In fact, it is not that no one is against Yan Chenhao, just as those landlords oppose the Qingzhang Tianmu, and many officials are unhappy with the rectification order issued by Yan Chenhao.

After all, it prevents them from making money.

So some people, openly and secretly, spoke ill of him, and even a few officials directly impeached him.

As for the reason, although I can't find it, anyone can catch the wind and catch the shadow and buckle the hat! What Shoufu himself often accepts bribes, and what bad style is added.

However, the current Yan Chenhao is just like Zhang Juzheng back then.

In the court, he has enough supporters, and his series of policies are also beneficial to the country, and he has the support of the emperor.

Powerful, capable, and behind him stands the emperor who rules the empire.

Then he is invincible.

For the impeachment of those officials, Yan Chenhao only explained it to Shangshu, and did not use his own hands to do anything.

And it didn't take long for the reaction in the palace to arrive.

The emperor angrily reprimanded several people for not distinguishing between right and wrong, slandering the courtiers, and then demoting them all.

For a while, the officials who had planned to follow the wind shadow to impeach him couldn't help but stand by and didn't dare to provoke him again.

After all, there are these "jewels in front", but no one wants to lose their official position like this.

However, Yan Chenhao also realized that he had offended many civil officials by doing this, and it would cause backlash.

There are many Shoufu of the Ming Dynasty, but there are almost few who really carry out large-scale rectification and sweeping like themselves. Why? It's not because this thing is too offensive.

And corruption is fundamentally rooted.

Yan Chenhao also understands this, but he believes that some measures can also be taken to reduce it to a certain extent.

For example, to raise the salary.

Although the greed of the people's hearts is excessive, theoretically speaking, the salary offered by the old Zhu family is too low, and it is not an important reason why many officials accept "filial piety".

Of course, it is impossible to justify accepting bribes, but this is indeed an objective factor, so even Yan Chenhao, in the previous rectification, turned a blind eye to those officials who accepted a small amount of silver taels.

After all, this will not last long, and he plans to directly raise the salaries of Ming officials to help reduce the spread of corruption.

As the so-called "high salary and incorruptible", this is exactly the case.

Moreover, this can be regarded as a woo for the ministers and give them some sweetness. Although Yan Chenhao is bent on governing the country, he has been in the court for so many years, and he also has political skills.

However, this still needs Zhu Changxun's consent.

"Extraordinary?" When Emperor Wuxing first saw Yan Chenhao's performance, he was actually very surprised in his heart:

"Why do you have to do that?"

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the reason why the court officials are corrupt and rampant and repeatedly banned is that perhaps the income is too low, which is also an important factor." Yan Chenhao says:

"Moreover, 40% of them are distributed in kind...... Although it is also the greed of officials, there are also those who are forced to make a living. ”

The Ming Dynasty's Yulu was originally low, and forty percent of them were distributed in kind such as cloth, which was really fatal.

From the Jiupin officials, they should nominally get 60 stone of grain a year, but after removing the 40% of the physical goods, the actual amount of rice in hand is equivalent to 5,500 catties of rice in later generations.

Whether it is based on the price of rice at that time or in later generations, this is undoubtedly a relatively low figure, especially since this is an annual salary.

Even if they don't spend anything else, one person chews one pound of rice a day, which is enough for fifteen people to eat.

is an eight-grade official, nominally seventy-eight stone grains a year.

Zheng Wupin official, nominally 192 stone grain a year.

This is still ancient times, and the officials themselves basically have mansions, and there are still a large number of people to raise in the mansions......

But if there are more people in the house, they will starve.

It's a sad day, it's really sad. It's just that some officials have money in their families, so they don't care about this, if they really rely on Yulu alone, unless it's Hai Rui's kind of life, they really can't live.

"This is the ancestral system set by Emperor Taizu, although what you said makes sense, but I can't change it." Zhu Changxun's face was expressionless, although he said that what Yan Chenhao said made sense. But it was obvious that he was reluctant.

After all, if he was asked to take the money out, of course he was not happy.

As we all know, the ancestral system is in a wonderful quantum state - when a certain reform policy is to everyone's appetite, then it does not exist, even if it was implemented harshly during the Hongwu period, everyone will ignore it gorgeously.

But when a certain policy is not very appetizing, someone will suddenly remember a certain regulation in the Hongwu period, and then come to you with a serious face and point it out to you: This is the order of Emperor Taizu, and it is the ancestral system.

Then he made a reluctant look and said It's not that I don't want to, but that Emperor Taizu doesn't allow it, and I can't help it.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang himself has changed it many times, he rarely says anything "forever".

Yan Chenhao understood Zhu Changxun's thoughts very well, and he was not encircled to start a debate on whether to follow the ancestral system - because as long as this thing is brought to the fore, it will hardly be able to win. He went straight to the point where the policy was going to be advantageous.

Anyway, as long as the emperor agrees, they can directly treat the ancestral system as if it didn't exist, and what they just said will be emptied in an instant.

"Your Majesty, a high salary! Although it may be that the expenditure of the court may increase, many courtiers have the possibility of being good, and they will no longer loot the people to support the officials, nor will they embezzle the court funds, which is more beneficial to the court! ”

He said:

"When the time comes, the world will be peaceful, the people will be rich, the officials will be honest, and Your Majesty will still be worried about the lack of money in the treasury?"

The other party rejects your routine, sees through your mind, and begins to dissect the stakes for you and try to convince you.

Yan Chenhao is worthy of Zhu Changxun's teacher, and he can see at a glance what he is thinking.

Although there will still be people who are corrupt, at least there will be some reduction. And this kind of thing, there are countless times with the first time, many people may not have such an idea, and they also have their own bottom line, but seeing that they can't live anymore, they want to take a little bit, and then they are out of control.

But what if you were able to live well without being greedy from the beginning?

Presumably, at least some of those who still have a good heart will not fall into the abyss of sin!

Zhu Changxun fell into a long silence.

However, since these days, he has basically agreed to some of the policies that Yan Chenhao proposed to him, and basically has not rejected them.

Even if there are some policies, he actually doesn't think so, but out of trust and respect for his teacher, he still lets him do it.

This time, too.

"Quasi-play!"

Even though he really didn't want to spend the money.

With such a small salary, have they not lived the same for more than 200 years?

As for the people or something...... For more than 200 years, has the Ming Dynasty crossed over because of this?

(End of chapter)