To say that such a yard is of course very valuable if it is bought or sold, it will cost at least five hundred taels of silver. But if it is rented, it depends on the owner. Renting a house in ancient times is not as good as listing it in an agency five hundred years later.

Anyone can rent it, as long as they can pay the rent. Nowadays, the vacancy rate for houses of all sizes in Beijing is still very high, especially for some ordinary houses. Yards like Zhang Zijun's are very common. There is no such thing as a yard like this.

People live in it, and it is a burden for the owner if it is vacant. People have to be sent to clean it every now and then. Houses that have not been lived in for a long time need to be ventilated. Fallen leaves must be cleaned in the courtyard, and wild cats must be smoked, wild dogs hunted, and snakes and insects driven away.

Repairing leaks and unblocking drainage are a huge expense in a year, and the ancients were very persistent about real estate and would not sell it easily unless they went to other places to become officials. There were not many people in the capital, and there was another kind of people who were serving as officials.

If a house is confiscated, it will be put up for sale by the government. Apart from these, you can keep it as long as you can. Even if no one lives in it, you have to hire someone to support it. But Zhang Zijun doesn't understand the market, so he was

Li Sheng jokes.

After listening to Li Sheng's explanation, I suddenly realized that Mr. Li finally made the decision. Originally, there was no rent required. In order to reassure Zhang Zijun, he also made a rental agreement for eight taels of silver per year, which was signed by both parties.

Here we need to talk about the value of one tael of silver at this time. The price of a pound of pork is about 20 cents, and the price of rice is 2.5 cents per catty. One tael of silver is equal to 1,000 cents, which can buy 400 catties of rice.

, one pound is equivalent to about one pound and two taels in modern times, so one tael can buy 480 kilograms of modern rice.

This conversion is recorded in the "Wanli Accounting Records", and modern rice is about 2 to 3 yuan per catty. Taking 2.5 yuan per catty, one tael of silver at that time was equivalent to about 1,200 today if the purchasing power was simply measured based on the price of rice.

Around yuan.

As you can see, one tael of silver is worth 1,200 yuan, and a person cannot live for a month. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, one tael of silver could support a medium-sized family of less than 10 people for one month, and ensure that they would not die of hunger. If you want to live a good life

A little, some meat, some new clothes, a maid and a servant, and some monthly money, at least 3-5 taels.

The life of the ancients was simple. There were no water, electricity, gas, telephone or Internet fees, nor property management fees, nor car gas fees. There was almost no place to spend except food. Of course, for those wealthy families, there were many staff, food and clothing.

It's the best, and the expenses will be more. Generally, it consists of a decent family, with a father and mother, three children, a servant, a maid, plus the master's main house, which means nine people, and if there is a side house, there are ten people.

A family's normal expenses would not exceed 5 taels per month, which would be 6,000 yuan in modern terms.

Therefore, Zhang Zijun was deeply poisoned by the pre-time-travel TV series. If he had known this, he would not have even been able to pay out eight taels of silver, and his heart was bleeding. But Li Sheng got eight taels of silver and was leaving happily.

Later, I asked for the deed of Zhang Zijun's family, which was a document proving his identity. Together with the rental agreement, I submitted it to Shuntian Mansion to re-register and obtain legal status.

Mr. Li is afraid that Zhang Zijun will regret it, so this kind of thing is all covered.

Zhang Zijun looked at the huge courtyard. He didn't have many belongings for moving, so he settled them in place in no time. In the main house in the backyard, all the belongings were complete, and there was no need to buy any more. His first idea was to renovate, especially the backyard, which was a waste of land.

Oh, these are all kinds of flowers and plants. They have all been turned over. There is also a slope beside the pond where you can plant onions, garlic, ginger, and yes, onions. These onions are good things. They were not available in the Ming Dynasty.

Things, but during the move, Zhang Zijun found a few onions, all of which sprouted, so he just happened to plant them. Peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts were planted on the ground next to the wall. Thanks to these things that my wife stuffed in the trunk before traveling.

, all become seeds.

When I think of my mother, I naturally think of my father. It seems that the son can only pay homage in the future tomorrow, and then make a few memorial tablets, tables and other offerings. If there are no such things in the home, the ancients will be suspicious.

Make an unfilial remark.

