When watching costume film and television dramas, there will be a plot of thousands of dollars at every turn in the plot, in addition to the existence of silver is also very high, especially in the warehouses of large households are almost full of silver, when going out to buy things, they are also one or two silver or a piece of silver so to buy, in fact, these are simply made up, because the purchasing power of one or two silver in ancient times is very strong, almost equivalent to the salary of ordinary people in modern times.
Because the ancient productive forces are relatively backward, so rare metal mining is actually very difficult, gold and silver at that time are very rare luxury goods, basically only the officials and nobles can use, most of the circulation currency used by ordinary people are copper coins, so in the TV series at every turn there is a thousand gold and a piece of silver to buy things is very rare, and it is very rare, for the common people, some broken silver is almost enough for the whole family to spend a year.
Because the difficulty of silver mining is relatively high, so in the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period of the national treasury silver income is only two million two, it is conceivable that the number of silver in the hands of ordinary people will only be less, so the purchasing power of silver is very high, one or two silver is equivalent to a thousand copper coins, to know that in ancient times to buy a pound of rice only five copper coins, so one or two silver can buy two hundred pounds of rice, now the price of rice is one pound and two yuan, so one or two silver is equivalent to four thousand yuan now.
Although our living standards are getting higher and higher now, but the per capita wage in our country is actually not up to four thousand yuan, after all, the population base is large, so in ancient times it was definitely a huge amount of money to have one or two silver, because the price of goods in ancient times was certainly not as high as it is now, so if there was a box of silver in ancient times, it was definitely a large household, eating and drinking, the world panicked, but it was a few pieces of silver, in fact, this is the meaning.