Princess of the auxiliary country

By the time she returned to the small courtyard, many people had gathered here.

Grandma Xi was originally asking people to move things, but when she heard Xiaochan say that the young lady had already chosen the yard where she wanted to live, she quickly invited half of the people to come over and clean it up.

"Xiao Chan, come here."

Hearing her greeting, Xiaochan quickly turned around and ran over.

"Miss, what's the matter?"

"Let me ask, how many pieces of cloth do we have at home?"

"cloth?"

Xiao Chan was startled, then she frowned and thought for a moment, "There should be quite a few. They buy some from Jiangnan every year, and the palace also rewards a lot every year. Does Miss need cloth to make clothes?"

"When I went to find Aunt Xi just now, I saw that among the things prepared by Her Royal Highness the Princess, there were more than ten pieces of fine silk."

"No silk, just ordinary cloth."

What a joke, using silk to tinker with the greenhouse, she is not rich enough yet.

Even if she is the rich daughter of the Duke's palace, things like silk were quite precious in ancient times.

Not only is it precious, many people can’t wear it even if they want to.

For example, farmers and businessmen, even if they have money and can buy silk, are not qualified to use it to make clothes.

This is a very hierarchical society. Only nobles or scholar-bureaucrats are qualified to wear silk. If they are not rich enough to wear silk, it will be considered transgression and will be punished.

"There are some ordinary cloths. There should be three or four pieces. Miss, do you want it? I will get it for you right now."

"No, no, this is too little. Can you think of a way to get more?"

Hearing this, Xiaochan nodded with a smile and said, "Of course you can. Then go tell Aunt Xi and ask her to arrange for someone to go to the capital and ask Her Royal Highness the Princess for some."

"How many do you need, Miss?"

One piece of Yu Chao's cloth was forty feet long and two feet wide. She mentally calculated the fields she had just seen, and she planned to prepare them all for the greenhouse.

They all planted things. Anyway, she had plenty of seeds. It would not be impossible to dismantle them in the spring of next year and keep them for future use.

Although the windproofness and light transmittance of this thing are not as good as the plastic sheet of the previous life, it is still better than nothing.

"In this case, let's get two hundred horses over first."

"Oh, okay, then slave"

Xiaochan was just about to turn around to find Nanny Xi when she suddenly noticed something, stopped and turned to look at Huo Junyao in shock.

"Miss, how much did you just say you wanted?"

"Two hundred horses."

Is it really two hundred horses?Xiaochan was doubting her ears at that moment, but now that she heard the lady talking about two hundred horses, she didn't know what to say.

The cloth that can be rewarded by the royal family and purchased by Duke Ji's government, even if it is just cloth, is of very good quality. If sold outside, the price of one piece will be at least five guan.

There was no silver in circulation for the time being in the Yu Dynasty, and the main currency used was copper coins. Of course, cloth and gold could also be used as currency, but they were used relatively rarely.

On the Yu Dynasty side, one thousand copper coins is equal to one. If calculated in silver, it is almost one tael of silver.

As Huo Junyao's personal maid, Xiaochan belongs to the eldest maid level and is considered the first echelon among the maids.

She only had three hundred coins a month ago.Huo Junyao had made some rough calculations not long after she traveled through time, and she made the judgment based on the grain prices in the Yu Dynasty that she said she knew.

Take Xiaochan's monthly money as an example. One hundred wen is equivalent to 200 yuan. Then Xiaochan's monthly money of three hundred wen is almost equal to 600 yuan in future generations.

Don't think that Xiaochan, as a maid, has little monthly money. You must know that Xiaochan is a child of the family. From the time she was born, she has been a slave of Duke Ji's mansion.

Her parents had sold themselves to get into Duke Ji's mansion, so even if they were from Duke Ji's mansion, even if they didn't give them any money and only took care of food, there would be no problem.

The only reason to give them monthly money is to hope that they can serve their masters more wholeheartedly.

And the value of these 600 yuan is indeed very small in future generations. What can [-] yuan be used for?

But in the Yu Dynasty, that was a huge amount of income.

How much does a pound of grain cost here?One penny per catty, of course this is coarse grain, and the price of fine grain is only two cents per catty.

There is not much entertainment consumption these days. What ordinary people think about is basically the issue of eating enough.

One pound of grain, if mixed with some wild vegetables or something, is enough to feed a family of five for almost a day.

Calculated in this way, Xiaochan's monthly income of [-] wen is quite rich for an ordinary family. He can buy [-] kilograms of grain in a month of work, which is more than enough to feed a family of five.

Of course, not all the money will be used to buy food, but also other things. Even so, there will be a lot of surplus.

From this we can also see how expensive the Yu Dynasty's money was.

Going back to the topic, Huo Junyao asked for two hundred pieces at a time. The worst cloths in Duke Ji's mansion were all top-grade goods, and there were even many first-grade goods.

The price of ordinary high-quality goods is two to three guan per horse, and the lowest price for first-class goods is five guan.

Assuming it is all top-grade goods, and priced at two guan, two hundred pieces of cloth are a full four hundred guan.

Duke Ji's annual salary was only about eighty guan. Of course, it was just money, and other subsidies for food, cloth, meat, etc. were not included.

And Her Royal Highness the Princess has more, like a hundred guan a year, and then there are also income from two palaces, shops and so on.

Therefore, Duke Ji's Mansion can be considered relatively wealthy among all the nobles.

But even if you are rich, you cannot give out four hundred strings at once.

Xiaochan knew that this time when the young lady came to the hot spring villa, Her Royal Highness the Princess not only prepared things, but also generously withdrew fifty strings of money from her father-in-law and brought them over.

You must know that the eldest son of Duke Ji's family only receives three guan of monthly money from his family.

Huo Junyao had just found her back. Her Royal Highness the Princess wanted to make up for it, but her monthly salary was only the same as that of the prince.

In other words, she only had 36 guan in a year. This time she came to the hot spring villa, and the eldest princess directly gave her an extra year's worth of monthly money. From now on, she will still give her [-] guan each month as usual, which is already considered enough. He dotes on her very much.

"Miss, what do you need so much cloth for? This stuff is very expensive."

"Very expensive? How expensive?"

Huo Junyao didn't have much idea about this.

After all, the original owner lived in a mountain village at the time. Although the people in the village were kind to her, she was an orphan. She rarely had any money, not much, and she had never left the village unless her biological parents came to find her.

Most of the things I needed were brought back by people who went out in the same village, but I never went out to contact them myself.

After traveling through time, the reason why I roughly analyzed the ratio of copper coins here to future generations was based on the food prices described by the villagers.