How much is the Northern Song Dynasty's famous minister Bao Zheng's Feng Lu converted into RMB? You can buy a house in Beijing
In Chinese history, Qing officials are often good officials who are highly respected and loved by the world, because it is their existence that enables the people of the world to be justified, making this muddy world more clear. In Chinese history, the Most Loved Qing Official, who was widely praised by the world, was said to be the famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bao Zheng, and it was precisely because of his law enforcement and honesty that the broad masses of the people called him "Iron Mask Selfless Bao Qingtian". However, in film and television dramas, the Qing officials we see are often the images of clean wind in two sleeves and a poor life. So as Bao Zheng, who was highly valued by the emperors of the Song Dynasty in history, how much would his Feng Lu be?
In the historical records, Bao Zheng is a famous filial piety, even if he later obtained a meritorious name, Bao Zheng still wants to accompany his parents to fulfill his filial piety, and in the wisdom of his parents who have died one after another, in order not to bury Bao Zheng's talent, the neighbors in the neighborhood have come to say Bao Zheng, hoping that he can make a meritorious career in the imperial court, and finally under the persuasion of the villagers, Bao Zheng began to formally enter the career in 1037, ready to make a career on his own.
When Bao Zheng was the prefect of Ruizhou, he had already shown a just and honest character, at that time, the imperial court would ask the state capitals to pay tribute to Yantai every year, and before that, the prefect of Ruizhou would make a lot of money when attacking Yantai, but when he arrived at Bao Zheng, he not only did not collect wealth with his hands, but even ignored him in currying favor with the magnates, and in the end, Bao Zheng was promoted and appointed by the imperial court all the way to the supervision of the imperial history by virtue of his own efforts.
Because of Bao Zheng's upright character, he was not good at climbing the rich, and once he found that there were corrupt officials and corrupt officials running rampant in the four wildernesses, he would take the initiative to ask the emperor to dismiss these corrupt officials, and Bao Zheng's actions were also many officials in the court who were full of this vigilance and set up guards against him everywhere, and later Bao Zheng was appointed as the Envoy of the Khitan Zhengdan to the Liao State, and from this experience, he learned a lot of the true situation about the border plugs, and after sorting them out, they all reported them to the emperor for inspection.
And it is precisely because of Bao Zheng's style of handling affairs, for the well-being of the people of the world at the same time, but also let those officials have no way to stumble on it, Bao Zheng's career is also rising, according to the "Song History of Officials" record, Bao Zheng during his tenure as the Governor of Kaifeng, his Feng Lu was 20 bundles of firewood, 40 bundles of hay, 30 stones of grain, and the rest of the Feng Lu was 15 scales of charcoal in winter, and some additional money and minister money.
Among them, the additional money is 100 yuan, the minister's money is 1500 yuan, in addition to these cash, Bao Zheng also has 2000 acres of ploughed land under his name, which can collect rent, but does not have to pay taxes. If you calculate according to the rental income of the Song Dynasty, one mu at that time was roughly one stone of rice, so that Bao Zheng could have an additional income of about 2,000 stone meters, and if you say that these Feng Lu are calculated by years, it is a very considerable income. Because many of Bao Zheng's feng lu are daily necessities, if these are converted into cash money, it is roughly equivalent to more than 1,000 copper coins a year, plus more than 20,800 yuan issued in a year, and its annual income is equivalent to more than 21,800 yuan.
The exchange rate of the Song Dynasty is ten dollars for one or two gold, and one or two gold at that time is equivalent to the current 40 grams of gold, so in this conversion, Bao Zheng's annual income is about 83200 gold, and now the price of 1 gram of gold is 330 yuan, then calculated, Bao Zheng's annual salary is about 27.456 million yuan, which can be said to be a real millionaire and billionaire.
Such a salary is placed in the present, but it is really not a small amount, even higher than the annual profit of the general small and medium-sized enterprises, according to the existing house prices in Beijing, it should not be a problem to buy a hundred square meters of houses within the third ring road in full. Therefore, a friend on the Internet once said: the salary is already so high, coupled with the moral character is a little better, then there is really no need for greed.