Xia Yuanji couldn't figure out what Fang Shiyu meant, and was unwilling to do this offensive thing. If he did it well, he became the benefactor in the eyes of civil servants and was praised, would he be afraid and then eliminated quickly?

Although this may be very small, Xia Yuanji finally reached the position of Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Revenue Treasury is really rich and so rich.

In the 28th year of Hongwu, the second edition of the Ming Dynasty treasure banknote was 300,000 yuan. This money would be invested in all walks of life and allow the entire Ming Dynasty to develop rapidly.

In the imperial court's official warehouse, the surplus of 40 million stones of grain was enough to ensure the purchasing power of the ten-spot treasure money and dou rice. More importantly, there is a lot of gold and silver in the treasury.

Zhang Yan looked at Xia Yuanji's departure back and said suspiciously: "Does Your Highness really want a salary increase?"

However, when Xia Yuanji arrived at the Ganqing Palace, he was turned away. Lin Wang blocked Xia Yuanji and said, "Mr. Xia, Your Highness has been traveling for days and working hard day and night. What's the matter? I'd better wait until tomorrow!"

"Let's talk about it tomorrow?" Xia Yuanji looked at Lin Wang with a blank expression.

At this time, Fang Shiyu was sitting in Princess Qingshen's house, and she didn't rest in the Ganqing Palace. Looking at Qingshen lying on the bed, Fang Shiyu smiled and said, "I have found it for you, the author of the popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms!"

"Your Highness, I..." Qingshen looked at Fang Shiyu with a sad face. At this time, she was infected with wind and cold, weak all over, and it was difficult for her to get up, let alone to see someone.

"It will get better, so be at ease to recover!" Fang Shiyu touched Qingshen's forehead. The high fever had subsided. According to experience, it should be better if he had rested for a few more days.

But Qingshen stood up weakly and said, "Thank you for your concern. Your Highness is working hard day and night, so let's go back and rest first..."

Princess Qingshen turned her head and Fang Shiyu was suspicious. At this time, Zhu Ziyi walked in and saw Fang Shiyu, and said with a heavy expression: "Your Highness finally has time to come to the harem!"

"Isn't this a trip out of the palace to Jiangning? I'm a little late to come back!" Fang Shiyu said awkwardly.

Zhu Ziyi brought the medicine soup to Princess Qingshen's bed and helped Princess Qingshen drink the medicine. Fang Shiyu rolled her eyes and said, "I don't know if I say anything when I leave the palace."

"Tell me, take you out with me, right? I'm not annoying here anymore. You guys play, I'll leave." Fang Shiyu saw that Princess Qingshen was not good for a while, and he was unwilling to disturb him to rest.

After Zhu Ziyi helped Princess Qingshen to drink the medicine, the two of them left the house together.

Fang Shiyu said: "Why are you suddenly so sick?"

"The imperial physician said it was caught cold at night. I guess Yingtian should have started to get colder. Qingshen lived in Liaodong since he was a child and was not adapted to the climate here. When we went to Dongsheng Shenzhou, we fell ill at the beginning, didn't we get sick?"

Zhu Ziyi stuck out her tongue and muttered.

"Dongsheng Shenzhou, yes, it's been three years since there has been no movement. Why don't you go to see Feng Cheng?" Fang Shiyu suddenly remembered that the little fat man Zhu Gaochi was in Dongsheng Shenzhou.

Zhu Ziyi said, "Okay, Dongsheng Shenzhou is indeed a good place, but there are too few people. By the way, do you still remember it? You want to prove to me Huntian?"

"Huntian said?" Fang Shiyu was slightly stunned, and came to his senses in an instant, and smiled and said, "That must be proved. Wait for Lan Yu to come back. Next time he goes out for a sea trade, one thousand ships will be enough. Another fleet will be sent to go from the east!"

Fang Shiyu smiled. This was an agreement between him and Zhu Ziyi in Dongsheng Shenzhou.

Xia Yuanji and others were walking back and forth outside the palace gate in the Qianqing Palace. The salary of the Ming Dynasty was paid by physical goods and treasure money due to the shortage of gold and silver in the early days. However, the salary of the Ming Dynasty court has reached a new low in history. In thousands of years of official system, there is no royal family that has paid less than the salary given to officials by the Emperor of the Zhu family.

