a dead knot that has been repeatedly banned;

If we want to solve the problem of official corruption at the root, it is the same as preventing students from copying homework at the root: it is better to block it, but it is better to be sparse.

In short, instead of a strong order, 'No homework!' ''No corruption!'' It is better to calm down and think about it: what are the reasons why students would rather copy than do their own homework, and officials would rather be corrupt than be honest and do their duty.

In the final analysis, it is actually very simple: if a few students copy homework, the teacher can classify it as 'poor learning ability leads to insufficient learning level, and under the objective condition trend of not being able to complete homework alone, they have no choice but to complete the homework task in another way'.

The same is true of official corruption: in addition to the greed of human nature, it is more likely that the inherent wealth of officials can no longer meet the daily needs of officials, and they are forced to reach out because of the pressure of survival.

There is a sentence that Chen Jian said to the point.

-- From the time of Emperor Taizu Gao to the present, the officials' wages and thunders have not been moved, but the price of grain has become more and more peaceful with the world, and it has dropped from thousands of dollars per stone at the beginning of the founding of the country to 50 dollars per stone today.

There has also been news in the market: when Zisheng is already planning to further reduce the price of grain in Guanzhong to the upper limit of forty-five yuan per stone.

According to this trend, the price of grain will fall below 40 yuan, or even 30 yuan, I am afraid that it will only be ten or twenty years later.

Then, through a very simple arithmetic problem, we can understand how serious the problem mentioned by Chen Jian is.

Take the prime minister, for example;

As the head of the hundred officials who are courteous and evasive, the prime minister eats 10,000 stones, and the actual amount is 4,000 stones;

According to the regulations formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao, 'officials are paid, half a penny and half a penny', that is, 2,000 stone of corn, and copper coins that match the value of 2,000 stone of grain.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Han family had 8,000 yuan of rice stone, and the prime minister's Yulu alone was 2,000 stone of corn worth 8,000 yuan per stone, plus copper money that could buy 2,000 stone of corn, that is, 16 million yuan.

With 16 million copper coins and 2,000 stone corn worth 16 million yuan, the prime minister at that time could complete the achievement of 'accumulating wealth and huge millions' through his annual salary, even if he did not rely on the food output of the feudal kingdom of Chehou.

From a practical point of view, 2,000 stone corn is definitely enough for the daily consumption needs of the Prime Minister's family, as well as the side branches, the old subordinates, and even the servants and subordinates;

The remaining copper coins of 16 million are enough for the prime minister to get a wealth that matches his status - wealth under one person and above ten thousand.

What now?

Fifty yuan of rice stone, or the prime minister, or ten thousand stones of Zhilu and four thousand stones, its annual income has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with the beginning of the founding of the country.

——2,000 stone of grain, now the price is only 100,000 yuan!

Compared to the 16 million money at the time of the founding of the country, it can be said that it is a fraction of a fraction!

Even if the food can still be used to feed the family, servants, etc., the copper coins obtained are only 100,000 yuan per year.

What is the concept of 100,000 yuan?

In the words of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, 100,000 yuan is the entire family of a middle-class family;

In the words of the peasant people, 100,000 yuan can buy three or five acres of land near Chang'an to prepare the next ancestral property for their descendants, or buy more than ten or twenty acres of land in remote places in Guanzhong, so that a certain son can have a foundation for his life from now on.

But for the prime minister, is 100,000 yuan really a lot?

The second generation of gentlemen in Chang'an City just want to say: 100,000 yuan, but only 10 gold, let alone buy a good horse, you can't even buy a decent slave!

In the past few years, 'those who are officials do not expect to live' has long become a consensus inside and outside the court.

- If there is a marquis of the country, then rely on the tax paid by the feudal country~

Even if it is just a small Chehou of a thousand households, he can have tens of thousands of stone of grain tax income every year, which is 2.5 times that of the prime minister!

If there are thousands of households, or even tens of thousands of households, then they don't care about their own fortunes at all, whether they have been punished by the Son of Heaven.

The marquis of a thousand households in Shiyi is already very small~

A marquis of this level, unless his personal ability is really outstanding, like Zhang Cang, the Marquis of Beiping during the reign of Emperor Taizong, he cannot get involved in the position of the minister!

