As the most basic living supplies for the people to survive, the rice price in the late Southern Song Dynasty is also very expensive now.

The south eats more rice. Although Suzhou and Huzhou on Liangzhe Road are the main rice production areas, it is known as Suhu and Huzhou. Yinzhou is also the main rice production area, but the rice price in Qingyuan Mansion is not cheap. At present, a stone costs 500 cents a flat price. A pound of rice is nearly 20 cents. If it is used to use Huizi issued by the capital, a stone needs at least 7 cents a stone. The more it goes, it will become more and more expensive, because once the Mongols come over, the court needs to buy a large amount of grain, the people will be more short of food, and prices will soar.

But no matter how expensive the rice is, it still has to be eaten. Therefore, Zhao Qi bought twenty kilograms of rice and five kilograms of flour in the rice shop, spending 600 cents.

Then I bought three toothbrushes and a box of tooth medicine, which cost 100 yuan.

I passed by a scented medicine shop and thought about it. I went in and bought a piece of black painted soap with a strange fragrance. By the way, I also bought a wooden comb for Xiaozhu, which cost nearly a hundred yuan.

Next, I spent two taels of silver to buy a dou of salt, a bottle of soy sauce, a bottle of vinegar and five kilograms of vegetable oil and one kilogram of lamp oil.

I originally planned to buy two mats, but after asking, it took more than 200 yuan per bed, Zhao Qi gave up directly.

So there were only less than two taels of silver left.

Zhao Qi didn't dare to spend this amount of money indiscriminately, so he had to keep it for emergency use. More than 20 kilograms of rice and flour were only enough for a family of three to eat for less than ten days. If he got sick again, he would probably have to drink the northwest wind in the next time.

And this has to be thanked to Manager Liu's generous and enthusiastic. If he didn't have these ten taels of silver, he would have to go to the village to borrow it with shamelessness.

"The court report, the new court report from the capital, the court government affairs, and the interesting news from the capital, only twenty words a copy... only twenty words..."

At the door of a bookstore, a guy in a green hat was waving a stack of newspapers and shouting loudly, and in an instant, many people surrounded him.

Zhao Qi felt a little moved and hurriedly squeezed in. After a moment, he squeezed out again, and there was an extra newspaper in his hand.

As a half-baked historical researcher, Zhao Qi was not clear about many specific details of the Song Dynasty, but he was still clear about some familiar things, such as newspapers, which were a major feature of the Song Dynasty.

Thanks to the invention and popularization of movable type printing, books in the Song Dynasty experienced a burst of explosive growth period, and the cultural market was extremely prosperous. In the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court and the people sorted out more than 10,000 kinds of books, and they also became important export commodities. Almost all Southeast Asian countries like to buy various books from the Song Dynasty at high prices, and they bought them even more crazy before the Liao and Jin Dynasties, which also led to the Song Dynasty court having to issue laws to prevent books from being leaked.

The earliest newspapers in the world were also born in the era of business development and freedom of thought in the Song Dynasty.

Not only did the court report the court, but there were many tabloids pretending to be court reports among the people.

In fact, the newspaper that Zhao Qi bought should be a tabloid.

Because when you open the first version, you will see the news that Tang An'an, a famous prostitute in the capital, entered Danei and did not return all night.

This kind of gossip that has to be said between the emperor and famous prostitutes in the capital through internal exploration of secret news and describing the fact that today's emperor and famous prostitutes in the capital are the most popular news among the people.

When Song Lizong Zhao Yun was old, he was not only stupid, but also lustful, and was no less than his stupid nephew Zhao Feng. Not only were there many young and beautiful concubines in the harem, but it was also said that Tang An'an, a famous prostitute in Hangzhou, often summoned him to the palace to enjoy sex.

Although Zhao Yun is not as famous as Zhao Ji, he is not inferior to women.

The two emperors of Emperor Huizong of Song, Zhao Ji and Emperor Lizong of Song, Zhao Yun were also the culprits of the collapse of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty respectively.

