Ancient officials have appeared since the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and most of the understanding of ancient officials comes from TV dramas. It is undeniable that there is definitely a difference between the officials in the TV series and the officials in the main history. It is worth mentioning that in the TV series, officials often say "the minister tells the old man to return to his hometown, and the minister please resign and leave his post." ”
So the question is, where do ancient officials go to retire after retirement? Second, will the emperor pay pensions after the officials retire? Before retiring, the official said, "The minister tells the old man to return to his hometown, and the minister please resign and leave his post." "It is undoubtedly to express the willingness to enjoy the old age in peace, and secondly, after getting older, people must choose to retire.
How were ancient officials treated after voluntarily retiring? The reason why he voluntarily retired was mostly because he was too old to continue to serve the imperial court. Then there was a situation, that is, the retirement of the lord of the high power, which was not discussed, and such a situation was rare in history, generally only existed during the founding emperor period.
Most officials voluntarily retire when they are older. Officials who voluntarily retired in ancient times were certainly not bad in terms of treatment. People will certainly wonder that ancient officials did not have pensions after retirement, so it would be a big mistake to think so. As early as the Han Dynasty, officials had pensions for retirement, but this pension was "one hundred huo" per month.
Secondly, not all officials can receive "one hundred huo" per month, but officials who are above the rank of doctor. According to the standards of the Han Dynasty, it can be calculated by "1 Hu = 1 stone = 10 buckets", which shows that this hundred Hu is enough to have 1000 buckets of grain, which translates to four thousand catties of grain a month.
During the reign of Emperor Jing of Han, officials above the level of Shang Dafu had a clear treatment after retirement, and the history books recorded that "in the quarter of the Xiaojing Emperor, Wan Shijun and above the Dafu Lu returned to his home and became a courtier when he was old." According to such records, Wan Shijun said that it was Shi Fen, and the reason why Shi Fen's salary after retirement was that Shi Fen and his four sons achieved "two thousand stones", so they were honored as "Wan Shi Jun".
So the question is, is it that every official of the Han Dynasty had this treatment? First of all, this treatment is not universal. The reason is simple, the national strength of the Han Dynasty could not allow every Han Dynasty official to enjoy thousands of pounds of grain and grass per month after retirement. First of all, after the han dynasty officials retired, they were able to have "one hundred huo" of grain per month, which was a special honor.
In the eyes of the emperor, officials contributed to the imperial court all their lives, so when it was time to retire, the emperor would reward officials with a sum of gold. This gold is equivalent to a "pension". For example, Wei Xian, the chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han, served as an official for a lifetime, and did not retire until he was 80 years old, and before retiring, Emperor Xuan of Han rewarded Wei Xian with a hundred taels of gold.
The Biography of Wei Xian in the Book of Han records this as "When the sages were more than seventy, they were phases." At the age of five, the earth festival was three years old and sick begging for bones, giving a hundred catties of gold, boycotting, and giving the first district. During the Hongwu years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated rules and regulations in order to motivate officials, and such rules and regulations directly stipulated that officials would directly receive them when they reached the age of retirement.
The history books record that "the military attaché of the JingZhishi Dynasty was given one hundred and fifty stones of rice and seventy-five ingots of banknotes." Command 100 stones of rice, 50 ingots of banknotes; 90 stones of rice and 40 ingots of banknotes in Qianhu and Weizhen. Hundred households, the town of Fu rice eighty stones, money thirty ingots. "Historically, not every dynasty has had a retirement pension, and at that time, the development of dynasties had a great influence.
Due to different economic developments, different dynasties treated officials differently after retirement. The impact of economic development is different in each dynasty, and if the economic development is not good, then the imperial court officials cannot have pensions after retirement. For example, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, often this year is still developing people's livelihood, and next year it will start fighting again.
On the whole, in ancient times, there was no perfect pension system at all. After retirement, officials want to have pensions, which is related to the overall productivity and economic development level of society at that time. From this point of view, even the ministers in charge of state affairs do not have access to pensions.