In ancient China, one of the indispensable things when people traded was silver, so if you replace today's renminbi with ancient silver, how much can one or two pieces of silver be exchanged for? According to the relevant ancient books of the Ming Dynasty in ancient China, one or two pieces of silver at that time could buy about two stones of rice, which was converted into our current unit of measurement, and one stone was about ninety-four kilograms, that is to say, in ancient times, one or two pieces of silver could buy one hundred and eighty-eight kilograms of rice.
Looking at the price of rice in our lives, the average rice is about five yuan per kilogram, which is equivalent to in ancient times, we have to spend more than nine hundred nearly a thousand yuan to buy rice that one or two silver can buy at that time, that is to say, one or two pieces of silver in ancient times are almost close to a thousand yuan if converted into renminbi.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, prices rose, and a bucket of rice was sold for five yuan. From this reasoning, one or two pieces of silver are converted into about one thousand yuan, that is to say, in the Tang and Song dynasties, one or two pieces of silver can buy rice worth more than four thousand yuan today. If we convert our wages into silver, how many pairs can we get every month?
Now, the monthly wage of our ordinary people is about five thousand yuan, if it is in ancient times, the current five thousand yuan can be converted into about four to five two silver, that is to say, if we live in ancient times, we can get five or two silver every month. The purchasing power of one or two pieces of silver is so great that it is conceivable that if we really lived in ancient times, then we could become a generation of rich people.