Northern Song Dynasty Justice

Chapter 64
The first task of the emperor is always to maintain his rule.

The most difficult task facing Shenzong at present is the financial problem.

It is said that it is the disaster of three redundancy, but the consequence of redundant soldiers and redundant officials is redundancy. It can be seen that the three redundancy is all reflected in finances.

To put it bluntly, it is money.

Song Shenzong was more inclined to Wang Anshi's suggestion at first. Since selling houses is so profitable, why didn't the court do it by itself. Compared with those profiteers who are rich and unkind, the court is more measured and can restrain the rise of house prices.

There is nothing wrong with this logic.

But in the end, Song Shenzong still adopted Zhang Fei's drunken words, just because of Zhang Fei's words, the tax can be raised, if you can really make money, can you guarantee that the house price will not rise?
In fact, building and renting public housing can also make money, but not so fast, and there is an invisible profit.

After Song Shenzong thought over and over again, he believed that even if the court did it by itself, the profits brought by the house price would hardly make up for the lack of finances.

No matter how smooth the real estate is now, it's just like that, not like that.

In the end, it still depends on the reform method, so why not choose a long stream of water to build a house.

After Wang Anshi got the order, he immediately released the news that the imperial court would allocate land to build public housing for rent.

In fact, renting public housing has little to do with the person who buys the house.

People who live in public housing cannot afford to buy a house.

But it's a signal.

Said that the court does not want to see housing prices rise.

Middle and lower officials are very supportive of this.

They are down-to-earth people who want to buy a house.

And the Ma family over there also stated that they only recognize the Chen family's contract, and the Chen family, as an intermediary, put pressure on the seller, not to raise the price on the ground, and you have to raise the price on the ground, and I was the one who was scolded, the person who came to sell the house, I I can't afford to offend you, you go to another house.

But others can't get loans.

This suddenly fell into an endless loop.

Housing prices, which had been on an upward trend, began to slow down again.

However, price reduction is not possible.

After all, the demand is here.

The house price was real before, without moisture, but now that there is a mortgage, there is room for a certain price increase, but it is temporarily suppressed, and it only increased a little.

The instigator, Zhang Fei, is also running around for a house now, but it is renting a house, not buying a house. It is cheaper, he does not want to live in it, and he cannot afford the expensive one, even the down payment.

Today Chen Decai, Chen Maoqian's nephew, took Zhang Fei and Li Si to Yinan bridge west of Caihe in the outer city.

"The environment here is good!"

Zhang Fei stood in the courtyard and looked around. There is really a small courtyard in the front, a small water pavilion in the back, and a guest room on the left and right sides, which are larger than Xu's mansion. He couldn't help asking Chen Decai: "Are you sure?" It only costs twelve pennies per month here?"

This place is in the southwest corner of the outer city. Although it is some distance away from Bianhe Street, it is still inside the city anyway. The whole of Bianjing is worth every inch of land!
Chen Decai nodded and said, "Yes. The monthly rent here is only twelve pennies."

Li Si timidly said: "Has anyone died here?"

These days, he followed Zhang Fei among the rich and powerful, and there were hundreds of pens at every turn. Now he would not be frightened by these dozens of pens, and the ancients were more superstitious, and generally haunted houses were very cheap.

"No no!"

Chen Decai hurriedly said: "How dare I rent the haunted house to you. You two may not know something when you first arrived in Bianjing. The rent is relatively cheap in the west of Caihe River. If it is in Hedong, the rent will have to be increased by three or four times. so much."

Now he doesn't dare to show off in front of Zhang Fei, he is really respectful!
Zhang Fei wondered, "Why?"

Chen Decai said: "It's all because martial arts is located in Hexi, while Guozijian and Taixue are located in Hedong, so the rent there is very expensive, not much cheaper than Bianhe Street."

Although the Northern Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts, it still retained the martial arts handed down from the Tang Dynasty.

"I see."

Zhang Fei nodded.

It is a well-known fact that the Northern Song Dynasty emphasized culture over martial arts, and it was directly reflected in the housing prices. Although they were in the same outer city and only separated by a river, the two sides were very different.

All the literati and rich people live in Hedong, where it is very prosperous. The high-end Goulan cottages and restaurants are all built there. In fact, Hexi is also very lively, and there are many people, but most of them are traffickers and pawns.

Of course, these traffickers can just serve the rich people on the opposite side and earn a living.

"It's here."

Zhang Fei laughed.

On the contrary, he didn't like being with those literati.

On the same day, the two parties returned to Yaxing and formally signed the lease contract. Although the rent was [-] guan, due to the high commission of Yaxing and the tax to be paid to the court, the final amount reached [-] guan.

Just renting a house costs more money..

Just like this, the Northern Song Dynasty government was still clinking poorly. In the feudal dynasty, the deficit of the central government's finances in the Northern Song Dynasty was unprecedented.

But having said that, there are many aspects of the Northern Song Dynasty that are more humane, not all negative. For example, the court stipulated that the rent would not be calculated until five days after the signing of the contract. In other words, it gave you five days to move.

From these details, it can be seen that the Northern Song Dynasty was actually a highly commercialized society with relatively complete services.

