Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

If you want to be a good official in Ming Dynasty, you have to talk about the sophistication of the world. After all, the officialdom is no better than the battlefield. Civil servants don't know how to do vulgar things like fighting and killing. They are better at stumbling behind their backs.

The front line is tight, and the rear is tight.

The fact that the first rank of officials crushes people to death is very blatant.

But if you want to talk about the world, you must transfer benefits, but the official salary and treatment set by the Ming Dynasty are very low.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu Gao, knew very well what kind of virtue and integrity an official was. He used these officials and suppressed them.

It’s just the situation of Taizu’s first dynasty, and it doesn’t apply to the successor kings. After all, not all Ming emperors are immediate emperors like Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Emperor Zhu Di.

If the official salaries for officials of the Ming Dynasty are too low, corruption will be born, and more and more officials will gradually choose to live in harmony, and eventually become moths of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course... no matter how high the salary is, corruption will still occur, after all, human nature is so complicated.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen clearly raised the salaries of officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty was more to ensure that those officials who were unwilling to be in the same dust as others and were willing to do practical things. When batches of corrupt officials corrupt officials, they can hold absolute righteousness.

I killed you because you were greedy!

Emperor Chongzhen was good at making money. As far as the current Ministry of Internal Affairs has a lot of high-quality assets under his name, he can generate a lot of income every year, but Emperor Chongzhen is also good at spending money.

The reason why the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty continue to explode is that the power they wield is too heavy, and there is no corresponding restriction and supervision.

The group of civil officials called the Outer Dynasty and the group of civil officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opposed and competed with each other. This is what Emperor Chongzhen has been doing.

Qian Sule thought for a while, then bowed to Emperor Chongzhen and asked, "Your Majesty, do you want to increase the scale of grain storage?"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Qian Sule and the others, "The rectification of officials in the Ming Dynasty is just the beginning, and many accumulated problems and chronic illnesses cannot be resolved overnight.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Household Affairs is doing this. There is no need for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to increase the budget for this item, right?" Huang Daozhou thought for a while, then looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said.

Emperor Chongzhen leaned on the dragon chair, looked at Qian Sule and the others, and said in a calm tone: "Although high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes have begun to be gradually promoted in the northern provinces, the disaster relief agencies in various places are also actively rectifying water conservancy facilities. This can lead to a corresponding increase in food production in various places.

There is a lot of pressure to call the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Only under the rule of the northern provinces, the size of the out-of-work group continued to increase.

What's more, from the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the present, the existence of the foreign court towards you has become more and more controversial. I think you are my lucky ministers.

The hall was extremely quiet.

"Isn't it necessary?"

No matter what level it is at, if you lose competitiveness, you will lose your source of power.

In view of such a special situation, many officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are actually complaining, and the pressure is too great. Often, a word of Emperor Chongzhen will cause a group of people to rush around.

"Yes."

Although it is a civilian storage warehouse, whether it is supervised or operated, it must be determined according to the standards of the state. If anyone dares to put crooked thoughts on the matter of the civilian storage warehouse, then the laws of the Ming Dynasty are not just a display. "

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said: "Huang Qing, you haven't been hungry, don't let the existing pressure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs affect your judgment on doing things.

The concept of "governing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats" has made many civil officials of the Ming Dynasty forget about it, thinking that even if they are caught, they will not be severely punished, and at worst they will be dismissed and sent back to their hometowns. In this case, Chongzhen Little by little, the Emperor is righting himself back.

However, all the disaster relief offices in various places have compiled the statistics and summary of the memorials to Beijing, and all the ministers must have seen it.

"Continue to talk about the storage of food."

But I don't see it that way.

Like the disaster victims under the jurisdiction of the disaster relief agencies in various places, the off-duty workers in various industries, and the off-duty groups in various cities, if there is any problem with my Ming's food supply, it will inevitably cause serious consequences. "

The fault is that the Emperor Chongzhen gave him good treatment and a lot of room for promotion, so he oppressed the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and put them under a lot of pressure all day long. I am afraid that many people would choose to resign.

Food security is something that a country with a sound system must consider comprehensively. Once there is a problem with food security, no matter how good the previous development is, it will lead to chaos.

"Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs is said to be in charge of the affairs of the court, I understand a truth. Some things are ordered to be handled by the Department of Government Affairs of the Outer Court. They are either looking for this reason to evade, or they are looking for that reason."

These groups are widely distributed.

In the next five years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will gradually increase the budget. This matter must be clarified with the Chuanhai Federation. The parity food stores in various places must continue to increase in scale. Various provinces are planning to build a number of civilian storage warehouses, which are not mixed with the military storage warehouses of the Ministry of Households.

100 million taels of silver per year is far from enough to order food from overseas.

"In the past, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent 100 million taels of silver every year to purchase a large amount of grain from the Emperor Ming Maritime Trade Association, Hanmeng, and European maritime merchants..."

Emperor Chongzhen responded.

Emperor Chongzhen said with firm eyes: "What is the purpose of you becoming an official? I know that there are indeed a lot of things you have done recently.

"Think about it carefully."

In particular, the pressure on internal finances is not to mention.

In the initial stage of the reform and reform, before the official announcement of the end, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to maintain this kind of competition to ensure that the two sets of civil service teams could be used for him.

It is an indisputable fact that Daming was in the Little Ice Age, and natural disasters occurred frequently, which would lead to a decrease in grain production.

They are all officials of the Ming Dynasty. Is it more noble to serve in a department in the foreign court than in a department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
Everyone has pressure, and so do I. I have been busy with various government and military affairs these days, and I have been staying in the Qianqing Palace, but I want to ask you, why do you have to let others talk about what you have worked so hard to do? "

But these things I do are not for pleasure, but to make Daming Sheji better. Do we have to choose to retreat when we encounter some problems and pressures? "

The scale expansion of the Daming Reformation School was a gradual process.

What is suitable for the initial stage of the reform does not mean that it is suitable for the middle stage of the reform.

What is suitable for the middle stage of the reform does not mean that it is suitable for the later stage of the reform.

Even if it is gradually implemented in the early, middle, and late stages, there will be reforms at a newer level in the Ming Dynasty, so Emperor Chongzhen must cultivate batches of talents to ensure that there will be corresponding talents in different periods!