Chapter Fifty-Six: Staying in a Hotel
The road to Yan'an Fucheng is extremely boring, there are fifteen candidates who set off from Mizhi County, almost all of them are young men, probably the family or elders have specially entrusted, the outside is very chaotic, no trouble is allowed along the road, all actions must be arranged by the arrangement, so these young men from the beginning of the departure, look very nervous, look at others are not right, as if everyone on the official road is a bad person, they almost don't speak, the speed of eating is very fast, and the door is closed when resting, there is no young man's liveliness, This made the five nurses sent by the He family feel relaxed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The coachmen were indeed familiar with the conditions of the road, and after consulting with the He family's guard, they set out every day at the hour of the hour, and found a place to rest before the hour of Shen, and the journey did not exceed fifty miles at most, and the principle was to travel during the day and stay overnight before dark.
In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, so it's a long time, but no one will give an opinion.
Along the official road, Wu Fanhui saw a miserable situation, not to mention those homeless people, just said that the trees on both sides of the official road, no leaves, not even the bark, the bare trunks seemed to be angrily complaining, there was almost no grass on the ground, and when their team passed through Suide Prefecture, Qingjian County and Yanchuan County, they all saw the homeless people starving to death on the official road.
It's not as chaotic as the elders in the clan say, the number of homeless people on the official road is not very large, and most of the homeless people who can be seen are unstable on the road, and the wind can fall, and it is impossible for these people to threaten others, as for the so-called bandits, they probably saw that the walking team was too large, and they didn't know where it came from, and they didn't dare to do it.
Thinking about what adventures there are on such a road, it is probably a fool's dream, the homeless people seen along the way are not something that can be saved by personal strength, Wu Fanhui saw a homeless person, and he fell on the official road as he walked, and the other homeless people around him, even their eyelids did not move, and continued to walk aimlessly towards the front, and what was even more excessive was that two homeless people quickly stepped forward and stripped off the clothes of the person who fell to the ground.
These exiles have no souls, they are living corpses, but it is these desperate living dead who finally united and overthrew the Ming Dynasty.
Wu Fanhui was shocked, at that moment he had mixed feelings in his heart, although he sympathized with the unrewarded Emperor Chongzhen from the heart, and also sighed at the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but the hell on earth he saw in front of him made him begin to have huge doubts about the Ming Dynasty.
According to historical records, Emperor Chongzhen once asked the civil and military officials to donate silver in the court, but the effect was very small, and the Chongzhen Emperor even took out the ginseng treasured in the palace and sold it to raise money and grain, but in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng captured the capital, he actually scavenged out more than 30 million taels of silver from the civil and military officials.
This is a huge irony, at least the civil and military officials in the court, including those scholars, that is, the elite of this dynasty, think of their own interests, they don't care about the life and death of the people, and they don't care whether the Ming court can sustain it, how can there be eggs under the nest, the country is ruined, and their wealth cannot be kept at all, they don't understand such a simple truth, but it's a pity that the actions they show, on the contrary, what is the problem here.
I'm afraid that Emperor Chongzhen also has a huge problem himself.
May 24, Deuteronomy.
The brigade finally arrived at Yan'an Fucheng.
Seeing the city wall of Yan'an Mansion, Wu Fanhui breathed a sigh of relief, and the boring trip finally ended, a full ten days.
The trip was not pleasant at all, along the way to the He family's nursing home, what I saw in my eyes was the ten children of the He family, as for the other people, they didn't care at all, every time they stayed in the inn, a good room was the children of the He family, and good meals were also enjoyed by the children of the He family, and even the food brought on the road would only be prepared for the children of the He family.
In fact, the other five people also paid the silver, and the five nurses of the He family were paid with the silver from these five people, and they were not required to treat these nurses equally, which could not be done, but at least the superficial care should be done.
Wu Fanhui didn't suffer much, he carried broken silver and copper coins, which could be bought for food, but through the performance of these nursing homes, he looked down on the He family even more, although it lasted for hundreds of years, but the He family could not grow in the end, lacking a broad mind, small belly, and chicken intestines, it was impossible to have any future.
Entering the city of Yan'an, the team immediately dispersed.
The coachman knew where to stay, but except for the ten children of the He family, the other five made it clear that they would not live with the children of the He family, and everyone was not stupid, and they knew what happened along the way.
The He family's nursing home will not be reluctant, they originally thought that these five people were a burden, as for the fact that they got the silver, they must not be able to remember it at this time.
