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Volume 171 Treatises 124: Offical Posts 11

Chapter 171 of 宋史 · History of Song
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Official Posts 11 (Salary System, Part One) Salaries—records of bolts of silk, post stipends, grain salaries, attendants' clothing and food, kitchen supplies, firewood and charcoal, and other allowances. (From grand councilors down to directors of mountain-and-river shrines—forty-one grades in all.)
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Grand councilors and Military Affairs commissioners received three hundred thousand cash per month. (For spring and winter dress, twenty bolts of thin silk and thirty bolts of silk each season; in winter, one hundred liang of cotton batting.) Military Affairs commissioners who also held commissioner-plenipotentiary rank, and chief councilors serving as Military Affairs commissioners, (Spring and winter clothing allowances matched those of grand councilors.) Military governors who ranked with or above Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilors, holders of the Palatial Commandery commissioner designation, former two-court ministers appointed as military governors, military governors reassigned to new commands, and Military Affairs commissioners, vice-commissioners, and bureau directors who also held military governorships received four hundred thousand cash.
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Vice grand councilors, vice-commissioners and directors of Military Affairs, Palatial Commandery commissioners without military governorships, acting Military Affairs signatories with the honorary title of Grand Guardian, and commissioners of the Three Departments received two hundred thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of thin silk; ten bolts of silk in spring and twenty in winter; fifty liang of cotton batting. From grand councilors downward, one additional bolt of gauze silk was added each spring. Acting signatories with the honorary title of Grand Guardian received twenty bolts of silk in spring and winter and fifty liang of cotton batting.) Military observation deputies who directed the Bureau of Military Affairs, those acting as vice-commissioners or associate directors, and Palatial Commandery commissioners serving as Military Affairs signatories received three hundred thousand cash, (Allowances of thin silk, silk, gauze silk, and cotton batting matched those of vice grand councilors.)
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Grand academicians of the Hall for Viewing Literature, (Allowance money and clothing grants followed their primary offices.) Grand academicians of the Hall for Assisting Governance, (Allowance money and clothing grants followed their primary offices.) Hanlin academicians-expositor and academicians; direct academicians of the Dragon Diagram and Heavenly Writ pavilions; drafters of edicts; and academicians of those two pavilions, (Five bolts of thin silk each and seventeen bolts of silk; from the expositor downward one additional bolt of gauze silk was granted; fifty liang of cotton batting. For the offices listed above, salaries followed the primary office; clothing grants followed the primary office's standard—when the pavilion rank was higher, the primary office's rate applied; when lower, each grade's rate applied in sequence.) The Three Preceptors and Three Dukes received one hundred twenty thousand cash and thirty bolts of silk. (Eastern Palace Three Preceptors and Directors-in-Chief received ninety thousand cash. Five bolts of thin silk each and twenty bolts of silk.) Eastern Palace Three Minor Preceptors, the Censor-in-Chief, and ministers received sixty thousand cash. Vice directors of the Secretariat and Chancellery, directors of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan Affairs, left and right vice directors, vice ministers of the various ministries, and the vice censor-in-chief received fifty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of thin silk and seventeen bolts of silk; only the vice censor-in-chief received seven bolts of thin silk and twenty bolts of silk. Acting vice censors-in-chief received the salaries of their original offices.) Advisors to the Heir Apparent received forty-five thousand cash. (Allowances of thin silk and silk matched those of the vice censor-in-chief.) Left and Right Regular Attendants-in-Ordinary received sixty thousand cash. Attendants Drafting Edicts, Secretariat drafting officials, great directors of offices and directorates, the rector of the National University, and the steward of the Heir Apparent's Household received forty-five thousand cash. Remonstrance officials. They received forty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of thin silk and fifteen bolts of silk. Earlier records state: directors of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan Affairs, left and right vice directors, and vice ministers serving as Hanlin expositor, study companion, or lecturer each received seven bolts of thin silk and twenty bolts of silk; Secretariat drafting officials serving as Hanlin academicians received five bolts of thin silk and seventeen bolts of silk; officials of other posts serving as Dragon Diagram Pavilion academicians or direct Military Affairs academicians all followed this standard. Dragon Diagram Pavilion academicians who drafted edicts received the same allowances as remonstrance officials.) Acting commissioners of the Three Departments, and acting dispatch commissioners for official business, (Allowance money and clothing grants both matched the primary office.) Vice commissioners received fifty thousand cash. (Two bolts of thin silk in spring and five in winter; fifteen bolts of silk each spring and winter. From the Three Preceptors downward, one additional bolt of gauze silk was added each spring and fifty liang of cotton batting each winter; acting holders received the same. Assessors, acting and dispatched officials, sub-bureau chief judges, canal commissioners, and joint canal commissioners all received allowance money and clothing grants equal to their primary offices.)
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Left and Right Moral Tutors, deputy directors of offices and directorates, the vice rector, and bureau directors received thirty-five thousand cash. Left and Right Secretaries of the Heir Apparent, diarists and attendants, and attendant censors, (Those handling miscellaneous affairs received the same. If a full-rank bureau director handled miscellaneous affairs, he received his original office's allowance.) Left and Right Department Remonstrators, palace attendant censors, supernumerary bureau directors, and magistrates of red counties received thirty thousand cash; assistant magistrates received fifteen thousand cash. (If capital court officials opted to receive clothing and salary from their original offices, they still received grain and wheat rations.) The vice steward of the Heir Apparent's Household received twenty-nine thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, thirteen bolts of silk; only magistrates of red counties received clothing grants according to their primary offices.) Left and Right Rectifiers, investigating censors, Court of Imperial Sacrifices academicians, relay secretaries, National University classicists of the Five Classics, assistants in the Courts of Imperial Sacrifices, Imperial Clan Affairs, Secretariat, and Palace Administration, the compiler-in-chief, and the director of review in the Court of Judicial Review received twenty thousand cash. The heir apparent's director of the regulator of time, second-class secretaries, moral instructors, first-class attendants, and third-class attendants, and attendants of the six services in the Palace Administration received eighteen thousand cash. (Court of Imperial Sacrifices academicians and above received ten bolts of silk each spring and winter; from Moral Tutors downward, one additional bolt of gauze silk was added in spring and thirty liang of cotton batting in winter; all others received seven bolts of silk. Court of Imperial Sacrifices academicians, compilers, and palace attendants third class had formerly varied in their increases and decreases.)
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The Five Directors of the Astronomical Bureau received thirteen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; in winter, fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Secretariat secretaries and assistant compilers received seventeen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, six bolts of silk; in winter, twenty liang of cotton batting each. From the Five Directors downward, one bolt of gauze silk was granted each spring. Secretariat secretaries formerly received no salary; those who concurrently held posts in the Three Pavilions received eighty thousand cash; in Zhidao 2, an edict granted them the same allowance as assistant compilers.) Directors of the Court of Judicial Review received fourteen thousand cash; directors of various offices and directorates received twelve thousand cash, (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk.) Judicial reviewers received ten thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk. From Court of Judicial Review directors downward, fifteen liang of cotton batting was added each winter. Directors of various offices and directorates and judicial reviewers had formerly varied in their increases and decreases.) Invocation officers and ceremonial receptionists received eight thousand cash; the deputy director of the Astronomical Bureau received five thousand cash, (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk.) Chief clerks received five thousand cash, (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk; deputy directors and chief clerks each received fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Directors of the Observatory Platform received three thousand cash; directors of the Bureau of Celestial Patterns received two thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk; only Observatory Platform directors also received three thousand cash in winter with their clothing allowance.)
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Military governors received four hundred thousand cash. (Army commanders received the same. If an imperial prince served as military governor while also chief councilor or bearing a princely title; if an imperial clansman's military governorship ranked with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor; and honorary military governors and title-bearing princes—all received the same salary as military governors. They alone received each spring and winter an additional one hundred bolts of silk, twenty bolts of large-pattern thin silk, thirty bolts of small-pattern thin silk, ten bolts of gauze silk, and five hundred liang of cotton batting.) Military observation deputies, (When the new official system took effect, the title was changed to transmission commissioner.) They received three hundred thousand cash. (Army commanders received the same. Directors-in-chief and lead ushers of the Two Departments and bureau commissioners holding posts in absentia followed this standard. Imperial clansmen serving as deputies or bearing commandery princely titles followed the same rule; they received an additional twenty bolts of silk in spring and thirty in winter, ten bolts each of large and small thin silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and one hundred liang of cotton batting in winter.) Observation commissioners received two hundred thousand cash. (Army commanders received the same. Directors-in-chief and lead ushers of the Two Departments, bureau commissioners, and lateral-rank holders serving in absentia received salaries according to this standard. Each spring and winter they received an additional ten bolts of silk and fifty liang of cotton batting. Imperial clansmen serving as observation commissioners received three hundred thousand cash, plus each spring and winter an additional fifteen bolts of silk, ten bolts of thin silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Defense commissioners received three hundred thousand cash. (Army commanders and imperial clansmen received the same. Imperial clansmen, Two Department directors-in-chief and lead ushers, bureau commissioners, lateral-rank holders, and Guard grand generals and generals serving in absentia received one hundred fifty thousand cash; imperial clansmen each spring and winter also received fifteen bolts of silk, ten bolts of thin silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting. Two Department directors-in-chief and lead ushers, lateral-rank holders, and Guard grand generals holding posts received ten bolts of silk each spring and winter and fifty liang of cotton batting.) Training commissioners received one hundred fifty thousand cash. (Army commanders, imperial clansmen, and appointees from the military roster received the same. Imperial clansmen, Two Department directors-in-chief and lead ushers, bureau commissioners, lateral-rank holders, and Guard grand generals serving in absentia received one hundred thousand cash. Imperial clansmen each spring and winter also received fifteen bolts of silk, ten bolts of thin silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting. Two Department directors-in-chief and lead ushers, lateral-rank holders, and Guard grand generals and generals holding posts received ten bolts of silk each spring and winter and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter.)
