One or two ounces of silver can be presented simply and clearly by conversion. Kaiyuan flourished and the national strength of the Tang Dynasty was at its peak. At that time, a barrel of rice was only five pence, and one or two ounces of silver was equal to 1000 copper coin, which could buy 200 barrels of rice.
Ten measures of rice is one stone, and two hundred measures of rice is twenty stones. According to the conversion of the Tang Dynasty, a stone is 59 kilograms. Now rice is 75 cents a catty, so one or two pieces of silver is equivalent to 4 130 yuan.
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Silver in Qing dynasty:
According to purchasing power, one or two pieces of silver in Qing Dynasty can be exchanged for 1 1,000 copper coins. Rice needs 600 to 700 copper coins at a time. According to the current rice price in 3 yuan, rice needs 5 10 yuan at a time, which means that one or two pieces of silver is less than 1000 yuan.
At present, the price of silver is around 3.5 yuan, and one or two silver is only 170 yuan. In contrast, our cost of living is much higher than in ancient times. Of course, the Qing Dynasty adopted 16, and we adopted 10, so it is not appropriate to compare the ancient and present silver prices.
Small Shenyang is extremely greedy, with cash of 6.5438+0.2 million taels, silver ingots of 55.6 million taels and silver ingots of 500 taels, which is equivalent to 655.6 million taels of silver. According to the purchasing power at that time, it is equivalent to 6.5 billion taels, and according to the current price of silver, it is equivalent to 227 million taels.
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