The advantage of the peaceful and prosperous era for hundreds of years is that all kinds of cultural relics are not expensive.

In the various cultural relics treasure appreciation programs in later generations, it can be sold generously as a good thing for the display of fine products, the white porcelain of the Zhengde period, in the later generations, can be changed for a set of tall buildings between the second ring and the third ring, and now, but a dozen taels of silver, it can be easily purchased, or is sought after.

However, it's very simple to think about it seriously, it's like asking you to take 10,000 yuan a month for the "moonlight family" in the 21st century, if you let him go back to decades ago, 5 cents a pound per catty of pork ribs, the lowest unit of pricing per day is cents, and a small bean popsicle is only 5 cents, how cool would that day be?

The real problem of the Ming Dynasty is probably that the internal financial order was disordered by this unexpected amount of silver, and it happened that it also met a guy who was pedantic and secretly had a bad heart inside, and naturally there was a problem.

Bao Gonggong's cultural relics procurement trip is still very pleasant, back to ancient times, in fact, the real entertainment is less pitiful, and it is difficult for people in later generations to understand all kinds of entertainment in the Ming Dynasty.

Entertainment is to kill excess time.

After gaining the ability to domesticate animals and crops, many human beings have greatly increased their rest time, and even some people, some of whom have flexible brains, began to find reasons not to work, and there is naturally such a thing as religion and art.

For example, Russian literature is known for its long length, all kinds of independent psychological descriptions, delicate and warm emotions, in fact, the reason is very simple, this part of Russia, most of the year is winter, the responsibility is more than the task of helping human beings to hide by the stove for recreation, compared with the later chapters of a few thousand words of time, for fear that the reader will be greatly impatient, not the same.

Bao Gonggong longed for a long time, his eyes widened, and he didn't find a young lady dressed as a man, naturally what tofu Shih Tzu, it is impossible for civilian girls to be molested on the street, the weather is hot at this time, as long as they go out, it is rare that they are not tanned and blackened, and almost everyone goes out with a kind of gauze hat and hat that blocks the sun, in this case, it is hell to see the face clearly.

Of course, Grandpa Bao is very satisfied.

The front in Vietnam was stable, and he could immediately urge Zheng Zhun to launch a decisive battle and harvest a large area of territory at one time, and with such results, Bao Gonggong felt that he could go back to the imperial capital with his head held high, and even if he was preparing to write a speech, he could also accept the praise of other elders with his chest held high.

Mu Rongshan also took great pains to make a draft contract, signed with Chu Liuxiang's name and stamped with the big seal of Vietnam, and then the draft contract was made in duplicate, and the Bao Guild brought it back to the imperial capital to show off to everyone.

Pao also has an important task to do, which is to help Hong Kong recruit shipbuilders from the surrounding area.

Most of the ships used by Guangdong merchants were built in the nearby shipyards near Guangzhou, in fact, they were in the Huangpu and Changzhou areas, especially in Huangpu.

The main reason why Bao Gonggong valued these craftsmen was that they were able to create a type of ship called the old lock boat. Local craftsmen also called this kind of ship the red single boat, the main reason is that although the Ming Dynasty's management of maritime affairs was close to getting out of control, the actual power was actually in the hands of the gentry. Just like the pilot, if the craftsman wants to build a ship, he also needs the local armor to sign a knot, and the government agrees. When building a ship, it must be declared to the customs, and the customs will issue a red list for inspection.

The Portuguese, who had been granted residency in Macao, began regional trade between China and the South Seas using a large number of Chinese sailing ships. The Portuguese found that Chinese sailing ships were thin and inferior to their thick Western ships in terms of protection against wind and waves and pirate attacks. But Chinese hard sails are easy to use, low cost, lighter weight, the key is that only a small amount of manpower can be lifted, which is very attractive to the Portuguese who are short of manpower, so the Portuguese will combine the long side of the Western-style sailing ship with the hull of the Chinese sailing ship and the hard sail of the Chinese-style sailing ship to create a new sailing ship with the advantages of both Chinese and Western sailing ships, which the Chinese call the old lock boat.

