Interesting answer: At the beginning, there was no pension, and slowly there was.
Confused officials of the Tang Dynasty
Although everyone always says that the Tang Dynasty was prosperous and the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, after the Tang Dynasty established a unified world, there were more or less small defects, and this small defect was that there was no pension.
Everyone knows that officials in ancient times inevitably had big hands, whether they were honest or honest, or if they were upright or upright, at least their living conditions were better than those of ordinary people.
If you think about it, it is inevitable that you can't let the officials of the imperial court and the chancellor of the imperial court grow their own vegetables to support themselves every day after work, and they have to grind themselves with a donkey, right?
Therefore, the welfare treatment of officials when they are officials is also very good, and once officials are not official, the imperial court directly cut off your salary. Cutting off your salary is going to kill you, spending a lot of money on weekdays, and suddenly there is no dime, so these officials begin to leave a way back for themselves all the time.
How to stay behind? To put it simply, when you are an official, especially in the last few years of your officialdom, you can make a little money if you can make a little money, and the money you get is some subsidies when you retire.
However, in this way, the atmosphere of the officials is bad, and more importantly, the reputation of the officials after they return to their hometowns is not good, so the Tang Dynasty began to pay pensions in order to ensure the reputation of the officials and to protect the face of the Tang Dynasty.
The age of retirement in ancient times
In most cases, there is no upper limit to the retirement age in ancient times, and some officials have achieved more than 80 years old, 90 years old are officials, of course, 90 years old is a bit of a pull, it is estimated that at that time you have to carry a stretcher.
We can see this from some of the policies adopted by the Ming Dynasty when Sanyang was in power, as well as the age of the officials at that time, although the state agreed to be 60 or 65 years old, and retire after the age of 70, but officials are sometimes able to easily break through this boundary.
After all, some officials are old and slippery, and the older they get, the less afraid they are, and the more capable they are. The emperor was also willing to use it, and the imperial court also liked such courtiers.
But the vast majority of mediocre courtiers are basically ordered to retire at the age of 70, if you take the initiative to retire so good, hello I am good everyone, if you do not retire, then I will force you to retire. Even the pension is gone.
Of course, the exact amount of pension varies from dynasty to dynasty, and overall it is less than when it was in power, but it is more than enough to support itself.
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