Chongzhen and I became partners

Chapter 583 Salary Innovation
I only heard Emperor Chongzhen say seriously: "First, from now on, the salary will be distributed, and there will be no discount!"

Upon hearing this, even though they did not mention the increase in salary, the civil and military officials immediately smiled when they heard it.

Folding color, this is really a pit.What is in the imperial treasury is given, and what is given is not the market price, which is often lower than the market price.Even in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Daming banknotes were almost waste paper, but the court also counted them in the salary according to the face value.

Fortunately, by this time at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's precious banknotes were completely useless, otherwise, the salaries of the officials of the Ming Dynasty would really be worthless.

They were enjoying themselves when they heard Emperor Chongzhen announce again: "Second, all salaries will be changed to the new money of the imperial court, and it will be converted according to the method of ten stones and one tael of new money."

The issuance of new money, after two years of implementation, already has enough credibility.At least what is currently used in the market is basically new money.

When the civil and military officials heard this, they didn't have any objection to it.

As for the conversion based on ten stones and one tael of silver, this price will still be a bit of a loss for the current eighteen years of Chongzhen.

In the Ming Dynasty, one stone of rice was converted into different amounts of silver in different periods. In a good year, 1 tael of silver could buy 12 stones, and in a year of arrears, it could be 7 or 8 stones. The extreme case of two silver coins.

Thanks to the peacefulness of the world in the past few years, the procurement office in the south of the Yangtze River has continuously transported grain to the north.Now the price of grain in the capital is about one tael and eight shi.And it is estimated that in the future, more grain can be bought with one tael of silver.

Under such circumstances, Emperor Chongzhen said that one tael of silver was converted into ten shi. Although some courtiers felt a little disadvantaged, they thought about the prospect that food prices would become cheaper and cheaper in the future. All by default.

The salary of the Ming Dynasty is calculated according to the ninth grade and eighteenth grade, and the details are as follows:
Eighty-seven stones for the first rank, from the first rank to the third rank, thirteen stones to thirty-five stones, from the third rank to twenty-six stones, the fourth rank to twenty-four stones, from the fourth rank to twenty-one stones, the fifth rank to sixteen Stones, from the fifth grade and fourteen stones, the sixth grade and ten stones, from the sixth grade and eight stones, to the seventh grade, from the ninth grade to five buckets, to five stones.

According to the rules announced by Emperor Chongzhen at this time, the monthly salary of the first-rank officials of the Ming Dynasty was 87 shi, and the annual salary was 1044 shi.Equivalent to silver, the monthly salary is 8.7 taels, and the annual salary is 104.4 taels.

And what is Song Yingxing's annual salary?

As much as one hundred thousand taels!
Although Song Yingxing's title is higher than the first grade, the gap between them is too big. It's no wonder that the young officials of Ming Dynasty, those who think that they can do physics and physics, will abandon their official positions.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen went on to announce there: "Thirdly, the current salary amount will be the basic salary in the future. In addition, there will be an official salary, that is, if you are an official, you can get the salary corresponding to the official position. The official salary will be announced later.”

Hearing this, the civil and military officials were all happy, but at the same time they were surprised that there was even an official salary!

If future generations look at this, it is actually very simple.Grade salary is equivalent to the basic salary of later generations; official salary is the post salary of later generations.

Needless to say, this is the suggestion given by Liu Weichao based on the salary details of later generations.

However, if you want to say how innovative this is, it is actually not.In ancient times, some officials conferred several titles, but in fact they received several extra salaries, very similar to this.

However, in ancient times, only high-ranking officials could benefit; and the suggestion given by Liu Weichao, all the official systems of Ming Dynasty can clearly benefit.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was not finished here, and continued: "In addition, in order to encourage court officials to serve as officials in poor areas, a subsidy is added to the salary. To give a simple example, if you go to the southwest as an official, you can receive Subsidy; if you leave the Southwest, the subsidy will be cancelled. The amount of the subsidy will be announced later.”

Since ancient times, few officials are willing to serve as officials in poor places; when the Ministry of officials selects officials, if they know that they will be sent to serve as officials in poor places, many people would rather abandon their posts than do so.

Now the southwestern side has changed the land to return to the local people, and in the future there will be another conversion to pastoralism to return to the local people. If there is no policy encouragement, obviously not many people will be willing to go.

In Emperor Chongzhen's plan, in addition to being subsidized, such officials would also be given incentives to be promoted first.But at this time he was talking about salary, so he didn't mention it.

Seeing the civil and military officials below showing joy, Emperor Chongzhen then announced: "Also, every year in the future, the superiors will be able to assess their direct subordinates, and they will be divided into three grades, A, B, C, and year-end salaries. , If you are not satisfied with the assessment, you can appeal at a higher level, or you can appeal to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The year-end salaries at all levels will be announced later."

