Chapter 72 Section 10 Titles and Income

Li Hua's "Ancient Battlefield Essays" is very sad, and the opening sentence says: How vast!The flat sand is boundless, no people are seen, the river is lingering, and the mountains are disputed.Gloomy and miserable, the wind is sad and the sun is dying.The grass is dry and the grass is dry, as cold as the frosty morning.Birds can't fly down, and beasts perish.The head of the pavilion told Yu: "This is also an ancient battlefield. It often overwhelms the three armies, and often ghosts cry, but the sky is cloudy and you hear it." It is conceivable that the battlefield that the Qin army passed through was even more tragic than this, with corpses strewn all over the field without heads.If there is a ghost crying, it should be like the ghost of Guan Yunchang, with a gloomy body and screaming: "Return--my-head--come--" Before these ghosts became ghosts, they must have been killed by Qin Jun. He raised his sword and chased after him fiercely, shouting while chasing: "Hand over your head and don't kill!"

The Qin army must beheaded when killing an enemy, not only for the convenience of assessing military merits, but also for the great destruction of the enemy's soul.When a person can clearly foresee his own death, death will appear particularly concrete and terrifying.Facing the barbaric Qin army, the soldiers of the enemy country can't help but imagine the picture of their own head dying in a different place in their minds. Before they can fight, they are already three points timid. For the senior officials of the imperial court, titles also have a special use, that is, they are used for ranking.For example, if a group of senior officials attend a certain activity or inspect a certain work together, when the host introduces everyone one by one, he arranges them in order not according to their official positions, but according to their titles.

The eighteen ranks formulated by Shang Yang have evolved, and by the time King Qin took over the government, they had become twenty ranks, which are written below: The first level is official, the second level is superior, the third level is hairpin, the fourth level is not changed, the fifth level is doctor, the sixth level is official, the seventh level is public official, the eighth level is public, and the ninth level The fifth doctor, the tenth level is the left elder, the eleventh is the right elder, the twelfth is the left shift, the thirteenth is the middle shift, the fourteenth is the right shift, the fifteenth is the young master, and the sixteenth The first rank is Da Shang Zao (also known as Daliang Zao), the 17th rank is Siche Shuzhang, the 18th rank is Da Shuzhang, the 19th rank is Guanneihou, and the 20th rank is Chehou.

Li Si's title at this time was Zuo Shuzhang.Coincidentally, Shang Yang's official career also started from Zuo Shuzhang, who was then named Daliang Zao, and then named Shangjun.With this coincidence, Li Si not only did not complain about his title, but secretly felt a little joy in his heart. Although we have no intention of selling insurance to Li Si, we still need to care about Li Si's income at this time. At that time, the income of officials usually consisted of two parts.One is the official salary, and the other is the title income.In the entire income structure, official salary probably only accounts for a very small part.Take Lu Buwei as an example, the official Lu Buwei is the prime minister, with a salary of ten thousand stones.At the same time, his title was Wenxinhou, and he was enfeoffed as food for 100,000 households in Luoyang, Henan.Compared with his generous title income, the salary of up to ten thousand stones is really not worth mentioning.

As mentioned above, Li Si's salary as a chief historian was a thousand stones, while his income from the title of Zuoshu chief was 300 families in the city and 300 families in taxes.Although this kind of income is far from that of Lu Buwei, it is very different from when he was a small official in Shangcai of Chu State.The sum of all the money he can earn in Shangcai's lifetime is not worth the two years he is currently working in Changshi's position.From the point of view of money alone, Li Si would also be thankful for what a correct decision he made back then.What's more, Li Si's ambition is not just seeking money!

(Note: The effect of Shang Yang’s reform is so obvious, why can’t the six countries imitate and follow up? To a large extent, an important reason is that the culture of the six countries is more developed than that of Qin. Culture, to a certain extent, means suppression. In the six countries It seems that the law of Shang Yang is to appoint talents instead of relatives, and to pursue utilitarianism and abandon etiquette. "If you want to benefit, you will ignore your relatives and brothers, and you will be like a beast. The world knows the same, and it is not about giving generously and accumulating virtue.")