After this kind of ship was designed, because of the outstanding advantages, in addition to the use of the Portuguese, the shipwrights of Guangdong also imitated a large number of ships, and this type of ship was preferred by China's sea voyages.

However, this kind of ship is not absolutely advanced, it is just more suitable for the current situation in China. Because the Portuguese's own shipbuilding technology was not first-class in Europe, it was not comparable to the Netherlands in the past, and now it is not comparable to the British. The type of ship, designed with a combination of Portuguese and Chinese technology, also lagged behind the British ships.

Of course, this is still mainly restricted by the inexplicable Ming lock-up policy, because it is not allowed to build large ships, resulting in this kind of old lock ships can only be built in small models, the Portuguese are slightly more relaxed in shipbuilding in Macao, and can also build three-masted sailing ships, and Chinese merchants can only use two-masted boats. After all, the demand of the Portuguese was limited, which led to the fact that this combination of Chinese and Western old lock ships did not develop with the times, and in the era when the British and Dutch began to play the Sea Sovereignty and the Sea King, the old lock ships could only be installed with a maximum of twenty or thirty cannons.

Even Zheng Zhilong prefers to use a bunch of fire to attack the ship pig to hurt people and scare away the enemy's trick with his life.

However, after all, the old lock ship is a combination of Chinese and Western technology, even if the hull structure is slightly backward, but the basic principle and structure are the same, as long as you are willing to pay tuition, coupled with the technical support of the elders, I believe that Guangzhou craftsmen can build a climactic level of ship, even if the quality can not catch up temporarily, at least in the firepower to catch up.

And in the unlikely event that such old locks proved to be indeed less suitable for combat than Western ships, the Presbyterians intended to imitate the mature British warships of later generations, and in this respect the craftsmen of Canton were more helpful than those of other parts of China. Because although the Guangzhou shipwrights did not directly build Western ships, they knew the structure of Western ships very well. This is due to the loss of control of the grassroots by the Ming Dynasty, the boat of the foreign devil docked, and a dark-skinned Indian Ah San came down, insisting that I am from the Northeast, what are you like?

But the ship needs to be repaired, so you can only ask local craftsmen to help, and over time, with the maintenance of Western ships, it is natural to have enough understanding of Western ships.

A tragedy is that in addition to occasionally playing the ship girl game, the elders have a worrying understanding of the ship, and the ships built before can only be regarded as hard with the technology of later generations, which is a mess from the economic point of view, and the local shipbuilding talents still have to find a way to train themselves.

This is not a later generation, the exclusive job fair of several shipping companies can be crowded, the low status of craftsmen in this era has already begun to erode the interests of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention anything else, the Ming court for musket manufacturing technology, artillery technology and blood loss, it is simply unimaginable.

Later generations simply regarded the Manchu Qing as an armed robbery gang that entered the customs and plundered, which was not bad in nature, but there was one thing that this gang attached great importance to technicians.

The reason why King Sanshun was crowned king is that the artillery craftsmen he brought over, as well as a few Portuguese soldiers, helped the Manchus develop artillery technology, and from then on, the walls of the Ming Dynasty began to be more difficult to resist the Manchu attack.

Similarly, many people regard the Mongols as barbarians, but what they never imagined is that the Southern Song Dynasty at that time was half of the country, resisting the siege of elites from Eastern Europe, West Asia, and Central Asia.

Therefore, it is by no means a question of barbarism and civilization, but an imbalance in internal affairs, which leads to the inability to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

People at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least scholars, definitely understand the importance of gunpowder weapons, but you ask craftsmen to study firearms and gunpowder without their lives, and they must always be paid, and after being blown up, they will be given a pension, how to get this money?

