Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2131, Cherish the good times now

Liu Jin has been silently listening to them discussing the housing prices in the capital.

Similar to later generations, housing prices in this capital city have already skyrocketed.

The price in the core area is several thousand taels, and the price in the remote suburbs has reached three to four thousand taels. The price can be said to be very expensive.

Although the income of Ming people has been steadily increasing over the years, the average salary in the Beijing-Tianjin area has reached more than ten taels of silver a month, which is already the minimum wage.

Calculated, a labor force can earn about 200 taels of silver a year, but compared with this high housing price, this salary income is insignificant.

If you want to buy a house, you have to do it for at least [-] or [-] years without eating or drinking, and you will buy it in a remote suburban area, and it will be more expensive in the core area.

The per capita income in the imperial capital of the later generations is about 10 a year. The house price in the imperial capital is often several million, and the good location is tens of millions. It will take decades to do it without eating or drinking. Afford a house.

If such a comparison is made, in just a few decades, the housing prices in the capital are almost the same as those of later generations.

It’s just that relatively speaking, people in Daming have more choices. If you don’t want to hang out in big cities, people in Daming can still live a good life in their hometown.

If immigrants go outside the customs and overseas, life will be relatively more comfortable.

People in later generations will not have so many choices. Only in big cities can they have jobs and earn money, but it is difficult to buy a house in the cities to gain a firm foothold.

If you go back to your hometown to live in the countryside, it is often difficult to make money, so you have no choice but to drill into the city. Coupled with the huge population, the house price will naturally rise steadily.

"It stands to reason that the housing prices in Daming shouldn't have risen so ridiculously!"

Liu Jin made a careful comparison, and immediately felt that the housing prices in this capital city were indeed ridiculously high.

You must know that people in later generations have no choice, so they have to squeeze into big cities.

But now Daming people have choices, they have many choices, and Daming has a vast land and few people, some are land and resources, and the population is not large. Now there are only more than 4 million people, and they are still distributed on such a vast land.

Although this capital city is said to have a lot of rich people, a developed industry, and a developed economy, the house price is still too high.

"It's not a good thing if the house price is too high!"

Liu Jin thought carefully.

Think about future generations, because housing prices are too high, ordinary people are under tremendous pressure, they dare not consume, dare not have children, dare not venture out, dare not leave their jobs, etc.

Because of the huge pressure, it was very tiring.

At the same time, all kinds of competition in the city are very fierce, especially the competition for public resources, many of which are linked to houses.

If this goes on for a long time, society will become deformed and various problems will appear.

For example, if young people are under too much pressure and choose to lie flat instead of getting married, buying a house, or having children, the entire society will lose its vitality and motivation to move forward.

"It's better in this society now. Although this house is very expensive and it's hard to afford it, at least for now, I don't have to worry about food and clothing. As long as I work hard, I don't have to worry about food and drink for my family."

"It is impossible to buy a house in the city, but if you go back to your hometown in the countryside, you can easily build a small building."

"You may not have experienced that time. You came to the capital to escape famine. In the tenth year of Hongzhi, there was a heavy snowfall and the weather was freezing. When winter came, every household basically had no food. Everyone will get used to it. sex to escape the famine, go to other places to beg for the winter and so on.”

"That day, you never experienced it at all. It was cold and hungry. Many people died of freezing and starving on the road."

"What a wonderful time it is now!"

"You don't have to worry about food or drink, you don't have to worry about clothes. If you can't afford a house, you can still rent a house. All in all, the society is pretty good, and everything is pretty cheap."

"The high-quality grain costs a few cents a catty, and the salt costs a few cents a catty. Do you know that in the past, those unscrupulous grain merchants and salt merchants were dedicated to making money in the country's calamity."

"During this famine year, the price of food has skyrocketed, and a young girl can only exchange for a small bag of food. It is difficult for anyone who sells children to survive."

"There is also this salt, the salt that I ate before, it costs tens of pennies a catty, and there is a lot of sand seeping in it. If you are not careful, your teeth will collapse."

