When Qin Mu heard Zhu Yuanzhang ask him what to do, he also fell into a headache.
The problem of official corruption was difficult to solve in the Ming Dynasty, but it was still a thorny problem in the future.
It was almost impossible to completely solve this problem.
"Old Huang, you've given me a difficult problem!”
"Let me put it this way. The problem of corruption in the government will never be solved.”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but frown. He was even slightly disappointed.
He didn't like people who talked big, and he didn't like people who only knew how to find faults but didn't have solutions.
Just now, Qin Mu had sprayed Da Ming to the point that he couldn't handle it, which made him a little disappointed.
However, Qin Mu changed the topic and spoke again.
"However, it can be avoided as much as possible!”
"First of all, we have to distinguish which ones are our enemies, which ones can be saved, and which ones we can rope in or even rely on.”
"Only by fundamentally dividing the officials can we expose more problems and give the court more sources of information.”
"Secondly, we need to analyze why officials are corrupt.”
"Is it simply because the salary is not enough, or is it because of human greed?”
"If human nature is greedy, then what we need to improve is the system to restrict power.”
"If it's just that the salary is not enough, causing the officials to be unable to live a decent life, then increase the salary.”
"Finally, we can implement a policy of high salaries to raise honesty.”
" Although a high salary will certainly not be able to eliminate the problem of corruption, at the very least, it will allow some officials with a conscience to live a decent life through the salary of the imperial court.”
"In a sense, this will reduce the number of corrupt officials.”
"There's another important point."
"If you want the officialdom to be clean, then you have to uphold a clean style from top to bottom.”
"You can't possibly let the grandson of the King of Yi indulge in debauchery every day, but let the officials of the Great Ming Dynasty eat rice bran and swallow vegetables, right?”
"No one would be able to balance this kind of thing!”
Qin Mu's words were more or less filled with emotions.
One of the key reasons why the Great Ming perished in the end was that the imperial clan multiplied too quickly.
In the later stages of Ming Dynasty, one-third of a year's financial resources would be used to support the imperial clan.
And it wasn't enough!
All of this stemmed from Zhu Yuanzhang's " love for his son."
From a psychological analysis, people who had suffered in their youth would always spoil their children too much when they grew up, afraid that they would suffer.
Zhu Yuanzhang was particularly exaggerated on this point.
After conquering the country, he forcefully pushed for the enfeoffment system amid the opposition of the court ministers.
Every son he gave birth to was crowned king.
Moreover, they had formulated a rather complete imperial clan management system.
It was divided into Prince, King, Defender General, Fuguo General, Fengguo General, Defender Lieutenant, Fuguo Lieutenant, and Fengguo Lieutenant.
The title of a lieutenant in Fengguo would not be lowered. In other words, no matter how many children a lieutenant in Fengguo had, their descendants could enjoy the title of a lieutenant in Fengguo.
What kind of concept was this?
In the Ming Dynasty, the king of Qin received an annual salary of 10,000 stones, 2,000 stones for the king, 1,000 stones for the general of the state, 800 stones for the general of the auxiliary state, 600 stones for the general of the state, 400 stones for the lieutenant of the state, 300 stones for the lieutenant of the auxiliary state, and 200 stones for the lieutenant of the state.
Although the salary of a prince was the highest, the number of princes in Great Ming was small.
The most unbearable thing for the Ming Dynasty's finances was the lowest rank of nobility, which was the rank of lieutenant of the country.
One had to know that the salary of a county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty was only about 100 dan of grain!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 100,000 members of the imperial clan.
According to this standard, even if these 100,000 people were all first lieutenants of the lowest rank, it was equivalent to the salary of two county magistrates.
The descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, even if they were passed down for 800 generations, they would still be able to get a title equivalent to two years of salary for a county magistrate.
Then, you still fight corruption every day and make officials tighten their belts to fight revolution with you.
This was a little unreasonable.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red from Qin Mu's rebuttal. He was indeed more selfish and was more tolerant towards his children, afraid that they would starve.
Therefore, when the system was formulated, it was overly biased towards the imperial clan.
"Therefore, if you want to change the corruption of officials in the Ming Dynasty, it is not just the officialdom. The emperor must also set an example.”
"You can't give him a reward just because he's the grandson of a prince.”
"It doesn't matter if he's rewarded a little now. After all, even if he can live again, he can live and die for dozens of times.”
"But what about after a hundred years?"
"There is no end to the descendants!"
"If Great Ming had 100,000 members of the Zhu family, even if they were all the lowest rank of lieutenant, do you think Great Ming's finances would be able to support them?”
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head numbly.
"No!"
"Our Great Ming's tax grain for a year is only over 20 million dan…"
Qin Mu continued to speak with assurance and didn't notice that Zhu Yuanzhang's face had already turned the color of a pig's liver.
"You have to know that Great Ming is the Great Ming of the Great Ming people, not the Great Ming of the Zhu family!”
"When the Great Ming Imperial Clan becomes the burden of the people, then the Great Ming Imperial Clan can only be abandoned by the people!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the last two sentences, he felt as if he was deafened and his ears were ringing.
She kept muttering.
"The Great Ming is not the Great Ming of the Zhu family, but the Great Ming of the Great Ming people…"
Unknowingly, Zhu Yuanzhang broke out in a cold sweat.
This child's thoughts were too terrifying!
How could he have such far-reaching thoughts at such a young age!
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang felt the shock brought by the last two sentences, Qin Mu suddenly laughed at himself.
"Old Master Huang, please don't tell Emperor Zhu what we said today!”
"The two times you tricked me before, it was nothing more than paying taxes and changing to a military household.”
"Although it disgusts me, it doesn't affect me much.”
"No matter what, Commander Wei is a third rank military officer!”
"Even if I participate in the imperial examinations, it will take at least a few decades for me to reach the third rank.”
"But this time is different!"
"If this news reaches Emperor Zhu's ears, he will kill me!”
"You can't possibly want to experience the experience of a white-haired person sending off a black-haired person, right?”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he felt both sad and gratified.
I'm sad that this child has such a deep misunderstanding of me, the emperor.
He was gratified that this child's thoughts were too deep and far-reaching. Even compared to the late Crown Prince, he was no worse.
Perhaps, this was a gift from the heavens to him, specially sending this child to assist him and inherit him?
"Don't worry!"
"Grandpa knows what he's doing. He won't say anything.”
"However, you're not allowed to mention these words today again in the future, especially the issue of our Ming royal family. Otherwise, once word gets out, even Grandfather can't protect you!”
Qin Mu smiled confidently.
"Hehe, I'm not stupid!"
"As long as you don't sell me out, I won't say anything.”
The topic became a little dull at this point.
In order to break the deadlock, Zhu Yuanzhang took out a golden frog from his pocket.
"Eldest Sun!"
"See if you like it. This is Grandpa's birthday present for you!”
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