When he and Ba Zhong arrived at his residence next to the Wei Bridge, Hei Fu couldn't help but admire the mansion with its many tall buildings and carved beams and painted beams: "It's such a big mansion."
It’s not that he didn’t realize that even after Zhangtai Palace was entered, where could there be a house bigger than that in the world? What’s more, Heifu’s mansion in Jiangling and Anlu was no smaller than Ba’s house.
But this is the capital. Later generations have said that living in Chang'an is not easy. The housing prices in the capital are not comparable to those in third- and fourth-tier cities like Jiangling and Anlu.
Legend has it that the Duke of Zhou established nine numbers in rituals. During the Warring States Period, the science of arithmetic was widely spread, and there were many arithmetic books in the Six Kingdoms. Now these arithmetic books are gathered in the stone room of the Yushi Mansion. When Heifu went to find Zhang Cang, he was collecting old books.
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So Heifu happened to see the math problem above.
"Now there is a guarantee. The price for one year is 2,500. Now I want to take out 1,200. How many days will it be?"
In future generations, Zhang works for others and earns an annual salary of 2,500 yuan. Now he wants to buy a house and has no money for the down payment. He wants to advance a salary of 1,200 yuan. How many days does Zhang need to work to pay back the 1,200 yuan?
The annual salary of a food official is 96 dan. Based on the current price of 30 dan, plus some business trip subsidies, the annual salary is about 3,000 dan. This is the income of ordinary civil servants in Xianyang.
With such an income, it is not easy to buy a house in Xianyang. It is said that a small house of more than 100 square meters that can accommodate a family of five starts at 10,000 yuan. Compared with later generations, it is not too expensive.
After years of hard work, my relatives helped me chip in, and at least I was able to pay the down payment...
As for the compound where the minister lives, the price ranges from half a million to one million depending on the area!
Ba Zhong's current title is Gongcheng. According to the famous land housing system, he can have 20 houses and nearly 80 acres of homestead, so he bought this large mansion. It is located in a prime location like Weiqiao, missing two
One million dollars, absolutely impossible to get!
But two million dollars is just a drop in the bucket for Basil!
The standard for a well-off society in the Qin Dynasty was one hundred thousand yuan, and the standard for those wealthy households who were moved to Xianyang was one million yuan. If it reached tens of millions, they were considered "luxurious."
But Ba's family wealth must be described in the unit of "hundred million". Every year, he can make a lot of money just by extracting cinnabar and selling it to the government, not to mention the business of Botong, well salt, and caravans. It is said that
Ba Shi maintained a thousand servants in Ba County, two thousand private armed men, and tens of thousands of dependents, which shows that he had strong financial resources.
"This place was originally a retreat for guests of Lao Ai. After Lao Ai's downfall, my mother bought it and renovated it to make it convenient for me to live when I entered the capital."
Ba Zhong hinted with a smile: "There are actually many mansions like this in Xianyang. If the Zhonglang Huling needs it, you can choose as you wish..."
As expected of a rich man, he would give away his two-million mansion if he said so!
Heifu has now become a close official of the emperor. Ba's move is not without the intention of currying favor, but Qin Law is very strict in this regard. He is responsible for supervising all officials. The imperial censor who relies on hunting big tigers to gain political achievements can keep an eye on him at any time.
, Heifu doesn’t dare to take risks.
So he declined politely and said: "Qin's law requires you to be sentenced for accepting even a single amount of money, let alone a mansion? Brother Ba, please don't say anything again!"
"It's natural. I was just joking for a while." Ba Zhong laughed loudly and invited Hei Fu into the house for a banquet.
Hei Fu was not envious. In terms of social status, as the head of the Zuo concubine, he was much higher than Bazhong. As long as Hei Fu had money, he could buy a seventy house in Xianyang.
But the problem is that there is no money...
He now has an annual salary of one thousand dan, which is equivalent to half a tael and thirty thousand, but to buy a big house, his salary alone is far from enough. In the past few years of fighting, relying on rewards and plunder, Heifu has a net worth of more than one million, but he uses all his spare money to invest.
The brown sugar business was out of business, so when I arrived in Xianyang, I had to make do in a small courtyard for officials to live.
"I wonder how my cousin is doing selling brown sugar in a store in Xianyang, Weibei?"
Heifu was busy guarding these days and didn't pay attention to this matter. So before going to Bazhong's mansion for dinner, he asked the imperial guard Sangmu to go to the other side of the Wei Bridge to see the situation. His plan to buy a house was based on the hope that Brown Tang would be in Xianyang.
A big seller.
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After entering the mansion, Hei Fu followed Ba Zhong to a small pavilion. Although it was not yet night, candles had been lit around the pavilion, making the surrounding area as bright as day. The beautiful maidservant bowed her head and waited on the side. On the stone table here
A vase has been set up, some fruits and vegetables are placed on the lacquer plate, and wine is boiling on the stone table.
According to Qin's law, more than three people in Guizhou are not allowed to gather together to drink. There is no ban on alcohol among officials, but they cannot be too arrogant. The only exception is that when there is a celebration in the court, the subjects are allowed to gather and drink. This is called "giving wine".
Today, after the emperor announced the edict, in order to celebrate the establishment of the empire, he also announced that the world would be a great place to drink wine. Once the prohibition on alcohol was launched, the aroma of wine overflowed everywhere on both sides of the Wei Bridge.
