Both the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty tried to raise honesty with high salary, but it didn't work. Take the Song Dynasty as an example. In the early Song Dynasty, the official salary continued the five generations of official system, which was relatively low, but it soon rose. Officials' salaries are varied, including fixed salary, clothing, Lu Su, tea, wine and kitchen materials, salary, salt, clothes and food for entourage, horses and millet, extra money, work money, minister money and occasional favors. Moreover, in the Song Dynasty, it was common for a fairy's ass to occupy several pits, and it was common for him to hold several posts. He can manage his part-time salary and money even if he just hangs in a false name and doesn't work. So in the Song Dynasty, every official had enough food and clothing. However, under such a high salary, are the officials in the Song Dynasty very cheap? Still greedy! Still rot! And the degree of corruption is worse than other dynasties!

Throughout the ages, resources have been allocated by power. Under such a system, the restriction on the power of officials is a finite constant, while the expansion of power is an infinite variable. With the continuation of the dynasty, power will expand more and more seriously. As agents of power, not many people have the determination to stand firm and can face a lot of resources without corruption. Greed is the weakness of human nature, an original sin that cannot be completely eradicated-greed creates corruption, corruption destroys dynasties, people are endless, and greed is endless, so dynasty replacement is endless.