I can't get an official position of 2,000 stones, but the tax tax of the feudal state is 2.5 times that of the prime minister, how can I say this?

As for the prime minister, it was a great marquis of three or five thousand households, and the feudal tax was often more than ten times that of Yulu;

As the prime minister, who cares about the 2,000 stone corn and 100,000 copper coins?

Understanding all this, and then looking at the shortcomings pointed out by Chen Jian, it will be clear at a glance.

- The prime minister of the Han family, there is only one ······

In the case that the Taiwei is not permanent and the imperial historian ranks 2,000 stones, the prime minister is the only high-ranking official in the whole world who has reached the level of '10,000 stones, 4,000 stones'.

In this case, there is absolutely no second person!

What about those who are not prime ministers?

Among the 2,000 stones, including the Imperial Doctor and Jiuqing, the actual annual income is 2,160 stones, and the grain in hand is 1,080 stones, and the copper coins are 54,000 yuan;

The real 2,000 stones with the princes and princes and concubines of the harem as the main body, the actual annual income is 1,800 stones, and the grain in hand is 900 stones, and the copper coins are 45,000 yuan;

2,000 stone represented by the county taishou, 1,440 stone in actual year, 720 stone of grain in hand, 36,000 yuan in copper coins;

The county commander, Zhonglang general, and Guanglu doctor are more than 2,000 stones, and the actual annual income is 1,200 stones, 600 stones of grain, and 30,000 copper coins.

In the end, the county orders of 1,000 stone and 600 stone were issued, as well as the chief officials of 400 stone and 200 stone, and even the small officials of 100 stone and the 'non-ranked' personnel below 100 stone······

- Not everyone can have 4,000 stone per year like the prime minister;

Even the hurdle of 'more than a thousand stones' can be brushed down to ninety percent of the Han bureaucracy.

What about these people?

What can the petty officials who can only live on a hundred or ten stone corns and three or five thousand copper coins -- the 'majority' of the bureaucracy -- who have more than 1,000 or 2,000 stone of rice at every turn, and even more than 1,000 or even thousands of households of Chehou feudal feudal towns?

In the county office, it is an official position of 200 stones, and he is in charge of an independent department of the county government alone, so he can be regarded as a decent person;

As a result, the annual corn is only 100 stones, which is not even enough to feed the stomach of a family of five!

The copper money obtained is 5,000, and part of it should be used to buy food to supplement the family, not to mention, but also to usher in the delivery, interpersonal communication, network maintenance, and firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea within the family······

It is no exaggeration to say that the situation faced by the Han family today is exactly the same as the situation during the Hongwu period of the Sun and Moon Dynasty thousands of years later.

- Unless there is a mine at home, the official must be greedy!

- If you don't be greedy, you can't live!

Similar examples are not uncommon in the Chang'an court in the past few years.

First of all, Zhang Shizhi, the court lieutenant during the period of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, was not reused in his early years because of his business background, and served as a Lang official in Shangshutai for more than ten consecutive years, responsible for sorting out documents and wasting time.

Before being reused, that is, being recommended by Yuan Ang at that time, Zhang Shizhi had already come up with plans to resign and return to his hometown.

As for the fact that he is about to resign and return to his hometown, the reason given by Zhang Shizhi is: a long-term eunuch reduction in middle production.

-- Reduction of secondary production for a long time.

——I have been an official for a long time, which caused my brother to shrink his industry in order to support me as an official in Chang'an.

In addition to Zhang Shizhi's famous sentence of 'long-term eunuch reduction and middle production', of course, there is also the old prime minister with clean sleeves during the first emperor's period: the late Anzhen Wuhou Shen Tujia.

For this old prime minister, before Liu Sheng established a master-apprentice relationship with him, the reviews in the market were mixed.

Some people say that Shen Tujia is a scum who is good for nothing but honesty, and even for the reputation of 'honesty' and for the sake of cherishing his feathers, he would rather waste government affairs;

Some people also say that Shen Tujia forgot his duty as a subordinate, and only relied on himself to be the founding father and Taizu's retinue, so he relied on the old and sold the old, and wantonly bullied the descendants of Emperor Taizu Gao.

But after Shen Tujia passed away, no one said anything bad about the old prime minister.

Even if there is no Liu Sheng, no one will say anything bad about Shen Tujia again.

