Chapter 20: Chen’s prince conscience against the confucians (first update)

The people standing at the top of the pyramid are always the highest-paid part. In Chen Ying's original workshop, each of the six first-class craftsmen had an annual salary of 600 jin each, thirteen second-class craftsmen had an annual salary of 400 jin, and 47 third-class craftsmen had an annual salary of 200 jin.

They can get 18,200 stalemates with 66 of them.

The annual salary of first-class craftsman is 100 jin per year, the annual salary of second-class craftsman is 80 jin per year, while the annual salary of third-class craftsman is 50 jin per year. The annual salary of first-class craftsman is 30 jin per year, and the annual salary of second-class craftsman is 20 jin per year. The annual salary of third-class craftsman is only 10 jin per year.

However, the annual salary of more than 4,300 generals and workers is almost 43,000 guan, and the gap is not ordinary. At this time, Li Yuan felt that Chen Ying's steel industry was a bit hot.

Scholars studied hard for several years and worked as officials in the palace or county for several years before they had the opportunity to be appointed as county magistrates, which took more than ten years. However, the seventh-rank county magistrate, all the salary, salary, employees, servants and various benefits in a year were added together. If they did not embezzle and accept bribes, the salary they could get was equivalent to about 35 kWh, which was about 150,000 yuan for later generations.

This income level is absolutely not low in the Tang Dynasty. However, the salary of a dignified county magistrate of a seventh-rank county is only equal to that of a first-rank craftsman. A ignorant man worked diligently in the workshop for three years and could be promoted to a first-rank craftsman if he did not make big mistakes. However, if he wanted to be promoted to a seventh-rank dynasty, even if he was beaten every three years, he would be promoted to a first-rank dynasty. Every time he was promoted to a first-rank dynasty, he would take thirty-three years.

In other words, many officials' careers will stop at the level of the seventh grade.

A craftsman can get so much money, and even if the salaries of officials cannot be paid in full on schedule, they can get wages on a monthly basis, which must make scholars indignant. If these industries are included in the court system, I am afraid that at that time, officials in the palace and various prefectures will definitely be extremely dissatisfied with this and complain a lot.

Chen Ying, as a private person, no matter how much salary he paid to craftsmen, no one would say anything. However, as the court, there is a system to find. What level of enjoyment is what kind of car and car, how much money can you get, and how much rice and grain can you get, which are the rules formed since the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Chen Ying is OK, can the court be OK? Can the Minister of Works of the Ministry of Works bear such public pressure?

Listening to Chen Yingwei's story, the warrior didn't say anything for a long time. Although he was not a aristocratic race, he knew how powerful the aristocratic race was and how powerful the public opinion was.

Is Yang Guang really stupid? There must be a conclusion in later generations that this girl is a foolish monarch. But Samurai was born in this era and he knew more. If someone would ask, Samurai would definitely say in a different mind: "Yang Guang is a foolish monarch!"

But he would definitely add two words to his mind: "It's weird."

However, because Yang Guang proposed the imperial examination system and used the imperial examination to select officials, he offended all the aristocratic families in the world. So overnight, the direction of public opinion changed. Yang Guang was also a saint of a hundred generations and immediately turned into a foolish monarch.

Even so, but does Warrior really dare to do this? Once he does this, the entire public opinion will soon turn, and he will be the first to be the target of public criticism.

Warriors can ignore their reputation, but they cannot ignore the consequences. The aristocratic clans used public opinion and conspiracy to defeat the Sui Dynasty. If they did it again, they would not have to fight against the Turks or Xiao Xian, and the Tang Dynasty would be done by themselves.

After a long time, the warrior looked at Chen Ying and smiled bitterly, "Mr. Chen, I, the Minister of Works, are sitting on the accumulated wages."

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Who can bear this great task unless Duke Ying is a Duke Ying? Your Majesty knows the hard work of Duke Ying, and Your Majesty will not treat Duke Ying unfairly."

Li Yuan waved his hand with a wry smile, pointed at Chen Ying and said, "What are you doing? Let's talk about it together."

Chen Ying smiled and said, "It is not difficult to say that it is difficult. You can imitate the story of "Getting Millions to Become a Title and using Title instead of income. What people want is only the word "wealth and honor". The ministers can make them rich, but they cannot make them noble, and make them noble. This is a privilege only the court has. In fact, Yuwen Kai of the former dynasty could be regarded as a great craftsman. He was still far from being an official, but he could still be named the Minister of Works of the Six Ministry of Works. For craftsmen who do not need social engagements, ten stakes are enough to have food and clothing, and no more than two or three hundred stakes is not very meaningful. It is not as attractive as a title."

