Again, he was asking for a seat, pouring tea, and with five room teeth, two room teeth were even specially separated to serve Zhu Pingan. For a while, Zhu Pingan felt like a VIP customer in a bank, enjoying the ultra-privileged service of the house teeth.
“Sir Zhu, what is your business here at our dental office? I wouldn’t dare to say anything else, but if you want to sell or rent a property, we will definitely let Sir Zhu return satisfied.”The house tooth who was the first to entertain Zhu Pingan patted his chest and gave Zhu Pingan his word.
“It’s really necessary to trouble you guys, I think ……”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked them, then informed them of his intention to rent a suitable shop for catering.
Out of his own economic conditions, Zhu Pingan was not prepared to buy, but chose to lease.
Whether it was modern times or Daming, buying a house was not an easy task. Although the property prices in Daming are much cheaper compared to modern times, but without more than a hundred taels of silver don’t want to buy a good shop.
To know now is still in the south when the governor of Hai Rui, but also continue to struggle for eighteen years, in order to retire at the age of 58 years old, in Beijing’s twenty ring – Hainan, buy a house.
So to say, buying a set of shops with good location in Beijing, with Zhu Pingan’s bankrupt situation, don’t even think about it.
“Shops ah, Ta-Jen Zhu you wait a moment.”Fang Ya said as he reached out and took out a book and a fish scale map from a bookshelf on the side.
This fish scale map was made by Fang Ya himself, distinguishing the houses for rent along Xinghua Gate between residential and shops, marking them one by one on the map, just like the fish scale atlas of fields made by the government.
“Look, Ta-Jen Zhu, all the shops to be rented around Xinghua Gate are here.”
Fang Ya unfolded the fish scale map and placed it on the desktop, one by one, pointing out the shops for rent on the fish scale map to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan leaned over to follow Fang Ya’s finger and saw that the fish scale map showed that.
“Look, my lord, how about this one shop, located at the Xinghua Gate about thirty paces to the west location, there are many merchants nearby, the flow of people is dense, whether it’s to open a teahouse, eatery or restaurant, it’s a rare and good location. This is a prosperous shop, originally a restaurant, because the proprietor mobilised to the south, this is why it changed hands.”Fang Ya pointed to a shop on the fish scale map and said to Zhu Pingan.
Well, it is indeed a good location, Zhu Pingan nodded, the location of this shop Zhu Pingan had an impression, close to the city gate, on the side of the canal, and behind it there is a residential area, there is no worry about the lack of foot traffic, it is indeed a good location to open a restaurant.
“How much is the rent?”Zhu Pingan asked.
“Look, my lord, this is our record registration of this shop, this shop has a face of three rooms, taxed at twenty-five paces and two, with a monthly rent of eighteen taels and five coins of grain silver. If it’s your lordship who rents it, we can discuss with their proprietor and estimate that the monthly rent can be discounted by five coins of silver, and you can take it for eighteen taels a month.”The house teeth from the register will just said that a shop to find out, will be registered information to point to Zhu Pingan see, when it comes to the rent, the house teeth to give Zhu Pingan a very real price, but also gave Zhu Pingan concessions, said that can help Zhu Pingan to the lessor to pressure the price.
However, after this “real” and “preferential”, the monthly rent is still as high as 18 taels of silver! The imperial capital is really expensive.
Although he had a certain tone of voice in his mind, after listening to the house’s teeth finish the rent, Zhu Pingan’s heart still cooled down a bit.
Of course, to be honest, the rent of shops in the capital of the Ming Dynasty was too many times cheaper than modern times.
This shop is taxed at 25.2 paces, which means that the floor area of the shop is 25.2 paces, the “paces” here refers to the “bow step”, a bow step in the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to 2.8 square metres, and 25.2 paces is about 70 square metres.
70 square metres of shops, a month’s rent is eighteen taels of silver, equivalent to about 10,800 yuan.
It was very expensive, indeed very expensive, so expensive that Zhu Ping An could not afford it.
However, compared to modern times, this price is definitely the price of a cabbage. If it is modern, Beijing City, 70 square metres of shops, according to 14 years of an agency statistics, Beijing City shopping centre shop rent, an average of 24 yuan per square metre per day, that is, per square metre per month 720 yuan, 70 square metres of shops a month’s rent that is 50,400 yuan, converted to silver, is about 84 two.
However, even if ancient times were nearly five times cheaper than modern times, Zhu Pingan still couldn’t afford it, this one month’s rent was several months of his salary.
“In addition, the rule of our room teeth charges is ‘into three and break two’, in Lord Zhu’s case I can make the decision to reduce it by another half for Lord Zhu, only charging an errand worker’s fee of half a percent is enough.”Fang Ya said and gave another concession to Zhu Ping An.
Fang Ya’s meaning is to give Zhu Ping An another half reduction in agency fees, only charging 0.5 points, Fang Ya this is very to Zhu Ping An’s face.
Whether it is leasing or buying and selling, room teeth as an intermediary, running back and forth, contact the two sides, time-consuming and laborious, but also in the Yamen formalities, which are required to cost, room teeth can not work for nothing, naturally, to charge a certain fee.
In the Daming house teeth of the rules of the trade is “into three broken two”, “into” refers to the seller, the lessor, into is that you buy and sell into the said into; “broken” refers to the buyer, the lessee, broken is that you buy and rent a house, the lessee, the lessee, the lessee, the lessee.The “broken” refers to the buyer, the lessee, the broken is that you buy a house, rent a house broke the cost, so-called broken. Into three broken two, refers to the transaction is reached, the teeth from the seller, the lessor hands to collect three per cent of the brokerage fee, from the buyer, the lessee hands to collect two per cent of the brokerage fee, a total of five per cent of the brokerage fee.
This “three for two” fee is more expensive than the modern one, but it is a good deal for Zhu Pingan.
However, the discount offered to Zhu Pingan was really great.
Generally speaking, the “broken” party is charged two per cent of the agency fee, and now Zhu Pingan is only charged 0.5 per cent, which is indeed almost like what Fangya said, only charging an errand fee.
“Ahem, thanks a lot, thanks a lot, it’s just that I’ve been shy lately, and this rent is slightly higher.”Zhu Pingan coughed and said with some embarrassment.
“Oh, then lord you see how this one shop, this one shop is about fifty paces more remote than the last one, the area is also a little smaller, the tax is twenty paces and two, the monthly rent of this shop is thirteen taels of grain silver.”After hearing this, Fang Ya pointed out another shop to Zhu Ping An.
The area of this shop is smaller by more than ten square metres, leaning in by sixty to seventy metres, and the price is also cheaper by five taels of silver.
However, there was still a considerable gap with Zhu Pingan’s expectations.
In the end, room teeth one by one, Zhu Pingan also shook his head from time to time, and finally chose the area of the shop from the prime location of the neighbouring Xinghua Gate, retreated to the three tangkou, and then retreated to the four tangkou, to avoid the busy area, and finally settled to the messy known, unloading warehousing area east of the wall area.
Finally chose a shop, is a newly registered shop, the location is not good, the area is also about seventy square feet, monthly rent is only eight taels.
Fangya asked Zhu Pingan to wait for a day, he went to communicate with the lessor first, and then notify Zhu Pingan to sign the contract and go to the government office to pay the tax after finalising.
