Prime Minister

Chapter 184
Zhang Yue went to Bianjing to buy a house, the next question is whether to register in Bianjing.

Previously, Zhang Yue was a student of Tai Tai, and his household registration was managed by the Guozijian. Now he can change his household registration to Kaifengfu when he enters Bianjing to buy a house.

If you want to ask whether it is difficult to obtain a Bianjing account?
If you change the seal of the previous life, you will definitely get it, but the Bianjing household registration in the Song Dynasty is optional.

First of all, it is not difficult to obtain a Bianjing account.

In the Song Dynasty, Bianjing household registration was very lenient. Floating guests could settle in Bianjing after living in Bianjing for one year.

However, if you want to take the imperial examination from Kaifeng, you must be registered for seven years before you are allowed, but there is no limit to the children who accompany the officials to Bianjing to serve as officials.

Finally, when Fang Ya asked Zhang Yue if he was naturalized in Bianjing, Zhang Yue did not agree.

Because they are born in Bianjing, they are Chengguo households.

If you want to take the imperial examination, rural households have an advantage over urban households.

Even though the imperial examinations did not explicitly say to take care of rural households, even many official households were Chengguo households.But being born in a Chengguo household will always remind the examiner of miscellaneous business and industry.

The Song Dynasty has already relaxed the restrictions on the imperial examinations and allowed miscellaneous categories of business and industry to take the exams, but discrimination is still a matter of details in the final analysis.

In addition, there is another problem, that is, if you become a Bianjing citizen, you will have to pay taxes.

In the Song Dynasty, rural households were divided into five classes, and urban households were divided into ten classes.

Township households of the third class and above are regarded as the "property class", and the so-called "property class" means having their own fields and properties.

Previously, Zhang Yue's family fell from a first-class household to a third-class household, because there was a house near Guo, and one of them was rented out.

As for the rural households above the second class, they are landlords.As for the third class of Fang Guohu, it is the same as the second class of rural households.

During the Qingli New Deal, Fan Zhongyan planned to let private households raise horses in Hebei. Among them, households above the third class in the city and households above the second class in the countryside had to raise a war horse that could be armored, and the government could purchase it from the private sector during wartime.

However, the Chengguo households in Bianjing are different from the Chengguo households in ordinary prefectures and counties.

Bianjing's "production" city households must be ranked fifth or above.

Don't look at this class, it is related to the tax payment of the people.

Later, Wang Anshi's reform stipulated the law of exemption from service, which stipulated that rural households below the fourth class and urban households below the sixth class were exempted from conscript money.

However, when Zhang Yue went to Bianjing to buy a house, he belonged to the property class. According to the conversion of owning property in Bianjing, he would become a fifth-class household.Although there were no express regulations in the Song Dynasty, the general family business money (converted into money) was calculated to exceed one thousand guan. In terms of township households, it was first-class households, county Guo households were second-class and above, and prefectural Guo households were third-class and above.

The price of Zhang Yue's house must have exceeded one thousand guan.

Once you have entered Bianjing, you will have to apportion taxes and labor.Businessmen have to pay tax and housing tax, craftsmen also have to pay tax, even scholars like Zhang Yue can't escape, and those who have houses have to collect land tax, which is white land money.

Therefore, Zhang Yue is still a rural household, buying a house in Bianjing as a registered member of the Imperial College.

Song Renzong took good care of the students of Guozijian, not only allowing them to buy a house in Beijing to live in, but also exempting them from academic assignments.

For scholars, Song Renzong is of course a good emperor, but for ordinary people, he is the emperor of "ten thousand taxes".

When the red deed was obtained, Zhang Yue was overwhelmed with emotion. One of his unfulfilled wishes in his previous life was finally fulfilled.

The moment he walked out of the county office, he couldn't help shouting three times: "Get in the car! Get in the car! Get in the car!"

Zhang Fangya didn't understand what it meant, he thought Zhang Yue had called a carriage.

Fang Ya introduced by Yang was very quick to help Zhang Yue find a tenant.The other party is a scholar who came to Beijing to travel in an apartment.

Although there were shops and house affairs in the Song Dynasty that specialized in the rental of state-owned real estate, these houses were generally not available to ordinary households in the city.

All the housekeeping services are officials or well-connected people who come to Beijing.

Therefore, when Ouyang Xiu was an official in his early years, he sighed, "It's a pity that I came to the capital to shelter myself without any harm."Leisurely squares and ancient houses, humble and miscellaneous.

This is already very good, after all, he lives in a public rental housing, which is allocated by the imperial court, and the rent does not exceed five hundred yuan a month at most.Officials often sublet out the public rental housing given to them by the imperial court. For this reason, the imperial court also specially ordered that once officials are found to be acting like this, their housing qualifications will be revoked immediately.

For example, Zhang Yue's two-room "dilapidated house" can be rented three times a month.

Zhang Yue will renovate the house, add some furniture and utensils, and add another floor upstairs, that's more.

Bianjing household registration is divided into main household and customers. The main household is the person with property, and the customer is the common people in Bianjing without property, who must rent a house. In addition, there are floating customers who have no property and no Bianjing household registration.

