People who have seen "Water Margin" must remember that the sixteenth "Wisdom To Take the Birthday Gang" was very exciting, and the guards led by the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi escorted liang Zhongshu to the chancellor Cai Jing's birthday gang to the capital, and was robbed by Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng and others on the way.
This is the first vote that Chao Gai and others did, this robbery of the Birthday Gang changed everyone's fate, Yang Zhi changed his fate from the official family to a robber, became a "back pot man" who lost the Birthday Gang, and had to die in the end of the world, and Chao Gai and others also embarked on the road of Liangshan Juyi.
The birthday program is Liang Zhongshu's birthday gift to the prime minister Cai Jing, which is a rare treasure worth 100,000 yuan, Cai Jing is a famous corrupt official in the Northern Song Dynasty, who served as the prime minister for 17 years, did many bad things, embezzled and corruptly framed Zhongliang, and was known as the "head of the six thieves" in history.
Cai Jing did not have a good end, in his later years was relegated to Lingnan, starved to death on the way to Lingnan, at the age of 81, Cai Jing was also considered to have enjoyed all the glory and wealth before his death, just a Liang Zhongshu sent a birthday program worth 100,000 yuan, which is not a small amount, even today is a huge amount.
Chao Gai and others inquired in many ways, obtained the route of Yang Zhi's escort of the Birthday Gang, and also knew the list of escorts, and knew that the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi was a person with high martial arts, and if he snatched hard, it would definitely be a lose-lose situation, and he might not even be able to grab the Birthday Gang.
So under the planning of Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng and others, a plan was set to be snatched after fainting with Menghan medicine, and finally Yang Zhi and his party were deceived, drank the wine with Menghan medicine, and then everyone fainted, and the birthday gang was robbed, and Yang Zhi, as the person in charge of escorting, could not escape his blame.
The size of Yang Zhi's crime is naturally linked to the value of the Birthday Gang, if the Birthday Gang is not worth anything, Yang Zhi does not have to flee, then how much is this batch of Birthday Gang worth? Since the economic level and prices of each dynasty were different, they could only be compared according to their purchasing power.
Let's first convert from a simplified formula, according to the records of the history books, 1 piece of money is equal to 1000 copper plates, equal to 1 two silver, this conversion does not consider inflation or black market trading, the Song Dynasty is economically active, and there are many records about rice prices, which is convenient for comparison.
The price of rice in the cheapest period of the Song Dynasty was 100 wen and one stone, which appeared in the Hedong region during the song taizong and song zhenzong periods, the highest rice price appeared in the song gaozong period, which was 7000 wen yi stone, and the background era of "Water Margin" was the Song Huizong period, and the rice price was 1000 to 4000 wen yi stone.
According to the cheapest 1,000 Wen a stone, a stone is 60 pounds, according to the current 2 yuan a pound, 1,000 Yuan is 120 yuan, that is, the consistent money is 120 yuan, 100,000 yuan is 12,000,000 yuan, it is really a huge amount of money, no wonder Yang Zhi wants to escape, but also reflects the greed of Liang Zhongshu and Cai Jing.