After rebirth, I became a national teacher

The biggest impact on officials this year is the distribution of maintenance silver.

Emperor Taizu of the Great Wei hated corrupt officials, so he set the salaries of officials very low.

Even the Prime Minister only received a salary of three or four hundred taels a year.

The salaries of officials at all levels under Chen Qingzhu's rule were twice as high as those in the Wei Dynasty.

In addition, there is also a salary for maintaining integrity at the end of the year.

This maintenance silver is closely related to the officials' performance throughout the year. If government affairs are completed well and there are no major mistakes, each official can receive maintenance silver equivalent to twice his annual salary at the end of the year.

Those who perform well can receive twice their annual salary as maintenance silver.

For those with poor performance, the rate is reduced to 40%.

This year, the new officials have made their first three moves since taking office and there has been no bad performance.

Moreover, Chen Qingzhu also intended to give some benefits to the officials under his jurisdiction, so most of them could get double the salary for maintaining integrity.

This is money that officials can get openly and without taking any risk, and no one is unhappy about it.

Especially under Chen Qingzhu's rule, most of the officials are new officials who have just entered the officialdom. They are so happy that they can suddenly get a sum of money equivalent to one year's salary at the end of the year.

While announcing this decree, Chen Qingzhu also issued a warning to all officials:

"The Great Wei Emperor said something very good: If you want to get rich, don't become an official."

"But everything has its limits. I believe that your hard work in studying for more than a decade to obtain a degree and your efforts in handling government affairs are indeed worthy of a salary far exceeding that of ordinary people."

"Therefore, ordinary farmers can only save two or three taels of silver after working hard for a year, but you. Even if you are the lowest-ranking clerks and yamen runners, you can get 36 taels of silver per year, plus the annual salary and maintenance silver. Clerks who live more than 20 miles away from the yamen are also allocated housing. What you get is ten or a hundred times what ordinary farmers get."

"This is the limit of what I can give you. If there are still people who want more, and use their power to commit corruption and abuse the law, or even harm ordinary people... I don't mind re-introducing the punishment of the Great Wei Taizu to skin and wash, and punish three generations of relatives!"

The salary is much higher than that of the Wei Dynasty, which will inevitably increase the burden on the national treasury in the future.

But this to a certain extent ensured that officials had a much higher quality of life than ordinary people, and prevented the situation in the Wei Dynasty where people could not survive without greed.

Compared with the damage caused by corruption, high salary expenses are nothing.

Of course, she now has enough money to pay for these, and in the future, she will naturally think of other ways to increase treasury revenue.

Chen Qingzhu's words of warning to officials were delivered verbatim to officials at all levels through imperial edicts.

The lower-level officials did not think that they would engage in corruption or even abuse their power to harm the people. All they saw was the surprise of doubling their salary.

The senior officials, on the other hand, deeply felt the cruelty of it and secretly warned themselves never to fall into the hands of the God.

I feel very relieved to see such upright people as Yuan Songbo.

Such a decree only made him feel more that he had followed the right person.

Many powerful and wealthy people were confiscated in Nandu, and Chen Qingzhu was very well-off.

Chen Qingzhu had long wanted to reward Yuan Songbo, the honest prime minister.

She directly gave Yuan Songbo a marquisate in the southern capital city, and also gave him a thousand taels of gold and five thousand taels of silver, making his wealth immediately rich.

Yuan Songbo wanted to decline, thinking that the money could be put to better use.

Chen Qingzhu told him seriously:

"As the Prime Minister, you are the best minister. If you don't even have this kind of wealth, how can scholars in the world have the motivation to serve as officials in the court?"

"What's more, I think you deserve such treatment, and I hope that while you work hard for the world, you can enjoy more fun in the world."

These words moved Yuan Songbo so much that he burst into tears.