You can't afford to have more.

From ancient times to the present, men's life pursuits are nothing more than power and sex. To be officials of the Sixth Department and second-rank officials, they can actually do it, and stomp their feet and the world will be shaken.

They have almost reached their peak in power, and there are still few civil servants who rebel. In the Ming Dynasty, there is no possibility of civil servants rebelling.

After Tumu Fort, there was a possibility that civil servants would rebel because the military power was firmly controlled by the Ministry of War, under the control of civil servants. However, in the early Ming Dynasty, in the original history, military power was held in Zhu Yuanzhang, in Zhu Yunwen, in Zhu Di, in Zhu Gaochi, and in Zhu Zhanji.

At the same time, it is also in the hands of Zhu Qizhen, the god of war in the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, how could the Ming Dynasty God of War be able to resist the opposition, to be arbitrary, to lead the army in person, and eventually defeat Tumu Fort, almost causing the Jingkang disaster.

Fortunately, there was Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian, the king and his ministers, who worked together to defend Beijing and eliminate Yesen's idea.

And they have reached their peak in power, and their final pursuit is nothing more than a word of sex, the great sage Zhu Xi, forcibly defeating his daughter-in-law.

Isn’t the so-called famous scholars, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, full of thieves and prostitutes, and romantic talents?

Want color.

The brothels in the Ming Dynasty were legally operated, paid taxes, and even official brothels, called official prostitutes. But if you want to go to brothels or keep them outside, you must have money. If you don’t have money, where to go and how to find sex. This is human nature, and it is the most basic need of a man who has power, and Fang Shiyu never thought of changing him.

On the contrary, he is also vigorously promoting the prostitute. If a high-ranking official has no desires or demands, that is what Fang Shiyu should beware of.

Seeking money, seeking sex, and allowing places may not be able to be compatible. Just like Heshen said, saving the people first, saving officials. Heshen used the disaster relief grain from the court to connect with officials from all over the country. When the officials were full, Heshen exchanged the remaining disaster relief grain for rice bran. All the disaster relief grain from the court was distributed, and he could only save 100,000 people. However, Heshen did this, although the people did not eat well, he could make the officials full. You said that he was a huge corrupt person, but he could really save more people. He was right and he was wrong. Heshen's purpose was only to save more people. Of course, it may be said that Heshen could completely replace all the disaster relief grains with chaff and save 500,000 people.

But the officialdom is so turbid and unbearable.

If ordinary people know the darkness of the officialdom, they will live in a nightmare for the rest of their lives.

Zhang Juzheng taught Emperor Wanli to be benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. When Emperor Wanli took power, he found that this society was not as good as the master taught in books, and was even ugly and scary.

Emperor Wanli no longer believes in Zhang Juzheng, and even did the matter of digging the grave and whipping the corpse. Is Zhang Juzheng no responsibility? He only taught Emperor Wanli to be a mascot emperor, and only told Emperor Wanli how beautiful the world is, and not to say anything about dark things.

When Emperor Wanli himself discovered it, his three views collapsed, and even if it was really too much, it was an extreme approach.

Having said that, the low salary of officials was also the result of Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood experience and psychological distortion.

Zhu Yuanzhang rose to the extreme and was a Buyier at the right hand of Huaiyou. When he was a child, he personally experienced the violent taxes of the Yuan Dynasty. Historical records can be found that the taxes of the Yuan Dynasty have increased by decades.

The corruption reached the extreme, the upper class was extravagant and the lower class worked hard all day but could not make a living. This left a huge shadow in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart when he was young.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang had a unified impression of officials all over the world, and it was a very bad impression.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, officials of the Yuan Dynasty could do that, and officials of the Ming Dynasty would do so. As the saying goes, the world is as black as crows.

Don't laugh at anyone.

The first time the salary standard for officials in the Hongwu Dynasty was implemented was 30% less than the current standard. This was the 22nd year of Hongwu. Zhu Yuanzhang re-customized the salary bill, which increased the officials a little.

That's just a little bit.

And the officials are almost starving to death. With certain power, can they still bear it and not break the law? Do not embezzle or corrupt?

High salary is not a good way to maintain integrity, but most of the people who are raised with low salary are corrupt officials who are imprisoned with high salary are not a good way to maintain integrity. However, most of the people who are supported with low salary are corrupt officials who are more blatant and unscrupulous, and are popular all over the country for a time. The local taxes are 10,000, and the local government dares to leave 3,000, and report 7,000. Then the local government intercepts 2,000, and only 5,000 arrives in the capital or granaries in various places.

Such a corruption method is horrifying.

If you just want to be greedy for one tael, you will die. If you want to be greedy for sixty taels of skinned grass, then I will be greedy for ten thousand taels, sixty thousand taels, and one hundred thousand taels, and you will be greedy for one vote. What about you, Emperor Zhu and Emperor Dog, can I not play with you?

Then, the Guo Heng case and the empty seal case appeared. These two major anti-corruption cases of Zhu Yuanzhang, the fugitive official? Do you think you escaped and the emperor would not be able to catch it? Then, after you escape, everything would disappear?

I went to dream.

At that time, fleeing officials in various places were a temporary trend, and the world was in line. When Zhu Yuanzhang realized it, officials had already gone out of the pass and worked hard for the Yuan Dynasty.

He even shouted that Zhu Yuanzhang was not the ruler of the world, and all kinds of slander remarks emerged one after another. What's more, he was so extreme that he wanted the captives to go south and trample the mountains and rivers.

They seemed to be willing to work hard for Baoyuan and be inferior than to work hard for Zhu Yuanzhang and be an official of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is very simple.

Zhu Yuanzhang's salary and anti-corruption efforts have been in China for 5,000 years, and he cannot find a second one. Really, really!

Following the former Yuan Dynasty, they were inferior people, but they could still be able to slap people in the countryside, collect intensive taxes, and make full use of their own pockets.

This gap naturally emerged.

It's you, who do you choose?

Did Zhu Yuanzhang have tolerance for corruption? It can be said that he has zero tolerance.

On the contrary, zero tolerance for corrupt officials is not a mistake. As the emperor of the Zhu family, it is impossible to say that the ancestors are wrong.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's zero tolerance and high-pressure rule, killing and suppressing, and iron-blooded policies, the officials of the Ming Dynasty lived more hard and busy than the ordinary people who were digging food from the soil.

What is the purpose of becoming an official? Live a comfortable life. Then now, becoming an official is more tiring than the common people.

The world was bustling with people, all for profit, and the world was bustling with people, all for profit. There were more than a thousand officials in the Ming Dynasty and officials at all levels in the local area, with more than five or six thousand people.

Among all the people, some people really want to embezzle, and some people are forced to embezzle. A very small number of saints, after becoming officials, burn themselves wildly, warming the stove in the district.

This one and a half can already be called a saint, but what can a saint do? A saint can not raise his wife, children, and a saint does not pop up from the cracks of a stone.

How about the mother at home getting sick? She can’t afford to catch medicine.

If you are greedy, you can save your mother's life. If you are not greedy, you have to watch your mother die.

Sometimes, this person is not just about being an official and going for corruption. The official atmosphere may change a person, but it is definitely not all.

Hai Rui is not greedy, that is, Hai Rui's family has a lot of money, but it really has a lot of money!

A county magistrate of a county government.

For example, Wan Guan, the magistrate of Jiangning County, is just a county magistrate, but from the perspective of later generations, he is not only a county magistrate, but also a high-ranking county official, county magistrate, police station director, judicial bureau director, education bureau director, finance bureau director, and even the director of nursing homes.

The Ming Dynasty had a strict pension system.

A sixty-year-old can receive one stone of food every month, a seventy-year-old can receive two stones of food, and an eighty-year-old can receive five stones of food.

The ninety-year-old man earns much more than the ninth-rank official.

And county magistrates like Wanguan hold several positions and there are thousands of them in the Ming Empire. They have so many identities that they cannot tell themselves, and they have too many things to do, so they can't even figure it out.

