Chapter 40 Section 4 Where did he get so much money for him to spend everywhere like rain in time?

Besides, Song Jiang, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, has been working hard on the files every day since he returned from Mengzhou, and a year has passed in a blink of an eye.The so-called Yasi is roughly equivalent to the director of the county government office. In the organizational structure of the Song Dynasty, it was just a small official.However, although the position is small, he has real power, is proficient in knives and pens, is familiar with officials, and is good at taking advantage of it.If there are heroes in the Jianghu who come to join him, no matter how high or low they are, they must be hospitable to them.Even if he is ashamed, he will give generously.He also often solves difficulties and disputes for the people of a county, and helps the poor and the suffering.Therefore, the folks say his kindness is likened to rain in time, the desire to save all things.

At noon that day, Song Jiang left the county government office after get off work, and met a person who greeted him with salutes.Seeing that he was wearing a uniform, Song Jiang knew something about him.Upon questioning, the man claimed to be He Tao, the arrest envoy of Jeju Prefecture (equivalent to the current police chief of a prefecture-level city).Yuncheng County belongs to Jeju Prefecture. For Song Jiang, He Tao was the one from above, so he dared not neglect, and invited him to the teahouse opposite the county government office to have dinner and talk. A shocking case was narrated in one narration.It turned out that not long ago, Liang Zhongshu from Daming Mansion purchased a birthday outline, but was cheated by a leather bag company in Huangnigang.Liang Zhongshu, formerly known as Liang Shijie, was the Minister of Zhongshu in the dynasty and the left-behind of the Daming Mansion (equivalent to today's Vice Premier of the State Council and Mayor of Beijing).The money that was cheated was said to be as large as one hundred thousand yuan.How much is one hundred thousand?In the Song Dynasty, a consistent coin was equivalent to one tael of silver, and one hundred thousand guan was equivalent to one hundred thousand taels of silver.If in 2000 AD, one tael of silver was equivalent to RMB 300, but now that inflation is present, one tael of silver is equivalent to at least RMB 800, and 100,000 guan is equivalent to RMB 80 million.Liang Zhongshu's background is huge, and the amount of money cheated is also huge.When Jeju Government received the report, its head also grew huge.

Song Jiang asked: "Is such a shocking case related to our county?" He Tao replied: "We have found some clues. The seven suspects involved in the case are all in Guixian County. One of them is Baozheng (equivalent to today's village chief) Chao Gai of Dongxi Village. There are six others, I don't know who it is?" When Song Jiang heard about it, he couldn't help being taken aback, and said in his heart: "Chao Gai is my confidant brother, but he has committed such a heinous crime, I have to try to save him!" He is really savage. No one in the county has a good impression of him. Now he has committed a big crime, and he deserves it.” He went on a few gossips, and while holding He Tao, he made an excuse to go back to take care of the housework.After leaving the teahouse, he rushed to Dongxi Village in a hurry to inform Chao Gai.Then he hurried back, just in time for work in the afternoon, and introduced He Tao to Shi Wenbin, the county magistrate.

Dear readers, why did Song Jiang risk his life to rescue Chao Gai?One is because of Chao Gai's reputation as a hero, and the other is because of the friendship between Song Jiang and Chao Gai.Dongxi Village, where Chao Gai lives, is adjacent to Xixi Village across a big stream.At the beginning, Xixi Village was haunted by ghosts, and they often went to the stream to throw water during the day, and the villagers were very distressed.Under the guidance of an eminent monk, a pagoda was chiseled out of bluestone and placed by the stream.So all the ghosts from Xixi Village rushed over to Dongxi Village.Chao Gai was furious, crossed the big stream, took the bluestone pagoda, but put it on the Dongxi side.Everyone in Xixi Village dared not speak out, but everyone in Dongxi Village admired him. From then on, he was called "Tuota King", and he was admired by heroes from all over the world.Between Song Jiang and Chao Gai, there are often official contacts, and the friendship is not shallow.

There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that Yuncheng County awarded the contract to a private engineering team to repair the city wall in the northwest corner five years ago.Niuhuang, Ma Bao, and Chao Gai came to bid.Niuhuang's bid was 5,400 taels of silver, Ma Bao's bid was 7,600 taels of silver, and Chao Gai's bid was 19,900 taels of silver, but Chao Gai won the bid.Some people say that after Chao Gai won the tender, he subcontracted the project to Niuhuang, and got a net profit of 5,500 taels of silver from it.Some people also said that at least three thousand taels of the net profit of five thousand five hundred taels fell into Song Jiang's pocket.It can be seen from this that Song Jiang has a lot of inexplicable black income besides the salary of the imperial court. Otherwise, he is a small official with a knife and a pen, where did he get a lot of money for him to spend everywhere like timely rain?