"You know what to say and what not to say, right?"

Out of the German Hotel, Liu Jun said to the guards around him.

The guards came with nonsense, "We didn't see anything, we didn't hear anything, we didn't know anything." ”

"Very good, ten silver dollars per person." Liu Jun laughed. After laughing, he felt that he should rent a house, "Let's go, let's rent a house." ”

Several guards looked at each other, but they had to follow helplessly. Although they don't understand why the emperor has to rent it so much if he can't do what house he wants.

As soon as Liu Jun beckoned, a brocade-clothed guard came over from the shadows.

"Lead the way in front of the head, find a tenant to rent nearby, not too big and too good a house, an ordinary courtyard can be." The brocade clothes also have a feeling of messiness in the wind. The emperor wants to play fish and dragon white clothes, but if you find an ordinary courtyard courtyard, this security is too difficult.

However, Liu Jun didn't give him a chance to advise, and now the ground in Beijing is relatively peaceful, especially after the crackdown, all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods are three religions and five streams, either they change their careers to work in the workshop, or they migrate to the border areas to reclaim the wasteland, and some people who don't know the current affairs are mostly arrested to build roads and mine.

In addition, now the Beijing Division has nine admiral yamen plus the five city soldiers and horses division yamen, as well as the police department and the urban management bureau, Jinyiwei and Dongchang and other large and small powerful yamen, it can be said that the Beijing division can now do not close the door at night and the road is not left behind.

Liu Jun asked to find it near the German Hotel, which was located in the Hengjie next to Qianmen Street, not far from Zhengyangmen. Jinyi Wei Qianhu is worthy of being the head snake of the land, and he also knows the inner and outer cities well.

Soon I thought of a good place, Xuanwumen Wai Vegetable Market.

The vegetable market outside the Xuanwu Gate, there are many alleys in the capital, there are many streets and alleys, the vegetable market is also called the vegetable market street, here in the Ming Dynasty. It is already the largest vegetable market in Beijing, with many vegetable stalls and vegetable shops along the street.

However, at this time, Caishi Street was not a murder execution ground.

In the Ming Dynasty, the murder execution ground was in Xishi, and in history, Caishi Street was changed to Caishikou, and it became a murder execution ground after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Beijing. And now, the execution ground is still in the West Market. Otherwise, Jinyi Wei Qianhu was full of guts, and he didn't dare to introduce the emperor to rent a house on Caishi Street.

Caishi Street is outside Xuanwu Gate, and Xuanwu Gate is next to Zhengyang Gate. Therefore, the houses here are relatively cheap, and there are still many old courtyard houses. If you go to the West Gate, the old-style courtyard houses have been changed to three- and four-story buildings.

When I arrived at the vegetable market, it was really lively here, and now it has become the largest vegetable wholesale and sales center in Beijing. There are a lot of vegetable shops and vegetable shops, all kinds of vegetables, and people come and go.

Jingshi now has bustling commercial streets such as Qianmen and Dongxi Street, as well as many specialized wholesale markets such as cattle markets, horse markets, and vegetable markets.

The renovation of the old city has moved many people from the outer city, but after the renovation of the outer city. There are also a large number of ordinary people and businessmen living there, and now the population of the capital has exceeded one million again.

With such a large population, there is a great demand for various commodities, and vegetables are also indispensable daily necessities for the people.

The sky is slightly brighter every day. There are vegetable farmers in the suburbs who carry carts on their shoulders, transporting a large number of fresh vegetables into Beijing, and rushing here to serve vegetables.

Liu Jun has seen many small courtyard houses one after another, and he doesn't pick the better ones. Pick the average. In the end, he picked a small courtyard in an alley next to the entrance of the vegetable market, which was very small, with only one entrance.

When you enter the street, you can directly enter the courtyard. Running through the central axis, the houses are single-storey, surrounded by inverted houses, main houses, and wing houses.

Although the courtyard is small, it is very clean, and there are grape trellises and jujube trees and an old locust tree in the courtyard, Liu Jun likes it at a glance. Because it is only a courtyard, there is no distinction between the front and back yards and the inside and outside of the house.

The only thing that Liu Jun is not satisfied with is that there is no toilet in the courtyard, so he has to go to the public thatched house in the alley.

The original owner of this courtyard is said to be a director of the Ministry of Works, who has bought a new house at Qianmen, and the old courtyard here is going to be rented out to collect some rent.

He entrusted the rental of the house to the dental company, and they rented it on his behalf.

That tooth man is a well-spoken man, an ordinary house, but he is talking about the sky. In fact, this house is very ordinary, but Liu Jun is just taking a fancy to its ordinary. The whole alley is such a small courtyard, and the people living next to it are mainly vegetable merchants who sell vegetables in the vegetable market street.

"I'm going to buy this house, can you help me contact the owner?" After Liu Jun read it, he planned to simply buy it.