Song Huizong valued the four treacherous ministers, Cai Jing, Gao Qiu, Tong Guan and Yang Jian, who were in trouble with the country and the people, and made a prosperous Song Dynasty miserable, causing Song Jiang and Fang La to rebel in the country, while foreign countries were beaten to the bruised face.

The subordinates of Emperor Lizong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Yun, were Yan Guifei, Ma Tianji, Ding Daquan, and Dong Songchen, the four gangs of four who were in trouble with the government. They relied on their power to collude with internal and external forces, causing the court to be in a bad state.

Although Li Zong finally realized that he would dismiss Ding Daquan and others from exile, he immediately activated a larger treacherous minister Jia Sidao.

This year is Baoyou's sixth year. Judging from the time, Yan Martin is almost finished.

But the Mongols should be coming soon.

According to historical records, in the sixth year of Baoyou, in 1258 AD, Mongolia attacked the Song Dynasty for the second time.

If the historical process remains unchanged, Mengge should have been on his way to Sichuan at this time, but the news will be transmitted from Hanzhong to Lin'an, at least two months later.

Moreover, based on Zhao Qi's understanding of history, it seems that Ding Daquan deliberately concealed the unfavorable battle situation ahead, which led to the Song Dynasty's court's reaction to the Mongolian invasion very slow.

And this incident eventually led to Ding Daquan's resignation.

However, these are all later. The internal and external troubles of the Song Dynasty are becoming more and more serious, but from the emperor to the people, no one thought that the Song Dynasty would destroy the country in just over ten years.

The emperor still did not want to be enterprising and licentious.

The court became more and more corrupt.

The scholars and officials have lost their ambition to worry about the country and the people and help the world.

The people are confused and only care about busy and busy for three meals a day.

In order to cater to the decadence of society, the tabloids published were entertainment gossip, strange stories and curious stories. Apart from a small number of court orders and changes in the capital, there were few serious topics about governing the country and border soldiers.

The current state of the country and the Mongolians who are eyeing each other seem to have collectively chosen to ignore it from the court to the people, or indulge in eating, drinking, playing and having fun.

The contents in the newspaper are varied.

Which restaurant in the capital has brewed new wine, which noble lady in the court has raised a new pet cat, which famous scholar has been in the brothel and the popular courtesan overnight, which Cuju team has won the game again, or a wealthy garden has cultivated a strange peony and watched by thousands of people...

Zhao Qi walked and looked through it. Although he did learn about the movements of the Song Dynasty court and the news about Lin'an, the capital through the newspaper.

But through this newspaper, I also read a strong smell of death in the Song Dynasty.

Eat, drink, have fun, and live a life of drunkenness and dreams. It seems that everyone thinks that the Mongols who are used to riding horses and the former Khitan Jurchens will generally not fight to the south. This half of the Song Dynasty will survive as long as before. At most, it will be just a nephew and grandson who will pay some annual monies.

In fact, Da Song is almost unable to save him like a terminally ill person.

People in the world admire the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties not because the people live well. In fact, in these powerful dynasties, the people live worse than the Song dynasties, and these so-called powerful dynasties were very chaotic most of the time and the people suffered indescribable suffering.

But these dynasties cannot stand their strong combat power.

The Qin Dynasty was extremely barbaric, sweeping across the six countries and unifying China. It not only brought the Baiyue in Lingnan into rule, but also brought the Xiongnu and Donghu who had plagued the Central Plains for hundreds of years to the bruised faces, laying the eternal territory of China in one fell swoop.

The great Han was powerful and powerful, and he turned the Hun Empire, which poses the greatest threat to the Central Plains, into a scumbag.

Although the Sui Dynasty was as short as the Qin Dynasty, it also overbeared the powerful Turks, laying the foundation for the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty was invincible and could be called the most masculine dynasty. Li Er was respected by hundreds of foreign countries as the Khan of Heaven, and his national strength reached the peak of the Central Plains dynasty.

Compared with these savage, fierce, domineering and masculine dynasties, the Song Dynasty seemed much feminine and powerless. Although the country was rich, it was never strong. It had been repeatedly ravaged by northern nations for more than three hundred years and had almost never become hard.

A man who is only rich but cannot be hard must be decadent inside.
Chapter completed!