One or two taels of silver in ancient China, how much is it now?

We have all watched costume TV dramas, and Jordan chan's version of Wei Xiaobao always won more than one million taels of silver. How much can a silver be worth now? Is Wei Xiaobao's reward method exaggerated?

In fact, to understand this problem, it depends on the value of commodities that can be exchanged between silver and RMB. Since we all eat rice in China since ancient times, let's take rice as an example. During the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two taels of rice, which was almost 94 kilograms, which means that one tael of silver could buy about 377 kilograms of rice. At present, the rice we eat is generally around 1.5 to 2 yuan, so one or two ounces of silver in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to that in 660 yuan.

However, the Ming Dynasty is for reference only. If put into the Tang Dynasty, the money would be worth a lot of money. In the Tang Dynasty, a piece of silver could buy 20 stones of rice, equivalent to RMB 4 130 yuan. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the price of rice doubled, so one or two RMB was worth about 2065 RMB. In the Song Dynasty, the rice family changed again. One or two taels of silver could buy 4-8 stones of rice, equivalent to 654,430 yuan.

Because the coin system in the Song Dynasty was quite chaotic, one or two words were unclear, so I won't repeat them because of the limited space. The value of coins in Qing dynasty is half that of Ming dynasty, and the value of one or two pieces of silver is about 200. But Wei Xiaobao only copied Ao Bai's family, and copied 65.438+03.8 million taels of silver, equivalent to 2.76 billion yuan.