Good Life in Qin Dynasty

Coincidentally, less than three days after Yao Jia entered the state of Zhao, the comet appeared again!

This time, the Xingbo appeared directly in the sky of Zhao Guotian, just in the air, sometimes across the entire sky.

Li Jiyang was even more certain that Yao Jia was a broom star!

However, Yao Jia's life in Zhao country is very nourishing!

He even became friends with Guo Kai because Li Jiyang recommended him to Ying Zheng!

"Being friends with Guo Kai, isn't that a friend of a friend?" Li Jiyang said so when he heard the news.

"Pfft!" Ying Zheng also sprayed at that time!

Li Jiyang had an innocent face: "Did I say something wrong?"

"He just thinks that Guo Kai is a villain, and it is much more convenient to be friends with villains than with gentlemen." Ying Zheng took the towel handed to him by Jiang Neishi and wiped his mouth.

Jiang Neishi tidied up quickly and served Ying Zheng a new bowl of milk tea.

"It's not easy for Yao Jia!" Li Jiyang understood that a villain would be disliked by everyone, but he would rather offend a gentleman than a villain.

You can't offend, that is, you can't turn a blind eye, but Yao Jia has his own plans, so he can only become friends with him.

"Yao Jia wrote in a letter saying that he used everything you gave him to Guo Kai, more than he gave to the Lord of Zhao!" Ying Zheng gave Li Jiyang Yao Jia's letterhead.

Nowadays, everyone can write with a brush. Although there are not many who can write well, the brush is indeed easier to master than the carving knife.

This letterhead is very thick. When I opened it, it was at least A4 paper, and it took up to eight pages!

The writing on the top is the size of a finger belly. The ancients wrote very concisely, and it was also because it was not easy to engrave characters at this time. When I just changed to a brush, it was still very concise when writing.

Greetings first.

The leader is the king, the queen mother of the two palaces, the queen mother and the younger brother of the king, followed by colleagues at all levels.

Then naturally he came to the country of Zhao, the leader of the country of Zhao is very good, and misses the leader of the country very much. At the same time, all the gifts that Ying Zheng sent were given to the leader of the country of Zhao, and the leader of the country of Zhao was very moved...

Li Jiyang saw it later, he only said that he had given the gift to Zhao Guoguo Yingzheng, and he picked the best one to give to Zhao Guoguo Guoguo.

What about the rest?

Although the best share is the best, it is definitely not the most expensive!

You must know that those things are very expensive, and it is inconvenient to sell them. He deliberately brought a lot of gold, because the things have imprints and origins, and it is difficult to sell them. The habit of branding.

Take it out and the flowers look exactly the same!

So Ying Zheng could see that the best gift was given to the Lord of Zhao, but the most expensive gift was given to Guo Kai.

The letter also mentioned some local customs, interesting experiences along the way, and so on.

Finally, I greeted Qin Anjun, my wife and children at home, and it was over.

"This is the end?" Li Jiyang was picky: "Why don't you send a letter to your family?"

Now that post stations are so developed, letterheads are delivered very quickly, and official documents and military newspapers are delivered even faster!

"It's good that he can write a letter back. This is all to be checked by Zhao Jun, and he can only pass it back to the country if he doesn't write something else."

Yingzheng tapped some letter paper with his chopsticks: "It mentioned some customs of Zhao State, and said that he met a family on the road getting married, and he even gave ten knives as a congratulatory gift. The family, including the guests, came out to give He kowtows."

"So what?" Li Jiyang didn't understand.

"Ten knives and coins is indeed a huge sum of money for a commoner's family, but it is not enough for all the guests to come out and kowtow. It can be seen that the people of Zhao State have become barren to a certain extent. Yao Shangqing is telling us, Zhao Guo is very poor now." Ying Zheng said with a sneer: "And the master is not very good, and the ministers are greedy and shameless."

