The news that a minor ninth-rank academic official at the Prefectural Academy had paid one thousand taels of Crime Redemption Silver spread through the Prefectural Yamen in an instant, sparking a sensation unseen since the prefecture’s founding.
It was impossible not to be astonished; never before had anyone been seen who was so foolish and yet so flush with cash.
What was the concept of one thousand taels?
Chapter 68