"It's hard to say." Zhang Changmin began to talk to himself.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Tongguang was relatively stable, and prices did not change much for about thirty years. Therefore, when comparing prices between the Qing Dynasty and modern times, this is used as an example.
At that time, one tael of Kuping silver was about thirty-seven grams, which could be exchanged for 1,670 coins.
One pound of rice is about 23 Wen. If we use the current price of about two yuan per pound of rice, one tael of silver is about two hundred yuan (market jin is used here).
However, the problem is that "meter" is not a good measurement.
In the late Qing Dynasty, nearly half of a family's annual expenses were spent on rice. Now...
Let's take another comparison object, such as a house. During the Guangxu period, renting a small south house with two rooms in the capital only cost one or two taels of silver a year.
Nowadays, with three hundred yuan, what can you rent in Shendu?
As the value of things changes, their proportion in daily consumption has also changed.
In fact, it is enough to have a rough idea of this problem.
During the reign of Guangxu, a vegetable bun in the capital cost three or four cents, an egg cost three or four cents, a pound of oil cost eighty cents, and a pound of pork cost sixty cents. A child attending a private school would pay ten cents per month for a month, or two cents for a year.
silver.
A meal for five people in a restaurant costs about three hundred wen (one penny of silver), etc.
There are also some characteristics of the late Qing Dynasty. For example, in "Chunming Menglu", Guangxu asked his master Weng Tonghe what he had for breakfast. Weng said it was just three eggs.
Guangxu said, you eat nine taels of silver for one meal...
This is the Ministry of Internal Affairs' account report, and three coins are regarded as three taels.
For nine taels of silver, Master Weng had to eat more than 3,700 eggs.
In fact, if five people eat a meal, modern people spend 300 yuan, while ancient people spent 300 yuan, which is equivalent to one penny equal to one dollar.
In this way, one tael of silver is equivalent to 1,670 yuan.
It should be appropriate to pick a middle value. It is now recognized that one tael of silver in Wanqing can buy three hundred kilograms of rice. Now these three hundred kilograms of rice are equivalent to about five or six hundred yuan.
According to this lowest price, 750,000 taels of silver is equivalent to 375 million yuan.
Such a pillow is worth three to four hundred million yuan. What about a pair of tourmaline watermelons? And what about jade cabbage?
Which of these top treasures is worse than the Tourmaline Lotus?
After calculation, these four items are worth more than 1.5 billion.
Zhang Changmin’s words are not in vain.
The people here are either professors in the history department or experts in the antiques industry. They are all experts.
As soon as he explained it, everyone understood it immediately.
"The value of just these few items is more than 1.5 billion?" Yang Yuanming was still a little unbelievable.
"This price is really not high!" Zhang Changmin said meaningfully.
Yang Yuanming was speechless. He seemed to be talking big words just now.
"Is this a coral tree? It's so beautiful. It's going up for auction. I wonder what the price will be!" Li Jinqiu said cooperatively again.
"Aren't you afraid of being shot if you still take part in the auction?"
"I'm just saying."
"Then let me also tell you that the price of this thing is no worse than oral beads. That thing was worth more than ten million taels of silver back then. Later someone calculated that it was worth more than 800 million yuan. That is inaccurate. According to one
Calculated as two taels of silver equal to four hundred and fifty yuan, it is worth at least four and a half billion."
"Four.5 billion? This is too exaggerated."
"More than ten million taels of silver during the Wanqing period, isn't that exaggerated enough?"
"How much did the top-of-the-line warships cost at that time? If you get a modern one, it would be enough to buy a dozen aircraft carriers, right?"
"If you want to calculate it like this, then there is no way to calculate it. A dozen aircraft carriers cannot be worth more than 10 billion US dollars?"
"So, when I say he is worth billions, it is not an exaggeration at all."
"It's a pity that there is no market for it."
"If it were to be auctioned and you had money and it cost 4.5 billion, would you buy it?"
"purchase!"
Wealth and silk touch people's hearts. The so-called peace of mind means that there is no beautiful woman to fall into your arms.
This coral tree is so beautiful.
This bright and magnificent large coral tree is covered with strings of small cherry trees, green stems, green leaves, and red fruits, which are delicate and bright.
On the cherry tree above it, there are also pairs of spotted kingfishers inlaid with pearls and jade.
If this thing is calculated in terms of billions, then the level of many things is no worse than the coral tree, so there is no way to reward it.
"Let's use jade and jade to calculate the price. No matter how much it is worth in Wanqing, we only need to look at the current price." After a while, Yang Yuanming said.
No matter how beautiful the coral tree is, it cannot really be put up for auction.
But jade and jade are different. There are quite a few jades and jade excavated 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 best thing is white jade lotus root.
This "jade lotus root" has green lotus leaves growing on the lotus root and pink lotus flowers blooming on it.
There are a few black water chestnuts hanging next to the lotus, which are as delicious and magnificent as if they were just fished out of the water.
The price of this thing is not even 100 million, so you just have to look at it!
The most important thing is that this time, Chen Wenzhe found not one hundred but eighty jade carvings of this level from the ebony coffin.
"No matter how you calculate it, the value of this treasure must exceed 10 billion!" Li Jinqiu cooperated again.
Zhang Changmin continued: "Even if we don't count all the carvings, just the gems, one gem is not more than 100,000, right? How much is that?"
Yang Yuanming immediately asked: "How many gems were found this time?"
Everyone at the scene fell silent. There were tens of thousands of various gems at every turn. If one was counted as one hundred thousand, their value was not low.
Among them, sapphires and tourmalines are the most numerous, and those are used to fill coffin gaps.
It can be said that except for those carvings, the gloomy wooden coffin discovered now is completely filled with these gems.
You must know that there is no one inside this coffin, and apart from the carvings, even if half of the space is filled with gems, how many cubes are there?
At least 1.8 cubes. According to actual calculation, it should be more than two cubes. How much does a cubic gem weigh?
Any kind of gemstone is denser than sand, and a cube of sand weighs 1.35-1.45 tons, so a cubic gemstone weighs almost two tons, and two cubes weigh four tons.
In other words, Chen Wenzhe found four tons of gems this time.
Are there many gems? Compared with the gems imported from abroad during the evening, especially tourmalines, these are just a drizzle.
It's not that I don't know, it's that I'm shocked.
Now there is no need to compare it with the Qing Dynasty. Even if calculated based on the spot price, the value is definitely over 10 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 100 million.