"It's really a troublemaker, Zhou Quan, no matter where he goes, he will get into trouble, and he has only been in the capital for a long time, and he has provoked Manichaeism!"

Zhao Ji sat on the bicycle and complained to Liang Shicheng who was standing beside him, but Liang Shicheng heard that there was no real complaint in his words. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Official...... What the officials said was, but it was only a slave...... In the villain's view, he is also a member of the official family. In the heart of the capital, Manichaeism has also installed such a stronghold! ”

"Jingzhao Mansion and Huangcheng Division, they are all idle meals!" Zhao Ji was a little angry.

At this time, it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Ji had just completed the spring sacrifice, and since the five ceremonies were renegotiated, Zhao Ji quietly shortened the time of the major festivals. Therefore, after completing the Spring Festival, he still had time to change into ordinary clothes, take a few companions, and take a bicycle to visit the capital.

"Jingshi is also in charge, in the past two years, there have been too many idle people and so on." Liang Shicheng agreed.

"It's all the local officials who are not good." Zhao Ji felt a headache when he mentioned this.

In fact, it has nothing to do with the disadvantage of the local government, and it is completely caused by the development of the cotton industry.

The Cotton Chamber of Commerce made a lot of money, which led to the rapid expansion of the cotton textile industry, and a large number of grain fields that were originally leased to tenant farmers were now converted into cotton fields, and some tenant farmers lost their tenants. More importantly, seeing that cotton cultivation was profitable, a new round of land annexation developed either explicitly or covertly, and Yang Jian, in order to loot, set up the Xicheng Office, and turned countless fields that originally belonged to yeoman farmers and small landlords into public land - this strengthened Zhao Ji and Yang Jian's pockets, but displaced more people.

Peasants who have lost their jobs will of course flock to the cities. And also because of the development of handicraft workshops such as the cotton textile industry, a large number of workers were needed, so these people who flowed into the cities at all levels were directly driven to the factories set up by the new magnates by the government sent by the government.

Zhou Quan once had an agreement with these new magnates that he needed to be kind to the workers, but this kind of agreement just made Zhou Quan feel at ease, where would the new magnates really implement it! In order to reduce costs, they pay extremely low wages to workers, and even turn workers directly into slaves, even two meals a day, they have to think of deducting them!

However, no one would mention this matter in front of Zhao Ji, especially Liang Shicheng and others.

The influx of a large number of people into Beijing has not only brought some public security incidents to Beijing, but also greatly increased the population of Beijing. Now that they are on annual leave, even the blackest factory owners have to give a few more red envelopes to their workers on this day to amplify their employees' day off. Therefore, the street was crowded, and Zhao Ji and his convoy, who were privately interviewed by Weifu, were walking very slowly.

Zhao Ji is not impatient, he is here to see a big excitement today.

Many people flocked to the street where the Donghai Chamber of Commerce was located, and after walking in the crowd for nearly half an hour, Zhao Ji finally arrived at his destination.

At this time, the open space outside the chamber of commerce was already crowded, and if it wasn't for the sergeants specially found to maintain order, I am afraid that there would not even be a place to walk.

The car Zhao Ji was riding in was specially marked, so he could avoid the crowd and quietly enter the chamber of commerce complex from the side.

The Chamber of Commerce complex is divided into three parts, leaning against the cross street, the square and the main entrance, and the six-storey building, which rises from the ground here, appears to be extraordinarily tall and majestic, even exceeding the inner city wall.

This is also the Great Song Dynasty, changed to another dynasty, such a tall building, it is clearly overstepping.

Fortunately, this is far away from the imperial city, so there is no risk that someone will spy on the privacy of the palace from these six floors. Zhao Ji looked at this high-rise building, saw that the outside was full of silver tiles, and pouted slightly: "Zhou Quan, this kid, everything else is fine, but I don't know what beauty is, such a style, like a poor man getting rich, too cheesy!" ”

Having said that, Zhao Ji still expressed his envy for the large glass windows exposed in the exterior wall of the tiled paste.

This building is the Donghai Chamber of Commerce Building, on the first floor of the building, a total of six doors are opened on all sides, each door is very tall, that is, the gate of the Yamen, there is no such large. It stands to reason that this is the door of the shop, and it should be a Tibetan style, but here, it doesn't care so much at all, only lighting and ventilation, and at the same time makes it easy for people to enter and exit.

Zhao Jiwei came to visit, although he took a specially marked car, but he did not tell who the person inside was coming, it was Liang Shicheng, who was dressed as a white fat rich housekeeper, followed him, and went directly to the Chamber of Commerce from a gate.

It turned out to be stopped.

Stopping them was a shopkeeper of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, who smiled and said, "A few distinguished guests, please wait, it will be a while before the official door opens, please enter again at that time." ”

"There are many halls!" Liang Shicheng said angrily.

He was feigned anger, and sure enough, Zhao Ji stopped him: "Guests are as you please, let's come to see the excitement today." ”

They didn't have to wait long before they heard the direction of the main entrance, the firecrackers rang out, and in the roar, the door in front of them, which was blocked by felt cloth, opened left and right. This time, no one stood in the way, and the steward came over to greet him: "Two distinguished guests, please come in, please come in!" ”

After entering, I saw a lobby, in the middle of the lobby, hung a huge hanging lamp stand, on which was placed a large lantern, the lantern was also covered with glass, and sixteen wicks were lit in it, illuminating the whole hall very brightly.

