Chapter 41: Daily Life in Chang'an (2)
"Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane down to Yangzhou."
After paying and leaving the restaurant, Meng Fan muttered this poem for the second time, and his mood was completely different from that of entering Beijing and overlooking Yangzhou City, which was a bit more serious.
Isn't this trying to exhaust the crane to death?!
One gong is a hundred texts, and ten gongs is consistent.
Six hundred yuan is already more than two and a half tons.
How many tons is 100,000 guan?
Meng Fan practiced the Emperor's Body Forging Technique, not to mention the technique of Hutian, it was a simple physical strength, but he also had the ability to take on a 100-meter low mountain, and 100,000 Guan was completely wrapped around his waist, so how should he be entangled...... It's a big question.
It can only be said that the ancients exaggerated.
Among them, the leader is Li Taibai, but the hundred poems of fighting wine are not vain, the alcohol content of Datang is not high, and it does not test the hangover function of the liver, mainly to have a good stomach, and can drink ten cups of draft beer in a row.
As for the scenes often seen in later film and television dramas: Son, when you conducted in-depth research in Pingkangfang and learned about the people's suffering, you met a girl with a tragic background.
She is a literary and artistic worker, with great attainments in bel canto singing and dance, and also has deep attainments in the fields of cutting, makeup, literature, poetry, and heterosexual massage.
The most rare thing is that she is unfortunately reduced to this, but she has a noble character, a decent and rigorous style of life, and is a noble white lotus that comes out of the mud and is not stained.
However, the old bustard was greedy for money, and he encountered an evil young man with impure thoughts, and was asked to leave the cabinet, and the one with the highest price got it.
Evil for a while, a thousand copper coins, a hundred horses of Shu brocade, the white lotus sat next to him and bowed his head and wept, Chu Chu was moving, so that the son was enthusiastic, and vowed to take the beauty home, get out of this sea of bitterness, and not wither in the dust.
So, you were ruthless in your heart, slapped the table with your big hand, and said proudly:
"A certain tattooed silver thousand taels for the little lady to redeem herself from the good!"
When the beautiful woman heard this, she raised her eyes to look at your heroic posture, and lost her mind for a while, as if she had found the real Ruyi Langjun, and she would serve you with all her heart in the future.
The money-greedy bustard was also shocked, and stammered to confirm: "How much Lang Jun has out!" ”
"A certain pattern of silver a thousand taels!"
The voice was extremely proud, his eyes were staring at a bunch of local chickens and dogs, and the evil young man was also shocked, and he didn't dare to speak at all.
Immediately afterwards, the old bustard looked at the white lotus, the white lotus looked back at the old bustard, pouted, took out the handkerchief from the sleeve and began to wipe his tears.
"The law of the country is strict, Pengmen is full of households, and you can't bear the deep grace of the nobles, Lang Jun, please, I will not send it far."
It's still good luck.
When you have a temper, you will order the nurse to hold you by the neck and kick you out.
Or, call the bad people who patrol the streets to arrest you and go to the government to get a board and carefully try the situation.
Because the silver of the Tang Dynasty was not a liquid currency, it was concentrated in the imperial palace, minted into various utensils, some of which were kept for personal use, and the rest were rewarded to his subordinates.
In the brothel, take the tattoo silver to redeem the little lady?
There are only three possible sources of silver.
The Son of Heaven gave you a home, the royal grace, the time, the place of origin, the source, the name of the craftsman, and the person who handled it, all engraved on it, you know the ins and outs of it when you check it, you actually took it to Pingkangfang to save the little lady?
It's really a long face for the emperor and the house!
The second is the filial piety "sent" to the house by the magistrate of the silver-producing area, so lavishly and publicly, is it afraid that your father will go to prison too late to eat?
In the end, he robbed the convoys of the state capitals to pay taxes and tribute, the caravans of Hu merchants in the Western Regions, or attacked the official warehouse in the middle of the night, stole the silver stored by the imperial court, and came to Pingkangfang to sell the stolen goods in a hurry, so he was so generous!
