The ancients did not ask how much money they had after eating, put down the silver and left, why did the shop xiao er never block? The reason is real
The history of the use of silver by ancient people dates back to around 1600 BC. The silver nose ring excavated from the Yumen Fire Burning Ditch Cemetery in Gansu province is recognized as the earliest silver product in China. Tombs in the Warring States period also tell us that silver at that time had been used by the Chinese people in various fields such as "weapons" and "jewelry". But the history of "when money is used" is obviously much shorter - from the first year of the Ming Dynasty's Hongzhi Dynasty, the taxation began to use silver. Since the fourth year of Jiajing, a large amount of silver has been circulating in the market, and in the first year of Longqing, the Ming Dynasty officially announced that "whoever buys and sells goods, worth more than one silver dollar, has silver money at the same time." Silver has completed the "upper level" and become legal tender.
And the value of silver is too high, like the "History of Ru Lin" recorded niu Yupu eating outside, a plate of pork head meat only needs one cent of silver, and a dish of dried tofu fried with reed artemisia is five cents of silver, and then a bowl of soup plus a large bowl of rice is a total of two cents, adding up to a total of only one cent and seven cents. However, the income of the ancients is not high, and Guo Xin in "The Surprise of the Second Moment Shooting", when Mr. Teaching earned only one or two silver per month.
The reason why we will form the impression that the ancients took out a piece of silver when they ate in the restaurant is the misleading of the costume drama, in the costume drama, it is often a hero who orders a table of wine and vegetables, and then eats it happily, and after eating it, he directly puts down a large ingot of silver and leaves, which is very dashing.
One more thing, the beef in the ancient hero's set is not something that can be eaten casually! Eating beef in ancient times is illegal, because most of them are cultivating cattle, and China as an agricultural country, the status of cultivating cattle is very high, can not eat casually, so do not believe in the TV series, it is all artistic processing!