In 1955, in addition to the implementation of the rank system, the People's Liberation Army also implemented a salary system, and in the army, the salary of a marshal should be the highest, which is the third level of administration. In the whole country, the highest salary is the great man, the administrative level. But the great man himself offered to reduce his salary, so his final salary, like that of the marshal, belonged to the same administrative third level.
But the general we introduce today was only awarded the rank of lieutenant general in 1955, but his actual salary far exceeded that of the third level of administration. This general is Lieutenant General Sun Jixian, so why did he receive such a high salary? During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Sun Jixian served as deputy commander of the 20th Corps of the Volunteer Army, and a year later, after receiving a mysterious mission, Sun Jixian immediately led his troops back to China. It turned out that at that time, the state was planning to build a missile base, and who would be responsible for this task became a big problem, and in the end the central leadership entrusted this heavy task to Sun Jixian, who had a tenacious will.
Although Sun Jixian had never touched these things before, he did not say a word and led the soldiers to the endless desert. In the eyes of outsiders, Sun Jixian and his troops mysteriously disappeared. Since then, Sun Jixian has devoted all his energy to the construction of the missile base, and the project that could only be completed in fifteen years was completed within three years. This base was the predecessor of the famous Jiuquan Satellite Occurrence Center, which was called the 20 base at the time, and Sun Ji was the commander. Due to the special nature of the work, the officers and men of the 20 bases all receive salaries from 11 types of areas, in addition, the officers and men of the base can also enjoy border subsidies, and it is not surprising that the two salaries are added together to exceed the leaders such as the great man and Zhu Laozong.
However, at that time, the country was in ruins, Sun Jixian took the lead in taking the initiative to ask for only standard wages, and other subsidies were not required, and other soldiers also followed Sun Jixian's example of only taking standard wages. It is worth mentioning that Sun Jixian's children were forbidden to work in Japanese companies when they grew up, in addition to the national vendetta, the Japanese army also killed his eldest daughter, and his wife almost died with the Japanese army when she was pregnant with her second daughter, so it is understandable that Sun Jixian had this idea.