The two and a half-old boys recited poems on the road, which attracted the attention of passers-by. And because they were wearing mourning clothes, they could not understand the wealth of Qin Bai and the others, the passers-by bent down to salute and took the initiative to make way.

This is the best thing in this era. Ordinary people have a mysterious worship of knowledge, and the status of scholars is particularly high. If you can make good poems, you can become a guest of honor in the brothel Chuguan. Not only can you be free, but you will also receive sponsorship from famous prostitutes. This is really not an exaggeration. In modern times, this is a myth. If you want to pay for a lady, you will be a top student in advanced mathematics. The only possibility is that the lady treats you as a lunatic!

Seeing someone saluting him and making way for the road, Li Gan immediately smiled: "Brother Bai, you are really knowledgeable, you paint well and write poems well. Look how glorious we are now?"

Qin Bai smiled slightly, thinking that Li Gan's eyelids were really shallow. Moreover, he was not interested in becoming the mainstream copying group of poetry and songs that traveled through time, and did not want to steal other people's achievements for himself, so he casually explained: "This was written by a poet of the Tang Dynasty."

"Tang Dynasty? Is it Li Bai?" Li Gan seemed very happy to know the "truth". Anyway, he knew only Li Bai, the poet of the Tang Dynasty. "That's great. You can even memorize poems from the Tang Dynasty, and you both have a "white". You are both Wenquxing descending to earth."

"Haha, Danzi, you're a little too flattering?" Qin Bai was amused. He understood why Li Gan was so excited, and even got so excited that he was a little proud. Because the ten taels of silver today are a huge sum of money. For the people of this era, it is really a huge sum of money, and it is definitely not the kind with quotes. Ten taels of silver is the living expenses of small families in Laizhou City for a year. They can buy two or three acres of cooked land in Shandong. Calculated at comparable prices, it is equivalent to about tens of thousands of yuan in modern times.

Of course, if you want to study the prices of the Ming Dynasty in detail, it will be much more complicated, and you can produce dozens of papers. In addition, the gap between the rich and the poor is quite huge. For example, the fat young man with acne, the ten taels of silver may be his pocket money, not even enough for him to drink a meal of wine.

Here, Qin Bai didn't need to explain it clearly to Li Dan, anyway, he wouldn't understand it after explaining it. So he half-joking: "The origin of my name is Qin because my father's surname is Qin, why is Bai? Because I have been very white since I was a child."

While saying this, a sense of intimacy arose. This passage was actually a catchphrase that Qin Bai introduced himself in his previous life. Of course, Qin Bai with this body was not like this. Perhaps because of his extremely angry back then, he later changed his mother's surname. Originally, his surname was Chen, so the real names of the three brothers should be Chen Tai, Chen Bai, and Chen Gao. But since my father has all flew away and my elder brother is indifferent, everything is up to Qin Bai himself.

However, sometimes Qin Bai also thinks that the names of the three brothers are quite interesting. The parents must have been literary youth back then, but they actually gathered together in a poem. The names of themselves and the third brother are fine. How could that elder brother be called Qin Tai (Teacher Chen)? In the Ming Dynasty, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. In modern times, it was full of sissy flavor. Those who don’t know would think which wife was from.

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As a palace city, Laizhou City is not small in scale, with gardens, pavilions, courtyards, streets, etc. When I first traveled, Qin Bai had been fresh for a few days, and it felt like modern people were traveling to the ancient town. However, it had been several months, and it was boring to see too much. Moreover, the ancient and modern sanitary environment was incomparable to the poetic and picturesque scenery of the small bridge and flowing water, and there might be an old woman pouring a toilet into the river next to her.

There are more than three more yamen in Laizhou City, with many yamen, with many wealthy families. The magistrate's yamen in the same city as the prefecture and county, of course, is essential, because there is rich coal and iron here, and the internal supervision yamen, which is the Tongke Office of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Tongke Office of the Ministry of Revenue is responsible for collecting taxes. The inner supervision yamen directly collects gold, flowers and silver into the inner treasury for the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which belongs to the emperor's small treasury; as for the Tongke Office of the Ministry of Revenue, of course, collects taxes for the court. Anyway, it is quite complicated, and outsiders cannot figure out the relationship between the two, only knowing that the emperor and the officials of the Ministry of Revenue are both jealous of the money.

There is also the Iron and Metallurgical Yamen of the court, but this Yamen has long been in name only. Just like modern state-owned enterprises but not private enterprises, they are basically replaced by private iron smelting. However, it has not been completely abolished. After all, the common tributes are indispensable, so the officials and minor officials in it live quite well. In addition, the ward offices, Laizhou Prefecture has three guards, eight guards, seven inspection departments, sixteen villages, and one hundred and forty-seven gates. The number of troops on the list is quite large, but I heard that military households are not as good as dogs. How much combat effectiveness is there? Don’t have too much hope.

In addition, Laizhou's literary style is very prosperous. It was a famous "College Entrance Examination Mansion" in the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Shizong (that is, Emperor Jiajing), the famous minister Mao Ji had the glory of a half-degree official in Laizhou. Therefore, there were many high-ranking families here that had lasted for several generations. If you were not careful, you would meet the relatives or servants of a certain official. Therefore, the security in the city was still acceptable, and there were many restaurants and restaurants, showing an unusual prosperity.

However, as soon as I stepped out of the city gate, I felt like I had come to another world. Outside the moat, there were thatched houses on both sides of the roads entering the city. The people living here were basically those who had former refugees, but almost all settled here. One of the major taxes in the Ming Dynasty was to see how many people were under the jurisdiction. If there were a large population, especially if there were a large number of men, they could collect the number of people, especially for the labor service. Therefore, all places in the Ming Dynasty were extremely welcome to settle the refugees, so every period of time, governments at all levels would organize a unified household registration and equitable people.

I came to a small butcher shop with a familiar belly and saw the shopkeeper inside snoring on the lounge chair with his belly, and a palm fan was still covering him. Qin Bai slapped the table heavily and shouted: "He Lao San! The meat is taken away by a wild dog!"

The shopkeeper named He Laosan was so scared that he jumped up from the recliner, and the palm-shaped fan was thrown aside. Then he noticed that it was Qin Bai and complained: "Bai Er, do you want to scare me to death? I am really scared. Let's see where you go to make soup with big bones?"

"Hehe." Qin Bai smiled and took out a small hanging copper coin and threw it on the counter: "I bought it today. I'll cut more pounds for me, so I'll have to be fat."
Chapter completed!