Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di: Dad, why are you not dead?!

"I can also tell you that when I ascended the throne, the previous emperors had already acquiesced in the use of two methods: folding color and pouring tips and kicks to covet the people.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "What is the folding of color and the sprinkling of the tip of the kick?" "

Zhu Yijun explained: "When the people pay taxes, they sometimes use silver taels and copper coins instead of physical goods, and officials claim that in the process of returning the scattered silver, the silver and the two will be lost, and these losses will of course have to be borne by the taxpayers." In fact, in the process of returning to the furnace, whether there is any loss, or how much is lost, only the people in the government understand, and the common people do not know the truth, they can only be forced to honestly hand over the excess silver that needs to be lost. "

"Drenching the tip of the kick is also known as "kicking the tip", that is, the official in the acceptance of the public grain with the foot to kick the Hu, the part of the grain on the top of the Hu will be sprinkled down but not fall, the grain that flows down is called "loss", and it goes into the official's bag. "

Kick this kick can not fall, otherwise you have to reload, if you kick too much will inevitably be boiling public resentment, that is the unwritten rule between the Ming Dynasty government and the people, 327 every year to the government to serve in the new science and technology scholars, before taking office, many people began to practice hard "internal strength", the purpose is to be fast and accurate, short and fast, one foot can not only kick out more food but also not kick the Huzi to, is jokingly called "the style of that kick".

When he heard these words in Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, it was like a sharp knife stabbing into his heart, and there was a tingling pain in his heart.

Zhu Di interjected: "Emperor Wanli is right, Jianwen has only been in power for four years, and the extravagance of officials has risen. "

"Emperor Hongwu, I know the reason why you hate corruption so much, and I also know that you want to be good for the people." Zhu Yijun gently patted Zhu Yuanzhang's shoulder:

"You want to create a dynasty without corrupt officials, but you have to understand a truth, when the water is clear, there are no fish, where there is light, there must be darkness, as long as officials are still people, there must be corruption, this is inevitable, we can only try to make corruption as little as possible."

Zhu Di asked, "Then how did you do it?" "

He witnessed the luxury of the Jianwen period, the wind of corruption gradually rose, and after ascending the throne, he was also thinking about how to fight corruption.

Zhu Qiyu pricked up his ears and prepared to learn from the scriptures.

"First of all, I raised the official's salary, and raised the monthly salary of the fifth-grade official to fifteen stones."

"Fifteen stones?"

This amount seemed to kill Zhu Yuanzhang, and he shook his head again and again: "This is too much!" Can't be too nice to them! "

Zhu Yijun was noncommittal: "Do you think officials are cattle and horses?" Smoke it and you'll go? Five stones is too little, and fifteen stones can already ensure that those who do not want to be corrupt will not be embarrassed by money. Moreover, if there are more money, the enthusiasm of officials will also increase. "

"Second, I turned the grain into a combination of grain and silver, and some of it was still given to the grain, and the other part was converted into the price of the grain of the year and exchanged for silver to be distributed to the officials." Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled again: "Why don't you send treasure money?" Isn't treasure money more convenient than silver? "

Zhu Biao also nodded, agreeing with his father's idea, how convenient the treasure money is, when the imperial court's finances are tight, just print the treasure banknote.

Zhu Yijun sneered.

Treasure money?

This thing was indeed useful when it was first released, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't understand the economy at all, and there was a shortage of silver in the early Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court printed treasure notes worth tens of millions of taels of silver, making its actual purchasing power lower and lower year by year. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

In the Yongle Dynasty, the purchasing power of treasure banknotes was less than half of (CBCF) at the beginning, and by the Zhengde period, treasure banknotes were no different from paper, and even used to wipe their buttocks were disliked, so they were completely abolished.

"Emperor Hongwu, the treasure banknote was abolished during the Zhengde period, that is, during the reign of the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as for why it was abolished, you can find a book to find out the specific reason."

Zhu Yijun continued to talk about his own operation: "Third, in addition to the promotion of Yulu, the imperial court also set up an additional bonus, and at the end of each year, officials will be given additional bonuses in addition to Yulu. The amount of bonuses to be paid shall be determined on the basis of the evaluation and rating of officials in the current year. "

"There are four classes in the evaluation of officials, such as A, B, C, D, and D, and there is no bonus for class D, half of the bonus for class C, a bonus equivalent to half of the price, and a bonus equivalent to twice as much as the amount for class."

"In this way, in order to improve the evaluation level, officials will focus on stand-ins for political performance."

Zhu Yijun paused: "However, this point has not been fully promoted in the Wanli Dynasty, because if you want to promote it, you must have a strong supervision and assessment agency, otherwise there will definitely be a matter of falsification of political performance. "

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, and Zhu Qiyu all looked like they had never seen the world after hearing this, even if they had not implemented it, they thought slightly in their hearts, and felt that the system implemented by the Wanli Dynasty was feasible.

Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard, and after a while, he asked melancholy: "You say, if you really give the officials a high salary, will they really not be greedy?" "

He rose from the bottom, and he had seen too many ugly faces of dog officials, and he knew that the greed of those dog officials was endless.

"Gao Chenglu, is to let people who don't want to be greedy not have to be greedy, so that they can live without worry, this group of officials, even if it only accounts for 10% of the number of all officials, it is a large group of people, for them, high salaries and honest pensions are also worth it."

Zhu Yijun's words changed: "Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Yongle, Emperor Jingtai, and the three policies of the Wanli Dynasty have one of the most important premises, that is, strict supervision and punishment. "

"I know a little bit of heaven, and after five hundred years, according to the historical trajectory, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there was a Yongzheng Emperor who implemented the policy of high salary and honesty."