Da Qin: Rebuked the dissatisfied ministers, held the sword towards the emperor at the beginning

Chapter 89 Beating workers in court!Roll inward like crazy!

The annual salary in the pre-Qin period was relatively rigid, with only one year-end salary share.

Whether your government affairs are done well or not, it just needs to be about the same. Anyway, the annual salary is a guaranteed income that can be guaranteed during droughts and floods...

The premise is that you don’t make mistakes!
Otherwise, you will be punished according to the law.

Or maybe you do a certain thing very well, and you are lucky enough to be noticed by the emperor, and then you can get additional rewards.

no doubt.

Such an annual salary salary structure is very uninspiring.

Yin Lie took the salary structure of later large listed companies as an example. It can be divided into: basic salary, job allowance, performance bonus, year-end bonus, special benefits, equity income, supplementary insurance, additional remuneration, etc.

The so-called wolf culture actually means spending more money to motivate employees...

Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat!

Only real money sharing is the core point of wolf culture!
Including the military title system of Great Qin, it is also a proper wolf-like system...

As long as you cut off a head, you can become a public servant and get [-] hectares of land, plus a homestead fifteen steps square!

This kind of high-risk, high-return war investment is enough to drive the bottom leaders of Guizhou crazy.

same.

In terms of establishing annual salary and salary, Da Qin took a completely opposite route to that of later Ming Dynasty!

Because of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang's childhood experience, when he set the annual salary quota for the Ming Dynasty, he would often impose very strict restrictions!
to be honest!
As an official in the Ming Dynasty, it was quite good to be able to eat three meals a day.

Don’t you see those upright and upright officials...

For example, when Hai Rui bought two pieces of pork during the Chinese New Year, it was directly advertised in the Ming Dynasty's Dibao.

It’s really too miserable!
Because Lao Zhu restricted the officials of the Ming Dynasty too tightly, many officials would be forced to be corrupt!
If you don't want to find ways to make money and make some money, your family's expenses will not be covered at all, unless you are as poor as Hai Rui...

But this is obviously anti-human!

Who in office would be willing to live like an ascetic?

I spent ten years of hard work and loneliness, just to be in high school and be a good person so that my family and children can live a good life.

and so.

Although Lao Zhu established the most stringent laws to punish corruption in the Ming Dynasty.

For example, if an official embezzles 60 taels, he will be skinned...

But corruption is still prohibited!
One of the underlying reasons is that Lao Zhu's annual salary is set too low.

Yin Lie will definitely not be able to make the same mistake as Zhu Yuanzhang...

If the salary is too low, it will be difficult to implement policies, and corruption will become more and more intense until everyone acquiesces.

If the salary is too high, it will lead to three redundant problems: redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses, which will eventually turn into poverty and weakness of the country...

For example, in the later Song Dynasty, it was a standard high salary to maintain integrity!

Even though commerce and trade are developed, it is the most centralized imperial dynasty in history...

The treasury of the Song Dynasty was also becoming increasingly empty.

Because the bureaucratic group in the Song Dynasty was too bloated and extremely inefficient. It was difficult to describe the use of culture to control military force and the three-party control.

and so.

The famous traitor Cai Jing was able to rise to power!
Cai Jing was very good at making money, and he used all kinds of means to print banknotes and siphon off private property to maintain various expenditures in the Southern Song Dynasty.

But still the same.

Printing money is fun for a while, but when inflation hits, everyone has to play along.

It's like a person drifting in the middle of the sea, looking at the endless water, but must maintain restraint.

Because drinking sea water will only make you thirstier and you will die faster!

The same goes for unrestrained money printing...

……

Back to this moment.

"Basic salary + performance bonus + year-end assessment award..."

Left Prime Minister Li Si raised his eyebrows, and he immediately remembered something.

Followed by.

Li Si turned around and said, "I remember that I mentioned in the [Meteor Book of Admonitions] written by the criminal madman before that the empire's high salary to support the incorruptible will lead to redundancy and accumulation..."

