Tang Chuan’s guide: “I will pay a thousand taels of silver to buy you **!” “Silver? I’m really insincere!”

Today, let’s make some contribution to the entertainment, leisure and cultural industry in the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

When you traveled through time and became a noble child, you went deep into the grassroots level in Pingkangfang and learned about the sufferings of the people, and met a working class woman with a miserable background. The woman is a literary worker and has a deep sense of bel canto singing and dancing. In addition, you also have a lot of experience in cutting, makeup, hairstyle design, literature, poetry, psychological counseling, and massage of the opposite sex. She is really a confidant with skill and skill.

The most rare thing is that although she was unfortunately trapped in a weathered area since childhood, she has noble character and a rigorous and upright lifestyle. She has not been included in the surveillance list by the Anti-Pornography and Illegal Illegal Office. Of course, she will not let go of such a noble white lotus that is not stained with mud, a greedy fake mother ponytail and a cannon fodder figure with impure minds.

Look, the fake mother is going to conduct illegal activities at home tonight, and invited you and a bunch of cannon fodder to openly bid for the White Lotus night. You, listening to this young man paying a thousand stagnant of money, the man gives out fifty pieces of silk, and seeing the White Lotus sitting next to him, bowing his head and saying nothing, his blood pouring up. In order to make the beauty knowing not fall into dust, I have tried my best! He stretched out his hand and patted the case and shouted:

"I used 1,000 taels of silver to redeem my wife's good deeds!"

The fake mother and the white lotus were indeed shocked, and both turned to look at you. The fake mother probably has a bad ear sound, so she asked again: "How much does the husband come out?"

"One thousand taels of silver with tattoos!" Haha, wasn't you scared? Was you scared? He looked at others and was stunned... As for where to carry this thousand tael (equivalent to more than 40 kilograms now) of silver... Don't ask me if you hate this kind of problem>_
The fake mother looked at the white lotus, the white lotus looked at the fake mother, and she curled her mouth and started to wipe her tears from her sleeve. The fake mother stood up and bowed to you, her face was ashen and her order was expelled from the ground:

"The country is very strict and the country is bounded by the bride. I cannot bear the grace of noble people. Please, please, I will give it to you not far away."

You were kicked out of the door with your neck, probably confused and looked confused. You thought this **TMD was too ungrateful! Do you think a thousand taels of silver are too little? You think that you can add it again! Why did you just get it out? Could it be that my brother stole the silver?

Congratulations, you are right! If you took out the "silver" in the street to buy things in the Tang Dynasty, you would be either stealing or robbing, or you would be a crazy person.

Why? Is there no such thing as silver in the Tang Dynasty?

Of course there is silver, but before the Song Dynasty, most parts of China did not use silver as liquid currency.

For example, we also have silver products in modern times, and many people will wear some silver jewelry with you. But if you buy a pancake on the street and take off the silver bracelets in your hand to pay, will the uncle who sells pancakes be charged? You go to the apple store to buy Ai Chuangsi and throw out a silver ingot to pay the bill, do the clerk want it?

Of course, I don’t want it. The apple shop has no means to check the quality and authenticity of the silver. In addition to this, Uncle Pancake may also find you because he doesn’t have that much money... In short, if you lack the social environment of “using silver as circulating currency”, even if everyone knows that silver is a good thing and is valuable, it will not be charged in general trading transactions.

You said that, ** She can just say it if you don’t charge a cashier. If you change something, she doesn’t have to kick me out directly!

Oh, guest, do you know if you could give out "one thousand taels of silver" in the Tang Dynasty, what would it be like to have so much silver?

As for the Tang Dynasty, everyone knew that the territory was vast, but the detection and mining technology of gold and silver mines was not very good, so how much did the national silver output be? It was only about 15,000 taels ==

This 5,000 taels of new silver was added to the local officials who searched the private deposits for the emperor, and sometimes the states and counties also paid the taxes paid into silver to transport them to Beijing. These silvers are usually cast into rectangular "silver collars", one foot long, two inches wide, and fifty taels per collar. The face of the collar should be engraved or written with weight, quality, origin of the silver, name, official position, year, etc.

When the emperor received these silver tins, he would use some to cast various utensils. The people of the Tang Dynasty believed that using gold and silver utensils in life could cure all kinds of diseases and prolong their lives, so this demand was very high. The royal family kept some of the cast gold and silver utensils themselves, and many of them would be rewarded to their subordinates.

Of course, the emperor sometimes rewarded some of the silver he received to his ministers. In addition, some local officials, especially local officials in the silver-producing areas, would also use silver to give gifts or bribe the ministers in the court.

