Chastity Layman

  Chapter 717 Madam enters Beijing

  Zhang Chao shook his head, not even thinking about those unrealistic things. The two of them are also lucky. They followed Qin Qiong and his father. Otherwise, with their backgrounds, it would be good to earn a seventh or eighth rank military position.

   "Sanlang, just now I went to collect your salary for you, here is the list for you to look over."

  Qin Lang took the form Zhang Chao handed over, glanced at it, then handed it back to him with a smile, "Yes, I see."

"The prime minister's treatment is really good." Zhang Chao took back the list, his eyes lingered on it, and he clicked his tongue enviously, "This month's salary for miscellaneous envoys is only thirty-one, and the prime minister still has three hundred for a month. You can add 3,600 guan every year. There is also an additional salary, and you have the title of a bachelor of Chongxianguan, and you still have 100 guan per month."

  Zhang Chao played the list in his hand, tsk-tsk enviously.

In the time of Wude, the chancellor only had a monthly salary of eleven, which also included the miscellaneous envoy's money, but now the prime minister's salary has been increased, which is extremely generous, not to mention the monthly salary of thirty-one per month. A monthly salary of 300 guan is added to the position of prime minister, and officials with bachelor's degree and bachelor's degree also have an additional salary.

According to the regulations, the officials of the Tang Dynasty, whose rank is higher than their duties, add words before the official position, and their duties are higher than their ranks, which is called Shou. If the service is of the same rank, the salary will be paid according to the line.

The salary increase is for the officials who are awarded the title of bachelor, bachelor, and straight bachelor in the three halls of the Hanlin Academy, Chongxian Hall, Hongwen Hall, and Jixian Hall. a grade.

  The conduct examinations for the undergraduates are respectively 100, 90, and 80 guan per month. The salary increase for bachelors is sixty, fifty, and forty. The salary increases for direct bachelors are thirty-two, thirty, and twenty-eight.

  As the prime minister, Qin Lang, like all Beijing officials, also enjoys an additional meal subsidy. The monthly meal allowance of the prime minister is 50 guan, which is much higher than the 2 guan of Jiupin.

"You still have fifteen buckets of wine every month, thirty sheep, ten pigs, one hundred catties of beef, twelve hundred bunches of firewood, one thousand six hundred scales of charcoal a year, and seven stones of salt... ·”

   "Lumi is raised to 1,200 shi a year now!"

   "In addition, there are additional additions, such as rice noodles, silk silk, sheep, horse feed, etc."

   "The imperial court will return you three hundred yuan per month for food and clothing for the handymen..."

"The additional support is not fixed. This month, you will get thirty guan, three stones of rice, and five stones of wheat. The additional support of bachelors is almost half of yours. By the way, there is still a break this month, which is an exception. It is said that It seems that because the emperor was happy, he gave you an extra month, double the amount, so you got another 30 coins, three shi for rice, and five shi for wheat. In addition, you also gave each spring and winter five pieces of silk, and each seventeen pieces of silk. , one spring Luo, fifty taels of winter cotton..."

"Besides, your title, because you have already been granted a real land, so the original food town has been transferred to the fiefdom. As for the number of food seals, the imperial court also pays each household twenty-five qian per month. You recently It has been sealed again, so now 2,000 households have been sealed by Shishi, and the discounted money is 50 yuan per month."

   "As for the Xun of the Shangzhu Kingdom, this is of no benefit now, and there is no money."

  Zhang Chao sighed there, being a prime minister, the money is really falling from the world continuously.

  Qin Lang now has a monthly basic salary of 31 guan, a salary of 300 guan, a salary of 100 guan, a salary of 50 guan, and an annual salary of 1,200 shi.

  The monthly income of these few basic items is 481 guan, not counting additional and broken expenses, as well as money for clothing, food, meals, etc., and it has already exceeded 500 guan.

  Five hundred guan, although you can't afford a luxury house in Chang'an, you can still buy a yard with a few acres of land.

