According to Zhu Yuanzhang, anyone who embezzles more than sixty taels will be sentenced to death. How much is 60 taels now?

In order to maintain his rule, in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated a series of laws and systems aimed at officials. After the evaluation of later generations, these laws are very strict. In their place, Zhu Yuanzhang had such a rule: if you embezzle more than 60 taels, you will be beheaded! Compared with Yong Zhengdi, who attached great importance to bureaucracy and severely punished corrupt officials in the17th century, Zhu Yuanzhang was more severe, which can be seen from the amount of money. After all, people can't embezzle 2,200 yuan, but he embezzled 62 yuan and was directly beheaded.

I think the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang made such a strict interest relationship is related to his juvenile experience. Unlike Yong Zhengdi, Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a peasant family and was very poor. In order to survive, he often moves. The poverty of his family can't be explained clearly in one or two sentences. I can only say that it is Zhu Yuanzhang's father. After the death of Zhu Wusi, none of the Zhu brothers could afford a thin coffin.

When he was wandering outside, all he saw and heard were corrupt officials. Perhaps because of this experience, Zhu Yuanzhang severely punished corrupt officials when 1368 founded the Ming Dynasty, so don't be soft-hearted as long as corruption is involved. Moreover, unlike other emperors, his lily can only talk. Zhu Yuanzhang has been in power for more than 30 years, and has been implementing this law without tolerance for corrupt officials.

He has been in power for many years. According to historical records, a total of 654.38+0.5 million corrupt officials were killed. Moreover, in order to eliminate corrupt officials, he also thought of many ways, such as setting up a "grievance drum" outside the noon gate to avoid the situation that officials protect each other, and allowing ordinary people to report. As long as he finds that corrupt officials are verified, he can get a large reward.

In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang's means should be able to reduce corrupt officials to a certain extent and bring some protection to ordinary people. Since it is a good political system, why do some people say that Zhu Yuanzhang is too harsh because the amount he set is too unreasonable? So how much is 60 taels?

I believe that friends who have seen many costume dramas often see fragments of heroes and protagonists who spend a lot of money. So from here, is sixty taels really not much? We really rely on some economic knowledge here. In fact, the same amount may vary from dynasty to dynasty, and sometimes it varies from year to year.

This is because the change of the amount is related to many factors. If inflation or deflation occurs at this time, the amount will change. In the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, because the purchasing power of silver was still very low shortly after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver could probably buy more than 600 kilograms of rice. According to the mid-Ming Dynasty, a stone was about 94.4 kilograms.

Such a silver can buy 188.8 kg of rice, which is 377.6 kg. If calculated according to the current price difference, a silver is about 1 100 yuan. Due to the lack of materials in the early Ming Dynasty, the value of silver was definitely slightly higher than that in the middle period, so one silver was 65,438+.

It's a bit harsh to sentence an official to death 10.8 million dollars. Where did this come from? I don't know if you have seen the 20 18 TV series "in the name of people". There are also many corrupt officials in it, and they are embarrassed to look up if they don't covet millions. Most of those corrupt officials just reflect on what they did in prison.