Chapter 184: For the Chinese New Year, Let’s Give You a Salary Increase!
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When the prince opened his mouth, he was directly criticized.
The officials saw this and were shocked in their hearts.
This King of Han, Zhu Gaoxu, is really becoming more and more arrogant and domineering!
The arrogance is so arrogant that he completely ignores the difference between monarch and minister!
That's the prince!
That's the crown prince!
You, a prince and a minister, dare to scold the prince in public!
Thinking about it, even Gu Zuo's mouth felt a little itchy.
"Your Majesty, you..."
"Shut up, or you'll be thrown into jail!"
Zhu Gaoxu rolled his eyes at him angrily, and the latter immediately became honest.
This is "the one who is violent is afraid of being stunned, and the one who is stunned is afraid of losing his life"!
Gu Zuogu is a big troll, and he is famous for being stupid in both the government and the public.
At only thirty years old, he has become a high-ranking official in the court and a confidant of Prince Han, the supervisor of the country. This Gu Zuo and Gu Liqing are famous for being stupid!
However, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, was also famous for his arrogance.
Not to mention Gu Zuo, he even dared to anger the emperor in public!
Therefore, Gu Zuo really didn't dare to take the initiative in front of Prince Han, so he just said a few words and then stopped.
"The salary in the Ming Dynasty is meager, and I also know it. Since Yang Rong has brought it up, let's discuss it."
"The imperial court has also received a lot of money this year. It's the Chinese New Year, so I'd better give you a little salary increase!"
As soon as these words came out, the officials were moved and immediately became excited.
Increase your salary!
This is a great thing!
Aspiring people such as Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, if it weren't for the fact that their salaries were so meager and their families were about to starve to death, how could they go against their true intentions and take benefits they shouldn't get!
Now Prince Han wanted to increase his salary. When the officials heard this, they immediately became excited and unanimously approved Prince Han's proposal to supervise the country.
Zhu Gaoxu couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this, and he didn't know what to say.
The salary of the Ming Dynasty was notoriously low, and it could only ensure that officials themselves did not starve to death.
The officials of the Ming Dynasty were divided into nine grades and eighteen grades. Besides the ninth grade, there were also junior officials who had not yet joined the ranks. These people formed a huge team of officials in the empire.
The first outstanding feature of the Ming Dynasty is its low salary and salary. Compared with the Tang and Song Dynasties, the salary standard of the Ming Dynasty was ridiculously low.
In the Tang Dynasty, the monthly salary of a high-ranking official was 8,000 hectares, and he also had professional land, which was 60 hectares, and a salary of 2 million (two thousand guan).
The salary in the Song Dynasty was higher than that in the Tang Dynasty. After all, it was a dynasty where the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together. Those officials were all full of food and fat.
However, the monthly salary of a first-class official in the Ming Dynasty was only eighty-seven dan, which was not even a fraction of what it was in the Tang and Song dynasties.
So much so that people in the world commented: "Since ancient times, the official salary system has been as thin as this."
The second major feature of the Ming Dynasty was the change in official salary, which to a certain extent reduced the income and benefits of officials.
The so-called official salary folding means folding rice into things, mainly into pepper, hematoxylin, silk cloth, cotton cloth, etc., and it started in the Yongle Dynasty.
Before Zhu Gaoxu "awakened", the imperial court was so poor that it was almost impossible to uncover the pot, and Zhu Laosi still wanted to launch the Northern Expedition.
In desperation, the prince and Xia Yuanji could only find ways to raise money.
Therefore, the imperial court stipulated that 30% of the salary of officials in the capital should be rice, and the remaining 70% should be "banknotes in spring and summer, and sappan wood and pepper in autumn and winter."
Pepper and hematoxylin were important medicines and dyeing materials, and were mainly used as luxury goods in the palace.
Distributing this kind of luxury goods as salary, and the official discount value is lower than the market value, actually reduces the official's salary.
The disbursement of official salaries in the Ming Dynasty, including when to pay the basic salary and when to pay the reduced salary, were all decided by the court and never considered the actual situation of officials at all levels.
Moreover, the ratio of folding colors is also decided by the imperial court, and the specific items to be distributed are also released according to the actual needs of the imperial court.
As for the third major feature, that is wage arrears.
The imperial court is poor and it is normal for it to default on some salary arrears.