Because the early Ming Dynasty taxes were mostly based on physical goods and collecting treasure money, it was only in recent years that Fang Shiyu had gradually promoted and promoted the tax. The court collected commercial taxes based on Bao money, and the land tax could be mixed with physical goods and treasure money.

In this way, the treasure banknotes were broken in the early Hongwu period and the court did not collect them, causing them to depreciate wildly. The salary of the court officials was like paper that wiped their butts, and they were not worth mentioning.

All that can be seen is food and salary.

The salary of the Hongwu Dynasty was 9th-rank officials and the lowest-level officials, with an annual salary of 60 stones of grain. On average, it was only 5 stones of grain per month, 125 kilograms of grain per stone and 625 kilograms of grain per stone and 625 kilograms of grain per stone.

Of course, you will definitely not starve to death, but this salary can only ensure that they will not starve to death.

What about the future? There are many messy things, including trivial matters at home, and filial piety and foster children.

The price of one stone of grain is only a thousand eight hundred stag of treasure money. This is because the purchasing power of treasure money has rebounded, and officials in the border areas are still fine.

Where is the food price relatively stable and can meet the highest standard of the imperial court's pricing? And what about Jiangnan? This is the entire Ming Dynasty's grain-producing land. With the emergence of sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes, the grain prices have directly declined rapidly.

The food became cheaper, and officials calculated their salary based on food, and their salary in disguise also became lower.

Fang Shiyu advocated low prices and high incomes, controlling the emergence of low income and high prices, which affected the national economy and people's livelihood. In the end, only officials in the entire Ming Empire were low-income and high-price groups.

Grain production has increased year by year, and prices have been falling all the way. The grain prices in heavy grain production areas have fallen all the way below the court's custom-made ten-cent treasure banknotes and one dou of rice.

Because of its dense population, the grain price in Yingtianfu is relatively stable. In remote areas, where grain does not produce grain, the highest grain price is not more than a dou of rice in the 17-tank treasure banknote.

The purchasing power of Baochao will also occur in different situations as the grain prices in different places deviate.

A ninth-rank official in Yunnan and Guizhou sold half of the rice and grain and could obtain about 2,000 chunks of treasure money, and his purchasing power was roughly equivalent to more than 1,000 grandfathers in the 1915s.

Ke Yingtian's ninth-rank official sold half of the rice and grain and could only get 1,400 guan of treasure money, and invisibly lost 500 guan of treasure money.

Of course, these salaries are more than enough to support an official, and even deposit grain every year, but the official's accounts are not calculated in this way.

Since they have become officials, how can they let their elderly mothers, their beautiful wives and their children support themselves? On the contrary, they have to find social schools, private schools, and read books and literacy for their children.

In those areas with higher grain prices, it is still good. The rice and grain sold can maintain the cost of the family, and the food can be considered as a barely able to survive.

As for drinking tea? That's really a luxury life.

In contrast, in the wealthy land in Jiangnan, the prices of grain fell and were the center of the court. Fang Shiyu did not allow the price of grain to exceed one dou of ten guan Baochao.

As for whether the court sells grain, will there be merchants stocking up goods? If they really cannot release grain at the court's official warehouse, these merchants will sell grain at a high price.

Or hold the food and don't sell it out.

That's not far from raiding the family and extermination.

Hoarding goods? If you stock up on the goods, it is also for the court to stock up on it.

Moreover, most of the grain merchants in Yingtianfu are imperial merchants, and a very small number of grain merchants must be reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Revenue before they can sell grain in Yingtianfu, and the grain price is controlled by the court.

It does not give merchants a word of voice on food pricing at all.

This directly led to the rapid development of business around Yingtianfu, while the civilians and couples worked together to work, one strengthened labor, and the daily wages of a temporary worker reached fifty-five stakes.

If there is a certain skill, Yingtianfu also has the craftsman bureau of the court, and in Longjiang it has the largest shipyard in the court. A technical craftsman master of a Longjiang shipyard has a monthly salary of 4,000 guan of treasure money.