Worrying about the development of the entire county town, the court advocated commercial development (Fang Shiyu himself praised) and also had to bear the livelihood issues of tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people in the county town.

The responsibility is very great, and the work is very chaotic and heavy. If you want to be a good county magistrate, you really have to devote yourself to it and work hard, but you may not be able to do it well. After paying so much, you can only get a low salary. This is just bleeding and crying.

Having said that, Fang Shiyu has never believed in the fact that high salary is to support integrity. Whether it is honest or not depends on the awareness of being an official, and high salary will definitely allow some officials who stick to their true hearts and are unwilling to be corrupt to turn back and keep their true hearts when facing a choice.

Don't go astray and never return.

Once the path of corruption is taken, there will never be a turning point.

As for what Zhu Yuanzhang decided to embezzle sixty taels and peel the grass. Although Fang Shiyu felt a little harsh, he could turn sixty taels into hundreds of taels.

In addition to avoiding the punishment of skinning by corrupt officials, Fang Shiyu believes that this punishment should be passed down from generation to generation.

If you are still greedy, then you will be too much if you are still greedy.

Passing by Qianqing Palace, Fang Shiyu originally wanted to summon Feng Cheng in Qianqing Palace and ask about the specific situation of Dongsheng Shenzhou.

But I didn't expect to meet Xia Yuanji here.

With a suspicious look, Fang Shiyu said, "Old Xia, why are you here? What are you waiting for?"

"Your Highness? You?" Xia Yuanji looked confused and then bowed and said, "I pay homage to the princess!"

"Okay, since you are here, let's come in together!" Fang Shiyu asked Lin Wang to push open the gate of Qianqing Palace and took Zhu Ziyi to walk in first.

Xia Yuanji followed behind and looked at Lin Wang, full of doubts.

However, at this time, Fang Shiyu had already entered the Ganqing Palace. How could he be slower? He hurriedly stepped in.

Fang Shiyu said: "You are here to ask about salary, right?"

"Your Highness, I am just not sure about the standards. After all, I am also a second-rank official, so I will inevitably be favored by one or the other."

Xia Yuanji doesn't want to do this hard and tiring job. If he does it well, he will be regarded as a thorn in his eyes by the emperor. If he does not do it well, he will be regarded as a thorn in his flesh by his colleagues.

It’s not human life inside or outside.

"If your salary is increased, it will be increased. I will return it from Dongsheng Shenzhou. This year, it has been three years since the new land law of the imperial court has been implemented, and the world's grain production has increased dramatically."

"The national treasury is abundant. Although the southern expedition will damage wealth, it will gain more wealth. The prices in the Ming Dynasty will also rise as the Baochao recovers."

"One pound of pork requires hometown treasure money. The salary of the lower-level officials is not enough to eat two meals of meat. I can make the people full, can't I let the officials full?"

Fang Shiyu sat down, Zhu Ziyi was beside him, and didn't say anything. Zhu Ziyi brought tea from somewhere and placed it in front of Fang Shiyu.

"Your Highness, if that's the case, what's the standard? How to set the salary?" Xia Yuanji hesitated and asked indecisively.

After thinking for a moment, Fang Shiyu said: "Since Prince Zhu Biao ascended the throne, the price of Baochao has continued to recover, and there are also many gold and silver in the treasury, and real gold and silver have been restricted from circulation as currency."

"The salary of officials in the future will be distributed with treasure banknotes and grain, 30% of them, 30% of them, 70% of them, and 70% of them!" Fang Shiyu said firmly.

At this time, this is the only way to do it. Anyway, gold and silver cannot become currency circulation, and gold can be used as a strategic reserve. Once the finances collapse that day, with this gold, the court will have the opportunity to break it and then establish it.

Although this will cause trouble for that generation of hard-working people, it is still very important to the stability of the empire.

In physical goods, they cannot be invalidated directly. After all, the taxes and commercial taxes collected in many places in the Ming Dynasty were also mixed with physical goods.

The grain is directly distributed to officials, which saves them from buying grain.

Although it will be a little more complicated, I can send food today and other things tomorrow.
To be continued...