In "Water Margin", Cai Jing is a corrupt official, and his son-in-law Liang Zhongshu, in order to please him, prepared a hundred thousand birthdays for him on his birthday, and then sent the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi to escort him. Unexpectedly, this matter was known to Gongsun Sheng, Liu Tang and others, and Liu Tang said:
"The younger brother thinks that this set is ill-gotten wealth, why bother with it?" You can discuss a reason and go halfway to get it. Heaven knows it, and it is not sinful."
All in all, the opinion of Liu Tang and others is that this corrupt official has received ill-gotten gains, and we can all take him over, even if the heavens know it, they will not blame us. However, this is only one of the reasons, and the more important reason is that the property of the 100,000-year-old birthright is really that Liu Tang, Chao Gai and others cannot bear the temptation. So how much is the 100,000 birthday class worth now? Saying it can scare you.
Let's first make a rough calculation, when studying ancient history, it is generally believed that 1000 yuan is equal to 1 yuan, 1 yuan is equal to 1 two silver, and 10 two silver is equal to 1 two gold. One pound of the Song Dynasty is equal to 640 grams, 16 two is 1 pound, so 1 two is equal to 40 grams, that is to say, 100,000 yuan of birthday class is equivalent to 4,000 kilograms of silver, and today's silver is about 3.5 yuan 1 gram, so 100,000 yuan is equivalent to 14,000 yuan, is this not a shock?
However, this is based on the assumption that modern silver prices are consistent with ancient silver prices, or that modern silver purchasing power is consistent with ancient silver purchasing power, and since the ratio of historical prices to money has been changing, such speculation may be slightly different from historical facts. Therefore, we may wish to compare the currency of the same era, that is, the currency of the Northern Song Dynasty with 100,000 yuan.
Bao Zheng was a famous official of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he once achieved the status of a Bachelor of Longtuge Zhi, so how much was the Feng Lu of a year of Longtuge Zhi Bachelor? According to the "Jiayou Lu Ling", the annual income of the Longtuge Zhi Bachelor is: 1656 copper coins, 10 Aya horses, 34 silk horses, 2 Luo horses, and 100 cotton pairs. Long Tu Ge Zhi Bachelor is from Sanpin, the ancient official position is generally to the three pins even if it is the peak of the extreme, the second product and the first product are to add glory to the special officials of the virtual position, so the pillow of the three pins is probably also the status of a very popular subject.
And the annual income of the longtuge zhi bachelor is only 1656 yuan, so 100,000 yuan is probably equivalent to how many years of income of the long tu ge straight bachelor? Exactly 60 years of income. It should be known that the salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty were known for their high, especially the salaries of civilian officials were particularly high, and the Song Dynasty advocated that the emperor and the scholars rule the world together, so the salary given to the scholars was enough to make them rich, but the salary of the Longtuge Zhi bachelor had to be at least 60 years without eating or drinking to accumulate to 100,000 yuan.
Although it is said that long tu ge zhi may also hold other positions part-time, so there are other salaries, but this is enough to make people shocked. At that time, half of the monopolists did not eat or drink for 60 years to save the 100,000 yuan was taken out by Liang Zhongshu and given to Cai Jing at one time, which can also be seen how much benefit Liang Zhongshu took in his office, no wonder Liu Tang said "ill-gotten wealth". Of course, the accumulation of 60 years of Monopoly has also made Chao Gai's heart itch very much.
If we do not understand the comparison of officials' salaries, we can compare the weight of 100,000 guan with the living expenses of ordinary people. Because the real purchasing power is to satisfy the problem of a person's survival, all material values are centered around people, whether it is ancient or modern people, a person's consumption to maintain the survival can be identified as having the same value. So let's use this line of thinking to calculate, and it will make people even more frightened and lose their jaws.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, the minimum consumption of ordinary people was 20 copper coins per day, which added up to 7-8,000 copper coins a year, that is, less than 8 yuan, and 100,000 yuan was equivalent to an ordinary person's expenditure of 12,500 years. What is the minimum daily consumption of our modern people? Suppose you eat takeaway in the morning and evening, do not eat at noon, plus utilities and rent, the daily consumption is about 60 yuan or more, so calculate how much yuan will be spent in 12500?
The calculation is an astronomical figure of 273.75 million yuan. Liang Zhongshu sent almost 300 million to the old man at one time, and you said that Chao Gai was moved by them. In fact, I think this value is the closest to the purchasing power of 100,000 yuan, because if it is only tens of millions of dollars, it will not be so exciting, send Yang Zhi to escort. Moreover, after grabbing 100,000 yuan, Chao Gai was able to take thousands of people to Liangshan mountain for many years to live a rich and unearned life, which must also be done with hundreds of millions of financial resources.