Qin Official

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: "What a big mansion."

It's not that he didn't know it, Zhangtai Palace has been entered, where in the world is there a bigger house than that? What's more, Heifu's mansions in Jiangling and Anlu are no smaller than Ba's house.

But this is the capital, and future generations will say that it is not easy to live in Changan. Housing prices in Beijing are not comparable to third- and fourth-tier cities like Jiangling and Anlu.

Legend has it that the Duke of Zhou established nine numbers for rituals. During the Warring States Period, the science of arithmetic was widely spread. Many of the six countries had arithmetic books. Nowadays, these arithmetic books are concentrated in the stone chamber of the Yushi Mansion. When Heifu went to find Zhang Cang, he was collecting the remnants of old articles and deleting them.

So Heifu happened to see the math problem above.

"There is a guarantee now. The price for one year is 2,500. Now I want to take 1,200 first. How many days will it take?"

In future generations, Zhang is working for others with 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 shi, and based on the current price of 30 shi, plus some business trip subsidies, the annual salary is about 3,000 shi, which 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, relatives helped to 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 may need to be described in the unit of "100 million". Every year, just by mining and refining cinnabar and selling it to the government, you can make a lot of money, not to mention the business of botong, well salt, and caravans. It is said that Ba Shi maintained a thousand servants in Ba County, 2,000 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 fall, 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 Zhonglang Huling needs it, you can choose it at your discretion..."

As expected of a rich man, he would give away a two-million-dollar house if he gave it away!

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 specially 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 didn’t dare to take risks.

So he declined politely: "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 Zuo Shu, he was much higher than Bazhong. As long as Heifu has money, he can buy a house with seventy houses 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 yuan, 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 had a net worth of more than one million, but all his spare money was used to invest in the brown sugar business, so when he arrived in Xianyang, he 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 with guarding these days and didn't pay attention to this matter. So before going to Bazhong's mansion for dinner, he asked Yuzhi Sangmu to go to the other side of Wei Bridge to check the situation. For his plan to buy a house, he hoped that Brown Tang would be in Xianyang. A big hit.

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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. There were bottles set up on the stone table here, some fruits and vegetables were placed on the lacquer plate, and wine was 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 drinking 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 together, which is called "gift".

After the emperor announced the edict today, 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 lifted, the aroma of wine overflowed everywhere on both sides of the Wei Bridge.

The two sat down to drink and wish each other happy birthdays. Bazhong congratulated Heifu on being appointed the chief of Zuo Shu, and becoming the household minister of 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 chaste woman.

"It has never been the case in three generations to be commended by the emperor himself!"

Speaking of which, people these days are relatively open about gender issues. Men and women can fall in love freely during the Si Festival. When Chen Ping of Yangwu County chooses a marriage partner, he 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 series, 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 knew, the emperor respected Widow Qing for two reasons.

One is that Qin Shihuang really valued women's "chastity".

This is understandable. The emperor's mother Zhao Ji was a good dancer in Handan in her early years. She first hooked up with Lu Buwei and then married a young master. After becoming the Queen Mother, she even hid Lao Ai in the palace and committed adultery in the palace.

The mother's dissolute behavior probably left an indelible impression on the emperor's childhood, so after Qin Shi Huang put down the Lao Ai Rebellion, he imprisoned the two sons born to the Queen Mother in a side palace. Although later due to public opinion, the Empress Dowager Zhao was welcomed back to Ganquan Palace, mother and son had become enemies and never reconciled until their death.

Qin Shihuang has still not forgiven Empress Dowager Zhao. When discussing the emperor's title, he honored King Zhuangxiang of Qin as the Supreme Emperor. The tombs of his grandmothers, Empress Dowager Huayang and Empress Dowager Xia, were also sealed, except for Empress Dowager Zhao.

The shadow of childhood made the emperor very sensitive to improper relationships between men and women. He once asked the Yushifu and Tingwei to change the laws related to adultery and encouraged the catching of adulterers. It has reached the point where after catching adulterers, they will be directly immersed in pig cages and killed...

Nowadays, the virgin archway is deliberately raised to commend Ba Widow's innocence, which may not fail to hope that women all over the world will follow suit.

Secondly, Ba Shi also reciprocated the favor and repeatedly donated money, silk and food to the army to help Qin destroy the six kingdoms. Ba Zhong also traveled around Bajun and Nanjun all 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 Ting Wei to build in Lishan also requires a huge amount of mercury!"

The tombs of the Qin State in the early years were all built in the old capital Yong. It was only after the rise of Qin Xiaogong that a new royal tomb area began to be 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 had to be upgraded to a higher level, so it was decided to restart construction. According to Qin Shihuang's temperament of doing something unprecedented, we can imagine how grand the Lishan Mausoleum will be.

Heifu thought secretly: "Now that the big project of 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 once 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?" Hei Fu 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!"