What is the real life of the princes living in the Qing Dynasty?

Today, when the "braid play" is full of our eyes, in the eyes of many people, the courts and palaces of the Qing Dynasty are luxurious, fish and meat every day. Take Beijing's "Du Wen Water City" as an example. This is the original site of Wang Mi in Pingxi, where the decorations and halls are all high-grade goods, and there are countless mahogany beds carved with 999 dragons, celebrity calligraphy and paintings and antiques. But are they really so happy? What was the real life of the princes in the Qing Dynasty like? How do they calculate their annual salary?

The Origin of Princes in Qing Dynasty

The title of "monarch" came into being after the Qing Dynasty. Before the Qing dynasty, others called the captaincy (that is, the captaincy, the "prince" of the Qing dynasty) as "Your Highness", and only the emperor could be addressed as "Your Majesty".

According to the status, the Qing Dynasty can be divided into many kinds, such as the highest is the prince, who is also the emperor's brother and uncle, the second is the county king, who is the emperor's cousin or uncle, and the prince was raised. This kind of person is usually the emperor's personal will to give someone a title, and he doesn't remember the record. It is just an recognition of his identity, but he has never been crowned king since Kang Xiping's San Francisco.

Generally speaking, the monarch is equivalent to a big landlord, who can collect all kinds of taxes from his fiefs, and his living conditions are generally good, but the only drawback is that he has no right to move freely unless the emperor calls him.

The real life of princes in Qing dynasty

It is said that it is recorded in the real recipes of the late Qing Dynasty. The princes of the Qing dynasty ate horseshoes, biscuits and fried dough sticks bought from the street for breakfast, and rarely changed them. The fixed dishes for lunch and dinner are cold cucumber and vegetarian spinach, and occasionally some stewed diced chicken and stewed peas are added at noon. The only thing better than ordinary people is that there must be two plates of cooked food for each meal, such as pig's head, small belly or sauced meat. The staple food is almost rice, although it is eaten. They all use crystal plates. When it comes to ancient luxury food, most people pay attention to packaging, not how delicious it is. The so-called big fish and big meat are even more comparable.

Let's talk about it after eating. In the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial court wore patched official uniforms, so the problem came. Why are these grandchildren in Wang Zilong so short of money when they have land and salary? To put it bluntly, this is mainly due to the domestic system of China people. In ancient times, every big family and official family disdained wealth, because they thought it was too vulgar to collect money, which was detrimental to their status. These so-called princes are lazy and never consider whether the money is enough or not. In order to show their identity, they ate the most expensive instead of the best.

Let's talk about getting dressed Although princes live a precarious life, they still have to live, right? Whenever there are large-scale activities in the palace, you should wear formal clothes, and you will be fined if you don't wear them. Some princes are big and poor, so they will wear painted royal clothes. Anyway, their status in the hall is very low, and they can't go to the front, and the emperor can't see them.

Salaries of princes in Qing dynasty

The salaries of officials in the Qing dynasty were all embezzled from the rules of the Ming dynasty, and they were treated badly in all aspects. First class is only 180 two silver a year, and seventh class is only 45 two silver a year. This kind of money is not enough to support the extravagant life of these officials, so the gray income of officials began to increase and corruption began. In the Qing Dynasty, a magistrate was nominally 45 taels of silver, but almost all magistrates had at least 65,438 taels of silver a year.

The annual salary of governors in the Qing Dynasty was 65,438+2,000 yuan, more than 50 times that of first-class officials. In addition, they also have their own property, such as the taxes of various shops in the city. It's no problem to get millions of taels of silver a year. The county king's annual salary is 5.2 thousand, which is more than 20 times that of a first-class official. It can be seen that the expenses of the royal family are simply endless.

In the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people lived a normal life of 10 taels a year, but princes did not spend 12000 taels. In the TV series Yongzheng Dynasty, old Yin Shi borrowed 252,000 taels of silver from the Ministry of Industry.

Funnily enough, these princes are petty thieves. An armored ship costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but the Qing Dynasty can't afford it. Finally, they were bought by Japan and became Japan's Yoshino. Faced with the poverty and weakness of the country, these princes in the Qing Dynasty became more and more indignant. When the great ship of the Great Qing Dynasty sank, they were dumbfounded. After the Revolution of 1911, some of them still smoked opium and sold their land and property when they had no money. Finally, even Wang Fu should mortgage.

The princes in the TV series dragged on 2.58 million one by one, so they can get away with it. In fact, that's how they live.