In 2008, the TV series "Latent", played by Sun Honglei and Yao Chen, premiered in Chinese mainland, and to this day, this drama has been regarded as a masterpiece of spy films. At the end of this TV series, there is such a classic bridge section, at the beginning of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek knew that he was unable to resist the attack of our army, so he fled to Taiwan in a hurry, and also took away many famous generals and soldiers and gold and silver treasures, and the male protagonist Yu Zecheng was one of them.
Before boarding the plane, surrounded by agents sent by Chiang Kai-shek, he had no way to say goodbye to the heroine Cui Ping, so he put his hands behind his back and learned to rooster call, and Cui Ping in the distance saw this scene and was funny and sad, she knew that Yu Zecheng was telling her that there were important things he had left in his chicken coop. The important thing is nothing else, it is a big gold bar that shakes people's eyes, and there are 27 of them.
On October 1, 1949, the founding of New China, Cui Ping did not take these gold bars for herself, but handed them over to the state as her own party fee, in addition to yu Zecheng's various confidential information. When the audience saw this scene, they wondered how much these 27 gold bars were worth at that time. Don't worry, listen to the author in detail.
In 1914, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang government promulgated the "National Currency Regulations", declaring that silver was the standard, and it was not long before Yuan Shikai died, and the Beiyang government also collapsed, and China entered a chaotic era of warlord division, which was a big blow to the financial system. In 1935, the Nationalist government began to manufacture fiat money for wartime use.
In 1948, at the end of the national government's rule, the issuance of paper money and gold coupons began, and due to a large number of over-issuance, the credit of the banknote was rapidly reduced, and a basket of paper money could not even buy an egg in the end. It can be seen how chaotic the financial system during the Republic of China was, and ordinary people often did not choose these banknotes issued by the government at that time, but silver coins or gold coins, especially those high-ranking government officials, who did not even accept paper money for bribery, but collected "big yellow fish" and "small yellow fish".
"Big yellow croaker" is a large gold bar, ten or two, but according to the algorithm of the Republic of China period, these 10 pairs are not equivalent to today's 10 two, but only 6.25 two, a total of 312.5 grams. As for the "little yellow croaker", it is a small gold bar, 10 small yellow fish can be worth a big yellow fish, and its value does not need to be said more by the author. In the Republic of China era, gold bars were only able to be used by rich families or magnates, and the general public was exposed to the ocean, a small gold bar could be exchanged for 40 oceans, and a large gold bar could reach 400 oceans, which was enough to see its value and precious.
In talking about the value of the ocean, the price of those courtyard houses in Beiping can be said to be one of the best in the Republic of China, but it basically does not exceed 1,000 oceans, that is to say, three "big yellow croakers" can buy one of the best courtyard houses in the country. This is not an empty wind, the great literary hero Lu Xun bought the house in Beiping with three "big yellow fish" that year. Looking at it today, these 27 gold bars can buy 9 good houses in Beijing.
It is no wonder that Song Ziwen, then minister of finance of the National Government, was only willing to collect gold bars and not paper money when he accepted bribes, and even Chiang Kai-shek himself, when he went to Taiwan, he also brought an unknown number of "big yellow fish" and "small yellow fish".