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Part One: Storm in Penghu Chapter 97 Salary

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    In the battle of "Tingyu Tower", Ding Yunyi suffered 13 major and minor injuries. He and his subordinates Ye Dahai and Xiao Yifeng killed 19 assassins and protected the eunuch Wang Cheng'en from harm. The battle became famous all over the world.

    Ding Yunyi was injured all over his body, but fortunately none of them were fatal. His body was strong and he was able to get out of bed after only two days.

    Hangzhou magistrate Shang Haifeng and fellow magistrate Gu Bingyu knew that they were in great trouble this time, thanks to Ding Yunyi's rescue. They were grateful for Ding Yunyi's kindness, and also worried that Ding Yunyi would be able to speak good words for them in front of Wang Chengen in the future. Two days later  He actually came to say hello three times a day, as if Ding Yunyi, a small boss, was an imperial envoy.

    Ding Yunyi was not used to being asked before and after, asking for greetings every day, and being carefully served.  Not only is he like this, but so are all his brothers.

    "These people usually lick blood with their swords and run around every day. Suddenly they live such a life, but they feel uncomfortable no matter how they live it.

    "A bunch of cheap bones." Ding Yunyi smiled and said to his brothers: "It seems that we can't live such a wealthy life. Wang Chengen has already gone to Suzhou. Before leaving, let us go to Suzhou to join him as soon as possible. Everyone's injuries can be affected  No?"

    "able!"

    The first one to answer was Qin Yun.

    Xiao Yifeng rolled his eyes at him: "You are a bitch like Jieyuan. You haven't lost a hair on your body. Of course you can move. Boss, it's okay. Let's leave as soon as possible. I really can't get used to the faces of those magistrates and fellow magistrates."  "

    Ye Dahai and A Hu also have general thoughts.

    At that moment, he told Shang Haifeng about his intention to leave Hangzhou. Shang Haifeng refused in any case and repeatedly persuaded several people to stay in Hangzhou for a longer period of time.

    Ding Yunyi knew his thoughts very well.

    Not only are there no clues to the assassin case, but not even a single assassin has been caught.  These Hangzhou officials themselves have already committed crimes and made meritorious deeds. It would be unfavorable for them to do things like this now. What if Ding Yunyi sees Wang Chengen and utters bad words?  So how can these officials survive?

    In fact, they didn¡¯t know that Wang Chengen had known for a long time that he could not get any clues by relying on these officials. He was just using them to confuse the enemy. The real investigator Jin Yiwei had already secretly entered Hangzhou.

    Ding Yunyi repeatedly reassured and reassured that Shang Haifeng and others were dubious and reluctantly agreed.

    Shang Haifeng exchanged some good horses for them and gave them three large gold ingots, saying that they would be used as expenses on the road.  Ding Yunyi thought that the source of these people's money was probably not clean anyway, so he didn't need to be polite to them, so he immediately put it away.

    On the day of departure, Shang Haifeng and Gu Bingyu personally took Hangzhou officials to see them off, and the scene was grand.  Those who knew it was a gift to a general manager, but those who didn't know thought it was a gift to some high-ranking official of the imperial court.

    "The emperor is good, and he wants to cheer up the Ming Dynasty." Qin Yun sighed as he gradually moved away from Hangzhou: "But these officials below are all incompetent and corrupt, which has ruined a good country like this.  If I, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty, knew something secretly eh"

    "The salaries of officials at the time of Emperor Hongwu were a bit lower." Ding Yunyi said smoothly: "This also made those officials have to rely on corruption, right?"

    "Low?" Qin Yun's eyes widened, as if he found Ding Yunyi's words incredible: "According to the 'Brief Record of Awakening Corruption' formulated by Emperor Hongwu, it contains detailed records of the salary standards for officials set by Emperor Hongwu. Based on the salary of the seventh-grade county magistrate  In terms of standards, the annual salary of 90 dan of rice sounds low, but according to the calculation of "A Brief Summary of Awakening Corruption", more than 70 acres of land and five farmers are needed to produce it. Just picking those rice crops requires  Traveling more than a thousand miles. Although this ninety shi of rice is not extremely wealthy, it should at least be at the level of wealth."

    Ding Yunyi was speechless. It seemed that he was playing tricks on his class.

    Judging from the knowledge I have learned, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty has been very low since Zhu Yuanzhang. This has led to the corruption of officials who are not afraid of skinning and beheading. But now listening to Qin Yun say this is not the case at all.

    But why did officials in the Ming Dynasty always cry about poverty?

    When this question was raised, Qin Yun sighed again: "Actually, the salary of officials is not low. After all, it is because these officials have a lot of wives, concubines, and children, which makes it difficult to spend their salary."

    With one sentence, everyone¡¯s curiosity was attracted, and Qin Yun said:

    "As for Hai Rui, who is famous for his integrity. When Hai Rui was the magistrate of Chun'an County, his salary was reduced by 70%. What he actually received was twelve stones of rice, twenty-seven taels and nine cents of silver and three hundred  Sixty guan notes are very worthless and can be ignored. Calculated as only twelve shi of rice and twenty-seven taels and nine cents of silver, if placed in an ordinary family of five, each household (.The rations required for daily life are about fifteen to eighteen stones, which is equivalent to fifteen to eighteen taels of silver.  Each household's annual expenditure on oil, salt, meat, vegetables, etc. is about seven taels of silver, cloth is about three taels of silver, and lamp oil is about three taels of silver.  In this way, the annual expenditure is about thirty taels of silver. Hai Rui's salary should be considered good for ordinary people.  but"

    Qin Yun paused for a moment before continuing: "However, Hai Rui's family has a large population, which is incomparable to ordinary people's family of five. When Hai Rui was in Chun'an, in addition to his mother and wife, there were two or three other people.  Daughter, two sons, plus domestic servants, maids, and wet nurses, there are a total of about ten people. With these salaries, life is inevitably somewhat difficult. Therefore, the real reason why I, a Ming official, is poor is not because of the low salary.  , but because of the large family size. Hai Rui¡¯s family is already very simple, and his life is quite simple, but it is already very stretched. As for other officials, you can imagine.¡±

    Suddenly he remembered something and added: "When Hai Rui passed away at the age of seventy-five, he still had two concubines. The price of a concubine would not be less than a hundred taels of silver. This is also because Hai Rui was a second-rank official.  And the reason was that he didn¡¯t have much money when he died.¡±

    Speaking of this, Ding Yunyi has roughly understood.

    Ming Dynasty officials always said that their wages were low, but in fact a large part of the reason was themselves.

    The state pays the salaries of officials, and there is no reason why they should also pay for concubines.  It was the same in my own time.  The corrupt officials who were found to have mistresses and mistresses could already get "basically no salary." The reason why they continued to commit corruption was obviously not because the wages were too low, but because the wages were relatively high compared to the large expenses of having mistresses and mistresses.  Showed to be inadequate.

    ¡°This is true in reality, and so is history.

    To solve this problem, we can only change the dynasty.
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