(PS Immediately follows the above and has nothing to do with the plot.)

According to "Dream of Red Mansions", Grandma Liu saw 24 taels of silver for a meal of crabs in Jiafu, and sighed that the small family could live for a year. You must know that Grandma Liu's family was also middle-class at that time, she had a house and land and could afford to hire a worker, and the first time she went to Jiafu to fight the autumn breeze, she got 20 taels of silver, and she was very grateful. "History of the Ming Dynasty" also mentions that the legitimate salary (basic salary) of Qipinzhi County for a year is only 45 taels of silver. In the era of "Shooting the Condor" in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the circulation of silver was lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and its value could only be higher. ）

Moreover, because the monetary value of silver and silver is different in each dynasty, the value of ancient currency is now generally calculated by means of general equivalent exchange, and for the Chinese, the livelihood commodity that has not changed for thousands of years is rice. The following is a rough estimation based on the rice price records of the Taiping period, and the monetary value of silver taels can be roughly obtained.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice of general quality, and one stone at that time was about 94.4 kilograms, and one tael of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 catties. At present, the average family in China eats rice between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty, and the median price is 1.75 yuan, which can be calculated as one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty = 660.8 yuan. Since the story of "Dream of Red Mansions" is based on the Qing Dynasty, the living conditions are based on the Ming Dynasty, and the value of silver in the Ming Dynasty is calculated, Grandma Liu got more than 13,000 yuan for the New Year, of course she is very happy.

If these two pieces of silver were to be obtained in the Tang Dynasty, the purchasing power would be even more frighteningly high. Tang Taizong Zhenguan period material civilization is greatly rich, a bucket of rice only sells for 5 yuan, usually a tael of silver folded 1000 copper coins (also known as consistent), you can buy 200 buckets of rice, 10 buckets for a stone, that is, 20 stones, a stone in the Tang Dynasty is about 59 kilograms, with today's general rice price of 1.75 yuan a catty, a tael of silver is equivalent to 4130 yuan of purchasing power. During the first century of Tang Xuanzong, the price of rice rose to 10 wen a bucket, which was also one tael of silver = 2,065 yuan.

The biggest problem lies in the Song Dynasty, mainly because the Song Dynasty's numismatic system was extremely chaotic and its records were full of contradictions. The Song Dynasty used "money" as the currency in circulation, because the Song Dynasty's social and economic development was rapid, industry and commerce were also unprecedentedly developed, so the demand for money was unprecedentedly huge, and the production and import of silver were not high, and there was no government macro-control management agency like the central bank at that time, which caused an extremely chaotic situation. We know that 1,000 coins in the general dynasty is consistent, equal to one tael of silver, but this is not the case in the Song Dynasty. "History of the Song Dynasty, Food and Goods" and "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian" both mentioned that since the Zhenzong Dynasty, due to the small stock of silver is not enough to catch up with the development of the economy, the price of silver has continued to rise, basically more than 2,000 copper coins as one tael of silver. Moreover, the "money law" of the Song Dynasty was very chaotic, there were copper coins, iron coins and lead and tin coins circulating at the same time, and each state had the right to mint money on its own, and there was also a situation of private coinage, the size of the money was different, the composition was not suitable, the value was changeable, and the system was "established at any time", which was very chaotic. Iron money is passed in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and ten are exchanged for one copper coin, and the money circulating in Jiangnan and Jiangbei is not the same. There is also uncertainty about how much money there is in practice, there are 800 or 850 for the same, there are also 480 for the consistent, and the edict is to be issued for 770 to be consistent, and the states "follow their own customs for private use", which is completely confused. txt

According to the record of "Song History Food and Goods Chronicle" mentioning that "before Xi and Feng, rice stone was only six or seven hundred" and "Song History Official Chronicle" that "each bucket (rice) is converted into 30 wen", let's take 2,000 copper coins into one tael of silver, the price of rice in the Taiping period was 600-300 yuan per stone (one tael of silver and one stone of rice from before and after the Jingkang Rebellion to the early Southern Song Dynasty is not within the normal calculation range). 1 tael can basically buy 4-8 stone of rice, based on 66 kilograms of Song stone, 1 tael of silver is equivalent to nearly 924-1848 yuan; (One said that Song Shi is 96 catties, which is equivalent to 672-1344 yuan for 1 tael of silver). Assuming that the price of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty is about the same as that of the Northern Song Dynasty, then Guo Jing invited Huang Rong to eat as little as 13,000 or more than 30,000 yuan in one meal, no wonder the little girl was suddenly moved.

