After Zhang Yue came out of Wang Anshi's house, Zhang Shi approached him as soon as he returned home and told him about Wu Anshi's plan to donate a house.
Zhang Yue thought that there was such a good thing, but he still said: "I have already received three thousand guan from the Wu family to pay for the land. How can I be embarrassed now to get a house worth three to five thousand guan? Brother, after all, I am also a face-saving person.
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Zhang Shi looked at Zhang Yue and was very confused and said: "But..."
Zhang Yue said: "Mr. Wu Dalang is right. It is not an option for us to stay in my second aunt's house temporarily. Now when I get married, I will buy a house in Bianjing and move out."
Zhang Shi said: "Third brother, although I think it's okay to continue living here, since you have an idea, then everything will be at your discretion."
Zhang Yue heard this and said happily: "Brother, I don't even know what to say."
Zhang Shi said: "Although my brother is not very shrewd, he is not confused either. Now you are the biggest official in our family. In the future, we will rely on you to support our appearance. So I should listen to your orders for such big things. I shouldn't be restrained either.
Brother, please listen to your opinions."
Zhang Yue nodded and said, "Thank you, brother."
Zhang Shi patted Zhang Yue's shoulder and said: "If we don't talk to each other, you should rest early. I asked someone to reject Mr. Wu Dalang. We brothers will go to Bianjing to look at a house together tomorrow."
And inside the Wu Mansion.
Mrs. Fan is in the seventeenth mother's boudoir.
Mrs. Fan smiled and said: "Our Shu brocade is famous all over the world. The so-called Bei Jin Fei Cheng, Zhuo Se Jiang Bo said so, just for you to press it at the bottom of the cage."
Seventeenth Mother looked at the Shu brocade in her hand and said: "The rules are strict, complex but not chaotic, the color is red, green, yellow, and colorful. My sister-in-law gave me a really good gift. I like it very much."
Fan said with a smile: "Of course, yes, I heard that the imperial court has recently sent many people from Fujian to Shu to serve as officials. Maybe one day you will follow your husband to Shu. Let me tell you, we Shu people like to have banquets.
Even the governor is no exception."
"Did you know that when the officials wanted Song Xianggong to go out to control Shu, Song Xianggong said that the Shu style was luxurious and Qi Xi would have a banquet, which might not be appropriate."
The Seventeenth Mother smiled when she heard this.
Mrs. Fan added: "But having said that, Mr. Zhang Sanlang stayed in the capital without having to return the favor, and was granted marriage by the official family. This is such an honor. Which boudoir girl in Bianjing City would not admire you."
Seventeenth Mother said: "Oh? Didn't they say before that I missed Liu Lang and chose Zhang Lang? Are they really short-sighted?"
Fan laughed and said, "Seventeen, do you still remember this?"
The Seventeenth Mother smiled and said: "Why don't you remember? I have to read it all the time! I can't stand the idleness of such a talkative woman."
Mrs. Fan smiled and said: "From now on, you will be the wife of the Number One Scholar. If word gets out, others will say you are stingy. Let's see how you handle yourself."
After a pause, Fan said: "But back to the topic, Mr. Zhang Sanlang has been living in other people's homes before. Now I heard that officials wanted to give him a house to the Zhang family, but in the end the Zhang family refused. He said that he wanted to buy a house for himself. I'm worried.
The official said something wrong again."
The seventeenth mother said: "Sister-in-law, my brother's behavior is a little unreasonable. The Zhang family does not come from generations of officials. It has been known in the capital for a long time. Otherwise, the officials would not have given money and marriage."
"Even if you live in a poor alley for a while, you won't live here for the rest of your life. Why bother to spend so much money on a dignified marriage?"
Fan said: "The officials also have good intentions, but they did do bad things, and it will be difficult to live in Bianjing. In fact, you can wait until Mr. Zhang Sanlang has been an official for a long time before buying it."
"Now it's very difficult for them. They have to pay for the wedding and buy a house. How can they have the money now?"
Mrs. Fan let out a long sigh.
Housing prices in Bianjing are naturally high. Not only within the city of Bianjing, but also within a hundred miles outside the city, there is no land. All of them are bought by wealthy families as gardens.
