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Chapter 9
Zhu Yuanzhang PK Corrupt Officials
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is probably the one who hates corruption the most among all the emperors. It is not difficult to understand that if it were not for the corruption of officials and corruption, Zhu Yuanzhang would not have embarked on the road of rebellion because he was desperate and his family was ruined.Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's hatred of the rich is understandable, but his approach is extremely extreme.

Wealth, in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, has original sin.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang has continued to kill corrupt officials. According to statistics, tens of thousands of officials have been killed because of corruption and bribery. By the 19th year of Hongwu, few officials from the central government to the local government have been able to serve their full term. , most of them will be killed.

Working under Zhu Yuanzhang, the officials lived in hell every day, enduring the torment. Before going to court, they always had to say goodbye to their wives and children, because they didn't know if they could go back home intact after going to court.If you can go to court without incident every day, you must celebrate when you return home.This is not alarmist talk. Zhu Yuanzhang is definitely the harshest emperor in Chinese history. He not only asked his officials to do the heaviest work, but also refused to pay high salaries. It's killing without mercy.

Corruption should indeed be stopped, but when Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, many officials were helpless in corruption.I originally thought that I would study hard for more than ten years in the cold window and work hard all my life. If I am a petty official, I can be regarded as a civil servant of the country.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang's salary could no longer be described as low. He paid 87 shi a month to officials of the first rank, 24 shi for the fourth rank, and seven shi and five dou for the seventh rank.In other words, the salary of a county magistrate is only five taels of silver, which is only 1000 yuan when converted into RMB.This little money not only has to pay the living expenses of the county magistrate's family, but also pays the wages of his subordinates. If he is not corrupt, he will not be able to survive at all.

A living person cannot be suffocated to death by urine, although Zhu Yuanzhang severely punished corrupt officials, holding the mentality that he would rather kill a thousand in vain than let one go.However, new tricks for officials to make money are still coming out one after another, the main ones are folding color and fire consumption and kicking dendrobium with tip.

Zheshihuoyao is a practice in which officials keep the excess money in their own pockets under the pretext that the tax money collected is depleted.

As for kicking Dendrobium, when ordinary people pay grain, officials use Dendrobium to pack it. When the grain pile is full, the official kicks Dendrobium fiercely, causing some grain to leak out of the bag, and the lost grain is returned to the bag. Officials have it all.

This is completely a technical error, and naturally it cannot be counted as corruption. Zhu Yuanzhang has nothing to say about this, and regards this part of the money as the official income.

However, as Zhu Yuanzhang refused to raise his salary and the contradictions between officials continued to obtain benefits from these small places became more and more intensified, things changed qualitatively. For the sake of livelihood and their own interests, officials must violate Zhu Yuanzhang's anti In order to prevent such a thing from happening, Zhu Yuanzhang will take more severe suppression measures. In this way, the conflict will not be resolved and will intensify.

Zhu Yuanzhang's treatment of corrupt officials became more and more severe. He made a new rule that as long as officials were found to be corrupt, they would be sent to the relevant departments in the capital for punishment. , if someone dares to stop him, not only will his head be beheaded, but the whole family will also be implicated.

From this we can see how determined Zhu Yuanzhang is to fight corruption and uphold integrity, but unfortunately things backfired. In such a vigorous anti-corruption campaign, corruption has not disappeared, but has become more and more serious.In addition, because Zhu Yuanzhang killed too many officials, the government departments were almost paralyzed, so the incumbent officials had to hold several positions. Even Zhu Yuanzhang himself sacrificed a lot of rest time and worked hard, but even so, political affairs Still busy.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang invented a new system, that is, the death penalty and the crime of exile. After the official commits a crime, he is sentenced to death. Someone applied medicine to his wound to ensure that he would not die, and then he was pulled out and sent to the Yamen to handle official duties.

Zhu Yuanzhang racked his brains to eradicate corruption and restore the Ming Dynasty to a clean world, and he, the anti-corruption bureau chief, can be regarded as conscientious and dedicated, but the effect is not good, and the effect is not good. It should be said that some of Zhu Yuanzhang Problems arose when the policy was formulated. Official corruption is not good, but wages are too low. Zhu Yuanzhang's aggressive anti-corruption methods are also one of the important reasons.

In this vigorous anti-corruption campaign during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, neither Zhu Yuanzhang, the main attacker, nor the corrupt officials who defended, won the final victory.

(End of this chapter)