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2. Who is nostalgic for the Republic of China era?

As mentioned above, as far as the various strata of the entire society are concerned, the Republic of China has the good of the Republic of China, and the new China has the good of the new China, and it depends on the social status and personal income of each person, and it cannot be generalized.

So, who are the people who are nostalgic for the "incomparably beautiful" era of the Republic of China?

Please take a look at the two payslips here:

In 1918~1919, the ** in his youth worked as an administrator in the library of Peking University, and the famous returnee scholar Hu Shi was a professor at Peking University.

-- Librarian Mao's monthly salary is only 8 yuan, but Professor Hu's monthly salary is as high as 24o yuan, a difference of 3o times!

In fact, although Hu Shi returned from overseas with a layer of gold plating at that time, he had not worked in Peking University for a long time, and his reputation was far inferior to that of later generations, and his monthly salary was not the highest. During the same period, Chen Duxiu, the head of Peking University's Chinese department, earned a monthly salary of 4oo yuan, equivalent to 5o times that of Mao's administrator—in a few years, the monthly salary of Peking University professors will double again, reaching an average of 5oo yuan, while the monthly salary of a librarian has not increased much.

What's even worse is that Professor Hu Shi's 24o oceans can generally be put on time every month. However, Administrator Mao's 8 oceans of monthly salary was always in arrears, and he didn't get all of them until he left.

It is said that he worked for half a year, but in the end he only received three months' salary, which is equivalent to half of his salary - I suddenly understood the reason for the rumored hatred of intellectuals......

Well, in addition, there is why Chairman Chen Duxiu surrendered to the right in the future, and why Hu Shi insisted on opposing it. The common position can also be seen from this payroll - they are all vested interests of that era!

In fact, the real problem doesn't stop there. In all fairness, if our wage earners can get a salary of 2ooo~3ooo yuan, basically satisfying food and clothing, and approaching a well-off, then even if they see that a senior white-collar worker can get a monthly salary of more than 100,000 yuan, which is dozens of times that of themselves, everyone will envy them in private at most.

But the question is, what was the actual purchasing power of Mao's 8 yuan monthly salary at that time?

Due to the frequent wars and turmoil in the Republic of China era, the price of rice fluctuated greatly in various places, and the price of rice alone often fluctuated several times. Basically, the later the years, the more inflation will be.

Moreover, there is a large difference in the price level between urban and rural areas, between the south and the north. If, in the course of comparison, one deliberately or unconsciously compares the prices of Shanxi with the income of Shanghai, the income of the 4o years with the prices of the 2o years, and the purchase price of grain and rice in the harvest season in the countryside to compare the income of workers in big cities (see "Collecting Three or Five Buckets Overcharge"), it is very likely to come up with a bunch of very absurd results -- and this is also a technique commonly used by contemporary "historical masters".

For example, a few years ago, the purchase price of cabbage in the countryside of Henan once fell to a dime a catty, making farmers lose money and cry without tears. But who of us has ever bought a dime and a pound of cabbage in the city? The shipping cost alone is several times the purchase cost!

In the same way, if people were allowed to live in Xining, Qinghai with their income from Shanghai, they would definitely be very wealthy, but the problem is that it is simply not possible.

Back to the topic, when ** entered Peking University as a librarian, the Republic of China had only been established for six or seven years, and it had not yet entered the darkest era, and the currency value of the ocean was still quite strong. According to the figures provided in the Economic History of the Republic of China, in the Beijing consumer market in 1919, a piece of ocean should be able to buy 2o catties of the worst brown rice, and if calculated according to the price of rice, the purchasing power is about 4o yuan today.

And Mao's monthly salary of 8 yuan can only be equivalent to today's 32o yuan, which is not enough for the subsistence standard of many contemporary cities.

What's even worse is that Beijing is the second most expensive place in the country after Shanghai, and Administrator Mao's monthly salary of 8 silver dollars is already considered a high salary in his hometown in Hunan, but in Beijing it is really not spent - although these 8 silver dollars can buy 16o catties of rice, in addition to eating, he also has to eat vegetables, buy clothes, pay water and electricity bills, buy briquettes for cooking, buy newspapers, matches, cigarettes, and especially pay rent......

Today's "Beipiao family" must have a deep understanding of the high rent in Beijing. And ** The rent level in Beijing back then, although it was not as exaggerated as it is now, was also not cheap.

