"Your Majesty, which of these old ministers is not a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and which one is not a minister, but now they have to personally send grain into Beijing because of the pressure of the West Factory to pay taxes, just like coolies, this is a loss of face for the court!
People in the world are afraid that they really think that I am not sympathetic to the old minister!
If it goes on like this, it will be chilling!
Your Majesty!
The minister had to report it truthfully, and asked His Majesty to learn from it. ”Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, complained to Zhu Youxiao with tears in his eyes at this time.And Zhu Youxiao only smiled coldly after hearing this: "What, you still want to put up the old minister's shelf to threaten me?"
It has become a precedent for the military and civilians to transport grain to the Cao army, and they can also transport grain into Beijing in person!
I will have the Kuraba squire collect their taxes and grain, but I will also issue a decree to punish them for violating the decrees of the imperial court, just like disobeying the decree!
Let them ship!
No one should try to obstruct the new policy of the imperial court!
”"Yes!
Please retire!
”Sun Ruyou replied with some disappointment, he was in a hurry to see the emperor after receiving the letter from Gu Qiyuan and others, originally wanted the emperor to care about the feelings of the old ministers, and to give more preferential treatment to the big officials and gentry in the collection of taxes and grain, so as to avoid the big officials and gentry from serving like the common people, he didn't expect that His Majesty the emperor would not give in at all for the sake of the new policy, and he would no longer be polite to the old ministers.Zhu Youxiao nodded, he knew that Sun Ruyou's mind was to let him give these old ministers more preferential privileges.But Zhu Youxiao was unwilling.In his opinion, these ministers and ministers are not bad for money, and if they don't want to transport grain into Beijing, they can pay money instead of forced labor, instead of letting the imperial court preserve their dignity by exempting them from taxes and grain.In Zhu Youxiao's view, if you want to be decent, you have to spend money to buy it, rather than the court taking the initiative to give it.Sun Ruyou left the political hall.Zhu Youxiao glanced at his back, and the other party Congzhe said: "Nan Zhili is now urging the collection of the levy and the Qingzhang Tianmu in full swing, and the central government of the court cannot be idle, and the law must be implemented as soon as possible, and these officials can't be too idle and don't know their responsibilities.All officials, their increase or decrease, promotion and demotion must be linked to their political performance!
Qualifications and fame or something, very empty. ”"May I ask Your Majesty, how to calculate this political achievement, now the tax and grain are collected by the West Factory, and the local officials no longer have to bear the responsibility of supervising the grain, only the responsibility of the people, so please make it clear to Your Majesty."
Fang Congzhe asked back.Tang Taizong often warned the ministers with this remark that the peace of the people is also a political achievement, and if the local officials can make the people's lives better, they will contribute to the peace and tranquility of the society, and this is better than the previous assessment of officials mainly based on the collection of taxes and grains, so as to avoid officials from being exploited by the people in order to complete the taxes and grains; In addition, the political achievements of this An Min have to be quantified, and cannot be determined by their so-called official reputation in the local area, the common people are still busy for three meals a day, where do they know which official is good, even if they really know, we can't hear the real popularity, after all, most of the people are illiterate, don't know how to speak, and don't understand that officials leave to send umbrellas to represent the feelings of reluctance; Therefore, the imperial court must have specific criteria for assessment, such as how much land is cultivated, how much grain production is increased, how much water canals are opened, and how much large households with a wealth of more than 1,210,000 taels are increased!
”Zhu Youxiao said again: "In this way, the responsibilities of officials have not only not decreased, but have increased a lot, and they will definitely be more tired, especially the officials in the state capital and county, they are directly responsible for the contact with the people, and they are the most meager, and now that I prohibit corruption, they will definitely be more reluctant to be this kind of officials who deal directly with the people, which requires them to improve their salary, so that they feel that it is worth being tired." ”"Your Majesty!
There are too few officials in the state capital and county, but now the people are getting more and more complicated, and there are many redundant things, and the state and county officials need more subordinates if they want to manage the place well, so many officials have to hire more masters and servants, which leads to the fact that even if the local officials in the state capital and county want to do things well and want to be a clean official, they have to collect money to support the staff officials, but the standard of the courtiers is formulated by Taizu, and I am afraid that it will not be easy to change. ”Fang Congzhe spoke.At the same time as the implementation of the examination method, you ask the officials to formulate a regulation on the reward of officials according to my intentions, which is mainly divided into three parts: raising integrity, honoring the honor, and rewarding the results of the examination: the maintenance of honesty is used to maintain integrity, so as to avoid some powerful but poor officials to avoid falling for five buckets of rice; Zhishi Rongyang is to give officials a Zhishi years, do not have to worry about a lifetime of tiring work for the court, and being hated by the younger generations that this old thing is still in love with the power, and after the time limit, you can take the initiative to resign, and according to the rules by the court to pay a few years of glory; The reward for success in the examination is to reward outstanding officials, so that officials all over the world know that they can receive money for doing good things for the gentry, and they can also collect money for doing good things for the people, but the difference between the two is different. ”Zhu Youxiao said.Fang Congzhe became a little excited after hearing this, and thought to himself that His Majesty is not unsuitable for his own officials, so he said: "Your Majesty has considered it thoroughly, and the minister thinks that there is not much silver for maintaining integrity, which is not only to avoid the excessive increase in the court's money and food expenditure for a while, but also to avoid officials becoming more extravagant and even more greedy than before, because it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, so it is better to put the main reward money behind the Zhishi, so that the officials can have the idea that they can live a stable and prosperous life after they become officials; In this way, even if they are a little cramped in their lives, they will be willing to work tirelessly for the court and do things for the people, and then give them a generous reward, so that they will be old by then, neither the power to indulge in lust, nor can they chew the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and they can no longer be extravagant, even if they have no scruples, it will only increase the disease, just use the silver of Rongyang to train doctors for the Ming Dynasty, so that the doctors can improve the healing techniques for the rich diagnosis money!
”Zhu Youxiao nodded approvingly, and laughed: "Yuan Fu is an old man who seeks the country, and improving the treatment of officials should pay more attention to improving the treatment of officials after they become officials, this strategy is very clever!"
Just do this, in addition, the reward after the Zhishi does not need to be issued at one time, it is still issued on an annual basis, so as to avoid that he himself can not squander, his children and grandchildren take it to squander, and at the same time, it is also possible to control these Zhishi old ministers through the reward after the Zhishi, who is not honest, will card his Rongyang silver!
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