"The lamp oil that is lit on this day will cost a lot of money...... Zhao Ji sighed twice, he lit a few more candles in the palace, and he was distressed.

"The wool comes out of the sheep, and it opens today, so it will be lit at this time, and after three days, it will only be lit when the lamp is in hand."

Without waiting for Liang Shicheng to respond, a voice sounded, Zhao Ji looked over, and saw Zhou Quan with a group of gentlemen, smiling and greeting him.

The group of gentlemen was somewhat unnatural, but Zhou Quan was still calm and calm, and said directly: "I have seen Zhao Daguan, the distinguished guests are here, and I have missed the welcome, please forgive me." ”

The title of "Zhao Daguanren" made Zhao Ji smile with his eyebrows.

"I heard that Zhou Daguanren's new store is open, and I came uninvited, so I ask Zhou Daguan to forgive me."

"A distinguished guest like Zhao Daguan can come here, please, please ......"

The two of them are like wealthy businessmen among the people, polite to each other, such tricks, others feel bored when they see them, but Zhao Ji is relishing.

In his opinion, this is much more interesting than sitting in the court and listening to the civil officials.

And only in this way can we truly enjoy with the people.

On the first floor of the building is a tea hall, where a railing separates the aisle from the tea drinking area, and there are all kinds of servants and performers here. From storytelling to singing.

Zhou Quan led Zhao Ji to a quiet place, and Dr. Tea came to offer tea, Zhao Ji ordered one at random, with tea cakes and snacks, and sat on the swing hanging from the top of his head, shaking gently, but it was a special taste.

But in an instant, he saw the flow of people pouring down the aisle.

Today, the number of Jingshi people gathered outside the Donghai Chamber of Commerce building is definitely not less than 30,000, so many people want to come in to see the excitement, and see what treasures are in this huge building known as "the first department store of the Great Song Dynasty", so that it dares to call itself the first department store of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fortunately, Zhou Quan was prepared for this, and he had already arranged manpower outside. Don't see that there are six gates, only three are allowed to enter, and the other three are only allowed to go out, under the guidance of Zhou Quan's arranged manpower, the first batch to enter the mall, only 3,000 people.

"There were only 3,000 people, but 3,000 people poured into one building at the same time, and the momentum was amazing.

After the turbulent passage passed, the vast majority of people chose to take the stairs to the second floor, and a few stayed in the café position on the first floor.

These people listened to music, operas, and commentaries, and for a while, the first floor became noisy.

In the past, Zhao Ji didn't like this kind of excitement, but today he found it interesting.

After listening to a comment on the first floor, Zhou Quan smiled and said: "The second group of people is going to come in outside, Zhao Daguan, before this second batch, let's go upstairs and have a look?" ”

Zhao Ji had nothing to do, followed Zhou Quan, and went up to the second floor.

From the second floor, it is a real shopping mall, just like a large department store in another life, from the second floor to the fourth floor, it is divided into many small rooms, and all the goods are placed in the cabinets and counters.

The surface of the cabinet is also separated by glass. The sunlight shines directly inside, reflecting slightly on the glass, and with the snow-white walls and tiles on the ground, the whole mall is like a fine appearance in broad daylight.

The shopping mall sells a wide variety of goods, and in addition to the general general miscellaneous goods of the north and south, there are many products of various workshops under the Tokai Chamber of Commerce. For example, horse lanterns that can replace lanterns, the latest bicycles, various porcelain and pottery, cloth garments, perfumes, salt and wine...... Even the books have a special counter.

In short, almost all food, clothing, housing and transportation can be solved here, as long as there is money!

The fifth floor is the restaurant, where you can climb high and look far away, you can overlook most of the capital, only the location of the imperial city, Zhou Quan in the design, deliberately did not open the window, but also closed the corridor, so can not peek into the situation in the imperial city. This point is somewhat similar to Fan Lou.

"What about the sixth floor?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"Invite the dignitaries." Zhou Quan said with a smile.

The sixth floor is the office area, the headquarters of the Donghai Chamber of Commerce, which will be located here, and the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held here in the future. Like the fifth floor, the sixth floor also avoided the direction of the imperial city, Zhao Ji specially observed, and when he saw this situation, he was very satisfied: Zhou Quan did things, and he really knew how to measure.

"I'm going to have this place." After turning around on the sixth floor, Zhao Ji pointed to one of the suites and said to Zhou Quan.

There are not only bedrooms, but also small living rooms, and balconies on both sides, all of which can overlook Jingshi, which is a good place. Zhao Ji pointed out that he wanted to be here, and Zhou Quan smiled and said: "If Zhao Daguan wants to, in business, I will rent this to the official, and collect the rent of the official's consistent money every year, how about it?" ”

Zhao Ji laughed out loud: "You are good at doing business, and the left and right are just consistent money, I ...... I pay fifty years at a time! ”

"Fifty years is enough, only a hundred years."

Zhou Quan's sycophancy was filmed well, and Zhao Ji only felt happy in his heart: under his rule, the Great Song Dynasty was "changing with each passing day", although his father and brother tried hard to implement the new law, but there was little effect, but in his hands, he opened up his territory to the outside world, forcing the Liao State to make an alliance with the city, and the internal Vientiane was renewed, fresh affairs emerged in an endless stream, and the treasury was increasingly full.

Especially at this high place, looking down and looking at the busy traffic on the street, I feel that the general trend of the world is in the palm of my hand!

Chen Shishi is one of the busy traffic that Zhao Ji saw. (To be continued.) )

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