Even a magistrate with a clean political voice earned 100,000 taels of silver in his three years in office.
This allusion "The Scholars" and Zhang's "Shame on the Ancient" both say: "A magistrate is worth a hundred thousand snowflakes. Be a platform, with conscience in the middle, 200,000 to 300,000, and there are countless eccentric people. " It means that you can get a lot of money even if you work as an honest official for three years in the old society.