Wulin waichuan, has become a classic work of Chinese sitcoms, guo Furong, who calls herself a heroine, because she owes a huge debt instead of her father, she can only work under Tong Xiangyu, the treasurer of Tongfu Inn, and takes 2 silver per month, which also makes people curious, put it to the present, is Guo Furong's salary high? How much is the equivalent? Let's do a good job of analysis.
2 money is equal to 0.2 two, the dynasty of "Wulin Waichuan" belongs to the Ming Dynasty, then we will use the price of the Ming Dynasty to compare and analyze.
In the past, the conversion ratio of money paid attention to such a formula, that is, 1 two gold = 10 two silver = 10 copper coins = 10,000 copper coins, according to Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu" record: Hongwu eighteen years of regulations, silver one or two for rice and two stones, One stone in the Ming Dynasty is equal to 188.8 kilograms today, that is to say, one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 377.6 kilograms of rice, if it is the current price of 3 yuan a kilogram of rice to calculate, that is, one or two silver can be worth 1132 yuan, so Guo Furong's salary has come to about 220 yuan. Although considering that she is in the same fu inn, it is a state of eating and staying, but this is also a little more real, equivalent to free labor.
However, this is already the Ming Dynasty, Guo Furong can get the highest wage, during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty encouraged reclamation and planting, so the productivity recovered quickly, so the price of rice is cheap, precious metals are also valuable, and after globalization in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the Western colonists in the Americas and the Philippines and other places to mine a large number of silver mines, and with the porcelain and silk trade into China, so the price of silver gradually declined. At the same time, due to natural disasters and border wars in the Ming Court, the price of grain also soared.
"Miscellaneous Records of Seeing and Hearing" mentioned that in the sixteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, the famine was serious, and one stone of rice rose to 126 yuan, nearly three times more, which made it difficult for the peasants to afford, although it fell for a short time, but during the Chongzhen period, the price of rice has been fluctuating around one or two stones, because the price of rice has suddenly risen to one or two or six dollars, which has caused "horizontal people to advocate chaos and looting". At this time, one or two pieces of silver were only 377 yuan, which meant that Guo Furong could only get more than 70 yuan from Keling.
But not only Guo Furong a miserable, difficult era, when the official will not be better, the Ming Dynasty ZhiXian, as a seven-pin official, a year of Feng Lu is 84 stones, put to the present, a year's salary, is only about 47,000 yuan, a month less than 4,000 yuan.
And they also have to find a way to support their own big son, it can be said that it is very difficult, so that the Qing official Hai Rui, refusing to accept bribes, resulting in his daughter being starved to death, is enough to explain this problem.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the price of silver was relatively average, and the life in "Dream of the Red Chamber", compared to Guo Furong, was much better, a meal of crabs in Jia Province, actually ate 20 taels of silver, no wonder Liu Grandma sighed, this is the income of the Zhuang family for a year!
In addition, the Dream of the Red Chamber mentioned that Jia Mu and Madame Wang, the monthly money for a month is twenty-two, Wang Xifeng is 5 two, Dai Yu Baoyu and others are 2 two, people don't do anything, you can take Guo Furong's 40 times the wages, in addition, Mandarin ducks attack people and other servants, you can also get one or two silver as pocket money, these are real profits!
If Guo Furong goes in, she is naturally much stronger than working in a hotel, of course, this should not be something she is willing to do.