One fall landed Zhang Yunqi in the body of a wastrel in ancient times. Looking at the playboy's face in the mirror, he could barely keep from crying.
The mess left behind by the original owner included:
A county magistrate father who made his fortune raising pigs but insisted on pretending to be refined,
A haughty fiancée who thought even his breathing was wrong,
And a whole city of “close friends” waiting to see what fresh embarrassment he would cause.
He had planned to lie flat and live like a salted fish, but the soul of an engineering and science geek burned too brightly.
If he couldn't build an internal combustion engine, surely he could at least make a waterwheel-powered textile machine work?
When the first bolt of cloth swept the market at cabbage prices,
Lord Zhang clutched the account book, tears streaming down his face. “Son, should we turn the pigsty into a factory too?” Only Hong Xiu, his personal maid, looked worried. “Young master, the day you peeked at the old madam bathing... did you hit your head so hard it knocked some sense into you?”
Magical money logic, 100 copper plates = 1 tael of silver. Ordinary farmers can't save 10 taels of silver by eating and drinking in a year. If the protagonist works as a carpenter, he earns 2 taels a month and earns 24 taels a year. Here's the point. Temporary workers earn 15 taels a day, which is 450 taels a month, which works out to 4 taels and 50 taels a month. They make more money than TM carpenters 🤦. The wages of formal technical workers are not as good as the wages of temporary workers.
It is said that one hundred Wen is equal to one tael, and one piece of cloth is three hundred Wen, which is 0.3 Taels of silver. So how many taels is 1,000 Wen equal to? 🙂