In the past few days, Zhang Zijun mobilized his whole family to tidy up the idle land in the backyard and plant various vegetables, so that the family would not have to worry about having no vegetables to eat in the future. Zhang Zijun was born in a farmer's family, so planting some vegetable land was considered as a form of fitness.

At the same time, he explained: "Ziya is here, and Erbao is also here. Look, here is the pepper field, these ridges are peanuts, and next to it are potatoes. Potatoes are drought-resistant and do not need to be watered often, just like the peanuts next to them.

, usually we just need to weed and loosen the soil, and the ridge of land here is filled with onions, which are treasures. I usually pay more attention, and then plant some eggplants, carrots, green vegetables and so on, and they will all come together. Over there on the rockery

Plant some pumpkins, loofahs, cucumbers, etc.”

Zhang Zijun didn't care whether some things were available in the Ming Dynasty or not, but he grew them for his own consumption anyway. In his memory, potatoes and peanuts were not cultivated on a large scale until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Another place that needs to be renovated is the kitchen and the latrine. It’s called a latrine, but it’s really a latrine. It’s a thatched house at the foot of the yard wall. The toilet’s nickname is “Houfan” and its common name is “toilet”.

Because ordinary people's homes are built with thatch and mud walls. The toilets in this courtyard are similar. I wonder if the toilets in the residences of wealthy families and emperors and concubines at this time are more sophisticated? Zhang Zijun doesn't know.

, Anyway, when I traveled back in time, I always used such toilets. I remember that in history, there was an emperor who fell into a pit and choked to death on feces. This man was the king of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. One day after he had eaten, he went to

He went to the toilet, but when he got up he felt dizzy and fell into the latrine. When others rescued him, they could not save his life.

How could an adult who is so tall fall into the toilet so casually? This is because in order to leave feces and use it as fertilizer in the future, the toilets at that time were all big tanks. The big tanks would be buried deep in the ground, and people would squat in them.

It is really easy for someone to fall into such a big tank mouth when going to the toilet next to the tank. It seems that the tank that choked King Jin to death was probably almost full...

To renovate a toilet, you first need a flush toilet. To have a flush toilet, you need running water. This is too complicated. So Zhang Zijun came up with a way to improve the toilet in addition to the wooden toilet in the room that is used at night.

The inside of the toilet was raised with wooden boards, and bricks were used below to build a ditch leading to the outside. The ditch was built very steeply. I also got a chair, sawed off the legs of the chair, and opened a round hole on the surface of the chair.

Press it on it, so that after using the toilet, you can flush the ditch with a bucket, and the poop will be flushed into a water tank outside the house. The water tank is half buried underground, and the top is sealed with a stone slab, so the odor will not spread everywhere.

All, the main reason is that the toilet is clean and tidy, so that poop is not left in the toilet, and it is much more convenient to wash the toilet at night to empty it. When the toilet water is full, it is used to water the vegetable garden.

Looking at the achievements in the past few days, I was very happy. Come on, let’s vomit first. After the results were over, another headache came up, which was the problem of toilet paper. Zhang Zijun came to Ming Dynasty soon.

Years ago, every time when I went to the toilet, I could only learn from the Indians and prepare a jar of water. Unfortunately, people in the Ming Dynasty at this time were still using bamboo and wood chips to scrape, called toilet slips. Not ordinary people could use toilet slips.

, most people grab a handful of straw, some pick a few leaves, and some wealthy families have toilet paper in their homes, but this toilet paper is not that toilet paper, it is a thick, yellowed paper, and you can see the paper

The surface has the shape of bamboo tendons and leaves. Although you can rub it, don't use force because you might not be able to keep the chrysanthemum.

If you want to live in the Ming Dynasty, you still have a long way to go. Zhang Zijun can only lament.

However, after such renovation, it would be nice to be able to take a shower here in the summer. If this is the case, the road outside the toilet must be cleaned. The wooden floor inside the current dirt road is full of mud. There is no rush.

Slowly turn this road into a wooden floor.

Wood in the Ming Dynasty was not very expensive, and miscellaneous wood like these was the price of firewood. But if you want to turn it into wooden boards, the price will increase exponentially, mainly the price of the sawyer. Zhang Zijun lamented again, if he had a saw board
Chapter completed!