Chapter 5 Everyday Life

In his previous life, Zhang Taiji was a standard otaku, which may have been influenced by his previous life or because he was too young. Until now, the scope www.biquge.info of Zhang Taiji's activities has been within a mile of the house. The Zhang family's house is located in the south of Jiaoxi City, which is called Xiangyangpo. It covers an area of more than 10 acres. Front yard, back yard, east and west across the courtyard. Gardens, ponds, small buildings, study rooms, kitchens, etc. are all available. It was specially built by the old man Han for Zhang Baili and Han Yue'e to complete their marriage, and if they still live in the old house after marriage, it is easy for outsiders to misunderstand that Zhang Baili is in the Han family. Such a thoughtful act made Zhang Baili grateful!

Zhang Taiji gets up every morning and goes to the pond to exercise and practice martial arts. In the afternoon, I read books and practiced calligraphy. When I can't sleep at night, I tell stories to Ling'er and them, and life is peaceful and peaceful.

In ancient times books were made due to paper. Engraving printing is not suitable. So the book is still very expensive. The "family collection of ten thousand books" is also a symbol of wealth and status. During the Yuan Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains, it had a contemptuous attitude towards the culture of the Han people, wantonly destroying and destroying, causing a fault line in Chinese civilization. Many precious books have been drowned in the long river of history. "There is no China after Yashan" Although it was originally a poem from the remnants of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the naval battle of Yashan was used as a metaphor for the defeat of the Southern Ming Dynasty, lamenting the shattering of mountains and rivers and the sinking of land in China. It also marks the decline and fall of Chinese civilization in the classical sense.

Zhang Baili's study is not big, there are not many books in it, Zhang Taiji has almost finished reading, because Zhang Baili is learning Confucianism, most of the books in the study are Confucian classics "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Yi", "Spring and Autumn", "Analects", "Filial Piety", etc., most of the previous life Zhang Taiji has read, and some classic sentences can also come with their mouths. In this life, he doesn't plan to take the imperial examination, and he doesn't need to memorize the scriptures upside down and quote the scriptures when he speaks, so he just reads through and knows a general idea. lest you talk to those literati sour Confucianism in the future, and you won't understand and make jokes.

There are also some miscellaneous books, such as "Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber", "Touching the Heaven and Earth Dou E's Injustice" and so on. Zhang Taiji was even more interested in these stories and strange books, and only skimmed them slightly, how rich was the spiritual culture of the era before Zhang Taiji's rebirth? ! Newspapers, magazines, TV dramas, and online novels have all kinds of storylines, and they are all rotten. It's like the current people's "Zhang family, Li Jia's short" thing is a rare thing, and it has been spread for a long time. There are also such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", Bian Que's "Difficult Scripture", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and "Shennong's Materia Medica", which belong to the medical category and are more difficult to understand. "Black Tartar Story", "Qiantang Legacy", "Meal is Essential", "Tea Classic" These are life knowledge. "The Plain Girl Sutra", "The Secret of the Jade Room", "Dong Xuanzi" and ............ Well...... After getting married, it's still worth researching!

Jing Ji thought about it, Zhang Taiji has been in this world for five years, and everything in the house is familiar enough, so Zhang Taiji wants to go out and have a look. found an opportunity to ask his father Zhang Baili to see the family's industry. Zhang Baili naturally agreed, and asked him to check the accounts everywhere by the way. He was very satisfied with this son. Obedient and well-behaved, he can write poems and surprises him too much, if he was in the Tang and Song dynasties, it was possible to get a top prize............!!! He knew that Zhang Taiji was young and old, and although he was younger, he didn't worry about any accidents when he arranged a few people to protect him.

Jiaoxi City is not big, about three miles long from east to west, and about five or six miles wide from north to south. The city wall is two zhang high, and there are four city gates in the east, west, north and south. Corresponding to the city gate is a cross street, and the Yuelai Inn is on the South Gate Street near the south gate. There are more than 40 houses in the upper and lower floors of the inn plus the backyard, the first floor is the guest hall with more than a dozen tables, and next to the back hall is a counter, because it is not yet time to eat, so there is no one. The shopkeeper and the guys are busy cleaning up, and the shopkeeper has long known that the little proprietor is coming today, and specially instructed the guys to behave well, so as not to let the little proprietor find any fault and eat and hang up with him. So guys are extra attentive today.