A sad number is that the Wuchang Uprising in later generations was originally planned to be later and more properly prepared, but one of the fools wanted to see how others made bombs, so he ran over with a big smile on his cigarette, and the final outcome can be imagined, this is the most revolutionary and advanced revolutionary party, and there is no concept of lethal gunpowder, so you can imagine how scum their opponents are.

The ability of the elders to educate the hundreds of students in the imperial capital is already the limit, and there are not many who are willing to be the king of children after all, but who said that under the same conditions, Chinese cannot do better than foreigners?

Of course, he has too little time to spend in Guangdong, so he has to find local supporters for this work, and here there is a problem, how to distribute the benefits?

Carrying a large bag in his hand, he was only followed by a Huo Manho, which was not eye-catching in the densely populated Guangzhou.

The meaning of food in Guangzhou is naturally that the location here is really suitable for foodies to live.

There is a compendium of materia medica in the Ming Dynasty, which is naturally known to everyone, but in addition, few people know, and there is also a book of food materia medica, the person who wrote this book is amazing, because this is a book that writes about how to cook various foods and how to eat, and even the compendium of materia medica is quoted in many places He said, the most powerful of which is to record what animal's meat tastes, which part of the meat is the strongest, both pigs, cattle, sheep and other more common meat, as well as tigers, bears, leopards, elephants, etc. Now these animals are all national protected animals, but in the Ming Dynasty, they can still be eaten.

Tiger meat tastes sour, flat, the main nausea and nausea, good for qi, bear meat is sweet and cold, lukewarm, non-toxic, the main wind spleen and muscles are not benevolent, leopard meat, sour, flat, non-toxic, the main safety of the five organs, elephant meat, light taste, eat more to make people weigh.

For example, the Tieling Tiger Park, which the Presbyterian Association invested in the Northeast, is a large-scale business group integrating entertainment and leisure catering and scientific research, and the main focus is to raise tigers and sell them to the powerful.

Of course, the age of this Tianhong restaurant is not short, and it is full of tea customers on weekdays, as a restaurant, it looks bigger than the north, according to later generations, Guangzhou, which can start real estate in 12 months a year, how to see that the belly of the real estate developer is also bigger than that in the north.

"Our store is not open to outsiders today."

Bao Gonggong is glad that his vernacular is still passable, in fact, although Cantonese people have not yet popularized Mandarin education, but speaking more slowly, he can still say clearly: "I am the host of today's treat." ”

Without saying much, he walked in, and it was already full of many people, not young, and they were all pampered officials, at least at first glance, they were well-fed and rested characters.

"Sorry for being late, guys."

Bao Gonggong did not initiate a host, but he was ashamed of the impolite behavior of the latest arrival, but sat down, and after introducing himself, he first said the good local things he bought.

Still, it's off to a good start.

Through the news sent by Zheng Zhilong, it was said that the big man from the imperial capital had arrived in Guangzhou, so he booked a hotel in the evening to treat him, and he arrived incomparably, which made people feel confused.

Banquets often mean political confrontations, in fact, it is very simple, when you eat, at least one hand with chopsticks, the other hand with a rice bowl and steamed buns, or a knife and fork, that is, it is difficult for someone to hold chopsticks in one hand and a gun or dagger in the other.

And when people eat, their posture will be indecent, and their likes and dislikes will be revealed.

Originally, the legendary thief was not very arrogant at all, but like a Xu Xiake who traveled the mountains and rivers, he was very interested in various local products, as if he was not here to meet a politician, but a son-in-law.

Father-in-law Bao asked, many people in Guangzhou City came, the biggest one was the prefect, the bigger governor and the like, naturally looking for an opportunity to shirk, and those who couldn't run away came out to listen to the style, but it seems that Father-in-law Bao didn't say much.

The reason for making soup in Guangdong is very simple, the weather is hot, it is easy to sweat, and it needs a lot of nutrients and water, and in addition to eating various calcium tablets, in fact, making soup is not too economical, just like the effect of 3 yuan a bottle of vitamins is actually similar to 100 yuan a bottle.

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