Chapter 862: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Many of the pilgrims understood the hints of the women behind these curtains, and shouted at the curtains one by one: "Little Xian'er, I brought five hundred taels, and the other shouted, Xiao Cui'er, I brought a thousand taels ......?" The endless shouting inevitably caused laughter.
After about half a pillar of incense, the curtain was slowly opened, and everyone looked at it with wide eyes, but saw a man with clear eyebrows walking out, holding a gong in one hand, and smiling and groaning in the other.
The man seemed to have known that this effect was the answer, but he didn't care, smiled indifferently, raised the gong in his hand high, and knocked the cone rod in his right hand hard, only to hear "Dang!" While! While! Three times, the crisp sound immediately spread throughout the Red Sleeve Move.
The originally noisy red-sleeved move immediately became a lot quieter with the sound of these three gongs, and the man saluted everyone with a fist: "Ladies and gentlemen, all sons, foreign masters, today I hold a grand combing meeting with my red sleeves, I hope that you have money to hold a money field, and those who have no money also shouted twice, and today I have a girl's old man, please pity them......?" “
"Less wordy, let the girls come out?" The old men in the crowd who couldn't wait shouted loudly, and many people shouted along with it, and the sound was like thunder for a while.
The man didn't dare to say more, so he waved his hand and said, "Please sit down again, the girls are coming out?" “
As soon as everyone heard that the girl was coming out, after shouting a few times, the field immediately became quiet, and the curtain on the huge combing platform was completely opened, and under the waiting of everyone, four girls came out in turn, all dressed in white plain clothes as thin as cicada wings, or holding the pipa in their arms, or holding the flute with both hands, with a graceful posture, a delicate appearance, and dark eyes full of strong spring love.
After a moment of silence, thunderous applause erupted, followed by everyone shouting the name of the woman they liked, and the atmosphere in the whole arena immediately became lively.
Yang Yifeng, who was upstairs, looked at this qiē, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "It seems that there is a lot of silver tonight?" Can you finally satisfy the little prince? “
Since the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Hangzhou has actually governed Liangzhejiang West Road; In the first year of Daguan, it was promoted to the marshal's mansion, and governed nine counties of Qiantang, Renhe, Yuhang, Lin'an, Yuqian, Changhua, Fuyang, Xindeng and Yanguan. At that time, the population had reached more than 200,000 households, making it one of the most populous prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. The economy is prosperous, textile, printing, winemaking, paper industry are more developed, foreign trade is further developed, it is one of the four major commercial ports in the country, to the Zhao Dynasty after the south, began the heyday of Hangzhou. In the third year of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was promoted to Lin'an Mansion and governed in Qiantang. Jurisdiction of Qiantang, Renhe, Lin'an, Yuhang, Yuqian, Changhua, Fuyang, Xincheng, Yangong nine counties, the area and the Tang Dynasty is roughly the same, the population grew rapidly, to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, although the Hongwu Dynasty heavy agriculture and business, but decades of relative stability, peaceful recuperation, to Yongle, the social productivity has been greatly improved, industry and agriculture have greatly developed, Hangzhou as a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, Hangzhou commerce has not stopped, with the help of favorable topography, and the imperial court to the south of the Yangtze River strong support, Hangzhou's commodity market expanded. Cotton, raw silk, cane sugar, silk, paper, ironware, porcelain and all kinds of handicrafts, most of which have become commodities and are widely circulated in the market, some are sold to ethnic minority areas, and even exported to Japan, Nanyang, South America and other places. Due to the widespread cultivation of agricultural cash crops and the development of handicrafts and commerce, the need for and dependence on food in many regions is also increasing. For example, Jiading in Suzhou (now Jiading, Shanghai) "does not produce rice in the county, and eats in all directions" in Beijing, "if the nine doors are closed, the coal and rice will not pass, and if there is no coal rice in one day, the fireworks will be extinct", and "the benefits of rice in the valley of Chuzhong will be scattered to the sea several times". Grain became more of a circulating commodity, which effectively excluded the natural economy and gradually broke through the closed state caused by feudal locality.
The expansion of domestic and foreign markets has created a greater space for businessmen to operate, and commercial capital has become more active than in the past. In the towns with developed industry and commerce, a large number of merchants gathered, among which the Hui merchants, the Western merchants and the "Suzhou and Hangzhou Dajia" were divided into various merchant gangs. These merchants were mainly engaged in grain, silk and cotton fabrics, salt and tea, timber and pawnbroking, but also engaged in the resale of luxury goods, and occasionally a small number of merchants invested in handicrafts. The emergence of these phenomena is an important sign of the rapid development of the commodity economy, and it is also rare before.