There is also a channel where you may get a lot of silver. For example, your family is a wealthy businessman engaged in cross-border trade and has business dealings with Hu merchants in the Western Regions or barbarians in the South China Sea. He just completed a large transaction and the other party paid the payment for the goods with gold and silver.

OK, I understand these three main cash register channels. Let’s take a look at what your feat of spending a thousand silver dollars just now will make the White Lotus mother and daughter think about it.

First of all, you are talking about "one thousand taels of silver", which will not be various silver utensils made of silver bottles and silver bowls, but should be silver ingots with weights marked. The source of these things-

The first possibility is that you said these were rewarded by the emperor... Very good, the royal gifts, the origin of time and the donors are still engraved on it. You can find out the things that come and go. Your boss actually used them to visit prostitutes. Is it really a face for the emperor and the mansion?

The second possibility is that this is given to you by the local officials... Are you afraid that others don't know that your family is bribed and sold to your official position, right?

The third possibility is that this is the payment for goods collected from trade with foreign merchants... Brother, since we are a businessman, can we be a little economically wise? The people in the Central Plains don’t like to ask for money, and doing business with Hu merchants is the most useful. The secret investment of the pearl is thankless, so why bother?

The fourth possibility is that you robbed the convoy that paid taxes and tributes halfway, or the caravans of Hu merchants, or passed through the wall into the government warehouse in the middle of the night, stealing the imperial deposits. This is a hurry to sell the stolen goods, so you are so unreasonable and generous...

Now, do you understand? Do you know why they knocked you out?

If you pat your shoulders, you don’t have to be depressed. There are no fragrant grasses everywhere in the universe. White lotus flowers bloom everywhere in the universe plane of the time traveler. As long as you buy ** and redeem yourself next time, you can add some money knowledge first.

For example, you just like the heavy feel of precious metals, and you feel that it is more satisfying to smash a lot of gold and silver to the end. Well, when you go back to Pingkangfang to visit literary and artistic workers, remember not to bring silver, some gold-swept golden cakes, or a more natural way to carry some small gold and silverware, ball-shaped sachets, and a gold hairpin and silver comb specially created for a confidante...

Yes, you heard it right. In the Tang Dynasty, it was not enough to pay directly with silver, but it was quite common to pay large amounts of money directly with gold.

Spitting blood? Are you cheating? Why do you ask? Do you need a reason? Since the Qin and Han dynasties, gold has been a representative of valuable value. The emperors of the Western Han Dynasty especially like to "give gold" to their subordinates. Everyone knows that gold was the most popular value-preserving product until modern times, right? Then after hundreds of years of great division and turmoil, until the Sui and Tang Dynasties, on the one hand, people were generally obsessed with gold and were willing to accept it. On the other hand, there was a lot of gold in society, which was more common, so everyone accepted gold as a means of large-scale payment. Is there anything difficult to understand?

OK, how much gold is needed to redeem the white lotus? Oh, it's hard to say, art is priceless, haha... The author can provide you with a reference value: In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, according to a well-known Pingkangfang lady, taking out "one or two hundred golds" can save her from the fire pit. Of course, if you have many popular white lotus suitors, and her fake mother stands on the stage with a small hammer to auction, it is a bottomless pit.

What is the concept of one or two hundred taels of gold?

The "one tael" of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty is about 42 grams now. One hundred taels of gold, 4200 grams. The ancient smelting process was not strong and the quality may not be high. The gold content is 90%. The current gold price is about 315 yuan/gram. Then - if you come back with 100 taels of gold in the Tang Dynasty, you can sell 1.2 million yuan in modern times.

If you can't wear it back and want to spend this hundred taels of gold on the spot in the Tang Dynasty, what can you buy?

First of all, I would like to remind you that the gold mentioned above can be spent directly, and it has always been emphasized that it is a "large payment method", that is, you can use gold to invite celebrities to accompany you to drink, give gifts and bribe officials, pay tribute to the emperor, or engage in international trade with foreign investors, etc. If you take a stolen gold (usually ten taels) and walk into a hotel in Xishi to buy wine, the owner will most likely point to the door: The man goes out and turns left, and there is a gold and silver shop on the corner of the street. Please let the nobles go and exchange it for copper coins before visiting the shop.

As expected, if you go to exchange for money, of course you will definitely ask, how much can I exchange for this hundred taels of gold? I just came here and didn’t know the place, so don’t let the unscrupulous businessmen take advantage of me.

