The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 238
As soon as Zhu Linmei finished speaking, the officials below were almost moved to tears.

After so many years, someone finally said what they always wanted to say but never dared to say, and every word fell into their hearts like sweet springs!
But there are also those who are calm, snorting secretly, who can't say beautiful words, so it's too easy to buy people's hearts, right?

Unexpectedly, Zhu Linmei continued to say calmly: "This king is assisting the emperor, so you should think about the worries of everyone in the court. This salary should be adjusted."

The eyes of all the courtiers were brightened. The assistant king not only knows how to fight and kill people, but he also seems to be quite caring at this moment.

"It's just that the current imperial court is not rich, and there is a drought in southern Fujian..."

Hearing the words, the officials at the top level withered again. From what they heard, it meant that they would cut the monthly treasure bills in half and distribute them as silver rice.

"That's why this king announces that from now on, the salaries of all officials in Ming Dynasty will be tripled!"

Zhu Linming's words were like drops of water thrown into boiling oil, and the pot immediately exploded in the hall.

"Lord Li, what did His Royal Highness Fuzheng Wang say just now? Three times?"

"It seems to be, it seems to be!"

"Turned it three times! Then I can receive... er, a thousand stone salary every year from now on?!"

"In this way, I can afford to buy the mansion in the south of the city!"

For a moment, everyone put aside the incident of hundreds of heads falling in Tianxing Mansion recently, and they were all immersed in endless happiness.

But Zhu Linmi still didn't stop, and added: "In the future, all salaries will be paid in real money, no money will be used.

"Besides, this is only a temporary measure. After the court overcomes the current difficulties, the salary will be increased."

The courtiers couldn't bear it anymore, and knelt down in front of the Wenhua Palace, praising, "His Royal Highness Assistant King is wise!"

After the officials calmed down a bit, Zhu Linming continued: "If the salary is paid like this, it must be enough for everyone's daily expenses, right?"

Everyone hurriedly nodded and said, "Enough, enough!"

"enough!"

"When there is surplus!"

The salary has been tripled, and with the addition of not issuing treasure notes, compared to before, the actual salary has increased by more than four times, how can it be insufficient.

"That's good." Zhu Linmi suddenly changed her indifferent attitude before, and said loudly, "Since the salary is enough, then in the future, we will not use the excuse of too little salary to engage in corruption and extort bribes.

"From now on, go along with the salary increase and restore the law of the Taizu. Anyone who embezzles more than 60 taels will be stripped of their skin and filled with grass, and they will be violent in the court!"

What he said shocked all the courtiers to kneel on the ground again, saying: "Your official, please remember."

In fact, everyone didn't take these words to heart.The words prohibiting corruption have to be repeated hundreds of times in every dynasty. When Chen Wang takes office, the slogan always has to be shouted.But in the end, it’s not all that the law does not blame the public. In this world of Ming Dynasty, you are greedy and you are greedy. It has always been like this. When did it change?

Only Zheng Guangying, the left governor of Jinyiwei who stood outside the gate of Wenhua Hall, smiled triumphantly.Yesterday, when His Royal Highness the Assistant Government summoned him, he ordered him to rectify the Jinyiwei, and allocated a lot of money, saying that he would entrust him with important matters.

Now it seems that it is necessary to investigate the corruption of the courtiers.

He likes to be busy, and being busy proves that he and his Jin Yiwei are useful, and he never wants to live the days of grinding his teeth all day in the Longwu Dynasty.

He even has a long list of targets that need to be strictly investigated in his mind.

Zhu Lin's implementation of the policy of "nourishing honesty with high salaries" was his first step in purging the imperial court, but it was also an extremely important step.

Only when the official system is clear can the whole country have a positive foundation.

The previous salary system handed down from Zhu Yuanzhang's era was too harsh. Non-greedy officials like Hai Rui couldn't even afford meat. This was also the objective reason for the first generation of corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, it is also the first place where he starts to get rid of the old evils.

Without a decent salary, it would be foolish to want officials not to be greedy.He studied hard for ten years, traveled thousands of miles to take the exam, waited for several years, and finally became an official. In the end, his life was not as good as that of an ordinary businessman. This is really unreasonable.

But now they are given a generous salary, enough to live in luxury, if someone dares to commit corruption again, then don't blame me for being rude.

Of course, Zhu Linming dared to pay such a high salary because of his confidence.

Yu Xin, who was in charge of raiding the prisoner officials last night, has roughly counted the family assets of these nearly two hundred officials. A rough estimate is more than 260 million taels!
Although the search is still in full swing, it is certain that a large amount of money will be recorded in the treasury. With this money in hand, even if there is no other income, it is enough to pay the officials' salaries for several years.

In addition, with this large sum of money, many things in Zhu Linming's plan can be started.

Overseas trade alone can add at least four to five million taels of income to the imperial court every year.

This is only the trade volume of the official Zhili fleet, plus the customs tax imposed on non-governmental foreign trade, the annual income from eating the sea alone is about tens of millions of taels of silver.

And when a series of factories such as steel, glass, chemical, rubber, fine processing, etc. that he plans to put into operation, the benefits will be even more considerable.

These have been arranged in detail in the "Outline for the Development of Ming Dynasty" written by him before.

So he didn't care about the courtier's salary at all.As he said, three times is only a temporary standard, and when the court has more money, five times or six times is not impossible.

Later, Zhu Linmi announced in public that a new Propaganda Department would be established in addition to the six departments.

All the ministers in the court were still immersed in the joy of "wage increase", and many people hardly paid attention to it.

Moreover, according to the King Fuzheng's introduction, this Propaganda Department does not overlap with the current six departments. It is still in charge of trivial matters such as leading a class and acting, and does not require the imperial court to allocate money to operate, so no one has the motive to oppose it.

In addition, the new secretary of the Xuanbu Department is Lu Zhenfei, so if he jumped out to object now, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of Lu Gebu?
So, in a harmonious atmosphere, the establishment of the Propaganda Department was passed smoothly.

Taking advantage of the good atmosphere, Zhu Linmei asked the new Minister of Officials, Huang Daozhou, to read out a batch of job arrangements in the court.

Due to Zhu Yu'ao's downfall, the original positions of Su Guansheng, Wang Yinghua, He Wunuo and others became vacant.In addition, the beheading of nearly [-] officials this time left a large number of vacancies in the court.

Zhu Linmi's original political foundation in the DPRK and China was not solid, so she just took advantage of this opportunity to arrange many of her own people to take up important positions in the DPRK and China.However, as a latecomer who is very familiar with historical figures, he arranges extremely suitable talents for each position.

"The left servant of the Ministry of War, Zhang Jiayu...

"The right servant of the Ministry of War, Zhu Chenggong...

"The left servant of the Ministry of Industry, Song Yingxing...

"Doctor of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Erlu...

"Shangshu of the Household Department, Yang Tinglin..."

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