The reason why there were so many masters in the Republic of China was largely because the government attached importance to intellectuals. According to records, during the Republic of China, the monthly salary of professors was 400-600 dollars, and that of associate professors was 260-400 yuan dollars. At that time, the monthly salary of librarians in Peking University was only 8 yuan. 350 yuan's salary of Lu Xun was not too high among the professors at that time.
Don't think that there are only 350 oceans. At that time, the purchasing power of the 350 oceans was not comparable to that of today. At that time, the average monthly salary in Beijing was only 15 silver. Lu Xun's salary is equivalent to that of 23 ordinary people. Now the average monthly salary in Beijing is 7700 months. Based on this conversion, Lu Xun's 350 silver dollars can reach 177 100 yuan. Of course, this calculation may be a bit exaggerated.
Based on another constant purchasing power, the rice bought by a silver dollar in the Republic of China is worth the rice bought by 100 yuan today, so the current value of Lu Xun's 150 silver dollar is about 35,000 yuan.
Another thing can also reflect Lu Xun's purchasing power of 350 silver dollars at that time-house price. At that time, Lu Xun spent less than 1000 silver dollar to buy three small quadrangles at Fuchengmen No.21,and his salary was only a few months. Decades later, he was a professor in Peking University and spent his whole life buying commercial houses in Beijing. So now it seems that Lu Xun's monthly salary conversion may be hundreds of thousands.
In that war-torn era, masters were lucky to get such high salaries and such heavy courtesy, and the Republic of China was still the "Republic of China for masters", and there was no Republic after the Republic of China.