Half an hour later, Wen Shu waited outside the yamen with the exchanged two pieces of money, and after a while, Zhao Niangzi and the two men also came over.

Wen Shu handed the money to Mrs. Zhao, and stretched out her hand to the dog and said, "If my sister-in-law trusts me, I can help you watch the child first." ”

"I can trust it, I have Lao Xiaoniang." After Mrs. Zhao thanked her, she handed the child over to Wen Shu, and went to the appraisal institute in the west corner of the yamen with the two strong men.

The appraisal institute, as the name suggests, naturally does the business of appraisal.

In order to save time and make things more efficient, most of the handprints and handwriting appraisals like general do not need to go through the court, just need to be identified here, and after the appraisal is completed, the official seal of the government will be stamped as a proof.

When Wen Shu came back from buying sugar gourds on the opposite street with the crying dog, Zhao Niangzi and the two big men were coming out of the corner gate of the appraisal institute.

No need to ask, just looking at her look, Wen Shu had already guessed the result.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard the two big men say: "The appraisal results have come out, sister-in-law Huai has nothing to say now, let's say, how are you going to repay this debt, use the land to pay off the house, or the child, you choose the same." ”

How can it be possible to use a child, the dog is her baby, and it is also the only child of Dalang. The house can't be sold, otherwise the two of them won't even have a place to stay, and they can only .......

"Use ..... Fields arrived. Zhao Niangzi trembled her lips and said: "My family has four acres of dry land, according to today's land price, one acre and eight acres.... I'll give you three acres, and I want cash for the extra four dollars. ”

"Okay, refreshing! Tomorrow morning, still here, I bring the copper coins, you bring the title deed, after the transfer, this matter will be settled. With that, the two men walked away.

Zhao Niangzi squatted on the ground and covered her face and cried, "How can you live this day!" ”

The dog was eating sugar gourds, and when he saw this, his mouth was deflated, and he cried.

"Hey, hey, don't cry." Wen Shu hurriedly comforted this and that.

After a while, Zhao Niangzi, who vented all her sadness, wiped her tears, took the dog in Wen Shu's arms, and said resolutely: "Thank you for the kindness of the little lady, today's kindness Zhao Wuniang will not forget each other, and when they send the money tomorrow, I will return it to the little lady, but where does the little lady live, ..... the money?"

"The money is not in the way, anyway, I am not in a hurry, sister-in-law Zhao will keep it for now, and it will not be too late when she is rich."

"That's not good, since I promised the little lady before, I should do it, and I can get four times of money tomorrow, and I will return the little lady, and there are still two times left, saving some use, and it can also support a month or two."

Seeing that she insisted on returning it, Wen Shu didn't say more, but only changed the topic and asked, "Then what are your plans in the future?" “

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There is a book "Price Research in the Song Dynasty", which has a special chapter to introduce the prices of weapons, but it only lists the prices of various weapons in the Song Dynasty in different periods, and does not link the price changes in the Song Dynasty, nor is it linked to the historical era. Bow and arrow:

1. Time: around 1030 to 1040; Location: Tongguan area, Weinan, Tongzhou; Price: 700~800 Wen per piece

2. Time: 1064~1067 during the Zhiping period Location: Shaanxi Thorn Price: 2000 Wen set (bow + arrow)

3. Time: 1068~1077 in Xining Location: Kaifeng Chenliu Price: 1500 Wen, 10 arrows per bow, 600 to 700 Wen

4. Time: 1132 Place: Lin'an Price: 2800 Wen, 100 arrows, 7400 Wen, 74 Wen

6. Time: 1132 Place: Lin'an Price: 5000 Wen a bow (hand shooting bow)

7. Time: 1133 Place: Lin'an Price: 8000 Wen a bow

8. Time: 1165 Place: Lin'an Price: 8900 Wen a bow

9. Time: Song Xiaozong 1162 ~ 1194 Location: Lin'an Price: 200 Wen 12 arrows

Crossbow:

