Of course, Zhenwu was also very clear in his heart that under the ** system, even the perfect supervision system could not eliminate corrupt officials. He did not intend to add supervision agencies. The number of officials and the organization was bloated. In the end, it would only increase the burden on the court, and eventually it would be passed on to the people. Moreover, adding supervision officials may not necessarily curb the corruption of officials. Who can ensure that these supervision officials are honest?

To implement effective supervision of officials, we can only find supervision outside the system. He considered this matter for a long time. The major corruption case in Shaanxi and Jin bribery came out, forcing him to put on the agenda for rectification of the administration. Of course, this was also an excellent opportunity. Today, he specially summoned several ministers in the study room. He just wanted to give up his ideas and see their reactions.

After pondering a little, he said slowly: "It is reasonable that greed is the nature of human beings. Everyone has greed, and I also have greed. I am not satisfied with the existing territory of the Qing Dynasty and eager to include all the surrounding vassal states in the Qing Dynasty. I am not satisfied with the existing living conditions of the people of the Qing Dynasty. I hope that all the people can be healthy and prosperous, respect etiquette and law-abiding. I hope that all the officials of the imperial court can be as honest as water, diligent and dedicated to the public. I hope that the Qing army can be invincible. These are all greed, and this is greed for the king.

I often say that everything has advantages and disadvantages, and greed is the same. The greed of kings is the basis of disaster to the country and the root of building a country. Regardless of national conditions, the military and military will inevitably harm the country. If you just do nothing, you will lose your ambition. The way to harm the country is to be peaceful and frail.

The greed of a minister lies in making achievements, in making a fortune for generations, in winning a wife and a child, in glorifying his ancestors, in promoting and making money, in being extravagant and extremely lustful. I can tolerate all my extravagant and extremely lustful. I cannot tolerate all my extravagant and extremely lustful. Officials are greedy for money, and extremely lustful and extremely lustful will actually harm the country and the people."

When Ma Qi and the other two heard these words, they were stunned. The greed of the king is both the foundation of disaster and the root of the country. This is really refreshing. This is a complete denial of inaction and governance. What is particularly rare is that Zhenwu actually spoke out his greed so bluntly. This is the first time he clearly proposed to include all the surrounding vassal states in the Qing Dynasty.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhenwu continued: "The Supreme Emperor once said that governing a country must first govern officials. The people must be safe and the officials should be called their duties. The officials should be called their duties and the world will be governed. Looking at the same time, the country has always been governed by officials. The quality of officials is the first to be governed by officials. The quality of officials is the first to be governed by whether officials are honest and dedicated to the public, and how to purify officials. How to fight corruption and corruption, and how to fundamentally eliminate corrupt officials?

Anti-corruption and corruption in all dynasties can be said to have all been used. In addition to severe punishments and laws, there are also measures such as guidance and strengthening supervision, but they can only achieve temporary results. Why?

Ma Qi said it right. Officials have too much power, not only great power, but also lack effective supervision. Whether officials are honest or corrupt is all due to the nature of officials. Greed is the nature of human beings. This is also why there are many corrupt officials and few honest officials. How many people can have more than 30,000 officials in the Qing Dynasty? I don’t see any of them.

In view of this, I believe that to completely eliminate corruption among officials, we must start from three aspects. One is to continue the strategy of the Supreme Emperor seeking integrity, fostering integrity, protecting integrity, and admonishing integrity to clarify the origin, encourage it from the nature, and advocate that officials restrain themselves and restore etiquette, desire but not be greedy, and be cautious in their own self-restraint.

Furthermore, increase the salary of officials, so that the salary is enough to ensure that the family and the family have no worries about food and clothing, and ensure that the officials should have the decent and social interactions. I have considered this and have issued an order to announce it to the world.

These two points alone are not enough to curb the corruption of officials in bribery. This third point is the top priority. Supervision must effectively supervise officials so that officials can be under supervision at any time and dare not bribe them."

Zhang Pengfeng, Ma Qi, and Xiao Yongzao were all disdainful when they heard this. Supervision was not a new thing. The Censorate was just to supervise all officials and to correct all officials who were corrupt and corrupt. Could it be that Zhenwu wanted to expand the Censorate to the other party? There were more officials.

When the two of them sat down, Zhenwu glanced at the five of them and said in a deep voice: "I have been thinking about it for a long time. The supervision of officials cannot rely on officials. It has always been mutual. It means that officials rely on officials to supervise themselves, and the results have been very little. Once officials collude and deceive even more, I want to use local gentry to supervise local officials. Please consider the feasibility of this method."

Using local gentry to supervise local officials? Zhang Penghong, Ma Qi and Xiao Yongzao were all shocked by Zhenwu's whimsical idea.

