Chapter 298 Solving the Problem (Part 3)
The new monetary system was first implemented within the system. Wan Qian was called to Huo Chong. She was immersed in the joy of her wedding and was a little distracted at first. She didn't pay much attention to what Huo Chong said. Until Huo Chong asked, "Do you think you would put something that doesn't belong to you in your pocket?"
Wan Qian was stunned for a moment, then her face suddenly turned red. "Sir, who do you think I am?"
"Sixth brother, you don't steal or rob, of course I know that." Huo Chong faced his sixth apprentice calmly.
It has been a while since Wan Qian heard her master Huo Chong call her "Old Six", so she felt warm in her heart and was no longer angry.
" If something looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, do you think it is a duck?"
Wan Qian was puzzled after hearing this. However, according to the teacher's habit, he certainly didn't want Wan Qian to think it was a duck. So he answered straightforwardly: "Is there any other way to prove whether it is a duck?"
Huo Chong shook his head. "If there is a sum of money, it is placed in a vault that only you can enter, and it can only be taken out with your permission, and you have to decide how to spend it. Do you think this money is yours?"
Wan Qian thought about it and suddenly laughed out loud, "How can such a good thing happen?"
However, the smile faded in a moment. Wan Qian could see that Huo Chong was not joking at all. Wan Qian quickly became serious, "Sir, is this really the case?"
"Sit down, I'll tell you what's going on." Huo Chong asked his sixth disciple, who had inadvertently stood up, to sit back in his seat.
When Yang Wangfu entered the office, he was surprised to see Sixth Junior Sister Wan Qian walking out with her head down. After seeing Huo Chong, he heard Huo Chong ask, "Second Brother, do you think you can just follow the rules and ignore other people's feelings?"
Being called that, Yang Wangfu immediately felt that things must be troublesome. Although he knew that the matter must be very serious, Yang Wangfu still fought against the temptation and answered with difficulty: "Teacher, I can't do it. I always do things with loyalty."
Huo Chong understood Yang Wangfu's answer. If it weren't for the loyalty of Shandong people, there wouldn't have been so many people who would follow Huo Chong to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the beginning. It was loyalty that prevented Huo Chong from falling into a situation of extreme shortage of manpower at the beginning.
But loyalty has a very simple and clear result: deciding to whom to be loyal is a personal choice.
Yang Wangfu was already a disciple that Huo Chong liked very much. Huo Chong felt that Yang Wangfu was very capable and at least knew how to refuse.
However, the question is whether a person who only cares about loyalty will uphold iron discipline.
Thinking of this, Huo Chong could only let Yang Wangfu go back first.
After meeting several people in succession, the results were not satisfactory. Finally, Huo Chong suddenly thought of a person. If it was this person, he would probably be able to make all the temptations of mortals useless.
Even this person who didn't refuse couldn't help but complain: "Brother Huo, you are too much of a bother."
"Master, I am also desperate, so I come to you for help."
Master Changxin looked Huo Chong up and down and asked, "Do you want me to recommend someone?"
Huo Chong knew that the Taoist priest had definitely not found out the information by asking questions, but he was still moved by the indescribable response displayed by the master of metaphysics.
This reaction is really scary.
"What kind of person do you want?" Master Chang Xin continued to ask.
Huo Chong told the Taoist priest about the qualities he hoped for. After listening to the Taoist priest, Changxin touched his chin and said, "Grow through learning, and improve through growth. Brother Huo's words are becoming more and more interesting."
“I’m also trying to be down-to-earth.”
"Brother Huo, you are telling your own experience. In fact, ordinary people don't think so."
Hearing the sarcasm in Master Changxin's words, Huo Chong felt helpless and could only laugh dryly.
Master Changxin thought for a moment and said, "I happened to meet a few of them a while ago. They were very interesting guys who wanted to practice Taoism but had no talent for it. At the time, I thought they could only manage money, but when I met Master Huo, I felt that they had come at the right time."
"Why does the Taoist think they are suitable for managing money?" Huo Chong was very curious.
"They have no intention of keeping the money for themselves. But people with this kind of personality will suffer, so it has to be someone like you."
Huo Chong knew that the words of the master of metaphysics, Chang Dao, could not be understood. If one tried to understand them, he would get them wrong. This kind of almost spontaneous feeling was the characteristic of the masters of metaphysics. They themselves did not know why, but just "intuitively" thought that it should be so.
If the masters of metaphysics were to explain things, it would certainly not be something that ordinary people could understand. At least Huo Chong knew that he would definitely misunderstand it.