Ling'er heard that Zhang Taiji was going out to play, and she jumped happily and had to follow, and she had already thought about going outside to have a look! Mrs. Han was in charge of the big and small things in the house, and it was inconvenient to go out, so she sent the housekeeper Han Fu to take care of them with two clever men, and repeatedly told them to be ......more careful.

When Zhang Taiji and Ling'er came to Yuelai Inn, it was almost noon. Along the way, the two of them saw everything fresh, Ling'er was like a bird out of the cage, stopping to play for a while from time to time, so they walked around very slowly.

When the shopkeeper saw the arrival of the small proprietor, he was naturally hospitable and invited the two small proprietors to sit down for tea. I recommended the best dishes in the store and invited the two of them to taste them. Zhang Taiji is casual, but Ling'er orders a lot of dishes, and he doesn't care if he finishes eating or not! Zhang Taiji said that she was "not a good family and don't know the price of firewood and rice". When asked what this sentence meant, Ling'er gave him a blank look and threw down a sentence: "Anyway, it doesn't cost money." ”

Reminded by Ling'er, Zhang Taiji and the shopkeeper came to the counter to check the accounts and saw the money of this era. There are many types of these money, mainly paper money, copper coins, broken silver, and even cattle, sheep, cloth, etc. are used as store money in the account book.

The circulation of gold, silver and copper coins has always been prohibited in the Yuan period, but there have always been copper coins in circulation among the people. The most important feature of the Yuan Dynasty currency system is that it issued and circulated paper money for a long time, widely and in large quantities. The Yuan Dynasty had a vast territory, traversing Europe and Asia, because the paper money itself was lightweight, it could be carried "over Yangshan in the north, quicksand in the west, Liaodong in the east, and the sea surface in the south", which was of great benefit to the development of commerce and trade.

The Europeans of the time found it incredible, and the traveler Marco Polo wrote in his travelogues: "Paper money circulated in all parts of the Great Khan's domain, and no one dared to risk his life to refuse to pay for it,...... With these banknotes, you can buy and sell anything, and you can also exchange banknotes for gold bars.

Zhang Taiji took a few banknotes in his hand and looked closely, these banknotes were slightly old, rectangular in shape, 25-26 cm long and 16-18 cm wide, and the layout was surrounded by lace. The top is printed from right to left with "×× Pass Treasure Banknote", and the middle is the amount, which is consistent, two-through, ten, twenty, fifty, and one hundred. Printed below are the unit that printed the banknote, the name of the official, the year, month, and day of issuance, and the warning of the execution of the counterfeiter. Seeing these banknotes gave Zhang Taiji the feeling that he was like the kind of stove prince posted at home when he was in the countryside for the New Year in his previous life! Although the paper material is not bad, the printing process, ink pigments, and pattern layout are all poor. If it was placed in the previous life, someone took this kind of paper and said that it was money, and he wanted to buy something from Zhang Taiji, Zhang Taiji would definitely call him ...... with a big-eared scraper!

The current treasure banknotes have depreciated very much, but they can still be used normally. Zhang Taiji knew that in a few years, with Emperor Yuan Shun's indiscriminate rewards and extravagance of nobles, bureaucrats, and monasteries, coupled with frequent disasters and famines in various places, huge military expenditures, empty treasury, and difficult finances, a large number of paper money was printed. The result of indiscriminate issuance of paper money is to increase prices by more than 10 times, and 10 ingots of material money used by Beijing teachers are not exchanged for 1 bucket of millet, and the middle and lower class people have worked hard to exchange for useless waste paper!

"Maybe something can be done before that?!" Zhang Taiji looked at the banknotes and was fascinated! "Do something? It's definitely not to help the Yuan Dynasty get through the difficulties, and I don't have that ability" "Maybe you should fish in troubled waters, print a batch of counterfeit banknotes, and make a fortune".

In the past life, there were so many anti-counterfeiting technologies for banknotes, not to mention that the imitation of banknotes is not difficult today, and the process is not complicated. What needs to be considered is not to be discovered by the imperial court, at that time, the world was in chaos, and careful handling can completely realize this plan. Instead of having your wealth plundered by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, it is better to dig into the corners of the Great Yuan Empire and take part of the wealth into your own hands!