Granny Liu went to Jia's house three times, and how much did a * * * get?

Granny Liu is one of the most successful figures in A Dream of Red Mansions. Although she has only been to Jiafu twice in the first 80 times, every appearance has left a deep impression on people. Today, let's talk about how many valuable things Granny Liu brought back from her two trips to Jiafu.

As we all know, Granny Liu entered Guo Rongfu in those days because times were hard and the family couldn't open the pot, so she took her grandson Banel to Jia Fu to beg, and finally got 220 taels of silver and a diaoqian from Wang Xifeng.

How much is this twenty taels of silver? How much purchasing power was there? As we know, Miss Jia's salary is 22 taels a month, which is 24 taels a year, so the money Granny Liu got when she entered Guo Rongfu is almost equivalent to a good girl's pocket money for one year.

Granny Liu once calculated a crab account when she entered Jia's house, from which we can also see the purchasing power of the money. There is such a passage in the original text:

Granny Liu said, "This crab is worth five cents a catty this year. Ten jins of five money, five two five two, three five one five, and then get on the dining tables, a * * * has more than twenty two silver. Amitabha! The money for this meal is enough for our Zhuang family to spend a year. "

Therefore, the twenty taels of silver that Wang Xifeng gave Granny Liu would last them a year even if their family did not do farm work. If now, a family has to work and eat and drink a year, how can ordinary people get one or two thousand?

Although A Dream of Red Mansions is a novel of the Qing Dynasty, it seems that the life background is the Ming Dynasty, so let's take it as the Ming Dynasty. According to records, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, one or two pieces of silver could buy two stones of rice. At that time, one stone of rice was almost 94 kg, and two stones of rice 184 kg was 368 kg, which was 360 kg. According to the rice price of 2 yuan today, one or two pieces of silver at that time were equivalent to today's 720 yuan, and Granny Liu's twenty-two pieces were almost fifteen thousand yuan!

Grandma Liu had so much money as soon as she entered the government, and as a result, she had more property as soon as she entered the Jia government. Together, these properties are worth far more than the first time.

Granny Liu entered the Rong Guo mansion not to beg for money, but because of the support of the Jia family, the family survived and the crops grew well. She read the benefits of the Jia family and brought many cooked dishes to the Jia family to repay her kindness. Unexpectedly, she left with more things than when she came.

The forty-second time, Granny Liu stayed in Jia's house for a few days and wanted to go home. First, I got a lot of things from Wang Xifeng, and then I resigned from Jia and got a lot of things. I roughly sorted it out, and the list of things Granny Liu got this time is as follows:

Gold and silver: one hundred and eighty-two taels of silver, two strokes.

Cloth: a green yarn, a white yarn, two cocoons and two silks.

Clothing: two coats, two skirts, some clothes of Jia Mu, some clothes of Yuanyang, two purses, four buns and a pack of wool.

Drugs: Plum Blossom Needle Tongue Pill, Purple Gold Ingot, Huoluo Pill, Life-saving Pill, etc.

Rice food: there are two buckets of japonica rice in Yutian, a number of fruits in the garden, a box of dried fruits, snacks and a box of flour fruits.

Vessel: a small teapot in the kiln.

If nothing else, Granny Liu alone got 1,822 taels of silver, and according to the original description, these two scorpions should be golden scorpions, which were mentioned for the seventh time and the fifty-third time. According to the conversion, these two scorpions are also worth a dozen taels of silver.

In this way, granny Liu got about 122 gold and silver. If one or two pieces of silver is equivalent to 720 yuan, then grandma Liu took 86400 yuan from Jia's family this time!

In addition to money that can be directly used for shopping, there are several valuable things that cannot be ignored.

One is a small cup of Chengyao that Miaoyu doesn't want. We know that Miaoyu has many expensive tea sets. Baoyu said that her tea set was vulgar, and Miaoyu said, "I'm afraid you can't find such a vulgar device at home." It can be seen that the exquisite jade tea set is expensive.

Granny Liu finally took away the colorful Jason Chung covers on the kiln. At first, Miaoyu cooked tea for grandma. Miaoyu's tea set for making tea for the high-taste grandmother is naturally not a common product, so the small teapot in this kiln is absolutely valuable.

According to records, Cheng Kiln was a kind of porcelain fired by the official kiln in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty, among which small pieces and colorful colors were the most precious. It can be seen that this colorful kiln cover should be a rare treasure. This is a priceless treasure, and Miaoyu abandoned it like a lost treasure. I didn't know that precious treasure jade was given to Grandma Liu.

