How miserable is it to work for Zhu Yuanzhang? Not to mention the lowest wages in the past, there are only three days of vacation a year, and 40 corrupt people will have to die, why is Zhu Yuanzhang so harsh? How far has he exploited officials? Everything must be compared, with beauty to know what is ugly, to understand the welfare of other dynasties, to know how fierce Boss Zhu really is.
The Han Dynasty already has the provisions of circular leave, officials can rest once every five days, and the statutory holidays also have other holidays, the Han Dynasty's summer solstice, winter solstice, Spring Festival and other festivals are holidays, even the Volta Day, sheri also have rest, the volt day refers to the day of the three volts of sacrifice, the sheri day has been different in the past, it is also the day of sacrifice, and finally there are personal leave, sick leave, funeral leave, etc., these are the holidays that officials take the initiative to apply, generally speaking, can not exceed three months.
The regular holidays of the Tang Dynasty are called ten days of vacation, and the month is divided into three decades, that is, three days of leave in January, but there are many types of holidays in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, cold food and other festivals, tang Dynasty officials almost take holidays every season, such as Lichun, Spring Equinox, Lixia, Liqiu, etc., adding up to almost 70 days of holiday time per year, in addition to provincial leave, "Tang Liudian" records: Officials' parents have 35 holidays every three years outside three thousand miles, 15 days every five years outside five hundred miles, and finally funeral and marriage holidays.
The Song Dynasty needless to say, a dynasty with the best welfare of officials, the annual holiday of 100 days upwards, Ming Officials looked at the estimated vomiting blood, because the early Ming Dynasty only had 3 days off a year, so why did the Ming Dynasty only have 3 days off, why did the officials not protest?
The Ming Dynasty was established by Zhu Yuanzhang to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, so some systems are continuations of the previous dynasty, including holiday regulations, the Holidays of the Yuan Dynasty are very few and only about 16 days, Ming Officials are bitter, so they persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to learn from the Song Dynasty, and list the benefits of the Song Dynasty holiday system, although Boss Zhu has not read books but does not mean that there is no wisdom, these officials want to be lazy and enjoy the happiness of the mind He can see clearly, Zhu Yuanzhang is very angry, feel that the employees under his hands will fool him as a fool, so he simply does not give 16 days, only the Spring Festival, The winter solstice and the emperor's birthday holiday, love 3 days a year or not, this under the military minister are dumbfounded but do not dare to refute, the angry boss Zhu who can not afford to provoke, after all, there are not a few ministers who died in his hands.
Zhu Yuanzhang is a farmer, has been a monk begging for food, suffering has been accustomed to where there is a concept of holidays, and he himself is also a model worker, working from the early morning to the middle of the night almost all year round, the boss has taken the lead in 807, employees can only comfort themselves This is a blessing, afterwards Zhu Yuanzhang also realized that he was too harsh so he extended the holiday, although not as good as the Tang and Song Dynasties, but also dozens of days of vacation.
The holiday time is up, but the Ming Officials are still very depressed, because their salaries are too low, and Boss Zhu's anti-corruption work is too good, and 40 yuan of corruption will kill the head, how much is 40 in modern times? He lived in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, he did not want to suffer from corrupt officials from snacks, hated the corrupt officials of the prefectures and counties, Zhu Yuanzhang was still very wary of officials even if he became emperor, so his salary to officials was very low, the highest official salary of zhengyipin was nine hundred stone meters, the lowest annual salary from nine pin officials was fifty stone meters, converted into modern currency, the Ming Dynasty from jiupin officials annual salary of about 10,000 yuan, ZhengYipin officials annual salary of about 170,000 yuan, Looking at the Song Dynasty's Congjiupin, the monthly salary is 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, can the Ming Officials not vomit blood. Li Dongyangtang, the head of the Ming Dynasty cabinet, could not even get the money for the funeral after his death, and grass-roots officials like Hai Rui could not eat meat at all, and they could only maintain family expenses by relying on side business.
Even if the salary is small, the key is that the Ming Dynasty punished corrupt officials with particularly great intensity, and the "Great Ming Law" stipulates: Corruption has always been eighty rods, forty is punished, how much is forty? Converted into modern currency is also twenty thousand yuan, embezzlement twenty thousand yuan on the death penalty, this punishment is not heavy, according to the theory that the officials of the Ming Dynasty should not dare to embezzle, but on the contrary, the Ming Dynasty is the most serious corruption of the dynasty, because the salaries of Ming Officials are too low, like the officials of the Song Dynasty can live a good life even if they are not corrupt, but the Ming Dynasty's salary, officials even have difficulty in living, not to mention that there are so many unspoken rules in the official field, after all, it is very rare in the whole ancient world to be as willing to keep the poor as Hai Rui. Therefore, the low salary of the Ming Dynasty forced officials to be greedy, and after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, those strict anti-corruption laws were simply difficult to implement, and under the high-pressure rebound, the number of corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty naturally increased, coupled with the connivance of some emperors, the Ming Dynasty has become a corrupt practice, which Zhu Yuanzhang never expected.