There are many scenes of good men in Liangshan gathering and eating together in "Water Margin", and many people just see the hilarity and boldness of a group of big men eating and drinking, but they do not find that in fact, a lot of interesting information can be seen from a meal.
The thirty-seventh time in the "Water Margin" in time for the rain will be shenxing Taibao black whirlwind fighting waves in the white stripe:
Picking up the spoon, he persuaded Dai Zong and Li Kui to eat it, and he also ate some fish and took a few sips of soup. Li Kui did not make a basket either, so he went to the bowl to catch the fish, and chewed and ate the bones. When Song Jiang saw it, he couldn't help but smile and took two sips of juice. So he put down the spoon and did not eat it. Dai Zong said, "Brother, this fish must be pickled, and brother Ren will not eat it." Song Jiang said, "Even after drinking, I only love to eat fresh fish soup, this fish is really not very good." Dai Zongying said, "Even the younger brother can't eat it, it's pickled, it's not eaten." Li Kui chewed the fish from his bowl and said, "The two brothers don't eat it, I will eat it for you." Then he reached out and went to Song Jiang's bowl to fish for food, and then went to Dai Zong's bowl to fish and eat, dripping a table of juice.
This was the first meal that Song Jiang had eaten with The Divine Taibao Daizong and the Black Whirlwind Li Kui after he had stabbed Jiangzhou. Because Song Jiang has always liked to drink a little fresh fish soup after drinking to relieve the wine, he let people make a fish soup, who knows that this fish is not fresh, but pickled, so Song Jiang only ate one bite and then stopped eating. Dai Zong was also not accustomed to eating this pickled fish, and he did not eat it once he moved the chopsticks. Only Li Kui was not particular, and directly started to eat the fish in the bowl of the three people.
Through this small meal, the difference between the three people was immediately revealed. Song Jiang and Dai Zong are so particular about eating fish, usually they must not eat less fresh fish, and Li Kui eats so ungracefully, usually he must rarely eat fish. Why do some of the same three people usually eat it regularly, but some people can't eat it? Quite simply, the gap between rich and poor determines the gap in food.
Let's look at the positions of the three people, Song Jiang was assassinated, the position was Yuncheng County, and Dai Zong was the prisoner of the two courts in Jiangzhou, although the official rank of the two was not high, but at the grass-roots level, they had a lot of power, and often through some other channels to obtain income. In the case of DaiZong, he often withheld silver from prisoners on weekdays, and when Song Jiang first arrived in Jiangzhou, he was blackmailed by Daizong for money. Therefore, his usual income is quite a lot. And Li Kui was only appreciated by Dai Zong, who arranged for him to be a small prison in prison, except for his own share of Feng Lu, he usually did not have much oil and water to fish, so his income was very small.
There is a huge gap in the income of the three people, and the usual eating habits are also different. Eating together, it is inevitable that there will be such embarrassing scenes that make people cry and laugh.
However, although the three people have different official statuses, in fact, in the final analysis, they are all low-level officials, and the legal income difference is not very large. We may wish to zoom in and compare the incomes of various classes in the Song Dynasty at that time.
First of all, take the official as an example, the official rank is different, and the income gap is very large. According to the "History of Song", senior officials with more than five pins were very high. Taking the prime minister as an example, there are 300 yuan of material money per month, 20 horses of spring and winter, 30 horses of silk, plus salaries, salt, charcoal, tea, paper and other items, as well as Feng Lu as a sender, and the amount of income per month is staggering. In addition, when encountering major occasions such as the emperor's ascension to the pole, birthdays, and sacrifices, additional rewards will be received.
But in contrast, the low-level officials of the Song Dynasty had much lower incomes.
Wang Anshi once said: "The officials of his lower states will receive eight or nine thousand in January, and four or five thousand for the less." To keep the elected, to be removed, to keep the Mintong, to cover six or seven years and then get three years of Lu, counting the monthly income, it is really not four or five thousand, and the less can not be three or four thousand. Although they are raised, they are also embarrassed by this."
It can be seen that there are really not many low-level officials, and if there are more people in the family, life will be quite embarrassing. Song Jiang and Dai Zong actually belong to this kind of person, if they only count Feng Lu, they actually can't get much money every month.
Look at the income of ordinary farmers at that time. In addition to grain income, peasants can only earn money by relying on some side businesses, such as weaving and selling firewood. Others will go to odd jobs in their spare time to earn a little extra income. As far as grain income is concerned, the average yield per mu of land is about five stones, and according to the price of five hundred yuan per stone of grain, the market price is more than two thousand yuan. At that time, the wages of wage laborers, according to the Song Dynasty Su Rui's "three-day employment, its straight three hundred", the highest was generally 100 yuan per day. All of this adds up to a farmer who doesn't make much money all year round, just enough to make ends meet.
Let's talk about the income of the merchants at that time. The commodity economy of the Song Dynasty was very developed, and various commercial activities were complex. There are many kinds of businesses that Merchants in the Song Dynasty can engage in, some people do big business, and the profits are relatively rich, and some people just do some small business and barely make ends meet. But in any case, the income of businessmen is far higher than the social average, and the income of some businessmen is even more staggering, according to the "Continuation of the Zhizhi Tongjian Long Edition": "The assets of the capital are at most one million, and one hundred thousand is up, and everywhere." "You can imagine how much money these businessmen can make every year." They must pay attention to pomp and circumstance when they eat, which is not comparable to ordinary people.
Home of the Rich Merchants
Therefore, the income gap between different classes in the Song Dynasty was very large. The income gap between the big officials and the small officials, between the peasants and the merchants, is very large, and this gap has caused the embarrassment just mentioned. Then let's look at the scene where the little whirlwind Chai entered and invited the leopard head Lin Chong to dinner:
The eighth time in "Water Margin", Chai entered the door to invite the world's guest Lin Chong to beat the head of Hong Jiao, and wrote: The wine, fruit, and seafood were arranged, placed on the table, and carried in front of everyone. Chai Jin personally raised a glass, took the third round, sat down and shouted, "And eat the soup." "Eat a soup, five or seven glasses of wine."
This is the delicacy that the two of them ate when Chai Jin greeted Lin Chong, and saw how Chai Jin arranged it: first served good wine and good dishes, then put a variety of fruits, plus some seafood, and finally burned a bowl of soup. It can be said that even if we invite guests to dinner today, it is difficult to prepare so completely, and Chai Jin, who is still in the Song Dynasty, easily did it.
Let's see what chai jin's identity is, the tangtang Later Zhou emperor descendants, there are Emperor Taizu Emperor's royal Danshu iron coupons in the family, and the Song Dynasty government rewards him with absolutely a lot of money every year. Relying on a lot of income, so he can be so generous when he invites guests to dinner, and the taste of mountains and seas is readily available. And if you change to Li Kui to invite guests, I am afraid that I can't even eat a beef and mutton, at most a few pounds of inferior wine, a few cooking cakes will be done. This is the difference between meritorious nobles and low-level officials.
Mo said that chai jin and Li Kui were compared, and even the meal that Song Jiang and the three of them ate and the meal that Chai Jin invited guests to, there was also a big gap. Behind the quality of the meals, it reflects the difference in their identity and the level of income.
Therefore, the small meal in "Water Margin" really includes university questions.
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