Eighth, officially start picking up girls!*\(^_^)/*When visiting the White Lotus, don’t forget to bring some small gifts, a pair of bracelets, a post of 40 words, a post of light powder, a bronze mirror, a 2000 words, a 110 words, a 10 words, a 60 words, a 60 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words, a 10 words

You drank enough of the top ten wines in the hotel, went out to buy slaves, hired cars, and were picking up other goods in the street market. Suddenly, you heard the shout of a soldier, and a slave quickly pulled you away.

I saw a row of two rows of people marching over, with people riding horses and holding flags of unknown signs. There were more than a dozen porters behind, carrying seven or eight loads of silk and satin, and walking forward in a row, with people beating drums and drums next to them. It was really lively.

Some people onlookers discussed it, saying that this was another reward from the emperor to Wei Secretariat? Mr. Wei was brave and dared to advise. The saint just gave five hundred pieces of silk a few days ago. Last month, there was another reward of one thousand pieces. Last year, I remembered that I rewarded eight hundred pieces of silk...

"Does Wei Jian run a cloth shop at home? What's the use of rewarding so many silk cloths?" You were dizzy and couldn't help but mutter. The slaves I just bought around you quickly stopped you: "Alang, Wei Jian came from a famous family in Hebei, how can he accuse someone of being a first-class merchant?"

Well, we won’t talk much when we know that we discriminated against businessmen in ancient times. But really, what is the emperor doing to reward ministers with so much silk?

We just learned that the Tang Dynasty could not buy things directly with silver. Gold could be used for large-scale transactions. The most common one was copper coins. Then there is another common one...it is considered a common currency for medium-scale transactions, which is silk.

You know that the technology of mining and smelting copper ore and minting coins in ancient times was very backward, right? The number of newly minted copper coins every year was said to be quite large, but they still could not meet the needs of private commercial activities. So, since the early Tang Dynasty, the government clearly stipulated that private transactions should be "used both money and silk", and even stipulated that if the transaction amount exceeded ten cents of coins, they had to be paid with silk cloth.

So how much does a piece of silk cost? As we have said above, the normal price is about 500 yuan, half a stake. However, this thing has changed significantly in the times, and it is also related to the quality of silk cloth. Silk, silk, silk, satin, silk, silk, silk, silk... All kinds of fabrics are inconsistent under various circumstances. The prices of silk are still mainly used for buying things.

Therefore, the emperor gave the minister's silk, which was actually equivalent to giving money directly. The servants in the minister's family could pull a cart of silk to the streets, and use the silk to buy food and utensils while walking. You could also take a bunch of silk to Pingkangfang to find the confidant white lotus (hey, don't carry it yourself, what are the two servants buying them for?).

When you arrive at Bai Lianhua's house, you will understand that many of the princes and grandchildren who come to appreciate her literary performances also come with silk. When Bai Lianhua sings and dances in the hall, these men kept sending silk, saying that it was for "putting on the wife's head to wrap around".

Many years later, Bai Lianhua was bought by a wealthy businessman and taken to Jiangzhou for resettlement. Her husband was doing business outside all year round. Bai Lianhua guarded an empty boat, bored, playing the pipa every night to remember the bitterness and sweetness. One day, an official named Bai, also known as Bai, heard the sound of her pipa, and asked to come over to chat. Bai Lianhua recalled her youth when she was as beautiful as a flower, and sang like this:

"The thirteenth learning of the pipa is the first part of the Jiaofang.

After the song, I taught the talent to wear it, but I was always envied by Qiu Niang.

Wuling was young and scrambled to the head, and I don’t know how many songs of red silk are…”

The currency article is quite complicated, so it means that there are more annotations. Please read the following before asking questions:

1. The prices of all items mentioned in this article, gold, silver, money, grain, silk cloth, carriages, houses, slaves... are recorded in the information, and the price difference is still very large. The price index obtained by the author Lu is either something that experts and scholars think is credible after research and comparison, or they find that it is more appropriate by taking the intermediate values ​​from different values, and only ensures the accuracy of the order of magnitude. If you change the time, place and environment, the prices of these things may change significantly.

2. The main reference materials for this article are about currency and gold and silver. "History of Chinese Monetary" (written by Peng Xinwei) and "Research on Gold and Silver in the Tang and Song Dynasties centered on the monetary functions of gold and silver" (written by Kato), "Converting ancient and modern weights and measures is "China's Measurement and Trade-offs" (written by Guo Zhengzhong), and "Research on Gold and Clay Cuts" (written by Wang Zhonglu and Zheng Yixiu) and "Research on Price Issues in China in the Years" (edited by Huang Miantang). All the above books can be downloaded for free on **Aiwen.

