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Page 159
... silver we taxes 3 fen 9 li of silver . " Last year ( 1726 ) Governor Yang Wen - ch'ien set up a new regulation , according to which a tithe was collected for each liang of silver which the barbarians brought . In this way more than ...
... silver we taxes 3 fen 9 li of silver . " Last year ( 1726 ) Governor Yang Wen - ch'ien set up a new regulation , according to which a tithe was collected for each liang of silver which the barbarians brought . In this way more than ...
Page 396
... silver bul- lion from the Interior amounting to one million several thousand liang . After the barbarian merchants had smuggled this hundred percent silver bullion abroad , they imported their foreign dollars with its low silver content ...
... silver bul- lion from the Interior amounting to one million several thousand liang . After the barbarian merchants had smuggled this hundred percent silver bullion abroad , they imported their foreign dollars with its low silver content ...
Page 409
... silver or he would re- port the opium to the government . The captain of the ship , Hsia - li , 214 would not consent . Li Feng - kuang saw many wooden cases , and imagined that these contained silver . He ordered Ch'en Ya - hung and ...
... silver or he would re- port the opium to the government . The captain of the ship , Hsia - li , 214 would not consent . Li Feng - kuang saw many wooden cases , and imagined that these contained silver . He ordered Ch'en Ya - hung and ...
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