The one riding a white horse is not necessarily a prince, but it may also be a Tang monk. This sentence is not very applicable in the Ming Dynasty, and Elder Tang has not been blackened into an eight-woman type old man like [Oh Mile Yo] by later generations, at this moment Elder Tang in the eyes of the Ming people is quite status, so that when the obedient official rode a white horse through the streets of Tianjin, countless people looked at him with red lips and white teeth, extraordinary demeanor, and the foot strength under his crotch was also the color of the coat was oily and white and dazzling.

This is definitely a word of appreciation, two thousand years of Confucian culture in China, the aesthetic sense of this white-faced scholar is by no means a small white face can be covered by a small white face in later generations, in fact, the beauty of the so-called true men and pure masters in later generations, there are really few people who appreciate it in the Ming Dynasty, generally speaking, if the history books say that a scholar looks strange and ancient, this is actually quite ironic.

If he waits for his transformation and the bronze skin runs over, I am afraid that when the matchmaker bragged for him, he had to say [strong and sturdy look at the first hand in the field], and it was said that if the matchmaker was a good farmer, if it was a family of poets and scholars, she would definitely smack her face, [you dare to run to be a matchmaker, my family is a scholar, a family of poetry and books, and I am looking for a husband, not a farmer], even if it is a farmer]. , the honest people can't accept a black man as a son-in-law, this is a social problem, and it can't be regarded as a problem of appearance.

The middle and late Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most glorious era for scholars, and to some extent even surpass the Song Dynasty. This white-faced scholar looks, with a white horse under his crotch, and his appearance is equivalent to a handsome guy in later generations driving a limited-edition convertible Porsche to swagger through the market, so the good official was a little complacent at first, but later, he regretted it a little, and it was an exaggeration to describe it with [see and kill Wei Jue], but there were indeed many people who were disturbed, and even a matchmaker took the initiative to pull the reins and ask, who is the surname of the little minister, and where is his home.

Since the opening of Tianjin Wei, there have been less than ten Jinshi, the rarity of scholars in this place can be imagined, so there is a reason why the obedient official was harassed, not only because he was excellent in appearance but also very scratched and dressed up and rode a white horse, if he went to the south of the Yangtze River, it was absolutely impossible for this situation to happen, to put it bluntly, it was still rare and expensive.

Therefore, the good official had to spread the reins and let the horses trot up on the street, so that he got out of the predicament, and after the downtown area, the good official patted his chest, and the big head of the carriage laughed, "Young master, now you should thank me for riding your horse when I entered the city yesterday!" Shan Chixia next to him raised her hand and slapped him, "Stinky boy, talking to the young master is getting bigger and smaller." ”

The driver who drove the car was envious, of course, there was also the meaning of patting the sycophants, "Old housekeeper, this little young master of your family, it's not me to boast, I have been driving a car in Tianjin Wei for thirty years, and I have never seen such a character as the little young master, it is really, it is the general that came out of the painting." I heard that Mr. Storyteller said that there was an immortal Li Taibai in the Tang Dynasty, who was an immortal, but he was an immortal, just like the little young master. ”

His well-behaved words are good, so when he arrived at the dock, although Shan Chixia knew that the words of the so-called [car and boat shop foot teeth, innocent should also be killed] these people should not be true, but Daddy Zheng likes to listen to this, his son is an immortal, how comfortable it sounds! Let the big man give an extra fifty copper coins, which is considered a reward.

After sending the coachman away, Shan Chixia asked the big head to support Father Zheng and pick up a burden by herself. This burden is mainly silver, and the silver tickets of the Ming Dynasty are definitely not as powerful as those in the martial arts novels and film and television works of later generations. In fact, at this moment, silver bills are more similar to bills of exchange, which only come in handy when trading large amounts. As for the treasure banknote, it was abolished during the Zhengde period, perhaps the country girl has a treasure banknote sandwiched in the paper-cut, or a copy of the Spring Palace picture album at the bottom of the box, which is equivalent to a collection, but there is no circulation on the market.

At this time, the obedient official has a little bit of two hundred taels left in the pen fee for writing a Chinese ghost story, Wen Ren's family also sent two hundred taels in order to frame him, and yesterday those talents came to visit, and gave about one hundred taels less than some, therefore, this will be about five hundred taels of net worth, plus some bits and pieces such as pen, ink and paper, you know, taking the sea route is not as good as taking the Grand Canal, you can also stop in the bustling city along the way to buy some things, take the sea road that is all the way is full of sea, The good officer is also going to write a book on the ship! Naturally, you should bring pen, ink and paper.

The wharf is full of people, all kinds of people are busy unloading the goods, a considerable part of the freight in the Ming Dynasty of the Wanli years is completed by sea, so the Tianjin wharf is extremely prosperous, the carriage carrying the Zheng family just got the money and turned around and was stopped by others, the prosperity of the wharf can be seen.

