The history of the Ming Dynasty is very interesting. In the words of Mr. Gao Xiaosong, the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty of "three noes", with no Ming Jun, two no sages, and three incompetent generals.
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a lot of Dissatisfaction of Ming fans, whether the Ming Dynasty was portrayed so badly by Gao Xiaosong, we did not have much to comment on, the author believes that in the feudal society of more than two thousand years, the Ming Dynasty did not have much outstanding performance.
In the 276-year-old Ming Dynasty, it seems that only one Hai Rui was remembered by posterity.
Hai Rui's lifelong history of honesty and civilization is indeed the moral benchmark of feudal society.
Hai Rui was an official for 28 years through the four dynasties of Zhengde, Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli, and spent half his life in the official position of Zhengerpin, equivalent to the "zhengbu-level" cadres of the Ming Dynasty.
Such a moral model has behaved very mediocrely in terms of political performance.
Not only did Hai Rui not "do a good job" of the officials, but he did not even take good care of his family. The whole family followed him all over the world as an official, and everywhere he went, he could only live on renting a house.
So the question is, Hai Rui did not buy a house, in the end the Ming Dynasty house prices are too expensive, or the income of officials is too low?
Ming dynasty society should be relatively rich. Whether it is the Golden Bottle Plum or the Water Margin, the story is based on the Song Dynasty, but the social background is the Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the Ming Dynasty society depicted in the two novels, the ordinary middle-class life is still quite moist.
When Ximen Qing's friend Chang Zhijie bought a house, a set of "two-storey small buildings with two facades cost thirty-five taels of silver" for a set of "two-storey buildings".
Including Ximen Qing's master "Wen Ass", he can receive three or two silver salaries from Ximen Qing a month, and he can also buy a villa after a year of hard work.
Many people may retort that Jin Ping Mei is a novel and has little credibility. Judging from the existing Ming Dynasty contracts, the house prices of Ming Dynasty society are roughly this price.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the façade courtyard (villa with courtyard) in the capital was sold for 56 taels. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, faced with internal and external troubles, inflation and soaring prices, a villa sold for 56 taels of silver is not high.
Let's talk about the welfare of the officials of the dynasty. In the history books, after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he changed the precedent of "not being able to punish the doctor" in the past, and "added fists and feet" to the scholar at every turn.
Many people think that the Ming Dynasty was not particularly friendly to scholars. However, according to the ming historical records, the welfare of officials in the Ming Dynasty was still quite good.
In the early years, the heroes who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world were all well placed.
The first is the free division of houses, and those who cannot get a house are directly paid by the Ming Dynasty treasury.
The old Zhu family's royal family's royal subsidies exceeded one thousand taels, and the second-class county kings also had hundreds of taels, including county-level officials.
Although the imperial court did not give much money, it was enough to live and work in peace and contentment in the place where he served. Including the Ming Dynasty, the prices of the entire feudal society were relatively stable, because the agrarian society was mainly agricultural, and the prices did not fluctuate too much.
Ming Dynasty society to buy a stone of rice about half a silver, a stone of rice is about equal to about 150 pounds, the current price of rice should be a little more than 3 yuan, so the Price of a stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty is about 500 yuan, one or two silver is equivalent to the current 1000 yuan.
It is inferred from this that in the Ming Dynasty, a set of villas along the street or with courtyards was sold for 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.
The labor cost of the Ming Dynasty was not low. During the Ming Dynasty, the south has become the economic center of Chinese civilization, and handicraft manufacturing in the Jiangnan region has gradually risen.
The daily salary of those migrant workers is about 0.02 taels of silver, and the maximum monthly salary is 0.6 taels of silver.
After moving the capital to Beijing, the price of the capital was relatively high, and the history books recorded that "every day for each artificial food silver five cents", that is, 0.05 taels per day, which was 1.5 taels per month.
It can be seen that the annual salary of migrant workers living in the Ming Dynasty can also be more than ten or two silver. After three or five years of hard work, buying three houses should not be a problem.
House prices in the Ming Dynasty were not high, and Hai Rui was also a half-senior official, living in rental housing most of the time.
It was not until after returning to his hometown that he bought a set of field products in his hometown in Hainan, which was actually for a reason.
When Hai Rui was in Chun'an Zhi County, his Feng Lu was 60 stones of rice a year, and 30 taels of silver were folded.
At first glance, it seems like a lot, but don't overlook a problem, 30 taels of Feng Lu will bear all of Hai Rui's expenses, including living and working.
In feudal society, there was no additional subsidy for officials to pay for qilu, and the amount of fenglu given by the imperial court was fixed, and officials had to pay for their own expenses when they hired teachers and staff.
Hai Rui is clean and self-righteous, he is also a man in feudal society, and it is normal for him to have three wives and four concubines.
Hai Rui has had three marriages in his life, three concubines, a total of six wives, and has raised two men and three women, plus an old mother and servants, Hai Rui has to support at least more than ten people, where to cope with huge family expenses of 60 stone meters a year.
More importantly, although the ancients attached importance to land, they were only limited to land, and houses did not become an important commodity economy, unlike many people who buy houses to appreciate value now.
In addition, Hai Rui's career is mainly based on localities, every time he goes to a place for a few years, he has to change it once, and the purchase of a farmhouse is not too necessary for Hai Rui, so he does not buy a house for himself until after "retirement".