The income levels and living expenses in many parts of the empire are different, so it is difficult to have a unified standard.
Currently, the Songjiang Prefecture area within the Tang Empire is taken as an example.
Basically, if the per capita annual income is less than ten yuan, then you are in a state of extreme poverty, where you are basically unable to maintain your life and will starve to death.
If the per capita annual income reaches 20 yuan, this is a relatively ordinary life. You can get by, but the quality of life is not much better.
If the per capita income reaches 60 yuan, it will be different. Then you can barely live a decent life.
If the per capita income reaches more than 100 yuan, then you can live a very comfortable life.
Generally speaking, in the Songjiang Prefecture area, an ordinary worker without special skills can earn only about fifty yuan per year. If he is just a single man, his life will be okay.
But if he has a family and can only rely on his income, then the family life will be more miserable. If there are more family members, then it is basically impossible to feed the family. It is really impossible to feed the family and they will be hungry.
The kind of dead person.
Therefore, low-income families generally need other family members to work outside the home or do other handicrafts to help support the family.
For example, if the hostess also works as a female worker in a textile factory or works in a store, she can also receive an annual salary of between thirty and fifty yuan per year.
Adding the couple together, the annual income of the couple can reach about 80 to 100 yuan, and the average family income is about 20 yuan.
Roughly speaking, a family of five people with an annual income of 100 yuan in Songjiang Prefecture will spend about 17 or 18 yuan on rent, water, electricity and other living expenses, about 50 yuan on food and other related expenses, and more than 10 yuan on clothes.
Yuan, the cost of education for children is about ten yuan.
Low-income families with such annual income and expenses account for the majority of the population in the big cities of Datang. At least 50% of the families in Songjiang Prefecture are like this.
In such a family, two family members must work and earn money. If one is missing, half the sky will collapse.
In an economically developed place like Songjiang Prefecture, in order to live a relatively decent life, the annual household income of a standard five-person family must be at least 300 yuan, which is more than 60 yuan per capita.
As long as the family's annual income reaches this level, one can live in a small single-family building in a suburban community or a better apartment in the city. The male owner wears decent fine woolen business attire or silk Hanfu formal wear and rides a rail-line public carriage to and from work. Occasionally, he can still
Luxury bar calls for a cab.
Children can receive primary and secondary education, daily expenses can be maintained at a relatively decent level, they can occasionally go to a restaurant for a big meal, and they can take their family to travel to the countryside during holidays.
This is more in line with people's definition of a decent life, and this group is the middle class in the Tang Dynasty society.
According to the standards of Songjiang Prefecture, if you want to achieve the elliptical structure of population income proposed by Li Xuan, you need to have most standard five-person households reach an annual income of more than 300 yuan.
I have to say, this is very difficult.
But even if it is difficult, since Li Xuan, the Holy Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, has proposed it, a group of cabinet ministers can only think hard and see how to achieve it.
After Li Xuan proposed this concept, he did not expect to reach this standard immediately. He just proposed such a goal, and did not say that too many people would become middle-class families in a short period of time.
He just put forward a small goal: in the next five years, the proportion of middle-income families will account for more than 20% of all families.
Li Xuan proposed an oval structure and set small goals, then ignored the ministers and left to mind his own business.
As soon as the Holy Emperor left, the meeting room became lively. When the Holy Emperor was there before, no one said anything, but now, everyone has spoken.
"This is too difficult. The income of a family of five people reaches 300 yuan. Even if both husband and wife work at the same time, this means that each of them has an income of 150 yuan, which works out to a monthly salary of 12 or 3 yuan.
Well, even if this salary is placed in many companies, it is the income of low-level technicians or middle-level managers!"
"People with such an income, even in the relatively high-income steel industry, will definitely not have more than 100 people in a thousand-person steel factory!"
"If it were in other industries, this number would be even lower!"
"In industries where there are many low-income groups, such as the catering industry and the service industry, not to mention the salary of more than ten yuan, it is good to have the minimum wage. Many unscrupulous businesses do not even give the minimum wage!"
"Twenty percent target, this is not easy to achieve!"
When everyone said these words, Chen Lifu said: "Everyone, the urban population is not large to begin with. No matter how hard we try to improve it, we will never be able to achieve this goal. At present, 80% of the population in our empire belongs to agriculture.
population, and except for a very small number of them, most of them belong to low-income groups. If you want to increase the proportion of middle-income groups, appropriately increasing the income of the agricultural population is the only way!"
However, others said: "Is it possible to expand the scale of urbanization? Guide more rural people to work in cities. At present, our industry and commerce are still developing and we can maintain more industrial and commercial people!"
Chen Lifu glanced at the other party, and then said: "Everyone has gone to work to make money, who will farm the land? What will we eat if there is no one farming?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone shut up!
Although Chen Lifu has been in the imperial study for many years, and although he still cannot firmly occupy the top spot in the imperial study, who is Chen Lifu? Is it true that the many reputations he has created since he entered politics are just false reputations.
Now in the cabinet, he has firmly established himself as the number one person in the cabinet.
The other three ministers on duty in the imperial study room in the cabinet have already been kept submissive by him.
However, there are not only people from the cabinet in the imperial study room, but also other people. Although these three people, including the bachelor in charge of the secretariat, the president of the inspectorate, and the president of the imperial college, also belong to the civil service system, they have never had anything to do with the cabinet.
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Not to mention the military, even Liu Bagou was not convinced back then, let alone Chen Lifu today.
Therefore, Chen Lifu was far from being too powerful in the imperial study, but within the cabinet, he had sufficient strength and prestige.
The meeting held by the Emperor Sheng today was also a meeting of the imperial cabinet. The people attending the meeting were all ministers of the cabinet, but there were no other agencies or military personnel.
So at this time, Chen Lifu spoke to make others shut up.
It’s okay if you don’t shut up. Chen Lifu’s question is not easy to answer.
In fact, there are many ways to deal with Chen Lifu's problem, but you can't talk nonsense. Talking nonsense can easily cast a shadow on your career.
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