travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 71
Back in the Nuan Pavilion, which was the newly established Military Aircraft Office agreed with the courtiers, Qin Hui and Zhao Zilong had already been waiting for a long time.

"Your Majesty, this is the negotiating outline drawn up by my minister and several ministers, please read it!" Qin Hui respectfully handed over a note.

Zhao Fei glanced at Qin Hui, and felt that this old guy's city was really deep, and he had humiliated him so much the day before yesterday, but at least on the surface he didn't show any expression at all.

Unable to be alert in his heart, Zhao Fei took the book with a calm expression.

After reading so many scriptures, Zhao Fei has completely freed himself from simplified characters, at least not like he did not know most of the characters at the beginning.

Qin Hui and the others really put their heart into it. They themselves have just made a fuss, and they have already written a general strategy with more than ten thousand words here.

After reading it carefully, Zhao Fei couldn't help sighing that these ministers really wouldn't give up if they didn't evacuate the family property of the Eagle Tribe!

Is this appetite a bit too much?
Zhao Fei was a little puzzled. If Amit really agreed to these requests, wouldn't the grassland be our territory in the Song Dynasty in the future?

"Will they agree to these?" Zhao Fei closed the folder and looked at Qin Hui with some doubts.

Qin Hui seemed to have known that Zhao Fei would ask such a question, and immediately replied: "Report to Your Majesty, if their situation is really as critical as they said, then we can talk about it."

"So, I understand." After Qin Hui reminded him like this, Zhao Fei immediately said: "Qin Xiang's move has two meanings. Naturally, we will talk, if it is fake, then there is no need to continue the talk, the other is to confuse the other party, now I am facing internal and external troubles, it seems to be in danger, and many forces are about to move, Xiangguo's move is to tell others about my confidence It is enough to make the other party dare not act rashly."

After Zhao Fei finished speaking leisurely, Qin Hui was taken aback for a moment, then bowed his head respectfully and said, "Your Majesty can see clearly the heart of a humble minister."

"Hehe," Zhao Fei said with a soft smile, "Xiangguo's words are serious, and I also get along with Xiangguo at night, so I can understand Xiangguo's heart a little bit." After finishing speaking, Zhao Fei turned to Zhao Zilong and said, "Shangshu Zhao, what do you need to report?" ?”

Zhao Zilong said with a mournful face: "Your Majesty, are the Beijing officials making trouble again in the household department?"

"What's wrong?" Zhao Fei was a little puzzled.

"Today is the time for the Beijing officials to pay their salaries." Zhao Zilong secretly took a look at Zhao Fei, and seeing Zhao Fei's face turned normal, he continued, "But all the money from the household department was used to relieve the victims and support the frontier war. The extra money was used to distribute the salaries of the Beijing officials, so they started a quarrel in the household department of the minister, and the minister didn't dare to go back, so he came directly to His Majesty."

"What?" Zhao Fei wanted to say that he deserved to be troubled if he didn't pay his salary, but when he thought that he was the boss of the Beijing officials, he stopped his words. Instead, he looked at Zhao Zilong with a serious face and said, "You are the household manager. Shang Shu, how did you make this budget? Why did you report a shortage of money?"

"This..." Zhao Zilong couldn't speak for a moment, he just knelt down on the ground, his head muffled and he didn't speak.

When Zhao Fei saw that this guy was acting like a rascal, he was speechless at once, and said: "Don't kneel on the ground and say nothing, but stand up and tell me what's going on?"

After Zhao Zilong's careful explanation, Zhao Fei finally understood what was going on, and knew that being an official was not as good as he imagined.

The official salary system implemented in the Song Dynasty is extremely complicated. The lowest official in the official system, his monthly salary is five tons of rice, and every time he is promoted, his salary will be doubled. In thousands of tons of rice.

This salary is unified across the country, and it is all distributed by the Ministry of Households. However, because the Ministry of Households does not have so much rice, it was converted to silver based on the market price of rice and distributed to officials a long time ago.

However, one of Zhao Fei's former emperor's ancestors, on a whim, formulated a method equivalent to the performance evaluation system of later generations to integrate into this salary system. How is this performance achieved?That is, only one official’s general salary is paid every month, and the remaining half is paid at the end of the year according to the official’s performance. If the performance is improved, 30.00% will be added. Full deduction.

Then Zhao Fei’s various ancestors added a lot of inexplicable things to this salary system either on a whim or to save money. I can't even figure it out, and I've been writing in such a daze.

Recently, due to the tense frontier war, approved by Zhao Fei, last year's performance salary, which is the half-year salary of most Beijing officials, was suspended. He continued to work with a bitter face, but even though he knew that this month's salary would be paid, he only paid a quarter of the previous salary.

The salary was already reduced by half, and now it is reduced by half on the basis of half, which is fine, but the biggest problem is that the subsidy is gone, which caused them to directly quarrel.