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Commanders-in-chief of the Six Armies received one hundred thousand cash; Guard senior generals received sixty thousand cash. They received each spring and winter five bolts of thin silk, ten bolts of silk, and fifty liang of cotton batting; if an imperial prince served as Guard senior general, he received two hundred thousand cash, plus each spring and winter ten bolts of thin silk, ten bolts of silk in spring, one bolt of gauze silk, twenty bolts of silk in winter, and fifty liang of cotton batting. Left and Right Golden Guard grand generals received thirty-five thousand cash. Guard grand generals received twenty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of thin silk and seven bolts of silk; in winter, thirty liang of cotton batting.) Guard generals received twenty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, two bolts of thin silk and five bolts of silk; twenty liang of cotton batting.) Directors and vice-directors of the Palace Guard and middle-rank generals received thirteen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; in winter, fifteen liang of cotton batting. From Guard senior generals downward, one bolt of gauze silk was added for spring clothing.)
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The commissioner of the Inner Reception Bureau received sixty thousand cash. The commissioner of the Reception Bureau received thirty-seven thousand cash. Commissioners of Yanfu Palace, Jingfu Hall, Xuanqing, Reception, Four Directions Hostel, Xuanzheng, Zhaoxuan, and the Gate received twenty-seven thousand cash. Commissioners of bureaus from the Imperial City downward received twenty-five thousand cash. (Ten bolts of silk in spring and ten in winter, plus thirty liang of cotton batting; the Reception Bureau commissioner's spring and winter silk allowance was fixed at ten bolts each.)
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Vice commissioners of the Reception Bureau and bureaus from the Imperial City downward received twenty thousand cash. Inner Hall drafters received seventeen thousand cash; honored attendants received fourteen thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk in spring and ten in winter, plus thirty liang of cotton batting. Those also bearing Gate Usher appointments received the same.) Palace attendants of tribute rank received ten thousand cash. (Those concurrently bearing Gate Usher appointments received twelve thousand cash. Four bolts of silk in spring, five in winter, and twenty liang of cotton batting.) Palace attendants of attendance rank received seven thousand cash. (Those also bearing Gate Usher appointments received ten thousand cash. Palace attendants of direct rank received five thousand cash. Those also bearing Gate Usher appointments received nine thousand cash. All received four bolts of silk each spring and winter and fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter.) Third-Rank Service appointees and borrowed appointees received four thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk and two thousand cash.) Lower tea-and-wine guard palace attendants received one thousand cash. (Seven bolts of silk each spring and winter; in winter, fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Off-duty guard palace attendants received seven hundred cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; both categories also applied to frontier officials and locally recruited appointees.)
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Imperial kinsmen serving as Guard grand generals who concurrently held prefect posts received eight thousand cash; General-prefects received sixty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of thin silk; twelve bolts of silk in spring and thirteen in winter; fifty liang of cotton batting; earlier records give ten bolts of thin silk and fifteen bolts of silk each spring and winter, with one additional bolt of gauze silk.) Guard generals received thirty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of thin silk, five bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk, and forty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Palace Guard directors received twenty thousand cash; vice-directors received fifteen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, two bolts of thin silk, five bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk, and forty liang of cotton batting.)
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Earlier records list three grades of Guard generals at fifty thousand, forty thousand, and thirty thousand cash. (The first grade received five bolts of thin silk and ten bolts of silk each spring and winter; the second grade received two bolts of thin silk and five bolts of silk. Each spring one bolt of gauze silk was added; each winter twenty liang of cotton batting.) Bureau commissioners had two grades at forty thousand and thirty thousand cash. From vice commissioners downward they received the same as non-imperial kin, and all were paid in specie. (From bureau commissioners down to palace attendants of direct rank, each spring and winter one bolt of gauze silk, one bolt of thin silk, five bolts of silk, and forty liang of cotton batting in winter.)
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Directors, vice directors, and lead ushers of the Inner Palace Eunuch Service who did not concurrently hold distant-prefecture bureau commissioner appointments received twenty-five thousand cash. (Seven bolts of silk in spring, ten in winter, and thirty liang of cotton batting.) Those serving as vice commissioners received twenty thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk in spring, seven in winter, and twenty liang of cotton batting.) Inner Palace Eunuch Service palace attendants of tribute rank who entered the inner palace received twelve thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk in spring, seven in winter, and thirty liang of cotton batting.) Hall heads received seven thousand cash. Senior grade and senior class received five thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk in spring and six in winter, plus twenty liang of cotton batting.) Yellow Gate eunuchs received three thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Ushers for hall heads, ushers for senior grade, ushers for senior-class inner ranks, ushers for inner ranks, ushers for junior inner ranks, attached ushers for inner ranks, Inner Palace inner ranks, Rear Garden inner ranks, and Rear Garden dispersed inner ranks received seven hundred cash. (Five bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Yunshao Bureau inner ranks received seven hundred cash. (Four bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus fifteen liang of cotton batting.) Inner Palace inner-rank supervising clerks received two thousand cash. Replacement ushers on duty received one thousand five hundred cash. Horse-herding ushers on duty received one thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus fifteen liang of cotton batting each.)
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Inner Palace attendants-in-ordinary and palace attendants of tribute rank in the Eunuch Service received ten thousand cash, (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; Inner Palace attendants-in-ordinary also received one bolt of gauze silk in spring and fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter. Palace attendants of tribute rank received only an additional twenty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Hall heads received five thousand cash. Senior grade and senior class received three thousand cash, (Four bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus twenty liang of cotton batting each in winter.) Yellow Gate eunuchs received two thousand cash. (Four bolts of silk each spring and winter, plus fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter.) Hall-head eunuchs and Inner Palace senior grade received two thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk and two thousand cash.) Senior-class inner ranks received one thousand five hundred cash, (Clothing and rations followed the previous standard.) Yellow Gate inner ranks on metropolitan assignments received one thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, half a bolt of jade gauze silk and half a bolt of jade thin silk, one bolt of yellow silk and one bolt of raw white silk, and eight liang of cotton batting.) Junior reserve-rank attendants received ten thousand cash. (Ten bolts of silk each spring and winter.) Inner Palace junior Yellow Gate eunuchs, front-hall usher inner ranks, Northern Rank inner ranks, inner ranks selected from outside posts including Northern City Rank, Rear Garden, and gatekeeping inner ranks, courtyard-sweeping inner ranks, and Western Capital inner ranks treated as Northern Rank inner ranks and still managed at the Western Capital received seven hundred cash. Western Capital inner ranks received five hundred cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk and fifteen liang of cotton batting; only Inner Palace junior Yellow Gate eunuchs and front-hall usher inner ranks received four bolts of silk each spring and winter.) Ying, Tang, and Fu prefecture inner ranks received three hundred cash. (Each spring and winter, two bolts of silk. Half a bolt of cloth and one thousand cash. The old record's entries for inner officials were incomplete, and all salary allowances were reduced.)
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Military Affairs Bureau chief directors received forty thousand cash. Vice chief directors, vice directors, vice directors of all sections in the Military Affairs Bureau, and section vice directors, (The above matched those concurrently holding South Rank appointments.) Secretariat rear-chamber officials supervising the affairs of the five sections received thirty thousand cash, (From chief directors downward, fifteen bolts of silk each spring and winter and one bolt of gauze silk in spring; section vice directors received thirteen bolts of silk each. Chief directors and directors also received three additional bolts of thin silk in spring, five in winter, and fifty liang of cotton batting. From vice chief directors downward, thirty liang of cotton batting each.) Secretariat rear-chamber officials received twenty thousand cash; with a special allotment of five thousand cash. (The above matched those concurrently holding capital court appointments.) Secretariat and Military Affairs section chiefs received twenty thousand cash. Record clerks and clerks received two thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of silk and one bolt of gauze silk in spring; section chiefs and above received fifty liang of cotton batting in winter, and record clerks and clerks received thirty liang.) Chief scribes received seven thousand cash. Duty officers and scribe-clerks received five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, two bolts of silk. Chief scribes and scribe-clerks received three thousand cash in spring, and in winter twelve liang of cotton batting and one thousand cash; duty officers received one thousand cash in spring.)
