The next day, Zhu Houwei and the little girl got up in the morning to practice boxing. After a fist technique, the little girl took the towel handed over by Hongling and asked, "Second brother, what are we going to do today?" ”

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "Go shopping in Tianjin." The little girl was immediately excited, "Okay, let's go quickly." "When I heard the sermon and went shopping, the girls were very happy. Women, whether they are old or young, ancient or modern, are very fond of shopping.

Soon, several people took a carriage to the Tianjin Acropolis more than 10 miles to the west. Today, everyone is wearing ordinary clothes, and Grandpa Huang also took off his uniform and dressed up as a housekeeper. Zhu Houwei is wearing a Confucian robe inside, a down jacket outside, and the little girl is wearing a white long skirt and a white down jacket outside, and the whole person looks like a winter elf. Xiaohuan, Qingmei, and Hongling are also dressed in the same way, but the colors are different. The small ring wears a lilac, the green plum is cyan, and the red rhombus is red. Several girls have good looks and temperaments, and after getting off the carriage at the Tianjin Acropolis, they attracted the attention of passers-by.

On November 21, the second year of Yongle (December 23, 1404), Ming Chengzu ordered to set up a guard in Zhigu, and ordered Huang Fu, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Chen Xuan, the Bo of Pingjiang, to command Lingyun and Huang Gang, the commander of Tongzhi, to build the city, and gave the name "Tianjin", which means "the place where the Son of Heaven crosses the river".

On December 9 of the second year of Yongle (January 9, 1405), Tianjin Zuowei was established. On November 8, 1406, the fourth year of Yongle (December 18, 1406) changed the Qingzhou Right Guard (one said Qingzhou Left Guard) to the Tianjin Right Guard, which is the origin of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty.

Tianjin City is actually not too big, and it cannot be compared with the capital. Tianjin is only 5 miles long, no more than 3 miles wide, and about 15 miles in circumference, which is not the largest group of cities in the Ming Dynasty. However, because it is a guard castle, the city wall is tall, with a foot of 9 meters, nearly 3,000 wall battlements, and all kinds of castle defense facilities. There was also an urn city in the north city, which greatly increased the defense of Tianjin City. Tianjin City has three city gates, the west side is a water gate because it is connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, as long as the gate is lowered, the west gate can be solid.

Tianjin City is a city of immigrants, from the Yongle period, Tianjin Sanwei, these people are from Hebei, Shandong and other places migrated over. At present, there are more than 13,000 officers and soldiers in Tianjin's three guards, and about 560,000 people including their families. Due to the special geographical location of Tianjin, it is bordered by the sea in the east, the river in the west, Caosu in the south, and the Beijing division in the north. Therefore, Tianjin City has developed rapidly, and it has only been a hundred years, which is basically a relatively prosperous group of the Ming Dynasty. In the past 100 years, the biggest change has been in the population and its nature. In the beginning, it was basically an official immigration to the military households, but gradually, there were ordinary people who came here to live on their own. The first to arrive were merchants, large and small, who had a keen sense of smell and dared to fight, so they came from all over the world to settle in this new city. The arrival of merchants also brought with them different groups of people like artisans, fellows, etc. In Tianjin, there are many people who come here to settle down and cultivate the land. Today, the total population of Tianjin Sanwei is no less than 300,000.

There are a lot of temples in the city of Tianjin, what do you think about the land temple, the city god temple, the Bodhisattva temple, etc., etc., some temples are separated by less than 100 steps, which can be said to be a wonder. There are also many yamen in the city of Tianjin, and there is a branch of the household department here, which specializes in receiving grain and other items from the south.

But the most interesting thing about Tianjin is that "the city is full of brocade guards". Jin Yiwei has a governor's palace yamen in Tianjin City, and the commander Mu Bin often works here. The Ming Dynasty's spy organizations Dongchang and Jinyiwei had branches in various places, and Jinyiweiqiao Street and the former Jinyiweiqiao in Hebei District, modern Tianjin, were the locations of these spy agencies. At that time, these buildings were not named after Jinyiwei, and the appearance of Jinyiwei as a place name was after the Qing Dynasty, because there was a river near Jinyiwei Street, and a wooden bridge was built on this river during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and later people were accustomed to calling it Jinyiwei Bridge. After there is a bridge, people live here, and it is called Jinyiweiqiao Village, and Jinyiwei Street also appears. Jinyiwei Bridge was demolished in 1953 when Tianjin built water conservancy, and Jinyiwei Street has been preserved until now, and now when passing by here, you can still see the street sign of "Jinyiwei Street". When it was dark, these factory guards were responsible for spying on the military and civilians, looting money, and killing innocents.

