Chapter 21: Salute Before Soldier (Ask for Follow!) )

"His Royal Highness King Yan, you come to answer."

Ji Boying just glanced at Xiao Zhu Si, this young Zhu Di, the accumulation of political affairs is still too shallow, of course, this does not mean that Xiao Zhu Si does not have the talent to deal with political affairs.

On the contrary, there is no doubt about the imperial talent of the Yongle Emperor, but the current little Zhu Si doesn't care about political affairs, because with Zhu Biao, these things in the court have nothing to do with him.

"The first is to put an end to corruption and clean government for the people, the second is to build the stability of the official system in later generations, and the third is to strengthen the imperial power and consolidate the rule."

Compared with Xiao Zhu Si, who is less than twenty, Zhu Laosi, who came from Jianwen Time and Space, is already over forty years old, and has reached the peak of a man in all aspects, and as soon as the words fell, Ji Boying smiled.

"Yes, that's the point, but there's one more point."

"Fourth, mobilize the subjective enthusiasm of officials."

As soon as these words came out, Lao Zhu, Ah Biao and the two Zhu Si were all puzzled, can the officials still mobilize the enthusiasm of the officials? It's really the first time I've heard it, after all, since ancient times, promotions have been for the sake of being in power, and being in power will naturally make money, not for the sake of raising so much.

If you tell people in the Ming officialdom that you want to rely on Yulu to eat, the dogs will look down on you.

Ji Boying saw the doubts in the eyes of the four people, and did not answer them immediately, but continued.

"Next, it's how to change this bureaucratic system to achieve the goal."

Ji Boying didn't ask questions this time, because it was about to involve some concepts of the afterlife, and it was estimated that these people would not be able to answer if they asked too much.

"Four-word summary, salute first and then soldier."

"First of all, raise the salary of officials at all levels, such as the five-stone monthly salary of the nine-grade official, to be raised to twenty stones, and."

didn't wait for Ji Boying to finish speaking.

"Twenty stones?!"

"No way, no way! Hold up these corrupt officials! ”

Lao Zhu's head shook like a broken wave drum, Lao Zhu was not picking, he just simply felt that these officials were not good people, and they were not worthy of such a high salary.

Ji Boying just glanced at Lao Zhu, ignored it, and continued to speak.

"And to establish the ancestral system, the monthly salary issued to the officials must be paid with grain, and cannot be replaced by treasure money or other items."

When Zhu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but ask.

"Dare to ask the immortal master, why can't you replace the moon with treasure money, it is more convenient to replace the moon with money."

In Ah Biao's view, it is convenient to issue treasure money directly, and when the imperial treasury is tight, just print a little.

Daming treasure banknotes?

This thing is indeed useful, but it is all blind and over-issued, the Ming Dynasty earns so much silver a year, and the imperial court can print tens of millions of taels of Daming treasure banknotes, which is simply foolish.

Needless to say, in the later period, the Daming treasure banknote circulated to the Yongle years, and the actual purchasing power has been reduced by more than half, and then the Daming treasure banknote is completely waste paper, and it hurts to wipe the buttocks.

It's no wonder that Ah Biao, after all, he studied the art of the emperor and the words of sages, not economics.

Ji Boying glanced at Ah Biao and smiled.

That's another question, and Ji Boying doesn't plan to expand on it here.

"That's another question, we'll talk about it when we have time later."

"In addition to the basic promotion of the salary, the imperial court should set up a separate 'year-end bonus package' every year, the specific amount of this bonus package, according to a certain proportion of the fiscal revenue of the year floating, according to this bonus package, the year-end bonus range for each official grade, this range is about 1-5 times the annual salary of the official, and carry out the year-end performance assessment."

"I'll give you an example, the annual salary of the Jiupin official is 60 stone of grain, which is about equal to 100 taels of silver that year, if his mid-year assessment is rated as "A", then the official's year-end bonus can be set at 500 taels of silver, "B" year-end bonus is 300 taels, "C" is 100 taels, and "D" is no year-end bonus."

