After many years, Shangluo returned to his home again. This is his family's home in Nanjing.
【Is this your home? 】
"right."
[Your family actually has a single-family house in Yujing! Is your family a Roman senator? 】
"I know what you're trying to say, but the circumstances are different."
He had seen the city of Constantinople from newspapers. Everything within the Theodosian Walls remains as it did in 1453, and is even more retro. There are not a single skyscraper in the city, and there are almost no houses. The mansions of the senators filled up the old city of Constantinople, and there were only one or two thousand permanent "citizens". Being able to cram more than two thousand large houses there, the Romans' urban planning level is really admirable.
It is said that there is still no public transportation route within the Diodosian Walls, because the Roman senators who lived in large houses simply did not need or want noisy buses full of passengers running in front of their homes. Not to mention the tram, let alone the subway, which would destroy the sacred blessing of the "City of Seven Hills" in New Rome. The urban areas of modern times were all outside the Theodosian Wall.
Yu Jing is a completely different situation. Shangluo's house is a very typical private house.
The high door wall extends to the height of three floors, effectively utilizing the area of only 80 square meters. The extension of the entire building is also quite restrained, with the left and right sides completely fitting in with the neighbors’ homes. There was only a palm-wide gap between the two houses, and even the larger mice had to squeeze through.
The high eaves are also separated from each other by horse head walls, strictly distinguishing the use spaces of both parties. There is only a small door protruding from the side facing the street, which can only ensure that the door will not get wet when it is opened, but it cannot be further away.
The houses in the entire street, including the entire block, are all like this. They are square boxes with white walls and black tiles, occupying every inch of the land.
This is the embodiment of traditional Jiangnan folk houses in Yujing, which can often be seen in many places in Huizhou, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. Compared with ancient times, the appearance of these houses has not changed much. They are still square boxes. Because only square boxes can maximize the use of building space, which is the case for most residential houses in Yujing.
Viewed from above, these blocks look like a large connected black and white chessboard. Each building is almost the same size and occupies one square of space on the chessboard. Occasionally, there are more than one grid and occupy four grids, and there are also different combinations such as two or three. Placed there neatly like Tetris pieces.
Narrow alleys extend into the interior of the chessboard like capillaries, and some alleys cannot even accommodate two people passing side by side. When you meet each other, you should smile at each other and then walk sideways.
It's crowded here, it's crowded everywhere. But this is the only way to ensure that everyone has their own single-family house, and it can't be filled without being crowded. This is not just the case in Nanjing, but also in many places in Suzhou and Hangzhou. Many neighborhoods have been like this since the Wanli Year. This is how Yujing’s 120 million permanent residents are crammed in.
Therefore, the choice to build a skyscraper was indeed an urgent choice. Otherwise, judging from the commercial size of Yujing, this land would not be able to be filled at all. It is better to have a company with Arhats than a private residence with Arhats.
A big problem with this is that private cars cannot be used and there is no place to park or drive. There is nothing that can be done about it. Many blocks have a history of more than three or four hundred years. It was impossible to imagine that space would be left to accommodate private cars hundreds of years later.
Therefore, although private cars are not expensive, commuting in Yujing mainly depends on public transportation, and anyone below the fifth grade has to take the subway. That’s why it’s so urgent to replace coal with electricity in the subway, because it’s really important. Yujing citizens spend an hour or two in the subway every day, and their most urgent need is to prevent the subway from emitting smoke.
But not everyone needs to squeeze into the subway, because most people don't actually need to commute several stops away. For example, the Shangluo family doesn't use it. The merchant is a martial arts craftsman, and the land in this entire block belongs to the various Davids. The territory of Wugong Zuowei is not far away from the "Tianzi No. 16 Manufacturing Factory" on the west side of Qingliang Mountain. The straight-line distance is only one kilometer and you can get there by bicycle.
In a place as crowded as Mount Wutai, there are actually not many households. The area outside Nanjing City is much wider, the imperial palace and court have also been moved outside, and the outer city area needs to be updated.
However, although it is very crowded here, after all, this square of heaven and earth belongs to the family, and it will not be replaced by the county magistrate.
Shangluo opened the door of his house. The lock had been newly replaced and the floor inside the door had just been swept. The room was dark with no lights on, but moonlight and outside lights shone in from the patio, illuminating the ground in the center of the patio.
When he stepped into the door, he felt a heavy feeling under his feet, and the black stone bricks under his feet were patinated.
In theory, this is actually the ancestral home, but the land is not ancestral land. Merchants have been military craftsmen of the guards for generations, but they may not be military craftsmen. After the Taichang Year, the household registration was untied. Whether or not to be a military household or a craftsman household was one's own freedom, and it was limited to oneself. After you choose, your children and grandchildren will have to choose again. They could take over the job, or they could become independent households and find another way to make a living. The number of military households and craftsman households has basically remained unchanged since that time, one carrot for each pit.
A family generally has at least one person who inherits the household registration of a military household or a craftsman household. It is not necessary to inherit, but the military household and the craftsman household are bound to other things. For example, the admission qualifications for Wutaishan Transmission Center and Teaching Institute, and another example is this piece of land.
This land actually belongs to Wugong Zuowei. Although I have lived here for who knows how many years, the land in the health center cannot be bought or sold. If you don’t work in the health center, it will be taken back. On the other hand, as long as this family is not exterminated, and as long as the Ming Dynasty is not over, how long do you want to live on this land? As long as I live there, I still have a job that guarantees income during droughts and floods. The basic salary is at least enough to keep people hungry. If you can work hard to become a senior fitter, you can still get a considerable salary.
And judging from today's land prices, even if the land could be bought or sold, his family would still be unable to afford it. The monthly salary of 50 taels is still too little for this prime location. Shangluo doesn't even dare to calculate how expensive this land is. Anyway, companies outside are all stacking up, department stores are also stacking up, and the subway underground is almost reaching the eighteenth floor, but there is no stacking here. The attitude of the Wei Institute is: Anyway, everyone can just do what they want, and the carrot pit also has the benefits of the carrot pit.
In addition, although the land belongs to the health center, the house still belongs to the family. Shangluo vaguely remembered that Old Shang had said that this house had been remodeled once when his grandfather was a child, and it had also been slightly modified when the wires were pulled out a few years ago. Jin Yiwei has also come to clean before.
[Good guy, are these Jin Yiwei doing housekeeping? Why is this floor polished like a mirror, and why did I leave you a note on the table? 】
"I heard that this is what they do in the inner courtyard... Go to sleep first, we will start to get busy tomorrow. My room, I remember it is here... Good guy, they even made the bed, how can they Do you know which room I live in? I even made tea..."