So if anyone wants to know the prices of other things in the Tang Dynasty, please download the reference book and check it yourself. The prices that are not in the book are missing, and I don’t know. If the deer is peeled to death, it can’t make up a word (Liu Yezhu raised his hand: Sell deer skin to me, buy it at a high price...)

3. There has always been a fierce debate on when silver and gold became currencies in China (some people believe that silver became legal currency until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was issued. Before, it was only bartered in the Ming and Qing Dynasties). Scholars also had different opinions on whether silver could be used to buy things directly in the Tang Dynasty. Kato's reference book's view is different from the viewpoint of this article. This topic is too complicated to say, so I won't lose my book bag.

In the border areas and silver-producing areas of the Tang Dynasty, there was also the phenomenon of directly buying things with silver and paying taxes. If you travel to the Western Regions, Guangzhou and Vietnam, these areas with frequent foreign trade, no one would be surprised to buy things with silver. There is also a Tongbao made of silver in Turpan, Dunhuang and Turpan, which is called "silver money", which is also a daily currency.

Many "Kaiyuan Tongbao" made of gold and silver were also discovered in the mainland of Central Plains. The appearance was basically the same as copper coins, but this was used for rewards and entertainment for royal aristocrats, so they could not be taken to the street to buy things directly.

4. The large amount of "gold gifts" in the Han Dynasty, modern scholars believe that it is very likely that the gifts are given, and the ones clearly stated that "gold gifts XX" are given gold. Moreover, sometimes "the amount of gold is given" only represents a value scale, that is, the ones announced are gifts and copper, but in fact, what is given to the person given is copper coins or physical objects of equal value. This phenomenon also existed in the Tang Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty did not explain the order of magnitude "give five hundred gold" and "give eight hundred gold" generally mean "five hundred jin" and "eight hundred jin". However, after the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the order of magnitude "give five hundred gold" and "give eight hundred gold" became "five hundred liang" and "eight hundred liang". Of course, the Tang Dynasty was much bigger than the Han Dynasty.

5. The "Yinquan Money" of the Tang Dynasty = 1,000 copper coins is a definite value of the official method. However, in fact, because the money shortage is too serious, the "short road" phenomenon among the people is very common. That is, there may be only seven or eight hundred coins in the Yishen money, but everyone still admits that it has the purchasing power of Yishen money and is okay to buy things. However, when paying taxes to the government, it is very disadvantageous. The government generally requires the taxpayer to add enough money to the less. Therefore, the weight of Yishen money mentioned in the main text may actually be 20% off.

6. The background of the main story is the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City, and the prices mentioned are also as good as possible to find records from Chang'an City or the mainland. However, many of these records come from literati notes and novels, exaggerated and curious, and many are not reliable. The more reliable ones are the Tang Dynasty accounts unearthed from Turpan, Dunhuang, but that place is too far from Chang'an City. Even today, when transportation is convenient, there is a certain gap between prices in Xinjiang and Xi'an... Therefore, the various prices in the article combine the information of the two places. In order to make the writing smooth, it will no longer explain which price is where.

7. According to the structure needs, there is a text that uses gold as an equivalent to calculate the price comparison between copper coins in the Tang Dynasty and modern RMB [A house with a good location must be sold at least 500 jin (1 million yuan)... The master and servant lived in Chang'an for one month, which is only jin (2,000 yuan).]. This calculation method can be valid if you can really travel with gold. But if you fail to travel successfully, this method is inaccurate.

Because from ancient times to modern times, the production technology of other items has been rapidly improved, while the mining of gold has progressed relatively slowly, so in modern times, the value of gold is much higher than that in ancient times. For example, the price comparison between gold and silver has reached around 1:40 in modern times, while in the Han and Tang Dynasties is only 1:5 in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Modern gold is much more valuable than gold in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Students should not buy gold belts from modern times and travel to ancient times to sell, which will cause losses to people...

A more scientific method of currency conversion that can correctly reflect productivity and people's living standards is to use rice as an equivalent. It is to use rice as an equivalent amount in the Tang Dynasty to buy this part of the rice through time... Ah, it is to use RMB to buy rice of the same weight in modern times, and then calculate the price comparison between these RMB and the Tang Dynasty.

Based on the current 2 yuan/central kilogram of hulled rice, a "Kaiyuan Tongbao" before the Anshi Rebellion can buy about 0.57 yuan of rice, one cent is about one yuan, and one cent is about 1,000 yuan. After the Anshi Rebellion, one cent is about 1 cent, and one cent is about 1000 yuan.
Chapter completed!