Volume VIII 1399 Slap in the face

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Before the complete collapse of the southern ticket, the exchange of paper money into silver coins was the most successful thing that A Qing's sister-in-law thought she had done, and these days she went to the gambling stalls to watch the tide of people, or went to the store to buy a large number of cheap and expensive goods with cash.

The market has a shortage of money, all merchants have a strict zhòng cash tension phenomenon, at the moment is not to fight whose business is better, the complete fight is the stock of cash in hand, to put it bluntly, the capital chain can not be broken.

In order to get cash, large and small merchants in Jiangnan desperately give discounts to customers, like the lake silk that Aqing's sister-in-law just bought, she actually bargained all the way to three folds and could get it, which shows how short the cash in the hands of silk merchants has been.

In fact, the whole crisis of the southern ticket is a situation of artificially creating a shortage of funds, and Jiangnan was originally a commercial pattern in which the three currencies of cash, silver, and southern bills circulated together.

Due to various reasons, its market share has been replaced by the southern ticket, and now it is rare on the market, and the whole market is basically the status quo of paper money and cash silver circulation.

Money itself has no actual value, gold and silver as precious metals have a certain use in industry, but most of them are still used for currency circulation, this thing is actually the subject of wealth.

How many goods are in the market, and then look at how much money is in circulation, then the approximate price level will be clear at a glance. For the same quantity of goods, if the money supply increases, then the price system that comes out of the table is naturally on the expensive side, and if the money supply suddenly decreases on the contrary, there are still so many goods that need the subject matter, and the natural price is in a state of decline.

As long as a shrewd businessman can step on the rhythm of a financial crisis, he can make a huge windfall, store a large amount of cash before the collapse of paper money, and then use the cash to collect physical goods or industries after the crisis erupts.

A Qing's sister-in-law always thought that she had stepped on the right rhythm, she exchanged all the paper money for silver before the crisis broke out, and then in the process of plummeting prices, she began to make a big purchase, which was simply lying on the sky and dropping pies, and she fell into her face, all of which were pies with the most oil and water.

She made money by herself, and then watched other bankrupt people jump into the river and hang herself, which proves her ability even more, in a strong contrast, Aqing's sister-in-law can no longer find the north.

If the villain has ambition, he has to show his will, especially in front of the loser, this is naturally a very cool thing, the son of the old Wang family is handsome and promising, and Aqing's sister-in-law has already been eyeing her daughter.

It's just that she also knows that her reputation is not good, and the conditions of the old Wang family are also good, and I am afraid that there is no way to do this family business, so she has not spoken, and today is the time when she has the upper hand and a hard waist.

But I never thought that Wang Liuyi's family was purely a stone in a pit, smelly and hard, and she was so poor that she was bankrupt and still holding the usual shelf, and the angry sister-in-law A Qing was naturally beaten and scolded to vent her anger.

But the ups and downs of life are completely beyond the imagination of a shrew, and the news of the prime minister's victory is like a hammer hitting her heart, and she can't bear such a blow at all and faints directly.

Although Sister-in-law Qing has a bad character, she is also an old neighbor for many years, and the people around her can't watch it, so they rushed up to help, press the person in the person, and pour cold water on the fan, and a group of people were busy for a long time before she was saved.

"Oops...... My ancestors, ......" A grumbling lament was like a singing, and Sister-in-law A Qing finally came back to life, but as soon as she opened her eyes, she thought of the amount of money she had lost, and she couldn't help crying out loud with sadness.

"Wow...... Ahhh......h

Sitting on the ground, Aqing's sister-in-law washed the fat powder into furrows with tears, her throat howled like a broken gong, her legs kicked on the ground, and the satin on her buttocks was about to wear out.

She was so wronged, she remembered clearly, the last time she gambled on the South Ticket, it was a piece of cash silver yuan in exchange for 98 yuan banknotes!

"I'm doing evil...... Woowoo...... Why am I still alive? I exchange 98 yuan for one yuan, am I stupid! Am I stupid!" While scolding himself for being stupid, he also pumped his big ear shave.

Bang Bang Bang ...... The streets are full of crackling sounds!

A Qing's sister-in-law is surrounded by poor neighborhoods, few people are doing big business, ordinary people spend more copper coins, and occasionally one or two silver dollars are already considered very well-off.

They have no concept of hundreds or thousands of silver dollars, but this does not prevent them from feeling sorry for Aqing's sister-in-law, too, who would have thought that in just five or six days, the originally worthless waste paper would become as valuable as silver?

No, no, no, listening to the yamen officials shouting just now, the credit of this banknote is not only restored, but it has to be increased in this way, after all, the government said that there is a discount for paying taxes with banknotes!

In this way, all buyers and sellers are willing to accept paper money, and you can buy something with a southern ticket than with a silver dollar. 98 silver dollars for 1 silver dollar, think about it, Sister-in-law A Qing really doesn't feel aggrieved to give herself a few slaps, and she has to slap her big mouth for two people.

What was the purchasing power of a silver dollar in the late Qing Dynasty? This is really not easy to compare, Xiao Letian once used the price of grain to compare with later generations, but think about the late Qing Dynasty The yield per mu of grain is definitely not comparable to that of later generations, and now there is no genetically modified, no hybrid rice, let alone chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

However, if you compare it with manual wages, you may be able to see some clues, and the historical records record that in the seventh year of the Republic of China, that is, in 1918, he once worked as a librarian at Peking University, and his monthly salary at that time was 8 yuan.

And this 8 yuan basically solved the problem of clothing, food, housing and transportation in Beijing, and at that time, the blue-collar skilled workers in the factory, if they worked all month, the monthly salary was between 13-15 yuan.

At that time, the market price of a small courtyard house in Beiping was about 500 yuan.

The silver content and net weight of the dragon pattern silver dollar minted by Xiao Letian are very close to Yuan Datou, which can also be speculated about the approximate purchasing power of a dragon pattern silver dollar.

The Jiangnan money ticket crisis was actually a plundering of the wealth of the merchant class, which really had little impact on the ordinary people, because the people at that time really couldn't save many silver dollars.