The more famous literary scholars in the Republic of China period, in addition to Haining Jin Yong and Mu Dan, are the two brothers of Zhou Shu and Zhou Zuoren, and some people may not know much about Zhou Shuren, compared to his original name, his pen name is even more famous, he is Lu Xun.
In his youth, Lu Xun went to Japan to study medicine to save the country, but after a year of enrollment he dropped out of medical school, he was mainly influenced by a Russo-Japanese war documentary film, he believed that "saving the country and saving the people first save the idea", he had no experience in writing novels at the beginning, mainly to translate Eastern European and Russian short stories.
It was not until 1918 that he published "Diary of a Madman" under the pseudonym Lu Xun that he began to "become popular" in the literary world, and in 1924, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, Qian Xuantong, Lin Yutang and others jointly founded the weekly magazine "Yusi", and Lu Xun, as a "shareholder", naturally also had a share.
But at that time, in addition to the commotion caused by Lu Xun's novel, "sky-high monthly salary" was also a topic of discussion among book fans, and when "sky-high monthly salary" was naturally talked about, Lu Xun was invited by Cai Yuanpei to work in the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China government, and he served as the chief of the 1st section of the Department of Social Education of the Ministry of Education, at that time Lu Xun's salary was 60 yuan and then rose to 350 pieces of ocean.
Why 350 pieces of ocean was called "sky-high monthly salary" at that time, in fact, combined with the consumption level at that time, Li Kaizhou wrote in the article "Sunshine 70 years ago salary list" that the price of rice at that time was four cents per kilogram of ocean, meat was about 3 dimes, according to the current price, a piece of ocean is about 100 to 110 yuan.
That is to say, Lu Xun's salary issued by the Republic of China government is at least 35,000 yuan a month, but this is only the salary of Lu Xun's job, Lu Xun under the influence of Qian Xuetong and joined the new cultural movement, he went to Beijing Women's Higher Normal School to give part-time lectures.
From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, education has always been very valued, the late Qing Dynasty with Gengzi indemnity to build Tsinghua University, and the Republic of China for the training of international students is also quite important, the teacher's salary is naturally rising, and Lu Xun is not only engaged in educational work, but also has a very high reputation, so the remuneration is very high, he got 400 pieces of ocean in a week of lectures at Xiamen University.
Lu Xun is not a special case, according to the Republic of China government promulgated the "University Faculty Qualification Regulations" stipulates that the maximum salary of teachers is 600 oceans, the minimum must not be less than 100 oceans, calculated down, teachers at that time were over 10,000 monthly salaries (not all teachers, but university teachers), but whether it is the Ministry of Education or as a teacher is not Lu Xun's mainstream income.
His mainstream income still comes from the copyright and fee of the novel, and now the copyright of the novel is more than one million, in fact, it was the same in the Republic of China period, Lu Xun's book copyright fee is about 20,000 to 30,000 oceans, that is to say, Lu Xun's book copyright fee is more than 2 million.
In addition to copyright, a year alone to publish the newspaper fee has about 4,000 yuan of ocean, equivalent to more than 400,000 yuan, so converted, Lu Xun's annual salary is at least more than 5 million, if a large number of novels are published, it is another matter, and Lu Xun spent 3500 yuan of oceans in Beijing to buy a set of courtyards, I have to say that Lu Xun is really not bad money!