The purchasing power of silver in China is different in different dynasties and generations. Since Zhang Juzheng's whipping method, silver has officially become a legal tender that circulates together with copper coins!
Since the Ming Dynasty, the purchasing power of silver has been recorded in countless historical books!
Everyone knows the story of Fan Jin's passing the imperial examination in Scholars and Foreign History. The words of Fan Jin's old butcher father-in-law scolding Fan Jin again are circumstantial evidence.
Fan Jin wanted to borrow money from his father-in-law, Butcher Hu, which angered Butcher Hu. He scolded Fan Jin: "How many taels of silver do you need to support your old lady and your wife every year? I can kill a pig a day and still make money." No money can be exchanged for silver.”
Can I support my mother and my wife with just a few taels of silver a year? In ancient times, the purchasing power of silver was indeed very high!
Wu Jingzi, the author of The Scholars, was born in the late Kangxi years and died during the Qianlong period. He experienced the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong alone. Although his The Scholars wrote stories about the Ming Dynasty, the prices in the stories showed The standard of living in the Qing Dynasty!
It can be said that in the early and mid-Qing Dynasty, the purchasing power of silver was still very high. One acre of land cost only about 10 taels of silver. Ordinary people who lived in poverty could live with only 35 taels of silver!
However, as the population of the Qing Dynasty began to increase sharply during the Qianlong period, social productivity greatly improved, and coupled with the increasing maturity of European navigation technology, trade between the East and the West became more and more convenient and large-scale!
Since the Chinese only valued silver in trade, and there were no opium or other Western goods to barter with in the early days, foreign merchants around the world were forced to collect silver all over the world in order to obtain Chinese goods!
At that time, a large part of the international silver mine output was used by European merchants as currency to pay for trade with the Qing Dynasty!
The continuous inflow of large amounts of silver caused the price of silver in the Qing Dynasty to continue to fall. This showed that the purchasing power of silver in the market was insufficient!
In the past, three to five taels of silver could last a year, but during the Jiaqing and Daoguang years, it would have been twenty to thirty taels, or even more!
Real estate prices in Jingshi are also a barometer! When the People's Republic of China was founded, you could buy a courtyard house with two or three hundred taels of silver. By the time of the Tongzhi Dynasty, if you didn't have one or two thousand taels of silver, forget it!
From the Kangxi Dynasty to the Tongzhi Dynasty, the silver inflation rate in the Qing Dynasty was about ten times!
But no matter how much silver reduces its purchasing power, it is not a credit currency but a real precious metal currency, and it is still scarce compared to the resources of the entire earth!
Therefore, even if the purchasing power of silver has been diluted to a certain extent during the Tongzhi Dynasty, the purchasing power is still very high!
At present, a silver dollar with a dragon pattern can buy forty or fifty kilograms of rice or nine or ten kilograms of pork in the capital. The capital currently rents a private courtyard by itself, and only ten silver coins a month are enough!
As for buying a house, it's not particularly expensive. The courtyard house Ermao bought in a Suzhou Hutong was of a good standard and only cost 4,000 silver dollars. This was because the house seller in the inner city raised the price a bit!
If you were in Nancheng, you could win a beautiful single-family courtyard house for three thousand silver dollars!
Calculated based on this price system, Fei Shuo's price of 10,000 silver dollars for a thin horse is simply too high. How much does it cost to buy a woman for three courtyard houses in the capital? Isn't this a waste of money?
In the Qing Dynasty, an ordinary worker's monthly salary was only one silver dollar. Those with some skills could earn two silver dollars. Only the blue-collar skilled workers in the Tanggu Special Economic Zone could earn around ten silver dollars per month.
Ten thousand silver dollars! That’s the total income of an ordinary small-time worker working for 10,000 months, and the income of a senior Chinese technician working for 1,000 months!
So much money to buy a woman? Are you going to buy six of them at once? There was a sudden silence on the boat!
Fei Shuo shook his head and said to the women, "Did you see it? I'm dumbfounded. These pretty boys you like are dumbfounded. They can't bear to give up money!"
"Silly woman, do you know what's going on here... This businessman is very rich. Sir, I believe that it's nothing for these wealthy businessmen to spend 20,000 silver dollars!"
"But don't forget, they are businessmen, and businessmen want to make money! If you put 20,000 silver dollars in the business, and sell a few ships of tea, porcelain, etc., you will still make eight or nine thousand silver dollars, right?"
"If you don't make good money, will it hit you little sluts on the head? Is it worth it? Think about it for yourselves, is it worth it?"
Fei Shuo grabbed the wine jar next to him and took a sip of wine excitedly, "Ah... happy... let me be clearer, this businessman is rich, but is all the money in cash?"
"I still don't know the virtues of these stinky businessmen. Although they all look well-dressed and look like they are rich, all their money is spent in business!"
"Sometimes, people say he has a millionaire, but do you really think he can give out a million taels of silver in one go? Bah...that's pure fart!"
"These people's money is either tied up in land, or in real estate... and shop goods, all of which need to be converted into money!"
"There are still some working capital left that must not be used. They are for life-saving purposes...The rest will be spent on food, drink, and fun!"
"For a millionaire to be able to shell out 40,000 to 50,000 in cash is considered a big deal... Haha... I have traveled all over the country and have never been to any place. I have seen a lot of rich and stinky businessmen!"
"Some of them are very good at pretending, but in fact, the famine is all debt... Hahaha, if you little bitches fall into the hands of these poor swindlers, they will still have to use your sex to make money!"
"Hahaha... you jumped out of this stinking hole and then entered that stinking hole again! Do you really think that pretty boy has good intentions? Do you really think that you can soar into the sky by following a businessman?"
Fei Shuo panicked at the daughter Hong in the wine jar and laughed wildly: "Hahaha... Scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, little ladies, you have to remember, this stinky businessman will always be the dirt under the feet of an official! Sir, I want to step on it as much as I want. Just step on it!"
"The rules of our ancestors can never be changed! Businessmen are all bastards and have a bastard industry! They will never be able to turn around! No matter how much you show off your power in the past few years, sooner or later the accounts will be settled!"
Good guy, this arrogant scolding made Fei Shuo's face turn red with excitement, but what he said really makes sense. Those girls have seen countless people on weekdays, what kind of monsters and ghosts have they not seen?
Having experienced many customers, they naturally know who is rich and who is not. Many rich people are just like Fei Shuo said, they are empty-shell liars. Even if they are really rich, they have a richer family and fixed assets. a bit more!
Those who can really take out one hundred and eighty thousand cash in one go are all the famous God of Wealth in Jiangnan!
In the past, Zhang Xiaowen could do it, and everyone knew it, but now that Zhang Xiaowen has been assigned by the Yuan Dynasty, he is just a small counter clerk, how can he spare 60,000 cash!
The more they thought about it, the more heartbroken they became. The six girls knew that their fate was sealed. Tears fell down their cheeks. Some of them kept looking at the lake, looking at it and still wanted to jump into the river!
Zhang Xiaowen was there quietly listening to Fei Shuo's nonsense, without getting angry or refuting, and he even had a few drinks with Fei Shuo clearly!
Simpson, who was recording everything on the side, became kind-hearted and secretly said to Zhang Xiaowen, "Mr. Zhang... aren't you ready to rescue these girls in distress?"
"Didn't they say you are the God of Wealth?"
