Chapter 41 - 31 Two-Faced Three-Blade Technique
No matter which dynasty or era, buying a house and land is always a big deal. It's not like you just take out the money and I simply agree; it's not as if the deal is finished.
That's just play acting.
In the Dayong Dynasty, if you want to buy a house and land, you have to first draft a contract between the buyer and seller, then go to pay the contract tax, and only after obtaining official approval is the transaction considered complete.
Xu Qing drafted a preliminary contract with the broker's steward, which was the purchase agreement for the house. Then they went together to the government office to register with the clerk in charge of population records.
After completing this, he also had to pay out of his own pocket to buy several "official contracts."
The official contract comes in four copies, each of which must be exchanged with real gold and silver.
The clerk in charge of handling the house contract was clearly an old acquaintance of the broker's steward. After greeting each other and asking about the house details, the clerk was secretly amused.
He almost blurted out the joke: "Welcome back when you sell the house again, Shopkeeper Xu!"
"This house is exceptionally good; you are truly fortunate to have it!" The clerk said this without a hint of embarrassment, because he had already been thoroughly embarrassed by this house in the past!
The clerk just did his job, and whether the person buying the haunted house lived or died had nothing to do with him.
After the preliminary contract was done, the process wasn't over yet. Xu Qing still had to go to the Capital Taxation Bureau to pay the "contract tax."