Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 102 Plan
  Bianjing is divided into the imperial city, the inner city and the outer city. The circumference of the outer city is more than fifty miles.

When the Tang Dynasty was at its most prosperous, Chang'an, the capital of the country, had a population of just over one million.

By the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population of Bianjing had exceeded one million.

Because of the large population, even the outside of Bianjing City is extremely prosperous.

Two long motorcades headed towards Bianjing along the Bianhe River. On both sides of the road, they saw taverns, tea shops, various snack bars, and medicine shops, one after another. The closer they got to the city, the more prosperous they became, with flags and flags fluttering. , densely populated and lively.

This is just outside Bianjing City, and it is already so prosperous. I really don’t know what it will be like in the city.

Sitting on the carriage, Li An looked at the bustling and bustling scene outside through the carriage window, and looked forward to Bianjing even more.

Suddenly, a wooden arch bridge came into view, and Li An looked at it carefully.

"This should be the Hongqiao in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", right?"

After looking at Hongqiao and the scenes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Ang Lee suddenly felt like he was in a painting.

Unfortunately, in the end, these were all destroyed in the war, and the south was sent to retreat to the south, and the entire north fell into the hands of foreigners.

The literati could only send out a warm breeze to make tourists drunk, and they sighed that Hangzhou was called Bianzhou.

Li An shook his head slightly. These were too far away from him. He was just a small person now, and these were not things he could change.

If he can ascend to a high position and gain certain rights in the future, he may try to change these things.

These are too far away from him now, and thinking about them will only increase his troubles.

When the convoy entered Bianjing City, the two families separated.

Although the Sheng family's house is also in the outer city, it is in Jiying Lane close to the inner city.

When the People's Republic of China was first founded, all the officials and nobles lived in the inner city. However, with the development over the years, the houses in the inner city have become extremely expensive, and even those with money cannot buy them.

Many officials with insufficient financial resources had no choice but to live in outer cities.

Being close to the inner city, close to the palace and convenient for attending court, it naturally became the first choice of officials.

The people living near Jiying Lane are all officials of fourth rank or above. The Sheng family has a house there, but Liu Xuewen does not.

Although the Song Dynasty treated civil servants preferentially and had the highest salary among all dynasties, Liu Xuewen was only a seventh-rank official before. He only had one son serving as an official elsewhere, and no one in his family was engaged in business.

In addition, Liu Xuewen was an honest official and had no other income except his salary. Naturally, he couldn't afford to rent the house there.

The house Liu Xuewen rented was not far from the east gate of Bianjing. They happened to enter the city through the east gate, so they separated after entering the city.

After separating from the Sheng family, the motorcade stopped at the door of a house not long after.

Li An jumped off the carriage first and helped Liu Xuewen out of the carriage.

On the other side, Mrs. Zhang and Liu Waner also got out of the car with the help of the maid.

Ah Fu stepped forward and knocked on the door, and soon the housekeeper Hao Rong, who had been sent to Bianjing earlier, came out.

"I've met the master, his wife, and the three girls." Hao Rong saluted.

"Ah Rong, ask someone to lead them to move the ceremony in." Liu Xuewen said.

"Yes."

Hao Rong gave instructions to the servants who followed him, and then led Liu Xuewen and his party into the house.

The house is a two-entry house, not too big. It faces south and has a courtyard on the east and west sides.

The overall decoration looks a bit old, but it has been cleaned very well.

Liu Xuewen looked at it briefly, praised Hao Rong a few words, and said: "Zi Qian, it's been a long journey, let Ah Rong take you to the resettlement and have a rest first."

"Yes."

Li An saluted Liu Xuewen and Zhang, and followed Hao Rong to the east yard with Shi Lin and his son.

The yard is not big, with only three rooms, a living room and two bedrooms. "Young Master, please see if there is anything you need to buy. I will arrange for someone to bring it to you," Hao Fu said.

"Uncle Rong, it looks good to me. There is no need to add anything. You can go and do it." Li An said.

Hao Rong was the housekeeper of the Liu family. He also served as a master for a period of time when Liu Xuewen was the county magistrate in his early years. He was deeply trusted by Liu Xuewen and Li An did not dare to trust him in front of him.

Hao Rong had corrected him several times before and told him not to call him Young Master, but Hao Rong had been unwilling to change his tune, so Li An had no choice but to let him.

"Haha, I'll leave first. I'll arrange for two maids to come to the courtyard to wait on you later," Hao Rong said.

"Uncle Rong, there is no need for a maid. Living here is already a trouble for the teacher." Li An quickly refused.

Hao Rong didn't speak, just nodded, saluted and left.

"Master, you live in the house on the east side, and Zhuzi and I live in the house on the west side."

Li An looked at the two rooms. The east room was larger and should be the master bedroom. The west room was much smaller and seemed to be for servants.

"Goudan and I live in the house on the west side, and you live in the east side."

After Shi Lin finished speaking, he didn't give Li An a chance to speak. He directly took his salute and called Shi Zhu to the west house.

Li An gave a bitter smile and could only go to the east room with the salute in hand.

He didn't bring many gifts, only some books and some clothes and shoes.

In addition, there were five hundred taels of silver notes and some broken silver.

When he came to Bianjing this time, Mr. Liu basically changed all the money at home into banknotes and asked him to take it with him.

In Liu's words, if a poor family is rich and Bianjing is expensive, it is always right to bring more money.

He originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought about not wanting it, his parents felt even more worried and had no choice but to take it with him.

The house was very clean, and the quilts on the bed were all newly put on. Li An simply packed up and put them away, lay down on the bed, put his hands behind his head, and looked at the roof in a daze.

When he came to Bianjing, he couldn't always live here with Liu Xuewen.

Not to mention troublesome and inconvenient.

Li An thought, he still had to find a way to make money.

It is said that living in Chang'an is not easy. Bianjing in the Song Dynasty was much more prosperous than Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. With the developed economy of the Song Dynasty, consumption in Bianjing was much higher than Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.

Although he has a lot of money in his hands, it is really nothing in Bianjing.

If you go out to rent a house, plus daily expenses, it probably won't take long.

However, it is not suitable to make pig offal braised pork in Bianjing.

It’s not that there are rich people in Bianjing and no one eats pork.

On the contrary, most of the people in Bianjing are ordinary people, and the demand for pork is very high.

He remembered reading some records in his previous life, saying that during the Song Dynasty, Bianjing consumed tens of thousands of pigs every day.

It's just that he is a scholar after all. If he does that kind of business, it will inevitably be noticed by others. In Yangzhou, it is also done by his parents, which is different from him doing it himself.

Moreover, there are too many distinguished and wealthy families in Bianjing, so it would be troublesome if someone targeted them.

If you want to do business in Bianjing, in addition to not having any influence on him, the most important thing is that even if others are jealous, it will be difficult to snatch him.

Li An had considered these things before coming to Bianjing. He specifically asked Gu Tingye to ask about some things about Bianjing, and he already had a general idea in his mind.

However, we still have to go out and investigate specifically.

Li An planned to go out for a walk after dinner in the evening, and also enjoy the night market in Bianjing.

(End of this chapter)