Seeing the young man looking at herself and her sister blankly, Li Yue'er smiled and said, "Hey, talking to you, idiot"

The young man came to his senses at this time, and couldn't help blushing a little, it was too rude for him to look at other people's girls like this. Hurriedly straightened his clothes, and said seriously: "In Xia Zhu Shou, the word is ten thousand years." Served as an errand in the imperial city of Xishiku. I've seen two girls."

Li Wei'er said: "The surname of the prince is not the clan. ”

Zhu Shou said: "General Zhenguo, the idle clan is just an idle clan, and it is not worth mentioning that he has added the position of managing the treasury in the dirty penalty treasury." “

Li Yue'er smiled mischievously: "It turned out to be General Zhu, disrespectful and disrespectful." With a smile and two dimples, Zhu Shou, who was watching, was stunned again.

Li Wei'er glared at Li Yue'er, after all, this is the capital, not Chaozhou, just offended the clan, don't make trouble, and said to Zhu Shou: "Little sister is naughty, don't blame the son, please do a lot of Haihan"

"It's okay, it's okay to call me General Zhu, I always wanted to be a general when I had an ancestor, but unfortunately I couldn't do it in my life" Zhu Shou's expression was a little gloomy when he said it.

"The small shop is preparing to open today, a small business, and there is no more publicity, Zhu Gongzi, you are well-informed."

"Actually, I didn't know that your store opened today, I came to visit a friend" Zhu Shou was a little embarrassed, people were happy to open today, and it was indeed a bit rude to come empty-handed.

Li Wei'er and Li Yue'er glanced at each other suspiciously, the host here is Ruxin and himself, this Zhu Gongzi doesn't know what friends to visit.

Zhu Shou hurriedly took out Li Jing's lighter and lit it with a ding.

The second daughter was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became enthusiastic.

"Hey, you said it earlier, it turns out that you are a friend of my younger brother, I lied to this lighter eight times, but he refused to give it to me, and actually gave it to you, it seems that you are his best friend," Li Yue'er stuck out her little tongue and patted Zhu Shou's shoulder and said. Broad & Bright and several others saw that these two girls had kung fu on them, and they all stared nervously.

Li Wei'er said: "Since you are a friend of the younger brother, please come in for a cup of tea, it's really slow" Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of several entourages who were not weak, it seems that this Zhu Gongzi is not simple, and he is also a little puzzled, the younger brother has just come to the capital, how can there be such a friend with a clan background.

The Imperial City of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was located outside the Forbidden City (宮城) and within the capital. The imperial city of the Ming Dynasty was a forbidden place, and all the ordinary people in the capital were not allowed to enter.

In addition to the Forbidden City, Xiyuan (Beihai, Zhonghai, and Nanhai on the west side of the palace), Taimiao, Shejitan, Wansui Mountain (Jingshan), Nannei (Ming Yingzong was the Emperor's Imperial Palace), Xinei, and Dongyuan (the east side of the palace, also known as "Xiaonancheng"), there are still a large number of inner court worship institutions (i.e., the bureaus serving the inner court, collectively referred to as the 24 Yamen), plus warehouses, workshops, flower houses, livestock houses, and tiger and leopard elephant houses.

During the Tianshun year, Yingzong excavated the South China Sea of Taiye Pond; During the Jiajing years, Sejong built Taoist buildings such as the Great High Xuan Palace, the Great Light Palace, and the Yuxi Palace in the imperial city.

In the northwest corner of the imperial city, there were ten royal warehouses at that time, and the names of these ten warehouses were: A Library, B Library, C Library, Ding Library, E Library, Carrier Library, Guangying Library, Guanghui Library, Guangji Library, and Stolen Penalty Library. Collectively known as Shishku. In later generations, the "Xishiku" near Xishiku Street was the location of the Ming Dynasty's royal ten libraries, and "Xishiku" was also named after this. In the Qing Dynasty, a church was built here, which was the Xishiku Church attacked by the Boxer uncles.

These warehouses store a wide variety of supplies, which are collected from all over the country.

The "Jiazi Library" is stored with some medicinal materials, including black plum, indigo, yellow dan, green alum, comfrey, gallnut, etc., these medicinal materials are from Zhejiang and other provinces, for the royal use;

The "B Library" mainly stores all kinds of paper (including music paper, Luanbang paper, middle clip paper, etc.) and fat jackets sent from various provinces;

"C-shaped library" mainly stores the natural color silk cotton, Heluo silk strings, five-color barren silk from Zhejiang and other provinces every year and cotton wool from Shandong, Henan, Shuntian and other provinces. At that time, "the winter clothes of the internal officials and the cloth flowers of the sergeants were salty and given here";

The "T-shaped warehouse" stores raw lacquer, tung oil, white hemp, yellow wax, cowhide, deer skin, fish gelatin, raw and cooked iron and other pieces, "in order to prepare for the imperial prison, the internal official supervisor and other places to play the quasi-payment;

The "E-character library" mainly stores armor, bows, arrows, knives and other weapons from Henan and other provinces;

The "Carrier Depot" mainly stores the yellow and white raw silk produced in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Huguang and other provinces, "in order to prepare for the performance of admiration and appreciation of the Yi people, and the winter clothes of internal officials, music and dance clean clothes, etc.";

"Guangying Warehouse" mainly stores all kinds of Pingluo ripe silk, Hangzhou yarn, and green muslin;

"Guanghui Library" mainly stores color woven handkerchiefs, combing brushes, money through yarn and the like;

"Guangji Warehouse" mainly stores gunpowder, "where the Beijing camp Spring and Autumn Drills, salty to give here";

The "stolen goods and punishment warehouse" mainly store confiscated official clothes.

