Friends who have seen the Water Margin know that Wu Song's brother Wu Dalang is an ordinary citizen who sells cooking cakes, because Pan Jinlian was poisoned to death by drugging the east window because of the Ximen Qing incident. Now make a hypothesis, if Pan Jinlian did not cheat, could Wu Dalang sell cooking cakes in the Northern Song Dynasty capital Kaifeng to buy a house and a car to live a good life with Pan Jinlian?
Let me first talk about what Wu Dalang sells cooking cakes. Many friends think that Wu Dalang sells cooking cakes today. In fact, this is wrong. In ancient times, there were a lot of pasta. Can be called pie. For example, sesame sesame seeds are sprinkled on top of sesame biscuits, and they are baked until they are cooked. This is what biscuits are called today. It is said that Hu Ping originated from the Hu people in the Western Regions, so it is called Hu Bing.
There are also soup cakes. As the name suggests, soup cakes with soup are today’s noodles. Steamed cakes are more common, that is, the dough is steamed after fermentation. Eat, similar to today's steamed buns. This steamed cake existed in the pre-Qin period, but it was renamed in the Song Dynasty, because the fourth emperor of the Song Dynasty was called Zhao Zheng. The pronunciation of the steamed cake is very similar to Zhao Zheng’s Zheng. The ancients were very taboo. For such things, you can't use the emperor's name indiscriminately, not to mention the fact that it is on the steamed buns that humans eat.
So from the Song Dynasty, the steamed cake was renamed as Chubing. The cooking cakes sold by Wu Dalang are steamed cakes, which is today’s steamed bread. There were also foods called steamed buns in ancient times. The shape was similar to that of cooking biscuits, but the inside was usually stuffed, more like buns today. For example, the human flesh steamed buns that Wu Song ate at his mother's mother and grandson are actually human flesh buns.
Wu Dalang sells cooking cakes, which is actually selling steamed buns. We know that the price of steamed buns is very low. So how much can Wu Dalang make by selling steamed buns in a month? According to records, the prime minister’s salary is 200 gins per month, and the salary of a seven-pin county magistrate is 20 gins per month, while Wu Dalang only earns six gins from selling cooking cakes a month. In the Song Dynasty, the consistent money was almost equal to one or two silver, which is about one thousand wen, which is about 0.8 yuan now, and the consistent money is 800 yuan. That is to say, Wu Dalang can earn 4,800 yuan a month. This income is not even now. High.
Although Wu Dalang's income is not high, the housing prices in Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, are very high. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, a general bought a luxurious house in Kaifeng for 5,000 units, or 4 million yuan. A similar house could be sold for hundreds of thousands, or more than 200 million yuan, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. . Su Shi's younger brother Su Che bought an ordinary house in Kaifeng for 9,400 guan, worth 7.5 million yuan. However, Wu Dalang happened to live in the late Northern Song Dynasty, when the housing price in Kaifeng was the highest. If Wu Dalang wanted to buy a house that was the same as the ordinary house that Su Che bought in Kaifeng, he would have to spend 9,400 yuan. This is just the first step to realizing a good life by buying a house and a car. Buy a house and then buy a car.
The ancients buying a horse is equivalent to buying a car today. In the mid-North Song Dynasty, a horse was sold for 50 guan, and a county magistrate needed two and a half months' salary to buy a horse. There is a lack of pastures for raising horses, so the price of horses is higher. A horse can be sold for 200 yuan. It is also a county magistrate, and it takes ten months of wages to buy it. Therefore, if Wu Dalang bought a horse in the late Northern Song Dynasty, he would have to spend 50 guan worth of money, which is equivalent to 40,000 yuan. If he bought a horse in the early Southern Song Dynasty, it would be 160,000 yuan. Now I can barely buy a Sagitar.
If you look at the house and buy a car, that is, buying a horse, it feels like the ancients bought a car very cheap, but it is not. It's cheap to buy a car, but it's expensive to keep a car. Horses usually need fodder, grain, and salt. Someone has calculated that feeding a horse in the Song Dynasty requires about 100 yuan a day. You may not know what a hundred yuan was in the Song Dynasty. Let me explain the living standard of the Song Dynasty first.
According to the research by Professor Cheng Minsheng of Henan University, the lowest living cost per day in Song Dynasty is 20 wen, which is about 16 yuan, and it is 480 yuan a month, which is similar to today's urban minimum living standard. Ordinary people spend close to 100 wen a day, which is 80 yuan today. The more frugal low-level officials in the Song Dynasty were about this level of consumption.
The great calligrapher Huang Tingjian, when he is an official and knows the state, he is equivalent to today’s mayor. The cost per day is about 275 liters, which is 220 yuan today. The children of the clan of the Song Dynasty, also the children of the relatives of the Emperor Zhao’s family, cost about 470 yuan and 380 yuan a day, which is about 12,000 yuan a month. This is the standard of living of the second generation of Song Dynasty officials. Let’s talk about it as long as you spend The level can reach twelve thousand per month, you are the consumption level of the royal family in the Song Dynasty. Finally, let's take a look at the Queen Mother, which should be the highest level of the rich. During Song Gaozong's reign, the living expenses of the Empress Dowager Meng were about 1,000 guan, which is 800,000 today. Attention, here is not a month, it is a day, a month is 24 million yuan, which is money that ordinary people can't make in a lifetime.
So, the living expenses of raising a horse and a civilian are about the same, it costs 2400 yuan a month. In addition, to raise horses in the city, you also need a garage, that is, a stable, and a dedicated groom. Calculated in this way, you will get five or six pennies to raise horses in a month, which is almost four or five thousand dollars today. Therefore, the ancients would not raise horses unless they were rich and wealthy, and Wu Dalang earned six pennies in a month. Money, if you raise horses, the whole family has to drink Northwest Wind.
Finally, a house is 7.5 million yuan. If Wu Dalang keeps the horse at home, he will have to take care of the horse by himself, and he will have to pay 2,400 yuan a month without a horseman, according to the lowest living expenses per day 16 yuan, two people don’t need children 32 yuan a day, one month is 960 yuan, but Wu Dalang can only earn about 4800 yuan per month, and can save 1440 yuan per month if you save money, and you can save 428 years in Kaifeng. I bought a house.
If you first buy a house and then raise horses, it will be 160 years later. The problem is that the history of the Southern Song Dynasty was from 1127 to 1279, a total of 152 years. If Wu Dalang did not pay close attention to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, he could only buy a house in the Yuan Dynasty. Of course, in fact, Wu Dalang would not be able to live this way. He would never have a house and a car in Kaifeng. Just like you who are watching this story and me who writes the news, maybe there is no way in my life to have a house and a car in Beijing, let alone live a happy life in Beijing, so if people around you are willing to stay with you By your side, cherish her, after all, we are often not Ximenqing in life, but Wu Dalang in life. Since we have not chosen to become Wu Dalang, we will try hard not to let her become the real Pan Jinlian again.