"That's because he didn't give his ministers the treatment they deserve." Li Jiyang took the opportunity to educate Ying Zheng: "If he gives his ministers good treatment and makes him spend more money, do you think there are still corrupt ministers? Who doesn't cherish themselves? What about their reputation? Who would be willing to let their reputation be tarnished? It was just that they had to be greedy once, but it got out of control and became more greedy. Even they themselves felt that it was a matter of course."

Ying Zheng pondered for a while: "How do you think we can stop greed?"

"Greed is human nature, and it cannot be eradicated, but I believe that many people have a bottom line. Only by raising this bottom line can things be minimized." Li Jiyang made a gesture: "The improvement of the moral bottom line is the best. way.” In modern times, everyone understands this truth, and the salaries of civil servants are also high. Of course, some civil servants’ salaries may not be high, but they are definitely enough to support themselves.

He still remembers when he was reading history, he saw why the Ming Dynasty couldn't even "peel day lilies" to stop the greed of officials?Just because the wages in the Ming Dynasty were too low, so low that they couldn't support a family!

Don't be corrupt, do you have to wait to starve to death?

Once corruption starts, it cannot be stopped.

But if the salary is high and the benefits are good, who would take the risk of being reviled and take bribes?

"Moral bottom line?" Ying Zheng chewed these four words carefully.

Li Jiyang put away his things quietly, and Jiang Neishi swiftly brought over the newly made honey twists from the Imperial Dining Room.

Let Qin Anjun have something to eat at the right time, as well as make green tea to drink, so that the king has time to think about things in a daze.

The next day, Yingzheng raised a question in the Palace of Political Affairs. He wanted to raise the wages of his subordinates!

Remember, all people, including the military, including civil servants, and even the lowest-ranking fathers and robbers, must have wages!

Everyone was stunned for a moment. Ying Zheng talked about Yao Jia's letter and Qin Anjun's words that he had received yesterday. Of course, he said it was his idea and didn't mention Li Jiyang.

After all, all the officials benefited. At best, Qin Anjun was good at governing officials, and the king accepted advice; at worst, it was not good.

What do you want to benefit all the officials in the civil and military classes?God?

Therefore, Ying Zheng did not dare to give Li Jiyang this credit, for fear that his head would be too small to wear such a big hat.

Li Jiyang doesn't care, anyway, he only needs Ying Zheng to understand, whether it's his credit or not, he doesn't care if his family doesn't point to it for dinner.

The palace is now governed like an iron bucket, so no one knows that these words are actually said by Qin Anjun. Even Gan Lei looked at Yingzheng with gratified eyes and nodded after listening to Yingzheng's analysis.

What the lord said is too reasonable, everyone supports it all the way, there is no second word!

So, after the spring plowing, the Qin State collectively raised their wages once!

At the very least, everyone can support their family.

For a wife, there is no family planning in this era, so it is possible for a family to have seven or eight children to support, plus a pair of parents.

Some people may have more than one wife, and may have more than seven or eight children....

When making the budget, Ying Zheng was very stern and selfless and only counted his wife and the children born to his wife, while his concubine and his children were not counted...

Of course, Li Jiyang also raised a sum of money for education. To raise a child, you have to pay for the child to go to school, right?It doesn't take much, at least you need to know your own name, read the laws of Qin, know addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and don't let people coax you if you don't know how to count.

Li Jiyang felt that this was the time to popularize education, because Qin State is not a big place now, and Ying Zheng is still young, so let's make a fuss!

So Yingzheng had a new idea, but all the children of officials "must" study and practice martial arts until they are 12 years old.

In the Warring States period, a person became a Ding at the age of 16, and a crown ceremony was held at the age of 20.

The high salaries for officials are not for them to have nothing to do with their concubines, but for them to raise their next generation well.

So, Li Si had a new job of offending people, counting the family conditions of the officials!

One wife, how many concubines?

How much is a pair of parents?

