Since Chongzhen came over, after several efforts, although the treasury has been much more abundant than before, the majority of them have been given to the army, especially the Liaodong warlords.

The military spending of Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou was the only one who was trying to suppress the thieves and achieved brilliant results, and the cost was also small.

The huge military expenditure in Liaodong every year is too worthless. This is not spending money to raise soldiers, but pigs.

Although I knew I was cheated, Chongzhen could not touch them for the time being, and Liaodong must remain stable.

Although these more than 100,000 troops rarely made military achievements, they at least kept Jiannu away from Shanhaiguan.

If Chongzhen had too much money on hand, he would have spent all his money and spent it with Jiannu, and he would have spent more than ten years to death.

Of course, the premise is that the Jurchens cannot be allowed to break into the pass from other places to rob.

If the Jurchens did not rob, how could they support themselves? Just rely on the Han people robbed from the Ming Dynasty? That would only be enough to live a life, and farming can produce gold, silver, treasures, silk, and satin? So, Liaodong should bear it. But we can no longer give as much as the warlords as they used to, but let the Ministry of War and Liaodong peel off a few more times, and give some in a few times in the middle to stabilize the military leaders. One year passed in a row. Chongzhen planned to solve the Liaodong issue within two years. Now he tried his best to delay the time of allocating silver, and he could not make the military leaders irritable. Yang Sichang had a headache.

Now Chongzhen no longer has to worry about small money like tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Gong Fanwu has achieved success in drying salt in Changlu Salt Field. Now the new salt in the Jingji area does not need to be transported from Shandong for long distances.

This reduces a lot of costs and saves a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. The new salt of Changlu is enough to meet the northern market, and the transportation distance occupies a great advantage.

Shouguang Salt Field has been steadily expanding production, and new salt has accumulated as high as the mountain, which led to the incident of Shandong salt dumping to the south. Nothing else, the northern market has become saturated and can only go south.

Under Chongzhen's instruction, the new salt sold to Lianghuai Salt District was sold to local small and medium-sized salt merchants at a price of 15 cents per kilogram. Although the profits were greatly reduced, it was the most important to seize the market.

The price is so low that it is to make the marketers profitable. Then, with the threat and intimidation of the Jinyiwei, these salt merchants have no great power to compete with monsters like the Jinyiwei? Moreover, the salt they sell is of high quality and low price, which is much stronger than the original large bitter salt. The sales will definitely be better. Why not do it yourself?

Chongzhen made a rough calculation and found that in the capital with a population of one million, Xinyan could bring him at least 500,000 taels of income every year.

If we count the millions of people in other prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili, it would be 500,000 times x silver.

Even if there is a discount, it will be around 1.5 million taels a year.

Now new salt is promoting sales to Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Huguang, but due to the unstable situation and road transportation issues, the progress is relatively slow.

New salt gradually occupied the market in various prefectures and counties in Shandong. Because Shouguang Salt Field had always been mainly engaged in opening up the capital market, it had never occupied Shandong nearby.

After all, the output at the beginning was limited, and it was just right for the capital area.

Now that Changlu takes over the north, Shouguang Salt can supply all its resources to the local area and take into account the two Huaihe areas.

Since you have a stable income and more and larger investments can be seen, you cannot be a financial slave. You have to spend money and let the money flow so that you can directly or indirectly drive the progress and development of society. If you want to stimulate consumption, you must find another consumer group. There are nearly 2,000 officials in each yamen, involving the same number of families. With their influence, it is worth intensively cultivating.

Judging from the information provided by the East Factory, most of the officials in various yamen in the capital were indeed unsatisfactory.

There are many yamen in the capital. In addition to the well-known cabinet, six ministries and inspectors, there are mainly six departments, five temples, Shuntian Prefecture, factory and security departments.

In addition to the officials of the Shangshu and the left and right ministers, the six ministries also had doctors, officials, chief officials, etc. There were also different number of clerks, officials, and attendants in each department, as well as specific staff members, including grooms, cooks, and commissars. These people combined had hundreds of people.

To count all, the number of officials and servants in the capital was nearly 2,000, which did not include the twenty-four prisons of the factory guards and the inner court.

There were too many people ate imperial grain in the entire capital. There were more than 30,000 people in the Beijing camp, the Yongwei camp expanded to 20,000 people, the Jinyiwei, and more than 10,000 eunuchs and palace maids in the inner court. These people all rely on Chongzhen's treasury to support them.

After Chongzhen became rich, he was very generous and greatly increased the monthly salary and treatment of these 70,000 to 80,000 people. Because this was directly related to his safety issues, the money had to be spent on the edge.

Although the army and the inner court had their wealth, their identities were limited, and the other was that many soldiers were orphans who fled from the north and had no relatives in Beijing, so it was difficult to spend money outside and could not play a role in driving economic development.

But the officials in these yamen are different. They are all locals in the capital, and their families live in the city, and all their expenses are in the capital.

If these people have a wealth of money, their daily expenses will become another consumer.

Although it sounds very glorious to serve in the court, many officials know their own hardships.

As fiscal revenue deteriorates, the treasury is also empty, so how can there be extra money to pay the monthly salary of officials?

Since you don’t have a true color, then use folded color.

Therefore, every time the salary is paid at the beginning of the month, a large group of people holding cloth, silk, rice, flour, grains, pickled vegetables, salt and a pile of treasure money will appear in front of the doors of each yamen. These people are officials who are instructed by Shangguan all day long. The supplies they hold are the salary this month, and many people have to rely on these things to support their families.

