Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Jin with red eyes, looking like he was choosing someone to devour, and asked loudly:

"Fart, what the saint hates the most today is corrupt officials, how can the generation of corrupt officials come from the emperor?"

"As long as the emperor finds out that he is a corrupt official, he will never be soft, and he will definitely peel him to set an example."

"Let's see that you are a gossip to confuse the public, nonsense!!"

"If you don't make it clear to us, we'll give it to you today!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled up his sleeves as he spoke, and kept gesturing at Li Jin with a fist the size of a sandbag, as if he was going to beat Li Jin.

Seeing this, Li Jin knew that he had met Zhu Yuanzhang's die-hard fan, so he couldn't help but sigh and said:

"This official asks you, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, how much is the monthly silver of our Ming Dynasty's Jiupin Official?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, and reflexively said:

"The annual salary of the Jiupin official is sixty stones, and the monthly salary is five stones, what?"

"That is to say, the official's monthly silver is only five stones, and according to the current grain price in Shanghu County, it is only less than 3 taels of silver per month."

"Can you see what's wrong now?"

Li Jin directly began to convert silver taels in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, and then looked at Zhu Yuanzhang speechlessly.

"What's the problem? As a Jiupin official, isn't 3 taels of silver a month enough? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked confident.

"And your county magistrate doesn't have to be exposed to the wind and rain every day, and you can get so much money just by working in the yamen, isn't it enough?"

Li Jin was suddenly speechless by Zhu Yuanzhang's analysis, and said:

"Old man, you are really the same as today's saints, you don't treat officials as people."

"Today, the saint hopes that all the officials in the world will not eat, and work hard for him, and you are similar to him."

"Don't we officials wear clothes? Skipping meals? Won't you get sick? Don't you support your parents? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little annoyed and said:

"Isn't 3 taels of silver a month enough for you to see a doctor?"

"Zheng Shi, the imperial history of this dynasty, is also the Jiupin imperial history, but he can stick to it and never bend the law for bribes, can't you learn from him?"

Li Jin shook his head and denied:

"Not enough, far from enough!"

"Zheng Shi is an incorruptible imperial history, even if the official has heard his name in Shanghu County, for which the emperor has also rewarded him with twenty taels of silver as a reward."

"But, old man, do you know how Zheng Shize's mother died?"

Zhu Yuanzhang originally listened triumphantly, but when he heard the end, he was a little confused, Zheng Shize's old mother died?

Li Jin didn't wait for Zhu Yuanzhang to reply, and said to himself:

"Zheng Shize's mother died of illness, and it was because of Zheng Shize's incorruptibility that when Zheng Shize's mother was seriously ill in bed, there was no money at home to treat his mother."

"And the silver rewarded by the emperor, Zheng Shi didn't dare to use it at all, it was a glory he was proud of, how dare he take it to spend?"

"This is the fate of Qing officials, and this is the treatment of being an official in Daming."

"Are these corrupt officials corrupt officials in the first place? They have been reading the books of the sages for decades, but did they not have ambitions and ideals in the first place? ”

"They have just entered the officialdom, which one is not ambitious and wants to do things for the people? The result? ”

"As a result, my wife and old man are still destitute."

"They didn't lose the court, it was the court that failed them."

"It's nonsense, it's clear that these corrupt officials have given up their ideals and morals and have not resisted the temptation."

Zhu Yuanzhang directly reprimanded and said angrily:

"It is because they have forgotten the words of the saints that they are willing to fall."

Li Jin was-for-tat and shouted:

"They also resisted temptation in order to stick to their ideals."

"But when they see their children waiting to be fed, and they see their seriously ill and dying mothers."

"Looking at their official residence in Jiupin, the family is still poor, what reason do they have to persevere?"

"In order to change their destiny and give their families a better life, they can only do this."

"In the final analysis, the emperor is too demanding of officials and doesn't treat officials as human beings at all."

"Although the emperor's starting point is to let the officials of the world know how to be honest and honest, and reduce corrupt officials for the Ming Dynasty, the direction of governance is wrong."

"The so-called direction is wrong, and the effort is in vain, this is the truth."

"Now that the emperor has set such a salary, it will only doom the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty to become corrupt in the future, because when officials can't live without corruption, then corruption is naturally the norm."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent, because he suddenly felt that Li Jin's words seemed to have some truth.

Liu Bowen next to him stared straight at Li Jin, his eyes shining.

Since entering the house, Liu Bowen has been paying attention to Li Jin, although Li Jin does not know the identity of Zhu Yuanzhang, but Li Jin's various views are quite novel.

In Liu Bowen's view, these views can even be said to be a pinpoint of the times, which can play a huge role in the anti-corruption and anti-corruption of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Thinking of this, Liu Bowen couldn't help but ask:

"From the perspective of adults, how to prevent corruption among corrupt officials?"

Li Jin said lightly:

"Fighting corruption and cracking down on corrupt officials is a very complicated matter, and we can't rush it for a while."

"But you must not treat officials harshly like the emperor."

"On the contrary, the official advocates high salaries and honesty."

"High salary?"

Zhu Yuanzhang muttered in his mouth, and then said angrily:

"Those corrupt officials are already very rich, and they want to give them more money?"

"Isn't that fueling corruption?"

Li Jin shook his head and said:

"Some of the corrupt officials don't have to be corrupt, and a large part of them are forced by life."

"As the official just said, it is very difficult to even make a living, do you still expect him to abide by the bottom line and not be corrupt?"

"What the imperial court should do is to minimize the degeneration of this part of the people."

"If you can make a decent life for officials who are truly honest and honest, then the ability of these people to resist temptation will be greatly increased."

"After all, who would be a corrupt official unless absolutely necessary? Today's emperor hates corrupt officials to the bone, which is a fatal job. ”

"If it is found that it is to peel the daylily, in this way, there will not be so many people who take risks and have to take bribes."

Li Jin's explanation, Zhu Biao also nodded in agreement.

Compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's brutal killing, Zhu Biao is more able to accept this way of moisturizing things silently.

But Zhu Yuanzhang still said stubbornly:

"It's a good thing to say, these people are afraid of power and not morality, just let them be afraid, and they will be afraid."

"When you are corrupt, you don't dare to reach out and take money!!"