Ming Dynasty officials embezzled 60 taels of silver and were directly sentenced to death, 60 taels equaled to how much yuan? It was a real injustice to die
However, some people feel that Zhu Yuanzhang is cold and ruthless, and in order to consolidate the imperial power of the Zhu Dynasty, he killed the Shanhe brothers all the way.
However, the most controversial situation zhu Yuanzhang did must be that of corrupt officials, and Zhu Yuanzhang was blackmailed by corrupt officials countless times, so he did not resent corrupt officials. Immediately after the history of the book, Zhu Yuanzhang killed 150,000 corrupt officials under the 31-year official rule of the government:
As far as an emperor is concerned, anti-festering is naturally the merit of the state to the people, so what is the controversy about this matter? It turned out that as long as an official embezzled 60 taels of silver, he would be sentenced to justice, and he had found more than a dozen letters about relations in the imperial history, and he was furious, so the Holy Will World: "For the sake of the people's lives, officials fester 60, the same death, it is impossible to forgive the loan." "From the middle to the place, no matter who you are, more than 60 pieces of silver, you are sentenced to capital punishment."
Silver was one of the main coins in circulation in ancient China, but it was still extremely rare and valuable in ancient times due to the limitations of craftsmanship. The male protagonist in the TV series Shanda took out hundreds of pieces of silver from the cuffs, which is a bit unrealistic, maybe not many ordinary people have only used broken silver, and have never seen any kind of people in yuanbao.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the improvement of production capacity, the country competed for wealth, and slowly there was more silver: According to the historical records of the Ming Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver may be able to buy two pieces of stone rice, two pieces of stone rice is about 20 barrels of rice, it must also be about 200 kilograms of rice today, it must also be said that one or two silver can buy about 200 kilograms of rice, although there is no unified demarcation of the price of rice, but take 5 yuan a pound to calculate (small buy rice, maybe who is the price), buy about 200 kilograms of rice, maybe about 2000 yuan.
According to this raw material, about 120,000 yuan was embezzled, and the chaos of the previous year occurred in the Yuan Dynasty, and the hours of the early Ming Dynasty were all squandered, and the silver must be more precious than the decimals. From Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, greedy for so many Mao grandfathers, death is really not unjust: