Chapter 274: Zhang Dai is in the Imperial Capital 3
"Look, it's a new pork bone in the morning, and it's bubbling with tweed, we have ramen here, as well as braised eggs and peanuts, and you're still in a big bowl, a super big bowl."
The servant loves to save money, and he also knows Zhang Dai's amount of food, looked at the people around him, and said, "Let's have the smallest bowl." ”
"Is that what you want?" The aunt pointed into the distance.
"yes, that little bowl."
"I'm sorry guest officer, that is a medium bowl, we don't have a small bowl here."
"Don't you have three bowls here, I want that small bowl, six bowls."
"I'm sorry officer, we, that is a medium bowl, a medium bowl, a large bowl, an extra-large bowl."
The servant followed Zhang Dai, he had never seen any scenes, and he could talk and laugh with any kind of big man's personal entourage, but at this time, he held back his face with blood, and it seemed that he was about to explode.
Before he went berserk, Zhang Dai said: "You just said that you just want a few bowls the size of the blue-clothed guest's hand." ”
As if by divine decree, the servant pointed directly to the bowl in the hand of a guest and asked for the size.
Zhang Dai also instructed on the side: "Add an egg to everyone." ”
Zhang Dai waited for the proprietress to go, but explained: "This imperial capital is different from other places, although the people have changed, but the people who run the hall like to shout loudly, and the words they say also like to be more atmospheric, in those teahouses, a pot of tea, a bag of tea, there are two hundred and one packs, there are four hundred and one packs, and the best is eight hundred and one packs." Eight hundred is eight big money, the uncle in the capital pays attention to style, and eight big money is certainly not as good as eight hundred. ”
Although Zhang Dai holds his own identity and does not contact people like the proprietress of the proprietor, but he pays attention to the livelihood affairs here, he heard the conversation, but he was stunned, it turned out that the braised egg was really not expensive, and it was the copper of the imperial capital, although it was not big, but the currency value was relatively stable, but Wuwen bought one.
You know, eggs are really not expensive in this era, but those fresh raw eggs are basically this price, Zhang Dai knows that in the egg interface, because it is difficult to form a monopoly, so it is a large amount of route, the general farmer raises his own chickens, uses chickens for some needles and threads, and the eggs collected are only a penny, and then sold to the city, of course, even if it is a county, a little thrifty family, everyone has chickens.
But Zhang Dai knows that the price of eggs fluctuates with the price of the place where it is sold, and if it is cooked, it is also very expensive, and the land rent here is definitely not cheap, because Lin Yinqiang babbled that the elders refused to sell the land here, and even were detained because the gentry wanted to buy and rent the land here, which is really bad The rule that if there is a benefit since ancient times, you must share the profit with the gentry.
This braised egg smells good, but I'm afraid it also took a lot of thought, only selling a mere five cents, to be honest, it's a little unbelievable, those green buildings, carrying a small basket to earn a boiled egg sold by a child before a meal, may not add any tea, can be sold for 10 cents.
He loves food, and he is also very knowledgeable about studying local cuisines, so he began to wonder if there was something wrong with this egg.
The ramen was quickly served, all thin strips, the soup was a clear soup, sprinkled with coriander, it was just to pass the time, and the braised egg was also put into the bowl, he tasted it carefully, and felt that the taste was not strange, but with a burst of aroma, after eating it in small bites, he commanded again.
But the servant grabbed the proprietress and asked, "Boss, the eggs you have here are really delicious, where did you buy them, and why are they so cheap?" ”
"How cheap can it be, isn't it all from the chicken farm."
"Chicken farm?"
"yes."
"How much did you get in?"
"That's less than a penny, and I send that basket every morning."
It is normal for the Chinese people to value eggs, eggs are the cheapest way for ordinary people to obtain basic nutrients, a shortcut to supplement protein, an egg can be corrupted into a chicken by itself, then it means that it has basic nutrients.
Zhang Dai was silent, the eggs here are indeed cheap, but the imperial capital has always had a bad reputation for treating gentlemen and scholars, so naturally he doesn't feel anything.
