Based on the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue of 15 million taels last year, after the salary increase, the annual salary of Xue Guoguan, the first assistant, is 1/2500 of the annual income, which is not low.
The original annual salary was 1,044 shi meters, and each shi was equivalent to two taels of silver, or 2,088 taels. This salary increase almost tripled his salary. The main reason is that Li Dongyang had bad luck and did not have a good time as an official.
In comparison, the salary of the first assistant has not increased the most. The monthly salary of the sixth grade was originally 10 taels, and after the salary increase, the monthly salary was 70 taels, which was almost three and a half times higher.
Officials at other levels were jealous and there was nothing they could do about it. The prince had given officials at each level a salary increase. He was short-tongued and easily attacked by his colleagues, so everyone didn't care about it.
Everyone has parents, wives, children, and servants at home. If all are included, there are less than ten people in the family. Even Mr. Hai, who has a small family, feels that life is tight, let alone other officials.
So everyone tacitly expressed their joy with their eyes, and spoke without hesitation, maybe something would come out. By the time they couldn't hold it back, it would be too late, and not only would the money not be their share, , and had to eat a big bowl of fried locusts.
But even with a salary increase, this little money alone is not enough.
Visits to teachers and superiors, gatherings with fellow villagers and colleagues, rewards for servants and subordinates, and exchanges of gifts during the New Year and festivals all require a lot of money.
Not including the daily expenses of his family, just based on these industry rules, a county magistrate will spend at least forty or fifty taels of silver every year.
These are just basic matters. If you want to be well-informed, there is no one or two hundred taels that you cannot afford.
The money the prince sprinkled could not fully satisfy the officials' appetite, but it was better to give it than nothing.
Not to mention that when Emperor Chongzhen was in power, he not only refused to increase the salaries of his ministers, but also tried every means to get everyone to donate money...
For Yaoji, theoretically he is unwilling to increase the salary of these disobedient dogs, but it is still necessary for the strategic consideration of stabilizing the Jifu area.
As long as officials receive tangible benefits, they will develop a conditioned reflex. Even if the blame-finger suddenly wakes up, there is no way to change the monthly salary standard back. In this way, these dogs will have to keep eating what they feed themselves." Dog food”.
Moreover, after the salary increase, the officials' income is mainly used for daily consumption. Their servants have to support their families. The total population of the radiation is tens of thousands, most of them are poor people. The salary increase can be regarded as an indirect benefit to Huimin. Lift.
Take the people in Jifu area as an example. The average monthly salary of ordinary people is between one tael and five taels. They work for others and do some hard work. The income is low. It is between one tael and three taels. It is impossible to eat meat every day. Yes, but it can also keep the whole family satisfied.
A family with four adults and four children, assuming that each adult eats 20 kilograms of rice per month and the children eat 10 kilograms of rice, has to purchase 120 kilograms of rice per month, which is less than one stone of grain.
If there are two people in the family earning money to support the family, that's fine, and maybe they can eat some meat dishes from time to time. If only one person goes out to work, life will be very difficult.
Excluding the necessities of life such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, firewood, rice, cloth, and medicine, plus repairing walls and houses, ordinary families can hardly save money. As long as the whole family is healthy and does not suffer from serious illness or misfortune, then it is considered a blessing. Blessed.
If you become a self-employed business owner, such as selling meat or oil, your income will be slightly higher. You can earn three to five taels a month. This is not enough compared to the top, but more than enough. They can live a little better than most people at the bottom.
Prices in the market have risen, with pork costing more than one hundred yuan per kilogram, and a live goose costing more than one or two silver. It can only be eaten by families with middle-to-high incomes. The main meat for the poor people's tooth sacrifices is fish and shrimp caught from the river. .
They are completely incomparable to the merchants who spend thousands and eight hundred taels of silver to "buy horses" in Yangzhou. The wealthy merchants in Huizhou, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang are extremely wealthy. Even if they are worth three or four hundred thousand taels of silver, they are just "middle-class" among their peers. Just "Jia"...
"My beloved ministers, your monthly salary for this month will be distributed before the tenth day of next month. The Ministry of Revenue will complete the calculation and submit it to this palace for approval before the sixth day of next month. If there are no errors, the salary will be paid on the eighth day of the month. From now on, all ministries in the capital will All yamen are not allowed to issue their own salaries. Regardless of their rank or position, all officials must go to the location designated by the Ministry of Household Affairs to receive their monthly salary."
This is not about handing out rice. Everything involving money must be foolproof, and it must be distributed directly to individuals to reduce "certain intermediate links" to make the difference.
However, when Xue Guoguan receives his salary, he still needs to bring a follower to carry his bag, because the monthly salary of the chief assistant is not five or ten pounds, but thirty-eight pounds, all in cash. This is definitely not the case. What a joke!
