In history, many poets often mention their ideal ambitions, and a large number of them will mention a word, that is, ten thousand households. Through the depiction of these verses, we can generally know that the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households was the common ideal of the ancient people.
But then again, although you often see this word in many works, the specific meaning of this word is still not well understood.
So with doubts, let's walk into history together, combined with ancient and modern to see what kind of status the Ten Thousand Households were in that year.
When it comes to the concept of Wanhuhou, many people may immediately think of the most famous Wanhuhou in history, that is, Wenxin Hou Lü Buwei.
According to historical records, Lü Buwei not only supported an emperor through political investment, but also held the position of prime minister himself, and it is said that even Qin Shi Huang may have been his descendants.
Of course, many of these things are true or false, and many of them have doubts, but one thing cannot be denied is that Lü Buwei has obtained the title of 100,000 households.
If 5 people could form a household according to the most ideal state at that time, then Lü Buwei had 500,000 people under his hands to provide him with taxes.
And if we check the data, we will find that the tax system of the Qin State is relatively strict, so when collecting taxes, the people are required to pay about 2/3 of the grain. Some sources record that if a family produces 150 stones of grain in normal years, they have to hand over 100 stones of grain.
After a simple conversion, Wenxinhou can get about 30,750,000 kilograms of grain a year, and according to the price of 2 pieces of 5 kilograms of grain, Wenxinhou can earn 1.5 billion yuan of fixed tax revenue a year.
I have to say that among the many thousands of households, Wenxinhou is definitely the most outstanding, and the personal income of 1.5 billion yuan a year also exceeds the vast majority of businessmen and entrepreneurs.
So the question is, did the ancient Ten Thousand Households all have such a huge income like Wenxin Hou? Obviously, this statement is not true, because we said at the beginning that Wen Xinhou was the highest achiever in the past and the present, and people after that were basically unable to imitate him.
For example, after the destruction of the Qin Empire, the Han Dynasty was established by Liu Bang, so in the early Han Dynasty, it also sealed several tens of thousands of households, the most representative of which was Xiao He, whose fiefdom was just 10,000 households.
But unfortunately, the tax revenue of the Qin Dynasty was to take away the majority, and the Liu Bang period clearly stipulated that it was necessary to lightly dispense with thin endowments, so the tax system in the early years of the Han Dynasty was 15 out of 1. Therefore, at this time, the income of tens of thousands of households has shrunk significantly.
Also according to the above standards, 5 people for a household, their annual income is also 150 stones in a normal state, according to the tax of 1/15 of the early years of the Han Dynasty, a year can get 3,075,000 kilograms, converted into the current yuan, then Xiaohe's annual income is about 15 million.
Although this standard income is also very high, basically speaking, it is not much of an exaggeration in today's Chinese rich circle, and compared with Wen Xinhou, it is simply many times worse.
Of course, the above two ten thousand households can already be regarded as the climax of history, and as for the later ten thousand households, their value has shrunk extremely. For example, after Emperor Wen of Han, the Han Dynasty continued to reduce the tax standard, so that the tax standard reached the point of 30 out of one, if Xiao He was mixed into the han Wen Emperor period, then basically the assets were only a few million yuan per year.
Of course, in history, it is not entirely a good emperor like Emperor Wen of Han, and other monarchs will also levy tyranny, but more objectively speaking, most of the time the people who get rich are emperors, as for those nominal ten thousand households, in fact, they have no real income, most of them are honorary titles, and the number of salaries converted has long been more than a hundred times different from the ten thousand households of that year.
Some people may see this and sigh, if according to the above statement, then the ten thousand households in history and the current rich people seem to be nothing remarkable. After all, in modern society, although ordinary people are still the majority, in the Internet age, the so-called millionaires, multi-millionaires, and even billionaires are much more, and they will definitely not be as rare as the Han Dynasty, which has only 11 million households. So can we understand it this way?
In fact, this kind of thinking is also wrong, because there are many meanings of ten thousand households, and the salary is only an angle.
To take a very simple example, in today's Chinese society, there are many very rich people, such as Boss Ma, who can easily mobilize hundreds of billions, which is much more powerful than Xiao He and Wen Xinhou. However, Xiao He and Wen Xinhou not only had a fixed income, but they also had great power in their hands.
Taking Xiao He as an example, in addition to his own fixed income, he was able to get millions to tens of millions of salaries from the emperor every year, and he held the resources of the entire Han Empire in his hands, and this power could already crush everyone.
As for Wen Xinhou, not to mention his salary, directly say his rights, in the novel, he has overthrown the dynasty countless times, he became the emperor himself, and even Qin Shi Huang is his hardcore fan, will such a figure still care about money?
Therefore, we should understand that for ordinary people, everyone worships wanhuhou feverishly because they know that wanhuhou represents glory and wealth, and represents astronomical amounts of money. The more idealistic common people worship the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households because behind the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households is a famous and history- and has endless power.
Therefore, if we really want to make analogies, there is really no such figure as Wanhuhou in modern society, and as for those entrepreneurs and businessmen, they are compared with the millionaires, it is simply not too bad. Generally speaking, it can be understood as the gap between Wei Qing and Haoqiang Guo Xie during the Period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
However, if we really want to find out the people who are similar to Wanhuhou, I personally think that this type of figure may be equivalent to those great scientists and former two-bomb founders. For example, like Cheng Kaijia's predecessors, such as Yuan Longping's predecessors, the wealth they created has far exceeded the Ten Thousand Households of that year, and the honors they have are enough to be brilliant, compared with Wei Qing and Huo Qi.
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