But even so, Huo Chong couldn't help but ask: "Do those people like the feeling of having power?"
"It's a bit like that, but it's completely different. If I have to say, they don't really understand what money can bring to them. Maybe they're just not smart enough."
After hearing this explanation, Huo Chong did not dare to ask any more questions. If a person is not smart in himself, he will probably be smart in others. Although he still did not understand whether this was altruism, at least Huo Chong hoped that these people could be altruistic.
After working in P2P for a few years, Huo Chong's evaluation of human nature has dropped to the bottom of the ocean. As long as they are normal human beings, they are probably undesirable.
Since so-called normal humans are unreliable, we can only consider relying on abnormal humans.
When asked for the list, Master Changxin said, "I'm too lazy to give it to you. I'll send someone over in a few days."
Huo Chong was speechless at the behavior of such a master. The Taoist priest only gave everyone two choices, either accept or not. There was no room for discussion at all.
Just like the joke. Whether there is a woman or not, the number below 1 is 0. There is no such thing as a number after the decimal point.
Just as he was about to leave, he was stopped by the Taoist priest Changxin, "Let me take a look at your face."
"Are you going to use me as an experiment?" Huo Chong also intuitively sensed the Taoist's purpose.
The Taoist priest did not answer. He just stared at Huo Chong for a while, and then took Huo Chong's hand to study it for a while.
Finally, he asked Huo Chong to throw in three more copper coins, and then told Huo Chong, "We are even now."
"Don't. Now that you say that, I don't want to leave."
After hearing Huo Chong's question, the Taoist priest said calmly, "The Master said, 'Time flies by like a flowing river.' Would you hesitate to move forward?"
Huo Chong shook his head, "I'm worried. I've seen many people ruined like this."
"On the eighteenth day of the beginning of autumn, every blade of grass bears seeds. What can you do alone?"
Huo Chong sighed: "Then if I tell the truth, will it be of any use?"
"I always want to tell the truth, but I can never come up with the right words. From what I've seen, you may be the only one who has not been harmed by my words. If you can only avoid being harmed, what else can others do?"
Huo Chong remained silent. Although Master Changxin was a master of metaphysics, what Huo Chong admired about him was his ruthlessness after seeing through the will of heaven. Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs. You have to go through everything before you know what you have done.
"Master Huo, when I heard you bragging, I said that social progress will never lead to one person's success and the prosperity of all his family members. Social progress will only lead to wars on earth. Since you have chosen this path, why not walk it to death? If you have any regrets, will the deaths of those who died before be in vain?"
Hearing this, Huo Chong felt that his once shaken mood stabilized again, and even recovered towards the direction of losing his emotion with a will as strong as steel.
Although he still couldn't completely harden his heart, Huo Chong still said goodbye to Master Changdao.
I thought it would take several days to pick someone up, but unexpectedly, several guys showed up on the third day. When Huo Chong talked to these guys, he immediately felt that they were unique.
With their unconventional persistence, it is not easy for them to survive to this day.
Huo Chong was not polite and asked the person in charge of finance to train these people and finish writing the new financial psychology training content.
While Huo Chong was busy, other departments also came up with their latest plans.
The salary within the system is divided into three parts: basic salary, position salary, and allowances.
The basic salary is one person per job, and the level 18 salary is based on level, regardless of gender, age or seniority.
Job salary is linked to position.
Allowances are related to the working environment.
This system is very suitable for the military. From private to marshal, the salary is paid according to the military rank. The supervisory agency in the army only checks whether the military standard is met and whether there are any people who are not paid for nothing.
The salary of a position is related to the skills mastered and the work undertaken. For example, as a technical branch of the military, the salary of artillery soldiers will be higher. Similarly, the artillery assessment is no joke. If someone fails the assessment and dares to do something wrong, according to military discipline, he or she will at least be held responsible, and may be dismissed.
If something goes wrong during a war, execution is one of the many punishments that can be taken in subsequent accountability.
The allowance is related to whether or not you participate in the war. Of course, there is no allowance for attendance when you are resting ...
Thinking of this, Huo Chong called Yang Wangfu, "Second Brother, last time I asked you whether you wanted to go to the military discipline department, what do you think?"
When Yang Wangfu heard Huo Chong ask this, he sighed and said, "Teacher, I still think I can't do it."
"If you really don't want to do this, then that's fine. But I want to ask you, why did someone say that you were pleading for someone?" Huo Chong asked with a hardened heart.
"It's not a plea." Yang Wangfu explained quickly.
