Speaking of "Wulin Waizhi", it is definitely a beautiful memory of a generation. The thief Bai Zhantang , Guanzhong hero Lu Qinghou, the second generation of rich people in the capital Guo Furong , Hengshan school leader Mo Xiaobei , the descendant of the chef god Li Dazui , take good care of my seventh uncle Yan Xiaoliu ...
Which of the characters are not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people? Even the guest supporting roles such as Guo Juxia and Ji Wuming are all outstanding.
Of course, my favorite is Tongfu Inn shopkeeper Tong Xiangyu , with a variety of charm and a everyone's style. Of course, she has one of the biggest characteristics, which is that she is stingy. She gives Guo Furong two cents of silver a month, which is simply stingy.
The two cents of silver are only a few hundred yuan today, and any waiter is taller than Guo Furong. Why do
say so? Let’s do it. How much does Guo Furong’s monthly salary cost is equivalent to today?
First we need to determine the historical background of "Wulin Waichuan", that is, in which dynasty did "Wulin Waichuan" take place? Although this story is fabricated, the screenwriter gave some historical settings. We can find some clues from it.
First of all, we can confirm that the dynasty of "Wulin Waizhuan" must be the Ming Dynasty, because the play mentioned "Minglu" and "Ming Dynasty" many times. In addition, the six doors mentioned many times in the play are also products of the Ming Dynasty.
So which period was it specifically in the Ming Dynasty?
That should have been during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. First of all, the well in the backyard of the inn was from Zhengde, so they must have been the era after the Zhengde period. Then there were only a few periods, namely Jiajing, Wanli, Longqing, Tianqi, and Chongzhen. The previous emperor mentioned in the episode "God of Food" was Emperor Longqing, and Emperor Longqing was the father of Emperor Wanli.
What era was the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty? It was roughly from 1573 to 1620, and it belonged to the late Ming Dynasty. Because the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng in 1644 AD. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh that if the story of "Wulin Wai Chuan" was true, then most of them might have experienced the turbulent era in the late Ming Dynasty. What would the situation of the big family of Tongfu Inn by then?
So, our current problem becomes how much money is the two cents of silver in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty equivalent to today?
Generally speaking, the most common method for converting this ancient and modern currency is to convert gold and silver prices. It is to convert the value of modern gold and silver to the same quality of ancient gold and silver to obtain its value.
Let’s try it too.
The main problem here is a weight conversion, that is, we have to know how many grams of silver are equivalent to today's silver?
In our modern metric system, it is ten qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian qian But the old system was sixteen taels per pound, ten taels per pound, so one ounce is equivalent to 3.125 grams, and two ounces is 6.25 grams. I looked at our recent silver price, which is about 3.51 grams. In terms of conversion, two cents of silver are equivalent to 22 yuan today.
This is simply too few.
Of course, our modern silver price is not as low as in ancient times, and its relatively low value. This can be seen from the exchange ratio of gold and silver. The ratio of gold and silver in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty was about 1:6, that is, one tael of gold was exchanged for 6 taels of silver. Let’s look at the current price of gold is 350 per gram, which is 100 times the price of silver, and the gap is very far.
So we might as well use the gold price to push it. According to the ratio given above, two cents of silver can be exchanged for one-third of gold, and its weight is less than. So, the two cents of silver at that time were worth at most 350 yuan. The wages like
are also very low.
Of course, in addition to the equal conversion of gold and silver prices, we can also calculate it by price, the most common one is the price of rice.
also involves a weight conversion issue here, so I won’t forget it here. According to the conclusion of "Research on the Per Average Grain Yield in China", one stone in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to 153.5 kilograms today.The rice we buy in our family usually costs three yuan per pound. If we use this as a reference, it would cost 460 yuan per stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty to be sold today. So how much money was it equivalent to in the era of "Wulin Waizai"?
First of all, the price of rice fluctuated greatly in the Ming Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, such as during the Yongle period, the price of rice was super cheap. Ministers received their salary for rice and exchanged money, and they could only get one tael of silver if they had to get six or seven stones. Even in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it would only cost six or seven cents of silver per stone. You should know that during the Chenghua period, Minister Li Min used the method of redeeming the freight costs of the Western Transport border, and the high-priced grain purchased was only one tael of silver and one stone.
(Minister Li Min) requested the Shanzhou and Shaanxi counties to transfer grain (rice) to each side of each grain (rice), and each grain (rice) will be collected for one stone, and the transfer will be reduced by ten or nine out of ten, and the military pay will be reduced according to the time. If there is surplus, it will be used to prepare for military supplies. Therefore, the two taxes in the north will be reduced by silver, which started from (Li) Min. "
However, in the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, and famines occurred frequently in the famine in the famine, so the price of rice soared. During the Wanli period, every time the famine was plagued, the price of grain rose sharply. Especially in the seven or eight years of the 16th to 23rd of Wanli, floods in the south and droughts in the north frequently occurred. The price of rice was basically around 3 taels of silver per stone. In the 19th year of Wanli, it even reached more than 5 taels of silver per stone. The best one should be the 18th year of Wanli. It was rare to have a good situation, and the price of rice fell to one tael of silver per stone.