Because after Shen Tujia died, the Chang'an court was surprised to find under Liu Sheng's deliberate guidance: the dignified Han Xiangzai sat in the position of prime minister for more than ten years, but when he came, he had to borrow money from his son everywhere in order to barely manage the future generations.

Although to a certain extent, this is also related to the prevalence of thick burials in the Han family today, it is really a bit appalling that a person who has been in the position of prime minister for more than ten years has accumulated wealth that he can't even do in his own posterity.

Knowing this, the situation becomes much clearer when we look back at the endless problems of corruption among officials.

- Of course there are bad guys.

- Of course, there are insatiable people who are greedy for the sake of greed.

But the vast majority of people are forced to live without guarantee, so they can't resist the temptation.

Just imagine: you are an official with a rank of 400 stones, an annual salary of 360 stones, and a monthly salary of 15 stones of corn, plus 750 yuan;

You have an old mother, a beautiful wife, and three sons and children, a total of eight people;

The food is enough to eat, although there are eight people, but the sons are still young, and the amount of food is far less than that of adults.

It's this 75 yuan a month, which really makes you a little anxious.

Sometimes, it is the old mother who has a sore back and legs, and she has to go to the pharmacy in the county town to grab medicine;

Sometimes, it is the wife who mutters that she has been half a month younger and has not smelled meat from the food.

What's even worse is that as a county magistrate at the level of 400 stones, a figure in the inner circle of the county leadership team, you really have a lot of personal contacts;

The people above are married, funeral, and married, and you have to go with the ceremony;

The people below have red and white things, and you have to show something.

During the New Year's holidays, I also have to give some wine and meat cloth to my descendants, so that I can continue to paint the pie of 'I will not treat you badly in the future'.

Your money has long been insufficient, and the old man even has to scold and scold, and give you some subsidies from time to time.

At this time, a rich man came to you and asked you to help a small one.

This is so busy that you don't have to do anything, you just need not to express any opinions when the county government initiates a discussion on a certain matter.

In short: keep your mouth shut during a meeting.

You only need to be quiet for a while, and your harvest is your years, even more than ten years, decades of money.

Will you say yes?

Are you willing to pay the price of 'barely speaking for an hour' in exchange for a huge fortune that can greatly improve the family's situation and even stop worrying about money······

"Regarding the practice of bribery and bribery, I think that Emperor Taizong's measures back then were actually justified."

"——Cultivate it with integrity."

"It's just that back then, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen gave Zhang Wu a 'pension gold' after the general Zhang Wu was raised for accepting bribes, so that this move changed a little."

"And after Zhang Wu, no one has ever received a pension."

After a long period of thinking, Liu Sheng finally made up his mind and revealed his long-planned plan.

"What I mean is to reduce the pressure on the lives of officials by increasing the number of officials, so as to prevent some Qing officials who had no intention of taking bribes from being forced to accept bribes for their livelihood."

"The general regulations are the distribution method of the Yulu, which has been changed from half the grain and half the money in the past to all the money."

"Anyway, if you get money, officials can also buy grain by themselves, and with the governor of Su Du, there will be no situation where the price of grain is boiling, and if you have money, you can't buy food."

···

"Secondly, it is to set the standard for the distribution of officials' salaries to the actual amount of money for every stone in the past, which is converted into 100 yuan."

"That is: the prime minister's rank is ten thousand stones, and the actual four thousand stones are converted into four hundred thousand yuan."

"Doctor Yushi, and 2,000 stones in the middle of the Jiuqing Dynasty, the actual amount is 2,160 stones, which is converted into 216,000 yuan."

"In this way, even if food prices continue to fall steadily in the future, the income of officials will not fall along with food prices, resulting in more and more hardship."

···

"In addition to the fixed money, according to the situation, the money can be transferred from the Shaofu to give incorruptible money."

"In the same way, the actual amount of money for each stone is converted into 20 yuan per year."

"In this way, the amount of money has been doubled, and there is also a pension given by the emperor, if there are still people who are corrupt and bribe, and fall into the prestige of my Han officials, they can be taken by the court captain."

"—Even if you take my royal gift and dare to take bribes, it is a great disrespect!"

"With such a deterrent, the existing trend of corruption and bribery in my Han family can also be alleviated to a considerable extent?"

"What do you think ????"

(End of chapter)