   One month's salary for one apartment.

   What's more, Qin Lang still has a feudal prefecture several hundred miles away in Annan. Now there are tens of thousands of people there, and Qin Lang can still get one-third of the tax revenue.

Qin Lang still has a job income. The prime minister’s job is the highest, reaching 5,000 mu. Although he can only collect rent, the standard is six buckets of income per mu, which is 3,000 shi a year, which is much higher than the annual salary. Woolen cloth.

   "There are hundreds of thousands of civil and military officials in the world, but there are only a few prime ministers in the political affairs hall?" Qin Lang said with a smile.

Li Shimin's substantial increase in the salaries of officials is of course also to win over the bureaucrats. On the other hand, the current imperial court finances are excellent, and the money handled by various yamen and officials is also large. If there is no salary increase, the past point will still be maintained. Salaries, the officials will definitely use their power to seek rent and make money, which will inevitably lead to corruption.

  So increasing the treatment of officials in an appropriate amount can actually reduce the problem of corruption. After all, Li Shimin is not Zhu Yuanzhang. He wished that all officials would bring their own dry food to work. Therefore, even though Zhu Yuanzhang had the most severe punishment for corruption in the past dynasties, and always flayed it, he still could not change the problem of rampant corruption in the Ming Dynasty. The root cause was the unequal power and treatment.

  The emperor refused to give it, and the officials held power in their hands, so they would naturally think of ways to get it.

Just like the imperial court does not pay wages to low-level officials, they also have to support their families. They can’t really do volunteer work every day, so there are such things as subordinate staff being fiercer than tigers. The root cause is the imperial court’s own policy. It forced these subordinates to do so only.

And Datang now increases salaries for officials, and provides low-level officials with a salary that can support their families and even live well. Naturally, many dark problems can be solved on the bright side, although it seems Increased expenses, in fact, on the whole, it is better.

   People who want to be greedy will still be greedy, but this is like robbing and stealing. If the people can have food and clothing, most people will still not touch the law and break morality.

The taxation of the imperial court and the income of the official business have been mainly supporting the royal family, officials, and raising soldiers since ancient times. The higher income of officials can not only solve the problem of high incidence of corruption, but also make politics clear and even drive consumption, etc. , in a disguised form to increase circulation and increase taxes.

  But compared with the later Song Dynasty, the treatment of Zhenguan officials is still not as good. The Song Dynasty is the real paradise for bureaucrats and bureaucrats.

Govern the world with the emperor, don't kill scholar-bureaucrats, how unrestrained life is, even if you make a big mistake in politics or fail in a political battle, the prime ministers will at most go out to know the state, etc., and spend a little leisure time below, and you will never worry about your family being ruined .

   In comparison, although the Zhenguan Dynasty was better than the Wude Dynasty, it was still incomparable to the Song Dynasty. Think about Liu Wenjing, how miserable his death was, and think about Pei Ji and Feng Lun.

  The political faction in the Tang Dynasty was fierce, and Qin Lang felt that this tradition was also caused by the founding of the country. Everyone did not keep dead hands in the fight, and they were all afraid of becoming losers. Once they became losers, their fate would be very miserable.

This is also the reason why Qin Lang has always supported Li Shimin's secular feudal system. He even helped Li Shimin change the original intention of the secular feudal system. The frontier where the birds don't shit, just want to have a way out.

   Sealed in the key states of the Central Plains, once the political struggle fails, it is absolutely impossible to keep it, and even because it occupies these key points, it is easier to get involved in fierce political struggles. Undoubtedly, the world will be much better off.

   "Is Madam Anong coming to Chang'an soon?" Qin Lang asked.

   "Sanlang, are you in a hurry?" Zhang Chao said that I understand.

Qin Lang ignored this rambunctious guy. Zhang Chao now has more and more of Ah Huang's vulgar taste. He has been separated from Ah Huang for more than two years. He really misses him. This time Ah Huang sent Mrs. Anong to Beijing , we can finally meet again.

