An honest joke

When Yong Zhengdi ascended the throne, the Qing Dynasty showed signs of decline. During the Yongzheng period, the bureaucracy was rectified, and it was stipulated that the fire consumption should not exceed 20% of the regular tax, which was incorporated into the regular tax as the national fiscal revenue, and was released by the Bank of China. After many adjustments, the distribution of silver in Yang Lian was basically fixed during the Qianlong period. Yanglianyin is dozens of times more than the official salary, which has become a parallel salary system for officials and officials, allowing officials to ask "teachers" to help them with their official duties.

Generally speaking, yanglianyin is 10- 100 times of the official salary, and yanglianyin will become an integral part of the normal salary of officials in the future, and will be extended to military attaché s and officials of the central government of the capital. In the Qing dynasty, this kind of official salary system has been inherited. The purpose of implementing high salary and honesty is to stop the corrupt behavior of officials, but it is a pity that honesty has not played its due role.

The erosion of officials in Qing Dynasty, both in quantity and technique, reached a record high. Just the small Shenyang in the Qianlong dynasty made most corrupt officials in history feel sorry for themselves. Small Shenyang is not isolated. "Three years of clear magistrate, a hundred thousand snowflakes and silver" is a true portrayal of the erosion of officialdom in that year.

Why can't cheap banks be cheap? Human nature is greedy, and no amount of yanglianyin can satisfy its unlimited selfish desires. Any high salary is nothing compared with human greed. However, it is still the norm for officials to put greed into practice.

Imperialism is dictatorship.

This standard has two fundamental characteristics: first, officials have great power and can make all decisions. The so-called "prefect who destroys the door and magistrate who destroys the home" refers to this right. The monopoly of political rights has become the same erosion soil as economic monopoly. Anything the public wants to do needs the pity and consent of officials. They have this right, of course, they don't have to worry about someone asking for bribes.

Second, officials lack useful supervision. Authoritarian society also has a set of censorship standards, such as censors. Yongzheng also set up a "secret folding system" that can expose corrupt officials at any time. But under the unified leadership of the emperor, the effect of supervision is extremely limited. It is accidental and unitary that greed and bribery are discovered and beheaded. Blame only those corrupt officials who have been found to have bad luck, those who have been offended, or those who have become victims of the power struggle. The probability of greed being rewarded and punished is low, and this small probability event has no deterrent effect on officials.