"Your Majesty, which of these old ministers is not the elders of the three dynasties, and which one is not the important ministers, but now they have to personally escort grain into the capital because of the Western Factory's urging taxes. It is like a coolie. This is a loss of the face of the court! People in the world really think that my Ming Dynasty is not sympathetic to the old ministers! If this continues, it will be disheartening! Your Majesty! I have to repay it truthfully, please give it a lesson."

At this time, Sun Ruyou, the Minister of Rites, complained to Zhu Youxiao in tears.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao only smiled coldly: "Why do you want to put an air of an old minister to threaten me? It is a common practice to hand over the grain transport of military and civilians to the grain transport of the grain to the grain. They can transport grain to Beijing in person! I will ask the assistant minister of the warehouse to collect their taxes, but I will also issue an order to punish them for violating the imperial court's orders, just like resisting the imperial edict! Let them transport! No one can block the new policy of the court!"

"Yes! Please give up!"

Sun Ruyou replied with some disappointment. When he received a letter from Gu Qiyuan and others, he was eager to see the emperor. He originally wanted the emperor to care about the feelings of the old ministers. He was more exempted from the high-ranking officials and gentry in urging taxes to avoid serving as common people. He did not expect that His Majesty the Emperor would refuse to give in to the new policy, and would not even treat the old ministers politely.

Zhu Youxiao asked, and he knew that Sun Ruyou's intention was to give him more privileges to these retired officials.

But Zhu Youxiao was unwilling to do so.

In his opinion, these retired ministers and ministers were not short of money. If they wanted to transport grain to Beijing, they could pay money instead of corvee labor, rather than letting the court save their decentness by exempting taxes and grains.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, if you want to be decent, you have to spend money on your own, rather than the court taking the initiative to give it to you.

Sun Ruyou left the Political Affairs Hall.

Zhu Youxiao glanced at his back, and the other party said, "Nan Zhili is now urging the payment of the levy to Qingzhang land mu in full swing. The central government cannot be idle in the court. The examination must be implemented as soon as possible. These officials cannot be too idle and do not know their responsibilities. A second-rank official of the court and a grandmaster were in a hurry to see me. Is it that the affairs of the ministry have been done well, or is the Ministry of Rites too idle and there is no need to be established?! All officials, their salary increases and decreases, promotions and demotions must be linked to their political achievements! Qualifications and fame are very empty."

"My Majesty, how do you calculate this political achievement? Now that the tax and grain are urged to be paid by the Western Factory, local officials no longer have to bear the responsibility of supervising grain. They only have the responsibility to safeguard the people, so please let Your Majesty make it clear."

Fang Congzhe asked back.

"Water can carry a boat, or it can cover it, and the people are water, and the country is this boat. Emperor Taizong of Tang often used this to warn the ministers that peace and stability are also political achievements. If local officials can make the people live a better life, they will contribute to the peace of the country. Moreover, this is better than before, the assessment of officials based on the tax and grain collection, so as to avoid officials exploiting the people to complete the tax and grain;

In addition, the political achievements of Anmin must be quantified, and cannot be determined by the so-called reputation of the officials in the local area. The people are busy busy with three meals a day. How can they know which official is better? Even if we really know, we cannot hear the real people's expectations. After all, most people are illiterate, don't know how to speak, and they don't understand. Officials leave and send umbrellas to represent their hardships;

Therefore, the imperial court must have specific standards for the assessment, such as how much land reclamation, how much grain output is increased, how many canals are opened, how much more households with family wealth are more than 1,000 taels!"

Zhu Youxiao said, "In this way, the responsibilities of officials have not been reduced, but have increased a lot, which will definitely be more tiring, especially the officials in prefectures and counties. They are directly responsible for the contacts of the people and their salaries are the most meager. Now that I prohibit corruption, they will definitely be even more reluctant to be such officials who deal with the people directly. This requires them to increase their salary and benefits, making them feel that it is worth it."

"Your Majesty is wise! There are too few officials in the prefectures and county governments, but now the people are becoming more and more numerous and things are redundant. If the prefectures and county officials want to manage the place well, they need more subordinates. Therefore, many officials have to hire more subordinates for their salaries. This has led to the local officials in the prefectures and counties who want to do things well and become honest officials, and they have to collect money to support their staff and subordinates. However, the standard for salary of court officials was set by Taizu, but I am afraid it is not easy to change them without any changes."

Fang Congzhe started talking.

"The salary may not be changed, but the reward can be increased or decreased. While implementing the examination method, you ask the Ministry of Personnel to formulate a silver reward regulations for officials according to my wishes, which are mainly divided into three parts: maintaining integrity, retirement, and honorary education:

Raising integrity is for the purpose of raising integrity, and avoiding some powerful but poor officials from falling into depravity for five dou of rice;

Retirement is to give officials a period of retirement, so they don’t have to worry about working hard for the court for the rest of their lives, and being hated by younger generations that this old thing is still in power and position. After the age, they can voluntarily resign, and the court will issue Rong and support silver for several years as usual;

The award for the examination is to give generous rewards to outstanding officials, so that officials in the world know that you can collect money for good things for the gentry, and you can collect money for me and the people, but the difference between the two is different."

Zhu Youxiao started talking.

Fang Congzhe was a little excited after hearing this, thinking that His Majesty was not disregarding his officials, so he said:

"Your Majesty has thought it thoroughly. I believe that there is no more silver to raise integrity. This will not only prevent the court from spending too much money and grain, but also prevent officials from becoming more extravagant and even more greedy than before. Because it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is better to place the main incentives after retirement, so that officials can live a stable and prosperous life after retirement;

In this way, even if they have a little short life during their tenure, they will be willing to work hard for the court and the people. After they retire, they will give them generous rewards. In this way, they will be old by then, without being addicted to the spirit and spirit, nor can they chew the delicacies of mountains and seas, and they will no longer be extravagant. Even if they have no scruples, they will only increase diseases. They will use the silver of honor to train doctors for the Ming Dynasty, so that doctors can improve their medical skills for the sake of having a generous medical treatment!"
Chapter completed!