Anqing Prefecture, located in the southwest of Jingguo, once served as the capital of Jingguo. It was extremely prosperous and was the second largest capital of Jingguo after Jingdu.
At this time, on an official road leading to the southwest gate of Anqing Fucheng, several horses with shiny coats and strong bodies galloped towards them. The woman in white clothes pulled the reins, and the horses let out a long cry of pain.
Neighing, he raised his horse's hooves high and stopped when he was still some distance away from the city gate.
"Hush!"
Several voices were heard one after another, and several strong men skillfully dismounted from their horses. The horses' hooves stomped on the ground in confusion, stirring up a cloud of dust.
"Uncle, Fucheng has arrived!" The big man surnamed Fang grabbed Li Yi's arm and jumped off the horse.
Li Yi looked up at the several-foot-high city wall, which stretched endlessly on both sides. He couldn't help but feel that his legs were weak and his eyes were dizzy.
"vomit!"
After holding on to a willow tree by the moat and vomiting for a while, the extremely uncomfortable feeling subsided a little.
Of course, he didn't feel a sense of admiration just because he saw the city wall that was more than ten meters high. He used this behavior to express the shock in his heart.
For a person who has never ridden a horse and was forced onto a horse on a bumpy mountain road for more than ten miles, he can still stand here at this moment, which already shows that Li Yi's physical fitness is very good.
The first trip to Fucheng was not as perfect as Li Yi imagined. Before entering the city gate, he felt exhausted.
"Uncle, your body is too weak, you need to practice hard!" The big man surnamed Fang couldn't help but said when he saw Li Yi's uncomfortable look.
After riding the horse for only a short time, he was already vomiting like this. This new uncle is good at everything, but his body is too weak and he doesn’t look like a man...
Li Yi glared at the big man fiercely and didn't bother to talk to him. He turned his head and looked at this prosperous city with a relatively formal look for the first time.
There is an endless stream of pedestrians going in and out of the city gate, mixed with goods, carriages and horses. It looks crowded, but it is also orderly. Looking inside the city gate, it is even more crowded. The streets on both sides are filled with various stalls.
The shouts of vendors could be heard outside the city gate. Li Yi led the horse into the city gate with Liu Ruyi and others, and finally felt the prosperity of the city firsthand.
The streets under his feet were all paved with square bluestones. The eaves of the buildings on both sides of the street were rolled up, with carved railings and painted phoenixes, full of ancient charm. Passers-by dressed in ancient costumes walked by, making Li Yi realize again,
What kind of world is he living in now?
Of course, the horse held by the big man named Fang is not the property of Liuye Village. Jingguo is already very short of horses. To a large extent, it has to import from other countries to meet its normal needs. The price of a horse on the market is seventy or eighty taels.
Around silver, one tael of silver at this time was roughly equivalent to a thousand copper coins. Li Yi roughly estimated the price of goods in this era. One copper coin was roughly equivalent to fifty cents in later generations. In this way, a horse converted into RMB,
It should be ------it costs a lot of money anyway.
If every family in Liuyezhai had a horse, they would not need to eat glutinous rice. The average living standard would definitely be above the well-to-do level, and they would be a big step into the middle class.
This just echoes the old saying that the person riding the handsome horse is not necessarily the prince, but may also be the one who raises the horse!
That's right, raising horses is a side job for some people in Liuyezhai, including Han Fang.
Most of these people's fathers were born bandits, and they have pure bandit blood. A bandit who can't raise a horse is not a good bandit. Fortunately, they all inherited the excellent genes of their fathers, although they all seem to be different.
He is a rough guy, but he is very good at equestrian skills. He can use this skill to make some extra money and supplement his family income.
However, since ancient times, most of those who sold coolies could only earn a living. The exploitation in feudal society was even more serious. The wages they received could only ensure that the whole family would not starve to death.
Every month, Dahan Fang and others would take these horses down the mountain for inspection and collect their wages for the previous month.
Li Yi asked him on the way here that the monthly salary for raising horses is 100 cash. The salary is really pitiful. It only buys a few kilograms of rice. And there are only about four months per year to raise horses. These few hundred cash
, they have to last a whole year.
They made an appointment to meet at a place when they returned. The big man surnamed Fang and others led the horses away. In the blink of an eye, Li Yi also disappeared and Liu Ruyi disappeared, leaving him alone.
This made Li Yi confused. Aren't they afraid that he would take the opportunity to escape?
Thinking of the crazy old man who wanted to catch him, he couldn't go back to his previous home. After weighing his money bag, Li Yi suddenly felt that it would be good to stay in Liuye Village...
I spent four cents on two buns on the street and took a bite. The skin was thin and filling. After finishing the two buns, the hunger in my stomach disappeared immediately.
Li Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. In the past, you couldn't see the filling in the steamed buns you bought outside. Those guys who only had money in their eyes wanted to sell the steamed buns as steamed buns. In comparison, people in ancient times were still honest...
Four cents of the one hundred and twenty-eight cents have been spent. Originally, Li Yi wanted to live a good life with this little money, but the reality was cruel. After walking around on the street, Li Yi found that he seemed to have only
Can...eat steamed buns.
He was a poor man no matter in modern times or in ancient times, which made Li Yi feel inexplicably sad.
Especially after seeing the prosperity of Anqing Mansion, Li Yi had already made up his mind to think about ways to make money immediately after returning.
Modern people have the pride of modern people, not to mention that he also brought a cheating device that can be said to be incredible. If he still lived a life of eating chaffy vegetables all day long, it would be too embarrassing for the time traveler.
During the walk, I bought some vegetable seeds from a roadside stall. I happened to see hawthorn for sale at a stall next to me and bought a few kilograms.
The white sugar I saved last time has not been used yet, and I haven’t tasted the candied haws of sugar for a long time.
Even in the entire Jingguo, Anqing Mansion can be regarded as one of the most prosperous cities, with rows of houses, restaurants and brothels. Unfortunately, Li Yi could only wander around the door in these places.
After walking around in the street for a while, I felt a little tired, so I simply found a corner to rest.
This is a street corner with slightly less traffic. Not far from Li Yi, there is a table and a chair. There are pens, inks, paper and inkstones on the table, and some paper tubes are placed on one side. A young scholar is sitting there,
Holding a thread-bound book in his hand, he was fascinated by it.
These days, when scholars are short of money, it is very common to set up a table on the street to sell paintings and calligraphy. Li Yi was thinking about whether he should follow suit when he has no money in the future, when suddenly something happened
A man in coarse clothes ran over from a distance, ran up to the scholar, panted for a few words and then left.
After the man left, the scholar's face immediately became a little anxious and nervous. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Yi who was standing under the tree next to him. His eyes suddenly lit up and he walked over quickly.