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From the Secretariat-Chancellery and Military Affairs Bureau, including those who had formerly served in the two courts, even if not currently holding concurrent posts, (The same applied to those who had retired after serving in the two courts.) Palatial Commandery commissioners, Three Bureaus commissioners, Academician Examiners, Privy Counselors, Hanlin, Duanming, Hanlin Reader-Expositors, Dragon Diagram, and Heavenly Writ academicians, Military Affairs, Dragon Diagram, and Heavenly Writ associate academicians, drafters of edicts, Secretariat drafters, court attendants-in-waiting, the Censorate, Kaifeng Prefecture, military governors down to prefects, the Three Academies, the Secret Repository, the Court for Review of Punishments, the Ministry of Justice, the Court of Judicial Review, princely household recorders, tutors, and palace professors down to princely palace instructors, directors of the Bureau for Review of Appointments, managers of the Third-Rank Service Bureau, inspectors of criminal cases, controllers of Ministry of Personnel selection, the Southern Office, the Petition Inspection Bureau, and the Drum Bureau, the Directorate of Agriculture and chief lecturers, vice directors, and registrars of the Directorate of Education, Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi transport commissioners, imperial princes and royal princes, Guard grand generals down to deputy commandants of the Princes' Guard, Two Department directors-in-chief and lead ushers, bureau commissioners and vice commissioners not concurrently holding distant-prefecture appointments, and two-court palace attendants of tribute rank down to inner ranks, (Only inner ranks were granted one-third in specie.) Military Affairs chief directors and those below them also received specie. All remaining officials, including defense commissioners and below, Guard generals, lateral-rank holders, and bureau commissioners serving in absentia, all received one-third in specie and two-thirds in other goods. (For Two Department directors-in-chief and vice directors-in-chief concurrently holding absentia prefect appointments of prefect rank and above, half was paid in specie.)
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Three Bureaus auditing judges received ten thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; in winter, fifteen liang of cotton batting. Those who wished to receive their former allowances were permitted to do so; if promoted to capital court officials, they followed their original offices' salary stipends and clothing grants.) Acting prefects of Kaifeng Prefecture and their judicial administrators and investigating magistrates, (Salary stipends and clothing grants all followed their original offices. The old record states that judicial administrators received thirty thousand cash and investigating magistrates twenty thousand cash, all paid in specie. General secretaries received twenty thousand cash. If appointed from vice directors and above. They followed their original offices' salary stipends and clothing grants.) Merit section and law section officers received twelve thousand cash. Granary, household, gentry, and military section officers received ten thousand cash. (When appointed from among capital court officials, they followed their original offices' salary stipends and clothing grants.) Ministry of Justice auditing judges and judicial administrators, and Court of Judicial Review judicial administrators and vice judicial administrators, received ten thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk; in winter, fifteen liang of cotton batting. If promoted to capital court officials, they followed their original offices' salary stipends and clothing grants.) Western Capital circuit patrol judicial administrators received fifteen thousand cash. (Those transferred from posts within Kaifeng Prefecture to capital officials received their original offices' salary and clothing allowances.)
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Judicial administrators for the Western Capital, Southern Capital, and Northern Capital military commissioners, and for Henan, Yingtian, and Daming prefectures, received thirty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, twelve bolts of silk and twenty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Military governor and military observation judicial administrators received twenty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, six bolts of silk and twelve and a half liang of cotton batting in winter.) Military governor vice commissioners received thirty thousand cash. Campaign quartermasters received twenty-five thousand cash. (If signing and overseeing this prefecture's affairs, salary and clothing allowances followed those of military governor and military observation judicial administrators. If serving as warehouse supervisor, half was paid in commutation, and clothing grants and kitchen supplies were not provided.) Military governor chief secretaries and military observation dispatch commissioners received twenty thousand cash. (Cotton batting and silk the same as for investigating magistrates.) Military commissioner investigating magistrates, prefecture investigating magistrates, and military governor and military observation investigating magistrates received fifteen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk and ten liang of cotton batting in winter.) Defense and militia-training vice commissioners received twenty thousand cash. (If serving as warehouse supervisor, half was paid in commutation.) Defense and militia-training judicial administrators received fifteen thousand cash. (The Records of the Two Reigns states that salary allowances followed this prefecture's general secretaries, or if none, the magistrate of the attached county.) Defense and militia-training military investigating magistrates and army and supervisory commission judicial administrators received seven thousand cash; military judicial administrators received the same amount as this prefecture's general secretaries.
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Capital prefecture general secretaries received twenty thousand cash. Section officers received ten thousand cash. (For those serving as capital officials, the higher salary was paid. In the third year of Jingde, an edict ordered that general secretaries and the six sections all receive spring and winter clothing.) For prefectures of fifty thousand households and above, (The same applied to the Three Capitals.) General secretaries received twenty thousand cash; judicial review and law section officers received twelve thousand cash; household section officers received ten thousand cash; For prefectures of thirty thousand households and above, general secretaries received eighteen thousand cash; judicial review and law section officers received twelve thousand cash; household section officers received nine thousand cash. For prefectures of ten thousand households and above, general secretaries received fifteen thousand cash; judicial review and law section officers received ten thousand cash; household section officers received eight thousand cash. For prefectures of five thousand households and above, general secretaries received twelve thousand cash; judicial review and law section officers received ten thousand cash; household section officers received seven thousand cash. For prefectures below five thousand households, general secretaries and judicial review and law section officers received ten thousand cash; household section officers received seven thousand cash. Vice prefects, chief administrators, quartermasters, and gentry section officers (If appointed to the gentry section, they followed the gentry section officer rate.) Literary officers received seven thousand cash.
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For Eastern Capital metropolitan county magistrates of seven thousand households and above, court officials received twenty-two thousand cash and capital officials twenty thousand cash; For magistrates of five thousand households and above, court officials received twenty thousand cash and capital officials eighteen thousand cash; For magistrates of three thousand households and above, court officials received eighteen thousand cash and capital officials fifteen thousand cash; For magistrates below three thousand households, only capital officials were appointed and received twelve thousand cash. (The above clothing grants all followed their original offices.) Registrars and assistant magistrates received twelve thousand to seven thousand cash, in four grades. (All were paid in specie.)
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Magistrates of Henan and Luoyang counties in Henan Prefecture received thirty thousand cash. For circuit prefecture and commandery magistrates of ten thousand households and above: twenty thousand cash; registrars and assistant magistrates received twelve thousand cash. For magistrates of seven thousand households and above: eighteen thousand cash; registrars and assistant magistrates received ten thousand cash. For magistrates of five thousand households and above: fifteen thousand cash; registrars and assistant magistrates received eight thousand cash. For magistrates of three thousand households and above: twelve thousand cash; registrars and assistant magistrates received seven thousand cash. For magistrates below three thousand households: ten thousand cash; registrars and assistant magistrates received six thousand cash. Capital court officials and Third-Rank Service officials serving as county magistrates were also permitted to receive magistrate salaries. If their original office salary was higher, the higher amount was paid. (Those concurrently supervising troops received only their original salary plus supplemental allowance.) Mountain-and-river shrine magistrates received ten thousand cash. Vice magistrates and registrars received seven thousand cash. (All paid in commutation.)
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For staff appointments and prefecture and county salary stipends, all circuits paid half in specie and half in commutation. (Assistant magistrates were paid entirely in specie.) Guangdong and the Sichuan Gorge regions were all paid in specie.
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Under the Yuanfeng regulations, grand councilors received three hundred thousand cash. (Clothing grants of thin silk, silk, and cotton batting all followed the old regulations. However, the left and right vice directors were designated as grand councilors. In the Zhenghe era, the Three Dukes served as true chancellors. In the Jingkang era, the old regulations were followed.) Military Affairs commissioners bearing the commissioner-plenipotentiary designation, Palace Attendants, Military Affairs commissioners, military governors equal to Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilors and above and those bearing the Palatial Commandery commissioner designation, as well as former two-court appointees made military governors upon transfer, and Military Affairs commissioners and vice bureau directors bearing the military governorship, received four hundred thousand cash. From the end of the Zhiping era through the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Wen Yanbo, Lü Gongbi, Feng Jing, and Wu Chong served successively as commissioners and vice commissioners. In the eleventh month of that year, an edict first established bureau directors and associate directors in the Military Affairs Bureau and abolished all other posts. At that point, with commissioners and vice commissioners abolished and only bureau directors and associate directors retained, this arrangement remained unchanged until Jingkang.)
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Directors of the Military Affairs Bureau, vice directors of the Department of State Affairs and Secretariat-Chancellery, left and right vice ministers of the Ministry of Personnel, and associate directors of Military Affairs Bureau affairs received two hundred thousand cash. (Clothing grants followed the old regulations. In the Yuanyou era, signatories of Military Affairs Bureau affairs were reinstated; in the Shaosheng era they were abolished.)
