Chapter 8 A Corner of People's Livelihood (Seeking Collections and Recommending Votes)
On a sunny day, even the air has a warm feeling.
If it weren't for the inexplicable stench emanating from the streets of the outer city, Xin Xi would probably have come to an Italian opera - My Sun.
It is also strange to say, it is clear that the Chinese have already issued a clear law when they were in the Warring States - those who have ashes on the road will cut off their hands!
It's a pity that after a few hundred years, this law of love for cleanliness disappeared......
No wonder people always think that the things of the ancestors are more awesome.
Of course, public health in the Song Dynasty was already very good, at least the roads would not be like Paris in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - full of landmines...... It is said that Luoyang in the Sui Dynasty was the same as Paris in the 16th and 7th centuries, so that the people had to step on stilts when traveling......
In contrast, Da Song is much cleaner, at least Bianliang travels, and there is no need to step on stilts.
This is because, the Great Song Dynasty, no, in fact, strictly speaking, there were already public toilets in the Han Dynasty, but it was only in the Song Dynasty that a complete industrial chain was formed...... What is a complete industrial chain, to put it simply, has a legendary one-stop service, even the roadside feces because of the existence of the industrial chain, as long as it appears, it will be robbed immediately, so if you on the streets of Bianliang, you will definitely find that there are many people around you with faint green eyes waiting for you......
Therefore, because feces has value, the earliest free public toilets appeared in the Great Song Dynasty.
For example, in front of Xinxi, there are seven or eight people lined up on the right hand side of the street surrounded by bamboo curtains, which is the public toilet of the Great Song Dynasty!
In this era, this kind of public toilet has many names - snow hidden, toilet toilet, toilet house, toilet house, toilet house, "place of reincarnation of grains" and so on......
Therefore, on the streets of the Great Song Dynasty, if someone asks you where the toilet is, there will be several ways to ask...... Of course, most of the guy you ask for directions will fool you into on the spot, because in this way, he can get close to the water and get the moon first......
The public toilet or something, but it made Xin Xi feel surprised, but the bus not far away made Xin Xi feel surprised.
Looking from a distance, Xin Xi saw a gray car slowly coming, only to see a sign hanging in front of the carriage, the handwriting at both ends of the sign said "Xuanwu Gate, Jinglong Gate", and there were some small characters in between. When the carriage got closer, Xin Xi looked carefully, it was actually the name of the eighteen places in Bianjing City, among which there was Xiangguo Temple!
Bus!
There are buses in the Northern Song Dynasty?! Think about it, Bianjing is not small, if there is no bus, if you want to walk in Bianjing, it is estimated that it will take at least three hours......
It's just right to have a bus, otherwise it would be shameless to go to the cultural meeting.
After all, in this era, literati are the richest and most socially statused, and if you go to the meeting on foot, you can imagine how Wang Xu, who once broke his leg, will hit him......
Well, this is actually not a reason at all, the most important reason is that Xin Xi really wants to try the bus of Da Song!
Eager to try in his heart, he walked all the way towards the bus and carriage, Xin Zhen was slightly stunned, he saw a bigger sign, and the sign had three big characters written on it!
Oil-walled cars!
Oil-walled car, this bus is actually called oil-walled car?!
"Oil-walled truck...... The concubine rides the oil wall car, Lang rides the green horse, where to tie the knot, under the pines and cypresses in Xiling. ”
Originally, Xin Xi also thought that it was amazing that the Great Song Dynasty had a bus, which was worthy of being the most prosperous dynasty in ancient China.
But when he saw the three words of the oil wall car, he remembered this poem, which was Su Xiaoxiao's poem in the Southern Dynasty. In other words, the oil wall car has been in the Southern Dynasties, and buses have appeared in China six hundred years before the Great Song Dynasty!
A sense of pride arises! I, the Chinese people, are really smart!
got on the oil wall car, took out two copper plates and gave them to the driver, waited for a while, and waited until the oil wall car was full of people, and the car drove slowly.
Xin Xi looked all the way at the capital of the Great Song Dynasty thousands of years ago, and his inner thoughts were flying.
The sound of horses' hooves rattled and the wooden carriages shook......
After taking a closer look and chatting with others for a while, Xin Xi realized that the oil wall car was coated with oil, so it was not afraid of the sun and rain. Those rich and noble families even have a special luxury extended version of the oil-walled car, which can really be described as a fragrant car BMW!
There are endless pedestrians, oil-walled cars, and private cars of dignitaries and dignitaries, all running on this street.
