First Minister of Ming Dynasty

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Li Shanchang came to meet with Lao Zhu, mainly to discuss one of the most important matters, that is, the staffing of the Zhongshu Province, who should be arranged for the six ministers, various laws and regulations, and even official clothes and hats. Just a conclusion.

As usual, Li Shanchang has drawn up a set of drafts and came over to discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang. According to his usual experience, Zhu Yuanzhang would discuss with him very seriously, weigh the pros and cons, and finally make a final decision.

This is also the tacit understanding between the two of them. After all, Zhang Ximeng has managed enough, and he is not very involved in this kind of thing.

But it was a coincidence that Zhang Ximeng was here today, so Li Shanchang had to cheer up, explain carefully to Zhu Yuanzhang, and don't make any mistakes.

He continued to speak for about a quarter of an hour, his mouth was dry and his throat was smoking, but Zhu Yuanzhang just listened without any intention of interrupting. This was completely different from before.

Old Li's heart was beating wildly, and his uneasy premonition became stronger and stronger. What did Zhang Ximeng say? He peeked at Zhang Ximeng, and found that Zhang Ximeng was looking at it, wandering in the sky.

Helpless, Li Shanchang mustered up his courage, peeked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and found that Lao Zhu was also smiling slightly, "Mr. Li, we understand, you have upgraded the original Zhongshu Department, although you have more control and more careful distinctions, But there are not many changes, you can call the shots on this kind of thing, and if there is any inconvenience in the future, just let us know.”

"Let's talk about the next item!"

With a relaxed tone, Lao Zhu took the draft and just glanced at it, then decisively wrote the word "Ruyi", and then stamped it with the seal of the King of Wu. From beginning to end, there was no doubt, and he agreed neatly.

Seeing this scene, Li Shanchang was completely stupid, something was wrong!

How has his familiar routine changed?

Shouldn't it be carefully studied?

How could Zhu Yuanzhang let go of such an important personnel arrangement?

This unscientific!

Li Shanchang looked at Zhang Ximeng again, Zhang Ximeng was stunned and asked my opinion?

"Li Xiang, in the past, the Zhongshu Ministry was running well, and there were no major flaws, so it was good. I am also the right prime minister. I agree with your arrangement with both hands!"

Li Shanchang hesitated for a moment. After all, he couldn't say anything else, so he could only continue to talk... God is pitiful, today's Zhu Yuanzhang is much easier to talk than ever before. He hardly asked any questions, just listened. plum.

Even if some apparently sloppy motions contain obvious loopholes, this is what Li Shanchang deliberately left to Zhu Yuanzhang to correct.

Li Shanchang took this to death.

But the weird thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about these loopholes, as if he didn't see it.

Everything was done according to Li Shanchang's wishes, and he didn't even change it.

Old Li was flustered. He wasn't worried about these small loopholes. After all, with Li Shanchang's methods, he could easily eliminate them when executing them.

The problem was that he couldn't figure out what medicine Zhu Yuanzhang sold in the gourd?

Could it be that the superior in front of you is fake? Make a puppet messing around here?

Otherwise, there is no way to explain it clearly. How could Zhu Yuanzhang, who had to do everything personally in the past, would be willing to delegate power to himself?

Old Li is getting more and more confused.

And because of Zhu Yuanzhang's cooperation, he prepared a lot of official documents, enough to discuss the content for a day, and even discuss the content of the midnight, it only took less than a morning to solve all of it.

In Li Shanchang's hands, only the last thing was left, and this was the issue of officials' salaries.

It's interesting to say that Lao Zhu has been in the army for several years, but the official's salary has not yet been determined.

This is mainly because there were not many civil servants in the early days. At that time, gold and silver were too useful to be distributed casually. The treasure banknotes had not yet started to be printed. At that time, the Zhu Family Army had no concept of salary, only military salaries, and the same for civil officials.

Fortunately, food was hard currency at this time. Occasionally, Zhang Ximeng would push Zhu Yuanzhang to give him some rewards. During the festival, he would add three stones and two stones. .

In general, officials can live on.

After crossing the river, the ranks of officials became more and more swelled, especially after the imperial examinations were held, which resulted in too many local officials. If you still pay Lumi as before, you will have to come out of the military camp.

The generals have long been unable to bear it and urgently need reform.

Along with Lao Zhu's ascension to the throne, the official establishment of civil and military officials, Li Shanchang came up with a separate salary system, attached to the six officials, division of responsibilities, crowns and hats and many other things.

Compared with the previous ones, salary is naturally a trivial matter. Li Shanchang pondered that after Zhu Yuanzhang discussed it for a day, he would agree after listening to it, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

But today's situation has changed. The most inconspicuous issue of salary has become the finale of the show. Old Li just feels the pressure is overwhelming, but he has to cheer up.

"In the upper position, hundreds of officials replace the herdsmen, and the responsibility is extremely heavy. The level of official salary is related to the morale of the people, and it should not be sloppy. However, the country is a pioneer, and it cannot afford too much salary. Therefore, the minister thought about it again and again and felt that it should refer to Song Dynasty. Yuan standard, appropriate profit and loss…”

When Li Shanchang mentioned this, he found that both Zhang Ximeng and Zhu Yuanzhang were silent and seemed to have any opinions. Li Shanchang's heart was sinking more and more, not good!