"Official titles are the inscriptions of the country, how can they be given lightly!" Li Yuan shook his head and said, "This method is inappropriate!"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "The Tang Dynasty established a country with military force and established twelve transformations of military merits. Thanks to this, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty sacrificed their lives and went on one after another to serve the court and be loyal to Your Majesty. Why not set up a set of civil servants to reward civil servants? For example, if a county magistrate has an increase of 10% of the population under his rule, a 10% tax increase, and a meritorious education, can he compare military merits and be transferred to a higher-level civil servant?"

Chen Ying also had this idea with a clue. People need to walk on two legs, but the Tang Dynasty's martial arts were awesome and the four barbarians surrendered. This was due to the twelve transformations of military achievements in the Tang Dynasty. As long as they obtain military achievements, they can be promoted and made a fortune. Therefore, this is the only way for poor families and common people to advance.

Similarly, because the Tang Dynasty attached too much importance to martial arts, the Tang Dynasty did not do a good job in internal governance. All civil officials and generals wanted to break up the territory for the court. Because they could be promoted after getting military merits, which was the biggest benefit for them. However, the method of promotion of civil officials was too complicated. The Tang Dynasty divided the civil officials into twenty-nine levels. According to the principle of one evaluation for three years, theoretically speaking, it took seventy-two years to get promoted from the ninth rank to the first rank, and almost no one could do it.

If you are like a military official, every battle can be used as an evaluation. Of course, civil governance cannot be like an official exam, but the principle of one evaluation per year can be adopted, and the standards adopted will be clear at a glance.

How much new arable land has a county, how much grain has been produced, and how much new population has been produced, it is like the GDP of later generations. It can not only be used to assess the county magistrate, but also to assess the censor. How many people have you impeached and how many corruption has not been reported under your rule. This is political achievements.

For example, there are 20 ministerial departments in the Tang Dynasty, including three provinces, six ministries, nine temples and five supervisors. How many of them are because they have no assessment?

After Chen Ying said this, Li Yuan suddenly realized. This method was actually not the first invented by Chen Ying, but the twenty-level title system of Qin State founded by Shang Yang and Shang Jun. The twenty-level military title of Qin State is not only possible to get a title in war, but farmers farm. As long as you produce more grain than others, or if the craftsmen make a major invention, the doctor invents new drugs, which can reduce casualties, is all credit.

Qin Jue’s twenty-fourth is just a big basket, and you can put anything in it.

Li Yuan was definitely unique in being the founding king. When he discovered Chen Ying's proposal and had an effective method, Li Yuan immediately changed the original small-scale negotiations into a small court discussion. The Secretary of Shangshu Pei Ji, the Secretary of the Secretariat Chen Shuda, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Chen Shuda, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Xiao Yu, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Yu Wenshi, the Secretary of the Huangmen Yang Gongren, the Secretary of the Palace, the Secretary of the Ministry of Personnel Feng Deyi, and the Crown Prince Li Jiancheng were all invited to Ganquan Palace.

Li Jiancheng came the earliest, and he was inexplicably surprised. However, seeing Chen Ying here, Li Jiancheng walked up to Chen Ying and asked, "Chen Ying, what is the important matter for the father to discuss this year?"

Chen Ying told Li Jiancheng all the things he called Li Yuan over today.

After hearing this, Li Jiancheng thought for a while and complained: "Since you have such a major proposal, why not go to the East Palace to discuss with me?"

Chen Ying sighed helplessly and said, "Your Highness, the Crown Prince, I am a coincidence. Is it an unintentional mistake? Who would have thought that things would be so big?"

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "You must be prepared. This reform will probably be opposed by many people."

Chen Ying felt confused. In history, the Tang Dynasty captured huge territory and fought to the Caspian Sea. This was the time when the territory expanded the most powerfully in Chinese history. However, due to the Battle of Talas, 3,500 miles of territory were lost at once, and the four towns of Anxi were rebuilt four times in advance.

This reason is not only the population, but also the Tang Dynasty did not pay enough attention to the civilized rule.

To put it bluntly, it is because the Tang Dynasty valued martial arts too much in national policy and did not have enough benefits to civil officials.

However, once all the interests are tilted to civil servants, they will be like the Song Dynasty, and civil servants are not enterprising.

Chen Ying’s idea is to neutralize the interests of all parties and balance all parties.

Then, it can inspire both military generals and civil officials. This is a good prescription for governing the world, so how could countless people oppose it?

However, after an hour, all the invited ministers were ordered to arrive at Ganquan Palace. After the ceremony, an old master with gray hair and a trembling beard fired at Chen Ying: "Chun Chen, a gentleman is like righteousness, and a villain is like righteousness, you are here. You are talking nonsense, and you are talking about all the benefits, how heartily it is?"

"Hold the grass, I was shot even when I lay down!" Chen Ying looked at the old master and said in confusion: "Who is the one under my feet?"
Chapter completed!