Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#479 - Gongshu family?

However, not everyone chose to go shopping with Liang Yue.

Yuriko, Alwen, Hinata, and Xiao Zhao volunteered to stay behind and take care of the children in the store.

Before leaving, Liang Yue also specially found a sturdy wooden box and put half a ton of loose gold into it…

On the way to the brokerage, they first entered a gold and silver shop said to be the largest in Tokyo, deposited the pile of gold in it, and then exchanged it for a pile of notes that could be used for actual transactions.

According to the common exchange rate, half a ton is equal to one thousand catties. After the Song Dynasty, including the Song Dynasty, one catty is equal to sixteen taels, so this batch of gold totaled sixteen thousand taels.

Generally speaking, one tael of gold is equal to one hundred taels of silver, and one tael of silver is equal to one thousand copper coins, which is commonly referred to as one string of cash.

Therefore, Liang Yue exchanged for more than one million strings of cash on this trip.

Not much…

However, considering that the current Water Margin Heroes is a real world, Liang Yue could not really deposit a dozen tons of gold into the gold and silver shop at one time.

Therefore, he can only take his time.

After dragging their feet all the way, buying a lot of snacks, candied fruits, and beautiful clothes and toys, they finally brought the girls to the brokerage.

Upon learning that Liang Yue wanted to buy land and did not care about the cost, the clerk immediately invited them to a side room, a trading place specializing in land and real estate.

Then, he led them to a delicate large sand table and enthusiastically introduced some of the properties and land for sale on it.

The whole process seemed exceptionally professional~

Compared with some real estate sales markets in reality, it is not inferior!

Liang Yue looked at the sand table in front of him and realized that it was a model that almost covered the entire Bianliang City and its surrounding areas.

Its workmanship was extremely exquisite. Except for the mountains and hills outside the city, most of it was made of pure wood.

However, why say almost?

That's because, although this sand table was planned and made according to the entire Bianliang City, what is now in front of him is only the houses and land in the suburbs that are within the scope of sale.

Missing a piece here and there, although clear at a glance, also seems a bit unharmonious.

Therefore, if it were placed in front of someone who is not familiar with the Tokyo area, it would inevitably make people feel confused.

“This sand table is so exquisite~”

Looking at the model in front of him that was almost exactly the same in proportion, Liang Yue couldn't help but marvel, and his heart was even more surprised.

Of course, he knew about sand tables. The earliest clear records appeared in the Han Dynasty.

But Liang Yue heard for the first time that the sand table in the Song Dynasty could reach this level of precision.

“As expected, Daoist Priest has extraordinary knowledge! This was personally ordered by our official family, instructing the descendants of the Gongshu family to build it themselves. It is said that it took more than a year of polishing before it took shape!”

The clerk next to him immediately explained to him upon hearing this, and his expression unconsciously carried a bit of pride and envy.

“I see…”

…

After roughly learning the reason, in the following time, Liang Yue and others began to enter the shopping mode.

The focus was naturally on buying a mansion in this Bianliang City.

The owner of this house is said to be the previous generation's Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Revenue, and the house was also renovated bit by bit by him at a huge cost.

In terms of location, in the eyes of the more traditional residents of Bianjing City, it is not considered very good.

Because this mansion is far from the imperial city and not close to the residential area of officials, but close to the activity area of merchants.

However, the benefits of this are also obvious, that is, the price is relatively cheap, and the authority of middle-level officials in the court can also suppress the surrounding merchants to a certain extent.

This Yuanwailang master also relied on his own power advantage, bit by bit, both soft and hard, and finally secretly annexed several courtyards around his mansion, and then quietly renovated it.

In the end, after the mansion was completed, the original three-in-one courtyard with standard specifications was forcibly expanded into a four-unlike.

On the left, right, and rear sides, another layer of courtyards was superimposed respectively. After being opened and renovated, many rare flowers and trees were transplanted, and combined together, it was almost like a park.

Unfortunately, in the end, this Yuanwailang was taken down by the backstage of some merchants because of certain mistakes, and the house was naturally taken over by the current emperor.

However, recently, in order to raise funds to cope with the increasingly tense military pressure in the north, it has been included in the sales list of the brokerage.

The location of this mansion is not very good, but it is definitely not bad. After all, it is still in the capital of Bianliang, and the area itself is large enough.

It's just that, due to the frequent border incursions by the Liao people in the north recently.

Some time ago, even small groups of soldiers and horses wandered to the suburbs outside the city. Affected by this, house prices have also fluctuated to a certain extent.

However, the fluctuations are not too large.

At this time, most of the landlords and gentry in Tokyo City, including those outside the city, are still looking around, worrying about whether to move their families south.

The Taoist sect to which Xiao Zhao belongs is one of them.

However, this is definitely not a disturbing factor for Liang Yue~

Because he clearly knows that before the end of the entire Water Margin plot, the area around Bianliang City is still relatively stable.

Even after a group of Water Margin heroes were recruited, they once fought the Liao people back repeatedly, and it seemed that they were about to collapse back to their grandmother's house.

(This should be a fabrication and overhead plot in the original Water Margin, and of course, it is also possible that Daqing not only changed the History of Ming when compiling the Siku Quanshu, but also revised the History of Song by the way…)

In short, if it weren't for the fact that a group of civil officials in the court were afraid that the heroes would make too much merit and change the pattern of governing the military with literature, and jointly sent the Liangshan people to the south to fight Fang La.

At least in this world of Water Margin Heroes, the future may be a different direction…

Back to the topic~

In summary, Liang Yue finally spent about two hundred catties of gold, which is more than 300,000 taels of silver, a total of more than 300,000 strings of copper coins, to buy this mansion.

At the same time, he also bought a basically undeveloped mountain in the southeast direction outside Bianliang City.

Among them, this mountain is also connected to the Taoist temple where Yang Buhui is located, which is about to be relocated.

If the Taoist sect where Xiao Zhao is located is also willing to sell the land and leave, then Liang Yue may become the largest landlord in the southeast corner outside Tokyo City!

It is a pity that there are mostly mountains and barren hills there, with many native forests and a mixture of soil and rocks. In addition to producing some game, wood, and wild herbs, it is basically not worth much money.

Of course, the sect is not something that Liang Yue can build just by saying it, especially in the surrounding area of the capital. Afterwards, he will definitely have to register and file with the relevant local departments.

And these all need to be approved by the court~

Fortunately, if he can successfully buy the small Taoist temple where Yang Buhui is located, he should be able to avoid some unnecessary troubles to a certain extent.

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