――The current 32o yuan should be able to buy 16o catties of rice in many places, but who can live with an income of 32o yuan? If you don't believe me, let you go to Beijing and take 32o yuan to recruit a librarian to try? I'm afraid I won't be able to hire even part-time people!

However, Professor Hu's monthly salary of 24o yuan can be converted to 96oo yuan today, which is fully enough for the standard of a modern university. If you put it in the era of the Republic of China, which was full of flames and starvation, it would already be classified as a rich man!

Obviously, letting the working people take a salary of 3ooo yuan to see the professors' monthly income of 96ooo yuan, and holding a salary of 3ooo yuan to see the professors' monthly income of 96ooo yuan, will definitely lead to two completely different moods - the former is just general envy, while the latter is so hateful that his eyes are red.

-- The rich have a lot of land, which is never a reason for revolution; The poor have no place to stand, which is the cause of rebellion!

In short, during the Republican period, university professors were a very decent profession. And the twenties and thirties of the last century were also the golden age of intellectuals, and the salaries of university professors were much higher than the average salary of society, and they lived a very superior material life. With such a high salary, university professors and lecturers in Beijing naturally have a lot of money to visit the glaze factory, buy books and newspapers, buy antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and their lives are full of petty bourgeoisie.

The warlords of the Beiyang government, although they looked quite rude and reckless on the outside, always fought and killed each other, but they were very polite to the intellectuals. Even if they are financially stretched, they have never owed these experts and scholars their salaries. Even if Lu Xun is a thorn in the coffin who always likes to get into trouble with the ruling authorities, the education department has never deducted his high salary of 3oo silver dollars per month.

And these professors usually hold very secure positions, neither like businessmen who can go bankrupt because of failed investments, nor like officials who can be dismissed without cause at any time because of regime change, and live in big cities with relatively good security, unlike rural landlords who have to worry about peasant rent resistance, bandit robbery, and warlord extortion. Therefore, their happy life often makes future generations sigh.

Looking back at contemporary times, in today's coastal first-tier cities in China, the basic monthly salary of university lecturers is usually around 6ooo yuan, associate professors 8ooo yuan, and professors 1oooo yuan. The salary of the doorman and handyman is at least about 2ooo yuan. The difference between the two is only 3~5 times.

The vast number of working people take it for granted that the income gap has been greatly narrowed in this way, and even think that the income of these professors is high enough, not to mention that in the establishment of educational institutions, it is very likely that there are generous benefits that ordinary people cannot enjoy, such as sharing houses.

If the income of university janitors and handymen is compressed to the standard of the Republic of China in modern times, that is, the original 1o%, the monthly salary is only about 2oo yuan, and the price index remains unchanged, there is no welfare at all, and the salary is often in arrears...... I think they should be able to fully understand the feeling of working in the library of Peking University back then-"...... My interest in politics continued to grow, and my thinking became more and more radical...... When I was working as a library assistant at the National Peking University under Li Dazhao, I quickly moved in the direction of Marxism. (Excerpt from Snow's "A Journey to the West")

Therefore, even if the working masses are a little dissatisfied with today's society, they will never miss the Republic of China era with a monthly salary of 32o yuan.

However, many of today's "brick family beasts" look back on history, but they feel that their hearts are very unbalanced - in their opinion, the times are advancing, knowledge should be more respected, and the salaries of intellectuals should also keep pace with the times, and the gap with the foolish people is right!

Even according to the "backward standards" of the Republic of China era, they should at least take 3o to 5o times of 2ooo yuan, that is, a monthly salary of 60,000 to 1o yuan is reasonable! But now the government is willing to give 1\/1o to the standard of the Republic of China!! What a disrespect for intellectuals!!

-- A university professor during the Republic of China could easily buy a courtyard house in Beijing. And modern university professors, if they want to get a 1oo square meter three-bedroom apartment in Beijing, they have to buy almost the boundary of Tongzhou!

For these people, the treatment provided to them by contemporary society is far less than the high standard during the Republic of China, so they naturally have to complain and miss that "beautiful era" infinitely. And they are all high-level intellectuals, and they are also the kind of people who are best at playing with the pen, so they naturally have the ability to "clear" countless "new thinking" and "new appearance" that describe the beauty of the Republic of China era.

-- As we have learned in the political textbooks, a qiē problem is fundamentally an economic problem!