Chapter 288: Granted House, House Prices during the Three Kingdoms Period
Wang Chen treated the guests "generously" and settled the bill at the counter on the first floor. He strode out of the restaurant and looked at the sun gradually setting in the west above his head. He smiled and said: "The money I got from Your Majesty's reward of Shu brocade today can be used at the restaurant." It’s better to buy a better, newer and more spacious house in a more prosperous area of Chengdu.”
Chen Guangqin smiled and said: "I suddenly remembered something. Xiaoxian doesn't have to rush to buy a mansion like us. After all, he is now the general of the left and has already broken away from the category of ordinary generals. His Majesty will probably reward him. He is a general's palace,
Maybe I'm still preparing now, so I didn't bring it up today. If I have a chance to see Huang Gou'er again someday, I can ask him about it, and then it won't be too late for Xiao Xian to decide whether to buy a house!"
Guo Xiu nodded and said, "Even if I don't buy a house today, I can still accompany you to take a look."
When it comes to real estate in the late Han Dynasty, compared to modern commercial housing, there is really not much difference. In the Han Dynasty, the housing "district" is one unit, and the price of the house is the same as in today's real estate trading market. There is a direct relationship between old and new, quality and size,
Expensive houses, garden mansions with the structure of "Zhongting Pavilion and Back Building" or "Lvzi Near Building", are easily worth millions or even tens of millions of five baht, while cheap houses are sold at very low prices, even Some of them only cost a few thousand dollars. Of course, they are cheap but not good. Such houses are often ordinary residences in remote locations or extremely dilapidated buildings.
Taking grain as a general equivalent, the price of grain during the late Han and Three Kingdoms periods was about 2.5 yuan per kilogram of rice (it was neither a famine nor a general year when a bumper harvest caused a sharp drop in grain prices), and the grain price was also used as a reference standard. , Comparing the price ratio between the five baht coins of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the RMB, we concluded that 1 baht coin of the Han Dynasty is approximately equivalent to 1.5 yuan today.
Most people in the late Han Dynasty relied on agricultural production as their livelihood. Zhuge Liang, Guan Yu, Xu Chu and others were all farmers.
According to the records of "Han Shu. Food and Huo Zhi", a large number of iron farm tools were used in farming in the Han Dynasty. The productivity level was much higher than that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The annual harvest per mu of land should be at least about three shi. The weight of one shi of grain is about is 60 kilograms, that is to say, the average yield per mu in the late Han Dynasty was around 180 kilograms. The ratio of 180 kilograms x 2.5 yuan per kilogram x 1.5 five baht yuan and RMB. Calculated, the annual income per mu of land is 675 yuan, deducting about one-tenth of the land head tax, the actual net income is only about 600 yuan.
Based on the population size of 5 to 7 people per household in the Han Dynasty and the land ownership of approximately 10 to 20 acres, the average monthly income of each agricultural population was only a mere 200 yuan. Such a low income, It is certain that we can only maintain the minimum level of food and clothing. It is difficult to afford good houses in capital cities like Luoyang and Chengdu.
In the late Han Dynasty, there were roughly two types of non-agricultural population. One was officials who were in high positions in temples, such as the Yuan Shao family of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes. The other was a large number of people living in counties, towns and cities as merchants, small handicrafts and servants. civilian,
Before Liu Bei became famous, according to the characteristics of the products he sold (straw mats, straw sandals and straw weaving), which were completely self-produced and sold, he should be classified as a practitioner of small handicrafts. Zhang Fei, who was a butcher, abandoned farming and started doing business.
Guan Yu, who went to Zhuo County from Hedong to sell jujubes and other specialties, did so for the purpose of earning the price difference of the goods, so he was a businessman.
And more ordinary people live by selling their labor, that is, hired workers. Most of the hired workers in the late Han Dynasty implemented a monthly salary system while providing food and drinks. Some documents have detailed records, including Hexi Bianjun, in various places.
The salary standard for official servants is as follows: "Ping Jia earns two thousand yuan per month."
The so-called Pingjia refers to the legal salary given by the government to recruit craftsmen with construction skills. In other words, at that time, a craftsman who met the government recruitment standards could get a high salary of 2,000 yuan per month, and his monthly income was 10% of Zhuge Liang's.
