**After its establishment, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, the director of education, Mr. Lu Xun served as the head of the first section of the Department of Social Education of the Ministry of Education, which is equivalent to the current director. In August, he was appointed by Yuan Shikai as the secretary of the Ministry of Education in Beijing.
At the beginning, Lu Xun's salary was 100 yuan, and later his salary rose to 360 yuan, which is what we usually call 360 oceans, and Jiang's later nominal salary was 800 yuan, and Hu Shi served as ambassador to the United States, and his salary plus subsidy was 1,400 yuan per month, which was higher than Jiang.
Look at the salary of ordinary people at the time, the salary of primary school teachers in Beijing was about 10 yuan, the salary of police officers in patrol houses was about 8 yuan, ordinary workers were about 3-5 yuan, female textile factory workers were about 30 yuan, and middle school teachers were about 40 yuan.
Is the worker's $3 salary enough to make ends meet? Let's take a look at the prices at that time, according to the prices recorded in the "History of the Shanghai Labor Movement", a pound of pork at that time was 023 yuan, 0 for a pound of live chicken37 yuan, an egg 0027 yuan, a pound of rice ** about 0035 yuan, that is, a silver dollar can buy about 285 pounds of rice, 37 eggs, 43 catties of pork, more than 50 catties of rice per month for a family of three, and some meat dishes, can barely make ends meet, but there is no surplus.
Mr. Lu Xun's monthly 360 yuan ocean, you can buy 10,285 pounds of rice, now our rice ** is about 3 yuan per catty, then Mr. Lu Xun's salary of 360 yuan is now 30,855 yuan.
If you add the monthly salary of 70,000 or 80,000 yuan, Mr. Lu Xun bought a 500-square-meter courtyard house in Beijing in 1919, ** is 3,765 yuan, and it took about a year's salary.
Mr. Lu Xun has made outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese literature and deserves to be remembered forever by future generations.