1. Time: 1030 to 1040 Location: Tongguan, Weinan, TongzhouPrice: 1500 Wen a piece

2. Time: 1042; Location: Hedong, Hebei Province Price: 2000 Wen per piece

3. Time: 1078; Location: Hunan Price: 2000 Wen a crossbow pile (crossbow arm)

4. Time: 1132; Location: Lin'an Price: 6500 Wen 100 crossbow arrows

Armor:

1. Time: 1129 Location: Jiangdong Road Price: 80 guan a pair of 80,000 Wen a pair of love book house

2. Time: 1132 Place: Lin'an Price: A pair of fully armored armor is 38,200 Wen and a pair of 40,100 Wen

3. Time: 1132 Place: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian Price: 40,000 Wen for a pair of fully armored armor

4. Time: 1133 Place: Lin'an Price: A pair of 10400 Wen helmets: 7800 Wen gold armor 38200 Wen Zhu vest 17300 Wen Zhu vest as a chest

5. Time: 1179 Place: Nankang Army Price: 5200 archer iron armor 150 pairs, 34600 Wen pairs

6. Time: 1205 ~ 1207 Location: Huzhou Price: 29,000 Wen iron armor 1 pair: 28506 Wen

Around 1200 in the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, the average price was 50 pairs

Knife:

Time: 1133 Place: Lin'an Price: Knife: 3300 Wen

But throughout the Song Dynasty, the purchasing power of money was in a state of constant depreciation:

Because the price of grain in feudal times has always been used as a benchmark for comparison, it is compared with grain prices

Comparison of food prices by year:

1. In 1008, the price of bumper harvest grain was 70~80 wen per stone

2. The price of grain in 1030 is 300 wen per stone

3. The price of grain in 1068 was 700 wen per stone

4. The price of grain in 1086 was 200 wen per stone

5. The price of grain in 1122 is 2500~3000 wen per stone

6. The price of grain in 1139 was 3,300 wen per stone

7. In 1171, the grain price in the southeast region was 2,900 wen per stone

In addition, detailed data can probably show that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the price of grain was about 600 to 700 aragonite, and the price of rice in the Southern Song Dynasty was about 2500 to 3000 aragonite

According to the recorded price of weapons, according to the price of food, in the same time side-by-side comparison

You can look at it like this:

One bow: Approximately equivalent to 2~3 stone of grain

One crossbow: about 3~5 stone of grain (the price of a crossbow is more expensive than a bow of the same period, but it is less than twice that of a bow)

Bow arrows, 10 to 12 arrows in the early Northern Song Dynasty are almost close to the price of 1 stone of grain, in the later Southern Song Dynasty, because there are many bamboos and materials in the south of the Yangtze River, so the price of bows rises, but the price of arrows is not much, every 30 arrows is almost equivalent to the price of one stone of grain

The price of a crossbow arrow is slightly lower than the price of a bow and arrow because the shaft of the arrow is shorter, which is about 90% of the price of a bow and arrow

Armor: A set of iron armor, the price is about 15 to 20 stone of grain, the price of simplified iron armor such as archers is about 10 to 15 stone of grain, and the price of horse armor is slightly more expensive than infantry armor, about 10% more expensive.

There are relatively few records of the price of knives, but from the records, the price of hand knives of average quality in the Song Dynasty during the same period was only about half of that of bows, almost the price of 1 stone of grain, which should be the reason for the low quality and large output of mass-produced knives.

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In addition, it is more difficult for the landlord to convert these weapons into modern money

Because in the Song Dynasty for nearly 300 years, prices have been rising, copper coins were used in the early days, and iron coins and huizi were also developed later (huizi was exchanged for copper coins and discounted, and many prices in the Southern Song Dynasty were marked with huizi, especially the official price), so this is very confusing.

However, if you have to look at it according to purchasing power, converted into RMB in 2017, the change is probably like this

In the early Northern Song Dynasty (960~1040): 1 copper coin is about equal to 1RMB

In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty (1040~1100): 1 copper coin is equal to about 0.5RMB

Early Southern Song Dynasty (1130~1180): 1 copper coin is equal to about 0.25RMB

In the case of Huizi, the actual exchange of copper coins at a consistent face value was about 600~770 Wen, and after 1233, it fell below 1000:500