Two and a half children chanted poems on the road, causing passers-by to look sideways. And because they were wearing filial piety clothes, they couldn't figure out the wealth and nobility of Qin Bai and the two of them, so the passers-by on the side bent down and saluted one after another, and took the initiative to get out of the way.

In this era, ordinary people have a very mysterious worship of knowledge, and the status of scholars is particularly high. If you can do good poetry, you can become a guest of honor in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, not only for free, but also for sponsorship from famous prostitutes, which is really not an exaggeration. This is a myth in modern times, if you want to find a young lady who wants not to pay, saying that she is a top student with a perfect score in advanced mathematics? The only possibility is that the young lady thinks you are a psychopath!

I saw someone saluting to him. also got out of the way, Li Kang suddenly smiled: "Second Brother Bai, you are really knowledgeable, you are good at painting, and you are good at poetry." How beautiful do you think we are now? ”

Qin Bai smiled slightly, and said in his heart that Li Kang's eyelids were really shallow. And he was not interested in becoming the one who copied poems and songs through the mainstream, and did not want to steal the achievements of others for his own, so he casually explained: "This was written by a poet of the Tang Dynasty." ”

"Tang Dynasty? Is it Li Bai? Li Kang seemed to be very happy to know the "truth", anyway, the Tang Dynasty poet he knew was a Li Bai, "That's also very powerful, you can even memorize the poems of the Tang Dynasty, and both of you have a 'Bai', you are both Wenqu stars." ”

"Hehe, dare, you're a bit too farth, huh?" Qin Bai was amused. He understood why Li Kang was so excited, and even a little carried away with excitement. Because today's ten taels of silver can be described as a huge amount of money, for the common people of this era, it is really a huge amount of money, and it is by no means the kind with quotation marks. Ten taels of silver is the living expenses of a small family in Laizhou City for a year, and you can buy two or three acres of cooked land in Shandong, which is equivalent to about tens of thousands of yuan in modern times at comparable prices.

Of course, if you want to study the prices of the Ming Dynasty in detail, this is much more complicated, and you can publish dozens of papers. In addition, the gap between the rich and the poor is quite huge, such as the pimple fat boy, the ten taels of silver may be his pocket money, and it is not even enough for him to drink a meal of flower wine.

Here, Qin Bai didn't need to explain it clearly to Li Dang, anyway, he wouldn't understand it. So he half-jokingly: "The origin of my name, the reason why I am surnamed Qin, is because my father's surname is Qin, why is it called Bai, because I have been very white since I was a child." ”

While saying this, a sense of intimacy arose. This passage is actually a mantra that Qin Bai introduced himself in his previous life. Of course Qin Bai of this body is not like this, maybe he was extremely resentful back then, he later changed his mother's surname to his own initiative, and his original surname was Chen, so the real names of the three brothers should be Mrs. Chen, Chen Bai, and Chen Gao. However, since his father had flown away, and the eldest brother had no news, Qin Bai had the final say.

However, sometimes Qin Bai also thinks that the names of the three brothers are quite interesting, and the father and mother must have been Wen Qing back then, and they actually put it together in a poem. It's just the names of himself and his third brother, how can that eldest brother be called Mrs. Qin (Mrs. Chen)? That is, in the Ming Dynasty, I don't think there is anything wrong, but I change it to modernity, full of sissy smell, and I don't know which wife I think it is.

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Laizhou City as a capital city, its scale is not small, gardens, pavilions, courtyards, streets, etc. are readily available, when just crossed, Qin Bai is still fresh for a few days, there is a feeling that modern people travel to the ancient town. But it's been a few months, and it's boring to see too much, and the ancient and modern sanitary environments can't be compared at all.

And there are more than three in Laizhou City, there are many yamen, many officials, and many rich and noble families. Of course, the prefect's yamen and the Yexian magistrate's yamen in the same city as the prefecture and county are indispensable, but also because there is abundant coal and iron, and there are internal supervision yamen and the household department general department yamen responsible for tax collection. The internal supervision yamen is directly for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to collect the gold and silver into the inner treasury, which belongs to the emperor's small treasury; As for the Department of Household Affairs, of course, it is to collect taxes for the imperial court. Anyway, it's quite complicated, and outsiders can't figure out the relationship between the two, only knowing that the emperor and the household officials are very jealous of this money.

There is also the iron smelting yamen of the imperial court, but this yamen has long existed in name only, just like modern state-owned enterprises can not compete with private enterprises, and they are basically replaced by private iron smelters. But it was not completely canceled, after all, the usual practice of paying tribute was indispensable, so the officials and officials inside lived quite nourishingly. In addition, there are three guards, eight houses, seven inspection divisions, sixteen villages, and one hundred and forty-seven piers in Laizhou Mansion. The number of troops on the roster is quite large, but I heard that military households are not as good as dogs, and how much combat effectiveness do they have? Don't get your hopes up too much.

In addition, Laizhou's literary style is very prosperous, it is the famous "college entrance examination mansion" in the Ming Dynasty, in the period of Shizong (that is, Emperor Jiajing), the contemporaries of the famous minister Mao Ji, there was the glory of Laizhou half of the court officials. Therefore, there are many high-ranking families who have continued for several generations here, and if you are not careful, you will meet the relatives or subordinates of such and such officials. Therefore, the security in the city is passable, and there are many restaurants and Chu Pavilions, showing an abnormal prosperity.

However, as soon as I stepped out of the city gate, it was as if I had arrived in another world. Outside the moat, on both sides of the road into the city, there are thatched houses that can not be seen at a glance. Most of the people who live here are former homeless, but almost all of them have settled here. One of the major tax revenues in the Ming Dynasty was to see how much Dingkou was under his rule. The population is large, especially the number of men, you can collect the poll tax, especially you can draw the Ding to serve the servitude, so the settlement of the displaced people, all places in the Ming Dynasty are extremely welcome, so every once in a while, the government at all levels will organize a unified household Qi people.

I came to a small butcher shop and saw that the shopkeeper inside was sitting on a recliner with a shy stomach and snoring, and a pu fan was still covering his body. Qin Bai slapped the table heavily and shouted, "He Laosan! The meat has been taken away by wild dogs! ”

The shopkeeper named He Laosan jumped up from the recliner in fright, and the pu fan was also thrown aside, only then did he notice that it was Qin Bai, and complained in fright: "Bai Er, do you want to scare me to death?" I'm really intimidated, where are you going to get the big bone soup? ”

"Hey, hey." Qin Bai smiled and took out a small copper coin and threw it on the counter: "I'm buying it today, cut me a few more catties, I want to gain more weight." ”

He Laosan glanced at the copper coins on the counter, suddenly smiled, didn't speak, took a piece of the meat strip hanging above the counter, cut a small piece with a quick movement, took out a package of oiled paper, and threw it directly to Qin Bai: "Two catties and three taels of good pork belly, one less money, you come and cut off my hand!" ”