Why Chinese ancient emperor don’t pay for their officers
Saturday, July 11th, 2009 
In the dynasty of sixteen countries, the famous Qin king Fujian conferes duke unpon their royal family and gives them the full rights to select followed officers, as a result of that, all they employ are those famous millionaires, merchants in local city. This really makes Fujian angry, what a important position for national officer, while they change it into a general trade committee.
Actually, there is no sense for Fujian’s blame, at that time, the majority of countries do not provide salary to their officers, as well as dukes, they even do not have their own territory, the reason for them to employ merchants to be their followers, it is the fact of exchanging position by money. Even though it is not that fair, all of these is caused by the king himself. The real problem is that corruption eventually is criminal behavior, it should be punished. The case of Beiwei dynasty is a good example for us, the king of Beiwei also doesn’t pay for their officers, while his political construction is really strict, people who only grafts one piece of cloth would be sentenced to death. There ever has a minister Zhuo, he is in the position of duke and gets great popularity from the king, he just receives one thousand pieces cloth on his way of errand, after the truth has been showed up, he is still not frank what he has done, at last, he is put into death immediately.
There is another minister named Gaoyun, he has worked as cabinet secretary-general for over twenty years, and never got any payment from government, in the end, he is too poor to eat meat and live in tousy house. While his justic has lasted to the modern times. The job has no pay is not that easy to do, a prime minister in Xiwei holds a meeting to praise fair officers, in the meeting, he asks those who are regarded himself is as fair as the fairness model Peixia to stand the same line with Pei, unfortunately, there is no one standing out. There is a case in Qian Qin dynasty, it is said that Fujian wants to invite their officers to have dinner, many of them choose to wear fur coat, and then hiding some meat in the sleeves to bring back to their wives and children. If you have the ability of martial arts, you have to be a officer, it is for sure that you will not get starved, because officers in this type have no basic pay but with a high commision.



