Among the series of personnel appointments in the East Palace, Cai Maode was transferred to the governor of Shandong as a transfer; the three officials were vacant, and only Zhang Shiqi served as the political party and supervised the military affairs of the two governments of Denglai. As two governments directly controlled under the jurisdiction of the East Palace, Hou Fangyu and Wu Weiye served as Deng and the prefect of Lai.

Because Dengzhou is the garrison of the Shandong Navy, the navy admiral Chen Tingyang set up a headquarters in Weihaiwei, and people who understand the importance of the severity need to be managed better, so Hou Fangyu is more suitable than Wu Weiye. In Laizhou, Zhu Cilang was in charge, and Pingdu had Zhou Yuji's cavalry battalion in the middle to support it, and the pressure was less, so it was handed over to Wu Weiye.

Wu Weiye didn't expect that he would be able to regain his use. Looking back on his time when he gave up on himself, he felt so guilty. He made up his mind to be a good official who was proficient in common affairs and not let the prince down.

Zhu Cilang really has no one to use.

The national administration has collapsed, so Shandong naturally cannot be immune to it. It can be said with certainty that every official in office has corruption and fraud, otherwise he will not be able to survive. Zhu Cilang has always been generous with the problems of minor matters, but his tolerance for corruption and incompetence is extremely low, so he naturally cannot accept the old officials from Shandong as a place.

Moreover, in terms of the promotion of political decrees, only by appointing one's own people from the Eastern Palace can we ensure that the lower level will not be lip service. On a wasteland, only by raising rice can we bear off weeds. These newly appointed secretary of the Eastern Palace are the rice that Zhu Cilang wants to cultivate.

Because the administration of the Ming Dynasty was destined to collapse since the time of Taizu.

It's nothing more than that, it's just against human nature!

In the 13th year of Hongwu, Emperor Gao redeemed the annual salary of civil and military officials. The difference was the ninth rank, and the total was 18 levels. The first rank official salary was 1,044 stone, and the seventh rank county magistrate had an annual salary of 90 stone. At first glance, it seemed enough. It was indeed enough to have ninety stones of rice in the first year of the founding of the country. However, these rice were not all rice, and there were many treasure money that were depreciating. The officials took the rice and did not eat it alone. They also had to hire masters, chief squads and others as private individuals.

After the world was stable, social production resumed and social wealth gradually accumulated, especially the large amount of silver obtained from foreign trade made Huang Ming more prosperous. In the environment of rising prices and living standards, ninety stones of rice were calculated at two taels of silver per stone, but only one hundred and eighty taels. In the Jiajing and Wanli periods, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty reached its peak. Ordinary well-off families raised money to do maritime trade, and the annual income was more than one hundred and eighty taels.

Mr. Hai Rui, who truly implemented the will of the emperor, was so poor that only his mother went to the market to cut two taels of meat on her birthday. This made the people in the city go around and tell each other, which was extremely shocked.

There is not enough guarantee for living at home, not to mention that the officialdom needs to be sent to us, and socializing in the scholars and forests. If you want to live with dignity, you can only think about the power in your hands. Therefore, small officials cheat to save the poor, and large officials become a common political style.

"The salary of officials in all dynasties is nothing more than that of our dynasty." Zhu Cilang spent a night with two prefects and fourteen new magistrates, and selected ten old officials and ten gentry and farmers, and thoroughly sorted out various local administrative expenses and incomes.

The old officials and the gentry Pingnong never thought that they could sit in front of the crown prince and even had a meal with the crown prince. Everyone was grateful and wanted to dig out their hearts. Zhu Cilang was also very considerate of them. He did not ask any questions about personal gain, but just asked everyone to think about where to spend money and what money was distributed to the gentry Pingnong.

Yao Tao took a female official and sat around the side. He wrote down each item and wrote it into the form. Finally, he listed the miscellaneous items.

"These twenty-seven sub-items. If they are classified according to the Eastern Palace, they can be classified into three categories." Yao Taoluo stood generously in front of everyone, not wearing palace clothes, but the style of a fifth-rank civil servant. This made everyone dare not look directly at them, and they had never seen a woman who could be an official in the court. And it was still a fifth-rank! Although Shandong is a hometown of saints and has a strong ritual style, it is limited by its status and dare not speak out as bluntly as the censor in the capital.

"Administrative expenses." Yao Tao's voice made everyone in the hall dare not breathe loudly. She said: "Including the county government's pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the work and food of the curtain friend's sedan chairmen, winter carbon and summer ice, as well as the hospitality of the public, festival gifts and other expenses."

