Wan Wenming accepted the article written by Wu Jie, told him to rest for a few days, remember to go to Shuntianfu to settle down, and explained that he would let people send the relevant documents over, and then left.

Wu Jie then remembered that the matter of settling down was even more important, after all, seeing that it was about to be July, and there were still two months left to take the Shuntianfu Township Test, so he had to sign up.

On the second day, a brocade guard spy in civilian clothes came over with the relevant registration documents, saying that his surname was Guan, and he was responsible for managing this piece of the street, and he was a general banner.

He also brought a letter from Wan Wenming. The letter said that Miss Tang's affairs had been done, and the Lu family was very satisfied with the articles and words written by Wu Jie, saying that Miss Tang was a person of great virtue with cultivation. Let her preside over the Taoist temple of the Lu family, the law name is not - o Wu Jie was taken aback, no, isn't this Sun Buer's law name?

This plane is too spoofed.

Miss Tang's affairs were arranged, and Wu Jie's heart was also stable. With the golden sign of the Lu family, others dare not come to the door to find trouble.

Speaking of going to the Shuntianfu Yamen to settle down, Wu Jie was blind to the capital, and it was said that the brocade-clothed guard spy should lead the way in front.

But the guy looked embarrassed, and it took him a long time before he made a fuss, saying that he had no business and it was inconvenient for him to go. The people of Shuntianfu are not easy to deal with, and the people of Beiya have never had any contact with them.

Wu Jie felt strange in his heart, and groaned slightly, only then did he understand the reason.

It turned out that although the security of the capital could be interfered with by the Jinyi Guard, the main responsibility of the Beiya was to monitor the officials, and it was inconvenient to intervene in general affairs. Therefore, the responsibility for administering the local area rested with the Suncheon government.

The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the first good area. As the highest administrative organ of the capital, the position of Shuntianfu Yin is particularly prominent, and he is two or three levels higher than the ordinary prefect, and is generally concurrently served by the Shangshu or Shilang of the six ministries, and is a feudal official like the governor. If it is in later generations, it is at least at the level of a member of the Central Committee, at the top of the political food chain of the Ming Dynasty.

Really speaking, Wan Wenming's grade is slightly lower than that of Shuntian Mansion Yin, and people can completely not sell the face of Jinyiwei.

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have always been strong in their strength, and they hated such special agencies as factory guards, and if they introduced them, they were afraid that they would be counterproductive.

Wu Jie didn't want to embarrass Guan Zongqi, anyway, he already had all the paperwork in his hand, and he could do some small things.

When he arrived at the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion on the edge of the drum tower and found the relevant clerks, Wu Jiezhi found that this matter was not as simple as he imagined. After reading the documents in Wu Jie's hand, an official in charge of household registration threw all the materials back and said coldly: "I can't settle down." ”

Wu Jie was a little surprised, and hurriedly asked what was going on.

The official was a little impatient, and shouted: "You really think that this is a matter of one sentence, but it is a light i5, and you want to settle in the capital and run over like this." If this is the case, the people of the whole country will crowd into the nine cities, and there will be no chaos? According to the Ming Law, the home address needs to be determined for registration, and a letter of guarantee from the Libao is required. You don't even have a place to live, what kind of nationality do you have? ”

Wu Jie frowned, reported his residence, and asked what format was needed for Libao's letter of guarantee.

He didn't say that his place was fine, but when he said it, the official looked disgusted and shouted, "That place is really yours?" The official still seems to have the impression that that place is the official property of Beiya, when did it become your property? If you want to settle in the capital, you have to bring the transfer of the deed. Wu Jie understood a little at this time, and smiled bitterly in his heart. In modern society, if you want to get a hukou in a metropolis like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, you must first have a proper job and have a house of your own. Among them, there is a set of hard indicators of full property rights, which will not be stuck for people who are not trying to settle down in the metropolis, and I can't imagine that the same is true in the Ming Dynasty.

Indeed, as the official said, the courtyard of the brocade guard is really not his property, and there is no way to go to Li Zheng and the chief to write a letter of guarantee.

In this way, you really have to buy a house.

In the next few decades, with the further development and growth of capitalism, the price of real estate in Beijing will rise further, which is also a good investment.

As a typical Chinese, Wu Jie cannot face customs, and he is also very excited about buying a house. Anyway, he still has a lot of money on him now. At the beginning, the Tang family returned him fifty taels of silver when they returned the bride price, and later won another hundred taels in the Tang family's poetry club. When he came to Yanjing from Chengdu, Governor Lin gave him another ten taels.

More than 100 taels of silver, according to the purchasing power equivalent to hundreds of thousands of yuan in later generations, should be enough.

In the next few days, Wu Jie was busy looking for suitable accommodation in the city. There are many people in the family, and the house should not be too small. Finally crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, no matter how you say it, you can't get a pigeon cage of dozens of square meters, it is too embarrassing.

In the next few days, Wu Jie took the moth around looking for a suitable yard.

