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Chapter 328 Four Tons of Gems (For Subscription)

"It's hard to say." Zhang Changmin started talking on his own.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Tongguang was relatively stable, and prices did not change much for about [-] years. Therefore, when comparing prices in the Qing Dynasty and modern times, this is an example.

At that time, one tael of Kuping silver was about thirty-seven grams, which could be exchanged for 1670 coins.

A catty of rice is about 23 Wen. If we use the current price of about two yuan per catty of rice, one tael of silver is about two hundred yuan (the market catty is used here).

The problem, however, is that "meter" is not a very good measure.

In the late Qing Dynasty, nearly half of a family's annual expenditure was used to buy rice. Now...

For another price comparison, such as a house, during the Guangxu period, renting a small south house in the capital for two rooms cost only one or two taels of silver a year.

Now with three hundred yuan, what can I rent in Shendu?

The value of things has changed, and the proportion of consumption in life has also changed.

In fact, it is enough to know about this problem.

During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, in the capital, a steamed steamed bun was three Wen, an egg was three or four Wen, a catty of oil was [-] Wen, a catty of pork was [-] Wen, and a child went to private school for ten money and two hangs a month, and a year was two taels of money. silver.

A meal for five people at a restaurant costs about three hundred wen (one dime), and so on.

There are also some characteristics of the late Qing Dynasty, such as in "Chunming Menglu", Guangxu asked the master Weng Tonghe what he had for breakfast?Weng said only three eggs.

Guangxu said, you eat nine taels of silver for a meal...

This is a reimbursement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and three pennies are treated as three taels.

For nine taels of silver, Master Weng had to eat more than 3700 eggs.

In fact, if five people eat a meal, modern people spend [-] yuan, while ancient people spend [-] yuan, which is equivalent to one penny equaling one yuan.

Such a tael of silver is equal to [-] yuan.

It should be appropriate to take an intermediate value. It is now generally accepted that one tael of silver in Wanqing can buy three hundred catties of rice. Now the three hundred catties of rice are equivalent to about five or six hundred yuan.

Based on such a minimum price, [-] taels of silver is equivalent to [-] million yuan.

Such a pillow is worth [-] to [-] million yuan, so what about a pair of tourmaline watermelons?What about jade cabbage?

Which of these top treasures is worse than the tourmaline lotus?

In this way, these four things are worth more than [-] billion.

What Zhang Changmin said was not for nothing.

The people here are either professors in the history department or experts in the field of antiques. They are all connoisseurs.

After he explained a little bit, everyone immediately understood.

"Just the value of these few items is more than [-] billion?" Yang Yuanming still couldn't believe it.

"The price is really not high!" Zhang Changmin said meaningfully.

Yang Yuanming was speechless, he seemed to be talking big just now.

"Is this a coral tree? It's so beautiful. It's going to be auctioned. I don't know what price it can fetch!" Li Jinqiu said cooperatively again.

"Aren't you afraid of being shot?"

"I'm just saying."

"Then let me also say that the price of this thing is no worse than the pearl in the mouth. That thing was worth more than ten million taels of silver back then. Later, someone calculated that it was worth more than [-] million yuan. That is not accurate. According to a Two silvers are equal to [-] yuan, worth at least [-] billion."

"[-] billion? This is too exaggerated."

"More than ten million taels of silver in the late Qing Dynasty, isn't that exaggerated enough?"

"At that time, how much was the top warship? If you get it in modern times, it's enough to buy a dozen aircraft carriers, right?"

"If you want to calculate like this, then there is no way to calculate it. A dozen or so aircraft carriers must be worth more than tens of billions of dollars?"

"So, when I say that he is worth billions of dollars, it is not an exaggeration at all."

"Unfortunately, there is a price but no market."

"If it is auctioned and you have money, it will cost [-] billion, will you buy it or not?"

"purchase!"

Money touches people's hearts, and the so-called unruly love means that there is no beauty in it.

This coral tree is really beautiful.

This bright and magnificent large coral tree is covered with strings of small cherry trees in series, with green stems, green leaves and red fruits, which are delicate and bright.

On the cherry tree above it, there are still a pair of spotted kingfishers inlaid with pearls and jade.

If this thing is calculated in billions, the level of many things is no worse than coral trees, so there is no way to reward them.

"Let's use jade and emerald to calculate the price. No matter how much it is worth in Wanqing, it depends on the current price." After a while, Yang Yuanming said.

No matter how beautiful the coral tree is, it cannot be put up for auction.

Jade and jade are different. There are quite a lot of jade and jade unearthed this time.

"Then use the second batch of jade lotus roots to calculate the price?" Zhang Changmin said with a smile.

In addition to emerald melon and jade cabbage, the next one is white jade lotus root.

This branch of "jade lotus root" has green lotus leaves and pink lotus flowers blooming on the lotus root.

There are a few black water chestnuts hanging beside the lotus, as delicious and magnificent as if they were just fished out of the water.

The price of this thing is not [-] million, so you can just take a look!

The most important thing is that this time, Chen Wenzhe found out not one hundred but eighty pieces of jade carvings of this level from the ebony coffin.

"No matter how you calculate it, the value of the treasure this time will exceed [-] billion!" Li Jinqiu cooperated again.

Zhang Changmin continued: "Even if all the carvings are not counted, just counting those gems, one gem is not more than one hundred thousand? How much is that?"

Yang Yuanming immediately said: "How many gemstones have you found this time?"

Everyone at the scene fell silent. There are tens of thousands of various gemstones at every turn. If one hundred thousand gems are counted, the value is not low.

Among them, the largest number of sapphires and tourmalines are used to fill the gaps in coffins.

It can be said that, except for those carvings, the gloomy wooden coffin found now is completely filled with these precious stones.

You must know that there is no person inside this coffin, and apart from those carvings, even if half of the space is stuffed with gems, how many cubic meters is that?

At least [-] cubic meters. According to actual calculations, it should exceed two cubic meters. How much does a cubic gemstone weigh?
Any kind of gem is denser than sand, and a cubic of sand weighs 1.35-1.45 tons, so one cubic of gemstone weighs almost two tons, and two cubic meters is four tons.

In other words, Chen Wenzhe found four tons of gems this time.

Are there many gems?These are just drizzle compared to gemstones imported from abroad in the evening, especially tourmalines.

It's not that I don't know, it's a shock.

Now there is no need to compare the Qing Dynasty, even if calculated according to the spot price, the value is definitely more than [-] billion.

Yang Yuanming took a deep look at Li Jinqiu, then at Zhang Changmin, and then he was attracted by a pagoda in front of him.

He wanted to say that the value of this batch of treasures would not exceed one billion, not even one hundred million.

However, he can't say that now.

(End of this chapter)