"It's really like a car!" Xin Zhen couldn't help but praise him.
At this moment, a man in a cyan robe next to him had his eyes shining: "Brother Tai also loves the words of the queen?!" ”
That's right, the car is like a flowing water and a horse is like a dragon from Li Houzhu's "Wangjiangnan", which was written in Bianliang after Li Houzhu returned to the Song Dynasty after his death, and the original sentence is "It is still like the old time to travel to the garden, and the car is like a flowing water and a horse is like a dragon", which describes the prosperity of Bianjing City, of course, in "Wangjiangnan", this prosperous scene is just a contrast.
Xin Zhen turned his head and suddenly met the man's eyes that seemed to be blazing, and he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and uncomfortable.
"Occasionally, it is indeed loved, and it can even be said that it was Empress Li who laid the foundation of Song Ci."
The man's eyes lit up, he clapped his hands violently, and shouted, "Bosom friend, bosom friend!" I also think so below, the words of Li Houzhu are the best in the Great Song Dynasty! ”
The man's shout startled Xin Zhen, and even the people around him cast curious eyes.
!!!
Crowning the Great Song? Is Empress Li from the Northern Song Dynasty? It's clear that people are the boss of Nantang, okay?!
Xin Zhen complained in his heart, but he still agreed on the surface: "Well, Brother Tai is reasonable, just say that Empress Li doesn't know that he is a guest in his dream, which makes people extremely sad." ”
This is also his 21st century legacy of the principle of doing things, and he will never easily go against others, of course, when he does contradict, then there will be no then.
chatting all the way, the oil wall car also stopped a few times on the way, and the next stop was the West Garden, seeing that Xin Xi still didn't get off the car, the man asked: "Could it be that Brother Fei also went to participate in the West Garden Cultural Meeting?" ”
"Brother Tai too?!" Xin Zhen's face was full of surprise.
"Yes, in Shen Kuo, a person from Hangzhou, in the word storage, this time he came to the imperial examination, which coincided with the Xiyuan Literary Conference on February 2, and he also wanted to imitate the Tang people's imperial examination system to invite reputation." Shen Kuo spoke frankly, without any embarrassment.
In the Tang Dynasty, students who entered Beijing to participate in the imperial examination would first go to the homes of dignitaries and nobles to deliver the worship stickers, and by the way, they would attach their own poems and articles, in order to expect to be appreciated in advance, and then improve their own reputation, which is conducive to the promotion of the post.
Shen Kuo?!
After hearing this, Xin Xi was completely dumbfounded, this is Shen Kuo in front of him? The one who wrote "Dream Creek Writings"? The first person in the history of mankind to predict that oil would be of great use?!
If it weren't for the fact that he later went to college and learned that Shen Kuo's private morality was at a loss, Shen Kuo would have had the same sacred status as Su Dongpo in Xin Zhen's heart!
"Look up for a long time, it turns out that Your Excellency is Shen Cunzhong, the Zhangren of Mengxi?!" Xin Zhen looked at Shen Kuo with burning eyes, and his heart was excited.
Regardless of whether the person in front of him really cheated Su Dongpo in the Wutai poetry case, or whether he really lost his personal morality, this guy is definitely the first scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty!
If the Northern Song Dynasty set up the highest science award, this product will definitely win for a lifetime!
With this kind of scientific talent, and then give him full support and appropriate guidance, the science and technology tree of the Great Song Dynasty will all be on this person!
It's just that at this moment, Xin Xi decided from the bottom of his heart that he must be good friends with Shen Kuo! This will be another way for him to save Da Song!
"Mengxi Zhangren?!" Shen Kuo's face was full of confusion.
Xin Zhen felt embarrassed in his heart, okay, Shen Kuo, who was only in his twenties at this time, did not have the number of Mengxi Zhangren......
His eyes dodged for a while, and he didn't want to bother talking here, Xin Xi quickly changed the topic: "In Xia Xinxi, line eleven, the middle brother can call me eleven lang, I have not been crowned, and there is no word." ”
"Before the crown, there is such a talented conversation, Eleven Lang is extraordinary, this capital is really full of talents." Shen Kuo's face was full of longing, and there was nothing wrong with telling lies.
Xin Xi was speechless for a while, didn't Lao Tzu just read a word from Empress Li? Is this an extraordinary conversation?
Shen Kuo, this kid is really a little insincere, a guy full of nonsense, no wonder he will lose his personal morality in the future.