I am Da Song

Chapter 570 The Gap of Wealth

Cai Yan, Cai Wenji, this talented woman through the ages is basically no stranger to Zhu Xia.

Her tragic life has made countless generations feel sorry for her.

The happiest time in her life should also be when she was as old as Xiaoyi. At that time, she had a father who was famous all over the world and a husband from a wealthy family.

But Zhao Huan couldn't help but seriously think about a question, that is, at the happiest moment of Cai Wenji's life, can her life be compared to that of Xiaoyi, who is happy and carefree at this moment?
Aside from the aura of being the daughter of a high-ranking official, Zhao Huan didn't think she could compare to the daughter of Song, the most ordinary family, in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Thanks to the prosperity of the empire and the politically enlightened social environment, Xiaoyi has no ups and downs in her life, far away from wars and disputes, and she has lived a bright and sunny life.

She was the apple of the eye of the family until she was 20 years old.

The Song Dynasty originally advocated late marriage. For example, Li Qingzhao, who is also a talented woman through the ages, married at the age of 19.

Zhao Huan even forcefully established the law to put an end to the bad habit of having children in their teens, and men and women can only marry after they reach their twenties.

Under such circumstances, Xiaoyi's foreseeable future is bright.

And Cai Wenji married a sick husband Wei Zhongdao at the age of 14. After her husband died, she ate all the cruelty of the world alone in her husband's house. Later, she returned to her mother's house in desolation, but was taken away by the Huns.

The rise and fall of a country profoundly affects the destiny of every citizen.

For example, Li Qingzhao, a layman of Yi'an in the Song Dynasty, also had a tragic fate in history, but with Zhao Huanjun coming to Wanfang, she never experienced any hardships and ups and downs at all. Now at the age of 66, she is still bold and unrestrained. The first drag sister, led a group of old sisters in the Nanjing Royal Women's College to rub hemp and play cards.

Even her husband, who had gone to the Dongying Islands, wrote letters of condolences occasionally.But at other times, stay where you are.The old lady now has a bumper harvest in life, career, hobbies, and children and grandchildren, and her life should not be too fulfilling.There is no time to worry about how many Japanese girls that smelly old man has harmed on the Dongying Islands, the old lady can't see it.

The people of the current Song Dynasty obviously have a better future than most people in the previous dynasties.

What's more important is that the future can be expected. Like Xiaoyi, she can obviously achieve a class leap, from a farmer in a farm to a citizen in a big city, leaving this slightly closed, small mountain village where everyone knows each other.

In addition to this kind of macroscopic life, compare these two women in terms of basic necessities of life, food, housing and transportation.Obviously, if it is time travel, Xiaoyi is also a better choice in terms of material enjoyment.

For clothing, Xiaoyi relies on the most developed textile industry in the Song Dynasty, and can wear very exquisite silk and satin.Even for the most precious Song brocade and Yun brocade, which had never been seen before in the Han Dynasty, her father's monthly salary was enough to buy her more than a dozen pieces.

Not to mention food, the cake shops, butcher shops, restaurants, restaurants, and all kinds of shops in the town of the Song Dynasty, and all kinds of sundries, were simply unimaginable in Cai Wenji's era.

You know, it is incredible that a farmer's family can buy a piano for her daughter to practice the piano.

There is no doubt that all this is the result of development and a manifestation of the rapid advancement of productivity.

This is also the result that Zhao Huan most wants to see this time.

He just wanted to see how much wealth he had created for the society by persistently promoting industrialization through so many years.

What is "the former Yan Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people in the old days?"

It is the most direct manifestation in Xiaoyi. In the old days, the life of a daughter of a Zhonglang general was not as good as that of an ordinary civilian in Song Dynasty.

You must know that in Dahan, generals are not permanent. General Zhonglang is basically the top official of the army, and his authority and status can be ranked among the top ten in the army.

Compared with the officials of the Song Dynasty, they are basically equivalent to the commanders-in-chief of various elite field armies, even senior officials of the level of Han Shizhong and Liu Qi.

In theory, if you want to have the same standard of living as these people, in the Song Dynasty, you should at least compare with a businessman with a family fortune of [-] guan.

But as a result, the gap is obvious.

The wealth of the people of Song Dynasty is expanding rapidly with the prosperity of the empire.

In terms of living and transportation, the gap between the two sides is probably the smallest.It is also the direction that the empire is now making every effort to improve.

The empire's brick firing technology is very mature, and the cement technology has also been successfully improved.

Cement already existed in the empire. After all, Su Dai's grandfather directly proposed the concept of cement for the first time.

The imperial concubine of Zhao Huan is very capable and has advanced the cement technology for a long time.

As far as Zhao Huan knows, the vicinity of Chang'an in Xijing is the largest cement production area in the empire.

Because there is Taihua Mountain, the best source of raw materials, and the strongest demand for infrastructure.

Restricted by production capacity, the cement of the empire today is not very common in the east, but is often used in the west.

Most of the cement was used in the construction of post roads, post cities, and earth castles.

The west is the main direction of the empire's development. Building cities, roads, water conservancy, schools, and nursing homes have basically exhausted the cement production capacity.

So housing improvements within the empire haven't changed dramatically.

However, in terms of travel, the people of the empire are more convenient than those in the late Han Dynasty.

There is no need to worry about looting by foreigners, and there is no need to worry about security and banditry, so two teenage girls dared to run more than ten miles to participate in the rally.

Zhao Huan said to Yang Yuanwai in a good mood: "If Xiaoyi goes to a big city to study, it is indeed a very good choice."

"It can be predicted that after she succeeds in her studies, she will have a life completely different from that of a peasant woman."

Member Yang stroked his beard and said with emotion: "Yes. This can be regarded as a golden phoenix flying out of our little Yangjiazhuang chicken coop."

Zhao Huan said with a smile: "It's a good thing. How much gift money does Yuanwai plan to give her?"

"That depends on which college she got into." Even though he wanted to give the gift money, Yang Yuanwai also smiled and imagined happily, and said: "If she lives up to her expectations, she can get into Taixue, Yufu Academy, and Nanjing Royal Academy." The top academy of the country and the royal family, the old man gave a gift money of [-] guan."

"If it's a little bit worse, the old man will give you [-] pennies as gift money if you get into the top comprehensive academies such as Bailuzhou Academy, Songyang Academy, and Yuelu Academy."

"No matter how close it is, the old man will give you ten pennies to accompany the ceremony if you pass the exam to academies in various regions and states."

Zhao Huan gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "You are very generous."

He gave this gift money for nothing, it is the friendship between the owner and the farmer.In the era of the Song Dynasty, the friendship between the township and the party was far stronger than that of later generations.

In fact, if Xiaoyi is really admitted to a national college at the level of Taixue, the county will give her an incentive of [-] guan.If there is more, it can almost help her buy a complete dowry.

(End of this chapter)