Most of the sea ships moored in the wharf are 400 inclined double-sailed sea ships, and even two large sea ships with thousands of materials, after seeing these big ships, the obedient officials immediately understood, the so-called loss of sea ship information in the late Ming Dynasty is pure nonsense, thinking that after reading the history books that the holy decree is not allowed to build brigs, the big ship is lost, but it does not consider at all that the prestige of the Ming Emperor in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is not enough to make the people obedient, not to mention anything else, just look at those talents who are unscrupulous to discuss when the court elder and Emperor Xianzong.

It's just that, looking at the sails of these sea ships, the obedient officer still sighed, and said in his heart that along the way, it is estimated that he will have to walk slowly.

Dr. Joseph Needham, who wrote "The History of Science and Technology in China", was obviously a fan, and the obedient official looked at these hard-sailed ships and said in his heart that Joseph Needham praised the Chinese-style hard-sails in the sky and the earth, but unfortunately he still could not cover up the biggest defect of the hard-sails, which was slow.

The biggest advantage of the hard sail is that it is flexible and convenient to carry the longitudinal simple, at the moment the Western ships of the same displacement, the staff of the longitudinal with the soft sail is 4 to 5 times that of the Chinese hard sail, and the soft sail is also more complex than the hard sail, but the advantage is that it is fast.

The original intention is that the ship cannot exceed 200 materials, but the people still build ships, the difference is that the maritime merchants who abide by the rules build a ship of 400 materials or 1,000 materials, and the smast and unruly maritime merchants should have a few masts or a few masts, and some even have to be equipped with a wing wheel or a Western soft sail that can only be equipped with a warship, and these so-called maritime merchants have gone to sea to be pirates, and they are maritime merchants when they enter the port.

Relying on a hard sail to blow from Tianjin to Ningbo, the obedient official estimated that it would take at least ten days, which is still a relatively optimistic estimate, such a big ship, just a mast, isn't this a joke, but the folk businessmen are so yang and yin against the imperial court, you say not to build a brig, okay, let's sloop line! But the load capacity is not ambiguous at all, how much is still less, just like the unscrupulous businessmen of the Dongfeng truck with a load of 30 tons in later generations can load 80 tons or even 100 tons on the road, which is also a kind of overload with the characteristics of the Ming Dynasty!

Shan Sinan looked at the big ship with thousands of materials, opened his mouth wide, ran to Zheng Guofan's side and said, "Young master, look at this boat, it's really big!" There could be hundreds of people up there! ”

Later, his son Shan Chixia sneered, "This is also called big?" When Qi Shaobao brought troops from Zhejiang, a ship could carry 2,000 people. ”

"Two thousand? Dad, really? "Datou thinks it's incredible, I used to hear him Lao Tzu say that a sea ship can carry two thousand people, after all, there is no physical comparison, the right to listen, but in front of him he is really looking at the sea floating on the sea of a thousand big ships, it's just a behemoth, he thinks that the [really big] big sea ship can only hold two or three hundred people, can hold two thousand people, how big is that?

This so-called sea ship that can hold 2,000 people is the one mentioned in the "Compilation of Sea Charts" compiled by Hu Zongxian, a famous minister of the Jiajing Dynasty, [one hundred and twenty steps square, accommodating 2,000 people, and horses can gallop back and forth on it. Giant ship, of course, at this time, Hu Zongxian has been dead for more than 20 years, and it has been more than ten years since Qi Jiguang transferred 20,000 Zhejiang soldiers to the north to go north to the nine sides, and the giant ship of the year is also old and decrepit at the moment, and he can't see the wind and waves at all, so Shan Sinan said that the ship of a thousand materials is really big, and there is no mistake.

The big head doubted his father's prestige, Shan Chixia was angry, her eyes widened, and she was about to get angry, but the sick father Zheng smiled and slowly whispered: "Good boy, come, help me, don't patronize the big boat." The big head also has eyes, knowing that he said the wrong thing, seeing that his master is blatantly shielding himself, where is there any reason not to run over to seek refuge, he quickly lowered his head, wiped his father's body and passed, and helped Father Zheng to walk forward slowly.

Snorted, Shan Chixia straightened the burden on her shoulders, pointed to a brand-new sea ship in front of her and said: "Young master, it's that ship, the owner's surname is Yan, he is a middle-aged man in his thirties, and he speaks very kindly, I heard that the Yan family is also the leading businessman in Ningbo, and I heard that our family is a scholar family, and I refused to accept money, I told him that eating and drinking along the way is also to make silver, and no one's money is blown by the wind, so the Yan boat owner reluctantly received five taels of silver." ”

The obedient official's face was slightly red, listening to Shan Chixia's words, how could he feel that there was a smell of exhortation in it, he had money these days, and it really didn't taste like money when he spent it, although the money was earned by him, but the Yin Shi people really couldn't see it, such as buying a toothbrush, the toothbrush of the Fan family's century-old store was really rich and people only used it, and for example, yesterday I bought a bunch of candied fruits on the street, which is also extremely luxurious in the eyes of the Yin Shi family.

