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It can be said that in the old society, even if the people sold their children and daughters, they did not necessarily get food and clothing. Once the children are sold to others, then they will be enslaved for generations, without their own personal freedom, and their lives will be miserable. Usually, boys are sold as squatters and girls are sold as squirrels. In a large household, there are many rings and small squatters.
The ancient people had a heavy idea of male superiority and female inferiority, so the children bought and sold in the general family were girls. It is also because there are too many girls to buy and sell, so the price of girls is not high. And most of these girls who are sold can only be slaves for a lifetime, not only that, if the person they marry is still a slave, their children are still slaves, and it is difficult to turn around. If you meet a kind master, it is fine, but most of the masters do not have a very good attitude towards the servants, and it is normal to be beaten and scolded if they do wrong, and even worse, because of a small mistake, they are executed by the master.
In a novel of the Ming Dynasty, it is mentioned that there is a staff member who wants to buy a good cook, so the middleman finds a matchmaker to introduce a lady who meets the buyer's conditions that other people have sold. Later, as he was about to try his hand at cooking, the old woman asked the mane, "Have you ever been taken in by your previous master?" She replied, "It's been a long time since I received it." Because it is a matter of not seeing any light in private, there is no birth to a son and a half-daughter. ”
Many of them will be adopted by the male master, which is a very common thing for them, so these women will also serve the master with extra care, hoping that one day they can fly up the branches and become phoenixes. We all know that in ancient times, it was very cheap to buy a beard, so how much money did it cost? There was such a thing in the Ming Dynasty, when a tailor made clothes for a large family, he accidentally broke it, and the master's family needed 7 taels of silver for compensation, and the tailor really couldn't get it out, and he could only sell his 11-year-old daughter in desperation.
As can be seen from the above example, about four or five pieces of silver can buy a similar beard. However, at this price, the lady is the kind of young mane who can't do physical work, and she doesn't have any skills, and she still needs to be raised slowly by the main family. So, how much can those clever squirrels sell for?
It is also recorded in the novels of the Ming Dynasty that those who have a skill, or are good at needlework, or cook well, look white, and have fine skin and tender flesh, can probably sell for twenty-four taels. The difference in price is still relatively large, converted into the current renminbi, one or two silver can be exchanged for five hundred yuan. That is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, it cost about four or two to twenty-four taels to buy a mane, and the total yuan was two thousand yuan to twelve thousand yuan.
However, the fate of these beards is very miserable, even if they are adopted by their masters as tongfang yakuza, they may not be able to have a name. As a maid, the best ending is to be adopted as a concubine, so that you can not only improve your living conditions, but also have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life. Moreover, their children can also be freed from slavery, and they will have their own good future in the future. In this way, the cost of concubines of rich princes is very small, and it is not surprising that there are many concubines.
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