In ancient China, "civil servants" had high or low incomes? The People's Forum recently published an article entitled "What was the remuneration of "civil servants" in ancient times?" , revealing the truth about the income of civil servants in ancient times.
Two Han: The official Feng Lu should be about 2000-105,000 jin rice
We all know that there is a word called "Han and Tang Dynasty", the "civil servants" of the Han Dynasty, what is the income? The Han Dynasty stipulated that the three public months of the ten thousand stones level were 350 huo, and the middle two thousand stones were 180 hu, which decreased in turn, and the one hundred stone people had only 16 hu, while the doushi zuo was only 8 hu. The data shows that the income of "civil servants" in the two Han Dynasties ranged from low to high, about 2,000-105,000 jin meters. If calculated according to today's rice market price of about 3 yuan / catty, civil servants in the two Han Dynasties can get an annual income of about 6,000 yuan at the minimum, and the highest annual income is more than 300,000 yuan.
Late Tang Dynasty: The festival makes the annual salary 200,000 pounds of rice
Relevant data show that among the officials in the late Tang Dynasty, the degree of moderation made this "foreign official" earn a very good income, with a monthly salary of about 80 yuan, a material money of 200 yuan, and an annual salary of about 200,000 jin of rice. For example, according to the calculation of 3 yuan / jin, the festival in the late Tang Dynasty made the annual salary as high as 600,000 yuan, and the rich and handsome were appropriate.
Song Dynasty: The county ordered at least 30,000 catties of rice
The Song Dynasty was the most economically active era in China's history, and the income of Song Dynasty officials was also very impressive. The data shows that among the officials of the Song Dynasty, the prime minister had 300 yuan of materials per month and 100 stones of Lu Su. The county order can get 10-20 yuan per month, and can also get 4-6 hectares of vocational land, and can collect about 200-500 stones of rent per year. The county's annual income is about 30,000-70,000 catties of rice. The income of the fanzhen is only 150,000-250,000 catties. That is to say, in the Song Dynasty, even if you are only 1 county order, 30,000 kilograms of rice per year is indispensable, and you can't eat it all. Even if converted into RMB, the income of the Song Dynasty County Order was at least 90,000 yuan per year and 210,000 yuan per year. If it is a Fanzhen in the Song Dynasty, the minimum annual salary is 450,000 yuan, the maximum annual salary is 750,000, and today's large factory employees cannot get such a high salary.
Ming Dynasty: Officials are a bit poor
The Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most meager era of officials in the history of our country. The times were moving forward, but the income of Ming officials was backwards, back to the minimum standards of the Two Han Dynasties. During the Two Han Dynasties, although officials could only receive a minimum of 2,000 kilograms of rice, they could receive more than 100,000 kilograms at the highest. However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were the lowest in the Ming Dynasty, or the highest in the past. How low is it?
The county orders of the Ming Dynasty can get about 2,000 jin to 3,000 jin of rice, which is only 5-10% of the Song Dynasty. If you think about it, when you were a civil servant in the Ming Dynasty, you would feel so unbalanced!
Qing Dynasty: Zhixian county annual salary of 5400 pounds of rice
What about the Qing Dynasty "civil servant" Feng Lu? Jingguan Zheng can get 180 taels of silver and 180 taels of rice. From the nine pins can be obtained 31.5 taels of silver and 31.5 taels of rice. Zhixian has 45 taels of silver per year, about 5400 catties of rice. Converted into RMB, it is about 16,200 yuan.
Summary: The Song Dynasty officials were very popular, and the Ming Dynasty "cadres" were a bit poor. If you had to choose, which dynasty would you like to go back to as a "civil servant"?