When the team separated, Wu Fanhui instructed the coachman to find an inn with better conditions to live in, and the coachman nodded and agreed, along the way, Wu Fanhui took care of the coachman, and he ate whatever the coachman ate, and when he arrived at the inn to stay, he also helped the coachman feed the horses, which made him get along with the coachman very well, on the other hand, other people, always looked at a high-minded posture, and looked down on the coachman at all.
The coachman knew that Wu Fanhui was the head of the county trial, and he was very grateful to Wu Fanhui for his care all the way, so he did his best to take care of Wu Fanhui and let Wu Fanhui not suffer any hardships all the way.
The carriage wandered around the city for about a quarter of an hour, and came to a halt in front of an inn that did not look very conspicuous from the outside.
"Childe, the conditions of this inn are very good, the accommodation and meals are very good, the price is not very high, you live here, it is much better than where they live."
Wu Fanhui nodded and got out of the carriage.
"You go to the registration room first, the small one is waiting for you here, and I will take you to the Tribute Courtyard to have a look."
Wu Fanhui smiled, he knew that the coachmen would not stay in the city at night, they would live outside the city, the price was much cheaper, and these coachmen would rush back early tomorrow morning, if they could find someone back to Mizhi County, it would be the best.
"No need, there are still a few days to go, I will look around in the city, you take the money, and eat and live outside the city for the night."
Wu Fanhui handed over a hundred dollars, and the coachman thanked him for his kindness.
Entering the inn, the surroundings are clean and tidy, giving people a very comfortable feeling.
The guy had already caught up.
"Guest officer, do you want to stay in a hotel or eat?"
"Staying in the hotel and eating here are also here."
"Okay, the guest officer comes with the little one."
The shopkeeper was in the counter, probably not paying special attention, and it was no wonder that Wu Fanhui was only fourteen years old, and he still looked like a young man.
The room of the inn is clearly marked, and the first-class room costs forty dollars a night, so that it is about one or two silver for a month, plus the expenses of eating and so on, two taels of silver a month is enough.
Wu Fanhui didn't think that the price was cheap, he knew very well that despite the soaring prices in the late Ming Dynasty, the silver was still valuable, if a person lived in the first-class upper room of the inn for a year, including eating, it would consume about twenty taels of silver, and these twenty taels of silver could maintain the expenses of a family that hired maids for a year.
There is no way to do this, an inn is an inn, and people want to make money.
Wu Fanhui has a lot of silver on him, and he must live in a first-class upper room, so that the safety factor is the highest.
"Shopkeeper, come to a first-class upper room."
The shopkeeper's eyes widened quickly.
"Officer, how long will you stay?"
"Set a month's time first, how much deposit is needed."
The shopkeeper looked at Wu Fanhui, and was stunned for a moment, probably feeling that the young man in front of him was a little special, although there was still a trace of immaturity on his face, but his eyes were not simple.
"Five hundred dollars is enough, but the rules of this inn are settled on the first day of half a month, including the room and the meal."
"It's a tael of silver, and you'll have to tell me when you're done."
"Okay, okay, first-class upper room No. 3, this is the door number, you can take it away."
The so-called first-class upper room, that is, the room on the third floor, the room on the second floor is called the second-class room, and the room on the first floor is the first-class room.
The third room of the first class, that is, the second room from the left side of the house, is close to the staircase, and the outer room on the opposite side is the first class room, the first class upper room is called room 1, room 3, room 5 and room 7, and the first class room is room 2, room 4, room 6 and room 8, and the rooms on the second and third floors are also distinguished.
The outside room is disturbed more often, and sometimes there are people staying in the hotel in the middle of the night, making louder noises, and the outside guests will be affected.
Wu Fanhui was amazed, he used to always see some first-class room on TV, but today he understands what it means.
The upper room of the first class is a suite, you can eat and read books outside, etc., and the inner room is a place to sleep, as for the toilet, now it is called a thatched house, then I'm sorry, either you go to the back of the first floor, or there is a night pot prepared in the room.
After crossing, Wu Fanhui was staying in the inn for the first time, taking advantage of the time when the guy went to fetch water, he looked around in the room, it was still very clean, especially the red mosquito net on the bed, and the antique wooden table outside, which was very eye-catching, but the overall pattern was not particularly coordinated, revealing a trace of the taste of soil buns.
Unconsciously, Wu Fanhui compared today's inns with the high-end hotels hundreds of years later.