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The Grand Preceptor, Grand Tutor, Grand Protector, Junior Preceptor, Junior Tutor, and Junior Protector each received four hundred thousand cash. (Spring dress included three bolts of gauze silk, thirty bolts of thin silk, and forty bolts of silk; winter dress included thirty bolts of thin silk, forty bolts of silk, and two hundred liang of cotton batting. Under the old regulations, salary was one hundred twenty thousand cash; spring dress was ten bolts of thin silk, thirty bolts of silk, and one bolt of gauze silk; winter dress was ten bolts of thin silk, thirty bolts of silk, and fifty liang of cotton batting. These were increased and revised during the Daguan era.)
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Grandees of Splendid Happiness Bearing the Three Dukes' Honors received one hundred twenty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of thin silk and thirty bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter. In the second year of Daguan, because no one held the appointment specially, the entry was deleted.) Special Advancement received ninety thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of thin silk and twenty-five bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter.)
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Grandees of Golden Seal and Purple Girdle, Silver Seal and Blue Girdle, and Splendid Happiness received sixty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, seven bolts of thin silk and twenty bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting.) Grandees of Court Audience, Direct Audience, Correct Counsel, and Universal Audience received fifty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of thin silk and seventeen bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Grandees of Universal Counsel and Palace Counsel received fifty thousand cash. (According to the Yuanfeng Statutes, grandees of palace counsel and above who resigned upon a parent's death received their former offices' salary stipends.) Grandees of Palace Attendance, Direct Attendance, and Dispersed Attendance received forty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of thin silk and fifteen bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and fifty liang of cotton batting in winter.) Grandees of Court Discussion, Direct Service, Court Petition, Court Dispersal, and Court Tribute received thirty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, thirteen bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and thirty liang of cotton batting in winter.)
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Gentlemen of Court Petition, Court Dispersal, and Court Tribute received thirty thousand cash. (Spring and winter dress the same as for regular gentlemen.) Gentlemen of Discussion Reception, Discussion Service, and Direct Transmission received twenty thousand cash. (Discussion Reception gentlemen received ten bolts of silk each spring and winter, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and thirty liang of cotton batting in winter. Discussion Service and Direct Transmission gentlemen received seven bolts of silk each spring and winter.) Gentlemen of Instruction and Propagation received seventeen thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, six bolts of silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, and twenty liang of cotton batting in winter. According to the Yuanfeng Regulations, those with examination pedigree received seventeen thousand cash and those without pedigree fourteen thousand cash. In the sixth year, an edict ordered that regardless of seniority or pedigree, all received fifteen thousand cash, with no gauze silk in clothing grants.) Gentlemen of Propagation and Righteousness received twelve thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk and fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter.) Gentlemen of Service Reception received ten thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk and fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter.) Gentlemen of Service Attendance received eight thousand cash. Gentlemen of Service Affairs received seven thousand cash. (Since Yuanfeng, those managing affairs received only relay-station allowances. In the second year of Daguan, fixed allowances were established.)
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Gentlemen of Direct Reception received twenty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, six bolts of silk and twelve and a half liang of cotton batting. Under Yuanfeng, military commissioner and prefecture judicial administrators received thirty thousand cash in salary, twelve bolts of silk each spring and winter, and twenty liang of cotton batting; military governor and military observation judicial administrators received twenty-five thousand cash in salary, six bolts of silk each spring and winter, and twelve and a half liang of cotton batting—in two grades; in the second year of Chongning, the higher grade was adopted.) Gentlemen of the Forest of Scholars received twenty thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, five bolts of silk and ten liang of cotton batting. Under Yuanfeng, military governor chief secretaries and military observation dispatch commissioners received salary and clothing grants as above; defense and militia-training military judicial administrators whose examination tenure qualified them for magistrate or registrar posts received fifteen thousand cash in salary—in two grades. In Chongning, the higher grade was adopted.) Gentlemen of the Forest of Letters received fifteen thousand cash. (Spring and winter dress the same as for Forest of Scholars gentlemen.) Gentlemen of Attendant Service, Attendant Governance, and Cultivated Office received fifteen thousand cash. (For Attendant Service gentlemen, under the old Yuanfeng regulations, those whose examination rank qualified them for magistrate or registrar posts were paid at magistrate or registrar rates; those not yet qualified were paid at judicial administrator, section officer, registrar, or assistant magistrate rates. For Attendant Governance gentlemen, under Yuanfeng, general secretaries and recorders in the Three Capitals, prefectures, commanderies, armies, and supervisory commissions received twenty thousand cash for fifty thousand households and above, eighteen thousand for thirty thousand and above, fifteen thousand for ten thousand and above, twelve thousand for five thousand and above, and ten thousand for below five thousand households. For magistrates: twenty thousand cash for ten thousand households and above, eighteen thousand for seven thousand and above, fifteen thousand for five thousand and above, twelve thousand for three thousand and above, and ten thousand for below two thousand households—in two grades. In Chongning, the higher grade was adopted.) Gentlemen of Meritorious Achievement received twelve thousand cash. (Under Yuanfeng, circuit patrol judicial administrators of the Four Capitals received fifteen thousand cash. Judicial review officers in the Three Capitals, prefectures, commanderies, armies, and supervisory commissions received twelve thousand cash for fifty thousand and thirty thousand households and above, and seven thousand for twenty thousand households and below five thousand households. Household section officers in the Three Capitals, prefectures, commanderies, armies, and supervisory commissions received ten thousand cash for fifty thousand households and above, nine thousand for thirty thousand and above, eight thousand for ten thousand and above, and seven thousand for below five thousand households—in three grades. Revised in Chongning. Initially, in the fourth year of Xining, the Secretariat-Chancellery reported: "Salaries for selectees throughout the realm are meager and unevenly distributed, insufficient to encourage honest officials. We now wish to increase monthly salary stipends: for three hundred sixty-seven magistrates and general secretaries who formerly received ten thousand or twelve thousand cash, increase to fifteen thousand cash; for two thousand one hundred fifty-three judicial review, law, and household section officers, registrars, and assistant magistrates who formerly received seven thousand, eight thousand, or ten thousand cash, increase to twelve thousand cash; for one hundred seventy-two defense and militia-training military investigating magistrates and army and supervisory commission judicial administrators who formerly received seven thousand cash, increase to twelve thousand cash. The total monthly increase in salary would exceed twelve thousand strings of cash, with increases in grain and wheat as well." The proposal was approved.)
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The Grand Commandant received one hundred thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of thin silk, one bolt of gauze silk in spring, ten bolts of silk, twenty bolts of silk in winter, and fifty liang of cotton batting. Those concurrently holding military governorship followed the standard grade.)
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Military governors received four hundred thousand cash. (For former chief administrators and above upon appointment, transfer to a new command, initial appointment, and command of troops, all followed the old regulations.) Commissioners of Propagation received three hundred thousand cash. (That is, military governor and military observation acting commissioners.) Military observation commissioners and defense commissioners received two hundred thousand cash. Militia-training commissioners received one hundred fifty thousand cash. Prefects received one hundred thousand cash. (From military governors downward to middle generals of the Guards, all followed the old regulations.)
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Grandees of Universal Attendance received thirty-seven thousand cash. Grandees of Direct Attendance, Court Rectification, Loyal Cooperation, Palace Attendance, Palace Brilliance, Palace Guard, Aide Guard, Imperial Guard, Bow Guard, Left Martial, and Right Martial received twenty-seven thousand cash. Grandees of Martial Achievement, Martial Virtue, Martial Distinction, Martial Integrity, Martial Strategy, Martial Canon, Martial Righteousness, and Martial Wings received twenty-five thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, ten bolts of silk and twenty liang of cotton batting. Only Universal Attendance grandees received twelve bolts.)
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Gentlemen of Direct Attendance, Court Rectification, Conduct Rectification, Loyal Cooperation, Palace Attendance, Palace Brilliance, Palace Guard, Aide Guard, Imperial Guard, Bow Guard, Left Martial, Right Martial, Martial Achievement, Martial Virtue, Martial Distinction, Martial Integrity, Martial Strategy, Martial Canon, Martial Righteousness, and Martial Wings received twenty thousand cash. Gentlemen of Honored Martiality received seventeen thousand cash. Gentlemen of Cultivated Martiality received fourteen thousand cash. (Five bolts of silk in spring, seven in winter, and twenty liang of cotton batting. Those concurrently holding Gate Ushers of the Inner Palace received the same.) Gentlemen of Following Righteousness and Upholding Righteousness received ten thousand cash. (Those concurrently holding Gate Ushers received twelve thousand cash.) Gentlemen of Established Loyalty and Preserved Righteousness received five thousand cash. (Those concurrently holding Gate Ushers received nine thousand cash, plus four bolts of silk each spring and winter and fifteen liang of cotton batting in winter.) Gentlemen of Upholding Integrity and Upholding Trust received four thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk and two thousand cash.)
