I am Da Song

Chapter 574

Apparently, the Silla maidservant was the Goryeo girl mentioned by Yuanwai Yang.

There have always been several popular servants in the Central Plains, Kunlun slaves, Bodhisattva Man, orchids, and Silla maidservants.

Yang Yuanwai also talked about Hei Si.

Zhao Huan asked: "Didn't the old brother Yang's farmland buy a few black men to reclaim the land?"

The Kunlun slave is tall and simple, and has always been a very good slave.In Zhao Huan's opinion, buying out several slaves at once, reclaiming land, and running farms is a very good business method.

Member Yang said regretfully: "The problem is that you can't buy them. Brother, you may often see Kunlun slaves in Tokyo. But the economy in the south is developed, and wasteland is constantly being reclaimed. Farms and workshops everywhere are in great demand for Kunlun slaves." Big. This cargo ship is basically sold out in the south.”

"Hebei wants to buy a Kunlun slave, let alone eight hundred guan. Brother, I really can't afford it."

Zhao Huan nodded, this price is not high in Song Dynasty.

Of course, it is also limited to the Song Dynasty.

In any other dynasty, it would not take so much money to buy a slave.

The trading price of slaves and maidservants in the Song Dynasty has always been the highest in all dynasties.

In addition to the reason that there was a lot of folk wealth in the Song Dynasty, the most important reason was that the laws of the Song Dynasty resolutely cracked down on the situation of using people as slaves.

Even if it is a family official, a prince or a prime minister, the family is not allowed to keep slaves and store trilogy.

Since the law directly stipulates that no one shall keep slaves, simple slaves hardly exist.In contrast, there are more servants in the employment relationship.The relationship between servants and masters is generally an employment relationship.Do a month's work and get a month's pay.

This is the same whether it is a farmer working in the manor or a servant doing odd jobs in the prince's mansion.There is no strong personal attachment.

But there are only two exceptions, and there will be transactions in disguise.

One is concubinage.Because the life of Song Dynasty is relatively comfortable and rich.Therefore, the common people habitually take concubines, which leads to the high cost of taking concubines.

Wang Anshi, the most famous prime minister of the Song Dynasty, his wife bought him a beautiful concubine for 900 copper coins.

There are too many records of celebrities in the Song Dynasty taking concubines and sending slaves, including Su Shi and Liu Yong, and the prices range from 500 to 1200 guan.

With these celebrities as role models, concubinage became a common practice among the people, and small households like Yang Yuanwai had three concubines.

Another exception is the buying of maids. These purchased concubines and maids are different from normal servants who sign employment contracts. They have a contract of sale, and the master can give them as gifts or buy them again.

So Zhao Huan has heard that the literati in the Song Dynasty gave concubines to each other, and often wrote poems to concubines and women in the Red Chamber.

It was not until the Jianye period, when the country was prosperous and prosperous, that Zhao Huan encouraged the people to expand outward, and the trade of Kunlun slaves, Bodhisattva Man, Grassland Man and Japanese slaves flourished again.

But obviously, compared with the huge demand of the entire country, the supply of alien slaves of a few hundred thousand people simply falls short of the demand.

Yang Yuanwai said: "Brother Kunlun slave, I can't afford it. Fortunately, Silla maidservants are relatively close to our Hebei Road, especially in the centralized market in Yanjing. maidservant."

"In this kind of centralized market, the price of an ordinary maid or servant girl is about two hundred guan. Merchants don't have time to sort carefully. If they are patient, they can buy beautiful maidservants as beautiful as flowers and jade at a low price."

No wonder... Zhao Huan instantly understood.

The price of a servant girl in the Song Dynasty is between fifty guan and three hundred guan.Two hundred guan is already in the upper price range, and it can be regarded as the price of a high-class maid.

For a farmer, if he has a few hundred acres of land, it should not be difficult to save a hundred guan a year.Although under such circumstances, it is impossible to reach the level of wealth in a lifetime, but it is not difficult for an outsider to save two or three years to buy a Silla maid.

Regarding the fact that folks like to take concubines, Zhao Huan feels that there is no need to change.

Don't do that shameless thing either.

Which man is not lustful?
People all over the world work together to create a prosperous world, don't they just want to enjoy the peaceful and prosperous world with the emperor and live a comfortable life?
And the life of enjoyment is nothing more than rich clothes and fine food, like flowers and beautiful family members.

He, Zhao Huan, likes beautiful women. When he sees a beautiful woman, he wants to be included in the palace. Other men also want to have a few more concubines in this peaceful and prosperous age.

Zhao Huan has no position to enjoy it by himself, but makes everyone in the world live the life of an ascetic monk.

So Zhao Huan directly said to Yang Yuanwai: "Brother, this life is full of sensuality and pleasure, which can be described as a comfortable life. I think it is very good. The so-called prosperity is not that everyone is willing to live in poverty, but that everyone can live in poverty. Live a happy life like my brother."

Yang Yuanwai heard the words, his face was red, and he was extraordinarily energetic, and said: "It's rare to have a confidant in life, let's make it clear today."

"To tell you the truth, brother, since I took a concubine, there are many Qingliu who call me old and disrespectful."

"But the old man thinks they are farting, it stinks! You have to enjoy life to the fullest! Even if he is a gossip."

Zhao Huan nodded with a smile, and said, "My brother is open-minded. If I care about Qingliu, I'm afraid I'll be angry."

"To be honest, I also look down on the so-called Qingliu. If they are just old wives with rough clothes and food, even though they have different ideas, I also admire their noble integrity and not flattering the world."

"But the vast majority of Qingliu have many beautiful wives and beautiful concubines in their families. Men steal women and prostitutes. They are lustful and lustful, but they want others to abide by the famous teachings, just like sages. I am very angry."

Qingliu can leave this kind of impression on people, so one can imagine how bad their reputation is, how bad their behavior is, and how double standards they have.

For example, through the ages, the most famous Confucianism master Zhu Xi.

Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Xia is no stranger to it, and told a widow that starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major matter.Use this as a tool to persuade people to observe festivals.

But at the same time, Zhu Xi, the well-known master of Confucianism, was impeached for "inducing two nuns to think of them as concubines, and every official walked with them", "the housewife is pregnant without a husband".

That is to say, Zhu Xi once lured two nuns to be concubines, and when they went out to be officials, they took them with them to show off in the market; Zhu Xi's daughter-in-law was pregnant after her husband died...

Whether these two things are true or not is inconclusive, after all, it was his political opponents who impeached him.These are two of the ten sins.

Moreover, Zhu Xi was exhausted physically and mentally, and he did not refute in the form of thanks to the emperor, and directly confessed to the ten major crimes.

But regardless of whether these two things are true or not, the stigma on Qingliu's body makes ordinary people immediately perceive him as a deceitful person.

It can be seen what kind of impression the Qingliu people left on people on weekdays.

The word hypocrite is simply made stink by them.When people mention it, they can't help but associate the two together.

(End of this chapter)