The above ten libraries "each have a member of the treasury, a number of staff members, and dozens of books".

The two sisters Li Weier guided Zhu Shou into the store, where the red carpet was laid on the ten-step marble steps, and four beautiful girls with a height of more than 1.7 meters bowed down to salute under the corridor. "Welcome"

Walking into the interior, it is deep inside, but the lights are brilliant, the walls and ceiling are decorated with unknown precious wood, the rosewood floor on the ground is polished with light, and the front and back of the rosewood commodity containers are inlaid with flat glass. Inside, you'll find a variety of exquisite jewelry. These containers are curved, octagonal, pentagram and other elegant and beautiful shapes, all locked, can be watched on all sides, and inside are lit small candles and a bowl of water to keep the gems moist.

Although Zhu Shou didn't like jewelry, he was amazed by the workmanship of these jewelry. The beauty of the design and the preciousness of the materials made him marvel even if he came from a wealthy family. In particular, a half-length wood carved beauty neck with a pair of emerald necklaces, each emerald has the size of a thumb cover, and the surrounding platinum seat is inlaid with countless small diamonds, shining, for a time under the strong light of the calcium carbide lamp, jewelry, full of luxury.

China does not produce emeralds, some in Southeast Asia, the quality is average, not up to the top, Li Jing's these are pirate treasures, produced in Colombia, where the world's top emeralds are produced, this quality of top emeralds Zhu Shou has never seen.

Looking down, there is a small card tied to it with the price written on it. Five hundred and fifty taels of gold. The price is also quite impressive, and it is really as good as the quality. Zhu Shou suddenly understood why this store had such a small face, this was not a place for ordinary people to enter. There won't be too many guests either.

After the visit, the second daughter invited Zhu Shou to sit inside, and there was a huge long fish tank between the sales area and the rest area as a screen, which was used as a partition, which was made of thickened flat glass angle steel bars and a frame made of cement, and the angle steel bars were carved with exquisite patterns and gilded.

Underneath this fish tank is a two-foot-high golden silk nanmu base, and the fish tank itself is one meter two wide, five meters long, and one meter high, with a lid and a Liu sink on top. There is also a metal copper made of brass, and there is a spiral structure that rotates continuously, pumping water from the bottom of the fish tank into the flow tank inside the lid at the top of the fish tank, and there is a good snow-white ceramic ring on the inside, which is covered with multiple layers of white grey cloth, and you can see some dirty things on the grey cloth.

"How did a small copper cylinder make the spiral structure inside keep rotating and pumping, what is the power, I didn't see anyone shaking?"

"Well, as the younger brother said, it is called a screw pump, which was invented by a Francophile named Archimedes about 2,000 years ago to water the heavens and the earth above the river level and drain the fields below the river level. Originally, it was hand-cranked, but it was too troublesome, so the little brother invented this, you see, even if this Dongdong, the little brother called it clockwork, and tightened it with this key, and then it could drive the gears to drive this small pump for four hours. Li Yue'er said.

Zhu Shou looked at the silver-white coiled steel bar in amazement, and personally twisted the key for a while, feeling that he couldn't twist it, so he pulled out the key. Watching the steel bar stretch slowly, drive the gear, and the occlusion of the gear set drives the small copper barrel to pump water.

"I understand that the reason why this pumping is requisitioned is that the hub does not beetle and the flowing water does not rot."

"Childe Gaojian, the younger brother also explained it like this" Li Wei'er said, thinking in her heart that it was no wonder that the younger brother made friends with him, although they were all proficient in these machines and other things.

There are lights on both sides, and calcium carbide lamps shine red light through the red glass all over the fish tank. A huge red arowana swam slowly and leisurely, more than two feet long, and the scales of its body were dark red, looking at the world and domineering.

"What kind of fish is this, why is it so imposing," Zhu Shou said excitedly.

"This is called the red Arowana, the younger brother said that it is for attracting wealth, suitable for putting it in the store, and has the effect of prosperity, and there is a kind of golden Arowana called the Arowana, which is used to ward off evil spirits and is suitable for being placed at home," Li Weier explained.

"I like this fish very much, where is it, is it easy to get" Zhu Shou said fondly.

"This fish is wild and grows in freshwater rivers near Batavia in the South Sea. It's not very easy to get, the younger brother is entrusted to a friend at sea and now caught dozens of them, and chose one that did not lose scales and was in the best condition, and shipped it. This fish is very difficult to serve, the water needs to be warm, and it eats live food, and it has to be fed centipedes, toads, etc. Dead ones don't eat them. It's winter now, and these fish foods are all shipped from the south, and the little brother is like a baby, and he is more concerned about taking care of the two of us," Li Yue'er said dissatisfied.

Turning the fish tank, Zhu Shou saw a huge spherical object, a conical base, with standing and horizontal gilded steel arc brackets on the top, and a huge sphere with a diameter of more than one meter inside. It seems that it can be turned in either direction, and the armillary sphere of Qin Tianjian that Zhu Shou has seen is very thoughtful. The spheres are painted with colorful patterns.

"What is an armillary sphere, Zhengyi also dabbles in astronomy" Zhu Shou was in awe, people who knew astronomy in this era were mysterious.

"This is not an armillary sphere, it has nothing to do with the heavens, the younger brother said that it is called a globe, he said that the earth under our feet is a sphere, and this is a model of the earth under our feet," Li Weier said.

Zhu Shou, Shi Ze and the others looked at each other, and the earth and the sphere suddenly widened their eyes in surprise.