Hearing Qu'er ask how much she would be paid, An Ruyi was stunned for a moment, she had also thought about how much she would get a few taels of silver before. But when she heard the chief announce that it was the "renminbi" to be issued, she was also puzzled, and she had some score in her heart after hearing it.

"The salary, I think it will be at least 30 yuan." An Ruyi carefully closed her notebook and stood up, now there were only the two of them in the conference room, and everyone else had gone to eat.

"30 yuan, Ruyi, how do you calculate this?" Qu'er knows that Daoan Ruyi has always been shrewd and capable, and when the eldest wife of the Jiang family was still there, Ruyi was her right-hand man.

An Ruyi smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically, "Have you forgotten, what did the chief say in the middle of the meeting?" ”

Qu Er pursed her lips and replied, "The chief said something for almost two hours, there are not 1,000 sentences, but also 800 sentences, where do I remember which one!" ”

An Ruyi put a slender finger on her forehead a little heavier, and said, "You, if you don't listen carefully to the chief's knowledge, it is estimated that you will be miserable." ”

"Ruyi, Ruyi, you just say it." Qu'er and An Ruyi are like sisters, she knows that An Ruyi is joking with her, so she just shakes An Ruyi's arm.

"Stop, stop, stop, your arm is about to break for you." An Ruyi finally broke free from Qu'er's clutches, and saw that Qu'er was about to come over again, so he hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'm afraid of you, didn't the chief say a word, saying that that one penny was equal to a penny of the original Ming Dynasty." ”

"Hey, the chief seems to have said this." Qu'er tilted her head and thought about it, as if there was really such a sentence in the chief's speech, but her head was a little confused at that time, so she didn't remember it very clearly.

An Ruyi glanced at her angrily, "Of course the chief has already said it, do you want me to show you the notebook?" ”

"It's so wishful, my sister said the wrong thing, you have a lot of adults, forgive my sister."

"Hey, I'm so angry." Of course, An Ruyi was not angry, after all, these are just trivial things.

Qu Er saw that An Ruyi was really not angry, so he asked again, "Ruyi, then even if a penny is equal to a penny, what does it have to do with the fact that we can get 30 yuan?" ”

An Ruyi didn't reply so quickly this time, she thought about it, organized her language, and replied, "Qu'er, do you remember, when we first arrived at Jiang's house, I heard that more than 700 copper coins could be exchanged for one or two silver, but earlier this year, these two silver had to be exchanged for more than 1,000 copper coins, and this copper coin became less and less valuable." ”

It turns out that under normal circumstances, in ancient times, 1 tael of silver could be exchanged for about 1000 to 1500 copper coins, which was usually said in ancient times as 1 guan money or 1 hanging money, but the Ming Dynasty was an exception.

Before and after the accession of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, private transactions were mostly made of gold and silver. However, in 1375 A.D., after the issuance of treasure banknotes in the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming court repeatedly ordered to prohibit the people from trading in gold and silver, and violators were required to smelt felonies.

However, the money they issued and the money they minted were still based on the price of silver. There is a certain price comparison between silver banknotes and silver money, and the price is set in the same year, and the silver is one or two when the money is a thousand Wen, and the banknote is consistent. After Ming Yingzong ascended the throne, he relaxed the ban on the use of silver, collected the order of converting rice and wheat into silver, and reduced various items of banknotes, using rice and silver coins as banknotes.

After this period, the exchange between silver and copper coins became a floating exchange rate, just like the exchange of domestic and foreign currencies in modern societies. The ratio between them cannot be answered by a simple formula, because in different periods of the Ming Dynasty, the name, size, and weight of the copper coins they minted were different, so the number of copper coins that could be exchanged for a coin of silver was also different. These details can be found in the contents of the History of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 81, Zhi 57, and Food and Goods 5.

To put it simply, it is to cast a lot of money in the early Ming Dynasty "Dazhong Tongbao", and 4 Wen can be exchanged for 1 money of silver. After that, according to the official regulations, the copper coins minted by the emperor were 7 wen to 1 cent of silver, 70 wen to 1 cent of silver, and 700 wen to almost 1 tael of silver. And the private money and inferior money stolen by the people even cost thirty or forty to sixty or seventy wen before they could be exchanged for a penny of silver.

Coupled with the lack of silver in ancient China, the value of silver was very high. Because silver, as a hard currency, has a stable value and good credit, although it is not uniformly fine, but the difference is small, so its supply plays a crucial role in the circulation of money and the change in the price of silver.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court discouraged the mining of silver, so the income from the silver at this time was very small, about 75,070 taels. In the early Ming Dynasty, when the quantity and quality of coinage were relatively normal, the price comparison between silver and copper coins has been maintained in a relatively reasonable range.