During this period of the Song Dynasty, the dynasties that criticized the most, and the Yuan Dynasty was a puppet dynasty that wanted to overthrow. With reference to these two goods, how could Zhu Yuanzhang be satisfied?

Therefore, Li Shanchang hurriedly said, "This minister has made reference to the salary of Song and Yuan Dynasty, but it has been reduced a lot, and it is still less than one-third of the salary of the Song Dynasty... If there is any doubt about the upper position, the minister will modify it!"

Old Li was trembling, and handed Zhu Yuanzhang the list of salaries.

Zhang Ximeng, who was beside him, laughed secretly in his heart, this old Li really knows how to calculate. Zhao Song's salary is notoriously high... Not to mention the official salary that scares people to death, it is enough to make people stunned by the rewards given to the high-ranking officials in the court during the New Year's Festival.

Even if it is one-third of the salary of the Great Song Dynasty, that is an astronomical figure!

Really, there are mountains of gold and silver, and the flowers are endless?

Zhang Ximeng didn't say anything. Anyway, let Lao Zhu decide. If he can't even see this, he'll be wasting his painstaking teaching.

Sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "Mr. Li, put aside this monthly salary, what's the matter with the salary you got?"

Li Shanchang was startled, and quickly said, "If you go back to the upper position, this is also the arrangement of the Song Dynasty, and it is used for the daily expenses of the yamen."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "Isn't it right? How do we remember that yamen at all levels have special expenses? What's going on?"

"This, this is specially used by officials themselves in the yamen... mainly to deal with their own affairs..." Li Shanchang's voice became lower and lower, to put it bluntly, this is the money for an official to usher in, eat and drink, of course, also You can put it in your pocket, anyway, you have the final say.

How could Lao Zhu agree?

"Public and private can't be confused! The yamen's expenses have to go to the public account, and the money for this job can't be asked for!"

"Yes!" Li Shanchang agreed obediently.

Zhu Yuanzhang was still unwilling to give up, "How can this be paid back, and there is still a job field?"

Li Shan grinned, "This, too, is also imitating the Song system, which is convenient for local officials to govern..."

"no!"

Lao Zhu interrupted him directly, and glared at Li Shanchang, "Mr. Li, you don't know it, do you? How much does the word Juntian mean to us, how dare you make a career out of it?"

In an instant, Li Shanchang felt the murderous aura coming towards him, and Lao Zhu was really angry.

He hurriedly saluted, trembling all over, "Chen, I'm confused for a while, please forgive me."

Old Zhu took a deep breath and looked down again, the anger that had just been suppressed suddenly surged up again.

Behind this there are a lot of things, such as rice, noodles, salt, oil, tea, silk, charcoal, wine... Lao Zhu has seen it straight, since he was given salary, why are there so many things?

We sent money to Baiguan to let you buy these firewood, rice, oil, and salt, and then we sent you another copy. If that's the case, why would you pay for it?

Isn't this crazy?

"Li Shanchang! What do you think? Let's see if you want to enrich your own pockets or win people's hearts? Why don't you send all our treasuries to Baiguan?"

Thump!

Lao Li couldn't bear his anger any longer, and fell to his knees directly.

"The superiors, the superiors, the ministers are all confused, the ministers, the ministers should not follow the rules of the Song Dynasty.

At this time, Zhang Ximeng suddenly said, "My lord, can you let this minister take a look?"

Zhu Yuanzhang threw the official document to Zhang Ximeng casually, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com just glanced slightly, Zhang Ximeng said: "My lord, I think this is a misunderstanding of Li Xiang, Zhao Song has always been willing to give up this book, and also Self-satisfied! The so-called supporters are all above the salary. The officials of Zhao Song have a generous salary for their own jobs, and they also have a sum of money, which is also amazing. Besides, as Li Xiang said, there are job money, job fields, Clothes, rice, flour, grain and oil, salt, tea, silk, and silk are all distributed. During festivals, longevity of the emperor, and additional rewards, all add up. A third-rank official has to pay taxes from a government almost every year to support it, of course, yes The poorest mansion, but even so, it is astonishing!"

"Absurd! Absurd!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stomped his feet in anger, and cursed angrily, "We said a long time ago that we need to get rid of the bad habits of Zhao and Song Dynasties, and we need to update everything. Li Shanchang, why don't you have a good memory?"

Old Li was scolded so bloodily that he was already scared to death, so he could only keep saying, "Please don't worry, my minister, this minister will change it!"

However, Zhang Ximeng said: "Master, don't be busy first, and don't rush to blame Li Xiang. The salary was not conjured out of thin air. It is understandable for Li Xiang to refer to the experience of previous dynasties. It is reasonable that the lord does not approve. Not to blame Li Xiang, but this minister has a suggestion, I also ask the lord to consider it, and Li Xiang to take a look."

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "Three hundred and sixty lines, officials are also one of them... As long as you refer to the average people, how much income and expenditure they have every year, and then refer to prices, come up with an algorithm, from top to bottom, to pay salaries to hundreds of officials. ."

After Zhang Ximeng finished speaking, Li Shanchang was simply stupid!

These few words are more frightening than Zhu Yuanzhang's stern words. I'm taking Zhao Song's salary ratio. You directly use the income and expenditure of the common people as a reference. You, do you want to be poor and die?