"To be honest with Mr. Li, I also fully agree with this point of view in the [Book of Admonitions to Meteorites]!"

Yin Lie said without any concealment: "Just now, Prime Minister Li said that the reason why the empire adopts the model of high salary and annual salary is simply that the empire is in desperate need of revitalization and officials need to work hard. And during the reform of the national policy system of abolition of enfeoffments and the administration of counties and counties, we must We have to win the hearts and minds of Kyushu officials through high salary and annual salary!"

"I can't refute the second point. At this juncture when enfeoffment is abolished and prefectures and counties are abolished, high annual salaries are indeed feasible."

"But! The empire is in dire straits and needs officials to work hard, but this cannot be achieved simply by relying on high salaries to maintain integrity... After all, human nature is evil, and we have always been extremely greedy."

……

Yin Lie put forward the core views of Legalism!

People are evil!

immediately.

The sub-sage Xunfuzi in the Confucian seat below had some reaction.

After all, the original person who proposed that human nature is inherently evil was none other than this supreme Confucian-Legalist sage from Jixia Academy: Xun Kuang!
As far as Yin Lie knows...

The core basis for Master Xun's proposition that "human nature is inherently evil" is that in order to survive, we have to tend to the evil side of human nature.

Resources in the world are always limited.

We need to deceive, plunder, kill... and even start a war in order to obtain more survival resources!
This is the fundamental reason why human nature is bound to be evil.

Needless to say.

This conclusion is very correct.

From growing up to aging, a person needs to consume food, salt, etc. every day.

For example, there is a very funny case in later generations.

Suppose that after time travel, you can only provide white porridge and mustard to the soldiers under your banner. Will it cause the soldiers below to mutiny?
The answer is of course the complete opposite!
White porridge is equal to fine grain!

Pickled mustard has plenty of salt to take in!

And with one hand of white porridge and the other of pickled mustard, you can definitely recruit an army of over [-]...or even [-] people in a very short period of time!

By then!

Add a yellow robe!

Even if you don’t want to be the emperor...you have really hurt me...

……

suddenly!

Three official seats!

Tu Ju, the country's captain, retorted in a deep voice: "Qin Yucheng, if I remember correctly, you once wrote a three-character scripture out of thin air on the boat that was in charge of the sea. The opening chapter is that in the beginning of man's nature, his nature is good... What? Just one night later, Qin Yucheng has overturned his own views? "

Is human nature good or evil?

This is a point of debate that hundreds of schools of thought are still arguing about!
And Yin Lie did say before that human beings are inherently good by nature...

If you suddenly change your words now, you will definitely be caught by Guo Wei and others.

Because Tu Ju only needs to prove that Yin Lie is a capricious villain, then this salary reduction can be ended immediately.

Unfortunately……

This little bit of difficulty is nothing to Yin Lie!

"What I don't know is that the Three-Character Classic involves the enlightenment of the whole people, so we must advocate that people are originally good by nature!"

Yin Lie said calmly: "At the educational level, if we cannot provide guidance on the goodness of human nature, the country's crime rate will inevitably increase significantly."

"As for the establishment of officials' salaries and other matters, this is the level of real interests. We must recognize the reality of the evil nature of human nature that Legalism follows!"

"Including the core idea of ​​​​strategic strategists who never tire of deceit, isn't it also based on the inherent evil of human nature?"

……

Which of the hundreds of schools of thought would have unparalleled supporters of the evil nature of human nature!
Legalists and military strategists are definitely the best among them!Because the fundamental logic of legalism in establishing laws is based on the inherent evil of human nature.

If human nature is inherently good, then there is no need for legal support at all, and all problems can be solved directly with Confucian teachings!
however!
The reality is that Confucianism and Legalism must go hand in hand...

Education and guidance, legal support.

Only in this way can a country maintain the existing order as much as possible.