Anyway, I am very people-oriented. I not only give you a salary increase, but also find money. If someone is so tired that his lumbar muscles are strained when receiving his salary, it is not my responsibility. Whoever wants to carry this responsibility should do it. Already...
"Li Daiwen, Li Aiqing, the Ministry of Household Affairs must set up a relevant salary office within the headquarters, with multiple service windows under its jurisdiction. The appearance is similar to a pawn shop. One window is from the first to the third grade, and one window is from the third to the sixth grade. There is only one window for those who have not yet entered the official sixth grade. Several windows must be set up for a large number of government officials. The receiving windows for officials and government officials must be located in different courtyards. Everyone's monthly salary must be requested in person, signed and fingerprinted. Four copies are kept in the Treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs, one copy is kept by the East Palace and the Salary Office as a backup, and one copy is sent to the recipient. The required personnel, venue, furnishings, silver, and procedures must all be completed before the first day of the next month. , there must be no mistake.”
The purpose of setting up more windows is to avoid jealousy. Even an unofficial official pockets ten taels of silver every month, which is several times higher than those of servants on errands, but everyone still ignores them.
There are still eleven days left before the stipulated time. There is not much time, but all the preparations, personnel, and materials are ready for the Ministry of Household Affairs. It only needs to set aside two courtyards as the salary offices for officials and government servants. .
Li Daiwen felt that this matter would be easier to handle. The prince had simply made some changes to the way he paid his salary. After a little thought, he should take over the task. However, there was still a huge difficulty, so he said casually: "I will definitely take over the task." I will try my best to handle this matter for Your Highness, but if it involves the salary of the army, factory guards, and soldiers, there are so many people that the household department may be overwhelmed, and I don’t know how to deal with it!"
It is a good thing to pay the salary directly, but it is not easy to pay the salary to those troops. If nothing else, there are too many of them, often tens of thousands. You must know that the Ministry of Household Affairs, including him as the minister, There are less than 400 people on staff, so the salary pressure can be imagined.
Not counting the 5,000-6,000 Jin Yiwei, the number of soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion alone is as high as 10,000. It would take a day to pay them their salaries. To pay both the civil and military parties their monthly salary within three days, the Ministry of Revenue would simply have to Become anxious.
More importantly, the prince will pay salaries to the Qin soldiers led by Sun Chuanting this afternoon. The troops under his command are no less than 30,000. Li Daiwen did not have time to go home after retreating from the court yesterday. He was busy arranging manpower at the Ministry of Household Affairs, otherwise today What the prince has decided is about to come to nothing.
Yao Ji also understood the difficulties of the imperial housekeeper, so he came up with a safer way: "The army is different from the officials and government officials. If there are no major matters, after verification, all the garrison in Jifu area can receive their monthly salary before the eighth day of the lunar month. The Ministry of Household Affairs must The salary will be distributed to the army station to avoid disturbing the minions due to the movement of soldiers back and forth. If there is a shortage of personnel in the household department, they can be recruited immediately and trained. The time and method of salary payment for factory guards are consistent with that of the army, and the household department must not make mistakes in handling it."
Just stagger the payday. How long will it take to get a bunch of illiterate people to press their thumbprints? Maybe the time consumed per person is shorter than those guys who leave their signatures.
When I mentioned salary increase, why didn't anyone object?
Everyone poked there and secretly rejoiced. Is this the legendary thing about following someone's liking?
Try giving some cow dung someday and see what your reaction is, hehe...
The rumor that the prince will pay 10% of the unearned money to the factory guards has long been heard by Yaoji, but there is no need to talk about it directly in the main hall. There is no need, and the number of people who are about to collect their salary will not be as high as now. many.
Yao Ji really intends to extend his divine grace and reward the good bastards under his command. This time he not only has to spend money, but also has to spend a lot of money.
As the Emperor's Eagle Dog, the reward amount must also be the highest.
In this reward, the lowest-ranked warrior in the Imperial Guard can receive ten taels of silver, and Xiao Qi can even receive a hundred taels.
The higher the official position, the greater the bonuses received. A third-grade Jinyiwei commander can receive a reward of 10,000 taels.
Yao Ji glanced at Luo Yangxing, who was wearing a helmet, with his peripheral vision, and smiled secretly and thought to himself: As for whether the commander is here to receive the reward now, it is hard to say...
Yao Ji will not pay out of his own pocket for the money used to pay out bonuses. If the Ministry of Accounts reimburses all the money for the one hundred thousand taels, today's meeting will definitely turn into a mass rant, so there is no need to mention this.
Let them spread those rumors for the time being, so that the ears of the henchmen can be relieved first. Anyway, if I don't open my mouth for a day, you won't be able to get cash for a day.