Oh, it’s hard for me. The prices of goods have been fluctuating in the Tang Dynasty, and the price of gold has changed a lot. It is said that at the lowest time, one tael of gold can only be exchanged for 3,500 citrus copper coins, and at the highest time, one tael of gold can be exchanged for 8,000 citrus, and scratching the deer head... Let’s do this, based on the information I have on hand, it seems that it is more common and reasonable to exchange for 6,000 citrus of gold. Then, you can exchange for 600,000 citrus of gold, which is 600 citrus.

You exchanged a 10-talle gold ingot in that gold shop, and got 60 jin of money... What? You said that it would be better to exchange it for copper coins at one time to go to the gold shop? Boss, do you know how heavy is 600 jin of copper coins? Modern ones are more than 2,500 jin! Are you planning to drive a crane from Sany Heavy Industry? It's 60 jin, and there are more than 500 jin of modern ones (market jin). When you go out, you have to buy a few strong labor slaves and buy a large car to install copper coins... In fact, the author advises you to cut the 10-talle jin of the gold shop, exchange it for one jin, and carry it away with 6 jin of money.

You carried more than fifty kilograms of copper coins on your back, returned to the hotel just now, wiped a handful of sweat from your head, and put your backpack on the wine table (the solid wood furniture is solid, the case squeaked for a long time and didn't collapse), shouting: "I'm so thirsty! The doctor gave me a bucket of wine!"

A dou of wine? Why? Is it because of "a hundred poems about Li Bai's dou of wine"... Well, the hotel owner probably has seen many time travelers. He calmly came over and spread his hands. Please give the wine money first - a dou of ordinary wine in the small shop, a dou of good wine for three hundred and a dou of good wine. A limited edition royal wine for a dou of wine is ten strings, and the quantity is not large. If you want to buy it, you can grab it quickly.

You sucked your teeth and counted out three hundred coins and threw them into his hand. The owner turned around - bang!

A huge wine jar was just put on the table in front of you (the quality of solid wood furniture is good...really...), and it was the one you wanted. How much is the one you wanted? Well, you know that the German beer you often drank before traveling through time, and a cup was about 600 ml, right? The one bowl made by Tang is exactly equivalent to ten beer...you always enjoy it slowly...

(What is the Hercules transport plane with a waist of 100,000 yuan to Yangzhou... What is the hundred poems about Li Daguan?... You know how cheating literati are... OK OK, don't cry...)

While wiping away your tears, you slowly drank these ten good wines. There was nothing to do. There was still a few copper coins that had just been grabbed from your backpack. Let's take a closer look at this popular currency that was most popular in the Tang Dynasty, which was popular for both young and old.

Since you traveled through time, you have been very unfamiliar with everything you see and hit walls everywhere. Now when you look at these copper coins, you finally feel a little familiar and intimate. These are similar to those copper coins you have seen in TV series or fake antique stalls in Cultural Street before traveling through time. They are round on the outside and square on the inside, with a diameter of eight cents. The ingredients contain copper, tin and lead. If the copper is more, the color will be red, and if the tin is more, the weight is white. It is just heavy. It is like "one qian" == (The weight-based unit of "one qian" used in later generations is based on the copper coins of the Tang Dynasty). There are four characters cast around the four square holes in the center of the coins. You turn your head up and down, left and right, and read it: "Kaiyuan Tongbao."

"It turned out to be the money minted during the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty." You nodded suddenly and admired your knowledge very much. But you saw the hotel owner give you a weak and calm look, busy with other people's own affairs.

What's wrong? Brother is wrong again? Didn't Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty Li Longji have a year name called "Kaiyuan"? Didn't these "Kaiyuan Tongbao" be made during the Kaiyuan period?

It's really not.

As long as you travel through the landing time is the fourth year after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, you can see the "Kaiyuan Tongbao" all over the streets. The year name was "Wude" by Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty Li Yuan. The money he cast for himself was named "Kaiyuan" Tongbao, which means "opening a new era and entering a new era". Therefore, there was neither Wude Tongbao nor Zhenguan Tongbao in the Tang Dynasty. Whether it was Li Shimin, Wu Zetian or later Dezong Xianzong Xuanzong in power, the popular ones on the market were always "Kaiyuan Tongbao". Well, occasionally you can also see some "Qianyuan Chongbao" and "Dali Yuan Yuan Yuan Bao". These are the year-name coins, but the circulation is very small and do not occupy an important position.

Putting a few Kaiyuan Tongbaos in your hand and turning, you discovered another rare thing: behind one or two coins, there are half-moon marks, and there are stars, and there are light boards that don’t carve anything. What’s the point?

This is the starting point for many secrets of royal gossip that the people of the Tang Dynasty enjoyed.

