"You have also heard about the future development outline of Daqian. Let's put it this way. In the next few years, our Daqian will invest a lot of materials and money in infrastructure construction, and this money will definitely flow to every place in front of me. Departments and officials at all levels. This amount of money amounts to tens of billions, which can be said to be a wealth that can rival the country."
Then Xu Wei sneered and said: "Looking at how the officials of the Han Dynasty are corrupt, I have no confidence in the officials of my country, especially now that the world is about to be unified. In the past, everyone was in a critical moment. Today, You are still alive, but you may die tomorrow. Everyone is thinking in one place, working hard in one place, and struggling hard to stay alive."
"But now we are not only no longer facing an existential crisis, but we are also faced with the temptation of glory and wealth. Although people's hearts are not yet dispersed, they have indeed relaxed a lot."
Guo Daxian has the deepest understanding of this. When Bingzhou took in millions of refugees, the food in Daqian was not enough. In order to ensure that everyone could survive, Xu Wei limited everyone's food rations. In this way, little by little Food was saved and millions of people were saved.
But even at a time when one less morsel of food could starve to death, many officials in Daqian embezzled food from granaries, killing many refugees.
All these corrupt officials were caught by Guo Daxian. It can be said that in the entire Daqian court, if there was anyone who had worse confidence in officials than Xu Wei, Guo Daxian must be one of them.
Xu Wei continued: "Although I know that they are more than 10 times more honest than the officials of the Han Dynasty, it does not mean that they can resist such temptation. If we don't rectify it now, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it despite all our efforts. Give me five cents worth of work!”
"Only when my officials have a sense of crisis, so that they will have scruples in their hearts, can our construction funds be smoothly implemented, and at the same time, we can hold back these old subordinates and prevent them from coming to an end!"
People's hearts are unreliable. Xu Wei understands this. Many heroes during the war have fallen behind the scenes. Instead of testing them, it is better to watch them in advance. This is Xu Wei's idea.
Xu Weidu said this, and Guo Daxian naturally would not object. He was just worried that doing so would affect the overall situation of Daqian. After all, the world was not unified yet, and there was Liu Bei who was eyeing him. But he did not sympathize with these corrupt officials. In Guo Daxian's view, All these corrupt officials should die.
Originally, he had a high reputation among the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, even surpassing Zhang Baiqi, but because of his unselfishness over the years, he dealt with corrupt elements one by one without any regard for them, and many of these corrupt elements were Yellow Turbans. He also punished the military generals without mercy.
Now the relationship between Da Qian's senior officials has become sour, and the middle and lower ranks of the Yellow Turban Army are even more frightened when they see him, and usually avoid him. He is somewhat of a loner among the Da Gan Army.
Guo Daxian thought for a while and said: "To really rectify the entire Daqian officials, relying on the current supervisory department alone is not enough. The government must also find ways to help us expand our manpower."
"And I think this alone is not the answer. The supervisory department in front of me is basically set up according to that of Dahan, but the officials of Dahan are not even one-tenth of what I do. Faced with so many officials, just The hundreds of censors at the Censorship Station cannot supervise at all. I think the supervisory department needs to go vertically to the counties, so that we can best supervise the entire officials."
Now there are thousands of counties in Daqian. According to Guo Daxian's idea, if one county has five supervisory censors, 1,000 counties will need more than 5,000 people, and the welfare benefits of these people cannot be too low, otherwise they will be complicit. It becomes even more terrible, and the entire Daqian court will become deaf and blind locally.
But if there are so many thousands more officials with high salaries at once, it will be difficult to support the large-scale cadres financially.
Not to mention that in recent years, Xu Wei has been expanding the number of officials in order to expand the power of the Daqian court. If the expansion continues like this, Xu Wei is worried that the redundant officials of the Song Dynasty will appear in the Daqian court.
Xu Wei was also very helpless at this point. In terms of salary and monthly salary, the middle and high-level officials of Daqian were definitely not as good as those of Dahan, not to mention the lack of all kinds of corruption and various hidden rules of income. In addition, without the benefits earned by the Blessing Family, it can be said that the income of high-ranking officials in Daqian is not as much as one-tenth of that of high-ranking officials in the Han Dynasty.
But this does not mean that the administrative expenses of Daqian are small. On the contrary, the administrative expenses of Daqian Chaotian are more than ten times more than those of Dahan.
Because the income of grassroots officials in Dagan is generally several times that of grassroots officials in Dahan, and in some cases it is even more than 10 times, not to mention various other benefits.
It can be said that as long as they become a high-ranking official, even if there are no hidden rules and corruption, they can live a middle-class living standard, and they still have a way to rise. In other words, with all these preferential treatment, low-level officials of high-ranking officials can , it can be regarded as a loyal and responsible job.
The officials in the Han officialdom mainly wanted to exploit the people, so they separated the officials mainly to reduce the population of the exploiting class. After becoming an official, they are naturally superior to others and can get most of the benefits of a country. Naturally, they have to find a way Reduce the number of people competing with you for power and profit, so that you can get the biggest piece of profit.
But they couldn't do things without someone, so they asked these petty officials to help them do things, but they only gave them three to five buckets of rice. In the Ming Dynasty, it was even worse. They didn't give you a penny, and they were directly treated as corvee. Relying on corruption, these petty officials simply cannot survive.
Moreover, the officials at that time had already acquiesced that the petty officials were corrupt, and they didn't care about these things at all. Anyway, the corruption was not their fault. It was only the people who had to work hard, and they could also let them catch the petty officials.
But Xu Wei definitely can't do this. But the consequence of increasing the salary is that the administrative expenses of Daqian will directly explode. As a result, Xu Wei cannot continue to expand the number of grassroots officials like he did a few years ago.
Although the official position of the supervisory censor in Daqian is not high, the benefits and benefits are comparable to those of mid-level officials in Daqian. Without this benefit, it would be difficult to resist the temptation of corrupt elements. 5,000 more counties This is where Xu Wei feels embarrassed about the order's expenses.
It can be said that combating corruption is truly a worldwide problem, and it is also a problem that has troubled heroes all over the world for thousands of years.
Xu Wei said a little helplessly: "First think of a way to double your manpower. If it's a permanent unit, let's discuss it at the Four People's Conference and then decide!"