"Of course, within each assessment level, it can also be divided in detail, such as "first", "first", "first", "first", and different sub-levels also correspond to different year-end bonuses, which can be specifically divided when formulated."

"In this way, officials will focus on improving their performance for the bonus of year-end performance."

Zhu Biao sighed, he was a little confused, it was the first time he had heard this kind of operation, but he felt a little familiar.

"Is this year-end assessment that the immortal master said is consistent with Jingcha?"

"Not really."

Ji Boying shook the cigarette ash on his cigar, year-end performance and rank promotion are two different things.

"The year-end assessment only assesses the performance of officials, and is directly linked to the year-end bonus of the year."

Even if a nine-grade official is an ordinary political achievement, he can have a "C" a year, and he can have a fortune of two hundred taels of silver a year, although he has not said how rich he is, but it is enough for daily life and interpersonal relationships, and he can save a lot of money.

In this way, it also avoids the tragic incident of some real clean officials, such as Hai Jui, who cannot even get the money for the burial after his death.

"Brother, we have a question, don't they be greedy if they give money to these dog officials?"

Lao Zhu frowned, took a deep puff of his cigar, and exhaled the smoke ring melancholy.

He has been in the market since he was a child, and he has seen too many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and he knows that the greed of these guys is endless, and there is no saying that he is greedy enough.

"I agree with my father."

Zhu Laosi also nodded, in the matter of corrupt officials, he was also the only one with practical experience among the few people present.

Before the martyrdom, Zhu Laosi made a lot of preparations, and one of the most critical things was to pay bribes.

Zhu Laosi took out a huge amount of net worth to officials at all levels in the Yingtian court, and even the eunuchs in the Forbidden City, frantically stuffing money.

When these people first started collecting money, they were still a little restrained, and when they got to the back, if they didn't give it, they would even ask shamelessly, and the further they went, the more silver taels these people wanted.

"Of course not."

Ji Boying reached out to take the wine bottle, Xiao Zhu Si was faster, and hurriedly picked up the wine bottle and poured wine for Ji Boying.

"Man's greed is endless."

During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongzheng initially naively thought that as long as officials were paid high salaries, corruption could be eliminated.

Therefore, the decree stipulates that on the basis of the annual salary, the "maintenance of incorruptible silver" is increased for officials.

The amount of this amount of silver is much higher than that of the official, about 10-100 times the annual salary of the official, which can be described as extremely exaggerated.

Taking the governor of the second grade as an example, the annual salary on the bright side is only 155 taels of silver, plus 155 stone grain and rice, but a year's incorruptible silver can reach up to 13,000 taels of silver!

I have to say that Yongzheng is a good boss.

But unfortunately, people's desires are endless, and they will not be satisfied because you give me a salary increase, but after getting used to it, they will feel that they deserve it, and then want to get more.

After the Yongzheng Dynasty issued the Yang Yin Lian, those officials who should be greedy continued to be greedy, but because the emperor sent a lot of money, they were even more unscrupulous.

Of course, after Yongzheng realized this, he immediately took measures and finally became the most successful anti-corruption emperor in the history of the emperor, and his experience is very worth learning.

"The above list is the ceremony."

"It can ensure that honest and honest officials can also live a prosperous life, so that they will not fall to the point where they are not greedy and cannot survive, and at the same time, they can also strengthen the enthusiasm of officials in political affairs, because the better they do, the more money they will earn."

"Making a fortune by making a fortune is no longer a joke."

Ji Boying picked up the wine in front of him and drank it all.

"And after the salute, it's the soldier."

Ji Boying's eyes were smiling, but including Lao Zhu, he could feel a killing chill emanating from Ji Boying's body.

At this moment, Lao Zhu instantly came to his senses.

"Brother said bluntly, Yuan Zhang, but he obeyed everything!"