Borrow the day to change the day

"Master Zhong, please tell me."

"Your Majesty, I want to divide the salary increase of officials into two parts. One is to meet their daily needs, and the other is to add an honesty gold system."

"What is the integrity gold system?" Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren asked together. After the question came out, Wen Tiren was a little embarrassed, as if he was in a hurry.

Fortunately, neither Emperor Chongzhen nor Zhong Jinwei noticed, and Wen Tiren's demeanor immediately returned to normal.

Zhong Jinwei explained: "To put it simply, after serving as an official until he retires and returns to his hometown, that is, after he is no longer an official, he can get an extra sum of money. Of course, the premise is that there is no record of corruption." [

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, it was the same reason that he usually felt that someone did a good job and rewarded things, but there were differences in the details.The previous rewards were arbitrary, but what Master Zhong said would be taken as a rule and must be given when it expired.

While he was still thinking about it, Wen Tiren asked Zhong Jinwei: "Uncle Zhongxing, your simple statement makes people understand what it is, but how to do it specifically?"

"Master Wen, I think so. It is stipulated that each official will be rewarded with a certain amount of integrity gold after serving as an official for a month. Everyone can know how much integrity gold they can get when they are no longer an official if they are honest officials."

"That is to say, the honesty bonus is the same as the monthly salary, but you can't get it right away?" Wen Tiren continued to ask.

"There is a difference."

"What's the difference?"

"The monthly salary is different according to the grade. This reflects the ability problem, so it is natural to treat it differently. But this honesty gold is different. It is a reward for honesty when you are an official. I think that as long as you are an official, no matter what No matter what kind of official you are, then you are required to be an honest official. As long as you can do this, you can get the same honesty money. If there is corruption, you can’t get a cent.”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he asked Zhong Jinwei with a wry smile: "Master Zhong, the profits of state-owned enterprises will be very high, but it is impossible to have a lot at the beginning, right? This is both a salary increase and an honest government fund." , how to solve this money? I still need money in many places!"

Zhong Jinwei also had a headache when he heard it, everything is difficult at the beginning!He lowered his head and thought quickly.

"Uncle Zhongxing, why don't you temporarily use that banknote to replace the extra expenses?" Wen Tiren suggested to him.

After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen thought it was a good idea and could solve this problem immediately.Just as he was about to speak, Zhong Jinwei said: "No, absolutely not. The credibility of paper money has not been established yet. If it breaks away from the silver standard, it will end up in the same fate as Daming's banknotes and become a piece of waste paper."

Zhong Jinwei's voice was a bit loud, but his attitude was firm.

"Uncle Zhongxing was thinking about it. It's not that he can't exchange money, but that he has no money for the time being. When the state-owned enterprises become more profitable and have extra money, he can exchange them for them!" Wen Tiren quickly explained to Zhong Jinwei.

"That's not okay. Now, they don't believe how much profit state-owned enterprises can make. Only when they see the earning power of state-owned enterprises will they believe it. Otherwise, the paper money in their hands will still depreciate greatly." Zhong Jinwei still shook his head and denied it.

After hearing this, Wen Tiren stopped talking, and the Wenhua Hall fell silent.

After a while, Zhong Jinwei raised his head and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the treatment of these officials must be increased. Just as I told you before, only when they are allowed to share the benefits of the system reform will they be serious about doing things. Don't make trouble."

Seeing Chongzhen nodding his head slightly, he continued: "The clean-cut gold was implemented after the announcement of the policy, and it is only for keeping accounts temporarily. Don't think about it."

"That's right." Emperor Chongzhen agreed aloud upon hearing this.

"As for the salary increase of officials, it can be implemented in several stages. For example, those with low salaries can refer to the daily consumption needs of the capital. If it is not enough to maintain the daily needs of a certain number of people in the family, they will be given a salary increase first. How long will it take to resolve the next-level ones until all salary increases are completed.”[

"There must be a basis for how to set this time?" Wen Tiren asked.

"It will be decided from the profit growth of state-owned enterprises."