"..."

Faced with Yin Lie's explanation, Guowei Tuju opened his mouth to fight back, but in the end he remained silent.

His military strategist really recognized the argument that human nature is inherently evil!

This is an irrefutable reality!
and so.

Tu Ju could not use the basis of the goodness of human nature to maintain the high salary and annual salary of the current officials...

The same reason.

As the leader of the Legalists, Li Si could not delve too deeply into the argument that human nature is inherently good.

The identities of the two determine that they must be responsible for what they have said.

"It seems that both Guo Wei and Li Xiang have recognized the reality that human nature is inherently evil!"

Yin Lie grinned and said: "Based on this... I would like to say a few more words about the dangers of high salary to support integrity. It is true that high salary and annual salary can make the implementation of national policies smoother in the short term."

"But the problem is that people's hearts are not greedy enough. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but from luxury to frugality...it is as difficult as climbing to the sky!"

"The empire raises the annual salary of officials in exchange for policy implementation and popular support. This move is completely treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. The imperial court will be counterattacked by local officials at any time, and the initiative will be lost!"

"And the most important thing is...the higher the imperial court's fixed annual salary, the more it will satisfy the tastes of local officials!"

"Is it possible that in the future, the imperial treasury will have to pay for all the local officials in Kyushu?"

……

Yin Lie thinks!

If the salary is set too low, it will force out many corrupt officials!
On the contrary...

If the salary is set too high, it will also breed many corrupt officials!

And they are often the kind of greedy people in the country!

therefore.

There is no reasonable basis or feasibility for maintaining integrity with high salary.

In addition to allowing the moment to pass reluctantly.

There is no benefit to the future.

Maybe someone will say.

Then we can use the high salary and annual salary to temporarily support the current difficulties, and then adjust the high salary and annual salary back later, right?
This is bound to be very, very difficult...

Don't see you!
Why did the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty not reduce their salaries?

Why was Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty still unwilling to touch the salary share of the royal family surnamed Zhu even when the national treasury was penetrated by the Guan-Ningjin defense line...

to be honest!
Once high salary and annual salary become a fixed trend!

It’s not like anyone can surrender if they want!
Even if you are the emperor, you cannot be an enemy of the entire bureaucracy!
Unless... the First Emperor...

That's definitely a different story.

and so.

Yin Lie will take advantage of the fact that Ying Zheng is still here and must cut down the high annual salaries of nearly [-] officials in the Qin Dynasty!
Because this thing can only be done in the dynasty of the First Emperor...

If Fusu or Hu Hai were replaced, whoever among the following censors would dare to increase or decrease their salary would probably not survive the next day!

At this time.

"Here's nonsense! Taken out of context, the Legalist theory of human nature being evil was actually used as a basis for lowering salaries!"

"Bullshit high salary and annual salary will satisfy the taste of local officials. I'm waiting for an annual salary of two thousand dan. Is it too much? Is this too much!?"

"Hmph! Qin Yucheng is worthy of being born in the Yin Yang family. He has never been an official at the grassroots level. He will only speak nonsense in public discussions, limit the annual salary quota to such an extreme, and do all kinds of things to please His Majesty... But he doesn't know that cutting the annual salary in half will be harmful to the local government. What a blow to the morale of the officials who wake up early and work late at night!"

……

All the local county officials expressed strong dissatisfaction!

Part of them is fighting for their own salary!
There is also a part of them who are in their position... they have to think more about the people below...

It's like fighting on the front line. If you don't get more benefits for your brothers, or if the system encourages you, how can you make your brothers work for you?

Daqin’s plan-based examination system requires performance reviews every year!
Local officials at the county level are counting on their political performance to be promoted!
As a result, the salary will be reduced at this time...

Then do they still want to be promoted?

in the field.

"Ha ha!"

Yin Lie glanced at a dozen local important ministers and said, "I just said that high salary will support integrity, and the more you support, the more greedy you will become... As for three redundancies and two accumulations, I haven't even said anything yet!"

