As one of the four famous works, "Water Margin" gave birth to countless famous scenes, and "Wisdom to Take the Birthday Class" is also one of them, Chao Gai Wu used seven people, with his own wisdom, to deceive Yang Zhi, who was responsible for escorting the Birth Anniversary Class, thus obtaining the gold and silver jewelry they dreamed of in their hands. According to Liang Zhongshu himself, "Last year, many playthings and gold jewelry shells were bought, and people sent them, and less than halfway through, they were robbed by thieves, and they wasted this property."
This also had to make everyone feel curious, how much is the birthday program that Liang Zhongshu, the left-behind si of the Daming Province, gave to the current emperor Cai Jing, how much is it worth, which is equivalent to how much money it is now, don't be shocked when you say it?
In the original work, it is not mentioned that the detailed components of the Birth Anniversary Class are mentioned, but it is mentioned that Yang Zhi ordered 10 elite soldiers and set off with ten cartons of treasure. However, Liang Zhongshu spent 100,000 guan to buy these treasures, and the news obtained by Liu Tang, Gongsun Sheng, Wu Yong and others is also the same, I have to say that Liang Zhongshu's confidential work is really good, the whole world knows this news, so we will focus on the price of this 100,000 guan.
Ancient currencies have a variety of payment methods, both gold and silver, then there are also copper coins more commonly used by ordinary people, and experts and scholars study coins, generally follow such a formula: that is, 1 two gold = 10 two silver = 10 copper coins = 10,000 copper coins. Therefore, Liang Zhongshu was equivalent to sending out 100,000 taels of silver, at that time the silver mining technology was not yet mature, and the Western silver dollar had not flowed into China like the Ming and Qing dynasties, so the price was very rare, as for the purchasing power of 100,000 yuan, it is best to use rice as a comparison.
In the Song Huizong period, a stone of rice, often need copper coins consistent, according to Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" record: "all stone people to ninety-two and a half pounds as the law", a Song jin weight of 940 grams, and a stone of rice is about 59 pounds of weight, today's rice price fluctuates at about 3 yuan a pound, converted down, the Northern Song Dynasty consistent money is equivalent to today's 180 yuan.
So 100,000 guan is a huge amount of 18 million yuan, which is surprising, liang Zhongshu, as a magistrate, really can come up with so much money? His identity is the Daimingfu Left-behind Division, and the Damingfu is actually today's Beijing, prosperous, and the Left-behind Division is the official office set up in the capital from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, with great power, and the book also writes that Liang Zhongshu "Goes up to the horse to manage the army, get off the horse to manage the people, and the most powerful." ”
Therefore, he scavenged the people's fat people's cream to get so much money, it is not too unusual, although the Northern Song Dynasty is the richest dynasty in Chinese history, in the three years of Xianping (1000) it reached 2280 US dollars, equivalent to 16,000 yuan of per capita GDP, but Liang Zhongshu sent it casually, it sent away the work value of 1,000 Song Dynasty people for a year, which is no wonder why it caused public anger, so that Chao Gai Chao Baozheng, who was rich in family, did not hesitate to take risks.
Of course, Chao Gai and others did not rob the Birthday Gang to rob the rich and help the poor, although they flaunted the slogan of the Heavenly Path, but these Birthday Gang were actually taken to Liangshan, leaving themselves to live happily, and it was the common people who suffered.