Mingshi

Chapter 1423 The Hardships of Ming Officials

"Taiyue, do you know that this incident makes the old man very passive?"

Zhang Juzheng pondered for a while and said: "Teacher, we can't actually touch this matter. The reason why the students didn't tell the teacher at the beginning is that it's better for the teacher not to know.

Xu Jie pondered for a while, and understood Zhang Juzheng's thoughts.If you don't know about this matter, those officials will go directly to report to His Majesty. Although the memorial will come to you, at that time, you will pass the memorial up and ask Your Majesty to solve it.However, now these people did not write the memorial, but directly discussed with themselves, this is to take the lead by themselves.Thinking of this, he no longer blamed Zhang Juzheng in his heart, and sighed:

"But now the teacher already knows it!"

The room fell into silence, Gao Gong looked at Wang Xijue and said, "You also know about this?"

Wang Xijue nodded and said: "The lower official knows, and he thinks the same as Mr. Zhang. He thinks it's better for Mr. Zhang not to know, so he didn't tell Mr. Zhang."

"You guys!"

Gao Gong sighed, but he didn't blame Wang Xijue, and the two elders fell silent.At this time, Xu Jie did not speak, and Gao Gong would never speak.And Xu Jie also knew this reason, and finally waved his hands, let Zhang Juzheng and Wang Xijue go out, looked at Gao Gong and said:
"Suqing, what's your opinion?"

"Everything is subject to the adults' opinions." Gao Gong said respectfully.

Xu Jie's expression didn't change much either. He knew Gao Gong would say this in his heart, so he said in a concentrated voice:
"drag!"

There was admiration in Gao Gong's eyes, and he nodded slightly.

It is absolutely impossible for the two of them to take the lead in this matter.It is not a trivial matter to increase the salaries of the officials of the entire Ming Dynasty.It is not a raise for one or two, but a raise for all officials, which costs a lot of money and food.Daming's finances have just passed the crisis, but in recent years, natural disasters have continued, and Daming's finances are not good enough to increase the salaries of all officials.

And who doesn't know that once the salary rises, it will be impossible to lower it.

And Emperor Jiajing is another person who can't wait to hold all the money in his arms and ask him to increase the salaries of all officials. Then Emperor Jiajing is not furious?

Therefore, the two of them had no choice but to delay until the officials had no patience, so they had to jointly play the concert. Anyway, the two of them would not cooperate, so they hoped that Emperor Jiajing would hand it over to him.

The emperor couldn't afford to offend, but even the Xu family and Gao Gong would not dare to offend all the Ming officials at once.

Luo Xin came home from the Ministry of Rites, and he also knew that all the officials were discussing the matter of salary increase, and the Ministry of Rites was also discussing a lot, and everyone's eyes lit up, discussing how much should be raised, and some people asked for Luo Xin's opinion, Luo Xin Just smiled and said nothing.No participation.

Luo Xin knew that this was because now that Daming's finances were improving, those officials wanted to seek some benefits for themselves.And to be honest, the salaries of Ming officials are really too low.Special Beijing officials, if they only point to that little salary, they really can't support themselves, let alone a family.

Back then, when Luo Xin first arrived at James's Mansion, he couldn't find anyone in James's Mansion. Didn't those people all go out to do private work?
Otherwise you can't live!
However, today Luo Xin is mainly low-key, so try not to participate in things that can be avoided.

Not long after returning to the mansion, Yun Zhiqiu and Tao Xingyan came hand in hand.Luo Xin asked his servants to cook, and the three of them warmed up and drank tea in the house.

"Hey, no, have you heard?"

"What did you hear?" Luo Xin said with a smile.

"The current officials are all arguing about their salaries, and the arguing has already reached the elder Ge." Having said this, Tao Xingyan raised his finger and pointed upwards.

"Hehe..." Luo Xin laughed twice and said, "I heard."

"Alas..." Yun Zhiqiu sighed and said, "To be honest, Daming's salary is too low. Those government offices with real power are easy to talk about. With a small salary, it is impossible to raise a large family. Every year is the end of the year, these officials are the most painful time. Being complained by their children, abused by their wives, and looked down upon by their natal families, many of these Qingliu officials are borrowing money for the New Year .

It's not bad to be able to borrow, but many people can't even borrow.Let me tell you a joke, it is a Hanlin of the Hanlin Academy. Before the Chinese New Year, the person who was paid for the little salary was asked to leave, and the person who lent him money after the Chinese New Year would not be able to survive the last year.But Hanlin had a thin skin, so he returned the money.However, there is no money for the New Year.So I asked my wife to go back to her natal family to borrow some money, and let the year pass first.

However, every year he asked his wife to go to his natal family to borrow money, and his natal family had long been impatient, so they did not borrow money.But let alone meat and vegetables at home, there is no rice.He bought a pot of sweet potatoes with only a dozen or so copper coins left. On New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve dinner was boiled sweet potatoes.

The Hanlin husband and wife have a very good relationship, and the Hanlin will even have fun while suffering.He picked up a sweet potato and handed it to his wife, saying, Ma'am, this chicken leg is for you to eat.

His wife picked up a sweet potato, handed it to him and said, Mr., you can eat this duck leg.

The two of you come and go, eating sweet potatoes, but what you talk about is chicken, duck and fish.

After all, his wife's natal family loved their daughter so much that they asked her brother to pack a box of New Year's Eve dinner and send it over.But outside the room, Hanlin and his wife were heard laughing and laughing, giving each other chicken, duck and fish.Suddenly furious, he kicked open the door and broke in, but only saw a pot of sweet potatoes on the table, that Hanlin was so ashamed that he ran out of the door to hide his face. "

There was silence in the room, and the atmosphere became solemn.The three of them suddenly lost their mood.After a while, Yun Zhiqiu said:

"Now not only those Qingliu, but also the government offices with real power are also struggling. Otherwise, they will not be so united this time and want to increase their salary."

"How could it be?" Luo Dao said, "Aren't those government offices with real power rich and rich?"

"That was before!" Yun Zhiqiu glanced at Luo Xin and said, "You have taken action frequently in the past two years to crack down on corruption and killed many officials. Now the officials in the real power yamen do not dare to embezzle, so they and Qingliu also It's no different.

No weapon!
You don't know how many people are scolding you in their hearts, and maybe there are even people who are villainous! "

"This... I didn't expect it." Luo Xin looked a little embarrassed.

"Alas!" Tao Xingyan sighed, "To be honest, the two of us don't have any background, let alone financial resources, so we just point to this little salary. If it wasn't for the past year, we would have followed You are in the south, you take care of your food and housing, and you really don’t know how to live this year.

I have been with you for nearly a year, eating and drinking from you, and we have saved our own salaries. We can have a fat year this year. It has been a long time since we have had such a fat year. I am really happy! "

"You guys are happy, I'm not happy!"

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(End of this chapter)