"Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", a small prefect can earn so much silver, so what kind of treatment will the first-class officials of the Qing Dynasty, who have played a pivotal role in the Qing government?
The standard configuration of a big family basically has a big house, three wives and four concubines, plus official maids, little maids in each room, and the expenses of a large family are calculated, and it is expected to be a large number.
Many people will also have such questions, how much money do you have to earn to support such a large family?
In ancient times, wages were mostly converted into silver or grain, and many friends who were not familiar with history could not calculate how much those things were worth now.
Then let's talk about how much salary did a first-class member of the Qing Dynasty receive under the rule of the Qing government, and how much did it cost to convert it into RMB?
Let's take a look at the management system of the Qing Dynasty
According to relevant records, the enthronement of officials in the Qing Dynasty can be divided into "nine grades and eighteen levels", and the "nine sesame officials" that often appear in film and television works are the nine officials mentioned here.
The official system of the Qing Dynasty basically continued the hierarchical system since the Han and Wei dynasties, with nine grades being the lowest and one being the highest, and each rank was divided into principal and deputy positions.
There are some princes and Baylors on top of Yipin, and if those people are counted in a large enterprise, they should belong to the "related households".
In terms of the basic framework of officials in the Qing Dynasty, officials were also divided into "Beijing officials", "local officials", "civil officials", and "military officials".
The Jingguan of Zhengyipin is the Taishi, Taibao, and Taifu that we often hear in film and television works, that is, the "Three Princes", in addition to the positions of Cabinet Scholar, Minister of the Interior of the Guard, and Minister of Honor and Guard.
The governor needs to mention that the governor is a second-rank official and belongs to the top leader of the local government, but allowing him to concurrently serve as a university scholar is equivalent to having the dual identity of a Beijing official and a local official.
The Qing Dynasty basically inherited the strategy of the civil officials after the Song Dynasty to control the military attachés, and the civilian officials suppressed the military attachés with one rank.
The rulers of all dynasties have seen that the military attache already has soldiers in his hands, and if his status in the court is greater, the consequences will be unimaginable.
How much can the first-class employees receive?
Judging from the salary system of the Qing Dynasty, the treatment of officials in the Qing Dynasty was composed of two parts: "Yu Lu" and "Lu Rice", and the number was naturally different due to different grades.
According to records, the salary of a senior official in the Qing Dynasty was 180 taels per year, and rice was 90 stone per year. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, 1 tael of silver could buy about 150 catties of rice, which was about 300 yuan according to the current market price.
1 stone of rice is converted to about 59.2kg, which is about 120 catties. Then the salary of a first-class clerk is: 180×150×2 + 90×120×2 = 75,600 yuan
Do you believe this first-class employee with an annual salary of less than 80,000 yuan? Lu Yu: I don't believe it.
A salary of 80,000 yuan can afford to buy a big house and marry three wives and four concubines, if this is really the case, I want to say, I especially want to cross. Emperor: Aiqing, don't panic, this is just a salary, and you still have bonuses and commissions.
Let's talk about the bonuses and commissions of the first-class masters.
According to the system, the Qing government also issued "maintenance silver" to officials of different ranks, generally 10 to 100 times the salary.
It turns out that the practice of performance appraisal and mobilizing enthusiasm has been implemented so long ago. According to this multiple, if a first-class member performs well and is deeply loved by the emperor, the bonus payment multiple is set at 100 times.
75,600×100 = 7,560,000 yuan, a total of 7.56 million yuan.
So with an annual salary of nearly 8 million, you can basically live an upper-class life now. Those who are unlucky and are not treated by the emperor can basically have an income of 3 million to 5 million.
Wages from legitimate sources can meet their livelihoods. This is also the emperor's order to avoid corruption among officials, giving them enough extra money to do things for the country.
Greed is also a major factor in promoting social development and human progress, and if people are always in a state of satisfaction, then it is good to eat and sleep well, and then they will not develop. But as an official's greed, he took advantage of it in the direction of looting money.
"Three years of Qing prefect, 100,000 snowflakes of silver", the salary is not much, just rely on fishing, a small prefect can make so much money, then as a first-class member, the extra gray income will go to the sea.
Isn't the famous Heshen of the Qing Dynasty a typical representative? There is a saying that Heshen fell and Jiaqing was full.
The hour hand says
If it is simply these officials, they are still doing things for the court after they are greedy for money, and if they can be properly guided, they will not empty the country.
The most important thing is that the country still has to support those Eight Banners disciples Baylor, they don't need to do anything, they take a lot of money, and the amount is very large, and they don't do their jobs, and they spend a lot of money, and the country is emptied.
The people were hungry, the officials and the relatives of the emperor sat on the empty mountain, and finally the Qing Dynasty perished in the tide of the people, disappeared in the dust of history, and left people to sigh.