It should be added that before the Song Dynasty, the total amount of silver was too small and the value was too high, and it had not yet become a circulating currency (think about it, take a banknote with a denomination of more than 2,000 yuan and go to the market to buy something...... In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, copper coins were used in market circulation (paper money appeared in some parts of the Northern Song Dynasty). The silver taels became the currency in circulation only after the foreign trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties was active, and a large influx of foreign silver was there. But why in the minds of many people have always thought that silver is the currency in circulation, the author believes that it is mainly because of the prevalence of the Ming and Qing dynasties, according to the living conditions at that time for the common sense of the previous dynasties to describe, such as "Water Margin", "Golden Vase Plum", "Three Words and Two Beats" and so on, and the value of silver in these works are based on the silver price of the Ming Dynasty as the standard, and the original Wen, Guan, Xuan, Baht and other monetary units are mixed together, and have a great impact on later generations, so people today write more history and martial arts works such as "Shooting the Condor" with ancient China as the background and other books also said that the ancient currency in circulation was all "silver taels". But after all, modern people are farther away from the people of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their understanding of the monetary system of the previous dynasties and the actual purchasing power of the silver taels is even more insufficient, so there will often be sky-high steamed buns, sky-high prices of wine and food, and serious readers or viewers should have a clearer understanding of the value of the "silver taels" out of curiosity about the ancient economic situation.

So the author thinks that the money I flaunt to the characters in the book and the issues related to grain production and the economy in various places are very reasonable, just take the beginning, Yun Xingyan took 100,000 taels of silver, and took his own mansion in Luoyang (you think of it as a big mansion with three entrances and three exits near Tian'an Gate in Beijing) to give Chen Hengzhi a chance to be an official. If it was made public, no one would dare to use him at all, and the 100,000 taels of silver undoubtedly allowed Qu Changning to help them settle their worries. In fact, Yun Xingyan here is not a perfect good person, but he keeps growing up in the struggles again and again, just like our cognition, from only talking about right and wrong to only fighting for interests, in fact, many people in the book have inner changes.

Including the blackening of Yuntianqing, I believe everyone has heard the story of Xianglin's sister-in-law, isn't there a paragraph in Lu Xun's book that after Xianglin's sister-in-law was forced by He Laoliu, Changgong Liu's mother had a conversation with her? At first, Xianglin's sister-in-law would rather die than obey, in fact, she wanted to maintain her original face, but in the end, why did she rely on it? Xianglin's sister-in-law said that He Laoliu had great strength, but although the words of Changgong Liu's mother were vicious, they often gave up resistance when people were disappointed, so as to let the demons wreak havoc in their hearts.

Yun Tianqing is the same, from liking Twilight Rushuang to finally using her to harm Yun Xingyan, in fact, the plot has essentially been modeled up to now, and the reason for the story of the dragons seizing the scroll is because Yun Xingyan wanted to find Chu Xiangling urgently, but Yun Tianqing took advantage of the loophole, and finally lost his official position in the Inspectorate, so that he was later involved in the death of the prince of Qi, which is like falling into a quagmire, the more you struggle, the faster he devours you, So much so that even Yun Xingyan, who has been upright from the beginning to the present, gradually began to change his view of the world, turning against his sister, his adoptive mother died, and his father was killed......

As the emperor, Emperor Wu is right, but he is not a qualified good father, he only has a country in his eyes, no home, and it also shows the cruelty of politics, governance, struggle and struggle from the side, in addition, none of the books are good people, including the dead Gu Yuqing, he is also the son of destiny for the hexagram, so that the Lihate Palace can help him ascend to the throne and be able to take the Zhongxing sect to do this!