The gentry is the local gentry, and it is a unique social class that has been established since the Ming Dynasty. As a group, gentry appeared in the Ming Dynasty, especially after the mid-Ming Dynasty. This is because after the mid-Ming Dynasty, the number of scholars increased greatly. As if the official was difficult, a large number of people with fame and honor were stagnant in the countryside. In addition, a large number of officials were demoted or retired and returned to their hometowns, and naturally became gentry.

The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system. In terms of the written system, the lowest level of the imperial administrative power was the county level, and the Lijia system and Baojia system were implemented below the county level. Among them, the Lijia system was used for tax collection and the Baojia system was used for public security maintenance.

Grassroots society is generally composed of three parts, namely officials, gentry, and people. From this, official power, gentry power, clan power, and three powers are derived to govern the countryside and influence each other.

The clan power mainly establishes its power and authority in rural society through blood relations, while the gentry power mainly establishes its power and authority in rural areas through its monopoly on culture and its relationship with the government. The official power relies on imperial power, and mainly uses Baojia as its extension in rural areas. The feudal education originated from imperial power guides the clan power, and the activities of gentry power in rural areas have become the main spiritual means for the state to control the country.

This is the so-called "state power does not fall below the county, but only the clans are in the county. All clans are autonomous, and self-governance creates ethics, and ethics creates rural gentry." For a long time, rural autonomy politics has been based on clans and society, and gentry is the link. As an intermediary for officials and villagers, gentry power is also between official power and clan power.

When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and the Central Plains was settled, many gentry were involved in the anti-Qing movement, especially in the Jiangnan region. The anti-hair and change clothes movement in Jiangnan were mainly gentry, which was naturally strongly suppressed. The imperial examination cases, temple cries, and case cancellation cases in the early Qing Dynasty greatly reduced the privileges of the gentry and weakened the power of the gentry.

Not only that, in order to prevent the expansion of gentry's power, the court also strictly controlled the gentry's participation in politics, and integrated the gentry's family into the baojia ranks, obeying the inspection of the baojia chief, and stipulated that gentry was not allowed to serve as baojia chief. This is to ensure that the baojia organization does not fall into the hands of local gentry, and county officials can maintain their own ruling institutions by appointing baojia chiefs.

Zhenwu proposed to use gentry to supervise local officials. This will undoubtedly greatly enhance the political status of gentry, expand the power of gentry, and then destroy the balance of official power, gentry power and clan power in the countryside, and even the situation where gentry power overturns official power.

After a while of silence, Zhang Penghong said in a deep voice: "The emperor, if the local gentry supervises local officials, it will undoubtedly encourage the power of the gentry. The weak ministers are worried that after the expansion of the gentry's power, they will repeat the mistakes of the Ming Dynasty. The gentry in the Ming Dynasty is extremely powerful, and gentry in various places controls the government, takes charge of lawsuits, annexes, and land, rampantly circulates the countryside, and oppresses the people. This is not a blessing for the court."

Ma Qi also followed closely and said, "Emperor, the local gentry leaders are all wealthy and powerful lords. They are prestige in the local area, and they are all based on the expectations of a city and the heads of the four people. If you add the power to supervise local officials, you may become a big shot over time. Every man lives in the neighborhood and calls for a hundred responses is not a blessing for the court."

Xiao Yongzao pondered: "In order to complete the tax collection, the other officials often colluded with the other gentry, and used the gentry to supervise local officials. The slaves' concerns will instead promote the two to collude and harm the people. I beg the emperor to be careful."

Hearing that the three of them were strongly opposed, Zhenwu couldn't help but frowned slightly. At this moment, Songzhu and Wang Zhu also arrived hurriedly. After coming in to kowtow to the ceremony, Zhenwu did not say much, but pointed at Xiao Wu and signaled to give him a seat.

After pondering for a moment, he said: "I have been in the local area for a long time and have heard of the rights of supervision given to the gentry. I will not give this benefit in vain.

Now the south is vigorously promoting the "spreading of acres" and the northern provinces will soon vigorously promote it. I still intend to promote the gentry to pay food and work together, and there is also sacrificiality. Since I am adding salary to officials, this sacrificiality must be included in the court, or all sacrificiality will be cancelled.

"Salvages into the acres" and the gentry paid food together and worked together. The privileges of the gentry were basically deprived of all. They were given the right to supervise local officials as compensation. In addition, it was strictly forbidden for gentry to collect money and grain, and to obligate money and grain, and to pay grain based on clans. In this way, there was no worry that they would collude and harm the people."

Zhenwu said in one breath that the gentry paid food together and worked together, and it was strictly forbidden for the gentry to collect money and grain and owed money and grain. The ministers present in the study couldn't help but take a breath. Zhenwu deprived the gentry of his privileges in a clean manner.

No wonder he proposed that the gentry inspect local officials. The phenomenon of land annexation in the Qing Dynasty was serious, and most of the land was concentrated in the hands of gentry. Once the full implementation of the gentry's share of gentry, the gentry would pay grain and serve as a whole, most of the tax service would fall on the gentry's heads. There was no need to worry about collusion with each other, and the possibility of dog biting dogs was greater.

Zhenwu glanced at a few people and continued: "Take a county as an example, I mean that the gentry in the county will openly elect one person as the main and four as the auxiliary, representing the gentry to supervise the magistrate. The gentry representatives will be elected once every three years. The court and local officials are not allowed to intervene in this matter. The gentry representatives will be elected entirely by the gentry. The gentry representatives who are the leader will be rewarded with the seventh rank to facilitate their supervision. Of course, it is not a lifetime reward. The seventh rank is only given to the representatives of the gentry in each term."

Speaking of this, he stood up and said, "You are here to discuss it first." When he walked to the door, he ordered, "Appreciate tea." After leaving the door, he said to Bao Fuquan who was following behind: "Don't have to be so troublesome to pass on the meal. Just put a few exquisite and delicious dishes, slightly light dishes. In addition, give them a plate of soft cakes."

"Zhe." Bao Fuquan hurriedly bowed and replied.

In the hall, as soon as Zhenwu left, Xiao Yongzao roughly gave the previous situation to the later Song Zhu. Wang Xuan and the others said it again. After he finished speaking, Ma Qi said, "The gentry paid food together and served as one. It is strictly forbidden for the gentry to collect money and grain, owed money and grain, and consuming food to the court or cancel it. What do you think about this?"

Song Zhu took the lead and said: "How much can the emperor increase the salary of officials? Do it double? triple or five times? This waste is collected from the court. Wouldn't this salary be reduced instead of increasing? Wouldn't local officials make a fuss?"

After hearing this, the other four people were speechless. The Qing Dynasty Chengming system had low salary. Take the seventh-rank magistrate as an example. The annual salary was only forty-five taels of silver. This amount of money was only enough to support the family. However, in addition to supporting his own family, the magistrate also had to spend money to hire a master, a family member, a boss, a husband, a sedan chair, an umbrella fan, etc. The court would not pay the wages of these people, and the magistrate must think of his own.

Where does this silver come from? You can't pay it back when you are an official, but the court also understands this. Although you don't pay wages, you can give policies, which means you acquiesce to county officials to increase taxes. The so-called "casual" refers to the part that is charged outside the positive amount when collecting cash and grain on the grounds of making up for losses. Generally speaking, every two ounces of silver will be charged between four to five cents and one ounce of each ounce, and one stone will be charged for two liters to a bucket of liters.

This is not a small amount. The consumption of a county can be as small as hundreds of taels and as many as thousands of taels. How much can it be increased by abolishing the salary of officials? Could it be that it can be increased by 30 or 40 times? Once this news is announced, officials will inevitably resist firmly. Not only local officials resist, but also capital officials will also resist vigorously. Local officials have no money. Where does the annual ice charcoal charcoal sensation come from?

After a while of silence, Zhang Penghong said: "There is no need to worry about this matter. The emperor is familiar with local conditions and is good at economics. How can such a clear gap be invisible? Besides, the emperor has not confirmed that whether to accept Huanyian or cancel the imperial court has not yet been decided, which shows that it should be a temporary idea."

After hearing this, Ma Qi frowned and said, "A temporary intention? The gentry paid food together and served as a whole. It is strictly forbidden for gentry to collect money and grain, and the measures of arrears of money and grain are all temporary intentions, right?"

As soon as these words were finished, several people couldn't help but look at each other. Zhenwu's actions have always been meticulous. He had to think carefully about such a big move before he would throw it out and ask him to discuss it in the study room. However, looking at the situation today, he obviously did not think clearly. It was slightly hasty. What is the reason? The people were all smart, and after a second thought, they realized that it must be Zhao Shenqiao who returned to Beijing and the case in Shaanxi and Gansu was released. Zhenwu hurriedly threw out these immature ideas. What does Zhenwu's rush to throw out these ideas at this time? He wanted to use the land of Shaanxi and Gansu as a pilot and try to implement the new policy?

For a moment, several people remained silent. The three Manchu ministers knew the case in Shaanxi and Gansu. A few days ago, Manchu officials in the court deliberately provoked the dispute between Manchu and Han, in order to create chaos, confuse the public, and try to cover up the case. How could they not understand the truth? Although Zhang Penghong and Wang Fei did not understand the specific situation, they also vaguely guessed and heard a trace of wind.

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