"It's good-looking, it's so good-looking, it's really great!"

Zhang Zhenniang looked around Lin Chong with a smile for a long time, her eyes were full of excitement, and she couldn't help but praise. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Lin Chong felt that this official uniform was really ugly, first of all, he didn't like the color, it was green.

The official uniforms of the Song Dynasty followed the shape of the Tang Dynasty, with three grades and above purple, five and four grades of light crimson and dark crimson, six grades of dark green, and seven grades of light green. Eight grades of dark blue, nine grades of light green, Lin Chong felt that it was too strange for a big man to wear green clothes.

What's even more strange is that he is still stupidly wearing a collar with a square heart and round collar around his neck, Lin Chong knows that wearing this is intended to make the court clothes more ironed, and at the same time implies the cosmology of the Chinese sky and the round place, but this collar is too similar to the bib worn by children when eating, it is simply silly.

What's even more uncomfortable is the pair of long wings more than half a foot long made of iron wire and bamboo strips behind the black gauze official hat, which shake and shake when you walk a little, and you are uncomfortable.

Lin Chong felt that this official uniform was very unsightly and uncomfortable, but in the eyes of Zhang Zhenniang, Jin'er, Lin Bo, Cao Zheng, and Xue Yong, this was a symbol of status.

Including Zhen Niang, everyone's eyes when they looked at Lin Chong changed a little, of course, Zhen Niang and Jin'er were more joyful, and Cao Zheng and Xue Yong were more enthusiastic and in awe, this is an official, and it is also the most glorious and best direct and deputy commander of the classes.

You must know that as an official in the Great Song Dynasty, whether it is a civil official or a military attaché, the treatment is extremely high, not only the salary is high, but the benefits are also ridiculously high.

Someone has calculated that since almost the Shenzong Dynasty, the annual income of the chief civil and military officials, prime ministers and privy envoys of the dynasty, all kinds of goods and various treatments have been exchanged for at least more than 40,000 yuan, which is more than 10 million soft sister coins according to the purchasing power that has always been equal to 300 yuan in later generations.

Take the most famous Qing official in the Song Dynasty, Long Tu Ge Zhi Bachelor, Shang Shu Province Right Shi Langzhong, and Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion Bao Long Tu Bao Zheng as an example, his annual income is close to 10 million soft sister coins in later generations, such a high income, naturally he will not be greedy anymore.

Compared with high-ranking officials like Cai Jing and Bao Zheng, Lin Chong, the deputy commander of the seventh grade, naturally has a much less salary, but after all, he is the emperor's personal guard, and Zhao Ji is very good to the people around him, listening to Liu Weixiong, Lin Chong's monthly net salary is also 600 yuan, which is 7,200 yuan a year, and 2.16 million yuan in later generations.

However, these 700 yuan is not issued in full, generally speaking, it is seven money and three, and the money is not enough Mo but a province Mo (with 77 Wen as 100 money), and it will be discounted by another 7000, but even so, the annual salary is 1.5 million.

And Bianliang's consumption is also high, when you become an official, you have to socialize, invite people to seventy-two restaurants to eat, and then invite two or three girls to sing a little song, you can spend hundreds of yuan casually, if you just take this dead salary, the family is no problem to live a rich life, but it is definitely not enough to eat.

However, in the Great Song Dynasty, fixed wages have never been the bulk of income, and the main income also comes from various benefits, such as clothing, Lu Su, tea, wine and kitchen materials, charcoal, salt, retinue clothing and food, horses and corn, additional expenses, job money, minister money, etc.

In short, it is a perverted law to give benefits to officials, which is almost a perverted favor.

And when you become an official, you have to have servants and attendants, Lin Chong's level can be matched with two Yu Hou, these servants in the family and the hired Yu Hou, their clothing, food and wages are all paid by the imperial court, and Lin Chong does not have to pay a penny.

