Cao Cao's annual salary in the analysis, let us first turn, "Three Kingdoms Wei Shu." "Wei" says Cao Cao 20-year-old official, died at the age of 66, mixed in the political arena 47 years, has done Luoyang Northern Wei, Farmington order, Yi Lang, Ji Duyu, Code of Army Captain, Sili school Wei, Xiao Ji Xiaowei, major general, Wu Ping Hou, the prime minister, Wei Gong, the king. Where Wu Ping Hou, Wei Gong, and the king is the title, and the rest are all official.
Luoyang was the capital of that time, points east, west, south, north and five, each the equivalent of a municipal district, Luoyang Luoyang Northern Wei is in charge of public order of the Chief Executive of the North, similar to a district of Beijing's public security now Bureau. Cao Cao did so much in the office there, which is the smallest office.
Cao Cao's largest office did what is it? Is the prime minister. Han had no prime minister, the biggest government is the "Tutor Book things recorded", known as "the public," Cao Cao later years of high power weight, Han Xiandi special worship him as prime minister, assuming political and military power, located in the top of the public, on political level, in addition to the emperor that he had.
Eastern Han Dynasty and the present wage system is the same, the higher the level cadres, the higher the wage level. Cao Cao did the official minimum Northern Wei Luoyang, so when he minimum wage; Cao Cao did most of the official is the prime minister, so when he's the highest wages.
Luoyang Northern Wei stone level is four hundred, "four hundred stone" is the annual salary equivalent to 400 stone grain. When real wages are not all made into food, but "half the money half-Valley", is part of the wages made into money, another part of the fat into the food. Cao Cao as a hundred stone Luoyang Northern Wei, the court issued to him 2500 a month, five-baht money off over 15 Gok Shell of rice. According to the Eastern Han Dynasty official standard, a Gok five rice is equivalent to 100 baht money, 15 Gok rice is equivalent to 1500 five baht money, so Cao Cao's monthly salary of about 4000 five baht money.
"Gok" is a unit of capacity, the Han Dynasty fighting a Gok is 10, equivalent to 20 liters now, installed meters in 16 kg. 16 kg rice, then bought five baht to spend 100 money, buy you now have to spend 60 yuan, so the perspective of purchasing power, 100 five baht money equivalent to 60 yuan, a five-baht money is equivalent to 6 hair , 4000 five baht money then, the natural equivalent of 2,400 yuan. 2,400 yuan per month, the annual salary is 28,800 yuan natural.
Prime Minister Cao Cao look at when doing salary.
The prime minister belongs to Wan Shi-level, half the money is paid semi-Valley, specifically, is to receive 17,500 a month five baht money off Gok over 175 shells of rice. Gok by 1 meter is equal to 100 baht five principles of money, the real wages converted into money wages, the monthly total of Cao Cao's 35,000 five baht to receive money. Money at a five baht is equal to 6 cents terms, this time Cao Cao's monthly salary is twenty-one thousand yuan, the annual salary of about 25 million.
You will say: Cao Cao made the prime minister, but 25 million annual salary, which with the subject said, "Cao Cao annual salary of a billion dollars," Well do not coincide completely.
Do not worry, let's take it slow. Cao Cao, as prime minister, salary accounted for only a tiny fraction of his total income, he still has some income from reward.
Han reward is very powerful, Lu Zhi, who put down the Yellow Turbans, Han Lingdi reward is a gold pounds. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, 1 kg of gold can be folded into a 1000 five baht money (at very low purity of gold, gold is actually a lot of the bibliography, brass), 100 kg of gold there are 100,000 five baht money, converted into yuan, a considerable than 6 million. Cao Cao's life, conquests, exploits numerous Han Xiandi to him how much gold, I am afraid is in dispute.
Exploits reward is a reward from time to time, this can not test, leaving aside, we look at what are regular reward.
According to "Han" Volume 43, note cited "Han Official Instrument", the court Baiguan reward twice a year, once called "the spring thanks to", where the Excellencies and 20 million more than officials gratuities; another called "La thanks", standards and spring give the same. As Prime Minister Cao Cao, located in the Sangong over five baht each year 400,000 reward money on a regular basis, converted into yuan, or about 24 million.
Regular annual salary plus reward, Cao Cao now have annual income of 490,000 yuan.
Cao Cao addition to the "prime minister" The hat, also wearing a "Wei Gong", "king" of the hat. "Wei Gong" is the Duke, "the king" is Wang Jue, Duke, Wang Jue has fief. The so-called "fief", is a court program to your area, which allows you to collect taxes and to income to the tax return for themselves. Cao Cao's fief What are it? "Three Kingdoms Wei Shu" written in the know, Cao fief Jizhou ten counties including: Dong, Hanoi, Wei Jun, Zhao, Zhongshan, Changshan, Julu, Anping, Gan Ling, plain. Also, according to "Han Food and Money", a knighted person in each household a year from the manor, where the average charge is equivalent to 200 five-baht tax money. Famous historian Mr. Liang Pingzhong economic statistics before, ten counties in the late Eastern Han Dynasty Jizhou 91 million households, according to Cao Cao's annual contribution per 200 estimated five baht money, Cao Cao can get from the manor in the year one hundred and eighty million pieces of five baht money, folded into a little more than a million yuan is.
Fief taxes, regular reward, fixed salary, plus train and gave the emperor a golden time to time, when the prime minister Cao Cao to do far more than a million annual income. This is what I set the title as "Cao Cao annual salary billion" reasons.
Come back to check the previous calculation, you will notice that the place is not strict: We as the Eastern Han Dynasty, a constant price of rice, equivalent to 100 per Gok five baht money. This certainly does not match with the facts, because the prices would not have been the same. Press the "China price history", the Eastern Han harvest grain prices low, 5 baht money can buy a five-Gok m; and famine food prices high and the highest one actually sold 10,000 m Gok five baht money! If the price of rice under the minimum, Cao annual income at least 20 billion; but if the price of rice to the highest, Cao Cao, but 100 million annual income only.
Since the conversion is not used to completely reasonable prices, we might look at how much the income of ordinary people so that we can be reasonably determine Cao Cao's salary is high or low the.
I extract two regions over the Han people Juyan list of the property, calling Xuzong a household, the family six people, has a house and 50 acres of arable land, two cows, four slaves, a total of five baht discount 13000 money. Head of the household called the gift of another user loyalty, the family seven people, with a house, 500 acres of arable land, two carts, three slaves, a total of 114,000 five baht discount money.
Cao Cao did not consider us kind wages, only the summary of the money wage, reward, and fief taxes regularly, five-year total of 180.61 million baht have the money, is the total assets of Xu Zong, a thousand times, is the ceremony of allegiance with a total assets of a thousand times.
Cao Cao is not a businessman, government officials, or to inflate a little bit that he is politician. Politicians rely on people to feed, work for the people, nothing wrong with higher incomes, but high enough to Cao Cao in this way, people can only explain so wrong at the time, and pay big bucks to hire a vampire. But this does not work, because Han is authoritarian, autocratic politicians are set for ourselves income, who can not hold them into vampires.