After everything was arranged properly, Zhang Fei asked Li Si to clean the new house first, while he went to Xu Mansion to formally bid farewell to Xu Zun.

"Is it because of your little girl that you are in such a hurry to move out?" Xu Zun is really reluctant to part with Zhang Fei. With Zhang Fei around, he can often discuss some legal issues with Zhang Fei at home. The key is that every time he talks with this person, can all benefit greatly.

"of course not."

Zhang Fei shook his head and said: "In fact, Mrs. Xu is very kind to me, and I will continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with her. It's just that I want to start a career by myself. Now that Li Si is with me, living here is even more important." It's inconvenient. At the same time, my career may also bring unnecessary trouble to you, benefactor, after all, this melon field will inevitably attract gossip."

Xu Zun nodded slightly.

Since the emergence of the housing loan, Zhang Fei has not been involved in such small lawsuits. If Zhang Fei continues to live in Xu's residence, then everything he does will lead to speculation, whether it is Xu Zun who is behind the scenes.

It's going to be hard on both of them.

Everything has to take care of each other.

But they each have their own ambitions.

It is indeed time to separate.

Xu Zun smiled and said, "You can decide for yourself. I will come to congratulate you another day."

Zhang Fei clasped his hands and said, "Zhang San is waiting at home for your benefactor."

Just at this time, Xu Zhiqian came to the hall, Xu Zun immediately said: "Qian'er, you came just in time, send Zhang Fei off for me."

Zhang Fei half-jokingly said: "Madam Xu will be willing to help you with this job."

Xu Zhiqian pursed her lips and smiled: "That's why I came here. Please! Zhang Erbi."

Zhang Fei's face suddenly pulled down, "Can you change your name?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Because you hate that title."

".You really hold a grudge."

"Humph!"

Xu Zun watched the two of them bickering as they walked out of the hall, he couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile, they were already about to leave, and they still had to quarrel.

After leaving the hall, Xu Zhiqian suddenly said: "You have offended so many people, so you have to be careful when you go out."

Zhang Fei glanced at her: "Why do you say a good word, it seems to be a curse when you say it out of your mouth."

"I don't have the time to curse you." Xu Zhiqian had a gloomy expression on her face, feeling that she had been fooled by her good intentions.

Zhang Fei hurriedly laughed and said, "Today is your and my big day, so let's stop arguing."

Xu Zhiqian snorted: "Who is overjoyed with you?"

"Why not, you finally kicked me out, and I finally got out of your clutches."

Xu Zhiqian was speechless to refute.

Zhang Fei suddenly said solemnly: "No matter what, I am very grateful to Mrs. Xu for accommodating me these days. As for the trouble I caused Mrs. Xu, I am very sorry for it."

Xu Zhiqian snorted softly: "This sounds like a human saying."

Zhang Fei laughed, then clasped his hands and said, "Miss Xu, please stop. I'll go first!"

"Let's go now!"

Zhang Fei got on the rented horse, and suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Zhiqian who was inside the door, and said: "Ms. Xu should know where I live, right? If there is anything, you can ask Qingmei to inform me."

Xu Zhiqian turned around and went back.

Want to be so cool!
Zhang Fei rolled his eyes and rode away.

He is very happy today, he will not be angry at what Xu Zhiqian says.

At this moment, he felt that he was an unfettered bird, rippling in the air, swaying!

I thought to myself, this move is considered a great joy, and we don't hold a fire banquet, why not invite a few singing girls to come to the house to have fun alone.Could this be a little too urgent, it seems that I am a little hungry, but this seems to be the truth. These days I stay in Xu's mansion, and I eat light food all day long, and I am about to fade out. Well, I will let Li Si inquire later inquire about.

The more I thought about it, the more anxious I was, and the more anxious I was, the more I urged the horse.

After walking for half an hour, I arrived at my residence.

"Li Si! Li Si! Huh? Isn't this person at home?"

Zhang Fei, who got off his horse, yelled three times in front of the door, seeing that no one answered in the room, he pushed the door open and walked in.

"No no no!"

As soon as he entered the door, Li Si was tied to a big tree in the courtyard, with a white cloth stuffed in his mouth, his eyes were bulging, and he was frantically shaking his head at him.

"Li Si, what are you doing!" As soon as the words came out, Zhang Fei suddenly felt something was wrong, and turned around to run away, but just as he turned around, a big sack fell from the sky.

Suddenly, his eyes went dark, and before he could react, he was kicked heavily on the buttocks, only to hear "Ouch", he fell straight to the ground, and he hit the ground head first, and his eyes were filled with stares.

Before he could recover from this, he immediately stepped on his stomach again, and he couldn't help but raise his head and feet together, like a river prawn in a pot, and almost vomited out his breakfast.

After this set of combos, Zhang Fei completely lost his resistance.

Bang bang bang!
"Help! Help!"

Trapped in the sack, Zhang Fei was beaten until he covered his head with his hands, and could only shout loudly.

Suddenly someone outside the door said: "It seems that someone is calling for help! It seems to be the voice of Zhang Sange."

"Brother Zhang, don't be afraid, the pony is coming!"

Then I heard someone whispering in front of me: "No! Someone is here!"

"Come on!"

Another arrogant voice was heard: "The thieves don't leave."

(End of this chapter)