Speaking of Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, the evaluation of him by later generations has been praised and deprecated. Some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang started from scratch as a poor cattle herder and ascended to the emperor's throne step by step, which is undoubtedly a legendary life, and at the same time, he was diligent in government and loved the people, and from the time he ascended the throne to his death, he hardly had a good rest for a day, which is undoubtedly a praiseworthy place.
The most controversial thing Zhu Yuanzhang did was to strike at corrupt officials, and Zhu Yuanzhang was blackmailed by corrupt officials when he was a child, so he always hated corrupt officials. Soon after taking office, the "anti-corruption official" campaign was launched, and the history books record that Zhu Yuanzhang killed 150,000 corrupt officials during his 31 years in power.
For an emperor, anti-corruption officials are naturally a good thing for the country and the people, so what is the controversy about this matter? It turned out that officials who embezzled 60 taels of silver would be sentenced to death, and he once discovered that Yushi had more than a dozen letters of trusting relations and pulling relations, and he was furious, so he issued an edict to the world: "For the sake of the people's lives, those who commit corruption and embezzlement will be executed and will never be lenient." "From the central government to all localities, no matter who you are, if you covet more than 60 taels of silver, you will be sentenced to death."
With the increase in productivity, the country is relatively rich, and the silver is slowly increasing. According to the relevant historical records of the Ming Dynasty, one or two silver can probably buy two stones of rice, two stones of rice is 20 buckets of rice, that is, about 200 kilograms today, which means that one or two silver can buy about 200 kilograms of rice, although the price of rice is not uniformly stipulated now, take 5 yuan a pound to calculate (Xiaobian bought rice, probably this price), buy about 200 kilograms of rice, about 2000 yuan.
According to this data, the embezzlement of 60 taels of silver is almost 120,000 yuan, and the country was in chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, it was in ruins to be revived, and the silver was definitely more valuable than the small editor calculated. From Zhu Yuanzhang's point of view, greed for so much money, death is really unjust.