"Aren't you just pleading for mercy or dealing with it according to discipline?" Huo Chong interrupted Yang Wangfu's plea.
Yang Wangfu was stunned for a moment, his face flushed a little, "Teacher, why can't you say a few words for them? If I can't say anything, the only thing I can say is that they should be killed!"
Huo Chong couldn't help but sigh. This was the biggest problem. "Second brother, do you think that person made up a lie to get the subsidy?"
"wrong!"
"Punish according to discipline, right?"
"He should be punished. But if he is punished like that, wouldn't all his previous achievements be ruined? Teacher, if we kick him out of the army, how can he live as a human being when he returns? I'm not saying he's right, but cheating for subsidies is wrong. When the war started, they said there were 100 people, but only 80 showed up. How can we fight this war! He was wrong. But, teacher, this punishment is too severe."
Huo Chong sighed again. An honest company commander put a sick soldier on the combat list after the battle. The purpose was to get the soldier promoted. The report in the army was quite detailed, especially that the soldier was actually treated unfairly. In a sense, it was also compensation.
There are people who think that the soldier was somewhat wronged, but there are more people who think that the company commander was even more wronged.
Huo Chong brought up this matter with Yang Wangfu because Yang Wangfu had said at the meeting that the punishment for these two people was too severe.
After chatting for a while, Huo Chong felt that Yang Wangfu still didn't understand that discipline was the most important thing. He could only let the second apprentice go back first.
Just when he was feeling depressed, Weber, who was transferred to the Military Law Bureau, came. Weber was tall and looked a bit fierce. In a sense, he was quite suitable for the Military Law Department. Huo Chong talked to Weber about the issue of salary setting. He wanted to see what this old scholar would say.
"My lord, I think your arrangement is very good. It is much better than that of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty." Weber immediately expressed his full agreement.
"Why?" Huo Chong perked up a little.
"Learn the arts of literature and martial arts and sell them to the emperor. I have heard from some of my friends who are officials that if you are not greedy, you are a truly honest official under the Qing Dynasty. Who wants to be an honest official?"
Hahaha! Huo Chong laughed out loud at Weber's amusement. There was something Huo Chong liked about this old scholar. Although Weber was serious, he was a very normal person.
What is called normal is not that Weber is a sophisticated egoist, but that he is very clear that he does not want to seek fame.
When it comes to seeking profit, Weber knew very well what it meant to fight for benefits.
However, Weber continued to talk about the salary system of the Qing Dynasty, apparently wanting to use facts to prove that what he said was not a joke.
Take the military posts in the capital as an example:
The first rank received an annual salary of 180 taels of silver and 90 dan of rice; the second rank received 155 taels of silver and 77 dan and 5 dou of rice; the third rank received 130 taels of silver and 65 dan of rice; the fourth rank received 105 taels of silver and 52 dan and 5 dou of rice; the fifth rank received 80 taels of silver and 40 dan of rice; the sixth rank received 60 taels of silver and 30 dan of rice; the seventh rank received 45 taels of silver and 22 dan and 5 dou of rice; the eighth rank received 40 taels of silver and 20 dan of rice; the ninth rank received 33 taels and 1.14 cents; the ninth rank received 31 taels and 5 cents.
The first rank is only 180 taels. If we calculate based on 200 yuan per tael, that’s 36,000 yuan a year, or 2,000 yuan a month.
This salary is extremely low in the 21st century and is totally incompatible with the status of a first-rank military officer.
As for the grassroots workers who undertake the most specific work, they earn 80 taels a year, or 16,000 yuan, which is the poverty line in the 21st century.
Although times are different and wages are different, income is indeed a big issue.
In contrast, as long as they are royal relatives, have titles, or must be relied upon by the Qing Dynasty, it is completely different.
The Qing Dynasty was generous in giving money to these people——
The annual salary of a first-class duke is 700 taels of silver, that of a second-class duke is 685 taels, that of a third-class duke is 660 taels, that of a first-class marquis is 635 taels, that of a first-class marquis is 610 taels, that of a second-class marquis is 585 taels, that of a third-class marquis is 560 taels, that of a first-class earl is 535 taels, that of a first-class earl is 510 taels, that of a second-class earl is 485 taels, that of a third-class earl is 460 taels, that of a first-class son is 435 taels, that of a first-class son is 410 taels, that of a second-class son is 385 taels , the third-class son 360 taels, the first-class male and one Yunqiwei 335 taels, the first-class male 310 taels, the second-class male 285 taels, the third-class male 260 taels, the first-class light car commander and one Yunqiwei 235 taels, the first-class light car commander 210 taels, the second-class light car commander 185 taels, the third-class light car commander 160 taels, the cavalry commander and one Yunqiwei 135 taels, the cavalry commander 110 taels, the Yunqiwei 85 taels, the Enqiwei 45 taels. There are also idle dukes of different ranks 255 taels, idle marquises 230 taels, baron-level officials 205 taels, son-level officials 180 taels, male-level officials 155 taels, light car commander-level officials 130 taels, cavalry commander-level officials 105 taels, and Yunqiwei-level officials 80 taels. All the hereditary nobles of the Eight Banners in Beijing received a salary of 1 tael of silver and 1 hu (some say half a hu) of rice.
Civilian salary:
In the first year of Shunzhi, the salary and firewood were paid according to the Ming Dynasty rules. In the thirteenth year, the firewood and silver for Han officials were reduced. In the third year of Yongzheng (1725), it was decided that Han officials in Beijing would be paid rice according to their salary. In the Qing Dynasty, the salaries of civil officials were divided into ten grades: the first grade received an annual salary of 180 taels of silver and 180 hu of rice; the second grade received 155 taels of silver and 155 hu of rice; the third grade received 130 taels of silver and 130 hu of rice; the fourth grade received 105 taels of silver and 105 hu of rice; the fifth grade received 80 taels of silver and 80 hu of rice; the sixth grade received 60 taels of silver and 60 hu of rice; the seventh grade received 45 taels of silver and 45 hu of rice; the eighth grade received 40 taels of silver and 40 hu of rice; the ninth grade received 33 taels of silver and 1.14 coins and 33 hu of rice and 1.14 dou of rice; the ninth grade received 31 taels of silver and 5 coins and 31 hu and a half of rice. Since the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, due to the hardship of the officials in the capital, they were given double salaries (excluding rice), which was called "enronement salary". (Some senior ministers also received double the rice salary)
Salaries of Outer Mongolia:
There are nine ranks: Khan receives 2,500 taels of silver and 40 pieces of satin per year; Prince receives 2,000 taels of silver and 20 pieces of satin per year; Crown Prince receives 1,500 taels of silver and 20 pieces of satin per year; Prince of a county receives 1,200 taels of silver and 15 pieces of satin per year; eldest son and Beile receive 800 taels of silver and 13 pieces of satin per year; Beizi receives 500 taels of silver and 10 pieces of satin per year; Duke of Zhenguo receives 300 taels of silver and 9 pieces of satin per year; Duke of Fuguo receives 200 taels of silver and 7 pieces of satin per year; and the first-rank Taiji receives 100 taels of silver and 4 pieces of satin per year. In addition, the princes of the Khorchin tribe receive salaries according to the Khan's rules, and those who are granted the title of Dalhan receive 20 taels of silver and 4 pieces of satin per year. Those who take turns to serve as the Qianqing Gate Walkers receive special salaries: the first-rank Taiji receives 100 taels of silver, the second-rank Taiji receives 80 taels of silver, and the third-rank Taiji receives 60 taels of silver. Those who have the hereditary titles of son, man, light car commander, cavalry commander, and cloud cavalry commander are given half of their salaries according to the hereditary titles of the Eight Banners. Another group of Mongolian officials received half the salary compared to the military officials of the Eight Banners.
After Weber criticized this, he suggested: "Since the lord relies on the standing army as the backbone, the income is too low. The money of a useless noble family is enough to make the grassroots backbone live a much better life. As long as this group of people is gone, the lord can actually afford it easily."
Waver gave another example. Return of the nobility's salary.
The main ones were the princes and taijis from Hami and Turpan who were incorporated into the Zasak. The highest-ranking prince received 800 taels of silver per year, the auxiliary duke 200 taels, the first-class taiji 100 taels, the second-class taiji 80 taels, the third-class taiji 60 taels, and the fourth-class taiji 40 taels. There were also ministers of the inner court who were not ranked, and their salaries were reduced by half according to the eight banners, and the guards were paid according to the eight banners. It was also stipulated that each salary of 1 tael of silver was accompanied by 1 hu of rice.
Seeing Huo Chong frowning, Weber said, "These people can actually be useful, but they are not given much. If they are not given, then simply don't let them contribute. If they are given, then they must contribute, and have the same opportunities for promotion as our backbones. Raising people is like raising pigs. But pigs don't care, but people do. You have to treat people as human beings."
"Do you treat people as human beings?" Huo Chong felt that what Weber said made sense.
