One of the most famous robberies in "Water Margin" is the OutsmartIng Birthday Class. At that time, Cai Jing was preparing for his birthday, so Liang Zhongshu, who was a son-in-law, snatched a large amount of min fat people's paste and gave it to Cai Jing, and Liang Zhongshu shot 100,000 gold and silver jewelry, which was escorted by Yang Zhi to Cai Jing. Liang Zhongshu was the prefect of the Daming Mansion in Beijing during the Northern Song Dynasty and the son-in-law of Cai Jing, the chancellor of the Northern Song Dynasty. Originally, the official was covered with taishi Cai Jing, and you said that he could not be greedy, so he honored the old man's 100,000 pieces of gold and silver jewelry, which were all bought by the blood and sweat of the people. After Chao Gai learned the news, under Wu Yong's scheme, he used menghan medicine to confuse Yang Zhi and rob this valuable birthday class. At that time, after the loss of these 100,000 birth anniversaries, Yang Zhi was frightened to escape, and eventually fell into the grass. Chao Gai and others thus laid a good economic foundation and paved the way for the future to go to Liangshan. Let's talk about how much is the 100,000-year-old birthday class that makes Chao Gai and others turn into masters?
The priceless gifts were successfully escorted from Beijing to Tokyo, and they could only trek through the mountains and wade through the dry road, and "passed through purple mountain, Erlong mountain, peach blossom mountain, umbrella cover mountain, huangnigang, white sand dock, wild cloud ferry, red pine forest, these are all strongman haunting places." "Along the way, strongmen are around, horses are coveted, and they are extremely dangerous. Although the strongmen of all walks of life coveted this jewelry, they were intimidated by the official government forces and never dared to act rashly.
However, there is a mysterious robber, bold, rats do not pistols---- the mind of the cat, with the trick-not leaking strategy and clean and neat means, not only successfully robbed the first batch of birthdays, but also so far go unpunished to let the government in vain. The successful precedent of the mysterious robber strongly stimulated the desire of Chao Gai and others to copy, "If the monk touches it, I can't touch it?" "The monk can disappear after committing the crime, and I can't wait to be safe after I get it?" Under wu yong's constant instigation and oath of guarantee, Chao Gai finally decided to touch it once, take a trip, do a vote, and rob the second batch of birthdays.
The Song Dynasty mostly used copper coins and jiaozi, and at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial government stipulated that "seventy-seven is a hundred", that is to say, the consistent value at this time is about 770 yuan, gold is 15 guan / two, silver 2 guan / two. According to Huang Mian Tang's "Examination of Price Problems in Chinese Dynasties", the price of rice at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty was 1000 yuan / stone, and a stone of rice was 118.4 catties, that is to say, about 17 yuan / kg. Today's rice prices are almost 6 yuan / kg, almost 3 yuan a pound of rice. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, a piece of money was equivalent to the current 0.36 yuan, so 1 yuan = 0.36 * 777 = 277 yuan, 100,000 yuan is almost 50,000 two silver, equivalent to the current 27.7 million yuan. Let's look at how much Chao Gai gave to Song Jiang, at that time it was a letter from Song Jiang, Chao Gai gave 1500 guan, that is, one hundred and two gold, equivalent to more than 400,000 yuan now, Yan Po regretted that Song Jiang had to confess it, is a woman who has to ask clearly, imagine 400,000 yuan Song Jiang's wife Yan Po Xi can not want it?
According to the description in the book "Water Margin", it is enough for the good man of Liangshan to eat and drink for three years, and it is conceivable that what kind of birthday gift this is, whether it is placed in ancient times or now, is enough to make people move, from the side also reflects the corrupt behavior of corrupt officials at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.