Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 105 The Income Generation Conundrum
This new official evaluation system is fully open and transparent. Even officials in various positions across the country will receive a list of key points for their own evaluation by the court, which can be regarded as allowing every official to have a clear understanding of their work priorities and responsibilities. Cognition.

Even Zhu Tianqi knows that since ancient times, "there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom". Most officials have a coping attitude towards the court's assessment, but even if they are coping, they have to try their best to meet the court's assessment indicators for them, at least It won’t be like before, either not doing anything or doing things blindly and not being able to get to the point.

Of course, there is an obvious drawback to assessing officials in the current way. That is, in order to complete their own assessment indicators, officials will focus on their own assessment points and will not focus on anything other than the assessment points. You may not want to spend any thought on your affairs.

After all, it is difficult to define the responsibilities and work content of these officials in the imperial court, especially local officials. Some things may not have been thought of by the officials, but they are very important in practice. If these things are not due to absence, If no officials are willing to do it during the assessment, big problems are likely to occur.

Therefore, in addition to the assessment standards for all officials, an additional item was specially formulated, that is, additional points other than responsibilities and work points, so as to encourage officials to do more for themselves on the premise of completing their duties. The people work for the country to benefit.

Regarding the assessment of officials, naturally the higher the final assessment score, the higher the court's evaluation of the official. Promotion and wealth are closely related to this assessment. No one can guarantee that their assessment results will be qualified. Therefore, for the sake of insurance, You still have to worry about this additional item.

The officials did not show too much rejection or opposition to the new evaluation system introduced by the imperial court. Zhu Tianqi felt that it might have a lot to do with the fact that he announced the new official salary payment standard in advance. You can only accept the imperial court's assessment honestly.

If you object to this assessment, it seems that you are opposing the imperial court to increase your salary. You must know that this time the standard of salary distribution is not a small increase, but directly doubled, and the full amount of cash is paid, which is almost the same as before. It's a huge difference. In the past, as long as the court didn't default on salary arrears, officials would be thankful.

Therefore, Zhu Tianqi adjusted the standards and methods of salary payment for officials and increased their salaries. It can be said that he won the favor of officials of all sizes across the country to a great extent. Officials of all sizes across the country were grateful to the emperor and thought of the emperor. Zhu Tianqi's image instantly became "tall and majestic" when he repaid them the salary they had owed for many years.

However, Zhu Tianqi was not naive enough to think that just by relying on the extra money in salary, he could make officials loyal to him and become honest and loyal. After all, the main income of many officials in the DPRK today is gray income, and almost no one is. If we want those who live on salaries to give up their gray income, they still have to work hard on anti-corruption.

Zhu Tianqi was busy here, and Zhang Yan was not idle either. She was not just joking with Zhu Tianqi, but she actually started to take charge of the affairs of the talent show girls. The queen mother should have made the final decision on the matter of the talent show girls. Yes, but there was no Queen Mother in Tianqi. Although there was a concubine who held the Queen Mother's seal on her behalf, she had long been ignored by Zhu Youxiao. She was in a state of old age and waiting to die in the harem.

Zhu Tianqi naturally ignored her and directly authorized Queen Zhang Yan to take charge of the matter. Therefore, Zhang Yan was also taking care of the matter for Zhu Tianqi very seriously. She had already sent people to various chief envoys across the country to search for them. For the audition, thousands of beauties from all over the country have gathered in the capital. After several rounds of rigorous screening, only [-]% to [-]% will be left.After Zhu Tianqi heard Zhang Yan's report to him, he was more anxious about the lack of money than his expectations for the new concubines who were about to enter his harem in the future. The matter of drafting girls was a very expensive matter. Although Zhang Yan once said that since she took the initiative to share the emperor's worries, Zhu Tianqi was not shameless enough to spend women's money to find a woman for himself.

Therefore, Zhu Tianqi naturally decisively rejected Zhang Yan's proposal and insisted on spending the required silver from his internal funds. Therefore, the money in his internal funds was about to start flowing out again. Although it was not a lot, it still made him feel a little bit. My flesh hurts, I feel a bit like Kong Yiji being robbed of fennel beans, and I want to shout: "Not much, not much, I am not much anymore!"

In addition to Zhu Tianqi's private money, there is not much money in the imperial treasury now. Although the previous reissue of salary and military pay owed by the imperial court was all money from internal funds, the reason why the imperial court may have accumulated ten years of salary arrears is Pay, it is precisely because the treasury is empty, so there is not much money in the treasury at all.

Zhu Tianqi allocated funds from internal funds to make up for the accumulated arrears and salary arrears in the past few years. It can only be said that he helped the treasury solve its debts. If the treasury wants to save some money, it needs to look at the tax situation this year.

It's just March now, and there are still five or six months before the court collects taxes. After all, the Ming Dynasty still focused on agricultural taxes, so taxes are usually collected in summer and autumn. Now, although the new tax law has changed the collection method, no Grain was levied again, but money was levied uniformly, but the tax collection time remained unchanged. After all, if the people did not harvest grain, they could not turn it into money to pay taxes.

Zhu Tianqi was also very anxious when he thought that he would have to wait for less than half a year to receive the first tax payment. After all, the court still had many ways to spend money, especially since he had just adjusted the salary payment standards for officials. Salary expenses doubled.

When the money in the treasury is used up, I have to use the money from my internal funds to supplement it. And most of the money from my internal funds has been spent, and I don't dare to use the rest easily. I still have to use it. It ensures Liaodong military affairs, disaster relief for the Shaanxi Chief Envoy Department, and the research and development and production of the northwest military industrial base.

Therefore, it is still necessary to find a way to generate income, but when it comes to generating income, Zhu Tianqi really can't think of any good method for a while. Could it be possible to find something about the civil official group and copy the homes of hundreds of corrupt officials?
But this is just a thought. Now that the day of war with Jiannu is getting closer and closer, in order to avoid affecting my plan, it is better not to cause trouble again. Although these civil servants are a bit hateful, they can only continue. I've been putting up with them for a while.

(End of this chapter)