When Zhao Changlong returned to his residence on the high-speed rail in the real world, he had already settled down at the relay station in Daizhou in the Otherworld. It was quite tiring to drive the cart all the way through the mountains. After dinner, he soaked his feet and fell asleep.
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After waking up, Zhao Changlong felt refreshed. Not only did he have a good night's sleep, but more importantly, the silver that he had bought with overdraft last time had all been sent over by Shunfeng. It had been teleported over before he went to bed.
With so much silver on hand, I, Zhao Chang Long, have finally become a rich man!
How much was one tael of silver worth?
At this time of the Ming Dynasty, a family of five or six farmers would plant ten mu of land. Their annual harvest would be equivalent to ten taels of silver. However, this was only the account number. In fact, most of it was food. Excluding the food of a family, it was already a good year to save one tael of silver.
In TV dramas, one tael of silver could buy a few steamed buns, but when they entered a restaurant, they would give ten taels of silver as a tip. That was called being stupid!
It was like how a rich tycoon gave a Lamborghini to a beautiful woman on the streets of Dubai.
It was rare for commoners to go to restaurants and eateries for a meal, so they had to count the copper coins. Kong Yiji's method of " two bowls of warm wine and a plate of fennel beans ", followed by nine copper coins, was the normal method of payment.
It had to be said that Old Senior Lu's use of the word "arrange" was very vivid, making people smell a faint hint of constipation and poverty through the paper.
As for the workers in the city? For example, the yamen runners in the yamen could earn more than ten taels of silver a year on the surface. An official's groom was equivalent to a leader's car driver. His income was slightly higher, and he could earn more than twenty taels of silver a year. After ten years of hard work, he passed the examination and became a seventh-grade magistrate. He had 90 stones of rice per year, which was equivalent to 50 taels of silver.
However, don't forget that in this era, those with status in the city earned money and spent it on a dozen people. For example, the county magistrate, the advisor, butler, servant team, and their families, who had nearly a hundred people, had all kinds of gray income. They also had free housing, travel subsidies, clothing subsidies, and the money for maintaining honesty. If they were to spread it out on each person's head, they would only spend two or three taels of silver a year.
If he only relied on his salary and normal gray income, it would not be a big problem for him to feed himself with this little money. However, it would be extremely difficult to save money, especially if he had to run around the government from time to time. Most people had very little cash on hand. Those who could take out five or ten taels of silver were considered very generous.
In this world, Zhao Chang Long was a bachelor. He had enough to eat and his family did not go hungry. He was wearing a breastplate worth at least ten taels of silver, and he had more than twenty taels of silver in his pocket. He also had jade artifacts worth ten taels of silver. Do you think he was considered rich?
Definitely!
After Zhao Changlong went to the yamen to hand in the escort job, he walked to the pawnshop with a smug look on his face. He was thinking," I will always believe that something good is about to happen."
He went to the pawnshop not because he had no money, but because he wanted to buy something from the pawn shop.
What was that? You can buy things in a pawnshop?
Hehe, you're OUT of date. In the Otherworld, pawnshops are the financial center for physical transactions. If he was short of money, he would pawn it. If he had money, he would redeem it. If he couldn't redeem it, he would become a pawn. Later, the pawn shop would sell it to the people who needed it at a suitable price. Otherwise, no matter how much money the pawn shop had, it couldn't just pay out and not pay in, right?
The most lively place in Dai Province was Treasure Street on the side of the state capital. It was a street that ran from north to south, and was also called North and South Street by the locals.
It was less than six meters wide. If it was in the modern era, it would barely be two lanes wide.
This street was close to a tributary of the Hutuo River. The south side of the street led to the carriage market, and the north side of the city wall led to two fireworks alleys.
The largest pawnshop in Daizhou was located north of Treasure Street. On a brick wall facing south, a large " Dang " character that was almost as tall as a person was painted with white ash. The characters were of course traditional Chinese, but it did not stop Zhao Changlong from recognizing them at a glance.
The threshold of the pawnshop was six feet wide, and the name of the pawnshop," East Perch Dang," was hung high on the lintel. On both sides of the door hung a couplet," Guests from the north and south come to the north and south, and the pawnshop from the east and west are the east and west." The second half of the couplet matched the name of the pawnshop very well, and the first half matched the name of the street perfectly. It was really impressive.
He crossed the threshold of the pawnshop and turned around the screen, only to see a tall counter.
It was really tall, a full five feet? What kind of concept was that? A height of 1.6 meters.
Even Zhao Changlong, who was about 1.7 meters tall, was taller than his nose! If someone smaller or younger came, even if they stood on their tiptoes, it was hard to say whether the court servants behind the counter could see them.
However, why did the counter only reach his chest?
After thinking for a while, he understood that the ground behind the counter was at least half a meter higher. No wonder it was so high.
Wasn't this a proper discrimination measure?!
Forget it, people were floating in ancient times, so there was no need to think about equality.
At this moment, the pawnshop was quiet. Zhao Changlong looked left and right. Why wasn't there even a receptionist?
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