However, the real situation is different from that in the novel. The ancients never lost to modern people in making money. They work hard as well, as do civil servants who work nine to five and ordinary workers who stay up late to work overtime. Only in the long history, these ordinary people are usually ignored by people, thus ignoring the human world. As for how the real ancients worked, I will tell you today.
First, ordinary working people
As early as in ancient times, when people were still in the Stone Age, they had the idea of earning money to support their families, but there was no currency in circulation at that time, so people usually barter things for each other, or get something from each other by selling coolies.
These behaviors seem simple, but in fact they have the nature of later work. In addition to reproduction, people will also consider how to satisfy and improve their quality of life through some wild hunting or activities every day. In other words, people at this time are also working, but the work content is different from today.
During the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang unified the world, unified currency, language, writing and various social behavior standards and norms. People's lives have also changed from the tribes of the Stone Age. Kissing? Blood relationship has become a new clan hereditary blood relationship, which is more standardized than before and has higher requirements for society and family. People are not only satisfied with the initial stage of eating, but also need to pay attention to wearing and drinking well.
So during this period, people began to have normal currency transactions. Once the currency transaction happens, it means that people's attitude towards earning money from work has changed, from bartering to shopping with coins now, so that money is completely circulated and people's desire for work is more stimulated.
People have been working to earn money since the Qin Dynasty. These jobs are varied. Most ordinary people get paid by selling coolies. People with a little economic mind will use the price difference of goods in different regions to make money and form early business thinking.
The work in this period was basically about clothes and food. Before teaching, the stage of simply eating enough developed, and people were more interested in making money. Everyone has a feeling that they need to work to make money. At this time, the industries that earn more money are all kinds of positions in the palace, from an ordinary maid to a concubine. For ordinary people, it is very difficult to be a concubine or a prince, so most ordinary girls go to the palace to be maids and do some simple work to get paid.
Men also work in the palace, but they are generally eunuchs, which is sad. It's a decent job to work in the palace. Most ordinary people can only become maids and servants of people with slightly better conditions, and suffer a lot in exchange for some remuneration to support their families.