Wang Chen smiled and said, "I can afford a good house in Chengdu today, but it's all thanks to Your Majesty's reward today. If it weren't for this, I would have to accumulate a year or two to buy such a good house. If I were still in Xiping County, with my little accumulation, it would be more than enough to buy a house in the prosperous areas of Chengdu."

However, it was not so happy in the Tang Dynasty. It was fine in the early Tang Dynasty, and the price of houses in Chang'an was still relatively normal.

During the Tang Dynasty - Ordinary people want to buy first-tier commercial housing? It is more difficult than climbing to the sky, especially in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

In my impression, the Tang Dynasty was one of the most powerful dynasties in ancient China, but I didn’t know that the housing prices in the Tang Dynasty were also unattainable, almost no less than the current pressure of buying a house.

How difficult was it to buy a house in the Tang Dynasty? Come on, Bai Juyi will learn about it.

Bai Juyi, a poetic demon in the Tang Dynasty, passed the imperial examination at the age of 28 and worked as a proofreader of the Secretariat at the age of 32. This position is equivalent to the administrator of the National Library, and his salary can be about 16,000 yuan per month.

However, such a person was also "not easy to live in Chang'an at that time."

Because the housing prices were too expensive, Bai Juyi could only rent a house while he was an official, and the house he rented was very simple: "Four or five thatched huts, one horse and two servants."

This kind of rental life lasted for several years. Even though Bai Juyi later appreciated the value of Jingzhao Household and his monthly salary reached 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, Bai Juyi still had no hope of buying a house in Chang'an. It can be seen how terrifying the housing prices in the Tang Dynasty were.

It was not until his mother came to Chang'an to surrender to him that he bought his first property in his life in Jinshi Village, Yijin Township, Xiaqi County, the most remote suburb of Chang'an.

Bai Juyi was not the only great writer who could not afford a house in the Tang Dynasty. For example, Du Fu, the poet who wrote "How can he have thousands of houses to shelter all the poor people in the world and be happy." In his later years, he lived in a thatched hut that was broken and leaked when the wind blew.

In the Tang Dynasty, the state provided free single dormitories to court officials in Beijing. If they were willing to be a bachelor, they could live there. "Tang Yulin" records that "Zhao Li's temple tribe's sons were mostly for temples and sacrificial temples". This "same house" means living in the same dormitory.

The simplicity of the residence of Lu Huaishen, deputy prime minister of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, was shocking.

Once he was on sick leave, and his colleagues Song Wangjing and Lu Congyuan went to his house to visit him, but they saw that "the tools and houses were all extremely frugal." Lu Huaishen "lived in a bad way to give him a single mat, and the door had no curtains. Whenever the wind and rain came, he would be covered with a mat" ("Miscellaneous Records of Emperor Ming Dynasty"). The deputy prime minister of the Tang Dynasty lay on a broken mat to recuperate. There was not even a decent curtain on the door, so he relied on a broken mat to block the wind and rain, which showed how bad his living conditions were.

However, the reason why the Tang Dynasty’s houses were difficult to buy was closely related to the policies at that time.

The Tang Huiyao Volume 85, which records the various rules and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, stipulates: "The fleeing households in the world, have land and houses, and are destroyed by others. They are also responsible for owing rent and mediocre people. They have already bought and sold with their neighbors."

It means that no matter which city in the country, all the land and real estate are needed, if you want to sell it, you must first ask your relatives and then your neighbors.

If no one in the relatives or neighbors wants to buy this house, then the house can be sold to the outside world.

Otherwise, relatives and neighbors have the right to sue the government and redeem it at the original price. This is considered the real estate purchase restriction policy of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, you can’t buy a house just by wanting to buy it. You have to greet the owner’s aunts and neighbors first, so that you can finally get the chance to start.

In this way, the housing prices can be purchased are very limited, and it is natural that the housing prices are inflated.

In the later period of the Song Dynasty, when it paid more attention to business, it was even more difficult to save money for about 260 years before buying Tokyo Bian's first-line house.

The housing prices in the Song Dynasty were no less than those in modern times.

Wang Yuxi, a literati of the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote an article "The Record of the Li Family Garden Pavilion", "In the heavy city, under the double palaces, the size, the size, inch and earth are the same as gold." This is the most true portrayal of every inch of land.

Speaking of buying a house, Su Che, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song dynasties, can be said to have tears of sorrow. He took the Jinshi exam when he was young, and then became a local official one, and then gradually entered the upper class of power from a local official, but still failed to buy a house. Even the children always complained in front of him:

"I have never been a home, and my sons think it's a word."

It was not until he was seventy that Su Che took out his salary he had saved for a lifetime and sold a batch of books. He only made up enough money to buy a house, and it was not a first-tier city.

Also difficult to buy a house is the great writer Ouyang Xiu. Even though he became a political official, he could not afford to buy commercial housing and could only rent it in this simple alley, which shows how high housing prices in the Northern Song Dynasty were.

The terrain of Bianliang determines that the layout of his house is very dense, and it can be said that every inch of land is valuable.

In the first year of Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, General Tian Qin bought a house, which cost a total of 5,000 yuan. This was the period when the Northern Song Dynasty was just founded, and the housing prices were not too high. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, housing prices were high, and even the officials of the imperial court could not afford it.

The three Su and his son also rented a house. Although Su Che later bought a house after getting old and spent a total of 9,600 yuan, he had to sell it helplessly because he was preparing for his daughter's dowry.

Someone did some calculations. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of Song, grassroots civil servants had 3,500 entries per month, which was equivalent to a little more than 3 entries.

At that time, a house in the suburbs of Kaifeng, a first-tier city, was about 10,000 yuan, and the city center was even more expensive. In other words, a grassroots civil servant bought an ordinary house in the suburbs of a first-tier city, and he had to save money for two hundred and seventy years without eating or drinking!

Let’s look at the huge courtyard of Sheng’s house in “Knowing or Not”. I always thought that Sheng Xiaoliu was really a “small family”. Now it seems that he is a noble family!

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the housing market eased, and ordinary civil servants could buy their own property after saving for two or three years. So Wang Shen and the others were still relatively lucky.

Unlike some later dynasties, even high-ranking officials in the upper class of power may not be able to afford a good house in a prosperous area of ​​the capital, unless they have some accumulation in their family, even if they are greedy, if a fair official relies on his own salary, he will definitely not be able to afford a good house in a good area of ​​the capital.

Wang Chen turned his head and asked to the zombie (real estate agent) who led them to see the house, "This area is spacious and there is a garden behind it. I like it very much. How much does it cost to get it?"

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the earliest group of people who made a living by trading in the middle appeared. Whether it was land, houses, animals or carriages, they all had to get involved in a matchmaking transaction.
Chapter completed!