I tasted that noodle and felt that it was not bad, and after waiting for a while, Lin Yinqiang bought a ticket and came back, but he said goodbye and left, but afterwards, he also recorded what he had tasted today in his notes.
"There is a ramen in Beijing, it is a wonderful product passed on by the elders, cook pork bone broth in a large pot, the soup is fat, stretch it with white thin dough as noodles, put it into the pot neutral, etc., pour it into the pork bone broth, it is a good thing, it costs a lot, and you get a full meal......
In fact, there are not many people in the first class, in the eyes of most people, but more than a moment (half an hour), in what seat is not sitting, in fact, some people have argued, saying that they can stand just right, can they not spend money.
Zhang Dai carefully looked at the inside of the train car, this train, it can be said that it is rumored almost every day in the south of the Yangtze River, of course, most of the statements are naturally negative, what is the evil art driven by the flesh of a boy and a girl, or the formation of bad Feng Shui of the Heavenly Dynasty, but a distant relative in the family is a leaflet that he received from the study, which said that it was transported to Tianjin from outside the mouth, and 1000 catties of things were only 3 yuan of silver, which was already quite cheap, but I couldn't believe it, of course, the muttering things were naturally the indispensable bad rules of the Ming Dynasty, Tipped.
A group of servants will set up the score and help Zhang Dai arrange it, although they are also afraid of this big iron bump, but the master is in front, so they can only act obediently.
Zhang Dai is not afraid, there have been so many people here before, but he is curious, glass is not a new thing in his place, what is going on with the train, in fact, these Jiangnan families do not have a fool, which of them did not have a fugitive craftsman, and soon understood how the railway works, at least the concept of pulling the iron car on the rails is very labor-saving, of course, many people are very puzzled about how the head of the train can drive such a long car.
Next is the profit, this thing is naturally incomprehensible to outsiders, in the end what is the investment and operating costs, but the income is very clear, even in the later generations, the Tianjin Imperial Capital Line even in the future, its profit is also with the Beijing-Shanghai line, Guangzhou-Shenzhen line on a horizontal line, the daily passenger flow is really large, a carriage is twenty taels of silver income, then there are hundreds of taels of silver for a run, not to mention higher freight charges, and this kind of train every day.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty was full of only tens of millions of people, and it had to be said that there were more people to escape, but the speed of population recovery in the imperial capital was indeed amazing, and the elders understood how a team of traitors and cannon fodder troops who were killed by Wu Sangui appeared in later generations.
The current amount of infrastructure is almost calculated in preparation for the future doubling of the Chinese population to a billion scale, so in fact, let alone recovering investment, even the basic operating expenses cannot be recovered, of course, if you count the role of stabilizing society, it is relatively calculating.
Zhang Dai was also very interested in this train, but when it started, he was shocked by the scene outside the train window, and the trees and the farmland in the distance all showed that the speed of the train was very fast.
Zhang Dai is also a person who has seen everything, and even has a troupe around him, the world-famous Su Xiaoxiao, the girls in that class are said to be all the best in the world, not Zhang Dai, who has been rich for many generations, and the family has accumulated hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
And Zhang Dai took these women to play cosplay games, that is, war games, in which horseback riding was naturally done.
He used to be drunk and rode through the fields, and he felt fast and fast, but now the train also made him feel so enjoyable, much faster than those meandering horses.
After getting off the train, Zhang Dai still couldn't believe it and said, "Where am I?" ”
Lin Yinqiang immediately said: "Shi Gong, this is the imperial capital, but it is a new city...... Look over there, you can see a city wall in the distance, which is the old imperial capital. ”
Zhang Dai seemed to be unconscious, and said: "It's really fast, if it's ......"
It seems that there is nothing to say if you want to say something.
Of course, Zhang Dai did not go out directly, but took a good turn in the train station, although there were many people, it was not like the Spring Festival to walk without moving, imitating the scale of the imperial capital station in later generations is currently only used 20% of the degree, but many things Zhang Dai can understand at a glance.
For example, in that map, Zhang Dai generally looked at the globes and maps sold in the north, and quickly understood what it meant, which was the "Railway Planning Map of China", those black and white thin lines were naturally railways, and on it, the imperial capital, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Jinan and other places, and even places like Urumqi and Nanning also existed.
