In the middle and late Qing dynasty:
One or two pieces of silver are worth RMB150-about 220 yuan; The annual salary of six officials is 45 taels of silver = bureau-level cadres in Qing dynasty, with an annual salary of 9000 yuan; Qing magistrate for three years, one hundred thousand snowflakes silver.
In the early years of Qianlong, I donated a Taiwanese flower 13 122 silver = 2.7 million yuan to buy a departmental level cadre, which was clearly marked. In fact, there was a shortage of silver in ancient China. After reading some ancient books, we can find that the monetary value of one or two pieces of silver is quite high. One or two pieces of silver is equal to 1200 (before the early Qing Dynasty) to more than 3,000 (after Daoguang).
Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, a catty of pork (equivalent to 65,438 +0.2 catty) only needed twenty pence, and an acre of fertile land only needed seven or eight taels of silver or twelve or thirteen pieces of silver. A few taels of silver, dozens of taels of silver is a big deal, and one hundred taels of silver is today's rich man, who can buy more than ten acres of fertile land.