For example, when the "Kaiyuan Tongbao" was cast in the fourth year of Wude, the craftsmen first made a few sample coins with wax and gave them to the rulings for their review. At that time, the biggest official in the court was Comrade Li Shimin, the King of Qin, who was the "Shangshu Ling", and the wax samples came to him. His wife Changsun, who was later named "Empress Wende", was also by his side. The couple admired each other. Changsun picked up a wax coins to take a closer look, but accidentally pinched a half-moon mark on the back of the money with his long nails.

Li's wife waved her hand and said that everything my wife did was right! She returned the wax style, and the craftsmen didn't dare to make random changes. She made mud embryos outside the wax coins and poured copper juice into them. The cast part of the copper coins, just like wax coins, also had a half-moon mark.

——This story is the version of the early Tang Dynasty. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the male protagonist was replaced by Xuanzong Li Longji, and the female protagonist was replaced by Yang Guifei. The plot is similar... There is also a version with the same plot but the protagonist is a ghost. It says that the long nails belong to Li Yuan's wife Li Shimin's mother, "Empress Taimu", Dou, because this old lady had been dead for many years when the Tang Dynasty was established, so, um...

Slap the shoulder and drink a few sips of wine to warm your stomach and drive away evil spirits. In fact, I tell ghost stories to help you digest these ten good wines... Hmm, according to the serious research of modern scholars, it is said that the star patterns and crescent moon patterns on these coins may be related to the religions believed by the Hu people in the Western Regions. A large number of "Kaiyuan Tongbao" with moon patterns appeared after the Anshi Rebellion. At that time, An Lushan, who rebelled at that time, had his own money minting furnace, and his rebellion also used religious means to a large extent. In short, these are all gossips that have nothing to do with, so I'll bring you some wine.

Let’s talk about it seriously. You are now holding ninety-nine taels of gold in your arms and five tan and seven hundred coins on your back. You want to spend some money in the Tang Dynasty. So what can you buy these currencies?

First, the author advises you to buy two strong and capable slaves first and help carry money and carry things... You said you can't do anything about buying and selling people? ==|||||| This is impossible. You can follow the local customs. You have to find a temporary employee to carry the work in the Tang Dynasty, which is much more difficult than buying slaves. If you really can't get around your sense of justice and morality, you can buy them first, and then establish a statute to "leave them" these slaves and restore their free and civilian status. This is also a good thing, right?

As for the price of slaves, the conditions vary greatly depending on the time and region. A stunning maid may be priced at hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan, and there are also weak and stupid slaves who give them two or three jin of coins. The strong male slave you are going to buy... it is about fifty thousand yuan each, fifty jin. If you spend 17 taels of gold, you should be able to buy two healthy slaves.

Second, solve the problem of transportation. If you want to buy a powerful luxury car (a strong cow + a two-wheeler), you will have to spend thirty taels of gold (200 jin). You can't bear to leave it? Then you can hire a car. The price is about one kilogram per load and walk a mile, spending a penny. Moreover, if you don't use a watch, you need to negotiate the price before getting on the car.

Third, just like before traveling through time, it would be very hard to buy a house in the imperial capital. It is not easy to live in Chang'an. A house with a good location must be sold at least 500 jin (RMB 1 million). Your 100 taels of gold will be enough. If you pursue luxury decoration, you will be unable to live in the thatched hut and yellow soil for a few years. (You said you went to the Tang Dynasty for a long time...)

However, there is a good news, that is, the housing prices and rents in the imperial capital are not even visible. The low-rent housing policy has just been introduced, which stipulates that the monthly rent of each house near the prosperous commercial area shall not exceed 500 cents. If you rent one room and rent one for two slaves, the master and servant will live in Chang'an for one month, which will be a permanent amount (RMB 2,000).

Fourth, food is the most important thing for the people, and the following is to solve the belly needs of your master and servant.

The simplest and most corrupt one, let’s go to the restaurant! The most advanced famous flower banquet in the heaven and earth of Chang'an City is held. The banquet costs 300 cents and the meal and drinking is doubled until dark. If you like a young lady, you have to double the first time you stay overnight. ** Pay 200 cents for the same period, which is more expensive than a month’s rent...

You said this is too luxurious, you have to make a fire and cook for food? That's right, let's buy food first. The price of grain in the Tang Dynasty also changed dramatically. In the peaceful and prosperous era, you could buy a dou of rice for three cents. When you encounter floods, droughts and military disasters, you can only buy a cup of water to drink one or two gold coins... Generally speaking, the average price of grain before the Anshi Rebellion was 15 cents per dou of rice, which increased by 10 times after the Anshi Rebellion, and 150 cents per dou of rice.