This year-end salary is similar to a year-end bonus.The superior should be the most clear about whether they are doing well or not, so the power of rating is in the hands of the superior.

These courtiers in the Wenhua Palace are very rare to hear. I don't know where the emperor came up with so many famous tricks?
Of course, the first thing they thought of was probably the salaries of the gods in the sky. Is that how they are divided?

Emperor Chongzhen then raised his voice a little, and concluded: "In the future, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty will be composed of grade salary, official salary, and year-end salary. There are also subsidies for poor areas. I can tell you first. Basically, each The salary of high-level officials is about four times the current salary. For those who have done a good job, it is about five times."

When the civil and military officials in the Wenhua Palace heard this, they were immediately filled with joy.

These words of the current emperor, in short, mean that not only will their salaries no longer be discounted, but they will generally increase by more than four times.
Before they had time to thank you, they heard Emperor Chongzhen go on to say: "After the world is peaceful and the people are rich and the country is strong, I will see the opportunity to continue to increase the salaries of the ministers. In short, it is to ensure that the ministers do things for the court, so don't worry about it." Difficult to support a family!"

To be honest, upon hearing it, the salary has increased by four times. This increase is definitely very large.

However, the official salaries of the poor Ming Dynasty are really too little.

The annual salary of the highest-ranking officials in Ming Dynasty is only 104.4 taels, four times that, which is 417.6 taels, how much?

Not to mention the comparison with a special existence like Song Yingxing. After all, Song Yingxing is engaged in technology, and the value he created is far more than this amount.Compared with other dynasties, the salaries of Ming officials can be seen how low:

For example, in the Tang Dynasty, the monthly salary of the first rank was 400, and there was another job field, and the first rank was [-] hectares.There is also the life salary, the first rank is two million (two thousand guan). If you simply calculate it, the annual salary of the first rank officials in the Tang Dynasty was more than [-] taels.The annual salary of officials in the Tang Dynasty is probably only the monthly salary of officials in the Song Dynasty.

Now the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty have quadrupled, but they are only about the same as officials in the Tang Dynasty, and even more incomparable with officials in the Song Dynasty.

Even so, compared with the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago, the economy of the Ming Dynasty had a very high growth in terms of total material and population.In this respect, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty were still lower than those in the Tang Dynasty.

In other words, the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty still have room to rise.

However, for the Ming officials in the Wenhua Palace at this time, they were all overjoyed. Not only did they get a lot of salary increases, but the emperor also said that they would continue to increase their salaries in the future.

Needless to say, civil and military officials, including eunuchs, all thanked the emperor for his kindness. The voice of "Long live my emperor, long live, long live" is probably the loudest in this Wenhua Palace.

Emperor Chongzhen's announcement of this salary increase is of course also emboldened.

The local rectification, except that Liaodong has not been restored, and the southwest is still reforming the land, other places can basically be completed in the [-]th year of Chongzhen.According to forecasts, after cleaning up hidden households and re-measurement of grain fields, Mao estimated that the annual tax revenue could reach as much as [-] million taels.

This is not counting the income brought by the imperial court's use of troops overseas and the encouragement of maritime trade after the world was peaceful.As well as the advancement of science and technology, the material growth brought about.

According to the information provided by Liu Weichao, in the 10 years before the First Sino-Japanese War, the annual tax revenue of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was around 8000 million taels of silver, and the peak appeared in 1891, reaching 8968 million taels.

Emperor Chongzhen was very confident. With the help of Liu Weichao, according to Liu Weichao's statement, the total economic output of Ming Dynasty will be higher and higher, and the taxes brought by it will also increase.Compared with the taxes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there must be only a lot more.

In this way, it doesn't feel bad at all to add this little money to his courtiers.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen heard the voice of the officials shouting long live, smiled and asked them to stand up, and then announced: "This salary reform does not involve the clan and nobles for the time being. In addition, I plan to punish officials all over the country. The officials also made some changes so that they can receive the imperial salary."

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were not included in the official system of the court, and they did not actually receive salaries.These officials are actually a kind of corvee, who are paid to the court for nothing, and generally speaking, they are returned to their sons to inherit their father's business and passed on from generation to generation.

In this way, officials often take advantage of their positions and use their hands to make money, which is more than officials receiving imperial salaries, and it also exists.

Even in many cases, the so-called corruption of officials starts from the officials, otherwise, how can we say that the government of officials is corrupt!

At this time, these courtiers in the Wenhua Palace happened to be beneficiaries, so naturally they would not have any objections to this.

However, some people are still more worried. For example, the royal family's salary is too much a burden on the court. They have been playing tricks before, and it is common for them not to pay.The emperor wants to reform the salary, but how will it be reformed?

(End of this chapter)