These materials are taxes paid by various places, and they are piled up in the transportation warehouse, Guangying warehouse and Guanghui warehouse for a long time. Many cloths have begun to decay and cannot be used for clothes. It is even more valuable to pawn them out. Baochao is also a piece of waste paper, and many merchants have long refused to accept it.

Many of the rice distributed has become moldy, and the pickled vegetables are covered with green hair. The salt was originally a large grain of coarse salt from Lianghuai, but it has only recently been changed to new salt.

Don't dislike it, if you don't want it, you don't even have these things.

Most of these officials are like a certain class in later generations. Not everyone has the opportunity to accept bribes. Most people do not have real power. Who would spend money to give you gifts? Isn’t living a life expecting that pitiful monthly salary?

These officials are responsible for the most heavy duty in each yamen. Although they are also scholars, they are basically losers in the imperial examinations who fail to pass the imperial examinations. They had no choice but to enter the yamen, which was considered to be a job of supporting the family. However, under the strict hierarchy system, the promotion channel for officials without fame has been blocked, and they can only mess up at the lowest level in their lives, and are often scolded and scolded by the great masters of Jinshi. This bowl of rice is not easy to eat, and it is far less glamorous than the appearance that is enviable.

The consequence of poor treatment is that many people are perfunctory in court affairs assigned by the men, and many people try every means to make profits from it.

For example, the officials of the Ministry of War would collude with local generals, and deliberately give more troops when allocating weapons and armor, and then report them to the chief officer in the name of being displaced, and finally collect kickbacks from the recipient party. As for the whereabouts of the armor, they are not concerned at all.

Such problems are common in various ministries, so the Shangguans naturally gained benefits from it, so they adopted a tacit approach, which led to serious losses to the interests of the court.

If you want to solve these problems that directly harm the interests of the court, you have to use a big stick and a carrot.

After the resurgence of the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei, they sent personnel to various temples and arrested some ill-eyed worms to the imperial prison. Their family property was confiscated and their relatives were exiled. All the officials from all yamen, from the ministry to the real power, were both hated and afraid of the factory guards, and those officials who could only rely on their salary had an indifferent attitude.

I hate that he cut off his wealth, like killing his parents; I am even more afraid that once he goes to the imperial prison, he will die without life and his family will be affected.

Since the stick has fallen, the carrots are coming to the grand debut.

A few days later, the imperial edict was passed through the cabinet to the various yamen in the capital. The content was very simple: the emperor sympathized with the difficulty of life of officials, so he specially used the treasury to raise salaries for everyone, including the lower-level officials, and regarded it as a common example.

A salary increase is of course a great thing, but there is no free lunch in the world, so salary increase is subject to conditions.

The monthly salary of officials in each yamen is divided into two, three and four taels according to their position and responsibilities. Each person has ten taels of diligence and twenty taels of clean bank every year.

Monthly salary and diligent and honest bank will be paid in its true colors and will take effect from that month.

At the end of each year, the cabinet will lead the Ministry of Personnel, the Inspectorate, and the Factory and the Warring States will form an examination team to enter various departments to check the work of each official within the year. As long as the review is passed, thirty taels of silver will be taken home to let the family have a good New Year. If a problem is found, I'm sorry, your bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new will be carried out in the imperial prison.

This account is very simple. If every official passes the review in a year, the minimum income of more than fifty taels of silver is enough to support a large number of people, and his living standards are not low. If the position is important, he can get more than seventy taels of silver a year, and it is all silver, not the past color-shaving miscellaneous items, which is a huge income.

The income of the temple chiefs of each department is even higher.

The second-rank minister of each department has a monthly salary of 100 taels and 600 taels of clean bank.

He is a minister of the third rank, with a monthly salary of 80 taels and a clean bank of 500 taels.

The fifth-rank doctor has a monthly salary of 60 taels and 300 taels of clean bank.

From the fifth-rank official, the salary is 40 taels per month and 200 taels of clean bank.

The sixth rank chief is in charge, with a monthly salary of 30 taels and a 150 taels of clean bank.

The monthly salary of the other seventh to ninth rank officials is 20, fifteen, ten taels, and the integrity bank is 100 to sixty taels.

The nine ministers and officials of Shuntian Prefecture shall be implemented according to the standards of the six ministries according to the level.

As soon as the new policy was released, it caused a huge sensation among the various yamen in the capital, and most people warmly welcomed the emperor's move. Especially the middle and lower-level officials, many people cheered and excited, and their excitement was beyond words.

The reason is very simple, the salary of Ming officials is outrageously low.

Taizu was born at the bottom of society and had deep hatred and hostility towards corrupt officials. Therefore, after he ascended the throne, he ordered a salary for officials at all levels to be particularly low, and he also said with a sensation: "As an official has received heavy salaries from the court, he is still insatiable and unwilling to benefit the people. He is dedicated to corruption and destroying laws. Is it possible to blame the family if he loses his family?"

For example, when he was the magistrate of Chun'an, a native of Hairui, he could only get about twelve stones of rice and less than thirty taels of silver a year. This amount of money and grain is enough for the family of five to maintain their daily life, but don't forget that he is the seventh-rank Bailihou.

No wonder a magistrate once wrote to the court to complain: "One large and small officials who paid their money only have two stones of rice a month, and there is not enough food for several people. They are entrusted with things and traveled with the road, and they are paid for money?"

I work hard to help you manage tens of thousands of people, with old people and young people, and in the end I don’t have any extra money in my hands. How can you give me your best efforts?
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