When the tooth man heard that the young man was actually planning to change the rent to buy, the smile on his face was even better. Of course, renting a house is not as good as buying a house, and the more money he receives when he buys a house.

"This gentleman, you have a very good eye, our house has three main rooms, four wing rooms, two south rooms, one ear room, and one gatehouse, a total of eleven houses, covering an area of half an acre. And it is close to Xuanwumen outside the vegetable market street, this location is prosperous and lively, the traffic is also convenient, there are public carriages outside, not far from the south is the bustling Ximen Street, the east is Qianmen Street, the real prime location. ”

After talking a lot, the tooth merchant told Liu Jun that if he planned to buy this house, it would definitely be right. And the house prices here, the approximate price he gave is about 30 yuan each, so the price of this courtyard is actually not high, that is, 3450 silver dollars.

This is also the salary of an ordinary clerk for a year.

"Contact the owner right away, I want an interview."

More than 300 yuan to buy a small courtyard house, very cost-effective.

Seeing that Liu Jun really intended to buy it, and Liu Jun was dressed up, but with several entourages, he looked extraordinary. As soon as the deal was done, he immediately ran to the front door to find the owner.

Liu Jun and the others simply sat in this small courtyard and waited.

In less than half an hour, the tooth man arrived with a middle-aged man.

"You want to buy my house?" The middle-aged man is also straight, and asked straight to the point.

"That's right."

"Eight hundred, silver." The landlord made an offer.

Liu Jun couldn't help laughing, this man looks like he can't do business, the housing prices in this neighborhood are there, one square is about a silver dollar, or about thirty yuan for a house, his eleven rooms, half an acre of land is more than 300 square meters. No matter how you calculate it, it is worth about three hundred silver dollars.

But he started with eight hundred dollars.

I heard that this person is in charge of the Ministry of Industry, but Liu Jun has never seen it, and there are many officials in Liupin, and there are as many Jingshi as dogs, so it is normal that he has not seen it.

"Your house is a small courtyard, eleven rooms are about half an acre of land, according to the house price here, about three hundred yuan, I will add some more. Three hundred and five. ”

"If you want, then we will sign the contract now, and I will pay the cash when it is finished."

These words finally moved the main matter, it doesn't matter if his house is sold or not, there is no hurry. However, if you can get the cash immediately, three hundred and fifty yuan is still good.

The tooth man dragged him to the side to talk about it, and the tooth merchant was eager to facilitate the business, and sure enough, he quickly persuaded the landlord.

"That's three hundred and fifty dollars. Cash silver is sold. ”

Yaren was also very happy to see the deal being concluded, although the deal was a bit too fast, and many of his methods were not used. For example, the most commonly used avoidance by the tooth man is that he does not let both sides know when negotiating, and he relays all the answers, so as to profit from it. However, the transaction is fast. A cash income is still good.

The tooth man led the two sides to the county office and found a clerk who specialized in this business.

A contract is issued and signed by both parties. Then pay.

The house price of the courtyard house was 350 yuan, and Liu Jun also had to pay the tooth man a sum of 3 percent of the tooth money, a total of 10 yuan of five yuan of silver dollars, and pay 8 percent of the deed tax to the yamen, 28 yuan of silver dollars. In addition, there is a scrivener fee of five thousandths and a piece of seven corners and five cents. In addition, there is a pen fee, 50 wen.

Of these, 350 yuan was paid to the landlord, 11 yuan and 5 cents were paid to the tooth merchant, and 28 yuan and 5 cents were paid to the yamen.

It was a total of three hundred and eighty-nine pieces of anise.

All kinds of taxes, taxes and fees in addition to the house price account for more than 10% of the house price.

It took less than an hour for the tooth merchant to get eleven seven corners and five cents, making a lot of money, and he was in a very good mood.

Tooth people are also intermediaries, there are tooth dealers in all walks of life, and there are even specialized dental shops.

The imperial court is also very strict in the management of dental shops, to become a dental merchant, you need to apply to the imperial court for dental stickers, which is the dental merchant's business license, to handle dental stickers, you need to pay a sticker. At the same time, every tooth merchant needs to pay a tooth tax to the imperial court according to the performance of his business.

Tooth merchants have peers to organize tooth shops, tooth merchants are not allowed to be serial, tooth people are not allowed to operate across markets, varieties and industries. If it is a house tooth person, then it can only operate a house rental, and if it is a cattle and horse tooth person, it can only operate a cattle and horse trade.

There are more than 300 dental shops in Jingshi, and there are thousands of dental merchants with dental stickers. Although the types of operations of these tooth merchants are different, most of them are the same, and there are generally three kinds of fooling, one is to act as an agent for the seller, and usually they also have larger warehouses and stacks, such as grain stores, fishing stores, etc. Dental dealers often take advantage of the fact that the buyer and seller are not familiar with the market conditions to make extra profits, such as when the goods are sold and the seller is in urgent need of money, the dental dealer can lend usury, and when the goods are sold and do not pay in time, in order to seek interest.

