After Xin Ran and Chen Ming finished eating "Song Sister-in-law Fish Soup", Xin Ran said to Chen Ming: "Brother Xian, Brother Ling is an official in Lin'an, and when the brother arrives in Lin'an, he should go to visit, you have been away from home for a while, so today I will lead the foolish brother to Brother Ling's mansion to visit Brother Ling, can you?"

"I'm not going to hide it, brother, the younger brother is indeed a little homesick now, so let's go to my house together," Chen Ming replied. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The two then returned to the cruise ship where they stayed overnight last night, settled the store money with the shopkeeper, rode their respective horses, and came to the mansion where their brother was under the leadership of Chen Ming, and came to the front of the mansion, and the servant standing at the main gate saw Chen Ming riding a horse to the gate, hurriedly stepped forward, bowed and saluted: "Little master, you can come back, our lord, Mrs. and Mrs. are thinking about you, and they are all looking forward to your early home." ”

Chen Ming said to the servant: "I'm not coming back, my brother is not at home." “

The servant continued, "Your Excellency has just returned from the next court, and this will be in the study, and I will lead you to him."

"No need, I'll go by myself," Chen Ming said.

Then led Xin Ran towards the mansion, until he walked to the middle room of the main room in the house, Chen Mingdao said to Xin Ran: "This is my brother's study." ”

After speaking, he shouted: "Big brother", he pushed the door and went in, only to see that there was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old maid cleaning the study, and when he saw the two of them come in, he bowed and bowed, and said, "Little master, where did the adult go to Mrs."

Chen Ming said: "You hurry up and invite my brother to come to the study, and say that I will come back with a distinguished guest." '

The maid replied, "Yes, the slave and maid will go." “

After the maid left, Xin Ran said to Chen Ming: "Brother Xian, Brother Ling is the head of the Ministry of Rites in Lin'an, and his official position is not low, and you are a big family, but Brother Fool sees that your mansion is a small courtyard with two entrances, which is really economical." “

Chen Ming said with a smile: "Big brother, "Chang'an residence, it's not easy", this is still renting a house from the imperial court, in the past, the Jin soldiers broke through Tokyo, the imperial court moved south, a large number of officials and people, also moved south, a large number of people poured into the south, especially Lin'an and nearby areas, which led to a difficult to find a house, and the rent naturally kept rising;

The emperor of Jin saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he sent a large number of spies to infiltrate my Great Song Dynasty, and posted notices everywhere, boasting that the place ruled by the Great Jin State was fair in business and would never let his subjects not afford to live in a house, and if the people in the south wanted to live a good life, they were welcome to move back to the north, and under the governance of the Great Jin Kingdom, the people of the south would definitely live better than under the management of the Great Song Dynasty;

After the large number of northern people moved south, it led to a small population in the north, and a large number of residences and fields were abandoned, not to mention, the considerable area of the Jin country was mainly nomadic, and there was basically no cultivation, so the area controlled by the Jin State at that time, housing prices and rents were naturally lower than those of the Great Song Dynasty;

As a result, due to the discord between the Jin people, the majority of subjects began to become uneasy.

When a courtier raised this issue to Gaozong, Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty issued an edict on renting and buying and selling houses: the houses owned by the government can be exempted from three months' rent, and only nine months' rent is required to be paid a year, and at the same time, an agency dedicated to the management of the government's public housing must also be set up to reduce the rent of private residences by half on the original basis, and at the same time announced that if any subjects do not comply with this provision, they can report to the relevant yamen, and the court will be severely punished.

At first, everyone thought that it was a formality, the subjects did not seriously implement it, and the rental price of private people did not drop to the specified level, but soon after, Emperor Gaozong of the Great Song Dynasty and officials at all levels severely punished those who disobeyed the order.

But for these people who come to Lin'an from other places to be officials, it is still difficult to buy a house in Lin'an with their own salary, and the brother is honest and honest, and the salary is acceptable to support the family, and it is beyond the power to settle the house in Lin'an. “