It is recorded in the Ming Dynasty that the salary of a county official in Qipin County is 45 taels of silver a year, that is, 3.75 taels a month. One tael of silver can buy 2 taels of rice, and one tael is 94.4 kilograms, that is, one tael of silver can buy 188.8 kilograms of rice. Now the rice is 3 yuan -4 yuan/kilogram, calculated at the middle price of 3.5 yuan.
It can be calculated that one or two pieces of silver are equivalent to RMB 660.8. A county official's monthly salary is 2478 yuan, and it's ok to support his family. It's difficult to pack a small honey! The salaries in the Ming Dynasty were relatively low, and officials often complained that in the Han Dynasty, officials used "stones" to indicate the size of their ranks in order to receive their salaries. The official of 2000 stone is not small at all. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, officials at all levels set wage standards according to different stones. Wages are calculated by the name of measuring instruments, and ten buckets are one, but they are converted into money every month when they are received. Jiuqing is equivalent to the minister of the central organ today, and receives 40 thousand a month. According to the living standard at that time, some people thought that the money could support about 56 people. In the Tang Dynasty, officials were paid according to their grades, and their ranks were divided according to the standard of nine grades. The rank of officials at all levels is divided into nine grades and thirty grades according to the positive, subordinate, upper and lower levels, while the salary is only divided into eighteen grades according to the nine grades. The salary received includes rice, wages and fields of work. The Anshi Rebellion was divided into two periods. In the early stage, the dual-track system of annual salary and monthly salary was implemented Jing Guan Zheng Yipin gives Mi Lu 700 stones every year, from 600 stones for one grade, 40 stones for nine grades and 30 stones for nine grades. In the later period, basically only the monthly salary system was implemented, but when wages were paid, they were often paid in kind, such as grain and silk. The salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty include not only living expenses, but also office expenses. The general trend is that the amount is increasing and the salary of local officials is higher than that of Beijing officials.
The salaries of officials in Song Dynasty are rich and varied. For example, the highest-ranking officials, in addition to their monthly salary of 1.20 yuan, also pay for their posts, public funds, business trips, servants and other expenses. Every official can be equipped with servants according to regulations, the lowest-ranking official can be equipped with a servant, and the prime minister can be equipped with 100 people, all provided by the state. In the Song Dynasty, being an official meant getting rich. For example, Lv Mengzheng and Fan Zhongyan, prime ministers, were born in poverty, and their official careers were clean. However, after Lv Mengzheng retired, he built a "garden pavilion, flowers and trees, and a banquet to celebrate the old days" in Luoyang. Fan Zhongyan can use his own money to build a "righteous village" in his hometown to support his people.
The yuan dynasty used paper money, and the salary paid paper money, also called salary paper money. Yuan Shizu sets the salaries of officials, ranging from the highest 300 taels to the lowest 35 taels. Inflation was very serious in the Yuan Dynasty, and soaring prices had a great impact on the lives of officials. Although the imperial court increased the salary, it could not keep up with the rise in prices, and the actual income of officials was very low. In the Ming dynasty, the official ranks were divided into nine grades and eighteen grades, and the salary was also divided into eighteen grades accordingly. Zhengyipin costs 300 RMB per year 1000, from Jiupin to 60 RMB per year. Later, only a small part of rice was given, and the rest was converted into money. Due to unreasonable conversion, the actual income of officials has become very limited. In the early years of Xuanzong, a magistrate named Kong Youliang wrote: "Excluding the money, the monthly salary is only 2 meters, which is not enough to support several people. What is Fei 'an's contribution to the road? "This means that we have to support the elderly in the world, raise children next time, and send them to welcome guests. We really can't afford it.
At the beginning of the founding of the Qing dynasty, the salaries of officials were also very small. Every year, the officials of Beijing's civil and military affairs receive a salary of one 180 Liang, two 155 Liang, three 130 Liang, four 105 Liang, five-80 Liang, six-60 Liang, seven-45 Liang and eight-40 Liang. In addition, according to the salary of silver, every two rice balls are given. The salary of civil servants outside Beijing is the same as that of Beijing officials, but without food, the salary of officers is halved. This standard is very low. The salary of Daming in Japan: during the Warring States Period in Japan 1 Shimi = now about 17 ~ 20kg, 1 Shimi = 13 ~ 15kg.
Food consumption per soldier = 1.8 stone/month, 2 1.6 stone/year. In Austria and other places, Data Masamune, a senior official, can get 600,000 stones a year. At that time, Austria's total output was close to one million stones, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's total income was 7 million stones, accounting for 30% of Japanese. This refers to the output you can control, of course, you can't take it away. Generally speaking, the number of stones is more when the Japanese official position is high, which refers to the total output of your fief, the expenses of going out to raise troops, wages and so on, and there is not much left. The smaller name is similar to the county magistrate in China, even less than 100 stone = raising 75 people.
100 stone = 3 peasant soldiers +75% samurai salary.
100 stone = 1 soldier/station soldier.