Speaking of which, their family is easy to divide.
Huo's mother first talked about her income: "Before 1955, when the national hardship allowance had not yet been graded, your father, your grandparents and I didn't have much income, and we basically used it all to buy things for the house."
"When the classification was made in July 1955, your grandparents had already reached retirement age."
"According to the retirement policy at the time, people like your grandparents who participated in revolutionary work during the Anti-Japanese War were paid 90 percent of their salary based on their grade."
"At that time, your grandfather's salary was 425 yuan, and your grandmother's was 63 yuan. Based on 90%, the monthly pension for the two of them was 439.2 yuan."
"From July 1955 to now, they have received pensions for a total of 13 years and four months, a total of 70,272 yuan."
After talking about her parents-in-law, Huo's mother started talking about Huo's son's assets.
"When your father was assigned as a deputy army officer, his monthly salary was 252 yuan. In 1958, he was promoted to a full army officer. Now his salary has increased by 277 yuan."
"After waiting for 1963, he was promoted to the rank of major military region commander, with a monthly salary of 382 yuan."
"The total salary for the first three years was 9,072 yuan, the middle five years was 16,620 yuan, and the last five years and four months was 24,448 yuan, which adds up to a total of 50,140 yuan."
"It's my turn next. Our General Political Department's 1939 Regiment is a division-level unit. When the rank system was reclassified in 1955, I was a battalion-level cadre with a monthly salary of 101 yuan."
"In 1959, I was promoted to deputy regiment commander, with a monthly salary of 127 yuan. In 1964, I was promoted again to full regiment commander, with a monthly salary of 141 yuan."
"Over the past few years, I have received a total of 19,800 yuan."
"This is all the income our family has earned over the past decade, a total of 140,212 yuan."
Jiang Si was still quite surprised to hear this number.
However, in this era, salaries are indeed determined by grade. The positions of grandparents and parents are there, so it is normal for them to earn so much.
After all, if you join the army, promotion depends entirely on military merit.
To put it bluntly, military merit is something that is earned with one life and one gun.
While thinking, Mother Huo had already started to count the family's expenses over the years.
Compared to income, expenses are more fragmented.
Huo's mother mentioned several major expenses.
The first was the house in the Xishan compound. When they moved in, in addition to some furniture that Huo received from the army, his mother also bought a lot of things.
Furniture and daily necessities were quite expensive at that time, and I spent around 1,000 here.
Next is where several children get married.
Now it costs about 500 yuan to buy furniture with 72 legs.
The price of a "three-turn and one-ring" item is about the same, including a watch at 120 yuan, a sewing machine at 155 yuan, a bicycle generally between 160 and 180 yuan, and the most ordinary radio at around 80 yuan.
Adding these two things together, including bills, it would cost about 1,200 yuan per child. If you include the bride price, it would cost more than 2,000 yuan per child.
Next comes the expenses for three meals a day.
In life, everything from firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea costs money.
Take food rations for example. There are more than ten people in a family, and it costs dozens of yuan every month just to buy the rationed food listed in the food certificate.
In addition to buying groceries every day, the children eat rice, eggs and milk, and occasionally buy some snacks.
Just for living expenses, I have to spend more than 100 yuan a month.
If we add in the social interactions and clothes buying over the past decade, the amount would be even greater.
Of course, these are not the big ones.
The biggest expense for the family is actually the anonymous donations from Huo Xu over the years.
Huo Xu always said that not being able to bring back those who followed him safely was the thing he felt most guilty about in his life.
Therefore, over the years, whenever there is a disaster or danger, or if a young soldier's family is in trouble, he will do his best to help.
Even though Huo's mother strictly limited Huo's pocket money, she was never vague about matters like this.
Finally, there are some miscellaneous expenses.
After all, Huo's mother sometimes also has to go out for consolation performances, and it is impossible for her to record every expense at home in detail.
After the final calculation, after discarding all these, there was a total of 68,468.56 yuan left in the family's savings account.
Oh, and there is one more thing.
Those were the two sums of money that the Yang family returned that day, which added up to about 12,000 yuan.
This means that the total amount in hand now is 80,468 yuan, not counting the dimes and cents.
Over the years, they have kept the income from each room separately. Apart from a symbolic amount of living expenses every month, the bulk of the expenses have always been borne by the two of them.
The only ones who are suffering now are the first and third rooms.
After explaining the income and expenditure clearly, Mother Huo turned to the second and fourth children.
"You two have grown up by my side since you were little, unlike the eldest and the third child, who have never enjoyed a single day of happiness by my side."
"I roughly calculated that it costs about 150 yuan a year to support you two brothers over the years."
"After we get married, the annual subsidy for you will be about the same amount."
"I've made it clear that before the family division, I'm going to give this money to your eldest brother and the third brother."
"Also, your eldest brother has settled down in Xinjiang Province. His situation is the same as that of the third brother."
"So in addition to the betrothal gifts and the things they need to buy for the wedding, I will also give them 2,000 yuan as a settlement allowance."
"Oh, and there's also the money that the Jiang family gave to the third child for medical treatment. This money was asked to be returned by the third child's wife, so I gave it to her directly at this time."
"Take a look, do you have any comments?"
"If you have something to say, say it now. Don't wait until the division of the family is complete and then whisper behind your back."
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