Between 1945, when Taiwan was recovered from the Japanese, and June 1949, wholesale prices multiplied by a factor of 5,600, and you needed a sackful of banknotes just to buy a cut of pork in the market.
三十八年六月，躉售物價較光復那年暴漲了近五千六百倍，連上街買塊豬肉都得提一麻袋鈔票。