C3998 The God of Fortune doesnt have money either! (1/2)
The purchasing power of Silver was different in the different dynasties in the China. From Zhang Juzheng's technique to the whip, the Silver had officially become a legal Currency that could flow together with the copper coin!
From the Ming Dynasty onwards, the purchasing power of Silver was recorded in countless historical records!
Everyone knew the story of Fan Jin being a High Scholar in the outside world. The words that the old butcher, his father-in-law, had scolded Fan Jin again was a type of side evidence.
Fan Jin wanted to borrow money from his father-in-law, the Butcher Hu, so he scolded Fan Jin, ”Look for a few taels of silver every year, I hope to feed your old, immortal Old Mother and your wife! I can't earn enough money to kill a pig a day to kill a silver. ”
Could silver s support Old Mother and her wife for a few taels of silver a year? In the ancient times, the purchasing power of silver was really high!
Wu Jingzi, the author of the external history of the Confucian forest, died in the last year of Kang Xi. He had experienced three dynasties of Kang Yong, and although his external history was written about the Ming Dynasty, the price of the story showed the standard of living of the Qing Dynasty!
It could be said that in the early and middle stages of Qing Dynasty, the purchasing power of Silver s was very high. An acre of land was only worth about ten taels of silver s.
However, as the population of Qianlong year began to soar, the social productivity greatly increased. Furthermore, with the increasing maturity of the Europe's Technology, the Eastern and Western trade became more and more convenient and on a large scale!
As the Chinese only traded silver, and did not have any opium or other Western goods to barter for goods in the early days, it forced the foreign merchants of the entire world to search the entire world for silver s in order to obtain the China's goods.
At that time, a large part of the international silver ore production had been used by the European businessmen to pay for the Currency s used for trading with the Qing Kingdom!
The continuous influx of a large number of Silver caused the price of the Silver to drop continuously. This showed that the purchasing power of the Silver was not enough!
In the past, three to five taels of silver could live for a year, but by the time Jiaqing was here, she could earn twenty to thirty taels, or even more!
The real estate price of Capital was also a barometer! When the country was established, two to three hundred silver could buy a courtyard house, and when it came to Tongzhi's dynasty, if you did not have one or two thousand Silver, you could forget about buying anything!
From the Kang Xi dynasty all the way to the Tongzhi dynasty, the Qing Kingdom's inflation rate was around ten times!
But no matter how much the Silver had reduced its purchasing power, it was still a true precious metal Currency after all. Compared to the entire Earth's resources, it was still very scarce!
Therefore, even though the Silver's purchasing power had already been diluted to a certain extent in the Tongzhi Dynasty, their buying power was still extremely high!
A Dragon Mark Silver Dollar could buy forty to fifty kilograms of rice or nine kilograms of pork in Capital. Capital currently only rented a single house with four houses, and it only required ten silver coin s per month!
As for buying a house, it was not that expensive. The courtyard Hun Er set up in the Suzhou Alley was of the highest standard and only spent 4000 silver dollar s.
If it was in South of the City, you would have taken down one of the three thousand silver dollar s!
According to this price system, the price of Fei Shuo's ten thousand silver dollar for one skinny horse was way too high. Capital's three four-yard houses were priced too high to buy a woman? Isn't this dishonoring money?
An ordinary worker could only earn one Ocean a month, while a few Technology could earn two. Only the blue-collar Technical workers could only earn around ten or so per month.
Ten thousand silver dollar! That was the sum of the income from ten thousand months of work as a normal laborer, as well as the income from a thousand months of work as a senior technician in the Chinese.
To use so much money to buy a woman? Buying six at once? There was dead silence on the cruise liner!