The two of them sat down to drink and wish each other happy birthdays. Bazhong congratulated Heifu on being appointed the chief of the Zuo concubine and becoming the household minister of the Zhonglang, so that he could always be by the emperor's side.
Heifu first wished that Bazhong's mother would be publicly praised by the First Emperor and be named a virgin.
"Being commended by the emperor himself has never been the case in three generations!"
Speaking of which, people these days are relatively open about gender issues. Men and women can fall in love freely on the Si Festival. Chen Ping of Yangwu County chooses a marriage partner and does not dislike Zhang's daughter remarrying many times.
Even so, there are not many widows in the world, but this is the only one who can be given a virginity memorial by the emperor. For a woman from a border county and a merchant, this is truly an honor...
It's not like the plot of some bloody TV dramas, where the emperor thinks about the widow Qing. According to Bazhong, his mother is already over fifty years old, and the emperor is only thirty-eight this year, so his taste cannot be so strong.
As far as Heifu understood, the emperor respected the widow Qing for two reasons.
One is that Qin Shihuang really valued women's "chastity".
This is understandable. In her early years in Handan, the emperor's mother Zhao Ji was a good dancer. She first hooked up with Lu Buwei and then married a young master. After becoming the queen mother, she even hid her concubine in the palace and engaged in lewdness.
Palace palace.
The mother's dissolute behavior probably left an indelible impression on the emperor in his childhood. Therefore, after Qin Shihuang put down the Lao Ai Rebellion, he imprisoned the two sons born to the Empress Dowager in a side palace. Although due to public opinion, he later welcomed Empress Dowager Zhao back.
In Ganquan Palace, mother and son had become enemies, and they never reconciled until their death.
Qin Shihuang still has not forgiven Empress Dowager Zhao. When discussing the title of emperor, he honored King Zhuangxiang of Qin as the Supreme Emperor, and his grandmother, Empress Dowager Huayang, also sealed the tomb of Empress Dowager Xia, but omitted the title of Empress Dowager Zhao.
The shadow of childhood made the emperor very sensitive to improper relationships between men and women. He once asked the imperial censor's office and the court officials to change the laws related to adultery, and encouraged the catching of adulterers. It has reached the point where after catching adulterers, they would directly dip them into pig cages and kill them...
Nowadays, the chastity arch is deliberately raised to commend the virginity of Ba Widow, hoping that women all over the world will follow her example.
Secondly, Ba Shi also reciprocated the favor and repeatedly donated money, silk, and food for the army to help Qin destroy the six kingdoms. Ba Zhong also traveled around Bajun and Nanjun all the year round to ease the relationship between the Ba tribe and the Qin government.
When Bazhong came to Xianyang this time, in addition to thanking the emperor on behalf of his mother for the gift, he also had another mission.
"It is not an easy task to transport thousands of stones of cinnabar from Bajun into Guanzhong, either by taking the plank road or taking a detour through Wuguan."
While drinking heavily, Ba Zhong whispered to Heifu about their family's biggest business.
"Your Majesty likes cinnabar. I heard from them that alchemists can use cinnabar to refine elixirs. In addition, cinnabar can be burned into mercury, and the mausoleum that your majesty ordered Tingwei to build in Lishan also requires a huge amount of mercury!"
In the early years of the Qin Dynasty, all the tombs were built in the old capital Yong. It was only after the rise of Qin Xiaogong that a new royal tomb area was designated in Zhiyang County east of Baishui. King Huiwen, King Zhaoxiang, Queen Mother Xuan and others were buried there.
That.
Only the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain east of Zhiyang. Although the emperor was in his prime, the mausoleum has been built for twenty-six years since he ascended the throne at the age of 13, and it has begun to take shape...
But now, as Qin Shihuang was promoted from King of Qin to Emperor, the specifications of the mausoleum have to be upgraded to a higher level, so it was decided to restart construction. According to Qin Shihuang's temperament of doing something unprecedented, it can be imagined that the Lishan Mausoleum will be
How grand.
Heifu thought secretly: "Now that the big project in Lishan has been launched, then the firing of the terracotta warriors and horses will also start, right?"
He had been to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in his previous life. In addition to being amazed at how expensive the tickets were, he also had a new impression of Qin. He also spent an afternoon wandering around Qinling Park and posted on Moments. At that time, he did not expect that he
One day he will become Qin Shihuang's bodyguard.
"It is said that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were modeled after the Langzhong Lingjun and the Weiwei Army. Maybe someone from the Young Master's Office will come to me and make a general's terracotta warriors based on my appearance and height!"
Thinking of this, Heifu found it particularly interesting. History and reality seemed to be intertwined.
Just when Heifu imagined that he had turned into a large pottery figure, standing in a glass frame for future generations to watch and study, Ba Zhong's subordinate Danhu, the Ba Zhong warrior who had distributed salt to Heifu on the ship, left.
He came in and said something in Ba language.
"Zhonglang Hu Ling."
After Ba Zhong nodded and let Danhu go down, he said to Heifu: "Someone from my family in Xianyang Market came to report that your cousin seems to have encountered some trouble there..."
"What?" Heifu was stunned at first. Who dared to take advantage of the leopard and dare to cause trouble for him?
As soon as Ba Zhong finished speaking, there were hurried footsteps outside, but it was Sang Mu who came back. He came to the pavilion, bowed down and said: "Lord! Something happened!"