The few people chatting next to him, the old man recalled the suffering years of his youth, and he kept sighing again and again.

"Mister, is it true or not?"

"Who will buy this salt and sand?"

"That's right, this person can only exchange one bag of food? This is too black-hearted."

When the young people next to him heard it, they immediately said one after another.

"Of course it's true. You can ask the elders at home to find out."

"At that time, this salt was a monopoly, and only those salt merchants were qualified to sell salt. If you don't buy salt, you will have nothing to eat, no matter how expensive it is."

"And those grains, the most unscrupulous."

"When there was a great famine in the three northern provinces, they not only hoarded grain by themselves, but also colluded with officials and businessmen to resell all the grain in the imperial granary to drive up grain prices."

"Oh, I don't know how many people starved to death that time, and the roads were full of bones."

"Later, Mr. Liu, the current chief minister of the cabinet, tried his best to provide disaster relief. He went fishing in the sea, went to North Korea to buy food, and then provided relief with work. As long as he went to build roads, he could have fish to eat."

"At that time there was always a sea ban, so there were a lot of fish in the sea. This fishing boat can bring back hundreds of thousands of catties of fish just by going out casually."

"The longest we ate fish for months on end until we felt sick when we saw it."

"The road between Beijing and Tianjin is still built by us back then, and I was also building the road at that time."

The old man nodded solemnly, recalling the past again.

"Those grain merchants are too black-hearted, aren't they?"

"It's a complete slap in the face to get rich."

"Yes, such a person should be exiled to the Golden Continent."

"Don't worry, everyone. Later, all these unscrupulous grain merchants suffered retribution. After the emperor found out everything, these profiteers were all arrested and beheaded for public display. Their homes were ransacked, and all their clansmen were exiled. They went to places like Australia and the Golden Continent.”

"It's so beautiful!"

"It's so heartwarming!"

"Isn't it? When the newspaper reported this incident, countless people cheered and celebrated."

"However, it is Mr. Liu who needs to be thanked the most. It is precisely because of Mr. Liu that Daming has gradually achieved the current situation. If Mr. Liu didn't exist, I would have starved to death."

The old man said solemnly.

His words also made Liu Jin beside him couldn't help but smile triumphantly.

This feeling is still very good. It is enough to be able to do some practical things and benefit the common people through time travel.

"You young people, you still have to work harder, work harder!"

"This is a good era, and you are also lucky to live in such an era."

"When I was young, it was really hard at that time. The common people basically lived by farming, and they worked hard on that one-third of an acre of land throughout the year."

"Half of the hard-earned food has to be handed over to the landlord, and the rest is not enough to eat. I can only eat two meals a day, and basically eat gruel, so I can't eat enough."

"In this way, at the beginning of the year, we basically have no food and go hungry."

"Every household in this family is poor, they don't have enough to eat and don't wear warm clothes, and the house is also dilapidated. At that time, the only thing I thought about was to be able to eat enough. Meat is only available during festivals. .”

"It's not like today's children. They don't eat this, and they don't eat that. They are very picky eaters."

"When I was young, when you were hungry, there were many brothers, and you had to rush to eat, otherwise you wouldn't even want to eat at all."

"The mice, snakes, and frogs in the field can be caught and eaten, and they are still rare and delicious. The locusts and cicadas are very delicious when roasted. Have you young people eaten these?"

The old man recalled while speaking, as if he had returned to the past suffering years all at once.

"Can rats, locusts, and cicadas be eaten?"

"Yeah, it's disgusting to think about it."

When the young people around heard this, they all showed disgusted expressions.

"Haha, you haven't experienced the years of suffering, of course you don't know. If you are always hungry, you will know that these things are not only edible, but also taste very good."

The old man laughed immediately.

"During the famine, the bark of the tree was gnawed off, and the Avalokitesvara soil could be eaten."

"After eating these things, because they are not nutritious and difficult to digest, each one's stomach is very big, and they can't be pulled out at all."

"You guys, you don't know the blessings in the blessings!"

"In such a good time, we should cherish it!"

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(End of this chapter)