▲ Qinqin Wang Fu Pavilion
During the Kangxi period, the vassal system was officially abolished, and only Baylor titles such as princes, county kings and county kings were retained. As early as the Shunzhi period, the Qing court formulated the treatment standards for titles at all levels. The prince's annual salary is 10000 taels of silver and 10000 taels of grain. The county king receives half of the money and grain, and the Baylor title of the county king will be discounted on the basis of the county king. In the same period, the annual salary of a civil servant is 180 two silver and 180 stone grain. In contrast, we can see that the monarch's treatment is as high as 55 times that of the latter.
▲ Qing Taizi slaughter album
In order to compare with modern society, we might as well change it. One stone in the Qing Dynasty is roughly equivalent to 130 Jin now, which means that the prince can get 650,000 Jin of grain a year. According to the calculation principle that "the rice price is the only basically constant quantity", the rice price from Shunzhi to Ganlong is about 1.2 1 yuan per stone, which nearly doubled during the Tongzhi period, and the purchasing power of silver naturally halved. So converted, Prince Kangxi's salary a year is about 654.38+0.9 million Jin of grain. According to the current rice price of three yuan a catty, the prince's salary is as high as 5.7 million a year, and the county king needs 2.8 million to halve it. Even during the Tongzhi period, the prince could get 3.9 million yuan a year, which is a high-paying class today.
▲ rice
In addition, since the reign of Shunzhi, many Qing nobles began to hoard land, and almost every prince had thousands to tens of thousands of acres of land. According to the calculation of two stones per mu at that time, the rent of 10 thousand mu could be 3.9 million yuan. During the prosperous period of Kang Yong, the people were relatively rich and the price fluctuated little. One or two pieces of silver is about RMB 450 yuan, and one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged1000p. At that time, the price of eggs was about twenty or thirty pence a catty, which was about 1 1 yuan.
During the Tongzhi period, the price of meat and eggs doubled, while the prices of vegetables, grain and oil changed little, about 10 words and 1 catty. Although the expenditure on food and drink has increased, it is obvious that the princes will not worry about this little money. Most of their money is spent on buying gold and silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, and of course gambling and comparison.
▲ Old photos of Qing Prince Yi Kuang
I think the life of these princes was very beautiful when the Qing Dynasty still existed. With their own luxurious palaces, they have raised dozens or even hundreds of maids, who eat delicacies every day. They usually play around when they are free. Apart from the emperor, the most nourishing estimate of life is these princes, who regularly enjoy the annual salary given by the state every year and can live a luxurious life without being tired. On the whole, the annual salary of princes in the Qing Dynasty was basically above RMB 3 million, which was definitely a wealthy class compared with the ordinary working class. However, if we compare the prince of the Qing Dynasty with the actor who is now popular, the latter's annual salary has already exceeded 100 million, and the prince is naturally dwarfed.
▲ Tianjin Qingwangfu Interior
More ironically, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, except for Prince Chun, Prince Qing and Prince Gong, most princes and county kings had a hard time. They have no skills and are unwilling to suffer. They had to sell their property, house and land to make a living. Some princes even had to do some hard work to make a living because they sold all their ancestral savings, which made people cry.