Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

The biggest impact on officials this year is the distribution of maintenance silver.

Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei hated corrupt officials, so he set the salaries of officials very low.

Even the Prime Minister only received a salary of three or four hundred taels a year.

The salaries of officials at all levels under Chen Qingzhu's rule were twice as high as those in the Wei Dynasty.

In addition, there is also a salary for maintaining integrity at the end of the year.

This maintenance silver is closely related to the officials' performance throughout the year. If government affairs are completed well and there are no major mistakes, each official can receive maintenance silver equivalent to twice his annual salary at the end of the year.

Those who perform well can receive twice their annual salary as maintenance silver.

For those with poor performance, the rate is reduced to 40%.

This year, the new officials have made their first three moves since taking office and there has been no bad performance.

Moreover, Chen Qingzhu also intended to give some benefits to the officials under his jurisdiction, so most of them could get double the salary for maintaining integrity.

This is money that officials can get openly and without taking any risk, and no one is unhappy about it.

Especially under Chen Qingzhu's rule, most of the officials are new officials who have just entered the officialdom. They are so happy that they can suddenly get a sum of money equivalent to one year's salary at the end of the year.

While announcing this decree, Chen Qingzhu also issued a warning to all officials:

"The Great Wei Emperor said something very good: If you want to get rich, don't become an official."

"But everything has a limit. I believe that your hard work in studying for more than ten years to obtain a degree and your efforts in handling government affairs are indeed worthy of a remuneration far exceeding that of ordinary people."

"Therefore, ordinary farmers can only save two or three taels of silver after working hard for a year, but you, even if you are the lowest-ranking clerks and yamen runners, can get 36 taels of silver per year plus maintenance silver. Clerks who live more than 20 miles away from the yamen will also be allocated housing."

"What you earn is ten or a hundred times what an ordinary farmer earns."

"This is the limit of what I can give you. If there are still people who want more, and use their power to commit corruption and abuse the law, or even harm ordinary people... I don't mind re-introducing the punishment of the Great Wei Taizu to skin and wash, and punish three generations of relatives!"

The salary is much higher than that of the Wei Dynasty, which will inevitably increase the burden on the national treasury in the future.

But this to a certain extent ensured that officials had a much higher quality of life than ordinary people, and prevented the situation in the Wei Dynasty where people could not survive without greed.

Compared with the damage caused by corruption, high salary expenses are nothing.

Of course, she has enough money to pay for all this now.

In the future, we will naturally think of other ways to increase treasury revenue.

Chen Qingzhu's words of warning to officials were delivered verbatim to officials at all levels through imperial edicts.

The lower-level officials did not think that they would engage in corruption or even abuse their power to harm the people. All they felt was the surprise of having their salary doubled.

The senior officials, on the other hand, deeply felt the cruelty of it and secretly warned themselves never to fall into the hands of the God.

I feel very relieved to see such upright people as Yuan Songbo.

Such a decree only made him feel more that he had followed the right person.

Many powerful and wealthy people were confiscated in Nandu, and Chen Qingzhu was very well-off.

She had long wanted to reward Yuan Songbo, the honest prime minister.

She directly gave Yuan Songbo a marquisate in the southern capital city, and also gave him a thousand taels of gold and five thousand taels of silver, making his wealth immediately rich.

Yuan Songbo wanted to decline, thinking that the money could be put to better use.

Chen Qingzhu told him seriously:

"As the Prime Minister, you are the best minister. If you don't even have this kind of wealth, how can scholars in the world have the motivation to serve as officials in the court?"

"What's more, I think you deserve such treatment, and I hope that while you work hard for the world, you can enjoy more fun in the world."

These words moved Yuan Songbo so much that he burst into tears.

Of course, she did not favor one over another among her capable subordinates, such as Hui'an, Huiyun, Huiming, Qin Dafu, Yan Qingzhi, and Zhang Liu.

According to the rank of their officials, they were given mansions of different sizes and rewarded with gold and silver.

Even a female official like Huiyun, who was born into an official family in the capital, could not hide her excitement and heroism when she came to this luxurious mansion that belonged to her.

On the magnificent mansion hangs a gold-plated plaque with the two majestic words "Su Di" written on it.

This Su is no longer the Su of the Su family in Beijing, but her Su Huiyun.

Despite her status as a woman, she was granted the title of Second Assistant.

This luxurious mansion was formerly the residence of the Earl. It was neither a dowry nor a private residence!

Only the mansions owned by officials of the third rank and above can be called "di"!

Just the word "first" was something her arrogant father could not achieve even after struggling for most of his life.

If she adopts a few children in the future, she will be the ancestor of the family who will be worshipped by future generations for hundreds of years!

Just thinking about such a scene makes one's heart surge.

Even Huiyun felt like this, so Huiming and Zhang Liu, who came from lower classes, felt like they were dreaming when they were rewarded with such a huge mansion.

To bring honor to the family and change the family status, it must start with their generation!

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The decree issued by Chen Qingzhu to distribute silver for maintaining integrity was passed from the Southern Capital to the local areas. Before the money was distributed, officials at all levels were already looking forward to it with great joy.

In order to distribute the maintenance silver to officials at all levels on time before the New Year, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Revenue were busy as hell.

Mrs. Kong Shuya, the wife of Yan, who was a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, lived almost directly in the yamen.

So, when Governor Yan Qingzhi returned to his mansion in Nandu from an inspection tour outside the city, he was greeted by old women drinking and playing cards at the door and lazy maids and servants in the courtyard.

The seasonal plum blossoms in the yard had not been trimmed at all, and there were still many dead branches and leaves on the ground that had not been swept away.

He had been exhausted from the journey and just wanted to have a hot meal and a hot bath.

However, even this simplest wish was unfulfilled.

The servants in the mansion had been unsupervised for who knows how long, and had become accustomed to laziness. Even a basin of hot water took a long time to be served.

The food was rushed out, and both the taste and the appearance were not satisfactory.

Ever since Madam went to work at the Ministry of Revenue, this house has become increasingly unmanageable.

He had already warned his wife about this matter before, but now he came back even worse than last time.

Yan Qingzhi was full of anger.

"Where's Madame?"

The servant replied:

"Master, the Ministry of Revenue is very busy right now, and Madam has been staying at the government office for several nights in a row."

Yan Qingzhi said with a serious face:

"Go and ask the lady to come back."

However, even though he sent someone to deliver the message, Kong Shuya still did not return home until after half past the hour of Hai (10 o'clock in the evening).

She was wearing an official robe of extremely simple French style. I hadn't seen her husband for such a long time, and she didn't even wear any makeup.

When I saw him, he was not as caring and concerned as before.

He only said, "The master is back," and then yawned with a tired look on his face and said:

"I'm so sleepy. I have to go to the government office early tomorrow morning to do some work. I have to wash up and go to bed!"

As he said this, he was about to go to the bathroom.

Yan Qingzhi called her with a sullen face:

"Kong! Stop right there!"