So sometimes ten cents becomes ten dollars--I can't remember for the life of my if I entered the right amount on my deposit slip, and the fee for this error is $10, so that would be it... and mostly it was nice round numbers anyway.

It is amusing to watch white professors of Chinese history explain things. Such as indigenous Chinese slavery... "Well, you must understand... that the Chinese did have domestic slavery... but this was different from European slavery... it would be the case that you could buy someone... daughters, for instance... but these slaves were considered.. part of the family... and they would be... well, if they wanted to get married, well, it would be arranged, but the, um, master would not be so inhumane as to um keep a slave from getting married, even though, um, he'd arrange it... and you could always, um, buy yourself out... so no.. it was quite different from European slavery... I mean, the slaves were considered human beings... they could just be bought and sold..." eunuchs... "he was a eunuch, and this was a considerate, um, disadvantage..." and Confucian scholars... "I don't know how to put this, but Confucian scholars could really be a pain in the ass... they would always tell the Emperor what he could and could not do, what tradition demanded, and it was hard to argue with them, because, um, they were damn well-educated..."

I don't dare ask about the bisexual Han emperors.