In ancient times, one or two pieces of silver equaled to how much RMB? How many pins of official was your monthly salary in ancient times?
Readers who have seen Stephen Chow's movie "Nine Pin Sesame Officers" may still have some impressions of this scene, when Bao Longxing first arrived in Buzhi County, someone brought him thousands of pieces of silver to pay a bribe, which was piled up in the entire office of Yamen. Zhou Xingchi even slept in the silver pile, and the scene was magnificent.
In addition, in many film and television dramas, there will always be some rich playboys, who will spend a few thousand taels of silver and disappear, as if silver is not very valuable. Is this really the case? How much silver can be converted into today's renminbi?
In fact, ancient silver and money did not have a strict and accurate conversion system. However, if you want to exchange, you can exchange the corresponding food for the equivalent currency to buy.
Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, there are relevant historical records that the price of rice during the Wanli period was 1 two silver to buy 2 stones, and stone was an ancient unit of measurement, and 1 stone was equivalent to 153.5 kilograms. However, ancient cattle and modern cattle are different. Now 500 grams per pound, then 594 grams per pound. So one stone of rice is equivalent to 93 kilograms, and two stones are 186 kilograms, which means a pair of silver, you can buy 186 kilograms of rice.
Looking at our rice now, the average price is between 1.5 yuan and 2.5 yuan. On average, 2 yuan and 1 catty, a pair of silver to buy rice, equivalent to 744 yuan. Therefore, one or two pieces of silver are equivalent to about 740 yuan.
Let's see what a month's salary these officers are. According to records, a county official belongs to the Zhengqi pin. A county official's annual salary is 90 stone meters, which translates to 37 taels of silver, that is to say, less than 30,000 yuan a year, and the monthly salary is only more than 2,000 yuan, which is indeed not too high.
To Liupin, the monthly salary of Liupin and Zhengliupin can reach 10 to 8 stones, equivalent to about 3,000 yuan, which is the average salary of most people in China.
The positive five products and the five products are 16 to 14 stones, which is equivalent to 4270 yuan to 4880 yuan. This salary can lead a good life alone in a second-tier city.
Zhengsipin is 24 stones to 20 stones, 6100 to 7320 yuan from the four products, belonging to the bottom white-collar workers in first-tier cities, but it is estimated that it is a bit tight in terms of rent.
As we move upwards, the gap between genuine and congpin officials is getting bigger and bigger, such as Zhengerpin 62 stones per month, nearly 20,000 yuan, while from Erpin only 48 stones per month, less than 15,000 yuan. Therefore, this also explains a classic folk proverb that officials do not do vices.
Yipin is a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, not capped, Xiaobian has been working for many years, and is still struggling on the edge of liupin. Of course, this is just an analogy conversion, not absolutely accurate, but it is basically not much different. So, what kind of official did your salary level become in ancient times? Welcome to leave a message under this article.