Yang Tai was naturally moved when he heard Zhang San's words, Zhang San actually sincerely hoped that Yang Tai would not be impulsive, after all, with his current strength, even if he was robbed of Zhang San, he would be sure to snatch it back, so there was no need to sacrifice a super-first-class master to protect.

After Yang Tai and Ling Zhen left, Zhang San went back to rest, and slept until dawn, Zhang San originally felt that with the emperor's will, someone should send him a holy decree today, and he could take office immediately.

But Zhang San waited at home for a morning, but no one came, and the monkey came to tell Zhang San that the yard he was looking for had eyebrows. Zhang San thought about it, so he just went to settle down the yard first.

Staggered to the concert hall and saw the dilapidated yamen, even the old man who was cleaning in front of the door looked weak, Zhang San glanced inside, and there was no one in the courtyard.

The monkey took Zhang San to walk into an alley on the edge of the courtyard, and saw a house, a pair of stone lions in front of the door were already covered with moss, and the courtyard door was also ajar, and a woman in the courtyard was holding a dustpan to feed the chickens.

The monkey said: "This courtyard was originally the mansion of a scholar of Qian, and then the family fell into the middle of the road, and in this generation, there is only one man left after taking the Xiucai exam, and he has not been admitted to the juren several times." The family also lives on pawns. ”

Zhang San asked, "Is it that the things are sold out, and you are ready to sell the house?" ”

The monkey shook his head and said: "If you want to say that this money scholar, although he is a little wooden, but he is still honest, renting some houses, the family business can barely be maintained, selling the house is his mother's idea in the money book, his mother saw that he had failed to pass the examination in Tokyo for many years, and he was secretly anxious, so he planned to sell the house and return to his hometown for the exam." ”

Zhang San nodded, this is very normal, in ancient times and now, the people of the capital not only could not enjoy the admission policy of reducing scores, but also because Tokyo is a place where talents gather, because the number of people admitted is limited, so the difficulty of the exam is higher.

The old woman Qian also took a fancy to this, and wanted to sell the house to study at home, and take the exam locally, so the competitive pressure would be much smaller.

This is already the inner city of Tokyo, and every inch of land is valuable, so a small yamen like Jinsoin is not a bustling street, but is set up in a side alley on the edge of the province of Chushu, and a house in this place can indeed see the owner's former style.

Zhang San asked again, "How big is this house?" How much are you going to sell it for? ”

The monkey said: "The low price here is relatively high, this house is only more than two acres of land, but the asking price is indeed 30,000 yuan." ”

Zhang San was speechless for a while when he heard this, remembering that when he mortgaged the half acre of land in the vegetable garden by the Daxiangguo Temple last year, the price was only 3,000 yuan, and his land was only four times larger than his own, but the price was ten times that of his side. What's more, it's still a busy shop on the street.

Zhang San asked, "Is this price high?" ”

The monkey shook his head and said, "It's not high, I inquired about the work of the tooth shop, and the house of two acres of land near here costs twenty or thirty thousand." ”

Zhang San weighed it, to be honest, as the Great Song Daily, the office of a house of this scale is indeed a bit shabby, but it is difficult to find a place here, and it is rare that this place is so close to the Jinjuan Academy.

Zhang San had never worked in a newspaper office, so he didn't know how much space he needed to write a newspaper, but Zhang San knew that if he wanted to set up eight sections in the Da Song Daily, then there would be at least eight houses and eight editors in charge of these.

Then each editor must have at least a dozen or so notes responsible for gathering news. These more than a dozen reporters can be crammed into two rooms, which requires another 16 rooms, and then there are a series of offices for typesetting, correction, review, editor-in-chief, logistics, finances, and so on.

And in ancient times, this kind of house was only twenty or thirty houses, which was obviously not enough. However, Zhang San still wants to see if there is room for transformation, or push to rebuild a batch of three- and four-storey buildings to solve the lack of office space?

Zhang San walked into the courtyard gate, and the sister-in-law who fed the chickens looked at Zhang San and asked, "Are you a son of Beijing?" Coming to rent a house? Come, come, come with me. ”

Saying that, he pulled Zhang San into the courtyard, and Zhang San entered the courtyard only to find that this front hall was not a big courtyard as he imagined, but a courtyard that was not much larger than the door, and there was a small courtyard on the left and right.

The aunt pulled Zhang San and said: "You came here to rent a house, we are in the house clean, the surroundings are very quiet, and the people who come and go are court officials, and it is only a few streets away from the palace of the official family. ”

Zhang San was taken by him to the small courtyard on the east side and said: "Scholar, please see that there are nine rooms in this small courtyard, and one house costs two yuan a month, you can go up to the neighborhood and inquire if there is anything cheaper than ours?" Let me tell you, many students who take the exam will stay in our courtyard every time they come to Kyoto, and there are three courtyards in the backyard that are already full. ”

Zhang Sanyi was stunned and asked, "How many yards do you have for rent?" How many rooms are there? I have some of my fellow villagers who don't have a place to live yet, I wonder if you can live here? ”

The aunt's eyes lit up, and she didn't think that Zhang San had any questions and replied: "We have eight courtyards for rent like this, if there are many of you, we can also make room for you to come out with two yards, and give you 90 houses to live in, and two students can live in at least 100 people." ”

Zhang San asked happily, "Really?" Can you take me to see it? ”

When the aunt heard that there was a big business coming to the door, she was also happy and took Zhang San around one by one, here you can indeed see the foundation of a big mansion, but now the house has been changed beyond recognition, not only the front yard has been divided into a small courtyard, but the garden in the back yard has also been changed into a small courtyard.

This is no longer a house, but a rental community, the entire courtyard plus the main courtyard where the master lives plus the front yard of the front hall, which is divided into ten courtyards. Zhang San nodded with satisfaction, this is simply a god-given newspaper venue!

Zhang San can also understand the distress of the Qian family, after all, there is no income, and there is only one man in the family who is still a scholar, an orphan and a widow, and there is no means of livelihood at all, what the family can do is the business of renting out the house.

Every time the Great Song Dynasty came to the imperial examination, tens of thousands of people would pour into the capital, and then these people would bring different numbers of household servants, so it created greater pressure on renting houses in Tokyo, which was already tight. Therefore, it has given rise to many such people who make a living by renting houses, and it is understandable for the Qian family to use their own houses to do this kind of business. [.]