However, the use of silver is an objective need of economic laws, and with the widespread use of silver in society, a large amount of silver mining is inevitable. In the later period of Zhengde, the income of the silver was suddenly reduced, in order to maintain the mining, although the ore silver was less, but still tried to mine, resulting in social contradictions, less silver and the money system was chaotic, coupled with the indiscriminate circulation of private money in coinage, the fluctuation of the price of silver and copper money in this period was inevitable, and the ratio of copper money to silver began to soar.

An Ruyi didn't understand the reason behind "silver is expensive and cheap", but she grasped the superficial phenomenon and said again, "Qu'er, think about it, since 1,000 wen can only be exchanged for 1 tael of silver now, then a penny is equal to one yuan, doesn't it mean that one tael of silver should be 10 yuan!" ”

"I'll do the math." Don't look at Qu'er, who manages the kitchen in an orderly manner, but the oral arithmetic of numbers like these is not what he is good at.

The literacy in ancient times was very low, in addition to the eight shares, it was mentioned in the "Ming and Qing Dynasties Jiangnan Education" that there were 0 in Jiangnan at the end of the Qing Dynasty. There was a literacy rate of 3 per cent, compared to 0 for the whole country at the time. 15% or so, as for the Ming Dynasty, it was 0. About 1%. Therefore, Qu'er can read a few words, and it is very difficult to know the addition and subtraction of numbers within a hundred. Therefore, this 1 tael of silver is 10 yuan, and she hesitated for a while to calculate it.

After finishing the calculation, Qu Er said happily, "Ruyi, this really has to be 10 yuan." By the way, Ruyi, then how do you know that we can get 30 yuan? ”

"Qu'er, you're so stupid." An Ruyi hated that iron could not become steel, and poked Qu'er's forehead again, "Haven't you heard Brother Guo and them say, when the chief was in Zhangcheng County, the Zhou Da housekeeper was 5 taels of silver, and the deacon with a skill under him was either 3 taels of silver or 2 taels of silver." ”

Qu'er was puzzled after listening to it, and didn't reply immediately, obviously converting it in his heart, and after a while, his face glowed with a strange look, and then he said with a smile, "Hehe, Ruyi, I understand, the chief should give us 3 taels of silver, so according to the previous algorithm, it really has to be 30 yuan." ”

"It's so simple, how long have you calculated." An Ruyi shook her head.

Qu'er didn't care, took An Ruyi's hand with a smile, and said, "Let's go, Ruyi, let's eat." ”

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Although An Ruyi's guess was not successful, it was not too far away. After the group had finished eating and rested for an hour, they returned to the large conference room for a meeting. At this time, they were all in high spirits, and they were listening to the chief's speech seriously, because what the chief said was related to their money.

"50 yuan! That's a lot! After Qu'er heard the chief announce some salary scales of 369, she put her own and Ruyi's information into it according to the salary scale mentioned by the chief, and found that she was at the level of 50 yuan, and the corners of her mouth immediately grinned happily.

Look at the other people here, they are all happy, some of them are slightly upturned with a smile, and some are simply the ones who are so smiling that they can't even close their mouths, obviously at noon, everyone has more or less guessed in their hearts, and now they find that the number is much higher than their guesses.

Compared with An Ruyi's level of "points" and "text", coupled with the monthly salary of Zhou Mingrui's original housekeeper in Zhilu Dao, their monthly wages were obtained. When Huangshi gives them these pay grades and specific amounts, this aspect is much more complicated to consider.

First of all, Yellowstone is of course to consider the purchasing power of society, which is an economic term that, as the name suggests, is the ability to purchase goods and services after obtaining income. It reflects the size of the market capacity of the whole society during the period.

It refers to the total amount of money used to purchase goods over a certain period of time. Since purchasing power refers to the purchasing power of commodities, all receipts and expenditures in kind that are not settled by money and monetary expenditures that are not used to purchase goods and services, such as the repayment of loans, the payment of taxes, party dues, trade union dues, etc., do not belong to the scope of social commodity purchasing power.

Second, Yellowstone takes into account the disposable income of his subordinates, which is an important indicator of their standard of living. In modern society, it refers to the sum of final consumption expenditures and other non-obligatory expenditures and savings of urban households, that is, the income that households can use for free disposal.

The specific composition of disposable income is the income of the total household income after deducting the individual income tax paid, the social security premiums paid by the individual and the bookkeeping subsidy of the surveyed household. Gross household income includes the sum of salary income, net business income, property income and transfer income received by all family members during the survey period, excluding income from the sale of property and loans.

Third, Huangshi also has to take into account the level of wages, which is a classification of all jobs priced according to the level of wages, and it is a division of all members of the organization according to their positions, years of service, labor intensity, etc. Only with a salary level can it be conducive to encouraging subordinates to learn skills, improve their skills and business level, and work actively, and it is also easy to reflect the class, competition, and value.