stjorthotic Chapter 681: Zhu Yuanzhang Is Rarely Generous [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Chapter 681: Zhu Yuanzhang Is Rarely Generous [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe]
Looking at the low and noisy crowd of civil and military officials below, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the chamberlain beside him. The chamberlain immediately took a step forward, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly:
"No making noise in the main hall!!!"
Hearing the loud shouts of the chamberlain, the officials from the Ministry of Rites, who were also in a state of shock because of the [Da Ming Dynasty Sand Table], realized that what they were doing was a disrespect for the emperor.
What's worse is that they, who were supposed to be responsible for maintaining the etiquette of the court meeting, did not maintain the etiquette posture of the civil and military officials at the first time. Instead, they asked the chamberlain to speak out to maintain the etiquette.
For them, this can already be called a dereliction of duty.
Thinking of this, all the officials from the Ministry of Rites either reprimanded or reminded other civil and military officials to be silent and solemn.
The other civil and military officials, who were reminded one after another by the chamberlain and the officials of the Ministry of Rites, also realized what the occasion was and immediately returned to their solemn expressions of not squinting and holding the wat tablet in their hands.
After more than ten breaths, the originally noisy court immediately returned to a state of silence.
Song Lian, who was also the Minister of Rites, also took a step forward and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang to apologize:
"I have behaved disrespectfully in front of you, please forgive me!!!"
Looking at Song Lian who was asking for forgiveness, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said with a rare smile:
"It's human nature for you to be so excited that you can't control yourself!!!"
"When we first saw this [Da Ming Dynasty Sand Table], the excitement in our hearts was even worse than that of other members of the Qing family!!!"
"So forget it this time and never do it next time!!!"
"Everyone, please return to your respective positions!!!"
In the final analysis, it all depends on the emperor's will as to how he wants to deal with the matter of disobeying the emperor.
If the emperor has no intention of pursuing the matter, he can simply expose it with a single word.
And today, Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes summoned a group of civil and military "three-three-zero" officials to hold a court meeting again, and it was not to punish all the civil and military officials.
If a large number of civil and military officials were punished for this trivial matter right at the beginning, it might also affect the subsequent announcement and discussion of state affairs.
Furthermore, unlike the original history, Song Lian, who died of illness while being exiled to Maozhou because his eldest grandson Song Shen was implicated in the Hu Weiyong case, is now seventy-three years old.
Song Lian, who was so old, had personally begged him for forgiveness, so this face was more or less not something he wanted to give.
All the civil and military officials who had received Zhu Yuanzhang's absolution bowed down and worshiped:
"I would like to thank Your Majesty for your forgiveness!!!"
"Your Majesty the Holy Might!!!"
A group of civil and military officials who retreated to the left and right sides stood back to the main hall again.
But looking at the [Da Ming World Sand Table] that they were stepping on through the transparent glass, all the civil and military officials couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in their hearts.
It felt like I was really standing on the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, standing on top of tens of millions of Ming Dynasty people!!!
That indescribable feeling of superiority caused ripples in the hearts of all the civil and military officials.
Looking at the civil and military officials below, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand again and said:
"The [Da Ming Dynasty Sand Table] under your feet is the result of your hard work on state affairs in the past ten years!!!"
"We are very satisfied, so we decided that all first-grade officials will be rewarded with two hundred guan; and all first-grade officials will be rewarded with 150 guan!"
"Officials of the first and second grades are all rewarded with one hundred guan; officials of the second grade are all rewarded with 90 guan."
"Officials of the third rank will be rewarded with eighty guans; officials of the third rank will be rewarded with 70 guan."
"Officials of the fourth rank will be rewarded with sixty guans; officials of the fourth rank will be rewarded with 50 guan."
"Officials of the fifth rank are all rewarded with 40 guan (ten thousand taels of silver); officials of the junior fifth rank are all rewarded with three fields of land."
"Officials of the sixth rank are all rewarded with 20 guan (ten thousand taels of silver); officials of the junior sixth rank are all rewarded with 10 guan (ten thousand taels of silver).
"Officials of the seventh rank are all rewarded with 8 guan (ten thousand taels of silver); officials of the junior seventh rank are all rewarded with 6 guan (ten thousand taels of silver).
"Officials of the eighth rank will be rewarded with four strings of cash; officials of the eighth rank will be rewarded with three strings of cash."
"Officials of the ninth rank will be rewarded with two strings of cash; officials of the ninth rank will be rewarded with one string of cash."
"The rest of the clerks are all Confucian scholars!!!"
"Officials in the world are all Confucian scholars!!!"
"Officials in the world are all Confucian scholars!!!"
As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang said this, before all the civil and military officials could cheer, Ru Taisu, who was promoted to the Minister of Revenue by Zhu Yuanzhang last year, immediately looked as ugly as if he had eaten a dead fly. He stepped forward and smiled bitterly to stop him:
"Your Majesty, you can't do that!!!"
