Because the early Tang Dynasty was backward and poor. The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone thought of the Tang Dynasty? A symbol of China's powerful conquest of the world? And so on, but the Tang dynasty was not very strong in the early days of its establishment. In fact, the early Tang Dynasty was very backward. After decades of social turmoil in the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty only got a tattered semi-finished product. In the early Tang Dynasty, the imperial court had limited strength and insufficient control over the country, so there were so many people? Fake money? At that time, of course, fake money was just metal money mixed with too many impurities.

However, it is precisely because a large number of counterfeit money is doped with impurities that the purchasing power of money has declined. However, this kind of thing was not a bad thing in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic, but a good thing, because people were too poor. How poor is it? Don't say fake money with impurities, just have money. Most people at the bottom have no money, so they appear? Barter? This primitive form of trade is also called. Cloth? Make money. Later, the imperial court developed and began to unify coins and manage the economic market. However, it takes a process, and the people's living standards have not come up, and they can't get rid of the situation of having no money to spend. Therefore, the trade mode of cloth and silk is still circulating for a long time.

It was not until the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty that the economy of the Tang Dynasty developed rapidly, people's living standards improved rapidly, and everyone had money to spend, and the situation of bartering things was completely shaken off, ending the situation of taking cloth and silk as currency. Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty was powerful, it was actually a funeral. The trade pattern of primitive society was almost restored in the early Tang Dynasty, which shows how poor the Tang Dynasty was at that time.

Generally speaking, the use of cloth and silk as money in the Tang Dynasty was in the early stage of poverty. Later, after the economic prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, there was no use of cloth and silk as money. This is only caused by the low living standards of the people, rather than the system in which cloth and silk were used as money in the Tang Dynasty.