And the grandeur of Nanjing City in this time and space also left a deep impression on Zhou Dongtian. Needless to say, a small county town like Lingao, even if he once went to Guangzhou for an "internship", the two city walls of Hangzhou, which were called first-class cities at that time, could not be compared.

Zhou Dongtian has been to many cities in the old time and space, and Amaki can be regarded as a visit here. The city wall of Nanjing, even though it was already in ruins at that time, also amazed him at Ming Taizu's determination and dedication to defend his capital.

The construction of Nanjing's city wall was completely built according to the local topography of Nanjing, not only using the wall of Yingtianfu in the Yuan Dynasty, but also making extensive use of various hills around Nanjing as part of the defense system. Some lots use mountains directly as the basis of the city walls. Thus it is irregularly shaped. It is connected to Zhongshan Mountain in the east, Stone Mountain in the west, Xuanwu Lake in the north, Qinhuai River in the south, and surrounded by mountains and rivers, with extraordinary momentum. The city foundation is also very extravagant to use huā granite or limestone strip stone, the two walls are built with large bricks, and the brick joints are watered with lime, glutinous rice or rice juice mixed with tung oil to form a slurry, which is extremely strong.

At this moment, despite years of not being warned, Nanjing's walls and defenses inevitably fell into decline. However, the city walls are still in a complete state. Although Zhou Dongtian was not a soldier, he also knew that the existing artillery fire of the army could not destroy the city wall of Nanjing, and the artillery fire of the Japanese army in the 1930s could not destroy the city wall of Nanjing, not to mention the smoothbore guns of the Fu Bō army, which were much more backward than the Japanese artillery.

"If the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty can resolutely resist, the Qing army will not be able to capture this city." Zhou Dongtian said with emotion. When the Hunan army besieged Tianjing, the 20,000 hungry Taiping troops in the city could still rely on the city wall to resist for a long time, and the conditions of the Southern Ming were much better than those of the Taiping army. It's a pity that the small court that was tired of party strife was centrifuged inside and outside, and Zuihou actually surrendered without a fight.

Merlin thought about the Qinhuai River. The idea of going to meet Qin Huai Bayan for a while was temporarily dispelled.

Zhao Yingong gave him a scientific knowledge of history before leaving, and one of his current Qin Huai Bayan has already become an ancient, and the other seven are all real Xiao Luo lì except for Liu Ru, who was born in 1618, who is 14 years old.

"Can you do it?" Zhao Yinggong asked, "Even Liu Ru is too boy." "Merlin is a modern person in the end, and many things are still limited. However, since Qin Huai Bayan is temporarily unblessed to enjoy the Qinhuai River, he still has to go to this famous Daming Golden Grotto, which is said to be a place where beauties gather, what is it like, Merlin wants to experience it. By the way, it also verifies whether the aesthetic taste of the ancients is really special.

The bustle of the streets makes it hard to believe that this is the end of the Ming Dynasty. Although the activities of "building prisoners" and "rogues" have appeared more and more in everyone's ears, news such as "mourning and mourning" and "starvation" have been reported in various places for many years. Even the terrible message of "changing children and eating them" that I didn't often hear in the past has been heard, and there are disasters everywhere, defeats,

The news of the increase and the people's uprising, the situation of the country is chaotic day by day, and even Jiangnan, which has always been rich, has also risen to three taels of silver per stone Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the price of rice in Jiangnan has never been so high. However, none of this seems to have cast a shadow on the Jiangnan metropolis.

However, there are many disturbing shadows that can also appear here, and there are not only gentry and large families, but also many homeless beggars and beggars who speak with a southern and northern accent. In winter, there are many more "road-falling" corpses in various shops in the city than in previous years. There were so many refugees from all over the country, especially from Jiangbei and Anhui, that a large number of people who sold themselves into slavery crowded the human markets outside the city. So much so that the price of the population plummeted.

Cai Yibang, who had been accompanying the sedan chair, stopped the sedan chair at this time, opened the sedan curtain slightly, and said to Zhou Dongtian: "Master! In front of it is Sanshan Street.

Please show me, which bookstore to go to? Zhou Dongtian didn't know how to answer for a while, his purpose was to investigate the local book engraving industry, and he had heard that Sanshan Street in the Ming Dynasty was the book engraving center in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, so he came here, but he didn't know which one to go to.

After a moment of silence, he said, "Let's get off the sedan chair here, walk around the street and take care of the sedan chair waiting here." Yibang Yingzi sighed. Under the command of his Nanjing official dialect, the sedan chair was horizontal, Zhou Dongtian came out of the sedan chair, and the person who stretched his waist and carried the sedan chair was hard, but the taste of sitting in the sedan chair for a long time was not necessarily pleasant. The sedan chair is not a sofa chair, not even a rattan chair, but a standard hardwood backrest chair, the person sitting in the sedan chair can only sit upright, and the body can not move around, and outsiders look majestic and comfortable, but in fact, the waist is numb after sitting for a long time.