"The Ministry of Revenue has given extra rewards to officials who completed the land and acreage accounting in the world last year in addition to their salaries according to their merits!!!"
"At this moment, how can we be favored by your Majesty again if we have no merits?!!"
"Please take back the rewards, and reward us after we have made merits!!!"
As soon as Ru Taisu said this, all the civil and military officials looked at him angrily.
Even many officials in the Ministry of Revenue looked at their boss with resentment.
It was not easy to work under Zhu Yuanzhang, especially since Zhu Yuanzhang came up with a salary structure system of [guaranteed salary plus bonus commission plus performance assessment].
They wanted to make their family live better and richer, "That really cost them their lives!!!
How could the land and fields in the world last year be completed in just one year, or even half a year?!!
In addition to the fact that all the civil and military officials in the court had reached a consensus and ensured that the court would not be in chaos.
And Zhu Yuanzhang sent four dukes to sit in the Five Military Commandery respectively, ready to dispatch troops to suppress any local unrest at any time, and give the most powerful support to all the civil and military officials.
The most critical and important thing is that all the officials from the court to the local areas are risking their lives!!!
To what extent?!!
The court The officials above would send an urgent official letter to the relevant officials under their management every now and then.
On the one hand, they were asked to give feedback on the relevant progress, and on the other hand, they were urged to speed up, expedite and ensure that the land and field inventory and verification work was completed without omission.
After all, the reward for the work task is not available to every official. Generally, only the first two-thirds of the officials who complete the work first will receive this reward commission.
And the probability of two-thirds is not difficult. Basically, as long as you are willing to fight and work hard, you still have a good chance of getting it.
After all, they are not required to get the top ten or top three, but only require them to Just get the top two-thirds.
Among all the officials, they may think that their ability is not in the top ten or top three, but they are still very confident that they can rank in the top two-thirds.
After all, everyone has fought their way out of the imperial examination. Not to say that they are the best among all the officials, but at least they are in the middle and lower ranks among all the officials!
And the middle and lower ranks, rounded up, is not equal to the top two-thirds!!
But the probability of two-thirds is not easy to say, after all, if everyone tries hard, there is a chance to squeeze into the top two-thirds.
If If you want to ensure that you can firmly squeeze into the top two-thirds, then you can only work harder and harder than others [so that you can ensure that you can eventually squeeze into the top two-thirds.
It can be said that the top two-thirds ranking requirement is very cleverly designed.
It will not make some officials feel that they cannot do it and then give up because of the high requirements, and at the same time it can mobilize the enthusiasm of all officials to the greatest extent.
Therefore, all the officials in the court are urging the officials below three times a day.
And the local officials are under pressure from the officials in the court, so what else can they say? Naturally, they just do it!
If you don't do it, your boss will give you a little shoe to wear, so that you won't be promoted in ten or eight years, and you won't have a place to cry.
Moreover, inventorying, statistics and verifying the number of acres of land in the world was the primary state affairs in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, and all other affairs had to make way for it.
Even for this reason, their immediate superior directly spoke:
"If you encounter any difficulties that cannot be solved, just tell me directly and I will solve them for you immediately if I can!"
"If I can't solve it, I'll report it to a higher level and find someone to help you solve it!!!"
"In case of violent obstruction, I will directly call on the imperial army to suppress the chaos!!!"
To be honest, this is the first time for local officials who have been working as officials for so many years to encounter such toughness and ability from their immediate superiors.
This is equivalent to saying, just go ahead and do it. If something happens, I will take care of it. If I can't take care of it, I will find others to help you take care of it. If others can't take care of it, the court will take care of it for you directly!
In addition, as local officials, if they complete the land inventory statistics and verification work first two-thirds, then they will also receive reward commissions.
Under such circumstances, local officials became more courageous and their work enthusiasm was infinitely mobilized.
Immediately, the first one went to inventory, count, and verify the number of acres of land owned by the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords.
After all, those who can serve as local officials naturally know where the most difficult and troublesome aspects of inventorying, counting, and verifying the number of acres of land are.
If it were in the past, they might not have conflicts with wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords in these places.
After all, after the conflict, if the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords unite, not to mention ostracizing him, it will inevitably make their local work difficult.
Even if local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords deliberately create "public dissatisfaction" and "civil uprising", then even if they go to the Qin court, they will solve all the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords.
In the end, even if they kept their black hat, their career was basically over.
Therefore, under such circumstances, a group of local officials and the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords tolerated each other.
But now, give in?!!
Give up!!!
Damn it, if the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords dare to violently obstruct it, they will immediately go to the Qin court and say that there are local mobs that violently obstruct national affairs!!!
