Beiyang reactionaries

Jiang Hongyu took it and didn't look carefully, but simply scanned it.Because of what Duan Xun said, Jiang Hongyu already understood.What Duan Xun means is that among the current government expenditures, the salaries of government workers are too high.Jiang Hongyu is the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and what he does is the work of the Organization Department of the Later Generation. Of course he understands this.

At present, the salaries of personnel in three areas in China are very high.One is government officials and parliamentarians at all levels, and their salaries are very high.

Just like Duan Xun, the prime minister of the cabinet, his monthly salary is more than 2000 yuan, and with some other incentives a year, he takes away [-] yuan in salary from the finance.Of course, this is just money, needless to say about other benefits.

Those cabinet ministers, governors, deputy ministers, deputy governors, and members of Congress, these people take more than [-] yuan from the finances every year.There are also members of the provincial council, and a large number of officials below, which also take away tens of thousands a year.

These people alone receive nearly [-] million yuan in funds from the central and local finances a year.

Then there are the top military officers.Although the military department is subordinate to the cabinet, the military department is a special department after all.A general at the general level can also get [-] a year.Lieutenant generals and major generals can get tens of thousands.At present, there are many Chinese troops, plus there are many heroes of the Republic of China and generals left over from Beiyang.Those people have already stepped down, and they have no substantive positions in the army, but they are all nominal generals of the military department.

For example, Zhang Zuolin and the others gave up the army, and all the generals, big and small, of Fengjun, Duan Xun, had to support them.Those people don't do anything, but they are all named in the military department and take away a lot of money every year.So China now has a lot of generals, and these generals alone take 5000 to [-] million yuan every year.

In addition to these two aspects, it is the professors of the university, and there are many university teachers.Their wages have never been low, whether it was the Manchu Qing period or the Beiyang government period.Because no matter whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty or the Beiyang government, they all think that these scholars are reserve officials, and they may be colleagues in the future.Therefore, it will not be too much for them, and the money that should be given will not be dealt with too seriously even if it is a disturbance.Therefore, their salaries are ridiculously high.

Although the cabinet has decided not to vigorously develop universities, it does not mean that university education will not be developed.It just changed the original aggressive university development plan to slow development.

But even so, the scale of development of Chinese universities is still very fast.Because China is too big, many provinces hope to have universities in their own provinces.Therefore, the number of university professors and university teachers has increased rapidly.

You can't tell much from the Ministry of Finance's expenditure alone.

Because the salary expenditure of the army is reflected in the military expenditure.The salary expenditure of university professors and university teachers is reflected in education funds.However, if you take them out and analyze them carefully, you can see how much of the government staff's salary accounts for the current annual fiscal expenditure in China.

"What does the Prime Minister mean?"

"Brother Jing'an, my thoughts are this way. Now our salary system is still relatively chaotic, and we have been using the previous situation without major changes. Therefore, the situation in many provinces is also relatively chaotic. We came from the southwest, so the situation in the southwest The other side is our previous system. Other later provinces have their own situations, so there is no unified standard. This problem also exists in the military system. There are too many messy general titles in the military department. It needs to be rectified. But let’s not talk about this, I hope that your Ministry of Internal Affairs can come up with a complete and unified salary system as soon as possible. Unify the situation across the country.”

"It's okay, it should be."

Jiang Hongyu nodded.

Because this itself is the job of their Ministry of Internal Affairs.The Ministry of the Interior has long begun to unify the salaries of officials across the country.But Jiang Hongyu quickly said: "But, Prime Minister. Is it just to complete the unified standard?"

"Salary cut."

"This is not very good. Now everyone is used to it, and a sudden salary cut will make everyone unhappy."

Jiang Hongyu frowned.

Salary cut?

Nobody would be happy about a pay cut.

Duan Xun smiled.

Dao: "The main reason is to reduce the salaries of senior government officials. Several of our senior government officials live on wages, not to mention people like us, those local officials, including those in the counties and cities below, use public funds for eating, drinking and drinking. Several of them are living on their own wages. Those local officials will not be able to work if their wages are less than tens of yuan a month."

China is a country that has been governed by officials for thousands of years.

Except for emperors like Zhu Yuanzhang, as long as they have fame at other times, they will not really be short of money.No matter how poor you are, you are living a pretty good life.

Just like an upright official like Hai Rui, they say how they are willing to be poor, but in fact their life is much better than that of ordinary people.There is also a powerful concubine room, and several children.These honest officials are poor, but that is for other officials.

At present, those government officials in China, even if you are not corrupt, the government is basically in charge of eating, drinking and messing around.Of course they are happy with the higher wages.But if there is less, it will not really affect their lives.