For the fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture, Qin Lang is very careful. Every year, he spends a steady stream of money, and sends people south in batches to bring various technologies and tools. Generally speaking, there are Qin Yong, Qin Yong, Ah Huang, etc. Staying there, under the care of Shi Li Daliang, the Chief Protector of Annan Dadu, Wu'an Prefecture is developing well.

In the past two years, Qin Lang's 800-point knights and warriors have established a firm foothold there. Castles, fences, and villages have been immigrated one by one. A large number of new mines, manors, and workshops are changing little by little. The land of mountains and sea.

  In the past two years, the struggle between the new immigrants and the old aborigines has become more and more fierce. Even the early Hakka immigrants were involved.

The 800-point retainers in Wu'an Prefecture are equivalent to the leader of an army. They rely on their own manor castles and fences, and they can take root in various places like nails. When the barbarians rebel, they can stand still. Can always divide the barbarians.

  The vassals can quickly gather their own attendants, slaves, tribes, and local soldiers, and use elite weapons and powerful cavalry to beat the southern barbarians to pieces.

Every time the barbarians fail in rebellion, their stockade will be razed, and the barbarians will be reduced to slaves, or sold to the port, or distributed to the vassals, and then a new settlement will be built on the ruins of the stockade. Tunzhuang.

Time and time again, the power of the barbarians became weaker and weaker, and more and more barbarian villages were subdued by the Qin family, so they could only let go of the Qin family, send their children to study in the Qin family's castle enclosure, and help build roads Unicom one by one barbarian...

   "Madam Anong wants to keep her loyalty, so she will send some money and goods here." Qin Lang said.

   "I think it's because I missed Saburo, and Saburo is also cruel. If such a charming little woman is left in Nanban for several years, isn't she afraid that she won't be able to bear the loneliness?" Zhang Chao joked.

  Qin Lang often regards Zhang Chao as a friend of the same age, and doesn't care about his jokes, and even likes him to be up and down. Hearing this, he just smiled, "What kind of person are you?"

"Even if she had the heart, she probably wouldn't have the guts. Saburo, 800 percent of your retainers are in Wu'an Prefecture, with thousands of soldiers and horses. If she messes up a little bit, she can't hide it from you in Chang'an. Her precious son is still there." Changan, where are you?"

   "Don't think everyone else is like you."

Zhang Chao chuckled, "I received news that Madam Anong should be here in a few days. He traveled by sea, from Wu'an Prefecture to Yangzhou along the coast, and then along the canal to Bianzhou. Go along the Yellow River until Shanzhou, and after passing Shanzhou, go through the canal and go straight to Chang'an Waiguang Yuntan Wharf. I have already sent people to wait there, and I will notify you as soon as the ship arrives."

   "At that time, people will arrange to live in the manor in Changlepo, or in a separate courtyard in the capital?" Zhang Chao asked considerately.

   "No need, just bring people to Pingkangfang directly, and the family will be more lively."

Zhang Chao gave him a thumbs up, "Sanlang, you know what, I don't admire your ability to be charming in the golden house, what I admire most is that you have taken in so many beauties, and you can still make them as friendly as sisters. "

  Qin Lang laughed loudly, "When you become prime minister and you are still young, they will naturally do the same. Of course, the key point is to maintain fairness, and you can't just collect all kinds of favors on one person, and get all the rain and dew, understand?"

   "Tall, it's really tall, no wonder you are the prime minister at such a young age, Sanlang, but I'm just a little green robe, I'm convinced." Zhang Chao shyly said, "Tell me some more secrets!"

   "What? You only have four wives and concubines in your backyard, so you can't handle it?"

   "Sanlang, you don't know that those women in my backyard don't have a good person. They fight all day long with jealousy, and perform Sun Tzu's thirty-six tactics every day. They don't have a fuel-efficient lamp!"

  Qin Lang listened but only said disdainfully, "That's your problem!"

  (end of this chapter)