"Civil servants" are the lifelong pursuit of many people, that is, the so-called "people who eat imperial food". So, many people in the past dynasties will fight tirelessly to become civil servants, and it is comfortable for a dynasty to be a civil servant?
The reason behind this is that the Song Dynasty vigorously promoted the imperial examination, and it was immediately used under the list, as long as you won the jinshi, immediately at the county level, the seventh pin county master can also be a problem, there are many officials, which also causes the expansion of civilian power, and the benefits for civil officials are quite a lot, high salary, grace system, relatives and friends can also be officials, so it is very comfortable to be an official in the Song Dynasty.
What everyone is most concerned about is the salary of the Song Dynasty, we take Bao Zheng as an example, taking rice as the unit of measurement, calculated, Bao Zheng's salary for 1 month is about 160,000 yuan, and the annual salary is nearly 2 million a year! According to the records of the "Official Records of the History of the Song Dynasty," there were "zheng li," "extra money," and "job fields," which means that the government paid for all the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of civil servants in the Northern Song Dynasty, as well as the expenses of their families, and the government all paid for it!
Then some people must say that the Tang Dynasty also attached great importance to the imperial examination system, why was the Tang Dynasty not so comfortable, the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty was organized by the Ministry of Rites, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Education organizing the examination once, and then the Ministry of Officials has to take the exam again, which is equivalent to the Organization Department taking another examination, these two exams are passed and then take the national examination, after the examination you can become a civil servant and become an official.
"A letter of dynasty to play nine heavens, sunset to Chaoyang Road eight thousand" from the Tang Dynasty poet Han Yu's "Zuo moved to Languan Shi nephew Xiang", which means that the emperor was only given a recital in the morning, and was demoted to Chaoyang in the afternoon. This is enough to reflect the Tang Dynasty's poor official behavior.
This is to talk about the most pitiful, Zhu Yuanzhang's system, the salary of the county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to 1200 yuan now, which also includes his own travel expenses, buying official uniforms and hats, pensioning mothers' and children, and hiring at least 2 private secretaries, equivalent to an accounting commissioner and a legal commissioner.
Why have two personal assistants? Because the Ming and Qing imperial examinations do not test law, do not test economics, but test the four books and five classics, what Analects, Mencius, no matter how well you memorize, can you collect taxes? Can you judge the case? No, you have to pay this money yourself, but your salary is not good, you can't help it, and in the end you are forced out to be corrupt, and you can't live without corruption.
But this Yongzheng also reformed, advocated honesty and anti-corruption, these officials are also in a mess, so it is still the Song Dynasty to be the most comfortable to be an official, high salary and few things, because there are many officials, ten people do one thing, everyone is quite idle, so there are Tang and Song Eight people, Ouyang Xiu, be a taishou, so comfortable, write a drunken weng ting ji, and the ancestral family law does not kill the doctor, will never die ah, at most demote, very safe.
So I said that it was most comfortable to be an official until the Song Dynasty when you were rich and idle.
So why did the rulers of the Song Dynasty do this?