Chapter 424: The Crown Prince's Private Interview

After Li Banghua was transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhu Cihong not only reappointed the secretary of the military department, but also cleared the Nanjing military department inside and out, and the military aircraft department of the Tianwu Army was stationed in the yamen of the military department.

After dealing with political affairs, Zhu Cihong was ready to go out for a private visit to Weifu to see the folk customs outside.

It is said that the south of the Yangtze River is rich, and the city of Nanjing is even more prosperous as the capital of staying, with many shops everywhere, and the goods sold are special products from all over the country.

Zhu Cihong also found some blonde and blue-eyed Europeans, as well as European-owned watch shops, and Nanjing City has become an international metropolis.

The mansions of some wealthy families can be seen everywhere, these residential buildings are high, magnificent, and extraordinary, and there are a group of sturdy house slaves coming and going from time to time in the house.

Zhu Cihong roughly understood through intelligence that there are many such wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River, and the social wealth in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty is basically in their hands, such as the Hua family in Wuxi, which has an annual land rent income of 480,000 taels of silver, and the Qian family in Suzhou, whose annual land rent is as high as 980,000 taels of silver.

The land under the names of these wealthy families is conservative with 300,000 mu, which is regarded as other industries, and the family property of each family is at least millions of taels of silver.

Most of these famous families are bureaucratic tycoons with the title of "scholarly family", and the collusion between officials and businessmen is very close, especially the officials of the Donglin Party are their strong backing, and some Donglin scholars are from these big families.

Zhu Cihong still found that there were many people dressed in strange costumes on the streets of Nanjing, which could be described as competing for beauty.

Recently, the imperial court is holding the triennial Enke examination, and scholars from all over the south of the Yangtze River gather in Nanjing Jiangnan Gongyuan, and almost all of the talents in the city are wearing heavy makeup and glamorous clothes, wearing clothes similar to women's clothing.

Zhu Cihong sighed: "Those who are dressed in women's clothes are all scholars. ”

Through these two months of understanding, Zhu Cihong knew that the popular women's clothing style in Jiangnan, and the change of clothes is very fast, known as "Su Yi", and the "women's clothing style" is only a short period of popular fashion, these fashions often change greatly in two or three years, not to mention the sleeves and collars, and even the shoes worn can be popular with high heels.

Driven by this atmosphere, the luxury of clothing in Jiangnan is also on the rise, and no matter how poor the talent is, he must wear good silk and satin, and whoever wants to wear cloth clothes to swagger through the market will definitely be laughed at.

No, Zhu Cihong and his entourage, who were hanging out, were pointed at by a few showmen around them, and their disdainful eyes were undisguised.

Zhu Cihong frowned, determined to control this kind of atmosphere, but if you want to govern it, you can't force it, these scholars are helping if they do well, and if they don't do well, it's a big trouble, of course, if necessary, Zhu Cihong might as well take tough measures to give them a profound social beating.

While thinking, Zhu Cihong smiled slightly, and he already had a rough plan in his heart.

Zhu Cihong and his entourage walked in the city of Nanjing, he looked at some alleys with flies and insects, and said to Zhu Dadian beside him: "The streets of Nanjing City need to be rectified, clean up garbage and filth, avoid epidemics, it is best to put a few garbage cans on each street, and send people to clean up and transport them out of the city every day to burn and destroy." ”

Zhu Dadian was appointed as the governor of Yingtianfu, and he was driving with him at this time, and when he heard this, he immediately said: "The minister will issue a decree today." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded slowly, and saw a few city patrol officials of the Five Cities Terracotta Division leaning against the wall and chatting, and then said: "The Five Cities Terracotta Division will rectify it well, and all the people who can't be used will be eliminated, and the rest will strengthen inspection and study, and arrange areas and inspection tasks." ”

Zhu Dadian happily accepted the order, if the crown prince wants to take root in Jiangnan, he must rectify all parts of Jiangnan, and the things mentioned now are his own things that should be within the scope of Tianfu, and if he does it well, it will be regarded as a political achievement and benefit the people.

After inspecting a few streets, Zhu Cihong planned to go to the Qinhuai River to have a look, the four words "Qinhuai River" still have a considerable attraction to him, and he can see the appearance of heaven and earth in the Ming Dynasty today.

Zhu Cihong sent Zhu Dadian and others away, and only took Wu Zhong, Xu Sheng and a few young generals of the Tianwu Army to the Qinhuai River.

Relying on the rich Jiangnan River, Nanjing shows a completely different prosperous scenery from Beijing, the sky is getting late, the lights on both sides of the Qinhuai River are bright, the green buildings are lined up, the sound of swallows and warblers is faintly transmitted, and the crowd is bustling to show the prosperity and liveliness.

The wide Qinhuai River is swirling with large and small flower boats, all of which are brilliantly lit, only to see the people in the boat shaking, hiding the spring color, from time to time there is a silk bamboo piano rhyme, guessing the fist and fighting wine, and the woman is shy and angry, and the man is coarse and shouts the lively sound of the city.

After Enke, the scholars gathered in Nanjing City had not left, and many of them came here to relax and have fun, causing the girls on the green buildings on the shore to throw handkerchiefs and scream again and again.

"Brother Li, it's so lively here, how about we go to this busy building to talk about it?"

"Brother has this intention, go!"

The two scholars held hands and laughed and walked towards the Qinglou in front.

Xu Sheng, who was following Zhu Cihong, said: "I thought that the Fanlou they were talking about was a tea shop restaurant, but it turned out to be a kiln building, and these scholars really know how to play.....

Xu Sheng is tall and big, and his voice is already loud, so this voice immediately attracted the sideways eyes of the people around him.

A scholar who had just walked into Fanlou turned his head to look at him and said, "Where did the vulgar martial artist come from, when did Fanlou maybe this cat and dog come in casually?" ”

Fanlou is a high-ranking official prostitute of the Teaching Workshop Division, very particular, and it is really not something that can be entered casually, although Xu Sheng is wearing cloth clothes, he is tall, powerful, and dark-skinned, and he can be seen at a glance that he is a martial artist, no wonder he is despised by these two people.

Xu Sheng was just about to go over and bring the little white face over to teach him a lesson, but Zhu Cihong immediately stopped him and told him to calm down.

This time I came out to make a private visit to Weifu, just to observe the people's situation and see the atmosphere in Jiangnan, I was going to cause trouble just now, how could I make a private visit......

However, the atmosphere here is too wavelike, especially on the upper floor in front, Zhu Cihong even saw a nun wearing Qiluo's clothes screaming happily.

Although this little nun escaped from the empty door, she still cared about the red dust, and was decorated with incense and musk belts, and her obscene voice was especially fishy, which made Zhu Cihong think of the plot in "Golden Vase Plum".

When he first read "The Golden Vase of Plums", Zhu Cihong often wondered how the author Lan Ling Xiaoxiao lived in the Ming Dynasty and could write a masterpiece of such a social atmosphere......

At best, this book says that it emancipates the mind, breaks the hierarchy, and has the germ of capitalism, but at worst, it means that the people's hearts are not ancient, the whole social atmosphere is quite degenerate, and the reader has a very bad head.

For example, the talented old man in front of him is wearing the clothes of a famous prostitute in Qinhuai, I heard that this is called "time makeup", and it is imitated by others, like the same clothes of stars in later generations.

"Recently, Ye Rong is better than a prostitute, and he can't distinguish it, which is a sign of the death of the country!"

Zhu Cihong snorted coldly and walked into a high-end building......