Chapter XXIII; The lion opened his mouth
By the time she returned to the small courtyard, there were already a lot of people gathered here.
Xi Mama originally beckoned people to move things again, but when she heard Xiaochan say that Miss had already chosen the yard to live in, she hurriedly beckoned half of the people to come over and clean up.
"Xiaochan, come here."
Hearing her greeting, Xiaochan hurriedly turned around and ran over.
"Miss, what's the matter?"
"Let me ask, how much cloth do we have at home?"
"Cloth?"
Xiaochan was stunned, Liu Mei frowned slightly and thought for a while; "There should be a lot, some will be purchased from Jiangnan every year, and the palace will also reward a lot every year, does the young lady need cloth to make clothes?"
"When the slave went to find Mama Xi just now, she saw that among the things prepared by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, there were more than ten fine silks."
"You don't want silk, just a very ordinary cloth."
What are you kidding, using silk to tinker with the greenhouse, she hasn't gotten to this point yet.
Even if she is the daughter of the Guogong Mansion, silk is a very precious thing in ancient times.
Not only is it precious, but many people can't wear it even if they want to.
For example, farmers and merchants, even if they have the money to buy silk, are not qualified to make clothes to wear.
This is a very hierarchical society, silk is such a thing, only those nobles or scholars are qualified to wear it, if the status is not enough to wear, it is a trespassing, will be questioned.
"Ordinary cloth, there are some, there should be three or four horses, why do you want it? The slave and maid will go and fetch it for you. ”
"No, no, it's too little, can you find a way to get more?"
Hearing this, Xiaochan nodded with a smile; "Of course you can, the slave maid went to tell Mama Xi, asked her to arrange someone to go to the capital, and asked Her Royal Highness the eldest princess for some."
"How many do you need, Miss?"
Yu Chao's cloth, one was forty feet long and two feet wide, and she calculated in her heart the land she had just seen, and she planned to prepare all of them for the greenhouse.
All planted things, anyway, she has seeds, and in the spring of next year, it will be dismantled and harvested, and it will be kept for later use, which is not impossible.
Although the windproof and light transmission of this thing are not as good as the plastic cloth in the previous life, it is better than nothing.
"In this case, get two hundred horses first."
"Oh, well, the slave..."
Xiaochan was just about to turn around to find Mama Xi, when she suddenly noticed something, stopped, and turned her head to look at Huo Junyao in shock.
"Miss, how much did you just say?"
"Two hundred."
Two hundred, really? Xiaochan was a little suspicious of her ears at that moment just now, but now when she heard what Miss said, it was still two hundred, and she didn't know what to say at the moment.
The cloth that can be purchased by the royal reward and the Ji Guo Mansion, even if it is just cloth, the condition is quite good, and if it is sold outside, the price of a horse will cost more than five yuan.
In the Yu Dynasty, there was no silver in circulation for the time being, and the main currency used was copper coins, of course, cloth and gold could also be used as currency, but they were relatively rarely used.
On the side of the Yu Dynasty, a thousand copper coins is equal to a consistent, if it is calculated in silver, it is almost one or two silver.
Xiaochan, as Huo Junyao's personal maidservant, belongs to the level of a big maid, and is considered the first echelon among the maids.
She was only 300 a month ago.
Not long after Huo Junyao crossed over, there were some rough calculations, which were also made according to the price of grain in the Yu Dynasty that she said.
Take Xiaochan's monthly money as an example, 100 wen is equivalent to 200 yuan, then Xiaochan's monthly money of 300 wen is almost equal to 600 yuan in later generations.
Don't think that Xiaochan, as a big girl, has little money per month, you must know that Xiaochan is a child of the family, and since she was born, she has been a slave of the Duke of Jiguo.
Her parents sold themselves into the Jiguo Mansion back then, so even if they were people from the Jiguo Mansion, even if they didn't give money and only took care of the food, there would be no problem.
can give monthly money, which is nothing more than hoping that they can serve their masters more wholeheartedly.
And the value of these 300 wen is really very small in the future generations, what can 600 yuan do?
But in the Yu Dynasty, it was a lot of income.
How much is a pound of food here? One penny a catty, of course, this is coarse grain, and the price of fine grain is only two pennies a catty.
There is not much entertainment consumption these days, and ordinary people are basically thinking about the problem of being full.
A pound of grain, if it is mixed with some wild vegetables or something, is enough for a family of five to eat for almost a day.
In this way, Xiaochan's monthly money of 300 wen is quite generous in ordinary people's homes, and she can buy 300 catties of food a month when she works, which is more than enough to feed a family of five.
Of course, not all of this money is used to buy food, but also to buy other things, and even then there will be a lot of surplus.
It can also be seen how expensive the money of the Yu Dynasty was.
Back to the point, Huo Junyao costs two hundred horses for one mouth, and the worst cloth in Ji Guogong's Mansion is all high-grade goods, and there are even a lot of first-class goods.
For ordinary high-class goods, the price of a horse is two to three dollars, and the lowest price for a product is five dollars.
If it is all considered to be a first-class product, and the price is two yuan, then two hundred pieces of cloth is a full four hundred yuan.
Ji Guogong's annual income is only about eighty yuan, of course, it is only the money, and some other subsidies such as food, cloth and meat are not counted.
And Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is more, there is a hundred times a year, and then there are two imperial villages, as well as the income of shops and so on.
Therefore, the Jiguo Mansion can be regarded as relatively wealthy among the nobles of the country.
But even if you are rich, you can't give 400 at once.
Xiaochan knew that this time the young lady came to the hot spring villa, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess not only prepared things, but also generously withdrew fifty yuan from the public middle school and brought her over.
You must know that they are the prince of the Jiguo Mansion, and the monthly money given by the family in a month is only three times.
Huo Junyao just got it back, and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess had the heart to make up for it, but her monthly money every month was only the same as that of the prince.
That is to say, she has thirty-six times a year, and this time she came to the hot spring villa, the eldest princess directly gave her an extra month of more than a year, and she will still give three times every month in the future, which can be regarded as very much pampering her.
"Miss, what do you want so much cloth for? It's expensive. ”
"Expensive? How expensive? ”
Huo Junyao didn't have much idea about this.
After all, the original owner lived in a mountain village at the time, although the people in the village treated her well, but she was an orphan girl in the end, she rarely had money on hand, not much, and she had never left the village except for her biological parents.
Most of the things that are needed are brought back by people from the same village, but they have not been exposed to it outside.
After crossing over, the reason why we can roughly analyze the ratio between the copper plate here and the later generations is also calculated by listening to the grain prices described by the villagers.