Another day, Gan Qi went to buy a promising house in the city, in the outer city, not far from the small courtyard rented by the Su family, and it cost less than 400 yuan.

If you want to say that the housing prices of the Great Song Dynasty are still quite cheap, the courtyard with three entrances before and after, covering an area of five or six acres, that is, about 3,000 square meters, as long as more than 300 runs.

How can the value of the currency of the Song Dynasty be compared? It's a bit of a bad analogy, but you can give it a try. If you use grain as an analogy, for example, a meat bun, in the Great Song Dynasty about two copper coins, so calculated, a copper coin can be compared to a dollar of RMB in later generations.

But this is also inaccurate, because in ancient times, grain, which was the main consumer goods, was a slightly scarce material. Grain for later generations is not a scarce consumer product in China. In other words, the actual price of grain in later generations was far cheaper than that of the Song Dynasty.

If we simply compare a copper coin to a piece of RMB, the usual money is about 1,000 yuan, and the salary of an ordinary civil servant in the Song Dynasty is less than 2,000 yuan. Kind of like the level of the nineties in later generations. More than 300 yuan, about more than 300,000 yuan, to buy a house of more than 3,000 square meters, this house price is really low.

However, according to the national level, the annual income of the Great Song Dynasty is only 50 million or 60 million to more than 100 million yuan, that is, 560 billion to more than 100 billion yuan.

If we talk about production tools, in the founding years of the Song Dynasty, a cow was about three yuan, that is, about 3,000 yuan. In the current Renzong period, a cow is about six yuan, which shows that the Song Dynasty also had inflation. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, a cow had risen to ten yuan, which was 10,000 yuan. During the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, because of the war, the price of cattle once rose to dozens of guan, and occasionally exceeded 100 guan.

For example, horses are valuables, which can be compared to the cars of later generations. During the period of Renzong, when inflation was not serious, a good horse, with a price of between 60 and 100 guan, can be compared to a Ferrari sports car. A little bit of a horse has to be dozens of times, something that ordinary people don't dare to think about.

There is also a very typical essential material for life, that is, salt, the price of salt in the Renzong period also tends to be stable, the wholesale price of salt is about 20 yuan, the commodity price is about 50 or 60 yuan a catty, a civil servant's monthly income is less than 2,000 yuan, and it costs 50 or 60 yuan to buy a catty of salt. Salt was sold by officials and a major source of tax revenue for the imperial court.

Such a high price of salt is due to the lack of production caused by primitive production methods, but the population has skyrocketed. Second, it is also because of the official regulations of the imperial court, and also in order to increase the financial revenue of the imperial court.

Therefore, it also led to the overflow of illicit salt in the Song Dynasty. When Su Shi was a general judge in Hangzhou, he once arrested dozens or hundreds of smugglers during the Chinese New Year, and Su Shi also specially recorded the scene, saying that these smugglers were beaten in prison, and Su Shi himself couldn't bear to see such a tragic situation.

Speaking of Su Shi, it seems that he is also looking for a house everywhere in recent days, the father and son have been in Beijing for a short time, and they can already afford to buy a house, which is obviously not the money sent from their home in Sichuan thousands of miles away, but the father and son earned it in the capital in a short time. If the literati wanted to make money, it was obviously not too difficult in the Great Song Dynasty.

Maybe it's not about making money, it's about money from others. People who have the ability are naturally different.

Today, Gan Qi brought Wu Qiao'er into the city, paid for the house, and passed the contract. Wu Qiao'er happily began to clean up the house, and said while tidying up: "Good official, there is a chance, let's move into the city, if others ask me in the future, I will also say that I am from Bianliang City." ”

Gan Qi understood, which means that the people in Bianliang City can be superior to others in plain life, and this kind of thinking is the same in any era. So Gan Qi didn't care, and replied with a smile: "Well, Sister Qiao'er is now a person from Bianliang City, and when she goes out to meet people, she should raise her head to the sky." ”

Wu Qiao'er replied: "That's natural, in the past, we lived outside the city, even if it was only two or three miles away from Bianliang City, others thought we were countrymen, and now we are also from the city." ”