Zhu Gaoxu felt a little upset when he thought of this.
If he hadn't suddenly awakened, this melon boy, Big Fatty, wouldn't have known what he would be like if he was tortured by money and food.
"Okay, okay, Old Xia Tou, first tell me what is the salary distribution process?"
Xia Yuanji nodded and said leisurely: "Your Highness, the King of Han, the Ministry of Household Affairs only distributes salaries to officials in the capital. They will distribute whatever they have, and distribute them in a mixed manner. After all, if grain or silver are distributed separately, other materials will be piled up." It would be a huge waste for the treasury.”
"However, it is precisely this kind of disgrace that makes low-level officials miserable. They often have to go to the market to sell the materials distributed to them after receiving their salaries. In exchange for money and food, they can support their families, so they complain a lot..."
Nonsense, can you not complain?
Your salary was low to begin with, but you still tried every means to deduct it in disguise, and in the end you even defaulted on wages...
No wonder people often say that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were not as good as dogs!
"As for local officials, they all withhold taxes on their own. This is also the ancestral system of the Gao Emperor."
"Emperor Gao thought that collecting taxes first and then allocating them would cause a lot of unnecessary losses, so Emperor Gao specially ordered the local government to calculate the annual expenditures of various places. After the summer and autumn taxes, the local taxes were intercepted. Taxes are required, and the remaining taxes will be paid to the treasury..."
Since the huge salt tax from the new salt law came into the account, Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Accounts, has straightened his back, his legs no longer hurt, and he can speak louder to everyone.
Zhu Gaoxu was spitted on by him, and he was so angry that he almost gave the old guy a hard fight.
"Okay, okay, I understand, please shut up!"
"In the future, the salary of officials below the fifth rank will be doubled, and the salary of officials above the fifth rank will be doubled, and they will only be given rice or silver coins. You can choose which officials you want!"
As soon as these words came out, all the officials were overjoyed, including Yang Shiqi.
If there were other choices, who would be willing to go against his own conscience, disregard his own reputation, and become a corrupt official who accepts bribes in order to support his family?
For a time, everyone was beaming with joy and praised the King of Han for his righteousness. Even Huang Huai was beaming with joy, completely forgetting the unpleasantness that had happened before.
Big Fatty felt extremely disgusted when he saw this, and started to sit aside and get angry at Fatty again.
Zhu Gaoxu smiled, and UU Reading www.uukanshu.net suddenly said: "But this salary has been increased for you, so what about your previous corruption?"
As soon as the words fell, there was an instant silence in the hall. The ministers were like roosters that had their necks strangled. They could no longer laugh, and their old faces turned red from holding back.
Lord Han, Lord Han, you really are not a son of man!
Can't you just let us have some fun and discuss these nasty things later?
Huang Huai was happy for only two seconds. When he heard this, his face turned pale and he couldn't even laugh.
Big Fatty seemed to have spotted the opportunity, and sneered: "King of Han, if you can, throw them all into prison, and see who becomes the emperor's herdsman!"
Ministers: "???"
Your uncle!
Prince, are you a mole?
Do you really think that Prince Han doesn’t dare?
He is such a ruthless person that even the emperor dares to criticize him!
All the ministers were bewildered and sat on the bench tremblingly, not daring to say anything.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Big Fatty speechlessly, and finally sighed.
"That's all. In order to show the magnanimity of the imperial court, the corruption committed by Yongle ten years ago will no longer be pursued."
"Counting from the tenth year of Yongle, those who embezzle less than 500 taels can be exempted from crime as long as they return the stolen money within the specified time, and only need to be recorded in the file resume."
"Five hundred taels to five thousand taels. If you are dismissed from office, you will get rid of your fame. If you recover the stolen money, you will be exempted from prison. If you cannot recover the stolen money, your home will be confiscated. If it is not enough, your descendants will be slaves and maids to pay off the debt."
"For more than 5,000 taels to 10,000 taels, the house will be ransacked to pay off the debt, and the descendants will be slaves to repay the debt. They will not be allowed to take the scientific examination for three generations!"
"Anyone with a capital crime of more than 10,000 taels will not be pardoned, and the nine tribes will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination for three generations!"
"How about it? Anyone who has an opinion can put it forward now. Whether I will listen or not depends on my mood."
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