The prince had already told him that if there were difficulties in the Ministry of Revenue, he should try his best to overcome them. Li Daiwen couldn't be too entangled in small things, because paying Qin soldiers in the afternoon was the top priority today.
If the Ministry of Revenue is in a hurry and lets these tens of thousands of warriors stand outside the Chengtian Gate and stare at each other, over time, there will be some trouble, and then the prince's face will turn black, and everyone will be unlucky.
Not only the Qin soldiers, but also soldiers and horses from the Neichang, Dongchang, Jinyiwei, and Yongwei camps will be present to supervise the situation in order to protect the integrity of the prince's dragon body. The total number of these "on-site spectators" is nearly ten thousand.
Yesterday, Huang Degong and Fang Zhenghua arranged the venue together. Not only did the streets have to be cordoned off so that no one could get close to them, they also had people to clean them carefully along the way to avoid seeing the "items" that the prince was most taboo on the ground.
Not to mention how grand the review ceremony must be, at least it must be able to handle it. If a commander of the Yongwei Battalion and the Governor of the East Factory can't even handle this little thing at home, then the prince really can't rest assured. .
Well, no one is complaining, so I feel a little disappointed!
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It’s not yet half past eleven, and all the things to be dealt with before the meeting are finished. The ministers can take a rest in advance and go do whatever they have to do. Lunch will be chicken soup or pancakes.
The bowls for the first and second grade members are chicken legs, the third and fourth grade members get chicken wings and chicken feet, the fifth and sixth grade members can get chicken breasts, and the seventh and eighth grade members can also get some chicken heads and chickens. Necks, chicken ribs and chicken buttocks, I don’t know what they are anymore. The good news is that there are enough sesame seed cakes and soup tubes!
Officials who can't afford big meat can go home to eat. Even if they are an upright official with little money in his pocket, if he endures for a while, he can get a good salary. I dare not say that he can eat delicacies from mountains and seas. It is absolutely impossible to eat chicken every week. questionable.
Yaoji does not have a fixed lunch time, only a time limit. When it is time to eat, as long as the food is cooked by the supervisor, it can be served.
The first-class officials headed by Xue Guoguan started eating without saying a word. The difference between the first-class and second-class bowls was that the first-class chicken drumstick was a whole piece, while the second-class chicken drumstick was half a chicken leg, with the thigh first and the calf second. The dining treatment of nobles is the same as that of second-grade officials.
Since there are many parts of a chicken, and the number of officials above the third rank is very small, after satisfying the foodies of the third rank, officials from the third rank and below will naturally get a lot of meat, and everyone will be quite satisfied with the food. .
However, according to the analysis of a certain prince, it is still too expensive to feed the borers with poultry and livestock. It is more cost-effective to use river fresh food. One fish can stew a pot of soup. It does not cost a few dollars and can satisfy these foodies. full.
If an official is suddenly stuck with a fishbone, firstly, he can be vacated, and secondly, his house can be confiscated. It is really a good way to kill three birds with one stone, hahahaha...
In order not to cause trouble to the imperial chefs, the concubines, headed by their beautiful mother, naturally ate chicken soup, or chicken stew to be precise. How could the emperor's wife and children be so poor that they only drank soup?
"Brother Emperor, when are you going to have barbecue again?"
While Princess Changping was eating chicken, she was thinking about the barbecue. After stewing, the chicken with a lot of ingredients was quite delicious, but the taste was still not as spicy as the barbecue.
If it's difficult, just make braised pork rice again. From Princess Changping's point of view, it's acceptable to eat braised pork rice with rich red sauce every time.
My family is not short of money and has a dedicated royal chef. Why can't I eat barbecue and braised pork rice every day? This is unreasonable!
"You and your brothers are still young, and your intestines are still developing and are very fragile. Barbecue can easily damage your intestines. You can only eat them once a week at most!"
Looking at this little sister who is becoming more and more edible, Yao Ji looked at her with helpless eyes after giving her sincere instructions.
I also want to eat every day, but when I eat, you will have to cry and beg for food, so just don’t eat at all.
The foodie princess is not scary, the scary princess has a big appetite!
After hearing this, Princess Changping felt a little disappointed, and then started counting the time for the next BBQ with her little fingers...
"Yeah, sister is right!"
The third prince Zhu Cijiong was still chewing on the chicken legs just now. When he saw Chang Ping raising his head, he hurriedly followed, fearing that he would be left behind while eating.
Immediately, he was glared at by his beautiful biological mother, and he immediately shrank his neck in fright. He didn't dare to interrupt anymore, and just took care of the chicken legs in his hand.
Aunt Tian's two sons were reluctant to express their opinions at the dinner table after being reminded many times by their mother, but they still listened attentively.
When it comes to eating, it seems that the dinner table can arouse great interest and appetite regardless of gender, regardless of age!
It can be said that they are the foodies of Lao Zhu’s family...