In addition, during the New Year's holidays, the emperor's sacrifices, etc., all the officials can also get rewards, including gold, silver, silk satin, etc., which are also quite generous when converted into cash, sometimes even higher than a year's salary.

If it happens to coincide with the triennial suburban festival, the scale of the reward is the largest, and sometimes it is not uncommon to directly reward three or four months' salary.

This is not over, in ancient times, being an official not only enjoyed the benefits for himself, but also benefited his descendants, also known as the grace system, the imperial court will give his children and grandchildren or relatives official titles or dispatches according to the rank of officials, not only to be officials themselves, but also to let their descendants do nothing and be officials directly.

And the indiscriminate grace and shade were also unprecedented in the Northern Song Dynasty, that is to say, after Lin Chong became the middle-level officer of the direct and deputy commander of the classes, he could not only enjoy a lifetime of happiness for himself, but also let his children and grandchildren enjoy a lifetime of happiness together.

Therefore, in the eyes of Zhang Zhenniang and Xue Yong, Xianggong (Brother Lin) became the deputy commander of the classes, which was a step to the sky, and from then on, he could enjoy endless glory and wealth, and he could also be kind to his children and grandchildren.

This kind of almost perverted grace to officials, no wonder even after a thousand years, it still attracts countless scholars to be leisurely fascinated, saying that if you want to travel to the Song Dynasty, you can live happily and live a life like a fairy.

However, they don't want to think about it, there are so many officials in the Song Dynasty, the salaries and benefits are so high, and the number of troops is so infinitely inflated, even if the Song Dynasty has the advantage of opening up the sea, even if the Song Dynasty has prosperous commerce, even if the Song Dynasty's tax revenue is more than that of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know how much, but no matter how much money there is, there is always a number.

The more they possess, the less others occupy, the final result must be that the officials are rich, but the common people are poor, and the country's finances have been on the verge of collapse and bankruptcy.

Because of this, the wealthy Song Dynasty was the one with the largest number of peasant uprisings of all dynasties.

Why? That is, the money has been squeezed away by the imperial court, the bureaucracy, and the forbidden army group, and the common people are so poor that they can only go hungry every day!

In later generations, these people who yearn to travel to the Song Dynasty to live a good life are nothing more than yearning for nothing but longing to be a parasite lying on the common people to suck blood.

(The Song Dynasty had the most peasant uprisings, but the scale was not large, because the Song Dynasty organized the young and strong among the displaced people into box armies every time, and on the one hand, they raised them, and on the other hand, they turned these box armies into engineering teams to find things to do; Moreover, the wealth of the Song Dynasty was concentrated in the center, and there was not much money in the local area, and the peasant army could not grab much grain even if it captured the county seat, so it was difficult to form a scale. ）

Lin Chong also had a lot of emotion in his heart, the treatment of an official in the Song Dynasty was so good, no wonder Song Jiang, a small official in Yuncheng, wanted to be an official so much, so he even did not hesitate to sell all the Liangshan brothers and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and exchanged their blood for an official robe for himself.

But in the end, he was just a martial arts doctor, a pacification envoy of Chuzhou, and the head of soldiers and horses, just like himself now, he is the chief envoy of the seven products, and as the emperor's personal guard officer, in the eyes of the world, it is far more glorious than Song Jiang's pacification envoy of Chuzhou and the head of soldiers and horses, and it is easier to develop.

It is equivalent to writing two poems now, sending a mirror, a set of toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, etc., which is completely better than the official position obtained by Song Jiang who betrayed Liangshan and fought in the southern and northern wars.

Lin Chong secretly thought, if the soul of Lin Chong was still there, knowing that he was now such a high and glorious official, I don't know how happy he would be, I was afraid that he would be eager to repay Zhao Ji's great kindness, right?

It's a pity that the current Lin Chong is no longer the original Lin Chong, even if Zhao Ji gives him the position of the captain of the Gao Yu Palace's Marshal's Mansion (the front division of the palace), he will not be moved, let alone the deputy commander of the small tea and wine class.