#fucking oops

and do you ever plan to?

["What? No, I haven't... not yet, at least."]

("Was that a 'not yet' I heard?")

["Wh- I-I mean, uh- I-"]

["It was. But it... uh. It..."]

("You still gotta answer the last question, sunshine...")

["S-... sunshine?"]

("Mmhm...")

["...Uh. I... might. At some point. I haven't decided yet."]

("That's interesting to hear... y'know, I might let you.")

["...Oh."]

dao - knife shaped metal coin traded and sometimes melted down to use for actual forging in farm tools

bu - spade shaped metal coin traded and sometimes melted down to use for actual forging in farm tools

yi - "ant nose" coin

qian - circular coins with square holes, the standard after other coinage was abolished after 200bce. 1 tael of silver is worth 1'000 qian, thus 1 qian is approximately 0.16$usd.

tael/liang - anywhere from 35-50 grams worth of silver, shorted to tl

silver - 1g = 1.04$us (2025) | 1tl (50g) = 52$us (2025)

gold - 1g = 101.80$us (2025)

one (biblical) silver shekel was 11g, and 30 shekels was 2 weeks of pay, being around 1000-2000$. 30 shekels would be 330g of silver, 330/35=9.4 taels of silver.

thus ~9 taels of silver is about 1500$usd around 33AD.

1 tael of silver would be 166.66$usd.

in the han dynasty (~200bc-200ad) 500g of gold could be exchanged for 1500g of silver.

500/50 = 10 taels of gold, 1500/35 = ~42 taels of silver

166.66$usd*42tl = 293'988.24$usd = 10 taels of gold

293'988.24/10 = ~29'398.82$uds = 1 tael of gold

modern terracotta roof tiles are 2$usd per tile, but given they are factory made rather than hand made i'm going to up that to 6$usd per tile. i'm just gonna go with xl needing 800 tiles, so he'd need 4800$usd.

1 qian is 0.16$ and 1 roof tile is 6$ means you need 37 qian for 1 roof tile. 10 roof tiles is 370 qian. 100 roof tiles is 3'700 qian, and 800 roof tiles is 29'600 qian.

1 teal of silver is 1'037 qian.

29'600 qian is approximately 29 teals of silver.

1 teal of gold is approximately 183,742 qian.

xl's gold birch leaves are large, the size of xl's hand, 12cm x 7cm x 3cm = 252cm^3, making the value of 1 gold leaf approximately 3'855.6g of gold.

3'855.6/50 = 771.112 teals of gold per leaf.

1 gold leaf is worth 22'669'782.88$usd.

1 gold leaf is worth 141,686,143.04 qian.

what have i done.

xie lian does not understand money.

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