Concubine and concubine, concubine and concubine.

How much is the family property and how much money is saved?

How much do you spend a year?

How much do you earn a year?

Li Si wrinkled his face and almost cried!

Who doesn't have any income yet?

If he asked everything clearly, these people would hate him to death!

Fortunately, Gan Lei rejected it the next day, otherwise Li Si would really hit the wall.

He even scolded Li Jiyang in private, saying that he was giving out ideas!

"Then what about those corrupt officials?" Li Jiyang also looked innocent.

"We can establish a visiting system." Gan Lei rubbed his temples, and the child found a gap without paying attention for a while. He will be fine if he comes up with a blind idea. It will ruin the image that the king has built up with great difficulty!

But it will be dusty.

"Oh..." Li Jiyang nodded, and casually mentioned the matter of monitoring the censor. Of course, he changed the censor to the doctor Gan Lei thoughtfully.

Then he brought up the matter of supervisory doctor in the court. This official position should have been established in the Sui Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had the Yushitai. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yushitai was changed to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

But now it has been brought up in advance, and everyone is very satisfied with it. Compared with the original Li Si going to check the list, everyone can accept this supervisor!

It should be early summer in May, the temperature is just right, and the spring plowing is very successful. Before weeding, everyone is working hard for the construction of Qin State. The main roads have been repaired, that is, the roads between counties are all It's fixed.

Now we are starting to build roads between counties, and there will be more of them.

However, because of the good pay, many people are willing to work during the slack season, and the court pays more. Besides, everyone has seen the benefits of road construction, and they are more active when working.

Li Jiyang was worried. He remembered that it was recorded in history that people froze to death in midsummer this year.

It is how it happened?

Soon he knew that at the end of May and the beginning of June, there was hail in the sky!

Although the area is not small, the originally hot midsummer immediately receded to the cold winter temperature. When it got so cold, people who were still wearing vests and big trousers would freeze!

The whole state of Qin rushed to rescue the disaster. In addition to distributing clothes, they also gave medicines to those who suffered from the cold, and checked the loss of crops.

Some people's roofs were smashed and leaked. Fortunately, the hail did not continue to fall, and the hail was not too large, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Compared with Qin State's calm and stable disaster relief, Chu State in the south was not so lucky. The rice fields could not stand the slightest turmoil, but now patches of rice seedlings were broken by hailstones. To grow wheat, the water in the paddy fields must be drained first. After the hailstorm, it rained heavily.

Qin State has water canals, and there is no worry about floods, Chu State has become a Ze State!

A piece of water spread up, and the fields were washed away. In addition, the nobles of Chu State were used to enjoying it, and no one cared about the condition of the dike, so the dike was in disrepair for a long time, and it was quickly washed away.

The comet appeared in the sky over Chu State in due course!

Then the lord of the state of Chu became angry, and said that it was the state of Zhao that brought the disaster to their state of Chu!

The Lord of the Zhao Kingdom was stunned when he heard this!

The state of Zhao is far away from the state of Chu, and the flood in your house is not mine, so why should you say it is my responsibility?

The state of Chu said that Xingbo first appeared in the state of Zhao. Whose responsibility is not your responsibility?

We live well, and your Xingbo ran into the sky above our house, and then there was hail and heavy rain here at our house, how could this be such a coincidence?

The two families scolded each other in the distance, and it happened that Yao Jia was still staying in Zhao State, so he helped Zhao State deal with Chu State. Anyway, it was a matter of lip service, and he didn't need to fight in person.

But at this moment, the Xingbo appeared in the west again. Outside the Great Wall, Yelang was hit by hailstones the size of fists, and Yueluo was also hit by heavy rain to torrential rain.

Chu State has more words!

Zhao Wang himself suspected that his side had brought down the state of Chu, and then unexpectedly, Xingbo appeared in the north again, which happened to be the territory of Qin state!

Eighty days appeared in succession from Beidou to the south.