103 The Challenge of the Wine Money

What a sum three million goblets would come up to!

As a notable general of his time, it was socially unacceptable for Tie Zheng to provide wine that cost only a dozen copper coins per catty for his wedding. He would need the kind of liquor that came at a heftier price of ten silver taels and more per catty or even the more expensive ones.

However, even with the cheapest wine at ten taels per catty which could serve three goblets with each catty, the estimated consumption of wine was at least one million catties. In other words, even without including the other costs for his wedding, he would need at least ten million silver taels for the wine alone!

With Tie Zheng’s salary as it was, he could not afford this sum even if he paid for it for over ten lifetimes.

However, he was a man of his word, and he intended to go through with it, no matter the cost.

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