According to the information at hand, the housing prices in the Ming Dynasty were not high. After Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, a small courtyard house with five rooms on Zhengyangmen Street in Yanjing was only thirty-three taels of silver. As for the local county, it is ridiculously low, and a 50-square-meter house in Xiuning County, Anhui Prefecture is worth six taels of silver.

Come to think of it, there should be enough money on hand.

But when I asked, I realized that I was wrong. What is the era of the last years of Chongzhen, disasters every year, unprecedented wars, real estate such as real estate and land because the circulation is too poor, and the price is so low that it is jaw-dropping.

Today's Ming Dynasty is in the era of unprecedented development of the commodity economy, such as the capital of a prosperous place, prices are extremely high.

After walking around the city twice, Wu Jie realized that the capital was not a place where ordinary people could live at all. A pair of shoes is worth seven pieces of silver: a silk garment, ten taels of silver; One stone of rice, two taels; An ordinary little maid, thirty taels.

As for the larger quadrangle, the opening is two hundred taels, and there is no counteroffer.

"It's not easy to live in the capital." Only then did Wu Jie deeply understand the meaning of the words that Governor Lin said when he sent him.

I walked around the city for a few days, but found nothing.

is still the general flag of Jinyi Wei's surname Guan, who knows that Wu Jie has a close relationship with Lord Wan, and intends to curry favor. said that Mr. Wu wanted to buy a house, what a big deal, and it would be so troublesome. The courtyard where Mr. lived was originally the property of the criminal who was copied by Beiya when he was handling the case, and he always wanted to sell it for cash and enrich it into the inner treasury. With the friendship between Mr. and Lord Wan, why not ask for the surname to buy it, the price is easy to say.

Wu Jie's heart moved, this courtyard is quite large, and he is used to living in it, so he is really reluctant to leave. When asked about the price, Guan Zongqi replied that it was one hundred and thirty taels. If the gentleman agrees, he will go through the relevant formalities.

Wu Jie discussed it with Mozi, and felt that this thing was done, so he paid the money and bought this courtyard.

Then with the deed and the letter of guarantee, he went to Shuntianfu and settled down smoothly.

Nearly ten days have passed.

After buying a house and having to feed so many people in his family, Wu Jie suddenly became nervous. It wasn't until this day that he suddenly found that he had less than ten taels of silver left in his hand, and he became distressed.

In order to supplement the family, even the third child ran to the dock every day to carry goods and work as a porter. But his little salary was not worth anything.

Looks like we're going to have to find someone to support my family.

According to the alternate historical novels of later generations, once the protagonist travels to ancient times, with the knowledge system of modern people surpassing the ancients for hundreds of years, he can make a random project, and he can become rich and rival the country. Eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, wear silk and satin, and marry him a concubine of seventeen or eighteen. Eat the door to buy soy milk, drink a bowl and pour a bowl. If I have nothing to do, I went to the street to help the old lady who crossed the road, and specially picked the surname Xu to help.

I, Wu Jie, am also a graduate of a famous university, and I have information about Haizhi in my hand, so it's not easy to make money?

When he first started, he was going to get something a little less tech. When I traveled back to modern society in my dream, I also devoured a few time-traveling historical novels, ready to paint cats and tigers.

After reading dozens of novels, Wu Jie chose to settle on the first page of honeycomb coal, but when he went to the market to investigate, he found that this thing would not work at all. Although honeycomb coal is convenient and saves coal, the Yanjing people only use coal in winter, and they prefer charcoal. It is still customary to use firewood for cooking, and it is said that the food made with firewood tastes much better. Besides, coal also costs money, and it is cheaper to compare it with firewood.

Later, Wu Jie considered crossing the artifact glass. But he was soon denied by himself, first of all, he had no capital. Whether it's renting space, hiring workers, or buying raw materials, it takes a lot of investment. Not to mention the chemicals needed to burn glass, all of which need a complete set of industrial chain support.

It only takes one failure to put yourself in debt. This project can only be done when you have the strength and interest in the future.

Next, Wu Jie also thought about making perfumes, lotteries or something, but in the end he denied them one by one.

As a liberal arts student, many things are not easy to do by knowing the principles. Although he has this insight hundreds of years ahead of this era, he still has to be constrained by his own conditions and this era.

This is also a very frustrating thing.

It's better to be realistic.

If he is still in Sichuan and has gained fame as a talent, he can use his status as a person who can enjoy a series of preferential policies to make businessmen and farmers dependent on him, not to mention making a fortune, just the commission is enough to feed the family.

But this is Yanjing, where there are many talents and people like carp crossing the river. Not to mention that the city is surrounded by Huangzhuang and Huangtian, and the big businessmen in the city, who don't have a backstage, how can they come to rely on Wu Jie, a little showman?

There may be only one way to go in front of you, find Wan Wenming to find a way to find a way for yourself. There are so many yamen in the capital, if you can go in and be a small official or something, it will not be bad.

But Wu Jie quickly dispelled this idea, he had a special relationship with Wan Wenming. has a very high status in the eyes of Wan Daren, so he naturally refuses to let him see that he is down.

After reading the novel for a few days, and staying bored in the courtyard again, Wu Jiesuo went out to see if he could find inspiration.

I'll have to stay up until next year.