When watching some costume dramas, I often see ancient heroes sitting in the shop, telling the bartender to take out good wine and good meat, drink and eat meat in a big bowl, and then put down a piece of silver and leave after eating, while the bartender often directly says: Take your time, uncle, come again next time! Pick up the silver and put it away. Don't you need to count?

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Ancient heroes gave people the impression that they were chic and informal, and naturally they didn't care about the amount of money. Because they are charitable and generous, they generally don't have much money on them. Even if they don't have much money on them, if they are satisfied with their food, they will still leave a piece of money generously, regardless of how much. Of course, you won't say anything if you give more to the bartender, but what if you give less? In the film and television drama, the bartender walked over to see the guests off when he took the silver, and never said that he would count the weight of the silver.

In fact, there are deep-seated reasons. In every dynasty in the history of our country, almost all have their own coins, that is, copper coins. Strictly speaking, copper coins are the currency that can be circulated, and silver is not the real currency. In many dynasties, it was even forbidden to trade directly with silver. Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the total amount of silver in China was very small. In the Song Dynasty, he was forced to give12 million taels of silver in exchange for peace, but the whole Song Dynasty could not give so much silver. Even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the value of silver was quite high. In the Qing dynasty, the governor only got 150 silver every year, which shows how valuable silver is.

In the Ming dynasty, a penny could buy 8 Jin of first-class pork, and even if the heroes could eat it again, it would be difficult for a person to eat a silver or two of grain. Moreover, most of the money is twelve taels or twenty-five taels, so the heroes pay the bill in silver, and the clerk doesn't have to count it at all.

The ratio of copper coins to silver is also very different. Take the modern Qing dynasty for example: one or two pieces of silver can be exchanged for 1000 copper coins, which shows that one or two pieces of silver were big bills in ancient times! Let's think back, is it true that many heroes beat the silver directly on the table after dinner, and the fundamental problem appears on the silver! Knowing this, it is not difficult to imagine how dashing the heroes are when they put silver coins on the table after dinner. If everyone is a shopkeeper, I believe they won't stop such customers. This piece of silver took ordinary people a month! Then in the face of such people, those stores will not stop. Maybe I hope there are more such guests in my heart.