"The so-called three redundancies are redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses!"

"Redundant officials are easy to understand. It's too easy to eat royal food, so some local officials will think of turning all the dogs in the village into inspection dogs, and they will also get an annual salary!"

"Redundant soldiers mean there are too many idle soldiers, the quality of the soldiers is extremely poor, and the military and political efficiency is low!"

"Redundant expenses refer to excessive expenses. Unnecessary expenses are everywhere. In particular, many important officials in the temple pay money from the treasury in the name of doing things for His Majesty..."

……

The three-redundancy problem was one of the important reasons for the demise of the Song Dynasty!

Zhao Kuangyin founded the country incorrectly!
So the only choice was to use civility to control military force, and added another insurance at the military level: the implementation of three-party separation of control, separation of powers, and mutual restraint!

But doing so also caused the Song Dynasty's army to collapse...

Moreover, the redundant troops are too huge, and the redundant personnel of the Wenchen Group are also extremely large!
Needless to say the redundancy of the Song Dynasty in the end...

"When the three redundancies reach a certain level, it will inevitably make the empire poor and weak until it becomes irreversible!"

Yin Lie finally concluded: "Therefore, the basic salary + performance bonus + year-end assessment bonus... it is absolutely necessary to implement it immediately!"

"And the basic salary quotas that I have temporarily adjusted are: two thousand shi [originally [-] shi] for the three ministers, one thousand shi [originally [-] shi] for the Jiuqing and the county governor, and [-] shi [originally [-] shi] for the chief minister and Taizhong doctor. Five hundred shi [originally [-] shi] for governors and doctors, [-] shi [originally [-] shi] for magistrates of large counties, [-] shi [originally [-] shi] for magistrates of small counties, and [-] shi [originally [-] shi] for censors. Original three hundred stones]..."

"Correspondingly, the annual salary quota of the Fanping title system also needs to be reduced: Fanping Duke [-] shi [originally [-] shi], Marquis [-] shi [originally [-] shi], Earl [-] shi [originally [-] shi], Viscount [-] shi [originally [-] shi] Stone], Baron one hundred stones [originally two hundred stones].”

"As for performance commission bonuses and year-end assessment awards..."

……

Yin Lie proved that the national policy of Daqin’s high salary to support integrity needs to be changed into a comprehensive annual salary model!
at the same time!

He also gave the basic annual salary share of various officials and feudal titles!

The top three Dukes and Duke Fanping were cut directly to the heel.

The annual salary of middle-level senior officials has been cut in half.

Even the lowest-ranking imperial censor had one-third of his salary cut off...

Yin Lie became ruthless and really didn't care about the differences between his colleagues and colleagues!
"Qin Yucheng!"

Li Si clenched his fist and said in a deep voice: "I agree with what you said about high salary to support an honest person, and the more you support him, the more he will become greedy. There are also three redundancies and two accumulations in the [Remonstrance Meteorite Book], which are accumulated and hard to come back... I can also understand it!"

"But I still have to tell you the truth. You suddenly cut the annual salary of all officials to such a low level, which will inevitably cause administrative pain and delays in the empire. How are you going to solve it?"

"If something goes wrong, can you take the responsibility?"

……

to be honest!
Li Si could not deny the series of disadvantages pointed out by Yin Lie such as high salary to support integrity and so on!

But he still has reservations about Yin Lie lowering his basic salary to such an extent!

In fact.

After all, Li Si is still somewhat limited by the vision of the ancients...

Since Yin Lie dares to halve the basic annual salary of nearly [-] officials in the empire, he will naturally provide high incentives in terms of performance commission bonuses and year-end assessment awards!
After all, wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat...

Yin Lie just wants to use a lower basic salary to force officials across the country to desperately involuntarily turn in!
All you court workers, don’t even think about living your life from nine to five...

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(End of this chapter)