You must know that sugar at this time is a luxury, the export of foreign exchange fist products, snow white as frost, at the same time all the countries on the earth have not been able to make snow white sugar level, so the South Seas and the West are called Chinese sugar, said Ben, India and the South Seas countries have to import the sugar of the Ming Dynasty, the history of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen ten years, the British East India Company in Guangzhou in one breath to buy 15,000 quintals of Chinese white sugar and 500 quintals of rock sugar.

However, it is quite funny that this kind of sugar was called Western sugar in the Ming Dynasty, because the sucrose was transmitted from India during the Han Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty called Southeast Asia the West, such as "Zheng He Goes to the West", and the word Nanyang did not have it in the Ming Dynasty.

Think about it, snow-white sugar-pickled fruit, where is the snack! It's just a lot of silver, it's really a loser.

Therefore, after listening to Shan Chixia's words, the obedient official couldn't help but have some scarlet faces, he is only thirteen years old at present, even if you are full of strategy, you can't change the fact that you haven't grown hair at the age of thirteen.

However, he didn't plan to admit his mistake, the damn Ming Dynasty didn't have any entertainment, and if he didn't eat snacks, he wouldn't be alive, Shan Chixia nodded to the young master, seeing that although he blushed but didn't say anything, he frowned slightly, and had to use the young man's greedy mouth to comfort himself, it's not good not to allow the young master to eat snacks, that would be too arrogant.

At this time, the family had already walked to the side of the Yan's ship, and there was an elderly man in a Taoist robe waiting by the board, and when he saw the obedient official next to Shan Chixia, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but praise him, what a scholar.

"How can I bother Brother Yan to wait, Chixia is ashamed." Shan Chixia went up to say hello and introduced her own master and young master, "This is my family's member, Zheng Liancheng, who has always been weak and can't see the wind, this is my young master, Zheng Guofan, the county school Xusheng, next to the little dog Shan Sinan." ”

The old housekeeper of the Yan family saw that Father Zheng was wearing a big brimmed hat with a black veil covering his face, and he didn't think much about it, at this time it is normal to wear a hat with a veil hanging down, in "Golden Bottle Plum", the Ximen officials often wear a hat with a veil when they go out, just like the Taoist robe worn by the old housekeeper of the Yan family, he is not a Taoist priest, but a Taoist robe in the Ming Dynasty is a very common family dress, and you must not recklessly call others Taoist chief when you see others wearing Taoist robes.

The two housekeepers exchanged pleasantries for a while, and the old housekeeper of the Yan family let half of his body and ask the obedient officials to get on the boat, "Old man Zheng, Zheng Xiaoxianggong, please get on the boat quickly." ”

The obedient official led the horse, bowed his hand to the old housekeeper of the Yan family, and was about to get on the boat, when he heard a series of shouts from behind, "Brother Xian, Brother Zheng Xian." ”

The obedient official turned around and looked, it was a group of talented people led by Chu Yunnuo, a group of people, whether it was ordinary people working part-time jobs on the dock, or wealthy businessmen, they all hurriedly gave way to both sides, and more than a dozen ministers wearing Confucian shirts were not something that could be easily offended.

These people trotted all the way over, panting, and they all apologized, "Oops! Brother Xian, I almost missed the time, and I am ashamed. This is the boat that the virtuous brother will take on! As he spoke, he instructed the men who were carrying the burdens behind them to send the things to the ship.

The obedient official was dumbfounded, "Brothers, what are you ......?"

The new epiphytic Gongsun Nie, who was born in the Shangjia family, looked at the big shoulders and round waist, and it was also a false fire, in essence, he was still a Xiucai who couldn't pick up his shoulders and couldn't lift his hands, and he ran all the way, only feeling that his lungs were on fire, and he simply didn't care about the image, and pulled off the Confucian scarf on his head and fanned him for a while, "I'm waiting to discuss, I think that Brother Xian, you move your family south, Brother Meng Xian called brother, how embarrassed to be empty-handed, you always have to send a ritual." ”

The little fat man was a little drunk, but he shook the folding fan that never left him, squeezed over from behind and said, "Which one is uncle, I'll see you later." ”

When everyone hears it, hey! It's still this guy's brain, we ran all the way, and our stomachs were on fire, and we actually forgot about this, and we also talked about it one after another.

The good officials were ...... by these talents Let's say it's a little touched! Knowing that this is also the path of the Ming Dynasty scholars, it is not enough to say that it is ridiculous! People send a lot of things, which is unreasonable.

pursed his lips, the good official had no choice but to arch his hand, and then gave way, "This is the father." ”

"The little nephews have seen the uncle."

More than a dozen talents bowed in unison, this momentum frightened the people on the dock, and the old housekeeper of the Yan family also felt a little surprised, and even the boat was alarmed, and the owner of the boat looked at the shore from the side of the ship.

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