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Captains of Advanced Martiality received three thousand cash and Captains of Advanced Righteousness two thousand cash. (Each spring and winter, three bolts of silk.) Vice Captains of Advanced Martiality received three thousand cash. Awaiting-appointment Vice Captains of Advanced Martiality, Vice Captains of Advanced Righteousness, and Awaiting-appointment Vice Captains of Advanced Righteousness received one thousand cash.
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Acting Censors-in-Chief and ministers of the Six Ministries received sixty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: fifty-five thousand cash; trial appointees: fifty thousand cash.) Hanlin Academician Expositors and Hanlin Academicians received fifty thousand cash. (Clothing grants followed the original office precedent. For lower-ranking offices, spring and winter dress was three bolts of thin silk each, fifteen bolts of silk each, and fifty liang of cotton batting.) Acting Left and Right Regular Attendants of the Imperial Steeds, Vice Censors-in-Chief, and Prefects of Kaifeng received one hundred thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: ninety thousand cash; trial appointees: eighty thousand cash. Revised in the fourth year of Chongning.) Vice ministers of the Six Ministries (In the Yuanyou era, acting vice ministers of the Six Ministries were established; salary allowances followed provisional attendants-in-waiting. They were abolished in the Shaosheng era.) Received fifty-five thousand cash when acting. (Provisional appointees: fifty thousand cash; trial appointees: forty-five thousand cash.) Acting Crown Prince's Guests and Grand Stewards received fifty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: forty-seven thousand cash; trial appointees: forty-five thousand cash.) Acting Attendants-in-Attendance and Secretariat Drafters received fifty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: forty-five thousand cash; trial appointees: forty thousand cash.) Left and Right Remonstrance and Discussion Grandees (In the Yuanyou era, acting vice ministers of the Six Ministries were established with salary allowances following remonstrance and discussion grandees; in the Shaosheng era they were abolished.) Received forty-five thousand cash when acting. (Provisional appointees: forty thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-seven thousand cash.) Acting Directors of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan received thirty-eight thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-five thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-two thousand cash.) Acting Directors of the Secretariat Archive received forty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-eight thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-five thousand cash.) Acting Directors of the Seven Courts, Chancellors of the Directorate of Education, vice directors of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan, and Vice Directors of the Secretariat Archive received thirty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty thousand cash.) Acting Left and Right Crown Prince's Secretaries received forty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-seven thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-five thousand cash.) Acting vice directors of the Seven Courts received thirty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-eight thousand cash.) Acting Secretariat and Department of State Affairs section supervisors of the affairs of all sections, and left and right bureau directors of the Ministry of Personnel, received forty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-seven thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-four thousand cash.) Acting Vice Chancellors of the Directorate of Education, and Directors of the Court of the Imperial Manufactories, Construction, and Armaments, received thirty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-eight thousand cash.) Acting Junior Grand Stewards of the Crown Prince received thirty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty thousand cash.) Acting Left and Right Moral Tutors of the Crown Prince received thirty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-nine thousand cash.) Acting diarists, diarist attendants, attendant censors, left and right bureau supernumerary directors, Bureau of Military Affairs examiners of documents in various sections, and bureau directors of the Six Ministries received thirty-seven thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-five thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty-two thousand cash.) Acting palace attendant censors and Left and Right Department Remonstrators received thirty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty thousand cash.) Acting Left and Right Rectifiers received thirty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-seven thousand cash.) Acting supernumerary bureau directors of various offices received thirty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: thirty thousand cash.) Acting deputy directors of the Court of the Imperial Manufactories, Construction, and Armaments received thirty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty-eight thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-five thousand cash.) Acting Crown Prince's Reader and Lecturer received twenty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty thousand cash.) Acting investigating censors received thirty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: thirty thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty-seven thousand cash.) Acting first-class attendants and attendants of the Crown Prince received twenty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty thousand cash; trial appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting assistants of the Courts of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan Affairs (including those overseeing Imperial Clan Affairs), Secretariat, director of review in the Court of Judicial Review, compiler-in-chief, and Imperial Medical Director received twenty-five thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty-two thousand cash; trial appointees: twenty thousand cash.) Acting assistants of the Seven Courts received twenty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty thousand cash; trial appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting Secretariat secretaries received twenty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty thousand cash; trial appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting and provisional Court of Imperial Sacrifices academicians and assistant compilers received twenty thousand cash. (Trial appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting assistant directors of the Directorate of Education received twenty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty thousand cash.) Acting judicial inspectors and reviewers in the Court of Judicial Review received twenty-two thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: twenty thousand cash; trial appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting assistant directors of the Court of the Imperial Manufactories, Construction, Armaments, and Waterways received twenty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting proofreaders of the Secretariat received eighteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: sixteen thousand cash; trial appointees: fourteen thousand cash.) Acting collators of the Secretariat received sixteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: fifteen thousand cash; trial appointees: fourteen thousand cash.) Acting censorate legal inspectors and chief clerks received twenty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: eighteen thousand cash.) Acting academicians of the Imperial Clan School, National University, and Military Academy received twenty thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: eighteen thousand cash; trial appointees: sixteen thousand cash.) Acting academicians of the Law School received eighteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: seventeen thousand cash; trial appointees: sixteen thousand cash.) Acting ceremonial receptionists of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices received sixteen thousand cash; acting invocation officers of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and directors of suburban and soil-and-grain sacrifices received eighteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: sixteen thousand cash.) Acting rectifier and registrar of the National University and instructor of the Military Academy received eighteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: seventeen thousand cash; trial appointees: sixteen thousand cash.) Acting rectifier of the Law School received sixteen thousand cash. (Provisional appointees: fifteen thousand cash; trial appointees: fourteen thousand cash.)
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For functional-office post stipends, when acting, provisional, or trial status was not specified, payment followed the acting rate, and clothing was disbursed according to the precedent of the recorded nominal office. Those without a fixed precedent all received allowance money according to their nominal salary offices, with grain and wheat issued in actual quantities; where double payment applied, (meaning post stipends and grain and wheat.) The higher amount was granted. Those below Gentleman for Direct Service who filled functional offices, (namely judicial inspectors and reviewers in the Court of Judicial Review, collators of the Secretariat, National University academicians, rectifier, and registrar, Military Academy academicians and instructors, and Law School academicians and rectifier.) Were permitted to receive payment according to their rank offices. (Clothing, kitchen supplies, and grain and wheat were not disbursed.)
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In Tang Zhenyuan 4, monthly salaries for the hundred officials were fixed. During the disorders of the Xizong and Zhaozong reigns, state revenues fell short, and by the Tianyou era only half was paid. In Liang Kaiping 3, full payment was ordered. At the beginning of Later Tang Tongguang, because military stores were insufficient and although officials received large salary payments the discounted disbursements were not in actual cash, the Commissioner for Tax and Corvée requested that half the amount be paid in actual cash. Thereafter the half salary paid was again subject to fictitious discounting. In Later Zhou Xiande 3, actual cash was restored.
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The system at the beginning of Song generally approximated the amounts fixed under Later Tang. In Qiande 4, seventh month, an edict stated: "Prefectural and county officials all receive salaries in other goods; it is widely heard that they sell them for less than their value—demanding integrity from them is indeed difficult. Some even levy exactions in marketplaces, greatly adding to public vexation, and again violate public law and bring punishment upon themselves—this is quite pointless. In Han Qianyou, salary households for prefectural and county officials were established; aside from the two taxes, other corvées were remitted; under Later Zhou Xiande this system was abolished. From now on, exchange allowance-money households should be established everywhere; for every thousand cash worth of goods received by the original office, payment should be divided between two households, who were free to trade; each household paid five hundred cash, and remission of corvée followed the Han edict in full; the goods levied from officials were to be calculated by each prefecture to cover one year's disbursement and issued together with cocoon silk and salt. For magistrates of ten-thousand-household counties, recorders of fifty-thousand-household prefectures, and chief clerks of the two capitals, who formerly received twenty thousand cash monthly, forty households were granted, with rates adjusted proportionally; registrars, assistant magistrates, and household and legal clerks, who formerly received six thousand cash monthly, received an increase of one thousand, and salary households were granted according to the increased amount." That year, officials in western Sichuan were ordered to receive full actual cash. In Kaibao 3, officials of prefectures and counties in western Sichuan were granted an additional five thousand iron cash beyond their regular salaries. In the twelfth month of the fourth year, an edict stated: "Military commissioners, surveillance, defense, and regimentation deputy commissioners acting as prefects, and military commissioners' secretaries appointed by the court and assigned to manage separate bureau affairs, also received them. Deputy commissioners not serving as prefects and secretaries memorialized for appointment but not managing affairs remained as before, receiving discounted goods."