In Ming Dynasty, Shen Defu's Wanli Wild Collection also recorded the value of finished kiln cups: as for the most expensive kiln ware, the second is Yande. Cup and lamp return, but after a few years of gold, I don't know how to cherish my fashion. When I came to Beijing, I became a kiln glass to win gold and silver, and I couldn't spit out my tongue. ...

It means that the most expensive kiln furniture is the finished kiln. At first, these teacups and cups were common when they were young, but they didn't know how to cherish them. Later, when I arrived in Beijing, I realized that Cheng Yaobei had been fried to the sky-high price of several hundred gold. Seeing that they are short of money, they can only spit out their tongues and smack their mouths.

"Ming Shenzong Shi Lu" also has a record about the Cheng Kiln Cup: Zongshen is a fashionable food, and a pair of imperial Chenghua colored chicken cylinder cups is worth 100,000 yuan ... At this time, the Cheng Kiln Cup has been worth100,000 yuan. According to ten pieces of silver, one hundred thousand is twelve thousand pieces of silver! Don't say 12 thousand, it's shrunk ten times. For granny Liu, 1,000 is already an astronomical figure.

Today, a kiln chicken jar cup can shoot a sky-high price of 280 million yuan. This kind of treasure can be said to be priceless. Granny Liu may not know her, but with her sophistication, as long as she takes it out of Jia's house, it is naturally very precious and priceless, and she will never give it away easily.

The second one is two barrels of Ota japonica rice. How many catties are there in two buckets? We still convert according to the previous unit. One stone = ten buckets = 188 kg. If you take an integer, a bucket of rice is 18 kg, and two buckets of rice are about 36 kg.

This rice is not much by weight. According to the current price of ordinary rice, it costs 60 yuan to 70 yuan, but it is expensive because it is not ordinary rice.

According to records, this Ota japonica rice is Ota rice, which was first cultivated by Emperor Kangxi. This incident was described in Kangxi's "Defects", saying that this kind of Yutian rice is "superior to other rice, beige and reddish, long in grain, fragrant in smell and poor in taste, and it is also produced in Tian Yuan, hence the name" Yutian ".

At first, this kind of rice was only for the royal family to enjoy, and then it gradually became popular. Fifty-three times, Wu went to Jiafu to pay the rent, which mentioned "Yutian rouge rice and two stones". The rouge rice here should be Yutian rice.

Grange only collects two stones (twenty buckets) of Yutian rice a year. Granny Liu collected two buckets at once before entering Jia's house, which shows that it is rare and precious. At that time, even if she had money, it might be difficult for ordinary people to buy this kind of rice, and only families of royalty and dignitaries could eat it.

This rice has been mentioned seventy-five times again. At this time, Jia Fu was teetering, unable to make ends meet, and pawned things everywhere. Jia Gu's favorite "red rice porridge" was rationed, and no one else could eat it. This shows that this kind of rice is precious.

The third one is some clothes of Jia Mu. Today, it doesn't cost much to buy some clothes for the elderly. However, as the old lady of the Lord protector and the grandmother of Princess Yuan Chungui, it is conceivable that the clothes she wears must be made of the best silk, which is of great value.

Yuanyang said, "These are some clothes of the old lady, which were honored by everyone on their birthdays in previous years. It's a pity that the old lady never wears anything made by others, but she never wears it once. ……"

The people here naturally refer to Jia's children, grandchildren and daughters-in-law, and even some prominent rich slaves. The clothes they wear for Jia are naturally superior in workmanship and fabric. It is normal that a suit is worth tens of gold. Otherwise, how could it enter Jia's eyes?

Grandma Liu got these clothes made of high-grade fabrics and workmanship. As an old rural lady who often has to do farm work, she naturally can't bear to wear these silks and satins. At the critical moment, she took these new clothes to the pawnshop and got a considerable sum of money.

So we can see that even if it is not other small things, it is the kiln cup discarded by Miaoyu, the rare Yutian rice, and a few pieces of clothes that Jia Fu has not worn, which are already valuable, especially the small teacups that Jia Fu does not have. The value ranges from hundreds of gold to thousands of dollars.

According to the most conservative estimate, the kiln cup is valued at 1200 taels, two buckets of Yutian rice at 5,200 taels, Jia's clothes at 3,200 taels, other drugs, cloth and snacks together at 3,200 taels, and one hundred taels is 1500 taels.

According to the conversion of a silver dollar equivalent to today's 720 yuan, this time when Granny Liu entered Jia's house, Zhang * * * got more than1000000 yuan of property! Send a trip to Jia Fu, and you can earn 1 10,000 for this group of ladies and gentlemen in Doby. I have to say that Granny Liu is the biggest winner in a Dream of Red Mansions!