This is also due to the national conditions of the Song Dynasty where internal emphasis was placed on internal affairs and external affairs were neglected, and the branches were strong but weak. Therefore, there was an unprecedentedly prosperous Bianjing City.
Zhang Yue and Zhang Shi took a carriage and took Fang Yazi to see the house.
Fang Yazi asked Zhang Yue and Zhang Shi what kind of house they wanted to buy.
Zhang Shi was a little unsure, but Zhang Yue said he would take them to have a look first, but he didn't want to buy two of them. He didn't buy the ones in the inner city of Bianjing, and he didn't buy them in the northeast of the outer city.
After hearing what Zhang Yue said, Fang Ya knew very well that land in the inner city was extremely valuable, so the so-called "not buying it" seemed to mean that he couldn't afford it.
As for the northeastern part of the outer city, it is quite low. Most people in Beijing do not like to live here and are unwilling to buy it.
Fang Ya heard the words and said: "I have remembered the instructions of Duke Zhuangyuan. I don't know whether to rent a house or buy a house?"
Zhang Yue said: "I'm buying a house."
Hearing this, Fang Ya smiled and said: "I have a plan, little man. Let's take a tour of Bianjing City first."
Horse-drawn carriages drive on the streets of Bianjing.
Bianjing City has two counties, Kaifeng and Junyi, with Xuandemen to Zhuque South Road as the boundary. To the east of Da Nei is Kaifeng County and to the west is Junyi County.
There are eleven compartments in the two counties, five compartments in Kaifeng, and six compartments in Junyi, but they all have two compartments in the inner city, and the other compartments are in the outer city layout.
The four compartments of the inner city of the two counties are all worth gold at the foot of the imperial city, and the residents are not ordinary wealthy families. For example, Han Qi lived in Xingdaofang, the first compartment of the left army in the inner city. Pu Wang Zhao Yunrang lived not far away.
Xuanpingfang is not far from Han Qi.
Therefore, Zhang Yue did not consider the inner city. But if the inner city cannot afford it, can the outer city afford it?
Fang Ya said that the general layout of the outer city of Bianjing is that the common people live in the southeast and the powerful live in the northwest.
why?
Related to water.
But seeing Fang Yazi and Zhang Yue, Zhang Shi said: "There is a saying that the sky is not as high as the northwest, and the earth is not as good as the southeast. Why is it so said? In our Song Dynasty, the northwest is high and the southeast is low."
Zhang Yue heard this and said, "That's good. Have you read the book?"
Fang Ya said with a bright face: "Lao Zhuangyuan asked, how can we do it in our profession if we don't know a few words? I have even worshiped as sir."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Then please tell me."
Fang Ya said: "In our Song Dynasty, all rivers flow best from the northwest to the southeast. Our Bianjing city has a pattern of four rivers running through the capital. The Bianhe and Caihe rivers in the south of the imperial city are both Caohe rivers. There are 670 rivers every year.
Wanshi's grain haul relies on these two rivers, and the Wuzhang River and Jinshui River are located in the north of the imperial city."
Zhang Shi said unconvinced: "Then we can't say that the Jinshui River and Wuzhang River in the north of the imperial city are more expensive than the Bianhe Caihe River."
Fang Ya smiled and said: "This official doesn't know something. Our upper reaches of the Jinshui River are imported from Jingshui, which is imported from Zhongmou. Among them is the spring water of Huangdui Mountain. The water is clear and sweet."
"But Bianhe and Caihe live here all the time, and they have seen it. Every day the canal boats pass by, and hundreds of thousands of people eat, drink, and have sex here, so it is like this."
Yes, the price of housing in Bianjing is related to water supply.
The Bian River and the Cai River are Cao rivers, so the water is dirty. The common people cannot pay attention to this and can only live here. But the powerful choose to live next to the Jinshui River and Wuzhang River, which have cleaner water quality.
Living near water and resting on water are the reasons why ancient people chose their habitat.
As Fang Ya said this, Zhang Yue and his carriage gradually drove towards the northwest of the city.
Square wells with stone beams can be seen everywhere at the entrances of alleys here. The wellheads are square instead of circular, and a frame with the word "tian" is placed on the wellhead. The four openings of the "tian" character can all draw water.
Under this well is the culvert leading from the Jinshui River to the city.