Anyway, the imperial court will not consider them to be incapable because of this matter, nor will it affect their future career and assessment...
Then they are so cowardly!!!
Why does the imperial power not go to the countryside?!!
Let you try the power of the imperial army’s iron fist!!!
Let’s see if the imperial army can go to the countryside and blast you, then that’ll be it!!!
The emboldened local officials met the local wealthy businessmen, gentry, clans, and landlords who were instigated by Jin Yiwei. A conflict immediately broke out between the two sides.
Afterwards, the imperial court dispatched a large army as a matter of course and directly suppressed the local unrest without causing even a big splash.
The speed of suppressing the unrest was so fast,
It made all the local officials feel as if the court had already prepared it.
After suppressing the local unrest, a group of local officials were so excited that they took a group of subordinate officials and censors to the fields to inventory, count, and verify the number of acres of land.
Then I kept busy until the sun went down. I was worried that there would be measurement errors due to the unclear sight of the acres of land, so I stopped working.
During this period, three meals a day were eaten in the fields, and all the local officials also got a lot of tan.
After the explosion reached this level, only two-thirds of the officials received the reward commission issued by the imperial court.
This is really the reward commission money in exchange for liver!
Even so, there are still one-third of the officials who have not received this reward commission!
However, whether it is the two-thirds of the officials who have received the reward commission, or the one-third of the officials who have not received the reward commission, they will not dislike it.
The rewards are small.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been very stingy, expecting him to be generous once is no less difficult than the contemporary Shennong family who discovered and cultivated potatoes with a yield of thirty shi per mu!
However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was rarely generous for once, was suddenly opposed by Ru Taisu.
If it weren't for Ru Taisu, as the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, one of the six ministers and nine ministers in the court, and standing at the top of the court's civil servants, Kang Wenchen, the middle and lower minister, would have taken the lead now even if he refused to leave.
He jumped out and stabbed Ru Taisu in the back.
However, the middle and lower-level civil servants need to consider Ru Taisu's status as the Minister of Household Affairs, but the military commanders and noble marquises do not need to worry so much.
Anyway, their immediate bosses are the princes of the country. Even if Ru Taisu really wants to cause trouble for them, there are the princes of the country who will stand up to him.
Therefore, a group of middle and lower-level military commanders, noble marquis, spoke one after another:
"Master Situ, your Majesty has a reward, how can you refuse it!!!"
"Yes, this is Your Majesty's reward for my hard work over the past year. Why do you refuse?!!"
"If you think you won't be rewarded for your efforts, then don't do it!!!"
"Anyway, I feel that last year I still had some credit to the Ming Dynasty and some credit to His Majesty!!!"
"I have done meritorious service for the Ming Dynasty, I have shed blood for His Majesty, and His Majesty has rewarded me with some money. How come I am receiving a salary without merit?!"
However, Ru Taisu, who was the target of the bombardment, ignored what the noble marquis and the military generals said. He just looked like an old god was there anyway.
As the saying goes, if you are not a householder, you don't know how valuable money and rice are. Now the Ministry of Household is truly in charge of all the money and food in the world.
Even though the authority is heavier than before, the responsibility is also heavier than before. 2.8.
If the Ministry of Revenue could not come up with money in the past, the blame could be passed on to the other five ministries.
So if the Ministry of Finance cannot come up with the money now, it will really be all the fault of the Ministry of Finance.
In addition, since the Ministry of Household Affairs made the revenue and expenditure plan for the fiscal budget, the imperial court had its own plan for every fiscal revenue and expenditure every ten years.
Even though the Ministry of Household Affairs has also made plans for extra-budgetary expenditures, such extra-budgetary expenditure plans are specially prepared to deal with certain special events.
Now the 16th year of Hongwu has just begun. If it is just because of Zhu Yuanzhang's whim reward, it will be spent.
Then if he encounters other special things outside the budget expenditure later and needs money, where will he find the money to give to the court?!!
Therefore, unless Zhu Yuanzhang removes him from the post of Minister of Household Affairs today, he will firmly disagree.
Anyway, his move was to serve the country loyally, and there was no need to worry that Zhu Yuanzhang would chop off his head for this.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was on the throne, looked at Ru Taisu, who looked like he was stingy, stingy, and did not agree to rewards, and couldn't help but shook his head and said:
"This reward will be paid from the internal treasury, not the national treasury!!!"
"So, does the Ru Qing family still have any objections?!"
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Ru Taisu immediately took a step back, and at the same time, he immediately bowed and thanked:
"I thank your Majesty for the reward!!!"
The national treasury and the royal treasury were separated from each other as early as two years ago. Zhu Yuanzhang's spending of money from the royal treasury will not affect the imperial treasury.
As long as it does not cost money from the imperial treasury, Ru Taisu only wants to say that the more the better for such a reward. After all, as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, he is also poor!!!
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