With the prosperity of industry and commerce, in addition to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Hankou, Wuhu, and Linqing along the Yangtze River and the canal, and Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, and Guangzhou along the southeast coast, a large number of new small towns have emerged, such as Shengze Town and Zhenze Town in Suzhou, Puyuan Town and Wangjiangjing Town in Jiaxing, Shuanglin Town and Linghu Town in Huzhou, Tangqi Town in Hangzhou, Fengjing Town and Zhujiajiao Town in Songjiang, etc. These towns and cities are known for their silk or cotton weaving industries, and their population is not only indigenous people, but also foreign merchants, small craftsmen and hired handicraft workers. In addition, the town of Foshan, which is famous for its iron casting and silk weaving industries, and Hankou Town, which is famous for its commerce, also developed, and Jingdezhen, which is famous for its porcelain industry, became more prosperous on the basis of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Today, most of the people who came inexplicably are big families and businessmen in Hangzhou, these people are some Confucian students in the south of the Yangtze River, who have experienced the "top of the word reading, there is no other industry, (and it happened to be a famine year)...... After getting the status of "never making a living", I couldn't help but realize the truth that "Naxiu is a thing that can't be eaten and not hot", so he no longer concealed the mentality of pursuing practical profits, but instead ran a business, and even was willing to be a shopkeeper, running books and accounts, and serving as an accountant to solve his livelihood. There are also some scholars in various places who engage in business, in order to supplement their studies, "among all the students, there are also fathers, brothers and children who make a living, and they are not only scholars, but also operate bookstores, calligraphy and painting shops, incense shops, flower shops, antique shops, etc. Dealing in this kind of goods was indeed good for them, and it was also regarded as the most elegant business of the time, and in a few years they became one of the richest merchants in the region, and these people were undoubtedly the important objects of the Red Sleeves hospitality tonight, and most of the silver came from their pockets. And these people did not disappoint Yang Yifeng, every time he came to the red sleeves, as long as the girl was good, the silver that shot was called a spendthrift and a bold shot.
It is precisely because of the strength of these people that Yang Yifeng prescribed private rooms and private seats for these people, these are all white silver, just these private seats, the box can make a lot of money tonight, not to mention combing and shouting for a while, he believes that the girl he has carefully cultivated will definitely be able to sell it at a good price.
These wealthy businessmen have a lot of silver in their hands, and they are pretentious on weekdays, like the red sleeves of this kind of elegant thing, they want to come to watch it, meet a good girl, and buy a pastime is not indispensable, so they got the news, and entered the private room early, the elegant seat, which is close to the combing table, and the freshest fruit snacks in Hangzhou at present, wine and delicacies, it is indeed refreshing.
After such a noisy scene, the combing was considered to begin, first a burst of cannons sounded, and the gong struck several times, until everyone's attention was attracted, only to see the four women on the combing platform sitting in four corners, divided into left and right, front and back, the first woman held the pipa in her arms, gracefully walked to the front of the stage, and said with a slight smile: "The slave family will be handed over to you officials tonight, but you have to love the slave family well?" As soon as the words fell, thunderous applause and shouts immediately broke out.
Someone couldn't wait to shout: "Fifty taels!" “
After a burst of laughter, another shouted, "One hundred taels!" “
Another voice said, "Three hundred taels!" “
Everyone screamed in surprise, and they all looked at the person who came out of three hundred taels, but the crowd on the field was surging, and where did they see that figure.
Everyone had to put their eyes back on the stage again, and someone shouted: "Six hundred taels!" “
Someone immediately followed: "Seven hundred taels!" ”
The price here has been shouted, and Chen Yongqing, the number one local wealthy businessman sitting in the private room and the private seat, snorted disdainfully, not that he was reluctant to give out the money, but his vision was too high, and the woman on the stage was reasonable, but after all, something was missing, so he didn't shout the price for a long time, and decided to wait and see.
He didn't shout, some people shouted, the price had the initial seven hundred taels directly increased to two thousand taels, for this price, the first woman on the stage was extremely satisfied, at least she had successfully completed Yang Yifeng handed over to the character, she shouted at the man who shouted two thousand taels slightly, said thank you, turned around and went to the rear to make preparations, where has already prepared for her a candle night in the cave room, she just needs to wait for the man who bid two thousand taels to break the melon tonight.
With the first woman's warm-up, the bullying on the field has been mobilized, and when the second woman comes on the field, the price of the shouting is no longer from one hundred taels, it starts directly to three hundred taels, and at the end, it is four thousand taels higher than the previous woman, which makes the second woman smile, this price from today, I am afraid that it will be rumored to be a lie, and I am afraid that her value will also rise in the future.
When it was the turn of the third girl to walk on the dresser, the price rose again, directly starting from five hundred taels, because Yang Yihang was secretly bad, when the price was six thousand taels, he shouted four more times, and actually shouted out the price of 10,000 taels, which was something that had never happened before in the red sleeves.
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