A house the size of twenty acres of land is actually not small, but the ancient way of calculating it is a bit nonsense.

The size of an acre of land is one step wide, two hundred and forty steps long, and one step is about 1.5 meters.

Since it was in the middle of the market, it was a little difficult to find a regular place with a length of 240 steps, so I changed it slightly.

The whole courtyard is rectangular in layout, about 60 meters wide and 180 meters long, and the overall area has not decreased.

If it is used as an ordinary home, such a courtyard is already very comfortable.

There are many people living in 100-square-meter houses in Chang'an City, but ......

The courtyards of Gao Shilian, eldest grandson Wuji and other imperial relatives cover an area of about 25 to 30 acres, and the houses of Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui cover an area of about 15 acres.

The area of Li Yuanjing's royal mansion is more than enough, but compared with all the princes, it is the smallest.

A courtyard can see Li Yuanjing's status in Li Shimin's heart, and the reason why he pressed on Fang Du was completely because of the word King Zhao.

But there is another point that has not been considered, the master and servant in those people's homes add up to dozens of people, but their own royal mansion, the guards alone add up to more than 200 people, regardless of other factors, in terms of pure area, the average activity space per person is less than 50 square meters, if you remove buildings and other unusable space, the per capita activity area is less than 20 square meters.

A good royal mansion was built like this, Li Yuanjing couldn't laugh or cry.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs?

What's the point of living in such a house?

"Your Highness!" Cheng Chuliang, who received the news, ran out impatiently, and he hadn't seen Li Yuanjing for half a year, and he missed it very much.

"I thought you had forgotten about this king!" Looking at Cheng Chuliang, Li Yuanjing smiled.

"That can't! In fact, after the grounding period passed, I begged my father to take me into the palace to play with His Royal Highness, but I was hung up and beaten by my father, you didn't see that scene, it was really miserable, and then I couldn't get out of bed for two months...... "Cheng Chuliang spat and described the glorious history of his beating.

"Let's go, tell this king about the changes in Chang'an City in the past six months!" Li Yuanjing smiled and directly ignored Cheng Chuliang's experience of being beaten.

Among these ministers, it is Cheng Zhijie's chicken thief, who has nothing to do and plays with children every day? This is all purposeful, Cheng Zhijie is clear, and Li Shimin is also clear.

Li Yuanjing didn't plan to pay attention to these things, the path he took was completely different from Cheng Zhijie's, and the facts have proved that road can't go by himself, otherwise why would he be closed for half a year?

"Your Royal Highness, Chang'an City has not changed much in the past six months, it is still the same as before, the only difference is that there are more people, although the locust plague in the summer has some impact, but the imperial court has responded in an orderly manner and has not caused too much chaos, and the people are mixed......

Cheng Chuliang kept introducing the recent situation, and Li Yuanjing listened with relish.

Half a year of confinement allowed him to learn some of the current situation from books, but that only existed on paper, and the real situation could only be understood by going outside.

In this disaster, the imperial court's response should be regarded as doing its best to ensure stability, and if it were replaced by other times, it would definitely be praised.

But for Li Shimin, it is worth it to be able to mix mixed reviews at this time, this is a good start, and it is also the purpose of Li Shimin's decision to release Li Yuanjing.

He also hopes to take advantage of this opportunity to strike while the iron is hot and completely reverse his image.

"Why are there so many people begging on the streets?" After walking for a while, Li Yuanjing noticed some differences.

"In the year of the disaster, some homeless people are still very normal, and now the situation is much better, haven't you seen a few months ago, there were more people begging......

It turned out that in the winter, all construction sites were basically suspended, and there was not much grain in the hands of the imperial court, so it was necessary to keep some in case of emergency, so the team was disbanded and the victims were sent home.

For those who were unable to return home, they were temporarily resettled, but only one locust cake a day was given to ensure that they did not starve to death.

A few months ago, the number of victims in the capital was even greater, but now those who can walk are gone, and those who can't can only beg along the streets.

But just after the disaster year, no one has any food left, so it is difficult to get a harvest from begging.

A maverick beggar on the side of the street attracted Li Yuanjing's attention, and this beggar was completely different from other beggars.

The normal thing is to put a bowl in front of you, and people just sit there and look at the pedestrians pitifully, and some even simply lie there motionless, one is to save effort, and the other is that it may make people look more pitiful.

But the beggar did not do so, and did not set a bowl in front of him, nor did he pretend to be pitiful like the others.

Holding a semi-finished wooden block in his hand, he was carving a house, and the name of the house Li Yuanjing could not be named.

Who will have the greatest impact of the disaster year?

It's not ordinary people, but those craftsmen who have craftsman status, these people don't enjoy the Juntian system, they rely on their crafts to eat on weekdays, and in disaster years, the people themselves have nothing to eat, let alone these craftsmen.

"Old man, when did you start carving these?" Li Yuanjing squatted down and picked up a work that had been carved, a Mingde Gate that was not like a four.

"Two months ago, I used to be a carpenter, and I did everything, but now the carpenter is not good at it, and I don't want to leave my craft and beg with my face, so I can only try my luck by doing this, that Mingdemen didn't dare to carve too much, for fear that the government will find trouble." The middle-aged uncle responded with a smile on his yellow teeth, and he didn't care about cleaning the snow on his body.

At this age, he was a middle-aged uncle in later generations, and he was a proper old man in the Tang Dynasty, and there was nothing wrong with him at all.

"Does anyone buy it?"

"No, now everyone is not rich in hand, these ornaments that can only be seen by large families are not looked at, and small families are reluctant to ......" The middle-aged uncle sighed, his face was full of melancholy, and he looked at Li Yuanjing with some unwillingness, and finally decided to muster up the courage to ask: "Can the son be useful to the villain?" Don't want money, just stutter! ”

In these years, money may not be able to buy grain, and the price of grain has also flown to the sky, the imperial court intends to suppress the price of grain, but there is nothing to be done, and now the grain has risen to 450 yuan of rice, which is 50 yuan higher than half a year ago.

"How long does it take to carve an identical Mingde Gate?" Li Yuanjing looked at the middle-aged uncle.

"One day......"

"Take a bucket of rice!" Li Yuanjing commanded the guards behind him, and turned to look at the middle-aged uncle: "I'll pick it up at this time tomorrow, if you can satisfy me, you will ensure that your whole family will not go hungry in the future!" ”