In the battle of "Tingyu Tower", Ding Yunyi was injured thirteen places with his subordinates Ye Dahai and Xiao Yifeng killed nineteen assassins, protecting the eunuch Wang Chengen, and his battle was famous all over the world.

Ding Yunyi was injured all over, but fortunately he was not fatal. His body was strong and he could get out of bed and move after two days of raising him.

The magistrate of Hangzhou, Shang Haifeng and the magistrate Gu Bingyu, knew that he had caused a big disaster this time. Thanks to Ding Yunyi's rescue, he was grateful for Ding Yunyi's kindness, and also cared about Ding Yunyi's ability to say good things to them in front of Wang Chengen in the future. In the past two days, he actually came to greet him three times a day, as if he treated Ding Yunyi as an imperial envoy.

Ding Yunyi was very uncomfortable with being asked before and after being asked before and after, and was asked every day and serving carefully. Not only did he do this, but his brothers were also like this.

These people used to lick blood from the knife and run around every day, but suddenly they lived like this, but they didn't feel comfortable no matter how they lived.

"A bunch of cheap bones." Ding Yunyi said to his brothers with a smile: "It seems that we can't live such a wealthy life. Wang Chengen has already gone to Suzhou. Before leaving, he asked us to go to Suzhou as soon as possible to meet him. Can everyone's injuries move?"

"able!"

The first answer was Qin Yun.

Xiao Yifeng gave him a blank look: "You bastard Jie Yuan, you don't even have a single hair on your body, so of course you can act. Mr. Mr. Mr., it's okay, leave as soon as possible. I really can't take the faces of those prefects and magistrates."

Ye Dahai and Ahu also have general ideas.

Now, Shang Haifeng said that he was about to leave Hangzhou. Shang Haifeng refused no matter what, and repeatedly tried to keep a few people in Hangzhou for a longer time.

Ding Yunyi knew nothing more about his thoughts.

Not only did the assassin case have no clue at all, but even one of the assassins was not caught. These Hangzhou officials have already made meritorious contributions, and it is not good to do so now. What if Ding Yunyi saw Wang Chengen and said something bad about it? Then how could these officials survive?

In fact, they didn't know that Wang Chengen had known that these officials would never get any clues, but was just using them to confuse the enemy. The real investigator Jinyiwei had already secretly entered Hangzhou.

Ding Yunyi repeatedly comforted and assured, which made Shang Haifeng and others half-believed and reluctantly agreed.

Shang Haifeng changed a few good horses for them and gave them three big gold ingots, saying that they were spent on the road. Ding Yunyi thought that the money from these people was not clean anyway, so he didn't need to be polite to them, so he put it away immediately.

On the day of leaving, Shang Haifeng and Gu Bingyu personally took Hangzhou officials to see him off. The scene was huge. What I knew was giving away a general, but what I didn't know was thinking was giving away a senior official in the court.

"The emperor was good, and he was determined to cheer up the Ming Dynasty." As he gradually got far away from Hangzhou, Qin Yun sighed: "But the officials below were all incompetent, and corruption became a trend, making a good country like this. If the Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty had any knowledge underground... Alas..."

"The salary of officials at that time was lowered by Emperor Hongwu." Ding Yunyi said casually: "This also forced those officials to rely on corruption, right?"

"Low?" Qin Yun widened his eyes, as if he thought Ding Yunyi's words were incredible: "According to the 'Xingcai Brief Record' formulated by Emperor Hongwu, the detailed record of the salary standards for the officials of Emperor Hongwu. Judging from the salary standards of the seventh-rank county magistrate, the annual salary of 90 stones of rice sounds low, but according to the algorithm of the 'Xingcai Brief Record', more than 70 acres of land were required, and five farmers specially produced it. Just picking the rice and grains requires more than a thousand miles. Although these 90 stones of rice are not extremely rich, they should at least be at a wealthy level. The fundamental thing that Emperor Hongwu formulated was Chonglu!"

Ding Yunyi was speechless. It seemed that he was showing off his skills.

Judging from the knowledge he learned, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was very low since Zhu Yuanzhang, which led to officials continuing to continue, not afraid of corruption and beheading. But now, it is not the case when Qin Yun said this.

But why did the officials in the Ming Dynasty always cry poor?

When this question was raised, Qin Yun sighed again: "In fact, the salary of officials was not low. After all, it was because of the fact that these officials had a lot of wives, concubines and children, which caused difficulties in paying for the salary."

In one sentence, everyone's curiosity attracted everyone, and only Qin Yun said:

"For Hai Rui, who is famous for his integrity, when Hai Rui was appointed as the magistrate of Chun'an County, his salary was 70% off. He actually received twelve stones of rice, twenty-seven taels of four cents of silver and three hundred and sixty cents of banknotes. The money was very valuable and negligible. Just counting it as twelve stones of rice, twenty-seven taels of rice, twenty-seven taels of four cents of silver, if it was placed in an ordinary family of five, each household (the daily rations required is about fifteen to eighteen stones, totaling fifteen to eighteen stones of silver. Oil, salt, meat, vegetables, etc., each household spends about seven taels of silver throughout the year, cloth spends about three taels of silver, lamp oil, etc., etc., about three taels of silver per year. In this way, the annual expenditure is about thirty taels of silver, and it should be considered good for Hai Rui's salary to be in ordinary families. But..."

Qin Yun paused to this and continued: "However, Hai Rui's family has a large population, which is incomparable to the five people of ordinary people. When Hai Rui was in Chun'an, in addition to his mother and wife, he had two or three daughters, two sons, and a servant, maid and nurse. There were a total of more than ten people. If the ten people use these salary, their lives would inevitably be a little difficult. Therefore, the real reason why I, the Ming officials cried poor was not because of their low salary, but because of their huge family. Hai Rui's family was already very simple, and their life was quite simple, but it seemed to be stretched. As for other officials, you can imagine it."

Suddenly he remembered something and added: "When Hai Rui passed away at the age of 75, he had two concubines around him. One concubine would not cost less than a hundred taels of silver. This is also the reason why Hai Rui did not have much money when he died as a second-rank official."

Speaking of this, Ding Yunyi already understood it roughly.

Officials in the Ming Dynasty always said that their wages were low, but in fact, a large part of the reason lies in themselves.

The state pays officials' wages, but there is no reason to pay even the money for officials to marry concubines. The same is true in its own era. Corrupt officials who were found to have mistresses and third-women were originally able to "basically not use wages". The reason why they still have to embezzle is obviously not because the salary is too low, but because the large amount of money for the third-women is not enough compared to the large amount of money for the third-women.

This is true and so is history.
Chapter completed!