The second is a dental line designed for the buyer's agent, which generally has a contract with the buyer to stipulate the quality, price, quantity, delivery date, etc., which not only advances the payment of a large amount of goods in order to seek interest, but also relies on the means of depressing the grade and price, and the large scale in and out of the small scale to obtain huge profits.

The third is the tooth bank that is also engaged in purchasing and selling, which generally has abundant funds and is engaged in the brokerage business of purchasing and selling, and some are also self-operated in purchasing and selling, making a lot of profits.

From the perspective of the market, dental dealers have a great role in promoting economic development.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the management of the tooth shop was chaotic, which led to all kinds of usurious exploitation, riding the market, avoiding the market and other bullying behaviors, and even the imperial court could not collect their tooth tax at all. The reputation of the tooth shop and the tooth man is also very bad.

However, after the new dynasty, the imperial court also carried out a comprehensive rectification of the dental merchants, re-examined the qualifications of the tooth people, re-issued the dental stickers, and the dental tax was very strict, and the entire dental market became standardized.

Liu Jun carefully observed the entire process of housing transactions from beginning to end, from the commission of the tooth merchant to the fee of the clerk of the yamen, it was very regular, although the tooth merchant also collected the scrivener tax in addition to the commission, and the yamen also collected the clerkship fee in addition to the contract, but it was still within the normal range.

Liu Jun paid all the money directly, and the tooth merchant also invited the shop where the alley was located to be a guarantee, and after they took the mortgage as a guarantee, Liu Jun gave each of them five cents of silver.

After the event, Liu Jun invited the tooth man, the guarantor or the owner of the house, and the clerk in the yamen to go to the restaurant for dinner together. As a result, the owner of the house rushed to invite guests, but the bookstore in the yamen refused to go, and during this time, the limelight was tight, and he did not dare to eat and drink casually.

In the end, the owner bought two packs of milk powder and gave them to the bookstore, and he accepted it after a few excuses.

Liu Jun saw these in his eyes, but it was just two packets of milk powder, which were not worth a dollar, so of course Liu Jun would not say anything. Without a bookstore, the owner invited Liu Jun and others to a dumpling shop at the entrance of the vegetable market to have a meal of dumplings.

After eating dumplings, Liu Jun also got the key to the small courtyard, which can be regarded as the official completion of the transaction and becoming the owner of the courtyard.

"Find a few craftsmen and build a thatched house in the corner of this courtyard."

"Build another stable."

There were trees in the yard for stone tables and chairs, and a well, and the only drawback was that there were no thatched huts and no stables. When Liu Jun doesn't want to live here in the future, he has to run to the public toilet at the mouth of the alley every time he goes to the toilet.

I heard that the small courtyard has changed owners, and the neighbors next door have come over. When I saw that the new owner was a young scholar, I was very polite. One of them inquired about Liu Jun's identity, and Liu Jun told the lie again because he had said to Lina that he was a Hanlin editor, and it was not good to change his identity at this time.

Hearing that the new neighbor was actually the old man in the Hanlin Courtyard, a neighbor who sold vegetables was shocked, and his attitude was immediately very polite, even with a little caution.

Hearing that Liu Jun was going to build a thatched house and a horse shed, a middle-aged man immediately patted his chest and said that it would be good to leave this to him. It turned out that he was a carpenter, and his son was still a mason, so building a thatched house was naturally a trivial matter.

Liu Jun directly took out ten yuan, "Then there is labor, this is a bit of hard work, after the thatched house and horse shed are built, the cost of materials will be calculated separately." ”

The carpenter refused to accept it, and after a long time, he was only willing to take five yuan.

"Five yuan is enough to buy materials, and more is my salary."

After a while, the neighbors each brought some small gifts over to celebrate. Liu Jun accepted the gift, of course, he had to say something, and seeing that the meal was almost there, he invited everyone to the restaurant for a meal.

"How expensive is the restaurant, you have to pay taxes for eating, let's be a vegetable market, what do you do with that money for nothing." Just buy a few vegetables from the vegetable market and make your own. ”

They are all ordinary people, and they don't have as many avoidances as big families. Therefore, the neighbors let their wives and daughters go grocery shopping, and then brought the vegetables over, and it happened that the kitchen utensils in this house were also ready-made, so they went directly to the kitchen to cook.

Liu Jun was very enthusiastic, so he asked the guards to buy the altar of Shaoxing rice wine, and bought a few cooked foods such as sauced beef, pork belly, fried peanuts, etc., and set up three tables in the hall. Liu Jun shared a table with the neighbor men, a table with the neighbor women, and a table with Liu Jun's guards.

Everyone is staggered, but they are not happy, and after eating a meal, they will immediately become all mature. (To be continued.) )