The secret services of the Ming Dynasty can be divided into three parts: one is stationed in various places, the other is stationed in Beijing, and the other is temporarily dispatched to other countries. Except for the Jinyi Guard, the rest were all presided over by the eunuchs, and the eunuchs led the organs to appoint and dismiss them, and then the emperor made the final decision. Among these three parts, the most numerous are stationed in various places, which began to be set up in the time of Zhu Di of Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty, and later all provinces and important towns in the country were set up. Their task was actually to reconnoiter the local officials, soldiers, civilians, etc., for the emperor.

Zhu Houwei and his entourage entered Tianjin City and walked on the main road, but they also saw a lot of brocade guards wearing blue-green civilian clothes or blue-green splendid clothes. Many people in later generations thought that Jinyiwei should be a flying fish suit, but it was not. The flying fish suit is only qualified to be worn by high-ranking officials, and at least more than 1,000 households. As for the commander of the highest official of Jinyiwei, on formal occasions, he wears a red python suit, a flying fish suit, a black gauze hat, a luan belt, and an embroidered spring knife.

These brocade guards are not like the evil and domineering recorded in the history books, and when they saw the beautiful girl with a cocktail in Zhu Houwei and his party, they just took a few more looks, and did not come forward to find someone who was not happy. Dealing with merchants on the street is also relatively gentle, which is probably related to Mu Bin's strictness.

Among Zhu Houwei and his party, in addition to Huang Gonggong and a few girls, Zhu Yuan and more than 10 pretending to be writers from the land and water camps followed. Along the way, several girls stepped into various stores, and the items they bought were also held by those "family members", fortunately, otherwise, depending on the number of purchases, a Zhu Houwei would never be able to take it. Because the city of Tianjin is not big, several people came in on foot, and the carriage was placed at the city gate for several water and land battalions to watch.

Unconsciously, it was already noon, and a few people found a restaurant at random and went up to the second floor to prepare for dinner. The little girl and others were talking about the items they had just bought, but in fact, they were not unusual, they were some rouge gouache from Jiangnan, as well as women's items such as Su embroidery. You can also buy it in the capital, but it's a little cheaper here, so a few people are very happy to buy it. They were happy, but Zhu Houwei was a little depressed. The hundreds of taels of silver brought today basically cost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and only some of the silver tickets in his arms have not been moved.

When he went out, even if his personality was a little old-fashioned, Grandpa Huang sat at a table near the window with Zhu Houwei and a few girls. Zhu Yuan, who was dressed as a housekeeper, sat under Zhu Houwei and kept talking about what he had seen and heard in Tianjin in the past year. Zhu Houwei listened, not answering a few words, but looking at the people on the street outside the window, it was also very comfortable. It didn't take long for all kinds of wine and dishes to be served, including chickens and ducks, but fish and shrimp were the most.

As soon as the wine and food were served, before they started eating, they heard a voice downstairs, "Shopkeeper, my son-in-law is coming, don't hurry up to greet him." "There is pride in the voice, flattery, domineering, emotional, and staggering. Then there was the courteous reception of the restaurant shopkeeper, "It turned out to be Shi Gongzi, please hurry, there is a private seat on the second floor, please, please." ”

After a short time, I went up the stairs to the second floor. On the second floor, only the north side is the best, and the east and west sides will be covered by the buildings next to them, and Zhu Houwei and his party are sitting on the north side. There are a total of 5 tables here, Zhu Houwei and his party account for three, and one is already being eaten, so only one is left.

This Shi Gongzi has a helper, there are only 5 people in the family, and there are 6 people in total, and he can sit down at a table. It's a pity that this Shi Gongzi changed his original intention of eating, because he saw 4 girls such as the little girl. If you don't talk about it, it's very easy to have an accident with a beautiful female dependent, and if you don't have any strength, it will be a tragedy. Fortunately, Zhu Houwei in this life is not afraid of trouble.

When Shi Gongzi and the family saw the four little girls sitting, their eyes suddenly lit up. I don't know the nature of the little girl, just looking at her virtuous appearance in public, she is indeed a little beauty, which is in line with the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty. This Shi Gongzi has slightly dark skin, light and short eyebrows, a hooked nose, and a big mouth underneath, and the ice cream of the old era can be stuffed horizontally. A pair of eyes are quite big, but they are big and godless, and the eye circles are blue, which seems to be kidney deficiency. He is not tall, only 1.6 meters old, about 20 years old, wearing a snow-white Confucian robe and looking twisted, and holding a folding fan in his hand in winter. At this time, he unfolded the folding fan, fanned it slightly, and walked to Zhu Houwei's table step by step.