Some people say that there were many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty. Is it true?/You don't say.

There were indeed many corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he also realized the prevalence of this trend, so he prepared a lot of torture to crack down on corrupt officials. Some timid corrupt officials are afraid to be greedy after seeing so much torture in court, but some corrupt officials are more courageous. No matter what kind of torture can scare him, the wind of corruption is getting worse.

Zhu Yuanzhang always wanted to punish these corrupt officials, but he couldn't find a really useful way. Zhu Yuanzhang was originally a right-winger and didn't have much culture to study the affairs of governing the country. There has never been a complete system to punish corrupt officials, which has led to corruption from leaders to low-level officials. If an official is not corrupt, it means that he is incompatible with others, and others will soon crowd him out.

Zhu Yuanzhang's salary to ministers was extremely low, which caused many diligent and honest officials to be unable to support themselves and their families. His salary is really too low. In order to survive normally, he can only take bribes to make his living standard higher. Once he tasted a little sweetness and the court didn't find the result, he would continue to embezzle unscrupulously, leading to repeated corruption in the Ming Dynasty, but with little effect.

Corruption has occurred in every dynasty since ancient times, but it is only personal corruption. For example, Xiao Shenyang, a big corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty, was as corrupt as the emperor's treasury, but he was the only corrupt official in the Qing Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, it was basically fairies who were corrupt, and all the fairies colluded. In the final analysis, it is a management problem.