Getting off the sedan chair, Zhou Dongtian looked down on the street. Sanshan Street is much quieter than the downtown I just walked through, and there are few pedestrians on the not wide bluestone road, and most of them are well-dressed...... The Chinese people, most of whom wear long robes, and occasionally have some short characters, are also servants who were sent by their masters to buy books.

As soon as the two of them got off the sedan chair, they attracted the attention of pedestrians on the street. They were truly different from the people around them: burly physiques, dark skin, and taller than the average person.

Merlin was a little uncomfortable, he had not received special training from the Intelligence Bureau, and had only studied in a short school for a week before leaving. The cheongsam always felt ill-fitting to him, and the bun and turban always felt like they were going to fall off. My hands and feet also feel like I don't know where to put them.

Zhou Dongtian is much better in comparison, he is serving in the Intelligence, according to the decision of the Joint Security Conference, the personnel of the Intelligence, Intelligence, Mouth personnel must undergo a certain amount of staggered training, so he has studied in the "farm" system.

"Let's go." Zhou Dongtian said to Cai Yibang, "Call the way, let's take a look here." "Yes, sir."

There was a faint scent of ink in the air, a real scent of ink with the smell of pine smoke. Zhou Dongtian once smelled such an aroma in the warehouse of the rare book department of a library, which was the smell of the Song edition of the book. It's more intense than here.

On both sides of Sanshan Street, there are almost all large and small bookstores. It is large enough to have five bay fronts, and so small that it is only one. But regardless of the size of the façade, the eaves of the shops are high, and when you look in from the street, you can see rows of tall bookshelves against the walls, filled with all kinds of books.

Each bookstore has a font size and signboard. Most of the bookstores here belong to the "comprehensive xìng bookstore", which sells all kinds of books. There are also those that specialize in certain categories. For example, Buddhist scriptures,

There are also religious books such as the Taoist that specialize in "Lu Mo". The so-called ink is the Chinese-style eight-strand text, trial post poems, and policy theories in each scientific examination, which is a monopoly on "teaching and auxiliary materials" according to the old time and space. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the speed of book publishing was very slow, and it took at least three or four years for a book to be printed and printed from the completion of the manuscript to the beginning of the engraving. There are only eight strands of the imperial examination of that year, which are basically selected and engraved as soon as the examination is over. It can be seen that the demand is strong.

Zhou Dongtian knew from the lectures in the big library that this kind of bookstore specializing in the sale of "ink" was basically opened by Jiangxi people, in addition to the selection and publication of "ink", another main business is to participate in the field of nose cheating, the main examination and the candidates to match. In addition to the important routine examinations and children's examinations, they can handle the business of opening up joints at almost every level of the imperial examination. In the Qing Dynasty, this business even became their main business.

With the exception of some bookstores that sell books on consignment, almost every larger bookstore has its own stereotype and printing workshop, which stores a large number of plates. Standing outside the store, you can hear the sound of backyard printers rubbing, inking, and brushing, and sometimes when the front and back yard doors are open, you can even directly see the busy figure of stereotypes and printing workers.

Zhou Dongtian strolled with interest, looking at the situation of the various bookstores. It is somewhat similar to the book market of the cultural market of the old time and space, but it does not have the hustle and bustle of the cultural market. The quiet atmosphere was mixed with the faint scent of ink and paper, which made him feel a kind of pleasure.

But this cheerfulness did not shake his determination to destroy the printing industry in Sanshan Street with his own hands. Printing books are published according to the traditional printing method, and books will always be a cultural luxury that only a very few people can possess. In order for the Senate to completely smash this system, it is necessary to make knowledge cheap and popular.

With this in mind, he strolled into a bookstore, followed by Merlin and Cai Yibang.

This bookstore is not the largest in the industry on Sanshan Street, but the façade is wide and the façade of the three-bay room is tall and bright. There is a wide variety of books inside. On the tall bookshelves that occupy three walls, there are all kinds of subsets of scriptures and histories, manuscripts of the ink room, drama novels, and even medical calligraphy and paintings, wine and tea scriptures.

Zhou Dongtian and Mei Lin's temperament and clothing are different from ordinary people. The shopkeeper was very stammering, and immediately greeted them and asked them to sit down, and took care of the men to make tea, put the fruit plate, and then asked the surname and the township.

"My surname is Zhou, a person from Guangdong." Zhou Dongtian said: "You learn this. "I wonder what books Master Zhou wants to read?" The humble face of the shopkeeper lù out of sè "The small shop does not dare to say that there are all kinds of books, but on this street it can be regarded as a complete stock. ”@。