"Sir, you're back."

The two servants standing at the door saw Zhang Zhenxun accompany a middle-aged Chinese who looked like an official back, and trotted forward a few steps to curry favor.

"Is Miss in the backyard?"

"Miss accompanied Miss Wu out today, and I heard that she went to Nanhua No. 1 Women's College to audit and study."

"Hmm."

Zhang Zhenxun whispered, turned his head to Sun Bin and said, "Lord Sun, the little girl is not at home today, but she let the adult run empty." ”

"Mr. Zhang is polite." Sun Bin waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's only half a pillar of incense away from Nanhua First Women's College, if Mr. Zhang is not too troublesome, it is better to take a car to Nanhua First Women's College, and by the way, you can also see the scenery around Chang'an City (Córdoba), I don't know what Mr. Zhang thinks?" ”

"According to Sun-sama."

Zhang Zhenxun nodded in agreement, and then the two of them got into the carriage they came, turned around and drove to the other side.

Nanhua No. 1 Women's College is a women's higher education institution under construction, located in Xicheng District, Chang'an, surrounded by newly relocated garment factories, spinning mills, textile factories and other light textile factories, which have not yet been officially put into production and operation.

Crossing a gravel road, the horse-drawn carriage enters a bustling business district lined with two-story Western-style brick and stone buildings, but the owners of the buildings have been changed from white Argentines to Chinese.

"Master, walk two miles ahead, and you will reach Nanhua No. 1 Women's College."

Coming to the entrance of the street, the chariot driver said respectfully.

"The streets are crowded, be careful to catch the car."

"Hey. Don't worry, sir. ”

The carriage slowed down and slowly made its way through the crowd. Zhang Zhenxun opened the curtain of the carriage and turned his head to look out, and his eyes were full of small vendors and all kinds of Chinese dressed up.

People are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and business is divided into high, medium and low grades. Among the merchants engaged in commercial activities in the Han Kingdom, they were divided into merchant merchants, fixed stall merchants, itinerant vendors and rural vendors according to their size.

Broadly speaking, Zhang Zhenxun also belongs to this class of merchants, but Zhang Zhenxun used his personal relationship with the Dutch East India Governor to make his business bigger.

It is easy to understand that the fixed stall merchants and itinerant vendors either rent a small stall or carry goods to operate on a mobile basis, and the itinerant hawkers are different from the first three, they are mostly overseas Chinese who have lost their land and gone abroad or the unemployed in the urban slums, lack of funds and connections to rent fixed stalls, and they use small carts to load groceries, department stores, and other goods all day long.

Vegetables and other daily necessities, or carrying the merchant on his shoulder, shaking the merchant's drum through the streets and alleys, shouting and selling, or

Go deep into which village "Jiapigou" to buy native products, come in the wind, go in the rain, get up early in the dark, wear the stars and the moon, keep to yourself, and earn a small profit with the hardest labor.

The country merchant is the lowest among the merchants.

As early as the Nanyang period, there was a saying among the Chinese that "don't be a small merchant in business".

When the Chinese went to the South Seas, because of the environment, even if the conditions for being a rural merchant were hard, there were still many people who were willing to do it. The income of the Nanyang Chinese merchants is meager, and most of them can only maintain the living expenses of one person, and they cannot take care of their families, so the male Chinese who break into the Nanyang can not accumulate the capital to get married and start a family, and finally can only end up dying of illness and burying their bones in the wasteland.

Zhang Zhenxun, like the Chinese who went to Nanyang, also started from the lowest rural merchants, and worked hard for more than 20 years to have today's status, but compared with the Chinese who risked their lives in Nanyang dozens of years ago, there is now another way out for overseas Chinese, that is, to immigrate to South America.

After more than ten years of propaganda and influence, coupled with the infiltration and expansion of the Taiping Society and the Military Intelligence Department in the Nanyang region, the development of the Han Kingdom and the real life of the Chinese immigrants were gradually known to the overseas Chinese in Nanyang and other regions.

From the beginning of each year to the end of the year, groups of overseas Chinese from all over the world gather in South America, especially the small Nanyang merchants who are engaged in the sale of small commodities, they work hard in Nanyang for half their lives but get very little, if they are unfortunate to be infected when selling small commodities in the countryside, they are attacked by the natives, leaving them with only a dead end.

Under the comparison of the living conditions of Nanyang and South America, nine out of ten Nanyang small merchants chose to leave the unbearable heat and poisonous insects in Nanyang, and followed a shipload of immigrants to South America with only a few copper coins on their bodies.

After coming to the South American Han Kingdom, some small merchants entered the factory as workers after being introduced by government officials, while most of the small merchants saw the business opportunities of the new immigration bases all over the country, and still chose the old business, picking up the simple merchants to go deep into the Chinese settlements, while sending necessary daily necessities to the Chinese immigrants, while earning several times higher profits than in Nanyang.

The plains of La Plata, the pampas, the dense forests of northern Argentina, and even the relatively inhospitable Patagonian wilderness are full of the imprint of the little merchants.

When the country developed greatly, all walks of life developed rapidly from scratch and from small to large, and in such a historical opportunity that may exist for decades, it was easy for hard-working and hard-working Chinese to accumulate initial wealth.

Time passed slowly, and the early Nanyang merchants earned start-up capital and began to turn their attention to other directions such as industry and agriculture, while the merchants who came later continued to start their own business process step by step in the footsteps of the first comers.

The small vendors hawking on the roadside evoke memories of Zhang Zhenxun's earlier business days, and the pedestrians wearing different costumes on the street make Zhang Zhenxun smell a kind of thriving atmosphere of the old and the new.

Measures such as cutting braids and changing clothes, abolishing bad habits such as foot binding and infant drowning, encouraging ordinary Chinese to wear new Hanfu with narrow sleeves and short shirts, and new laws issued every few months show that the reform and reform of the Han government is not just a short period of time, but has been going on, and according to the information leaked by some senior government officials, the reform and reform movement of the Han State may continue for decades.

Although the new Hanfu was formulated as the standard clothing of the Han Kingdom, due to the influence of the trend of opening up the people's wisdom and learning from Western science and technology, Western-style dresses and military casual clothes can also be seen in some large cities in the Han Kingdom. For example, the head is dedicated to Deutschland

Rushi hat, wearing rubber shoes made in the Han Kingdom, the upper body is a short shirt uniform of the Han garrison army, and the lower body is a British suit dress.

Walking on the streets of Chang'an City in the Han Kingdom, it is like an international clothing exhibition.

Zhang Zhenxun has been in the Han Kingdom for several months, and he has developed a certain adaptability to the streets of Chang'an City (Córdoba), the unique historical scene of this era, but the eyes of the two servants sitting in front of the carriage are full of curiosity.

A young woman with a Chinese hair ornament, a pink tuft-in skirt and clogs on her feet walked past the carriage with a Chinese man in an old-fashioned Wehrmacht uniform, drawing a squint from a servant.

"Everyone is gone, don't look at it."

Another servant who was driving the car reminded in a low voice, "It's not that I haven't seen Dongying women, there are many Nanyang sisters (Dongying women who go to Nanyang) in Singapore, and I haven't seen you so fascinated." ”

"Hehe, Sister Nanyang over there is not as beautiful as this."

"It's not your share to be beautiful, I didn't see her followed by a man in an old military uniform, that is the person who used to fight the world with the King of Han, how can you compare with him."

"I'm just talking......

"Zhang An, Zhang Ping, don't talk too much, be careful to hurry."

A majestic reprimand came from inside the car, and the two servants immediately stopped speaking.