After years of accumulation, it seems that only officials in the Ming Dynasty were low-income groups. They neither wanted nor could they let their wives and mothers work and subsidize their family income. The court's salary was so much, and it was gone after spending.

In this way, with the advent of the era of material desires, the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe, the country will be stable, the barbarians from all directions will be surrendered, and the political system will be stable.

This corruption naturally came out.

Many people do not like corruption very much, but when faced with the salary given by the court, they are almost unable to live in a large courtyard and are about to sleep in the streets.

Many lower-level officials have little salary, which is really not enough.

A ninth-rank official can make a living without worrying about food and clothing.

If you want to have no worries about food and clothing, you must have at least a seventh-grade title. Even if you are a seventh-grade title, you will not be corrupt or accept bribes. You will be busy all year round and you will be good to add two pieces of clothes to your wife and children.

Although the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty was developing very quickly.

Let’s talk about it further, even if you are a senior official of the six ministries and a minister of the department, your annual salary is only one thousand stones of grain. If you become a minister of the court, your family will not be filled with servants.

There are seven or eight people who are clear and flowing, and at least thirty or fifty people who are extravagant.

It was fine twenty-two years ago in Hongwu. The relatives and friends in their family tried every means to buy, forcibly seize land and occupy land.

Because of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang first became emperor, there were too few scholars in the world. In order to restore the Han etiquette and the clothes of the Han family, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a tax-free policy for scholars.

Encourage all people in the world to read and read.

This is also a unique contribution to the Ming grass. The people are willing to devote their land to scholars and officials in the court, so as to obtain subsidies for tax exemption policies.

Over time, he became a tenant.

Of course, these were indeed against Lao Zhu's taboo, but Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't do it well and did not figure out how to prevent such a thing from happening.

This is also acquiesced by the nobles, civil servants, local gentry, and scholars. With the offering of land, they can live a more prosperous life.

But these lands did not pay taxes to the court, but instead paid taxes to these nobles, gentry, and scholars.

Everyone knows it well that no one will break this layer of window paper.

At that time, they could live more freely and not worry about money and food.

However, with Zhu Yuanzhang's policy on land reform in his later years, the price of 10 taels of silver for high-quality paddy fields, 7 taels of silver for medium-quality land, and 5 taels of silver for low-quality land.

All the land in the world was received by the imperial village.

Not selling?

It does not exist. When this policy was first released, the nobles of Huaixi, led by Duke Wei and Duke Liang, gritted their heads and handed over the land they had occupied for many years to the imperial village.

Of course, they also received some compensation.

There are also people who insist on not selling. In addition to gentry and wealthy families, the most representative one is Korean Duke Lee Sun-chang, which is also because Lee Sun-chang refused to sell the land to the imperial village.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and forcibly implicated in the Hu Weiyong case. The nobles who were implicated in the nine tribes and accompanied Li Shanchang to death, and the eight or nine families were all considered representatives of the nobles who rejected Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not hold back when killing Li Shanchang. He just suffered from his daughter and let Li Qi live and exiled for thousands of miles. Otherwise, Li Shanchang's family would be defeated.

The gentry and wealthy families refused Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness, and countless casualties were killed or injured. Zhu Yuanzhang also experienced the benefits of this action.

Instead of letting the people be tenants for nobles, gentry, and civil servants, it is better to be tenants for yourself, the emperor.

The emperor knew how many acres of land there were and how much food it collected in the world, which could also allow the emperor to better control the empire!

With the reform of the land law, there was no private land in the world, and all the land belonged to the emperor and was distributed once every thirty years.

Fortunately, the nobles can do business and subsidize their family income. Moreover, the nobles are more or less, and they are also dukes and princes. If they do business, they will also be favored by local governments.

This is something that must be avoided.

On the contrary, civil officials were restricted from doing business. According to Zhu Yuanzhang's slogan of reform, if you want to be rich in the world, you should not be an official, and if you become an official, you should not be a rich in the world. Then, Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not allow civil officials to be rich in the world, but even the social engagements between them were strictly restricted.

He was a minister of the six ministries and a senior official in the ministry. After the abolition of the three provinces, he was a minister of the six ministry and a second-rank official. He had a wife and only son in his family.
To be continued...