If there is a person who rents out a house, that is, the landlord, he is called a house grabber.

As for Bianjing, there are many people who plunder houses and earn tens of thousands of dollars a year.

When the lease was signed, Zhang Yue knew the tenant's name was You Yue, and You Yue was surprised when he saw Zhang Yue's age and asked, "You are the head of the household?"

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Of course."

You Yue couldn't help but sized Zhang Yue up, and seemed to ask a few words about Zhang Yue's background.

Zhang Yue didn't want people to know about his purchase of a house, so he said that he was a student studying in Beijing, and his elders in his family gave him money to buy a house to live in Bianjing, but he is currently living in a classmate's house temporarily.

Zhang Yue's words were vague, and You Yue didn't dare to ask in detail.

Zhang Yue asked him why he rented a house, and You Yue replied: "I failed the examination at the age of next year, and I plan to go to the Imperial College for the examination next year. I will try my luck to get a student from the Zhongguang Wenguan."

There are 600 people in the Guozijian's examination.

In addition to Tai students who can take the exam, there are also students from the Guangwen Museum.

To become a student of the Guangwen Museum, one must have the qualifications to have taken the provincial examination, and they are generally scholars who failed the provincial examination last year and stayed in Beijing.

Tai students are very hard, but students in Guangwen University are even more miserable. They have no place to live, and they have food and clothing. If they don’t have fellow villagers, it’s hard for them to stay in Beijing.

In addition, there is another way, the Imperial College will conduct a supervisory test before the release test.

The Guozijian tried the internal examination of the Guozijian, and selected some students like You Yue as Guangwenguan students.

There are quite a few scholars who have followed this path, such as the famous Ouyang Xiu.Ouyang Xiu was the first in the Guangwenguan Examination, the first in the Guozijian Fajie Examination, and the first in the Provincial Examination. He was called "Lianzhong Sanyuan".

Zhang Yue heard that the other party was going to take the Imperial College exam, and thought that this person might also be a potential competitor in the future. If so, should he raise his rent from time to time in the future?

You Yue paid five months' rent in one go, Zhang Yue looked at the other party's quickness, and felt that the rent would not be raised for the time being.

Zhang Yue Fangya walked out of the yard, only to see the original owner and his wife leaving slowly.

They just moved out of the house today, and when they sold it for sale, Zeng Yangzhang allowed them to stay for a few more days.Zhang Yue saw that the house business was going so smoothly, so he agreed.

While buying a house, Zhang Yue heard some things about the couple one after another.

They are locals from Bianjing. The man's ancestors had a glorious past, but their family business gradually declined.The man originally made a living as a craftsman for others, but he was not reconciled to relying on such a living, so he did money for the eunuchs.

According to the law of the Song Dynasty, officials are not allowed to borrow money for interest, but the law belongs to the law, and many officials are doing it with a "hehe" attitude. There are also some officials who care about face. Those who do, use other people to run for themselves.

This couple is guaranteeing for the officials and eunuchs to give the money to others, and the interest money will be paid in half.

It seems that the interest rate is not much, but in fact, the monthly interest rate of private private loans in the Song Dynasty was as high as [-]%, and the couple could get [-]% interest.

Moreover, there are many unworthy descendants of rich and noble families. At that time, people in Song Dynasty said that there were three worms among the unworthy children of rich and noble families.

The first class is locusts, which feed on selling ancestral fields.The first-class silverfish feed on selling books.There is also a class of big worms who feed on selling people.

For example, Lu Duan, who is "not confused about big things", has not educated his descendants well.His descendants all mortgaged the mansion passed down by their father to others. Song Zhenzong felt pitiful and paid to redeem the mansion to the descendants of the Lu family.

The descendants of prime ministers can do the same. Ordinary people are forced to sell their houses and fields, and even sell their children and daughters everywhere.

These common people have fattened up businessmen who started their fortunes with money.

The couple is engaged in the business of money, which is a risky road to wealth.They had a good income at the beginning, but the last time they were too greedy to lend to an embroiderer.As a result, the businessman lost his money and ran away, and the money was not recovered in the end.

The couple couldn't do business with the official family behind them, so they had to sell their property, and finally sold the house to the official family to pay off the debt.

Zhang Yue inadvertently witnessed the downfall of a family.

How could he have never expected that a man who seems to be honest and friendly would also be engaged in the business of resting for others.

Fang Ya at the side said in disbelief, "Does Xiucai know who this couple is lending money to?"

"who?"

Fang Ya whispered: "I heard that in Mr. Han's family, you must not spread the word."

Zhang Yue was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought to himself, Han Qi is a well-known 'virtuous official', and he did it for such a thing.But it seems that lending money is a common practice among scholar-bureaucrats.

No wonder why Han Qi was so opposed to Wang Anshi's young crop law in history.

How many wealthy families have been cut off by this.

Although Zhang Yue thought of this, he was still satisfied with the income after renting out the house. This was a proper after-sleep income, which was called crazy money at the time.

