The two together amount on an average to about taels 1.
By arrangement between the British and Chinese governments the foreign customs levy at the port of entry a likin on Indian opium of taels 80 per chest, in addition to the tariff duty of taels 30.
Our spirits soar and we find we can even make jokes; taels I win, heads you lose.
Later on, when it was decided to set aside or raise thirty million taels for the construction of railways, she misappropriated a large portion of the money.
I would write down how many taels you require, and say you'd take it in cash.
The Emperor was good enough to send me two thousand taels as a special reward--a thing, I believe, which has never been done in the history of the present dynasty.
Now, somewhat to her consternation, she discovered that her comprador orders had taels printed upon them; so she made out her order in taels, secretly wondering what they were.
In the year 1887 it was decided to set aside thirty million taels for the creation of a navy.
The official met his friends and the plan was discussed and many thousands of taelswere provided and given into the hands of the official from over the seas.
It says loudly, "I am rich; it costs many thousands of taels to make my ugliness.
Father has sent fifty thousandtaels to be used in obtaining his freedom.
If he tried to purchase the degree of master he would have, he said, 1,000 taels to pay, besides passing through some kind of examination.
The text of the Article respecting opium is as follows:--'Opium will henceforth, pay thirty taels per picul import duty.
I have heard of as much as fifty taels (about $70) being paid to an important Shroff-shop for such a transaction.
We gave ten taels to each of our eunuchs, for that was the custom, and gave four taels to each chair bearer of the Palace.
There is another thing that had to be done according to the custom, and that was to give the eunuchs a present or tip, and we had to give each of the eunuchs ten taels for their trouble.
He further proposed as a fair likin tax forty taels per picul (though certain that the Chinese did not get more than 30) on all Indian opium, that brought to Hongkong included.
From sixteen taelsat Chinkiang to eighty-four taels at Foochow and Amoy.
It was currently reported in North China that this officer received 2,000 taels from English merchants for memorializing the Emperor.
But the Chinese Commissioner, Prince Kung, objected to a uniform duty of forty taels, as too low, and suggested sixty taels a picul, or an adherence to the different rates prevailing in different ports.
I bought her for forty-eight taels (between seven and eight pounds sterling).
Six hundredtaels of money were given by the officials of Ning-hai to relieve the people of that district.
What with travelling expenses and clothes she cost me altogether seventy taels before she arrived in Weihaiwei.
Eighty taels were added to the thirty allowed by the old treaty, and the opium duty was thus really trebled at a stroke.
To Lord Granville's maximum of 70 taels (the sum actually agreed upon with the Chinese Government) the marquis said he was sorry, but his instructions did not permit of his accepting less than 80 taels per pecul.
The noble Nicholas bestowed two taels upon his servant.
Then, as my only hope, I shouted to them that I had secured a traitor for whose head fifty taels were offered.
The theft is clear, and it is but justice to the state that the thief should receive fifty blows, and pay twenty taels of silver.
A large Stock of Ladies, two taels per sack 237 XXXI.
Surely taels of silver are not so plentiful in this city that all will refuse," said Chow.
These Christians can get hundreds of taels for these jewels which they take out of our eyes.
There I found that one of the Christians had possessed himself of my bank book and drawn about fifteen taels of my money which I had banked at the grocer's.
When it came it was a perfect object, yet they asked twenty taelsfor it.
So moved was Shen Heng by this delicate consideration that he refused to accept more than two taels and three-quarters.
With deprecating firmness Lin directed Shen Heng's reluctant eyes to another line--the unfortunate exaction of fifty taels in return for the guarantee that the robe should be permeated with the spirit of rejuvenation.
The burden of five hundredtaels of silver should suffice.
You can then, without undue effort, impose on him the thousand taels that you have suffered loss from those of his house.
Suspecting the true cause of your declining radiance, I have, at an involved expenditure of seventaels and three hand counts of brash cash, pursued this matter to its ultimate source.
The details arrived at were that Shen Heng should deliver to Lin eight-hundred and seventy-five taels against the return of the robe.
Again has the clay-souled Wang Ho, on the pretext that he can no longer make his in and out taels meet, sought to diminish the monthly inadequacy of cash with which he rewards this person's conscientious services.
Am I, then," demanded Wang Ho, "to suffer the loss of a thousand taels and retain an inadequate and detestable burial robe that will continue to exercise its malign influence over my being?
In an incredibly short space of time, being continually urged on by the flattering anxiety of Shan Tien (whose precipitancy at one point became so acute that he mistook fourscore taels for five), all things were prepared.
Depart on the third day and remain until the ninth and twenty taels of silver will glide imperceptibly into your awaiting sleeve.
From Foochow the export has declined by one-half in ten years, and deprived the revenue of a million taels a year, and the people of five million taels in wages.
As it is, when he has made an end of speaking, the body which you are already covetously estimating in taels will in no way be distinguishable from that of the meanest and most ordinary maker of commercial ventures in Canton.
The full written papers dealing with the matter are in the Hall of Public Reference at Peking, and can be seen by any person on the payment of a few taels to everyone connected with the establishment.
To satisfy himself, scarce as taels had become with him, he purchased another copy.
In that way all his time and a very large number of taels had been expended, testing results by means of the four elements, and putting together things which had been inadequately arrived at by others.
The Chinese Commissioners, not only as a matter of course, and without any pressure whatever, proposed to put down opium in the schedule at the present fixed duty of thirty taels a pikul, but actually insisted upon doing so.
Export trade, which did not exist five-and-twenty years ago, now reaches a total of about fifteen milliontaels per annum.
When I was in New-chwang the Viceroy of Manchuria had just enriched himself to the extent of several thousand taels by a visit to that port.
When I was in Manchuria it was currently reported that the Governor of Kirin had paid one hundred thousand taels for his office.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