Times! But Prime Minister Zhuge’s grandfathers were all officials. Before becoming officials, they did not all rely on farming to support their family.
Of course, this is only the highest salary. As far as the average level is concerned, general government employees with a corvée nature, such as those engaged in the construction of public facilities, such as river management, road construction, etc., generally only receive a salary ranging from 450 to 500 yuan.
In short, whether it is government requisition or private employment, the specific remuneration is directly related to the time, region, type of work, as well as the age and skill of the servant. To put it bluntly, you will get how much money you have based on your ability.
Judging from this price, based on the average monthly income of an ordinary employee of 500 yuan, Liu Bei and his friends before they became rich, as long as they gritted their teeth and spent more than a year's income, they could successfully buy a house of relatively average quality.
Taking root in cities and towns, this is undoubtedly a pipe dream today.
Different dynasties and generations have different economies, policies, and population densities, and housing prices also vary.
According to the "Book of Rites·Kingdom", "there is no yu" in the fields, which means that the land cannot be transferred or bought and sold at will. The land in the country can only be enfeoffed, rewarded, granted or taken back by the king. This is the so-called
In the whole world, there is no place like this.
But in March of the third year of King Zhou Yi (897 BC), a man named Qiu Wei used two pieces of beautiful jade, a deerskin shawl, and a flowered apron to buy two pieces of fine jade from a slave owner named Jubo in two installments.
More than 1,300 acres of land were exchanged. The items used by Qiu Wei were worth only 100 strings of shells at the time.
Moreover, this transaction was approved by the ruling minister, and a land granting ceremony was held to confirm the legal procedures for transferring land ownership. This is the earliest real estate transaction discovered so far.
At this point, Pandora's Box was opened, and a daunting industry was born - real estate, and his brother "House Price" caused a bloody storm in the world, which has continued until now more than two thousand years later!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although land sales have begun to occur in the Western Zhou Dynasty, they are only limited to land, and there is still a certain difference from real estate.
It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that the term "homestead" began to be used. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, in addition to rewarding those who won the war, the king would also give an additional five acres of homestead land. The Qin State also relied on this measure to inspire
Soldiers worked hard to unify the six countries.
However, the Qin Dynasty only lasted for 14 years in history.
In the Han Dynasty, the first harmonious and prosperous era in the history of our country appeared. All aspects of the economy were booming, and real estate transactions also appeared. So what were the housing prices in the Han Dynasty? Many records of housing transactions can be found in the bamboo slips of the Han Dynasty.
Just like now, the prices of different properties vary greatly.
Take Hanzhong, the most prosperous city in the Eastern Han Dynasty, as an example. At that time, houses in Hanzhong were sold at a fixed price (that is, they were sold by the building, not by the square meter). A cheap house (also called a district) could be purchased for only 10,000 yuan.
A house with a good location and a good size would sell for 20,000 to 70,000 yuan. This kind of house should be at the luxury level at that time.
It should be noted that the gap between rich and poor in the Han Dynasty was much wider than today. The net worth of an ordinary small farmer family is about more than 10,000 yuan. That is, if an ordinary farmer wants to buy a house, he can buy the cheapest house with all his net worth.
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If you want to save money to buy a house, it is not difficult. For example, "Book of the Later Han·Hundred Officials" says that the annual salary of the lowest-level civil servants is 96 dendrobium meters. At that time, 1 dendrobium meter was equivalent to 100 yuan, which was converted into currency.
9600 money.
The annual salary of a prefect (equivalent to the current mayor of a prefecture-level city) is 2,000 shi meters. 1 dendrobium is actually equivalent to 1 shi. 2,000 shi meters is converted into currency of 200,000 yuan. Wang Chen could easily spend dozens of
It comes from ten thousand dollars,
But after becoming a prisoner of the Shu Han Dynasty, he was penniless. Today, he has some savings (in exchange for Shu brocade), even more than before.
Based on this salary calculation, grassroots civil servants can buy a house in a first-tier city center without eating and drinking, and save for two or three years, and pay it in full without repaying a loan. However, as officials of later dynasties, the common people are
We are not so lucky. With the stability of the world and the further development of commerce, the price of houses has also begun to rise, and it has not become easier to buy a house.