In many ancient dramas, the characters in it are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at a stroke, but in fact, in ancient times, one tael of silver is often not a small sum. When exaggerating, one tael of silver can buy a servant girl, not to mention hundreds of taels of silver. In the past dynasties, copper coins were mainly used from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, while silver tickets were mainly used in the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, silver was widely used. Because of different periods, what silver could do in the Qing Dynasty was compl《儒林外史》 during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. After Fan4 Jin4 Zhong4 Ju, his father-in-law Hu Butcher said that he couldn&;t earn a penny by killing a pig a day. At that time, ordinary people&;s annual income could reach 200 taels, which was already at a medium level. It is record《通史》 that the daily salary of short-term workers in Qianlong and Jiaqing periods is about ten pence. At this time, one thousand pence can be exchanged for one or two ounces of silver. In other words, it is good for ordinary people to have twelve ounces of silver at that time, and twenty ounc《顺天府志》 recorded in the reign of Kangxi that in the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi, carp in Beijing was 20 pence per catty, pork was 30 pence per catty, and eggs were 54 pieces of silver. In the reign of Daoguang, the price of fish was 40 pence per catty and pork was 57 pence per catty, which increased a lot. If the price of meat is used as an example, one tael of silver at that time was probably equivalent to the purchasing power of 300 yuan now. That is to say, in the middle and early Qing Dynasty, twenty taels of silver was equivalent to more than 6,000 yuan now. Of course, there is a lot of room for floating. Qian Yong record《履园丛话》 in the Qing Dynasty that when the price of rice was the lowest during the reign of Kangxi, two pence could buy a liter of rice, about a catty and a half, but in the famine years, the price of rice soared, and a liter needed seven pence or more. If we use the example of rice to convert it, now a catty of rice is three yuan, and in the Qing Dynasty it was still sixteen taels a catty. So, in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver was equivalent to nearly one thousand yuan now, but this is not too accurate. If you know the income level at that time, you will know what it means to have 200 taels of silver. In the Qing Dynasty, the salary of the imperial doctors in the court was 200 taels of silver every month, and even the courtiers in the imperial hospital were only 300 taels of silver every month. These people were all top doctors. In the Qing dynasty, the court chamberlain also received a salary of two taels of silver every month, but compared with these low-income people, the annual salary of the prince of the Qing dynasty reached 12 thousand taels of silver. Of course, these people are exceptions, and most people&;s income is very low. In the Qing Dynasty, the annual salary of Zhengyipin was only one hundred and eighty-two, while that of Liupin was only sixty-two, that of Qipin was forty-five and that of Jiupin was only thirty-three. Therefore, the system of yanglianyin appeared in Yongzheng Dynasty, and their income soared a lot. However, the income of the people in the Qing dynasty was generally very low, and the price level at that time was not very high. In the third year of Guangxu, a house of nearly 200 square meters in Wuchang City was sold for 500 taels of silver, and you could buy a smaller one for 200 taels. If you have two hundred taels of silver in your hand, it is definitely not a small sum, for the vast majority.For several people, ordinary people can buy extremely rich dowry for their daughters&; marriage, buy some small industries and do some small business in the countryside. On the whole, twenty taels of silver was not a small sum of money in most periods of the Qing Dynasty, and there were many things that could be done. But in the late Qing Dynasty, prices soared, silver became less and less valuable, and there were fewer and fewer things that could be done, far less than before.