Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 218
"Actually, if you are talented, if you can become Liu Yiyi's guest, you might be able to invite her." Old man Liu said to Zhang Qingfeng.

The guest of honor is the guest who can get a private meeting, not the kind of relationship you think, if the oiran doesn't like you, maybe it's just eating, drinking, drinking and chatting with you.

The women in Jiaofangsi are not prostitutes. They know how to increase their own worth. If they could have sex with a guest, their worth would have dropped a long time ago.

"Liu Yiyi is beautiful? Is she famous?" Zhang Qingfeng asked Old Man Liu.

"What should I tell you? You have met Zhou Xiaoya from the Zhou family. She is a great beauty, right? However, Liu Yiyi is much prettier than Zhou Xiaoya."

Old man Liu said: "Last year, after Liu Yiyi became the oiran, a yamen offered [-] yuan to take her as a concubine but failed."

Three thousand guan is not a small amount. According to the calculation of 5 grams per penny, three thousand guan copper coins must be [-] kilograms of copper, equivalent to a weight of fifteen tons.

Fifteen tons of copper required a lot of manpower and material resources to be extracted in ancient times.

According to historical records, the price of rice in Lin'an in the Song Dynasty was as high as tens of renminbi per catty. In fact, it was calculated in huizi, which was paper money issued by the imperial court.

In the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, the exchange ratio of huizi to copper coins reached an astonishing ten to one, which means that 100 huizi can be exchanged for more than [-] wenzhen copper coins.

When the situation is most serious, people would rather barter than trade with huizi.

If you have three thousand copper coins, then you are a very rich person, and you have to dig a big cellar to hide so much copper coins.

For ordinary people in the Southern Song Dynasty, their families might not be able to save a few pennies a year.

Even a rich man with a lot of money would not be willing to pay three thousand to marry a beautiful concubine.

In the TV show, the guests throw tens of thousands of 10,000+ taels of silver just to win the smile of the oiran. This kind of plot is too exaggerated.

It is written in the Water Margin that eating beef costs a few taels of silver, which is also suspected of exaggeration.

You should know that in the Song Dynasty, although one hundred silvers could be used as currency, they were not the main currency. Only in the Ming Dynasty, after hundreds of silvers from the American continent flowed into China in large quantities, did one hundred silvers become the mainstream currency.

"Do you think I can succeed?" Zhang Qingfeng asked old man Liu.

"I can't tell. I just want you to try it. You won't die if you try it. Maybe your name Yang Sanlang will be useful."

Old man Liu Liu said: "It is said that Mrs. Liu Yiyi likes music very much, and she can play the piano very well. Your Erquan Yingyue is the best music I have ever heard in my life. You may go to her and maybe she will meet you." You, if you invite her again, maybe she will agree?"

"Really? Don't lie to me." Zhang Qingfeng was suspicious.

"Why am I lying to you?" Old Man Liu said in a nonchalant tone.

"Then I'll try it." Zhang Qingfeng said.

Anyway, as old man Liu said, try it and you won't die.

Since Liu Yiyi is so famous and pretty, if he acts in his drama, as long as he promotes it a little, his drama will become a hit.

Diemeng Pavilion, where Liu Yiyi is located, is in the Jiaomufang area, south of Dawa, with Royal Street on the right and West Lake on the left from Yongjin Gate.

Zhang Qingfeng is very famous in China and Vanuatu, and many guests in China and Vanuatu know Zhang Qingfeng.But Jiaomufang is an area belonging to various Jiaofang brothels, and the guests who come here are all distinguished people, so the people here don't know Zhang Qingfeng.

Therefore, when Zhang Qingfeng walked on the streets of Jiaomufang, no one could recognize him.

Soon, Zhang Qingfeng came to Die Meng Pavilion, which was the name of a brothel.

"What, do you want to see Mrs. Yiyi? Haha, who do you think you are? I don't know Yang Sanlang. You can go. Mrs. Yiyi doesn't perform during the day. If you want to see Mrs. Yiyi's performance, please come at night." A young man from a brothel Si stopped Zhang Qingfeng and said.

"Can you inform me that Yang Sanlang, who wrote The Romance of the Gods, is looking for Mrs. Yiyi?" Zhang Qingfeng said to Xiao Si in an awkward manner.

"Do you think Mrs. Yiyi is someone I can see whenever I want? You hurry up and don't disturb me." Xiaosi said to Zhang Qingfeng impatiently.

In the Song Dynasty, brothels were also graded, and not everyone could enter the highest-end brothels.

To enter a top brothel like Diemeng Pavilion, one must have a certain identity.For example, very rich, or powerful, or young talents, etc.

It is basically impossible for ordinary people to enter such a brothel, and the minimum consumption cannot be met.

Generally, those who visit brothels are princes, nobles or romantic talents, and their spending power is high.

In addition to brothels having grades, the artists in brothels also have grades, and the top ones are of course those who are entertainers and not prostitutes.

Although second-rate entertainers sell their art and body, they still pick people, and they won't accept ordinary people.

Prostitutes who are not picky generally refer to prostitutes. There are many such prostitutes in the streets and alleys, and they are not qualified to receive customers in high-end entertainment places like brothels.

In places like brothels, consumption is also determined according to the level of talent and appearance of the geisha. The higher the level, the higher the cost of consumption.

If you want to meet the highest-level oiran, it is not enough to be rich, you also need to be talented, otherwise you will not be able to pass the checkpoint set by the oiran, and you will naturally not see the oiran.

Historically, Song Huizong was the only one who saw Li Shishi, the oiran at that time, that night. This was because the brothel knew in advance that he was the emperor.

This shows how difficult it was to see the oiran in ancient times.

Now, it was predictable that Zhang Qingfeng would be turned away and not even qualified to enter the building.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't expect that he came so excitedly that he didn't even have the qualifications to enter.

Looking at Xiaosi who was blocking him from entering, Zhang Qingfeng felt helpless.He had already announced that he was Yang Sanlang who wrote the novel "The Romance of the Gods", but the other party refused to give him face.

However, Old Man Liu said that Liu Yiyi liked music very much. Zhang Qingfeng looked around and found that there was only one way.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't choose to continue into Diemenglou, but found a place on the side of the street to sit down, and then he took out his erhu from the package.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't know, just when he was "arguing" with Xiao Si in Diemeng Pavilion, in Cuiwei Pavilion opposite, a small head was exposed from a window, curiously letting out what happened below.

"What are you looking at?" A young and beautiful woman asked the maid in the room.

"I saw someone below who wanted to enter the Butterfly Dream Pavilion, but I really wanted to be stopped by Xiao Si." The maid said to the beautiful woman.

"What's so interesting about this! Doesn't this kind of thing happen several times a day?" the woman said to the maid.

"Xiao Niang, come and see, what is that person doing?" Suddenly, the little maid shouted at the beautiful woman in a surprised tone.

"What's the matter?" Hearing what the maid said, the beautiful woman moved to the window sill curiously.

"This man seems to be preparing to play the huqin." The maid said to the woman.

While the two were talking, Zhang Qingfeng was playing the erhu on the street, and a melodious melody suddenly spread in all directions.

"This... sounds so good!" After listening for a while, the servant girl said in surprise.

While Zhang Qingfeng was playing the erhu, countless spectators on the street immediately surrounded him, and soon Zhang Qingfeng was surrounded by people from the inner three floors and the outer three floors.

(End of this chapter)