Of course, Zhang Dai's hometown is naturally also the focus.
"Sure enough, it's going to be repaired, Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by, but how does this thing cross the Yangtze River and the Yellow River?"
made up the picture that the railroad tracks could be hung independently over the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, but Zhang Dai noticed that in addition to Tianjin, there were other platform entrances, and even the cities that were written on that line.
Zhang Dai couldn't help but make up in his mind, this person wrote all the delicacies of Jiangnan and northern provinces in Tao'an Mengyili, and introduced the things to eat in various places, "Beijing's must eat Pingpo fruit and horse tooth pine; Those in Shandong must eat tripe vegetables, autumn white pears, civil official fruits, and sweet seeds, and those in Fujian must eat Fu oranges, Fu orange cakes, kraft candy, and red bean curd......"
If this train is really like what is written in this plan, it can reach the world, it is really a beautiful thing.
Of course, this may be a good thing, but the next moment, Zhang Dai found that as a gentleman, he actually had to line up with the peddler's pawns to leave, which was a little impatient, of course, he could be patient, after all, he was his own people in front of and behind him.
They got out of the train station, naturally there were people waiting to pick up the station, Zhejiang Hall is a place where there are many people, it was originally the best place for officials and gentry and businessmen from all over the country to hook up, at this time, even if there are many gentry who stayed in the imperial capital, although they have been purged repeatedly, but they still occupy the majority.
For example, if you were originally an official in Shandong, and you were a native of Fujian, but you were arranged by your superiors to go to Shaanxi to be the prefect of the county, then you need to find a way to find someone who is familiar with the local situation to communicate with it, and find a criminal master Master Qian Gu, which all need connections, and you can't always pull a flag and say what kind of staff I am looking for and so on.
In this case, it is very quick to go to the guild halls in various places.
Later generations of Hui merchants in Yangzhou, Jin merchants in Jiangnan, are all in this tune, each other in the same place, each other where the hometown is, can always find relatives and old people.
Zhang Dai arrived at the guild hall, but he was like a fish in water, communicating with people, he did not raise his own banner, even if there were people who knew him, he also ordered not to say much, but chatted with those merchants from all over the world, this imperial capital weather, all kinds of new things, marked places, ready to buy again.
After working for a long time, Lin Yinqiang set up a table of banquets, and invited a lot of literati in the imperial capital, and there were people who knew Zhang Dai here. ”
This Zhang family is very prestigious in the south of the Yangtze River, it can be said that those who went to the imperial capital in person before, maybe there were white gloves sent by the Nanjing Nanming boss, maybe a certain prince sent to promise not to covet the throne, and even the little prince's wedding also came to many people.
However, in terms of the status of Jiangnan literati, there are really not many that can compare to Zhang Dai.
"Come and take a look, I have recently entered the year of no confusion, I feel that the human body is gradually aging, if I don't walk around anymore, in a few years, I really can't walk."
In the original history, Zhang Dai was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the family wealth was divided, and after having nothing, he escaped into the wilderness, refused to shave his hair all his life, and after becoming a savage, he began to write books and speak, and a large number of articles such as Shi Kuishu came from this, talking about the grand occasion of the year, such as the scene where the children of the family gathered together to eat crabs, always added a word ashamed and ashamed.
"Less for the gentlemen, love prosperity, good house, good beauty, good **, good fresh clothes, good food, good horses...... Half a lifetime of hard work is a dream. By the end of the fiftieth year, the country was ruined, the family was destroyed, and the survivors lived in broken beds...... Cloth clothes and vegetable food, often until the end of cooking, looking back on 20 years ago, it is really like a different world. ”
He also knew that the extreme desire for poverty and luxury back then was one of the reasons for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
However, in this time and space, the elders are very interested in indirectly causing the landlords to go bankrupt, and they are not interested in directly attacking them.
Of course, in this time and space, I am afraid that Zhang Dai may not end up in the ruin of the country, and the misery of avoiding the mountain residence will also bring him a new fate.
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