Now our money is rmb, paper money, but in ancient times, people used money made of gold, silver, copper and other metals. Gold and silver are relatively small and high in value, so the money used by ordinary people is mainly square hole copper coins made of copper.
In the Water Margin, the money used by the good guys is mainly copper coins. For example, Lin Chong bought a treasure sword with a thousand guan, and after Wu Song killed a tiger, the government rewarded him with a thousand guan yuan, using square hole copper coins. How much is the song dynasty's thousand copper coins worth now?
First, Lin Chong bought a knife
Lin Chong was the leader of the 800,000 Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and belonged to the middle-level generals in the Forbidden Army of the Great Song Dynasty, with a good income. Lin Chong was on an errand under the taiwei Gao Li, but what was worse was that Lin Chong's wife, Lin Niangzi, was taken in by Gao Junei's son Gao Yanei. Gao Yanei was a despicable and shameless lustful person who wanted to get Lady Lin five times over and over again. Due to Lin Niangzi's resistance and Lin Chong's obstruction, she failed to succeed.
After asking for it, Takahata became ill because of this. After his son became seriously ill, Gao Li blamed all the faults on Lin Chong.'
In order to kill Lin Chong, Gao Li let people carry a treasure sword and went to the place where Lin Chong passed to sell it. At that time, Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen were together, and they did not notice the knife seller, who deliberately said loudly: "In such a big Tokyo, no one knows about military weapons." These words attracted the attention of Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen. Lin Chong and Lu Zhishen were both officers and knew weapons, and the two of them hit the sword at a glance. Lu Zhishen already had his own Zen staff, so he didn't need a weapon, and Lin Chong wanted to buy this sword.
Through bargaining, Lin Chong bought the sword from the hands of the Great Han for a thousand yuan. Gao Li also had a treasure sword, and after he heard that Lin Chong had bought a sword, he asked Lin Chong to bring his own sword and let him take a look. Lin Chong followed Gao Li's instructions and followed the people sent by Gao Li into the White Tiger Hall with a sword. The White Tiger Hall is a military stronghold, and outsiders are not allowed to enter with a knife. After Lin Chong entered the White Tiger Hall with his knife, he was arrested by the soldiers arranged by Gao Li in advance. Gao Li wanted to kill Lin Chong on the grounds that Lin Chong had assassinated himself.
Kaifeng FuYin knew that Lin Chong had been framed, so he did not sentence Lin Chong to death according to Gao Li's opinion, but only sentenced him to stab Cangzhou. Gao Li did not spare, continued to send people to hunt down and kill Lin Chong, forcing Lin Chong to endure it, killed Lu Qian and Fu'an, and went up to Liangshan on the snow night.
Second, Wu Song fights the tiger
When Wu Song was young, he killed people in his hometown, and he was afraid of being arrested by the government, so he fled to Cangzhou Chaijin Mansion to avoid disaster. Wu Song lived in Chai Jin's mansion for a year, but because Chai Jin despised Wu Song, he failed to become Wu Song's grateful benefactor, but made Wu Song resent him.
A year later, Wu Song learned that he had not killed anyone at that time, but had only knocked people unconscious, and he left Chai Jinfu to find his relatives. Wu Song's parents died, and only one older brother wu Dalang was left in his hometown. On his way back to his hometown, Wu Song passed by a three-bowl hotel in Yanggu County. The purity of the wine bought by the store is relatively high, and ordinary people are drunk after drinking three bowls. After Wu Song drank three bowls, the shopkeeper did not give him wine. Wu Song had a good amount of wine and loved to drink, so he shouted for the store to continue to bring him wine, and he finally drank 18 bowls of wine.
Not far in front of the hotel, on Jingyang Gangshang, there is a tiger haunting, and the owner persuades Wu Song to stay one night and cross the gang with other travelers the next day. Wu Song felt that the boss wanted to earn his accommodation money and deliberately deceived him, so he did not listen to the boss's persuasion and insisted on going through the gang alone.
After arriving at the bottom of the mountain, Wu Song saw the notice from the government and knew that there were indeed tigers on the mountain, but he was afraid that after returning, the shop made fun of him, and could only choose to cross the gang with a hard scalp. After arriving at the mountain, because he did not see the tiger, Wu Song was relaxed in his thinking and became sleepy. At this moment, a tiger suddenly jumped out of the jungle, and it pounced on Wu Song, ready to turn Wu Song into its own lunch. Wu Song was completely drowsy and desperately dodged. In the fight with the tiger, Wu Song found that the tiger would only make three moves: one swoop, one lift, and one cut.
Wu Song took advantage of the tiger's bulkiness, pressed it under his body, and beat it to death. Wu Song killed the tiger to eliminate harm for the people, and the government rewarded him with a thousand yuan. Wu Song gave him a reward to the people, which made the county commander value him more, and made Wu Song the head of the county ya.
Third, how much is a thousand dollars worth
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court's Feng Lu was about 300 yuan per month, and the county order was even lower, about 12 to 15 per month. A thousand yuan is about the salary of the county order for 5 and a half years. According to Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk", during the Northern Song Dynasty, a stone of rice was worth about six or seven hundred yuan. One stone of rice is equivalent to 59.2 kilograms today. The usual money is 770 copper coins, which can buy a stone of rice.
Based on the price of grain, the Northern Song Dynasty's 1,000 yuan could buy more than 13,000 kilograms of rice, which is about 507,000 yuan today. In the Song Huizong (Water Margin) period, the Northern Song Dynasty had a money shortage, the imperial court began to issue "dang ten coins", copper coins with a copper content of one-third less, but also led to a serious depreciation of the currency of the Northern Song Dynasty, a thousand dollars, about 118,000 yuan worth of the current yuan.