Qing Dynasty: After reading my heart, Kangxi and the Nine Dragons are united

When he first saw this operation, Yinxuan was stunned: [Not only did he not throw a tantrum, but he also took the initiative to pay interest? Oh, this is different from the historical treasury debt settlement! It is also different from what I thought.]

Bashi, Jiushi and Baotai who were sent to assist: It’s different from what we thought!

Yinzhen chuckled and said that killing the monkey to scare the chickens was very useful.

So everyone is working very hard to avoid following the footsteps of the Tenth and Twelfth Brothers.

The event was naturally unprecedented.

How many days has it been?

In Panjing City, unless they were extremely short of money and had to hold on, everyone took the initiative to repay the money, and quite a few even paid interest.

What about those who are really poor and can’t afford the money?

Yinzhen also made detailed statistics.

The income and expenditure of the person who owes money, why he owes money, how much he has borrowed, how he usually performs as an official, etc. are all recorded clearly.

It was presented during the early morning court session, and it was proposed that the extra interest be used to provide relief to those debtors who were in actual difficulty.

Kangxi took a closer look and said, "The content is detailed and the proposal is reasonable. What do you think?"

[I think it’s great! The hardworking emperor is the hardworking emperor. Not only did he collect the debts promptly, he also conducted a thorough check on the officials who owed the debts. He worked overtime to complete the task, fearing that he would miss any worms.]

[Not only is he professional in anti-corruption, he also remembers that the law is not beyond human feelings. Tsk, as the fourth brother of the emperor, he is good in every way, except that he is a little bit unsatisfactory in raising children, and is not as good as Kangxi's father.]

Yinzhen:……

I was originally quite happy, but when I heard this I thought of Qianlong, and when I thought of Qianlong I remembered that there were only twelve emperors in the Qing Dynasty.

The sinking of China, a century of humiliation.

All my good mood disappeared in an instant, and I just wanted to go back and think about how to help Hongshi.

The statement that we would rather wipe out the whole family than let that bad boy grow up as a bad boy and bring disaster to the Qing Dynasty was definitely not a perfunctory statement.

He worked hard, and Yinreng was not idle either.

Amidst the praise for this reading survey and writing debt-clearing activity, the crown prince solemnly said, "Your Excellency Khan Ama, I think that although your fourth brother's considerations are quite thorough, it is better to remove the fuel from the cauldron than to add more fuel to stop the boiling water."

"If the fundamental problem is not solved, officials will not be able to make ends meet and will continue to borrow money from the national treasury. It's like a vicious cycle that repeats itself endlessly. Therefore, the most urgent task is to increase the salaries of officials, especially those at the lower levels."

Eh?

Salary increase?!

Upon hearing this, all the officials present were no longer sleepy. They all looked at the emperor with burning eyes, hoping that he would follow his advice.

Kangxi coughed lightly: "Oh? Baocheng, tell me in detail."

"My son, I obey."

Yinreng politely saluted, talking about the current price of goods, the basic living needs of officials, family members' weddings and funerals, and the necessary social interactions in daily life. Add to that the expenses of maintaining servants and staff, which is enough to make the already limited salary even worse.

He also checked all the official books available since the Qin and Han dynasties and made a chart of the treatment of officials throughout the dynasties.

Statistics were compiled on salaries, holidays and the incidence of major corruption cases in each dynasty.

"Comprehensive historical data from past dynasties show that Ming officials had the lowest salaries and the strictest laws. When Zhu Yuanzhang was in power, he would skin people alive and punish corruption with the most severe punishments, and more and more corrupt officials were killed. In the later period, the whole court was corrupt, so those who were willing to do things after being corrupt were capable and virtuous officials."

When it comes to criticizing the previous dynasty, all the officials in the court are professionals.

Everyone can criticize from Zhu Yuanzhang to Chongzhen, and finally come to the conclusion that the Ming Dynasty had run out of luck and the Qing Dynasty was the one that everyone wanted.

Very happy with myself.

Yin Xuan was speechless for a while after hearing this: [Big brother, don’t laugh at the second brother now, okay? Our Qing dynasty is crossing the river by feeling the way through the Ming dynasty, and we are using them as a book of mistakes. The obvious mistakes have indeed been corrected, but the deeper ones have not only not been corrected, but have even become worse!]

[During the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of corrupt officials were beheaded. It sounds scary, but those tens of thousands of corrupt officials combined are not as good as Heshen and Zhongtang, right?]

Seeing this comparison, not only Yinreng, but even Kangxi couldn't laugh.

Yin'er also glared at Yinzhen secretly: What a good son you raised!

His good brother Yin? also rolled his eyes: That's right! You have the time to save the family fortune for the prodigal son, can't you teach him to be a good person? Don't you know how to do it? If so, your brother will do it for you often in the future.

Yinzhen was not weak in other aspects, except for his disappointing son.

With a cold face, he was thinking about adding more and more pressure on his troubled son. Hongshi, who had been under strict control every day since the emperor returned, shuddered and sneezed loudly.

There is an inexplicable feeling of fear.

In the court, Yinreng ended the analogy and asked to increase the salaries of officials to maintain integrity. It is not right to let civil and military officials shed blood and sweat for the court, but the court cannot let the officials live comfortably and decently, right?

Of course, when salaries are raised, sentences must also be raised.

Once a basic and comfortable life is guaranteed, not only will borrowing from the national treasury be banned, but corruption and bribery will also be severely punished.

Who would risk their life to be corrupt if they can spend money reasonably and legally?

The Ministry of Internal Affairs had just killed a batch of people, and the smell of blood in Caishikou was not yet gone.

Without waiting for Kangxi to speak, the ministers had already begun to make promises.

Kangxi smiled and nodded: "What the prince said makes sense. Approve it. Consider it carefully, come up with specific rules, and then make a decision."

"My son, I obey."

"Your Majesty is wise and holy. Long live the Emperor."

The whole room was filled with joy and happiness. Yinzhen blinked his eyes in confusion: "What? Wasn't it my fourth brother who proposed to pay high salaries to maintain integrity? The fire consumption should be returned to the public, and high salaries should be paid to maintain integrity. Isn't that Yongzheng's main governing policy? Why did my second brother, the crown prince, bring it up first?"

When he asked this question, Kangxi and the other princes instantly felt their hearts rise to their throats.

I'm afraid of being discovered.

Xiao Fuxing deliberately avoided it in the future, stopped having wild thoughts, and even had his magical powers taken away.

Isn't that what folk tales say?

The secret of heaven cannot be leaked, if it is leaked it will not work.

Just as he was getting anxious, Yinzhen's inner voice rang out again: "How strange. Is there something wrong here, or is it that the second prince is so outstanding that it makes Kangxi father feel uneasy? Well, it's probably the latter!"

[Everyone says that the fourth brother changed history! He downplayed the emperor's father's wisdom and the nine sons' fight for the throne. He kept the things that were beneficial to his side and exaggerated the things that were harmful to the enemy.]

real or fake?

Kangxi and the other princes immediately became alert and pricked up their ears to listen carefully.

I really wanted to grab Xiao Shiba and ask him to tell me in detail.

Yinxuan didn't know what his father and brothers expected of him, but he was really bored, so he continued to think wildly.

[I don't know if it's true or not, but the Qing Dynasty Records has 4,480 volumes, the 61st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign has 300 volumes, the 13th year of Emperor Yongzheng's reign has 159 volumes, and the 60th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign has 1,500 volumes. By comparison, it doesn't seem unreasonable to say that my fourth brother deleted the Records of Kangxi?]

[It is said on the internet that he called his Thirteenth Brother the Perfect Man of the Universe, and would not allow any negative information about his younger brother to be spread in the world. The only one that slipped through the net was still marked with red ink in Manchu.]

[Really, he loves it so much~]