As a result, merely by bringing some of the silver circulating in the treaty port of China into Japan and exchanging it for gold and then taking that gold back to China and exchanging it for silver, people had found a very easy way by which to get rich quick.
このため、中国の条約港で流通している銀貨を日本に持ち込んで金に両替し、再び中国に持ち帰り銀に両替するだけで、一攫千金濡れ手で粟の利益が得られた。