What is the subsidy? The subsidy is an additional subsidy given by the imperial court in addition to the salary because many ordinary officials cannot live normally on their salaries.

Because the imperial court has spent a lot of money recently, the Ministry of Household Affairs cut off the subsidy after inviting Zhao Fei.

"Since ancient times, there has been no shortage of officials. If they make trouble, they will all be dismissed!" Zhao Fei said to Zhao Zilong after learning what happened. As for when he will cut the salary of Beijing officials by half However, Zhao Fei couldn't remember it, but if the subsidy was cut, Zhao Fei had some impressions.

Unexpectedly, when Zhao Fei said this, Zhao Zilong's expression changed, and Qin Hui shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, absolutely not!"

"Huh?" Zhao Fei frowned, and his expression immediately turned cold.

"Your Majesty doesn't know something, this..." Qin Hui then explained the doorway in detail.

The salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty are the same all over the world, that is to say, no matter whether you are in the wilderness or in the capital, the salaries of all officials of the same level are the same, the difference is the subsidies from various places.

Of course, you can say that there is no need for subsidies, but can the living conditions in the capital be the same as those in the wilderness?

Renting any house in the capital would cost half of the salary of ordinary officials in the capital. If they couldn't even guarantee the food and clothing of the officials, how could they be able to work hard?

Therefore, Beijing officials usually have subsidies. This time, apart from halving the salary, the Ministry of Household Affairs has more to say that the subsidies have not been paid for several months.

Of course there has been no shortage of officials since ancient times?
If it was the Taiping period, this sentence would naturally be true, but now that the Song Dynasty has internal and external troubles, various affairs need to be handled by skilled hands, and those new hands who have just taken office will only make a mess of things.

Even though the troublemakers are only the lowest-ranking officials in the capital, most of the policy implementation of the court can be completed through their hands.

Therefore, if they are all expelled, it will only cause the entire imperial court to fail to function within a few months, and government orders will not come out of the palace.

"Could it be that the ministers are so smart and can't solve these problems?" Zhao Fei was surprised.

"Your Majesty." Qin Hui and Zhao Zilong looked at each other with some embarrassment and said, "I am the prime minister of a country. If I say that I will make a government order, I will naturally do my part. But if I want to implement this government order thoroughly throughout the country, I will do it. But it won't."

"What's going on?" Zhao Fei looked at Qin Hui suspiciously.

"Your Majesty," Zhao Zilong took over the conversation, and said, "I will give you an example. For example, the imperial court issued a decree. There is a person named Zhang San among the people involved in this decree. If this decree is to be carried out, this Third, you must know and understand this decree."

"Then you just tell Zhang San." Zhao Fei said.

"But the problem is that I can't find Zhang San." Zhao Zilong looked at Zhao Fei helplessly, and seeing that Zhao Fei was still puzzled, he continued: "The population of the Great Song Dynasty is more than ten million, and they are scattered all over the country. Let's talk about Chang'an. I don’t know how many people are called Zhang San, how do the officials know who is Zhang San who agrees to the conditions? Even if they know who agrees to the conditions, how do the officials know where Zhang San lives?"

"So?" Zhao Fei frowned.

"That's why someone needs to convey this decree to Zhang San." Zhao Zilong said with a wry smile: "The ones who can do this are the low-level officials who are making troubles today. They deal with the most ordinary people all the year round, so they naturally know who is going to agree. Zhang San, who has the conditions, naturally knows where Zhang San lives?"

"So these officials who make trouble must not be dismissed?" Zhao Fei looked at Zhao Zilong.

"Yes." Zhao Zilong said in a muffled voice: "If you don't talk about other places, just talk about the household department of the minister. Without those low-level officials, the minister would not even know how many items, how much money and food are in that warehouse, and how to get to this warehouse. , I don’t even know about it.”

"So these people are the ones making trouble?" Zhao Fei said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's not easy to live in the capital, and their salaries are only enough for them to barely live in the capital. Now that their salaries are suddenly reduced, they are naturally unwilling." Zhao Zilong smiled bitterly: "It's also because the imperial court is busy now, and they know that the imperial court is not willing to accept it." They may be dismissed, otherwise how dare they make trouble like this, as His Majesty said, there has never been a shortage of officials since ancient times."

"Since the salary is so low, why do they still want to be officials?" Zhao Fei asked a question.

"This." Zhao Zilong and Qin Hui looked at each other, bowed their heads and said, "I don't know."

"Don't know or don't want to say?" Zhao Fei shook his head and smiled, and said with a sneer: "In this case, I will go and see these officials who are making trouble, and see what they want to do? When the country is in crisis, it is so ignorant. I really want to meet such an official!"

"Your Majesty, are you going to the Ministry of Household Affairs?" Qin Hui and Zhao Zilong were taken aback.

"Yes, I want to see these good courtiers with my own eyes." Zhao Fei snorted coldly.

(End of this chapter)