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In Taiping Xingguo 1, an edict stated: "Farming and weaving households take agriculture and sericulture as their foundation; salary households paying monthly cash vex these common people and make provision difficult—abolish salary households throughout the realm. Their original-office salary payments were all issued in official goods, sold at seventy percent value, and grain and wheat were still increased according to the edict of the twelfth month of Later Zhou Xiande 5." In the second month of the second year, an edict stated: "The salaries granted to staff and prefectural and county officials in the various circuits are widely reported to be valued too high by official estimate and cannot reach seventy percent. Thirty percent should be paid in cash, twenty percent in discounted goods, with the military-circuit controller appraising official goods by face value and not permitted to reduce their price." In the fourth month, staff officials in the prefectures of western Sichuan were granted an additional five thousand cash beyond their salaries. In Yongxi 3, for civil and military officials whose salary cash was formerly discounted at twenty percent, from now on actual value was paid. In Duangong 1, sixth month, an edict stated: "The duties of prefectural staff all assist in deliberating on commandery affairs and help promulgate regulations; while the duties of prefectures and counties all require personal attendance in government to pacify our people. The salary system should be made generous, so that abundance may be expected and integrity demanded. Aside from Sichuan gorges and Lingnan, which already received cash, for staff and prefectural and county allowance money in other prefectures and commanderies, of which two-thirds had formerly been paid in other goods, from now on half was paid in cash and half in other goods." In Chunhua 1, fifth month, an edict stated: "Retired officials who had formerly held external posts received half salary, paid in other goods." In Chunhua 3, eleventh month, for staff and prefectural and county allowance money in Hebei East and West, Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi circuits, where other goods were to be issued, seven hundred cash was paid for every thousand. (Initially, staff and officials of prefectures and counties in Sichuan gorges, Guangnan, and Fujian were all permitted to borrow salary cash in advance. In the Dazhong Xiangfu era, an edict further permitted distant places in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jinghu, Qin and Fu prefectures, and border prefectures and garrisons in Hebei and Hedong—from now on two months' salary in advance in distant places and one month in nearby places.) An edict in Zhidao 2; previously, capital officials ceased receiving payment after thirty full months; from now on payment continued.
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When Zhenzong acceded, because the Three Bureaus' appraisal of discounted salary disbursements for the hundred officials had increased severalfold, he ordered the relevant offices to redetermine them, generally favoring higher amounts. In Xianping 1, sixth month, an edict stated: "When civil and military officials received salaries elsewhere and died before word arrived, payment already made was routinely recovered—this is pitiable. From now on, for Sichuan gorges, Guangnan, and Fujian one season, and elsewhere two months, all were remitted." (An edict in Dazhong Xiangfu 7." Third-Rank Service envoys: from now on when parents die, do not suspend salary.") In the third year, ninth month, an edict stated that discounted goods in officials' monthly salaries were not subject to market tolls. In the fifth year, seventh month, supplementary monthly payments were increased for capital officials and envoys on the Sichuan gorges route. In Jingde 4, ninth month, because long peace had made taxation extremely light and, aside from military and state expenses, the emperor had never lavishly spent on personal support—and wishing to encourage poor officials in their duties—an edict stated: "From now on for acting civil and military officials' monthly salary disbursements, in the capital six hundred cash in actual money was paid for every thousand, and four hundred outside; those wishing other goods were permitted." In Dazhong Xiangfu 5, an edict increased salaries for civil and military officials. (Three Preceptors, Three Dukes, Eastern Palace Three Preceptors, and Grand Counselors each received an increase of twenty thousand cash. Commissioners of the Three Bureaus, Censor-in-Chief, bureau directors and vice directors of the Six Ministries, vice ministers of the Two Departments, directors of the Courts of Imperial Sacrifices and Imperial Clan Affairs, Commissioner of the Inner Reception Service, and Senior Generals each received an increase of ten thousand cash. Transverse-rank offices each received an increase of five thousand cash. Capital officials of fifth rank and above, Central Guard Generals and above, bureau commissioners and deputy commissioners each received an increase of three thousand cash. Capital officials, Inner Hall Drafting Attendants, Honored Attendants, and Gatekeepers each received an increase of two thousand cash. Palace attendants each received an increase of one thousand five hundred cash. Service Attendants and Borrowed Attendants received an increase of one thousand cash. The rest remained as before.) From Qianxing onward, changes were numerous. In Jiayou the Salary Statutes were first codified.
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In the Yuanfeng reform of the official system, functional-office post stipends were divided into acting, provisional, and trial grades according to the rank of the nominal salary office. Generally offices followed the Salary Statutes, while the amounts supplied by capital offices were all combined as post stipends. If a Grandee served as a bureau director, he received both the Grandee salary and the bureau director post stipend—more generous than under Jiayou. During the Chongning era, when Cai Jing held power, Wu Juhou, Zhang Kangguo, and others added supplementary food allowances and other payments beyond salary and post stipends. In the capital, for example, beyond the Grand Counselor salary, the Minister of Works salary was also claimed, and attendant money and grain were all paid in kind; the rest of the chief administrators were likewise—doubling the Yuanfeng salary system again.
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In the Palace Front Command, from the Xuanwu chief commander at thirty thousand cash down to the Guiming and Shenwu and Kaifeng Prefecture cavalry and infantry chief commanders at fifteen thousand cash—two grades in all. Palace Front left and right squad adjutants at thirty thousand cash down to Tianwu and surplus adjutants at nineteen thousand cash—four grades in all. Palace Front squad commanders at twenty thousand cash down to selected, surplus, and Guangde squad commanders at ten thousand cash—three grades in all. Palace Front squad directors at thirteen thousand cash down to Arrow-Recruitment Squad directors at four thousand cash—seven grades in all. Palace Front squad vice directors at ten thousand cash down to Arrow-Recruitment Squad vice directors at three thousand cash—five grades in all. Palace Front squad leaders at seven thousand cash down to Arrow-Recruitment squad leaders at two thousand cash—five grades in all. For scattered squad chief commanders who also bore the title of squad leader, payment followed the squad leader rate. Inner squad adjutants also had vice commanders, squad chiefs, vice squad chiefs, and Arrow-Recruitment Squad also had acting ranks—from seven thousand to three thousand cash, three grades in all. Imperial Dragon Direct vice commanders, squad chiefs, vice squad chiefs, squad leaders, and adjutants—from ten thousand to three thousand cash, five grades in all. Palace Front squad commanders at five thousand cash down to palace attendants at one thousand cash—five grades in all. Sunrise and Heavenly Martial squad commanders at ten thousand cash down to selected and Guangde squad commanders at four thousand cash—four grades in all. Sunrise and Heavenly Martial vice squad commanders at seven thousand cash down to Captured Rong vice squad commanders at three thousand cash—five grades in all. Sunrise squad leaders and Heavenly Martial squad chiefs at five thousand cash down to Captured Rong squad leaders at one thousand five hundred cash—five grades in all. Sunrise vice cavalry commanders at three thousand cash down to Captured Rong vice cavalry commanders at one thousand cash—four grades in all. Heavenly Martial vice squad chiefs at two thousand cash down to Guangde vice squad chiefs at one thousand five hundred cash—two grades in all. Sunrise squad generals at two thousand cash down to Dragon Fierce, Valiant Cavalry, and armored surplus squad chiefs and squad leaders at three hundred cash—eight grades in all. From Heavenly Martial adjutants downward at five hundred cash down to Flying Fierce and Valiant adjutants and below at three hundred cash—six grades in all. These were the differences in salary cash.
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Beyond this, monthly grain was issued: from Palace Front squad chiefs and adjutants at fifteen piculs down to Guangjian vice squad chiefs and Tuhun squad leaders at two piculs five dou—six grades in all. Palace Front squad commanders at five piculs; Whip Arrow and Clear North at two piculs—five grades in all. From Palace Front squad adjutants downward to soldiers, spring and winter clothing of thirty bolts down to oiled silk at six bolts was granted annually, with additional cotton-cloth money in varying amounts. Attendant grain was also issued monthly, from ten persons down to one. From various squads and various ranks down to Sunrise, Heavenly Martial, Arch-Sage, Dragon Fierce, Valiant Cavalry, Tuhun, Guiming Bohai, Khitan Guiming Shenwu, Khitan Direct, Ningshuo, Flying Fierce, Xuanwu, Tiger Wing, Divine Cavalry, Valiant, Weihu, Weisheng, Clear North, and Captured Rong soldiers, attendant rations of one person down to half share were granted; other armies received none.
