Nanming: I can build wonders

Zhu Kezang was also very satisfied with Ke Ping's words.

I only heard Zhu Kezang say.

"Then let's deal with it like this. Of course, the Wang clan is not strictly supervised, so it should be punished severely. The clan's children will be punished, and they will not be allowed to take the imperial examination and civil service examination for three years!"

"By the way, fine [-] silver dollars and order him to compensate the families of the dead slaves!"

"The emperor is benevolent!"

All the officials quickly praised Zhu Kezang with one voice.

Facing the flattery of the crowd, Zhu Kezang yawned and glanced around. Regarding the document on the abolition of slavery, he said:

"It's well written in the document of the Council of Governors, just follow what's in this document!"

However, Zhu Kezang decided to start with the court first.

No matter how it is done, the court should make a statement first.

In the current imperial court, the place with the most lowly nationality is Jiaofangsi.

There are quite a few servants such as Yueji and official prostitutes. First, solve their household registration status and use them as a guide to leverage the deep-rooted household registration policy.

From the current point of view, the Lehu and official prostitutes of the Jiaofang Division have no influence on the court, and they will be withdrawn as soon as they are withdrawn. There are not many stakeholders, and the disturbance caused is not large, which is acceptable.

Of course, these people in the Jiaofang Division have been doing this kind of work all their lives. Although the status of Lehu is low, this is also their cooking skills. With their humble status withdrawn, it is natural to give them a way to survive.

However, the new Daming has their way of life. Daming now has many model operas run by the government, which can perfectly solve this problem.

The Jiaofang Division is under the management of the Ministry of Rites. If you want to reform the Jiaofang Division, you must start with the Ministry of Rites.

"The Minister of Rites!"

Suddenly being named, Liu Dian stood up excitedly, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the issue of rewarding Yin Zhou's Ming soldiers is about to be decided..."

"It's not urgent. I'm asking you because I have other matters." Zhu Kezang said.

This made Liu Dian a little puzzled, what else?What's up?

Zhu Kezang said: "The Department of the Jiaofang is under the management of the Ministry of Rites. I want to ask, how cheap is the Secretary of the Jiaofang now?!"

Liu Dian, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, was a little taken aback.

He never expected that the emperor would ask about Jiaofang Secretary.

It stands to reason that the Jiaofang Division is a low-level thing. There are no special circumstances, and the emperor should not ask about it. Why did the emperor suddenly ask about it today?

Regarding the matter of Jiaofang Secretary, fortunately, Liu Dian usually works seriously, and basically knows the situation

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the Jiaofang Division currently has 100 humble people." Liu Dian replied.

"Very well, the imperial court should also actively respond to the implementation plan for the abolition of slavery, so let's remove the humble status in Jiaofang Division!"

"Now let's talk about something else!"

As he spoke, Zhu Kezang changed the subject and said.

"The Weixian slave case, the magistrate and the magistrate, did not report what they knew, corrupted the law with corruption, what do you think, how should I deal with it?"

"Should be handed over to Yousi Yamen for severe punishment!"

Hearing this, Ke Ping, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, opened his mouth and said.

"Severe punishment is unnecessary, exile is fine!"

Zhu Kezang said.

Hearing this, Ke Ping thought, isn't exile a severe punishment?

At this time, I only listened to what Zhu Kezang said.

"The two magistrates and magistrates who committed crimes were both top-notch in the previous assessments by the Ministry of Officials. Let them be exiled to Luzon and let them serve as officials on Luzon Island to serve Ming Dynasty..."

After speaking, Zhu Kezang raised his face and asked the officials again.

"Now, let me ask another question!"

"I am Daming, how about my current salary?"

"This one……"

The officials were slightly taken aback, and looked at Zhu Kezang in puzzlement.

"Is the official salary of my Ming Dynasty higher or lower?"

Zhu Kezang asked again.

"Is it enough for officials to spend?"

"Naturally enough!"

Seeing that Zhu Kezang asked about the salary, Ruan Minxi, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, replied.

After Huang Zongxi retired, Ruan Minxi, the former censor of the right capital, was promoted to the censor of the left capital.

"Now my official salary in Ming Dynasty is naturally enough!"

"Yes, yes, enough, enough!"

After Ruan Minxi finished speaking, all the ministers spoke one after another.

Daming's current salary is indeed enough, because Zhu Kezang has been giving them salary increases.

First of all, the Metropolitan Procuratorate took the lead in implementing Yanglian Bank, and the trial results were not bad, so it was popularized.

In addition to these salaries, some traveling expenses are also given to officials, and free housing is allocated to officials.

Now that Daming's house mortgage pressure is getting bigger and bigger, they can secretly have fun!

Oh yes, there is also a bus.

Nowadays, in the Ming Dynasty, local officials of the sixth rank or above and Beijing officials of the fifth rank or above are assigned a carriage and a coachman according to their rank.

It can be said that the treatment is quite good.

If your salary is not enough for expenses, it can only prove one thing: the life of officials is too extravagant.

At this moment, after hearing that everyone was satisfied with the salary, Zhu Kezang nodded slightly, and then, with a serious face, he said to the officials present.

"Since the salary is enough for expenses, I will double down on anti-corruption now!"

"From today onwards, I will restore the old system of the Taizu Dynasty to deal with corrupt officials. This rule is not only for officials, but also for civil servants. If all civil servants are killed, then recruit from the people!"

"If all the officials are allowed to be killed, I will open Enke!"

"Get another batch of Jinshi!"

"My dear friends, do you understand?"

As he said that, the officials could not help but tremble.

The old system of the Taizu dynasty?
For a moment, everyone turned their gazes to Zhu Kezang who was sitting on the dragon chair.

All I saw was that Zhu Kezang was looking at the civil and military officials gloomyly at this moment, laughing there.

This appearance reminds everyone of the Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang hundreds of years ago...

Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-corruption efforts are extremely perverted, and the bottom line is low. He made a rule that as long as the amount of silver for corrupt officials reaches more than 60 taels, they must lose their heads.

Moreover, the execution was ruthless. During the execution, all kinds of tortures were staged, such as skinning, tendon picking, and finger amputation, etc. It was impossible to punish these corrupt officials.

In all prefectures and counties, the imperial court will set up Pichang temples, which are places dedicated to skinning. If corrupt officials reach more than 60 taels, they will be dragged to the Pichang temple to be skinned.

Of course, this is not just the end. If you are succeeding a corrupt official, you need to fill the peeled skin with lime and put it on the court as a warning.

If under such circumstances, there are still people who are greedy, then it is really psychologically strong.

The fundamental reason Zhu Kezang wants to fight corruption is to reduce administrative costs.

Corruption can easily increase administrative costs, because you are a little bit greedy, and I am a little bit greedy. In the end, the allocated money is guaranteed to be insufficient.

So you can only spend indefinitely.

For example, to do a job that obviously only needs 5 taels of silver dollars, but in the end it will cost [-] taels of silver dollars, or even more. In this way, Daming's administrative costs will increase dramatically.

Although Xin Daming is quite rich today,

And Daming is not too rich now—of course not, never mind—but Zhu Kezang still feels that the money is not enough to spend.

Because we need to build wonders and climb the technology tree, there are a lot of things to do!

However, if you want to fight corruption, in addition to Jin Yiwei's strength, the Metropolitan Procuratorate under the jurisdiction of the cabinet has poor anti-corruption capabilities!
(End of this chapter)