Your 100 taels of gold = 600 jin of money, before the Anshi Rebellion, you can buy 40,000 dou of rice, and take it back to the modern era, which is roughly equivalent to 170 tons of rice (Tang Dou rice = 8.5% today's market kilogram); after the Anshi Rebellion, you can buy 4,000 dou of rice, 17 tons of modern era.

The standard rations for the strong men in the Tang Dynasty were "two liters a day", and six dou every month. You are the master and servant three strong men. First, buy 18 dou for a month, spending 270 or 2700 yuan. (Don't ask me how big the belly was at that time, how could I eat the current 70 taels of grain in a day? This is what the information says. That 7 taels of grain may be the unshelled millet, and it may also include the cost of pig feed and other non-staple foods)

Of course, northerners eat noodles and millet (millet) ground by wheat, which is more common than eating rice. The official price of the Tang Dynasty was 3 dou of rice = 5 dou of millet. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a dou of wheat in the Western Regions cost about 35 cents. If you need to buy it, please convert it yourself.

Forty cents per pound of salt, five cents per liter of vinegar,

Can you buy three eggs for a penny, can you buy a chicken for 30 penny, and can you buy a pig for 500 yuan. Don’t want to eat chicken, pork, want to eat beef? - Hold on, killing cattle is illegal, you need to spank! You can’t buy beef even if you have money.

A large pot that can cook three dou of rice in one bite is 700 yuan, a bowl is 30 yuan, and a steel kitchen knife is 80 yuan. The industrial products at that time were so expensive.

With pots, pans, rice, flour, meat and salt, you still have to have fuel to cook. You can buy a bunch of firewood for more than ten cents, and you can buy a pound of charcoal for two or three cents.

You said it was very hot in summer, so you wanted to keep ordering drinks at home? Before Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, it was hard to buy tea on the market. In addition to wine, you could also prepare yogurt at home, which cost 5 cents a liter.

Do you want to eat snacks when you have a drink?==||||Are you planning to carry a few boxes of Coke together? Forget it, raisins cost 15 cents per liter, jujubes cost 5 cents per liter, plums cost 8 cents per liter, and almonds cost 20 cents per liter... Thank you for being produced in the Western Regions, not the American big almonds.

Fifth, if you have food, buy two clean and decent clothes!

If you want to buy ready-made clothes, it is more expensive. A good cloth shirt costs 1,000 yuan, and a half-arm (vard) also costs 400 yuan. A silk-made turtle (banded turtle) costs 100 yuan, and a pair of refined shoes 100 yuan... You can buy a suit for yourself, just wear it when you go out. People in the Tang Dynasty were more used to buying cloth to make clothes by themselves.

Good quality silk costs about 500 cents per piece, and you can buy one for 100 cents of coarse cloth worn by servants. "One piece" is 1.8 feet wide and 40 feet long. It should be fine to make two sets of clothes.

However, you don’t have a woman at home, so if you ask the male slave to sew clothes, the two will probably be big. Then take the silk cloth and find a tailor to make it. A men’s robe can be done with about 500 yuan.

Sixth, the means of transportation to go out. The ox carts you bought or hired in front are for transportation. If you want to go to Pingkangfang to pick up girls or make friends in the upper class, you have to get a horse to ride. The male slave can walk in front of and behind your horse.

The official price for horses in the early Tang Dynasty was 25 jin per horse, which is 25,000 yuan. Of course, if you want to buy a BMW like "Zhaoling Six Horses", you will definitely be kicked out... It is not surprising that a real good horse is worth a thousand gold. Don't join in the fun of your 100 taels of gold.

A pair of saddles for 80 words, a set of chews and reins for 500 words, and a horse whip for 50 words.

The horse needs to eat grass and also eat ingredients (grain). It is necessary to supply the horse with three stones of millet and sixty surrounds of grass every month. It also needs to get some salt. It costs about 1,300 cents to buy grain and grass. (Stop complaining about oil prices, really...)

It looks good when riding a horse. It is better to hold a Tang sword around your waist. The best iron horizontal knife is 2,000 yuan per piece, so pay for it.

Seventh, hurry up and make up for your homework. Read more books from the Tang Dynasty and practice calligraphy (otherwise, you can't even write a note to others to read), and be familiar with allusions and other common uses by people at that time, so that you can be artificial and impersonate a cultural person to visit the Beili brothel.

Tuition is very expensive. For books like Buddhist scriptures, a book that costs only a small amount. One hundred pieces of white paper costs 60 cents, and a better piece of paper costs three cents per piece. A brush costs 20 cents per tube. Ink costs 15 cents per liang.
To be continued...