After hearing Zhong Jinwei's answer, Wen Tiren had no idea about the growth rate of the state-owned enterprise's profits, so he asked, "Will this time be too long?"

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he said directly: "It has been like this for hundreds of years, and I can't afford to wait this little time? If anyone has an opinion, I will go to his house to see if I really can't afford to wait and starve to death."

"What about the officials outside the capital?" After hearing Emperor Chongzhen's slightly threatening words, Wen Tiren stopped worrying about this point and asked another question instead.

"The two capitals and the thirteen provinces have set up state-owned enterprises, and they will be sent out after the capital has trained more talents. The salaries of local officials will be settled locally, and the central government will check the accounts, and then return them to the central government." Zhong Jinwei thought that now he can only bloom more. , go hand in hand, in order to increase profits in a short period of time, so this plan was given.

To be honest, there are not many officials in Ming Dynasty, and the monthly salary is also very low, so there is this broad foundation.

Wen Tiren thought about it for a while, and felt that this plan was still feasible, so he stopped asking.

But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen said: "Master Zhong, the military pay of the frontier troops in various places is also in urgent need of settlement. In some places, the military pay has been in arrears for several months. How to solve this?"

A while ago, it was hard work to sell the pot and sell the iron, and the money obtained by the Marquis of Baoding, the admiral of the Beijing camp, and the two censors, temporarily stabilized the problem of Qin Wangjun's military pay and food.

However, the problem of the frontier army's delay in payment has always been pressed in Emperor Chongzhen's heart, and the silver taels needed for disaster relief across the country are also a huge amount, which almost drove Emperor Chongzhen crazy.

Now in order to fight corruption, we have to raise the salaries of officials and engage in honesty money, which is impossible.Emperor Chongzhen knew that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his weapon, so when Zhong Jinwei proposed these measures, he never objected.

Emperor Chongzhen originally placed his hopes on the profits of state-owned enterprises, banknotes, etc., and hoped that some of the profits could be transferred out, but according to Master Zhong's arrangement, it was definitely out of the question for the time being.

Now that Zhong Jinwei has almost figured out the source of the salary increase money and integrity money, he couldn't help expressing his worries.

Zhong Jinwei also felt a headache. The Ming Dynasty lacked money everywhere, but needed money everywhere.It would be nice if I remembered more cheats.

The military pay of the army here must be solved. Zhong Jinwei has a deeper understanding of this point than Emperor Chongzhen and Wen Tiren, because he knows that it is these soldiers who have received military training because they can't survive, and eventually join the rebellion. Only by going there, the power of the rebels was strengthened.

Zhong Jinwei is not the god of wealth, nor does he have a cornucopia, so it is impossible to make a lot of money at once.

In fact, it can’t be said that there is no such thing, but he is in the middle of the game, thinking about how to produce things to make money, forgetting other ways to make money.

Emperor Chongzhen waited for a while, but did not wait for Zhong Jinwei's reply.Then he looked at Wen Tiren again, and saw that he also had a sad expression, knowing that Shoufu couldn't make money out of it.

As soon as he was agitated, he became angry, couldn't help but changed his mind a little, and said with a hint of irresponsibility: "Why don't I just grit my teeth and get rid of all these corrupt officials and raid their homes, and I will have money." Already!"

The approach mentioned by Emperor Chongzhen has been demonstrated before, and it will not work.When Zhong Jinwei and Wen Tiren heard Emperor Chongzhen's angry words, they both raised their heads and looked over, trying to figure out whether the emperor really wanted to do this or just vented.

At this time, hurried footsteps came from outside the hall, and there was an urgent military report. [

Zhong Jinwei and Wen Tiren looked at each other, both a little worried. The current military situation is basically that nine out of ten news are bad news.

Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly asked his servants to forward the urgent report on the military situation to have a look. There were two memorials, one was the urgent delivery of the military situation, and the other was the memorial of Sun Chengzong.

Emperor Chongzhen quickly opened it and read it. Neither Zhong Jinwei nor Wen Tiren spoke. For a while, the Wenhua Palace became quiet.