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In the Imperial Guard Cavalry and Infantry Commands, from adjutants and Dragon and Divine Guard adjutants at twenty thousand cash monthly down to Valiant Cavalry with horses at seven thousand cash—five grades in all. Squad commanders from adjutants and Dragon and Divine Guard at ten thousand cash down to Shunhua at three thousand cash—five grades in all. Vice squad commanders from adjutants and Dragon and Divine Guard at seven thousand cash down to Shunhua at two thousand cash—seven grades in all. Squad leaders and squad chiefs from Dragon and Divine Guard at five thousand cash down to Ship-Watching Divine Guard at one thousand cash—seven grades in all. Vice cavalry commanders and vice squad chiefs from Dragon and Divine Guard at three thousand cash down to Shunhua at one thousand cash—five grades in all. Squad chiefs and squad leaders from Dragon and Divine Guard at one thousand three hundred cash down to Shunhua at three hundred cash—five grades in all. Beyond this, adjutants also had squad chiefs, vice squad chiefs, squad-leader cavalry chiefs, directors, and vice directors—from squad chiefs at five thousand cash down to vice directors at one thousand cash, six grades in all. At Gaoyang Pass there were left and right wing chief commanders of Valiant Cavalry, receiving thirty thousand cash monthly. Kaifeng Prefecture had cavalry and infantry adjutants, receiving twenty thousand cash monthly. The Six Armies also had adjutants, receiving five thousand cash monthly.
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From adjutants and Dragon and Divine Guard downward, monthly grain was issued—from adjutants at five piculs down to Shunhua and Loyal Valor soldiers at two piculs, five grades in all. From adjutants downward to soldiers, spring and winter clothing was granted annually—from thirty bolts of silk down to five bolts of oiled silk, with additional cotton-cloth money in varying amounts. Attendant grain was also granted, from ten persons down to one. Adjutants, Dragon and Divine Guard, Cloud Cavalry, Valiant Cavalry, Crossbar Garrison, and Divine Guard senior generals, Tiger Wing, Clear Guard, Zhenwu, and Loyal Fierce soldiers all received attendant rations of one person down to half share; other armies received none. (In the Palatial Commandery and Military Head Service, from adjutants down to soldiers, monthly cash, grain, and spring and winter clothing all varied.)
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In garrison armies of the various circuits, from cavalry and infantry chief commanders down to prison-guard vice squad chiefs—five grades in all—monthly salary cash ranged from fifteen thousand down to five hundred cash, twelve grades in all. For the fifty prefectures and commanderies including Henan Prefecture, thirty-four prefectures including Dengzhou, one hundred forty-four prefectures and garrisons including Laizhou, and thirty-nine garrisons and directorates including Guangji Garrison, the amounts granted were reduced by grade and recorded in the relevant registers. Beyond this, fodder for official horses was granted, and spring and winter clothing with additional cotton, money, and cloth were also granted in varying amounts.
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Salary Grain (From grand councilors down to Inner Palace attendants of high rank—eighteen grades.)
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Grand councilors, Vice Grand Councilors, Military Affairs commissioners with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status, Military Affairs commissioners, vice commissioners, bureau directors, and co-directors, Palatial Commandery commissioners signing Military Affairs documents, military observation deputies serving as Military Affairs commissioners and acting as vice commissioners or co-directors with Palatial Commandery commissioner signing status, Honorary Grand Guardian signing status, and Three Bureaus commissioners, vice ministers of the Secretariat and Chancellery, left and right vice directors of the Ministry of Personnel, and Grand Marshals—one hundred piculs each monthly.
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Military Affairs commissioners bearing the military governorship, military governors with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status and above and bearing Palatial Commandery commissioner status, and former Two Departments appointees made military governors, Military Affairs commissioners, vice commissioners, and bureau directors bearing the military governorship—two hundred piculs each monthly.
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Three Dukes and Three Minor Dukes: one hundred fifty piculs. Acting Three Bureaus commissioner: seventy piculs. Acting dispatch commissioner: thirty-five piculs. Commissioner of the Inner Reception Service: twenty-five piculs.
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Military governors: one hundred fifty piculs. (Army commanders the same. Imperial-clan military governors with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status and above, honorary military governors, and those bearing princely titles—all one hundred piculs.) Military observation deputies, later changed to commissioners for promulgation, and surveillance and defense commissioners: one hundred piculs. (Army commanders, Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders, Grand Generals of the various guards, and transverse-rank honorary appointees the same. Only imperial-clan honorary defense commissioners received seventy piculs.) Regimentation commissioners: seventy piculs. (Army commanders, imperial clan, and military-rank appointees the same. All other regular appointees received fifty piculs. Imperial clan, Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders, Grand Generals and Generals of the various guards, and transverse-rank honorary appointees the same.) Prefects: fifty piculs. (Imperial clan and military-rank appointees the same. All other regular appointees and army commanders received thirty piculs. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders and honorary appointees as Master for Court Service received twenty-five piculs. Grand Generals and Generals of the various guards with honorary appointments received ten piculs. Transverse-rank honorary appointees received the full share of twenty-five piculs; the reduced fixed amount was ten piculs. Left and right wing chief commanders of Sunrise and Heavenly Martial and right wing chief commanders of Dragon Guard and Divine Guard bearing honorary regimentation commissionerships received fifty piculs. Palace Front various squad ranks, adjutants, Dragon Guard and Divine Guard, and chief commanders of various armies bearing honorary prefectships received twenty-five piculs.) For every picul, six dou were issued, half rice and half wheat. (Army commanders received six parts rice and four parts wheat.)
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Magistrates of red counties: seven piculs; assistant magistrates: four piculs; chief clerks of the capital prefectures: five piculs. Various bureau staff: four piculs down to three piculs—two grades. Magistrates of capital-district counties: six piculs down to three piculs—four grades. Registrars and assistant magistrates: three piculs down to two piculs of rice and wheat—two grades. Prefectural recorders: five piculs down to three piculs—three grades. Legal and judicial officers: four piculs down to three piculs—two grades. Household registrars: three piculs and two piculs—two grades. County magistrates: five piculs down to three piculs—three grades. (Only magistrates of Henan and Luoyang counties received according to household count.) Registrars and assistant magistrates: three piculs and two piculs—two grades. Military patrol officers and assessors of the Four Capitals: four piculs. Garrison and directorate assessors and defense and regimentation staff assessors: two piculs. Assistant director of the Astronomical Bureau: four piculs. Chief clerk, Spirit Platform Officer, and Director of the Sacred Chart: two piculs. (All the above received rice and wheat.)
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Inner Palace Eunuch Service palace attendants: four piculs. Hall heads and high-rank attendants: three piculs. High-rank attendants, Yellow Gate attendants, Inner Palace attendants, managers of the Imperial Carriage Attendants, and attendants entering the imperial carriage: two piculs. Pasture attendants: one picul five dou. (All the above received polished rice.) Attendant hall heads, attendant high-rank attendants, attendant high-rank Inner Palace attendants, attendant Inner Palace attendants, attendant junior Inner Palace attendants, attached attendant Inner Palace attendants, Inner Palace attendants, Rear Garden Inner Palace attendants, and Rear Garden honorary Inner Palace attendants: three piculs. Inner Palace attendants of the Cloud Harmony Section: one picul. (All the above received red grain. Only Cloud Harmony Inner Palace attendants received fine-grade grain.)
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Eunuch Service palace attendants: three piculs. Hall heads and high-rank attendants: two piculs. Yellow Gate attendants: one picul five dou. (All the above received polished rice.) Yellow Gate Inner Palace attendants on capital personnel duties: two piculs five dou. Northern Squad Inner Palace attendants, front-hall attendant Inner Palace attendants, selected Inner Palace attendants everywhere, northern squad, Rear Garden, and gatekeeping Inner Palace attendants, courtyard-sweeping Inner Palace attendants, western capital Inner Palace attendants managed as before in the western capital, western capital Inner Palace attendants, and Inner Palace attendants of Ying, Tang, and Fu prefectures: two piculs. Inner Palace junior Yellow Gate attendants: one picul. Attached-rank junior attendants: four piculs. (All the above received monthly grain. Only Inner Palace junior Yellow Gate attendants received fine-grade grain.) Hall-head Inner Palace attendants and Inner Palace high-rank attendants: one picul. (Half rice and half wheat.)
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In Xining 4, the Secretariat and Chancellery stated: "Selection officials' salaries are thin and vary in amount, insufficient to encourage upright officials. We wish to increase monthly grain and allowance money monthly: three hundred seventy-six magistrates and recorders, who formerly received three piculs of grain and wheat, all increased to four piculs. Two thousand five hundred thirteen legal, judicial, household, registrar, and assistant magistrate posts, who formerly received two piculs of grain and wheat, all increased to three piculs. One hundred seventy-two defense and regimentation staff assessors and garrison and directorate assessors, who formerly received two piculs of grain and wheat, all increased to three piculs. Monthly increase in grain and wheat totals more than three thousand seventy piculs." Approval was granted.
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Clothing and Rations for Personal Attendants (Those serving as chief administrators had personal attendants; those from military governors down to regular prefects and above had personal attendants; the rest received only attendants.)
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Grand councilors, and civil officials serving as Military Affairs commissioners with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status, and Military Affairs commissioners: seventy persons. (Grand councilors formerly had fifty persons' clothing and rations and twenty persons' daily food; later increased.)