But the magic is that silver is not in circulation, but gold is very popular.
All the officials and masters have acquaintances in Pingkangfang, and they usually give some gold collars and gold cakes, or ask craftsmen to make gold and silver jewelry, such as gold hairpins and silver combs, which is no problem at all.
Not only that, don't carry a few pounds of copper coins on your back to play in the future, the girl will let you eat, drink and have fun for free.
Shangguan Wan'er is really big, not to mention Taiping, she dislikes the cheesiness of silver collar and gold cakes, and directly asks the palace master to make a delicate blade.
Delicate.
Pretty.
Exquisite.
Valuable.
Don't blame those bald donkeys for their hot eyes.
If you look at the rich people of Chang'an from the perspective of future generations, they are really local and rich, going out for high consumption, followed by a row of open-top ox carts, and a cart of Yuan Tongbao to the West Market.
Meng Fan was fortunate enough to see it again.
Three ox carts loaded with money, surrounded by sturdy knife-wielding servants, the most conspicuous is still the front, a middle-aged man with a big belly standing on the left and right of a Kunlun slave.
This kind of slave has a dark body, and after a process called [gelding], or [castration], the value of the slave immediately began to soar, and it has to be bought with gold, and it is the most loyal guard of the masters.
In the Republic of China world, Meng Fan chatted with Qiusheng, and after hearing this, he and Wencai were suddenly particularly interested in Africa and thought of a plan to make a fortune.
"Lang Jun, do you think Orchid is good-looking?"
Li Lingyue asked.
The vinegar can be smelled from a long distance.
Before they knew it, the three of them came to Xishi, one of the only two most famous business districts in Chang'an City.
And Meng Fan took his eyes off the local tyrant convoy and found that there was a bearded girl with a high nose and deep eyes not far away, with a slender waist and a hot appearance, vividly interpreting what it means to be exotic.
According to a colleague, the eyes are deep but the water of the Xiangjiang River is good, and it is good to change the taste once in a while.
Ahem...... The price is also cheap.
Generally, they work in restaurants, and they are like the moon, and their wrists are frosty and snowy, and because of their fair skin, they can satisfy a certain fantasy of literati and rioters, so they also camp and stay together.
Shangguan Wan'er also looked at Meng Fan with curious eyes, and there were many pretty palace ladies in the forbidden palace who were worried about their feelings and secretly wished for their hearts, but as a result, he seemed to have cultivated the way of forgetting love.
The princess is from a noble background, and it is foreseeable that she can definitely compete with the queen of heaven when she grows up, but Meng Fan has always maintained a sense of proportion and never exceeded the rules.
A flame that meets the icy waters?
Or, as Taiping said, he likes exotic orchids.
"Poor ......"
Meng Fan couldn't cry or laugh, he was clearly attracted by the demeanor of Chang'an tyrants just now, but he suffered such a misunderstanding, and it was difficult to explain it or not.
In the end, there was still no explanation, so he shook his head helplessly, and led Li Lingyue and Shangguan Wan'er, two girls who were more beautiful than flowers, and continued to wander around the West Market.
Women, who are keen to go shopping.
Ancient and modern.
All kinds of rouge gouache, buy buy buy!
Persian snail Dai, from the far west, mutated for the snail shell in the sea, the thrush masterpiece coveted by women all over the world, a ten gold.
An official surnamed Lu who took advantage of the break to accompany his wife to go shopping shook his head and sighed with Meng Fan:
"The women of our imperial capital Chang'an are really good at spending money."
No matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it, otherwise the house will be unstable.
Meng Fan didn't care about money, he never lacked it, bought two for Li Lingyue, and asked about Shangguan Wan'er, but she shook her head, with a posture that I don't like pink stains and has always been plain.
Not long after, I bought a bunch of spices, as well as Shu brocade and Jiangnan fabrics, and asked her why she bought these, but the result was still mysterious and secretive, and she refused to say anything.