In "Water Margin", Chao Gai and others outsmarted the 100,000-ton birthday guide. How much is it equivalent to today?

In the Song Dynasty, copper coins and jiaozi were mostly used. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court government stipulated that "all seventy-seven coins should be used as a hundred", which means that at this time, a coin was worth about 770 coins, and gold was 15 coins per tael. Silver 2 strings/liang. Statistics from Huang Miantang's "Research on Price Issues in Chinese Dynasties" show that the price of rice in the late Northern Song Dynasty was 1,000 qian/stone, and one stone of rice was 118.4 jin, which means it was about 17 qian/kg. Today’s rice price is almost 6 yuan/kg, which is almost 3 yuan per pound of rice.

One penny in the late Northern Song Dynasty was equivalent to 0.36 yuan today, so 1 guan = 0.36*777 = 277 yuan. One hundred thousand guan was almost 50,000 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 27.7 million yuan today. Let's take a look at how much Chao Gai gave to Song Jiang. It was a letter reported by Song Jiang at that time. Chao Gai gave 1,500 guan, which is one hundred taels of gold, equivalent to more than 400,000 yuan today. Yan Poxi insisted on Song Jiang confessing that he was a Women have to ask clearly, imagine if Song Jiang’s wife Yan Poxi doesn’t want 400,000 yuan?

According to the description in the book "Water Margin", this "Birthday Guide" of 100,000 yuan is enough for the heroes of Liangshan to feast and drink for three years. You can imagine what kind of birthday gift this is. , whether it is placed in ancient times or now, it is enough to make people feel excited. It also reflects the corrupt behavior of corrupt officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Liang Zhongshu alone gave away 200,000 yuan in two years.

This is equivalent to more than 50 million yuan. Nowadays, it is very impressive for a corrupt official to embezzle 50 million yuan in two years. At that time, most of them were blatantly corrupt. Cai Jing could receive such a gift on his birthday, while the people were plundered and had nothing left, and they couldn't even eat enough. It was really unbearable to watch.