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Military Affairs commissioners bearing the military governorship, Military Affairs commissioners as Palace Attendants, military governors with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status and above bearing Palatial Commandery commissioner status, former Two Departments appointees made military governors, military governors transferred to new commands, and Military Affairs commissioners, vice commissioners, and bureau directors bearing the military governorship each received attendant rations for one hundred persons.
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Vice Grand Councilors, civil officials serving as Military Affairs vice commissioners, bureau directors, and co-directors, Palatial Commandery commissioners not bearing the military governorship who signed Military Affairs documents, military observation deputies serving as Military Affairs commissioners and acting as vice commissioners or co-directors with Palatial Commandery commissioner signing status, Three Bureaus commissioners, vice ministers of the Chancellery and Secretariat, and left and right vice directors of the Ministry of Personnel each received attendant rations for fifty persons. Honorary Grand Guardians signing Military Affairs documents received attendant rations for thirty-five persons. Acting Three Bureaus commissioners received attendant rations for thirty persons. Acting dispatch commissioners received attendant rations for fifteen persons. Deputy commissioners, assessors, and sub-bureau assessors received attendant rations for five persons. (Deputy commissioners, assessors, and acting dispatch commissioners received the same.)
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Grand Academicians of the Hall for Viewing Literature received attendant rations for twenty persons. Academicians of the Hall for Viewing Literature and Grand Academicians of the Hall for Assisting Governance received attendant rations for ten persons. Academicians of the Halls for Assisting Governance, Duanming, Hanlin Reader-Expositors, Dragon Diagram, and Heavenly Writ, Military Affairs associate academicians, and academicians of the Halls for Preserving Harmony, Xuanhe, and Yankang and Pavilions for Treasured Literature, Manifest Instruction, and Subtle Instruction received attendant rations for seven persons. (Formerly only daily food was granted; under Zhenghe they also received two piculs of grain monthly.)
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Deputy commissioners of the Jade Clarity Zhaoying Palace, Jingling Palace, and Huiling Abbey received attendant rations for ten persons; assessors received attendant rations for five persons.
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Military governors, military observation deputies later changed to commissioners for promulgation, and surveillance commissioners received attendant rations for fifty persons. (Army commanders received the same. Imperial-clan military governors with Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor status and above, honorary military governors bearing princely titles, and military observation deputies bearing commandery prince titles all received fifty persons.) Surveillance commissioners received attendant rations for twenty persons. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders bearing bureau commissioner status and honorary military observation deputyships received attendant rations for fifty persons. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders and transverse-rank honorary surveillance commissioners received fifteen persons.) Defense commissioners received attendant rations for thirty persons. (Army commanders received the same. Imperial clan and honorary appointees received twenty persons. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders bearing bureau commissioner status and Grand Generals of the various guards and transverse-rank honorary appointees received fifteen persons.) Regimentation commissioners received attendant rations for thirty persons. (Army commanders and military-rank appointees received the same. All other appointees received twenty persons. Imperial-clan appointees and honorary appointees received fifteen persons. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders bearing bureau commissioner status and transverse-rank honorary appointees received ten persons.) Prefects received attendant rations for twenty persons. (Military-rank appointees received the same. All other appointees and army commanders received ten persons. Imperial-clan appointees received fifteen persons. Two Departments directors-in-chief and squad leaders bearing bureau commissioner status received five persons. Transverse-rank honorary appointees receiving the full share received five persons. Those with reduced fixed amounts received none.) Commissioner of the Inner Reception Service (There had formerly also been the Jingfu Hall commissioner.) Received attendant rations for twenty persons.
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The Military Affairs Chief Director-in-Chief received attendant rations for ten persons. The Vice Chief Director-in-Chief, Vice Director-in-Chief, section vice directors-in-chief, and Secretariat Hall rear-office official supervising the affairs of the Five Sections received attendant rations for seven persons. Section vice directors-in-chief received attendant rations for five persons. From Secretariat Hall rear-office officials down to Military Affairs Bureau chief clerks and above, each received attendant rations for two persons. Recorders, clerks, and attached-rank junior attendants each received attendant rations for one person.
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Attendants' Meal Money (Directors of the Secretariat, Military Affairs, Palatial Commandery, and Three Bureaus and regular prefects and above all received clothing and rations; lower ranks received meal money only.)
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From directors of the Three Pavilions and Secretariat down through drafters of the Two Departments bearing compiler status, meal money of five thousand cash was granted. (Bureau directors and below bearing compiler status received three thousand cash.) Pavilion associates, proofreaders, historiography examiners, and collators each received three thousand cash in meal money. Associates of the Dragon Diagram Pavilion, Court for Review of Punishments detailed deliberation officers, and Directorate of Education archive officers received five thousand cash in meal money. (From compilers upward there was also an additional post stipend of five thousand cash; from collators upward, three thousand cash.)
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Capital-district warehouse, service, granary, and market directorate officers who were capital officials received from twenty thousand down to five thousand cash—seven grades. Capital officials in these posts received from fifteen thousand down to three thousand cash—eight grades. Bureau commissioners and deputy commissioners, Gate relay secretaries, Drafting Attendants, and Honored Attendants received from twenty thousand down to five thousand cash in nine grades; Gatekeepers and Third-Rank Service received from fifteen thousand down to three thousand cash in ten grades. Inner attendants received from seventeen thousand down to three thousand cash—nine grades. Attached rank received from eight thousand down to five thousand cash—three grades. (The old gazetteer was erroneous; all figures now follow the Gazetteer of Two Reigns.)
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Academicians and acting Three Bureaus commissioners and above who concurrently served as Secretariat Director received daily wine from five sheng down to one sheng in four grades, and legal and glutinous wine from one sheng up to two sheng in two grades. Abbey deputy commissioners and academicians of the Hall for Civil Culture also received grants, (That is, the Hall for Viewing Literature.) The Grand Academician of the Hall for Assisting Governance and associate academicians of the Dragon Diagram and Military Affairs all received tea. From military governors and deputy commissioners downward, each was granted kitchen-supply grain of six dou and flour of one picul two dou.
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Grants of Firewood, Artemisia, Charcoal, and Salt (Grand councilors had formerly received none; this was later added.)
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Grand councilors and Military Affairs commissioners each received one thousand two hundred bundles of firewood monthly. Vice Grand Councilors, Military Affairs vice commissioners, Palatial Commandery commissioners, Military Affairs signatories, Three Bureaus commissioners, and the three department commissioners and acting Three Bureaus commissioners each received four hundred bundles. Deputy commissioners of the three departments and the Military Affairs Chief Director-in-Chief each received one hundred fifty bundles. The Military Affairs Vice Chief Director-in-Chief and the Secretariat supervisor of the Five Sections each received one hundred bundles. Kaifeng assessors and military commissioners' assessors each received twenty bundles of firewood and forty bundles of artemisia. Kaifeng staff assessors, secretaries, dispatch commissioners, garrison and military staff assessors, and defense and regimentation staff assessors each received fifteen bundles of firewood and thirty bundles of artemisia. Garrison assessors received twenty bundles of firewood and thirty bundles of artemisia; defense and regimentation staff assessors received ten bundles of firewood and twenty bundles of artemisia.
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Grand councilors and Military Affairs commissioners received two hundred jin of charcoal annually from the tenth month through the first month, and one hundred jin in other months. Vice Grand Councilors, Military Affairs vice commissioners, Palatial Commandery commissioners, Military Affairs signatories, Three Bureaus commissioners, and the three department commissioners received thirty jin; academicians of the Hall for Civil Culture and the Grand Academician of the Hall for Assisting Governance and Dragon Diagram Pavilion received fifteen jin. The Chief Director-in-Chief received twenty jin.
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For salt grants, grand councilors and Military Affairs commissioners received seven piculs. Vice Grand Councilors, Military Affairs vice commissioners, Military Affairs signatories, Palatial Commandery commissioners, Three Bureaus commissioners, the three department commissioners, and acting Three Bureaus commissioners received two piculs. Military governors received seven piculs. Honorary appointees commanding troops received five piculs. Military observation deputies, surveillance commissioners, defense commissioners, regimentation commissioners, and prefects each received five piculs. (Neither army commanders nor honorary appointees received salt grants.)
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Official-horse fodder was granted on a scale from twenty horses down to one horse—seven grades. (For military posts, inner attendants, Third-Rank Service, technical specialists, Secretariat, Military Affairs and Palatial Commandery attendants, Palace Front Command, Imperial City Command, Eunuch Service, and Inner Palace Eunuch Service clerical staff who borrowed official horses, fodder from their original stables was granted accordingly.)
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Paper was granted monthly to the Secretariat, Military Affairs, Palatial Commandery, Three Bureaus, abbey deputy commissioners and assessors, assessors, and remonstrance officials. (From tea and wine grants downward, the Gazetteer of Two Reigns has no entries; although the Gazetteer of Three Reigns is not fully detailed, it is still enough to show the institutions of an era.)
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