parentshiftbook Chapter 195: Three Types Of Corrupt Officials, One Group Each Of Which Are Co-Opted, Divided, And Su
Chapter 195: Three Types Of Corrupt Officials, One Group Each Of Which Are Co-Opted, Divided, And Su
After talking about the Central Tax Inspection Department, Yan Changqing paused for a moment, leaving time for Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes to think.
After a while, Yan Changqing continued:
“The fundamental reason why local county magistrates and subordinate officials over-collected land taxes is because the local county magistrates and subordinate officials relied on the emperor’s distance, and the central court was not clear about the local tax situation, so it dared to arbitrarily over-collect the common people’s land taxes.”
"The solution to this root cause is to establish the Central Tax Supervision Department as just mentioned, strengthen the supervision of local county magistrates' and subordinate officials' collection of land taxes, and standardize the collection of land taxes by local county magistrates and subordinate officials. This is the solution to this problem. The fundamental way.”
"But at the same time, we must also pay attention to and solve the direct reasons that cause local county magistrates and subordinates to overcollect land taxes."
"That's the salary of officials, which is relatively insufficient!"
"So it is necessary to increase officials' salaries."
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was originally very satisfied with the Central Tax Inspection Department system proposed by Yan Changqing, immediately became unswerving after hearing Yan Changqing say that he would increase the salary of officials.
Immediately, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Yan Changqing and was slightly dissatisfied~ and said:
"You should know that high salary cannot foster integrity. It will only breed more and more corrupt officials. It will only change the target of officials' exploitation from the common people to the court!!!"
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang was very cautious about raising salaries for officials.
In his view, no matter whether it is high salary or low salary, officials will eventually be corrupt and bend the law.
If this is the case, then why do we still need to give high salaries to officials?!!
If he gives these officials high salaries here, then those officials will continue to take bribes and bend the law.
Then wouldn't it mean that while he wasted the high salary he gave him, he also slapped Zhu Yuanzhang's face severely?!
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it would be fine to continue to maintain the current salary. Anyway, as long as those officials lived a simple life and did not engage in extravagance and comparison [participate less in parties and favors].
Then those salaries must be able to support his family.
As for those officials who are corrupt and bending the law, just kill one of them if they are caught.
As he said before, there are hundreds of thousands or millions of corrupt officials, so he will kill hundreds of thousands or millions of corrupt officials. For him, these things do not require hesitation and consideration at all.
Yan Changqing glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang helplessly, sighed softly and said:
"Controlling corruption by killing cannot fundamentally solve the problem."
“If we want to solve the problem of official corruption, then we must know why officials are corrupt?!”
"Based on the reasons for official corruption, I roughly divide corrupt officials into three categories."
After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes immediately became interested.
This was the first time they heard that official corruption was divided into different types.
"The first category of corrupt officials are those in Your Majesty's eyes who deceive the court and exploit the people, and only want to change the country and exploit the people for their own benefit.
"Such corrupt officials, regardless of whether they are rich or not, they all want to become richer."
"Essentially, their corruption is just to satisfy their own selfish desires, so they do not take into account the interests of the court, let alone the interests of the people."
"They just want to turn the interests of the court and the interests of the people into their own interests!!!"
"These officials are basically the biggest corrupt officials in the country, and they are truly corrupt officials!"
"So these corrupt officials should be killed!! They should be killed too!!!"
Yan Changqing spoke of the first type of corrupt officials in a calm tone.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all nodded. This type of corrupt officials should indeed be killed!
"The second category of corrupt officials is the most common and the most corrupt."
"Those are corrupt officials who hope to make themselves, their families, and even their clan live a better life by becoming an official."
"This type of corrupt officials usually have poor family conditions, or their social status is not too high, making it difficult for them to be respected by others."
"That's why I want to change everything by becoming an official."
"Essentially, if being an official can really satisfy their wishes."
"For example, making their families richer, or making them more respectable, etc."
"Then these officials will not engage in corruption."
"But when these officials discovered that becoming an official was not actually what they thought before, it would make their families richer and their social status more respectable."
"Then under the huge gap caused by the comparison between inner expectations and actual results, these officials are likely to start corruption in order to satisfy their original inner expectations."
"Compared with the first type of corrupt officials, this type of corrupt officials are not considered to be the most corrupt officials in the country. It can be said to be the most corrupt officials in the country. They are for themselves but not completely for themselves.
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“Until the imperial court fails to meet their expectations for being an official, they will engage in corruption and bribery without principle, and seize the interests of the country and the people, so as to satisfy their original expectations for being an official as much as possible.
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"But when their corruption and bribery reaches a certain level and they satisfy their expectations of being an official."
"Then they will stop taking bribes and embezzling the interests of the country and the people, and instead do what an official should do seriously and responsibly."
"So this type of corrupt officials have become the targets that we need to differentiate to prevent them from becoming one of the corrupt officials because of the huge gap between their original dream of becoming an official and reality."
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After listening to Yan Changqing's talk about the second type of corrupt officials, Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, etc. all looked thoughtful on their faces.
Because "the huge gap between inner expectations and actual results caused a huge gap between the original dream of becoming an official and reality, so he became a member of the car-hungry ministers."
Such a statement is quite new to Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes.
And if you taste it carefully, there does seem to be some truth to these words!!!
“The third category of corrupt officials is relatively rare, but corrupt officials do exist nowadays.
"That's the kind of thing where a whole family can't live without corruption and bribery."
"For this type of corrupt officials, if they have a choice, they are definitely not willing to choose corruption and bribery."
"But even if they have no choice, when these officials take bribes, they often only choose to take bribes to the extent that they can keep their family alive, and then stop."
"This kind of corrupt officials are the petty corruption of the country, and they are also the ones we should fight for and win over."
"Only by recruiting a group of these three types of corrupt officials, dividing a group, and finally eliminating a group, can we truly solve the problem of official corruption and bribery."
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