In many film and television dramas, Jinyiwei has captured the audience's attention with his superb martial arts and mysterious profession, and in real history, the existence of Jinyiwei is also a legend. We walked into jinyiwei to explore the secret of this group of "immortals" receiving wages.
How is the salary of The Guard paid?
In the recent hit TV series "Daming Style", everyone is commenting on the starring Zhu Yawen's "factory gas in the factory", Zhu Yawen's Zhu Zhanji played by Zhu Yawen in the play is not only the identity of the prince, but also a member of the Jinyi guard, the hero and heroine encounter is also encountered when the male protagonist is on a mission as a Jinyi guard, so it can be said that the responsibility of the Jinyi guard allows the male protagonist to meet the female protagonist, and launched a bizarre love story.
In various film and television dramas, the actors and plot-shaped Jinyi Guards are a special team, they are highly skilled in martial arts, not controlled by anyone, and often appear on rainy nights to carry out the task of killing traitors. In real history, the Jinyi Guards were a team under the control of the emperor, mainly responsible for defending the emperor's safety and supervision, and prison. According to the organization, Jinyi Wei belonged to the ming Wei's team, but he was directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, independent of the three divisions, and was a team with the power of ten thousand people under one person.
Jinyiwei does not belong to the three divisions, but the salary is still paid together with the three divisions, in the Ming Dynasty, the salary of Zhengyipin is 87 stone meters, and the supreme commander of Jinyiwei belongs to Zhengqipin, receiving 7.5 stone meters per month, and the people at the bottom can receive 7 stone meters per month, in ancient times, unlike today, the salary is all cash, and the ancient people's needs for materials are more direct and urgent, so the salaries of officials are based on the amount of grain, of course, not only the distribution of grain, but also treasure money, cloth, pepper wood, etc. are also part of the remuneration.
Of course, the quality of the material is also distinguished according to the size of the official rank, as far as the cloth is concerned, the fabric received by ZhengYipin is the silk fabric with the largest quantity and the best quality, and the officials below are slightly inferior to him. This is invariably the same as today's pay standards.
How do the Guards everywhere get paid?
In ancient times, salaries were paid by year and month, and each dynasty was different, but since Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty set the salary to be paid monthly and the rule of "everything from then on", the system of monthly wages has also been passed down, which can be said to be very humane. Then, as a channel for the emperor to pacify the world, the Jinyi guards often have to go to all parts of the country to carry out tasks after receiving the task, and it may be a few months or even half a year, so how are their salaries received? Some people say that you can go to the local county office or the official office to pick it up.
In fact, this was not the case, because at that time, the JinyiWei was under the administration of the emperor and could only be received in the two new dynasties and the old capitals of Beijing and Nanjing. The Ming Dynasty did not have bank cards, could not be as convenient as our modern society to make money online, and the Jinyi guards recruited the eyes and ears scattered throughout the country to inquire about the news, mostly homeless people and small businessmen and peddlers who were mixed in the city, they had many eyes and ears, well-informed, and the wind and grass everywhere could not talk about their eyes.
It is precisely because of these idle eyes and ears to help collect information that the speed and quality of Jinyiwei's handling of cases are not comparable to those of ordinary officials, and they have slowly formed a frightening image. So how did the Jinyi guards who did not handle the case in Liangjing receive their salaries?
Receive part of your salary before you leave
When Jinyiwei receives the case-handling task, he will first receive parts including prepaid salaries and bounties as transportation expenses and accommodation expenses, and this part of the salary can be received before the Jinyiwei receives the task and reports upwards before departing.
Travel allowance is granted en route
In the later stage of the development of Jinyiwei, every time you set out to handle cases, there will be people from the three divisions to follow, and some travel expenses will be issued for Jinyiwei, how to handle cases for too long, you need to stay in the field for a period of time will also be issued some subsidies, which ensures that Jinyiwei will not be stretched because of insufficient funds when handling major cases and important cases.
Receive full remuneration afterwards
The main task of the Jinyi guards was to quell rebellions everywhere, form parties and engage in private interests and other events that endangered national security, and such an important task the country would not let them lack salaries. When Jinyiwei returns from the case, he can receive the remaining salary, and the money that can be reimbursed can be directly collected at Jingnan Sancang.
The difference between Jinyiwei and ordinary workers is that they are highly mobile and dangerous, when performing secret tasks, today a group of people have gone, tomorrow they have gone to another group of people, ordinary officials fixed salary payment method is not suitable for them, so in the process of continuous development, evolved such a mature and effective wage distribution system, which not only ensures that the travel expenses of Jinyiwei travel can also ease the time of wage payment, not to take out a lot of money at once to pay wages, and can effectively promote the circulation of funds.
The influence of the Kinnikuman
It has to be said that under the leadership of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, many systems in the Ming Dynasty were still very advanced. He was an emperor who went out from the people, deeply felt the suffering of the people, and laid a foundation for the country after half a life of conquest. After he took the throne, he hated corrupt officials very much, and enacted very strict laws and regulations to punish officials who were found to have committed corruption. For a time, the corruption of the imperial court officialdom was greatly stopped, and the feng lu given to officials at that time was relatively low, so the days of being an official in the Ming Dynasty were still relatively hard.
Emperor Taizu set up the Jinyi Wei, independent of the three divisions under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, in the prosperous period of the total number of 17 guardhouses, the number of people reached 60,000 people, eyes and ears throughout the country, the emperor can not be free to receive the latest intelligence from all over the country, firmly in the hands of the country, stabilized the four-party management. During the Yongle period, Zhu Di revived the Jinyi Guard, developed it more widely, and became the emperor's right and left arm, and the merits of Dingguo Anbang were very great.
In the modern film and television dramas we see more or less there will be jinyiwei figure, "Daming Style" is the real historical events adapted, the play really shows the jinyiwei heroic character style and efficient ability to do things, in another very popular film and television drama starring Zhang Ruoyun "Qing Yu Nian", there is a subordinate to the imperial family of the supervision agency "Inspection Yuan" is also the embodiment of Jinyiwei, responsible for the search of domestic intelligence, the trial of major cases and even negotiations with the enemy country's large and small things, can be directly arrested without going through the three divisions and so on It was a very powerful weapon under the emperor.
The male protagonist Fan Xian is a modern person who has traveled to the future era to preserve modern memory, and his mother is also a modern person, bringing rich scientific and technological wisdom to this dynasty, becoming a prominent figure, fan xian is also involved in the dispute between the undercurrents of the imperial court, and finds the black hand behind them and their purpose in the continuous solution of mysteries.
As a modern person, we have to admire the wisdom of our ancestors, and we need to continue to develop and grow with the concept of taking its essence and removing its dross.