鸦片战争赔款实付银两数额再研究

On the Actual Amount of the Indemnity of the Opium War

关于鸦片战争赔款,英方索要2 100万银元在学术界为无疑之论,而对清政府实际偿付之银两数额却颇多分歧。究其原因,既有研究或忽略了赔款偿付过程中银元与银两折算比率的变化,或忽略了各期赔款使用了不同的平码标准。对这两个因素进行详细考察,再综合其他特殊情况,统一平码后,最终计算出实际偿付银两数额为:以漕平纹银计约为1 505.81万两;以广平纹银计约为1 468.94万两;以中央库平纹银计约为1 479.27万两,以海关两计约为1 464.65万两。

There is no dought that the British asked for 21,000,000 silver dollars as indemnity tor the Opium war however, there are different opinions on how much Qing government actually paid. The British asked for the indemnity of the Nanking Treaty in dollars, but the Qing government paid it off in taels. The actual amount of the indemnity can＇t he added up together, because there were different con- version rates and scales in different periods. By examining every item and recounting the amount in an unified standard, we can get the actual amount of the indemnity： 15,058,100 liang measured by Caoping fine silver, 14,689,400 liang measured by Guangping fine silver, 14,792,700 liang measured by Central Bank fine silver,and 14,646,500 liang by customs scale.