In the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the people at this time were miserable. The Zhu family is one of them, the old Zhu family has a large population, but there is still not enough to eat, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there were many corrupt officials, at this time the Zhu family was withheld grain, resulting in many people being starved to death. Zhu Yuanzhang was a member of the old Zhu family, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang did not understand things. In his youth, Zhu Yuanzhang began to herd cattle for the landlord Liu De, and at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang just wanted to eat with mixed food and had no wages. Later, under the leadership of his partner, Zhu Yuanzhang actually ate one of Liu De's calves, and as a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was driven out of Liu De's house and lived a career of begging. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang hated corrupt officials very much.
On the issue of cracking down on corrupt officials, no emperor was like Zhu Yuanzhang, who took an iron fist to fight corruption, and some of the means made people feel cruel. It is said that during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, a total of 150,000 corrupt officials were killed, killing one batch after another, and in the end, the corrupt officials killed more and more, resulting in a failure. The main reason why it fails is "money". Because the salary given is small, and it is also stipulated that the salary of officials will never rise, my family will always eat, since there is no money will starve to death, corruption is also death, will definitely choose corruption.
In order to punish corrupt officials, Yongzheng thought of a cruel move. Every year, after the examination, except for some people who are appointed, a large part of them are in a state of waiting, and they can only be filled when there is a vacancy. Some have even been waiting for more than a decade without a real shortage. When Yongzheng was investigating and punishing corrupt officials, he ordered these alternate officials to accompany them, and as soon as they were found, the alternate officials immediately took the top. Many alternate officials have waited for more than a decade for this day. Therefore, in the face of corruption, they all desperately investigate, as long as they pull down the corrupt officials, they can top themselves. As soon as the crimes of the corrupt officials were verified, Yongzheng ordered that the bottom of his home be cleaned, even the homes of their relatives and children.
Yongzheng also implemented relevant policies, he made unified regulations on the return of fire to the public, and implemented a system of raising clean silver. Fire consumption is the loss when recasting silver, and it is necessary to levy fire tax to make up for the loss. However, a part of the increase in the finance after the return of fire to the public was distributed to officials for daily expenses, and this system did increase the number of local officials at that time, and reduced the corruption of officials by means of high salaries to support honesty.