Wu Qiao'er took the excitement of her little daughter's family, constantly jumping back and forth in the house, with a broom in her hand, sweeping the fallen leaves, getting dust, and stretching the broom into the small pool in the courtyard, and asked: "Good officer, are there any fish here?" ”

Gan Qi shook his head: "I don't know if there are any fish. ”

"Then I have to go to the market to buy some fish and come back, and I have fish at home, that is, I have more than enough every year, and I can accumulate wealth." Wu Qiao'er spoke energetically, turned her head to look at the side, and said: "This tree is good, tall, and has a wide canopy, so it must be good to enjoy the cool in summer." Well...... Even if you are at the water's edge, you are afraid that there are many mosquitoes, so you have to ask someone to re-make this pool and clean up the silt, so as to reduce mosquitoes and flies. ”

Wu Qiao'er was able to arrange it vigorously, and Gan Qi had already said: "Sister Qiao'er, you arrange it first, and I will go out of the city." ”

"The good official is busy, everything here has me." The smile on Wu Qiaoer's face has always been hanging, maybe this is her happiness, happiness is as simple as that.

Gan Qi left two strong men and a few small men to help Wu Qiao'er, and he took Gan Ba to the outside of the city.

But as soon as Ganchi arrived at the sumo ring, he saw a lot of people surrounding the north gate of the sumo ring, and it was very noisy.

Gan Qi walked forward, and he heard a person in the crowd holding up a gambling ticket and shouting: "How can this be reasonable, Lao Tzu bought a gambling ticket of 500 yuan, and he didn't give a prize?" Where in the world is there such a thing? I must give an explanation today. ”

But I heard a bookkeeper in front of this person reply: "Objectively, you said that you bought 500 yuan, and I also have a deposit here, why can't I find it?" If you look at my account book, every bill is recorded, as well as the signatures and fingerprints of the account office and the purchaser, one by one, very clear. There is also the order of numbers, you are five-nine-eighty-seven, you see, five-nine-eighty-seven is a single consistent five-ticket ticket, signed and handprinted. Therefore, your 500 pieces must be fake. ”

"Fake? The fake one was also sold to Lao Tzu by you, do you want to admit it? You took Lao Tzu's money, and you still dare to deny it? The man with the gambling ticket in his hand had a hideous face, and reached out and grabbed the bookkeeper by the collar.

Mr. Bookkeeper seemed to be frightened, and hurriedly said: "Objective, how dare I sell you fake tickets, everyone here knows, as long as you pay for a gambling ticket, you will inevitably let him sign and draw a bet, and the sequence number is also on it. ”

The onlookers next to him also said: "Yes, everyone knows that when you buy a gambling ticket, you have to sign and draw a fingerprint on the account book and gambling ticket, and if there is no your signature and fingerprint on the account book, you must be here to play tricks." ”

When the man with the gambling ticket heard this, he didn't pay attention to the left and right, and hit the bookkeeper with a fist, knocked him to the ground with a punch, and scolded: "Lao Tzu has a gambling ticket in hand, you have to pay today, and you have to pay if you don't pay." ”

Mr. Bookkeeper was beaten, and several strong men immediately stepped forward behind him, and suddenly there were many strong men gathered around the person who was looking for faults, obviously coming prepared, and suddenly a confrontation formed.

The man with the gambling ticket also spoke: "Which of you dares to do it? Lao Tzu has been in Bianliang City for more than ten years, and there is no one who dares to do anything with Lao Tzu. ”

Gan Qi, who was outside the crowd, saw this scene, and his brows were already furrowed.

But it was Gan Ba on the side who spoke: "Big brother, this person is obviously here to find fault, I'm going to gather people, I have to teach them a lesson, otherwise they don't know how many eyes Lord Ma has." ”

Gan Qi raised his hand and pointed to the right, and said, "Look over there." ”

Gan Ba turned his head to see that more than a hundred steps away on the right, there were two or three hundred people standing, all with bulging pockets around their waists.

"Big brother, who is this who can't get along with us? Let's fight again today, how can we be afraid of them? Gan Ba was already furious, his sleeves were rolling.

Gan Qi nodded and said, "The Cao family is going to be a little hard, Duba, you go and gather people." ”

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