It's another Lubu Feijie.

Why do I say again?

I bought the newspapers of the North, which are called newspapers in the North, and they seemed to like to make everything clear.

"Huaxia Daily" said:

Ten days ago, the Northern Army occupied the last city controlled by the Puppet Jin, and Wanyan Zonggan committed suicide, and the Northern Army completely annihilated the Puppet Jin and finally became a formed army, and the Puppet Jin was completely destroyed.

The Empire News put it a little more precisely:

The Northern Army has beheaded 2,200 Tartars, and at present, in addition to Wanyan Zongwang's whereabouts are unknown, three of the so-called Jurchen Four Princes have been beheaded.

At this point, the Northern War was completely over.

We won......, no, to be precise, we Han people won.

But that's not to say that Da Zhou also won.

On the contrary, I estimate that it will not be long before the new Lubu Feijie in Jiangbei will become the side that turns into a victory.

—Zhang Zong's diary of his journey to the north.

The streets of Quancheng were filled with cheering crowds, so much so that even the local officials of Huaxia, who were supposed to receive Zhang Zong, went to the streets to celebrate regardless of their image.

So, Zhang Zong had to decide what he would do today.

In other words, he can only go shopping on the street with nothing to do today.

With a companion, squeezing through the crowd of people singing and dancing everywhere, Zhang Zong walked around the Quancheng Market and purchased a lot of goods with northern characteristics.

Such as a set of glassware, two bottles of spirits in glass bottles, two bottles of wine said to be made by the Northland, a few bars of soap, a kerosene lamp with a glass cover, a large bag of matches, a horse of cotton cloth, a horse of silk cloth, a horse of woolen cloth, a few pieces of finished clothing, and a pound of Laoshan tea.

There are a lot of things, and basically they have to buy a little bit of what they see fresh, so that in the end, Zhang Zong had to order his companion to go back and hand over the car and pull some things back first.

The price of these things is nothing to a Confucian scholar like Zhang Zong, who was born in a wealthy gentry, but in fact, he can still buy goods produced in Jiangbei in Jiangnan.

However, he himself prefers to purchase it himself, and by the way, he compares and analyzes the price of the same commodity in Jiangbei and Jiangnan.

Well, the basic situation is this:

Glassware is still a luxury item in Jiangnan, but it seems that it has gradually changed to a daily commodity in Jiangbei, and Zhang Zong himself has seen many large shops or wealthy homes on the street with glass on their windows.

He probably asked, this trend seems to have come from Schönbrunn Palace, and the emperor in the north has never paid much attention to the problem of transgression, so the architectural style of the north seems to have become more like high-rise buildings, large pieces of glass and other slightly luxurious but rugged styles, which are very different from the exquisite gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

The price of glassware in Jiangbei can also support this style of consuming a large amount of glass, Zhang Zong himself calculated, the price of the same glassware, Quancheng is about one-twentieth of Lin'an.

Outside of the glass, the spirits and wines are very Northland-style, and the spirits are so strong that a sip is like swallowing red-hot coals.

The wine is on the sweet side and is said to be very popular with the aristocratic women of the north.

In terms of price, the price of spirits is not much different from that of Lin'an Zhengdian's self-brewed daughter red, and the price of wine is much lower than that of Hu Shang.

Soap, kerosene lamps, and matches are typical daily necessities in the north, and have entered thousands of households, but they are relatively rare in the south.

In particular, the fruity soap is said to be made with fish oil, and it is loved by large families in both the north and the south.

The Han people are clean, and with soap and soap, cleaning themselves becomes a matter that no longer requires a lot of time and energy.

There are also many traditional Confucian scholars, who habitually have to clean their hands when they are studying, and in the past, it was difficult to really wash them with soap or plant ash, but now with soap, this matter is much simpler.

By the way, there is also a special cleaning tool called shampoo in the north, which is specially used to wash hair, which can even be regarded as a rain from heaven for the Han people who are used to wearing hair and crowns.

Washing his hair with shampoo and soap to clean his body and clothes, it is no wonder that the young men and women Zhang Zong saw on the street always looked so clean, tidy, and energetic, and even exuded a faint sweet smell.

In terms of price, the price of soap, soap, shampoo and other products in the north is about half of that in the south.

But kerosene lamps and matches are a must-have for every family.

Needless to say, man's desire for light is always endless, and kerosene lamps, which are safe and brighter than candles, naturally sell amazingly.

There are also matches that are convenient for ignition, and Zhang Zong has always been curious about why such a small wooden stick can get fire by gently rubbing it on the "sandpaper".

When he was in Jiangnan, he thought that the small piece on the head of this small wooden stick was definitely not simple, and now that he came to Jiangbei, he naturally wanted to get the answer.

However, no one told him that because the match factory was a state-owned factory and was not open to private individuals, Zhang Zong could not go in and see what was going on as an investor.

Zhang Zong felt that there must be some secrets involved.

Then he thought of the musket, and he thought that whether it was an arquebus or a flintlock pistol (he had never seen a musket gun), in the final analysis, it was actually a fire that ignited the gunpowder and shot the lead to kill the enemy.

It's just that the arquebus uses a lit fire rope to ignite the gunpowder directly, while the flintlock pistol ignites the gunpowder with a flint striking a spark.

So, can matches, which are easier to ignite, also be used in muskets?

Zhang Zong couldn't think of how to attach a match or anything like that to a musket for a while, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this might be the case.

Cotton cloth and wool cloth are northern characteristics, Zhang Zong visited the textile factory, naturally knows that now the northern household is encouraging the planting of cotton, the raw materials of wool cloth mainly come from the Mengwu grassland, the north itself also has a lot of sheep, can supply a part of the textile factory.

Silkworms, Qi Province used to have the tradition of raising silkworms, but after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, the silkworm breeding industry in the north was completely extinct, and now the silkworms in the north are all introduced from other places in the era of Qi, and it is still one of the expensive products in Jiangbei - Zhang Zong's own comparison is that the price of cotton wool cloth, Jiangbei is about one-fifth of that of Jiangnan, silk and other things, even Tussah silk is much more expensive than the mulberry silk with better quality in Jiangnan.

The same is true of Laoshan tea, the original tea cultivation in the north has long been completely destroyed in the war, and the current tea is specially introduced by the Xu family from other places.

Jiangbei people also have a habit of drinking tea, and all kinds of tartars outside the mouth are completely inseparable from tea, so the north has been expanding the scale of tea cultivation in mountainous areas.

Despite this, Jiangbei still had to buy some tea from Jiangnan on a large scale every year, and Zhang Zong heard that good tea was generally supplied to China, and poor quality tea was made into tea bricks and exported to Tartar outside the mouth.

Zhang Zong was not very interested in ready-to-wear clothes, believing that such products with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of pieces of exactly the same kind seemed to be suitable only for the army, and it would be too boring for everyone to wear similar clothes.

He just bought these ready-to-wear clothes, and it didn't cost much anyway.

However, although everything was not expensive to Zhang Zong, he also bought too much, and the Northern Currency that he had exchanged for Zhou Qian when he landed on the island city was quickly spent, so he had to go to the local bank again to exchange some new Northern Currency.