Within six months, as much as 10,000
piculs of 'iliahi had been cut.
Our lord has held the post [with a salary] of two thousand
piculs (shi) [of grain] six times.
This place produces annually of Gold Dust about 2
Piculs, but frequently much more.
Elsewhere the Sarawak Gazette noted that a considerable number of Muruts had between them brought the fairly considerable weight of 35 and 40
piculs of gutta percha to market for trade and that:
In a fourth case five years later, Zhu prosecuted his vice-minister of revenue, Guo Huan, for embezzling millions of
piculs of government grain.
The first major sales of certificates in the Ming took place in 1451, 1453, and 1454 with the per certificate price of 5
piculs of rice and having it transported to Guizhou.