Chapter 53 The average price of goods in the Ming Dynasty will blind your eyes!
Although some people are still skeptical and uneasy, (after all, the official credit of the Ming Dynasty is not high at this time,) but most people's hearts are still full of hopeful expectations.
Zhu Zilong waved his hand, and the housekeeper Wang Dayong sat on the chair and immediately began to register the names and household registration for everyone.
Finally, there are 145 men and women, of which 22 are men, 18 are adults, and 4 are not men. The rest is more than for women!
There are 323 unmarried women, 215 girls over 13 years old, and more than a dozen girls under 13 years old.
There are more than 30 elderly people and more than 20 old women!
In general, except for dozens of married men with wives, the other 80% of the hundreds of people are mainly girls who have no husbands, or even are still virgins.
This TM's,It's basically a fight with the women's army!
Zhu Zilong couldn't help but be embarrassed for several minutes, thinking to himself, no wonder polygamy was the mainstream in ancient times.
In this continuous war and natural disasters, as well as in order to protect his wife and children, it is usually the men who die first. Could it be that most of the remnants are women?
If there are many women, can a man find more wives?
With more wives, can a woman's status be high?
It's really linked, reasonable, and convincing. Think about the 21st century, like China in 2020, where the ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced, with more men than women. Every woman is like an uncle, and when a Chinese man finds a wife, it's like trying to lose half his life, what a strong contrast!
Sure enough, there were many disadvantages in ancient times, but from a man's point of view.
It seems that in terms of sexual happiness, it is definitely a heaven-level enjoyment, and it will not be exchanged for a fairy!
(According to the fifth census of the People's Republic of China in 2000, the sex ratio at birth was 121.9 for every 100.) According to the statistics of the China Health Yearbook, from 1971 to 2016, the total number of abortions in Chinese was 370 million. )
When you add in the sizable number of medical abortions, the total number of miscarriages is staggering. It seems that half of China's population can be replaced at once!
In other words, in 2020, among the young Chinese men and women who are suitable for marriage. There are nearly 40 million more YWCA than young women!
If you count women who don't want to get married, as well as women who are second wives and juniors, you can also count them. It's not surprising that there are 50-60 million more young men than young women!
Some people may think that with the 1.3 billion population of New China, there are more than 50 million more men than women, which is not a big deal.
If you do, you're very wrong.
That's when there are so many more men than women in the right young people to marry, not the total population.
You have to subtract more than a third of the 1.3 billion people who are elderly, then a quarter of the middle-aged people who are married, and then a third of the children. In the end, the remaining young people who are suitable for marriage will only be about two or three hundred million in 2020!
Of the more than 200 million people, there should have been half men and half women, but now there are nearly 50 million more men than women. This means that there are more than 200 million young men who have to marry with more than 100 million young women.
In terms of one match and one match, there are still 30% of young men in New China, no matter how hard you work after 2020, you will not be able to find a wife until you die.
Now, do you still think it's a trifle?
(It is estimated that in the future, if Chinese men want to get married and find a wife, they will have to import Western Yanma blonde girls.) )
On the other hand, here in the Ming Dynasty, hmph, you can pick a woman or something.
How much you want!
What the hell is family planning? Who dares to have an abortion, I can't beat you to death!
At this moment, throwing out the cranky thoughts in his mind, Zhu Zilong began to arrange for everyone to live in Zhuangzi.
So many people will definitely not be able to live in the village, and there is no barracks arrangement for the time being, so they can only let them pick up some thatched huts along the pier and live temporarily.
Displaced people have the habit of building a nest in the field, digging a pit in the ground, finding some stones and branches to build a small wall around the perimeter, and then building some thatch on top of it to make a house.
This kind of building is simple and effective, does not require any raw materials, and it is said that it is rumored that as long as there is a certain amount of firewood, grass and charcoal, it can well resist the severe cold. What's more, here, there is Zhu Zilong to provide raw materials, as well as food and clothes (linen clothes), which is much stronger than wandering!
Of course, in Zhu Zilong's planning, it is natural that it cannot be cut down indiscriminately and lived indiscriminately.
Under the instruction of Zhu Zilong, the captain of the five small strongs required those new residents to arrange in an orderly manner when building their nests. And when it is convenient for WC, it should also be concentrated in a thatched pit, not scattered and arranged, and try to pay attention to hygiene.
By the end of the night, the nests had taken shape, and piles of firewood were burning. Coupled with the children's playful laughter, it immediately added a lot of vitality to Zhujiazhuang.
Because of the early days, Zhu Zilong was planning to let the housekeeper buy a large amount of grain from time to time to store it.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about the supply of food.
However, in the future, when the wasteland is cleared and other heavy work is carried out, then everyone will eat more. The old and weak, women and children can eat less, but the strong man eats rice, at least five stones and five buckets a year, (one stone is equal to about 120 catties of rice)!
In addition, under heavy physical labor, everyone has to eat some oil and meat every few days, otherwise they are prone to vomiting blood and weakness. To replenish oily meat, the best thing is to eat some fatty meat, add some fish, and others!
The price of rice and silver in the Ming Dynasty was 1 tael = 2 stones, that is, about 377.6 catties, equivalent to 1.1 yuan per catty. (Can I complain, is it cheaper than modern New China?) Of course, this refers to the normal price, and the price of rice is not normal most of the time in the late Ming Dynasty, so I didn't say it. Sweat! )
Pork silver 1 yuan and six cents = 8 catties, which is about 9 yuan per catty. (Please let me continue to complain, of course, there will be strong fluctuations in the price in the late Ming period, and this refers to the average price.) And in the later stage, there is nowhere to find pork if you have money! )
Mutton silver 1 money and two cents = 8 catties, equivalent to 6.5 yuan / catty. (I must be delusional, let me look at the price of mutton in modern China.) I feel like my three views are gone! Maybe it's because goats eat grass and are easy to graze? )
The price of five catties of major carp is 1 yuan of silver, which is about 10 yuan per catty. It seems that the carp brothers, from ancient times to modern times, have not changed much.
A broiler chicken costs 6 cents of silver, equivalent to more than 30 yuan per chicken. (If it's a medium chicken, it feels like a modern one.) Of course, it is lucky that it can be raised until it grows up, and it has not been stolen by anyone. )
The price of four horses of white cloth or linen cloth is more than 9 yuan of silver, which is more than 100 yuan per horse. (It's worth checking how big this horse is.) )
Two yellow silk umbrellas cost three points of silver, which is 3 yuan per piece. (The gold tube is an umbrella made of oiled paper, but it's really cheap.) )
The price of five shovels is more than nine dollars and five cents, which is 100-200 yuan per shovel. (Sure enough, iron is really expensive, and it is not of high quality, so the price of steel is even higher.) )
Let's take a look at the housing prices in the Ming Dynasty, low-grade real estate is 50 taels and a house, about 10,000 yuan. (I bought a bag last year, it's super wearable.) Depend on! )
In China's modern third- and fourth-tier cities, housing prices are thousands of nearly 1,000 square meters. What the hell is the housing price of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of square meters in Shanghai and the capital?
High mansions: more than 10 million RMB. It seems that the houses of the rich people in the Ming Dynasty are really expensive enough!
However, the Zhuangzi of the people is calculated according to how many acres, and we are modern by square meters, so it is still cheap in the Ming Dynasty!
Well, forget to mention that the per capita gross income of farmers in the south of the Ming Dynasty was about 10,000 yuan, and the per capita gross income of farmers in the north was about 5,000 yuan.
Of course, the premise is that there are no wars and natural disasters, and that officials are fine, so there is less reason to eat people and not spit out bones.