Yes

"Lishui," also called "lishi," was recorded in the I Ching, and is similar to the "red envelopes" we often talk about today. According to the Old Story of Wulin, during the Southern Song Dynasty, on the last night of the Lantern Festival, the Lin'an prefect would go out on the street to meet with the public and give out "lishui" to the vendors, calling on them to get to work.

It was the court of the Eastern Han Dynasty that was the first to give money to officials.

Then, the emperor regularly rewarded officials on two important annual festivals, the Spring Festival and the Spring Festival. Spring Ceremony and? La Ci, La Ci is in the month of wax to send something, spring Ci is in the spring, which is equivalent to say before the year to send a year after the year.

"Han Officials Instrument" records: "generals, the three dukes, the wax gift money 300,000, 200 pounds of beef, 200 ducats of round-grained rice. Special Marquis 150 thousand. Secretary 100,000. School captains 50,000. Shangshu, Lang each Han Shangshu order seals 10,500 thousand. Thousand stones and six hundred stones 7 thousand each. 5,000 each for the Minister of Defense, the Visitor, the Councilor, and the Minister of the Shangshu Order. Huben Lang, Hulin Lang 3 thousand."

He Jin was a great general, so he could get 300,000 yuan of money. Cao Cao was one of the "Eight Captains of the Western Garden" along with Yuan Shao and Jian Shuo, so he was entitled to 50,000 dollars.

Taking He Jin as an example, the monthly salary of a great general was 17,500 five-baht coins, which was already almost enough for a great general's two-year salary