The daily income of the people in the Song Dynasty was only 75 to [-] renminbi, which is nothing more than a richer place in Bianjing.For example, the annual salary of a Xiang soldier is about [-] guan, and an imperial army is only [-] guan.

Earning a hundred dollars a day is equivalent to the income of an ordinary person.

Zhang Yue returned to Taixue after finishing his work, but when he came to the gate of Taixue, he saw a gentleman squatting at the base of the wall.

Zhang Yue looked at it carefully and couldn't help calling out: "Tang Jiu!"

When the other party heard the words, he looked up and saw that it was Zhang Yue, he stood up and cupped his fists and said, "I've seen Mr. Sanlang."

Zhang Yue said: "Why is Tang Jiu like this? So embarrassed?"

Tang Jiu sighed: "Mr. Sanlang, it's a long story. Tang Jiu is in trouble today, so he has the cheek to borrow money from you."

Zhang Yue said: "What are you talking about? Let's find a wine shop and have a good chat."

After Zhang Yue took Tang Jiu to the restaurant to sit down, Zhang Yue first said to the bartender, "Get Wujiao wine first."

The bartender laughed and said, "Did Mr. Xiucai drink so much?"

Zhang Yue said: "Go as soon as I tell you."

The bartender smiled and walked away.

Zhang Yue said to Tang Jiu: "Don't you, Tang Jiu, work as an errand in the capital's office? How did you end up in this land?"

Tang Jiudao: "It's all my fault. I made a mistake by drinking. After drinking, I said a few words to the police, so that I was kicked out by the police. It's been three days since I haven't eaten."

Zhang Yue changed his face and said: "Why is this so good? You were recommended by Mr. Wu Dalang. It's because he dared to take you because of his heart, and the Wu family didn't care about face?"

Tang Jiudao: "It's all because of my drinking... I made a mistake."

Seeing Tang Jiu's words, Zhang Yue asked with a shudder in his heart: "Isn't it? Could it be that the governor did it on purpose? Tang Jiu, tell me the truth."

Tang Jiu hesitated for a moment and said: "Although I am usually good at drinking, I do have a very good friendship with Du Xia. Although I was very drunk that day, I was not very drunk. As for verbal conflicts, I am used to it. I don't know why that day There was such a big fire."

Zhang Yue felt angry from the bottom of his heart, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't blame others.He said: "I will investigate this matter clearly, you can live here first, and I will make arrangements for you in a few days."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue took some five or six taels of silver and put it in Tang Jiu's hands and said, "Use this money first."

Tang Jiu didn't refuse to accept the money and said, "Mr. Sanlang, you don't have to explain it for me. I'll just go back to Jianzhou."

Zhang Yue said: "How can I do that? How can I go back to Jianzhou if I don't help you get rid of the crime of assassination? You live in Bianjing. Don't think too much, if I, Zhang San, have a bite to eat, I won't let you go hungry .”

After settling Tang Jiu, Zhang Yue returned to Taixue.

He knew that Tang Jiu's dismissal from the Dujufang must be Wu Anshi's intention.Speaking of which, Tang Jiu's errand was arranged by Wu Anshi's face, and now he can't blame him for letting Tang Jiu's errand go.And if Wu Anshi really wanted to splash dirty water on purpose, it wouldn't be impossible to punish Tang Jiu severely.

That being the case, this kiss... this kiss seems to be impossible to end.

This Wu Anshi is really awesome.

This time, the official examination of Yin officials did not rank well.

You must know that even if Feng Yin was awarded an official, he was only allowed to be granted an official after passing the imperial examination.It's just that the difficulty of the Yinguan examination is not the same as that of Jinshi, and it is not even comparable to the examinations of general state schools and county schools.

In the Yinguan examination, two people choose one person. His younger brother Wu Anchi passed, but Wu Anchi failed, and he has to take the exam next time.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yue also sighed with emotion. It seems that he and the Wu family have no destiny.

Zhang Yue ate a few glasses of wine, but he didn't dare to drink too much, otherwise he would not even be able to enter the door if he was drunk and disrespectful.

After Zhang Yue returned to Taixue, he heard that Ouyang Fa had been waiting for him all afternoon in Taixue.

Zhang Yue thought to himself, what is Ouyang Fa doing here?
So Zhang Yue met Ouyang and asked suspiciously: "Uncle and brother really bothered you for a long time, I don't know why you came to me?"

Ouyang Fa saw Zhang Yue and said with a smile, "Sanlang, you really made me wait."

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Bo He is still in such a hurry."

Ouyang laughed and said, "Can you not be in a hurry? Not much to say, just follow me!"

"What's the rush? It's already night."

Ouyang laughed and said, "I still don't know? What's the point of feeling so weak?"

Zhang Yue smiled wryly, almost forgot that Ouyang Fa was also a student of the imperial court, he was so clear!

Ouyang Fa didn't allow Zhang to go any further and pulled him into the mule cart with a smile, "Sanlang, there is a good thing that concerns your life."

Zhang Yue was also speechless for a while, and wanted to ask more questions later, but Ouyang Fa didn't say anything, just kept laughing, which made Zhang Yue's heart shudder, thinking that he was going to abduct him somewhere.

(End of this chapter)