Wu Weiye was quite surprised that the East Palace actually counted public hospitality and festival gifts as administrative expenses, which was prohibited by the court order before.

Zhu Cilang just nodded and signaled Yao Tao to continue.

Yao Tao cleared his throat and said, "The second type of expenses are public welfare expenses such as repairing bridges and roads, and relieving disasters and helping the people. This type is mainly distributed by the government to the gentry and civilians." The gentry and civilians nodded one after another and said yes.

"The third category is the communication between officials and the money to support scholars is the public relations expenses." Yao Tao said: "Your Highness, all twenty-seven sub-items are covered."

Zhu Cilang nodded and asked Yao Tao to sit down, and said, "You actually missed one more thing, I thought of it for you."

The county magistrate was stunned and thought to himself: If His Highness recognizes these, what else will be the expense?

"Food expenses." Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Food is the most important thing for the people. You are officials and not immortals. Do you not even eat food?"

"Your Highness, we have already received our salary, how can we get this food fee?" Liao Xing followed Zhu Cixuan in Luoyang, and this time he made up for the magistrate of Pingdu Prefecture, with two counties under Weixian and Changyi, and directly entered the ranks of fifth-rank officials. Because of the Luoyang incident, his family was very excluded by local wealthy families. Liao Xing had already compiled a book and went home, asking his grandfather to take the initiative to move his family to Shandong to settle down.

And this is also temporary. Liao Xing firmly believes that the crown prince can restore Shenjing within three to five years. At that time, the waters rose and the ships were high, so he could naturally go further.

"Living expenses are your salary expenses." Zhu Cilang said: "Food expenses are one meal a day. If you work overtime late, make another dinner, which is considered a work meal. Sixth grade, seventh grade, two dishes, one soup, one meat and one vegetable. Fiveth grade, three dishes, one soup, and a small meat dish. This is the same as when you were in the Eastern Palace, and I still manage the meal." Everyone smiled happily when they heard this. The places where these old Eastern Palaces are most willing to work in the Eastern Palace is to include food and accommodation. As their identities, it is extremely luxurious to eat meat every meal.

"I have to say," Zhu Ciyang said, "The government is not a place for business. When the court collects taxes, it should be taken from the people and used by the people. How can we just think about making money from the people? So today we have listed these three categories of twenty-seven items, and as regular expenses, I have accepted them all. In the future, local governments need money, and if you can't classify them, please tell me. But..."

Zhu Cixuan changed the subject: "Don't blame me for turning against the people if you dare to extend your hand to the people! Emperor Gao said: Your salary is the people's wealth and the people's money; the people are easy to abuse, but God is hard to deceive! For me, this matter is not subject to God's control, so I will deal with it! Except for all the taxes, the government will be exempted from all other taxes. The specific tax adjustment plan will be issued to you soon. After you take office, you will first advise farmers to settle the farm, resettle immigrants, and restore local production."

The secretary of the Eastern Palace selected this time is mostly from rural areas. Regardless of the family background, they are not unfamiliar with the affairs of the farmland. Although everyone, including Zhu Cilang, knows that this is an official article, it is a very different story to say it or not. Since the crown prince tells the truth, if anyone doesn't care about it in the future, it will be a great sin.

"Also, all counties should also establish forts, measure land, update fish scale yellow book, and reasonably approve land tax as appropriate. You must go down to see it yourself, and you cannot just listen to the reports from the clerks below. I don't care about how the clerks do things, as long as I find out that you don't match the truth, I will be punished severely!" Zhu Cixuan warned.

Everyone smelled the bloody smell, immediately calmed down and nodded.

"The resettlement of refugees and immigrants must be as soon as possible and not delayed." Zhu Cixuan said: "The "County Town Planning Reference Book" has been sent to you. I have written all the reasons clearly. I have seen that several of you have participated in the compilation of this book. So I have provided an idea to manage your own county town well, and it depends on whether you can do things."

Speaking of this, the county officials below were all in agitation. In the county planning book, it depicts the appearance of a county town. The neat street environment, excellent drainage system, neat houses and streets, and the urban functional area with clear division of labor... It is like a huge garden waiting for them to plan and rebuild.

Zhu Cilang looked at the people who showed hope, but he was doubtful about the effect of this bitter taste. To truly achieve the goal of using his fingers, he still had to establish a perfect local government system so that prefectures and counties have functional constraints and institutions like provinces. However, now there is a shortage of manpower, but we cannot start to adjust immediately. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!
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