"Start with me. Everyone's salary will be cut by 20.00%, what do you think? Only the salary of government officials will be cut, and the salary of ordinary workers will remain unchanged."

In fact, even if the salary of government officials is cut by 20.00%, it is still very high.Because even the lowest-level government officials, as long as they are senior officials, their salary is more than five or six times that of ordinary government employees.This is the current status of Chinese salaries.

The salaries of officials are high, and the salaries of ordinary workers are very low.The same is true in the army, where the salaries of the officers are high and the salaries of the soldiers are very low.

"20.00%?"

Jiang Hongyu frowned.

This range is not small.

Duan Xun snorted coldly: "Don't say 20.00%, in fact, according to the actual situation, it should be reduced by 50.00%. However, after this time is confirmed, it will definitely not change for a period of time in the future. At that time, only ordinary staff salaries will be adjusted. .”

The level of government officials is there, and there should be a gap in salary between ordinary government workers.But this gap should not be as big as it is now.

Now the annual salary of ordinary government workers is only so much. Even the government workers in Shanghai, the most economically developed region, can earn as much as one thousand a year, which is quite a good income department.

Duan Xun, the cabinet minister, can earn more than 3 yuan a year, which is 100 times their income.As for ordinary workers in ordinary provinces, even those whose annual salary is only two or three hundred, that is more than [-] times their salary.Although Duan Xun does not live on wages, the gap is too great.In Duan Xun's view, it is normal for the salary gap between the prime minister and ordinary staff to be within ten times.

So Duan Xun is going to narrow this gap.

"What I'm talking about is only in general terms. The specifics need to be determined by your Ministry of Internal Affairs. Also, your Ministry of Internal Affairs needs to formally determine the ranks of officials. Now the ranks of officials in our country are also very confusing. These are my simple thoughts on the ranks of officials. You guys The Ministry of the Interior to perfect them."

Jiang Hongyu took it over.

The Qing inherited the Ming system, and there were very clear regulations and operations for official ranks and promotions.After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China was a republic.However, what should the republican government be like, how should the ranks of officials be established in the republican government, and what should be the procedure for the promotion of officials? No one has experience.In addition, after the Revolution of [-], there were frequent civil strife, and there were different situations in different places.Therefore, the issue of official rank is also quite confusing, and it is time to rectify it.

"The prime minister, the rank of officials, and setting salaries according to their ranks are all fine. But what about the parliamentarians? If you want to cut their salaries, it is not a small matter. Parliamentary elections have been put on the agenda. If you want to cut parliamentary expenditures , not sure what will happen."

"I'm going to hold an internal meeting of the People's Party, starting with our party. Unifying the party's ideas is deciding on the parliamentary side. You should do a good job on the government officials first."

"it is good."

"In addition to government officials, there are also those scholars."

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"In addition to government officials, there are also those scholars."

"student?"

Jiang Hongyu thought for a while, then shook his head lightly.

Looking at Duan Xun, he was very cautious and said: "Prime Minister, it is not easy to deal with those scholars according to the official level. You also know that these scholars are not easy to manage. They are all the second and third children. Many of them are arrogant. , There is no one in the sky and on the earth who does not know. If they are stratified according to their ranks, something may happen."

"The level that should be there is still there."

Duan Xun understood Jiang Hongyu's concerns.

Since ancient times, those who have been able to study in China have never had a real poor family.Those so-called scholars from poor families are not really poor families.In ancient times, there was no opportunity for truly poor families to read books.Because in ancient times, wanting to read books was not a small number.Where can the truly poor families afford the apprentice Shu Xiu, and who can afford the cost of pen, ink and paper.Not to mention that ancient books are very expensive.In ancient times, there were very few people who had books in their homes. Where could the truly poor families have books to read.The so-called poor families are only compared with those rich and powerful families, not those poor people.In other words, the humble family is just the small landlord class among the landlord class, or a declining family.

How expensive were books in that era?Some declining families do not sell land, but selling some books left by their ancestors can maintain their livelihood.

The scholar's family has a high status in society.Not to mention that scholars have always been reserve officials, and their status in society is high.At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Western learning spread eastward, and various ideas flooded into China.For the new youth, that is, young scholars, they accept Western learning.In fact, many people don't have a specific, systematic study of Western learning, and they have only a half-knowledge of Western learning.But they all learned one thing.

free.

Many young scholars in this era like these two words very much.If you look at the establishment of the League, you will know that many scholars do not like too strong a political party. In fact, they just don't like restraint.

The same is true of many universities in China.