In other words, if the cheapest one tael of silver per stone To calculate the stone, two cents of silver can only buy one fifth of the stone, and the conversion is only about 90 yuan. If you calculate it at a difficult time of 3 taels, it will only be 30 yuan.
This shows how valuable these two cents of silver are. The rice you buy is not enough to eat for a month.
Of course, in fact, whether it is the price of rice or gold, these conversions are not very reliable. Due to the differences in the times, the value it represents is very different.
For example, the gold price, from the previous gold and silver ratio, it fluctuates greatly. It has a bit of inflation. It's like being able to buy a house in Shanghai from 100,000 yuan twenty years ago? You probably don't dare to have this idea of 100,000 yuan today. And the rice price is even more so. The grain output and production capacity in ancient times are obviously incomparable to ours today, and the supply and demand relationship is different.
In fact, since we are discussing wages, we can start with wages. That is, compare the normal income level at that time with us now, so as to launch Guo Furong's work What is the value of money? Is it more or less?
The income level during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, we can refer to Feng Menglong 's " Sanyan ". This book was probably written between the Wanli period and the Tianqi period, and has certain reference value.
The article " Oil Seller is the only special courtesan" reads:
"The interest earned every day is frugal, and you can accumulate things, buy some daily household business, and clothes, and you will not be wasted. "Excluding the annual consumption, the remaining 16 taels are left. So it is recorded as an annual income of 20 taels.
A oil seller has an annual income of only 20 taels. Excluding costs and expenses, while saving money, there are 16 taels of silver left. In other words, a oil seller's net income of more than one taels per month is more than five or six times that of Guo Furong.
In addition, "The Scholars" also has some relevant basis, and in the article " Fan Jin's passing " said:
"See a few taels of silver every year to support your immortal mother and your wife are serious. You ask me if I borrow money, I will kill a pig a day, but I can’t make money and throw it into the water with you, and I will ask my family to eat the northwest wind! "
He can earn a silver if he kills a pig a day, which is equivalent to Xiao Guo's salary for half a month. Of course, in ancient times, those who killed pigs were all rich people. Look at the other person's Zhang Fei . Liu Bei's first pot of gold was funded by him.
Of course, these people are not the same profession as Xiao Guo, so it is best to compare it with the mailman who chops firewood and burns fire.
happened to be a profession called "Chaixin Zaoli" in the Ming Dynasty. They were mailmans, and they also chop firewood and water to do miscellaneous work every day, but their workplace was in the yamen and they received state wages.
Their normal income per year is about twenty taels, while Xiao Guo is only two taels a year, which is almost ten times less. Do you think it is much less?
In fact, it can be seen from this that the annual income of a normal working class in the Ming Dynasty was about twenty taels. Then the per capita GDP of our country last year was only about 60,000 yuan, which is about 3,000 yuan per tael of silver.
In this way, Xiao Guo's two cents of silver are also 600 yuan. Although it is still very small, if you include food and accommodation, it is barely enough to just consider pocket money.
Let’s talk about it. All of these people in Tongfu Inn pretend to be pigs and eat tigers. Who can’t miss the money?
The waiter Bai Zhantang is a generation of thieves. He has the best light skills in the world and has few finger power in the world. If he wants money, then he can do it at will? But Lao Bai is tired of the struggles in the world and just wants to live a stable and peaceful life with Tong Xiangyu here. What's more amazing is that he is still the inn owner's fiancé, what salary do he need?
The chef Li Dazui, who cooks vegetables and rice, is the descendant of the chef god. Not to mention anything else, the black iron kitchen knife used by the chef god is very valuable, right? Moreover, his uncle is the magistrate of Lou, and his mother is even more famous in the world. His nickname is Xuanyuan. Will he be short of money?
As for Guo Furong who costs two cents of silver, the eldest lady of the Guo family in the capital, the hero among the heroes, and the daughter of the Six Door Gods, they are just coming out to experience it. I "sure sure and sure", she is not short of money.
Mo Xiaobei, the head of Hengshan Sect, Mo Xiaobao's sister , later the head of Hengshan Sect, the leader of the Five Mountains Sect, is apart from money?
Um, she seems to be really short of money. After all, Hengshan Sect is bankrupt, so poor that even the sword left by the master's wife has to be deprecated and bought candied haws for Mo Xiaobei to eat.
The most worth mentioning is the poor scholar Lu Xiucai . He is a scholar. The scholar was extraordinary in the Ming Dynasty. Let’s put it this way, he doesn’t have to worry about not having enough food if he doesn’t work.
"The rice is liter every day, and the officials of fish, meat, salt and vinegar are given to him." - "History of Ming Dynasty·Food and Message Six"
So it is really hard to understand how he fell to the point of selling his ancestral property.
