Too much gold to be true /u/OrpheusBlack13 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

So, my players love gold, like- I guess the most of DND players do. Many DMs tend to struggle with the amount of gold they should use as reward. I was thinking: what if I give them a ridiculous high amount of gold. For free. They find it after a combat encounter that was nearly too easy. The whole situation seems too easy to be true and I hope they will notice at this point how easy it is. They still will be happy to have so much gold. They’ll plan what to do with it. Now I ask you: what could be the hook of it? Why I wanna plan something like this? It’s only an idea, maybe to show that gold isn’t everything. Maybe just to create some tension between adventures and battles. What do you think?

So, my players love gold, like- I guess the most of DND players do. Many DMs tend to struggle with the amount of gold they should use as reward. I was thinking: what if I give them a ridiculous high amount of gold. For free. They find it after a combat encounter that was nearly too easy. The whole situation seems too easy to be true and I hope they will notice at this point how easy it is. They still will be happy to have so much gold. They’ll plan what to do with it. Now I ask you: what could be the hook of it? Why I wanna plan something like this? It’s only an idea, maybe to show that gold isn’t everything. Maybe just to create some tension between adventures and battles. What do you think?