Chapter 24 GDP of the Great Song Dynasty
Before the crossing, Jiang Yin had done a detailed investigation of the economy of the Northern Song Dynasty, according to various historical research and records, combined with the deduction algorithm of modern finance, Jiang Yin initially had a general understanding of the economic degree of the Northern Song Dynasty.
Dasong accounts for 22.7% of the world's GDP, with a per capita GDP of $450. The total revenue of the treasury in the ten years of Song Shenzong Xining was 70.7 million guanwen, the highest reached 160 million guanwen, almost reaching the peak of China's historical income, even if the Southern Song Dynasty lost half of the country, the treasury revenue was as high as 100 million guanwen, which is astronomical and difficult for later generations to achieve.
In the early days of the Northern Song Dynasty, the total number of officials in the country was about 30,000, and nearly 50,000 during the Song Huizong period, which was 6 times that of the Han Dynasty and 2 times that of the Tang Dynasty. The salaries of the nobles and officials of the Song Dynasty consisted of basic salary, living allowances, and other welfare benefits.
When Bao Zheng, who was famous in later generations, served in Kaifeng Mansion in Nanya, he had three titles on his head, and the valuation of money and physical goods, Bao Zheng's annual salary was about 21,878 copper coins, which was equivalent to about 10.52 million yuan.
Even the two sleeves are breezy, and the annual salary of Master Bao, known as 'Bao Qingtian', has exceeded 10 million, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, the income of those nobles is even more astronomical
Coming out of the pharmacy, Wang Xianqi very warmly invited Jiang Yin to the house as a guest, as the saying goes, eating people with soft mouths, taking people with short hands, just received millions of medicinal materials from others, Jiang Yin was naturally embarrassed to refuse, so a group of people got into the carriage and rushed to Wang Xianqi's mansion.
It is also a 'royal mansion', but the 'royal mansion' of Wang Heizong's family and the 'royal mansion' of Wang Xianqi's family are not comparable at all.
Wang Xianqi's 'palace' is located in Bianjing's most prosperous Caomen Street, not only close to the palace, but also convenient transportation, this 'palace' to Jiang Yin's first feeling is full of tall, three-meter-high walls, paved with patterns of green tiles, the main entrance of the mansion is a red gate, around several feet high red columns, the gate also has bronze tusk ornaments, the gate also placed some swords and halberds, announcing that the master is a military family.
Entering the gate, facing each other is a shadow wall carved with a war horse map, Wang Xianqi also explained to Jiang Yin with a smile that the three war horses carved on the wall are all the cars he once ridden, and one of them also saved his life on the battlefield.
Bypassing the shadow wall, the scenery in front of you suddenly opened up, only to see a house more than 100 zhang square appeared in front of you, the house is very clean, there is a road paved with bluestone slabs dozens of feet wide leading to the house in the yard.
On both sides of the road, planted with all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, attract bees and butterflies, cross the bluestone road, and arrive at a water pavilion bridge, although the bridge is not wide, but the artistic conception is elegant, standing on the bridge, you can also see the carp swimming in the pond.
There are a total of 16 mansions in the palace, each of which is extremely wide, almost this part of Caomen Street is the property of the Wang family, strolling in it, I can't help but sigh that the life of the noble Song Dynasty is really very comfortable.
There is only one word in the palace of the palace, that is, big, whether it is daily necessities or carved decoration, in the palace, small things can rarely be seen, which also shows that Wang Xianqi is wealthy
In order to thank Jiang Yin for curing his head wind, Wang Xianqi specially ordered someone to prepare a good banquet in the house as a thanksgiving.
The meal eaten in the palace was also an eye-opener for Jiang Yin, although the people of the Song Dynasty did not have many seasonings for modern people, but they had ingredients that modern people coveted.
Among them, a 'deer egg' is the most fresh in Jiang Yin's memory, this dish is very big, after coming up, Jiang Yin found that it was a roasted whole deer, originally didn't care, but after Wang Xianqi introduced it, Jiang Yin grew his mouth and felt incredible.
This 'deer egg' is now the top nobles in Bianjing can often enjoy the food, the practice is to hunt a deer, hunt must be shot in the eye, to ensure that the deer body is not damaged, and then the deer is skinned and cramped, cut open the chest, take out the internal organs, and then stuff its belly with spices, and then slaughter a goose, after the thin skin is washed, put an egg in the goose's belly, and finally put the goose with the egg into the deer's belly, barbecue and cook, after it is completely roasted, take out the egg from the belly bag wrapped in layers to eat, this is ' How to eat deer eggs.
What is luxury, when Jiang Yin saw with his own eyes to take out the eggs from the layers of packages, he thought that the meals eaten by modern people were weak, as early as a thousand years ago, the nobles and losers of the Song Dynasty society in China thought of such a heartbroken and luxurious way to eat, and people couldn't help but sigh at the wonder of this species.
Not only 'deer eggs', but also 'steamed pork', 'snake belly', etc., Jiang Yin's dishes that he had never tried in modern society were put on the table one by one, looking at Wang Xianqi who caught a snake and ate it a lot, Jiang Yin was disgusted and speechless, just eating the snake raw, I don't know how many parasites it will eat, but seeing that the other party is eating so much, it is inconvenient for me to remind
In short, this meal was a happy meal for the guests of honor, and with a full burp, Wang Xianqi wanted to leave Jiang Yin and others to stay in the house, but Jiang Yin refused because he already had a residence in Bianjing, and before leaving, Jiang Yin gave Wang Xianqi another 20 pills of Fenbid, and told him that this medicine should be taken once in the morning and evening, one at a time, which can alleviate the symptoms of headache.
This made Wang Xianqi very grateful, not only gave away all the medicinal materials he bought from the 'Jade Medicine Hall', but also took more than 100 precious medicinal materials from his own medicine hall and gave them to Jiang Yin
Returned to modern times, took off the costume of the ancients, Jiang Yin was a little confused, the life of the Song Dynasty did have an incomparable attraction to a modern person, where it seems that all the rhythm of life has become very slow, everything is so comfortable and natural, everything can be done slowly and logically, but in modern times, everyone is eager to speed up the pace, especially just experienced a desperate senior year of high school, so that Jiang Yin is a little tired of the life of modern society rushing to reincarnate, He suddenly had the absurd idea of wanting to return to the Song Dynasty and live an unfettered life.
"Damn, these medicinal herbs can't be sold at sky-high prices in our place!" A Di Yan's complaining sound sounded in Jiang Yin's ears, and only then did he pull him out of his stunned state.
When he raised his head, he saw Di Yan and Lin Yue squatting on the ground to pick out ginseng, only to see that Lin Yue was already happy to see his teeth at this time, grinning at Jiang Yin, showing a mouthful of white teeth, and asked with a smile: "Jiang Shao, how much can we earn from these medicinal materials!" ”