It was not until last summer that she finally made her honest statement with Empress Dowager Feng and lifted the freezing period. The two formed the same opinion for the interests of the northern country and truly accepted Empress Dowager Feng's political propositions.

Therefore, Emperor Hongwen returned to Pingcheng last year and brought back all the drafts formulated after discussing with Empress Dowager Feng. After returning, he issued an edict to completely institutionalize the salary of the class.

The specific measures are: "The household will add three pieces of silk and two hu of grain and nine dou of grain to make the salary of the lawsuit; the household will add two pieces of silk and the other will be transferred. After the salary is carried out, the person who has one piece of stolen money will die."

The new system, after all, is to increase taxes for the people and use this part of the income as the salary of officials. With the salary guarantee, if your officials are found to receive stolen money under various names, they must be severely punished. In other words, the money that officials used their power to collect repeatedly on the people was replaced by the one-time tax collected by the government. For ordinary people, at least they can avoid being exploited and plundered by officials at all levels. They naturally accept it.

However, the situation for officials is different. Once the salary system was promulgated, a large number of stolen money were investigated and punished in one month, including the father, brother, uncle, uncle and other relatives of several concubines of Emperor Hongwen. More than 40 officials were ordered to be punished or executed because the amount of corruption exceeded the limit.

Now the greedy Xianbei officials couldn't sit still. The emperor simply used the "white terror" policy to cut off everyone's financial path. How could he bear it? You can't be corrupt as an official, so who would still be willing to be an official?

Therefore, during this year's trip to Beiwudang, everyone recommended King Jingzhao and King Rencheng as lobbyists, and submitted a memorial on behalf of the Xianbei nobles, saying that it would be better to restore the old system. However, King Jingzhao, in view of the lessons learned last time and the relationship with Emperor Hongwen was very close. He knew that Emperor Hongwen himself was determined to eliminate corruption and did not want to fight against Emperor Hongwen at this critical moment. Therefore, he politely rejected the Xianbei nobles' envoy. This time, he couldn't stand out and asked King Rencheng to take the lead.
Chapter completed!