High official: The year-end bonus exceeds one year's salary
has passed, and the court will postpone the year-end bonus to officials. It is very timely. Unless there is a financial crisis, it will not delay or owe it. For example, , , when the twelfth lunar month, the emperor began to give year-end bonuses to civil and military officials. There are certain rules for how many people give, and the year-end bonus each of the generals and the three dukes can receive is converted into about RMB 100,000.
At that time, the monthly salary of the Sangong and the General was only 17,500 Wuzhu coins, which was only 7,000 yuan in RMB. This year's year-end bonus was more than their salary.
to Northern Song , which is exactly the opposite of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The salaries of civil and military officials are very high, but the year-end bonus is very small. Every winter solstice, the emperor gives senior cadres a year-end bonus. The prime minister, Privy Councilor and ministers who were once kings only had 5 sheep, 5 stone noodles, two stone rice, and two jars of rice wine. It was worth thousands of dollars to die.
When the famous honest official Bao Zheng "sits in the south ya Kaifeng Prefecture", he had wages (monthly materials), meal supplements (meal money), beverage subsidies (tea soup money), heating subsidies (steam money), entertainment subsidies (common money), and job subsidies (additional money). All of them were added together, nearly 10,000 jin a year, which was converted into RMB according to purchasing power, at least 6 million yuan.
That little year-end bonus is simply not worth mentioning compared to his salary. Small officials: Selling waste products to raise year-end bonuses. Those low-level officials and some small officials who do not have abortion will not send them red envelopes, and their year-end bonuses need to be found. One way is to sell waste.
During the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, official documents were not written on paper, but on bamboo slips. For a longer official document, a pile of bamboo slips must be used. When the official document is written and transmitted from this department to that department, I am afraid that the bamboo slips will be lost or that someone will tamper with it. I have to pack it in my pocket, tie it tightly, paste it with mud, and stamp it with the official seal.
Another department received this pocket, peeled off the clay, poured out the bamboo slips, and the pocket that contained the bamboo slips became scrap. At that time, the pockets of bamboo slips were leather, silk, and linen, and they could be sold for money. A larger department is like the censor who supervises all officials. It has the most documents and the most pockets it saves. By the end of the year, it will be sold on the market and the clerks in a department will have year-end bonuses.
Another way is to lend money. Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty had a period of time (such as the Tang Dynasty Suzong and Song Shenzong) and allowed various "organizations" to lend usury to the public. The principal of usury is allocated by the court and "public money" and also fundraising funds raised by civil servants themselves. From the six ministries to the prefectures and counties, all of them released the principal, and the targets of lending were mainly merchants within the jurisdiction of each unit.
loan period, as short as a few days, as long as a year. The monthly interest rate is at least 3%, and it is a "donkey rolling" profit, and the profit of is quite considerable. The profits obtained by the state finance will be small, and the main part of the title will be left. Most of the interest will be deposited in the "small treasury" for the leaders to adjust and use. Some money will be used for food, drink and fun, and some money will be used to send New Year's goods and red envelopes at the end of the year.
Some government agencies think that it is not fast enough to make money by lending money, so they directly use fundraising funds or even public funds to do business. What business do you do? Making wine, making vinegar, investing in real estate, selling private salt . Wine, vinegar and salt were monopoly products in most dynasties, with amazing profits.
Real estate business has been booming at least since the late Tang Dynasty. Many people engaged in the development of real estate in in the late Tang Dynasty, generals of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, princes of the Song Dynasty, and officials of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The real estate development at that time was still very primitive. Its main form was to buy a piece of land in a prosperous area (or use power to occupy a piece of land), and then build a storefront house on it, and then sell or rent it out after it is built.
like Song Dynasty famous general Yue Fei , he operated real estate in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, but he was very honest and his business income was mainly used to subsidize military and education. He did not put it into his private pockets, nor did he give his subordinates a year-end bonus.
But other civil servants and generals are not as noble as him. They sell private salt, smuggle other contraband products, and invest in real estate. They lose money and use public funds to make money. They accept it with a smile, and then send some red packets to their colleagues and subordinates.
