Shanghai is an international metropolis, this huge city is full of merchants of all colors and clothes, white, black, brown-skinned people, and He Ming people with the same appearance as the Japanese and Koreans, these or red-haired, high-nosed, sunken-eyed, or pitch-black as carbon foreigners, if they appear in other places in the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely be regarded as visitors from outside the world, but in the eyes of Shanghainese, it is commonplace.

This huge city covers an extremely large area, densely populated, tall and ornate palace-like buildings and small and simple shantytowns coexist, what is even more shocking is that such a huge city was actually built in more than ten years, it is said that the construction of houses in Shanghai was far more than other places, and it only took an average of seven days to build a house, which was called once

"Shanghai degree". Shanghai Xun from a small county to a metropolis, millions of residents certainly can't be locals, they come from the Ming provinces and countries in the world, among which Ningbo immigrants account for a considerable proportion, and then the immigrants from the south and north of Zhili, where it was once the border of the Ming and Qing dynasties, wars are frequent, and the people are not able to make a living, so many of the families migrated to Shanghai, the popular official language is Jianghuai official dialect, that is, the Mandarin of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains dialect, and the Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialects also account for a considerable proportion of the share, those foreigners generally speak a few official words, otherwise they can't mix it at all.

Shanghai Road also has a characteristic that there is no city wall, the city is too big, the original Shanghai County city wall has long been demolished, dense buildings are built, everywhere on the bank of the Huangpu River, the wind and waves, the merchant Jia Miji.

The houses here are relatively high-end residential areas in Shanghai, not only have Ming-style buildings with ridges and cornices, but also have many Baroque and Byzantine Western-style buildings, Japanese buildings with wooden planks and white paper paste, and Nanyang buildings with tall stilts, but this kind of low-cost houses are usually built by those poor jingling dock workers and small vendors in Zhabei.

Shanghai is a port city, a trading city, the Ming Dynasty, a huge amount of import and export are born here, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Songjiang silk cloth, Jingdezhen porcelain, Xuzhou ironware, Changzhou machine parts are gathered here, loaded with thousands of foreign galleons or Ming steam ships shipped out of the sea, while receiving goods from all over the world: gold, silver, spices, raw materials, good horses, Meiji and so on.

At the same time, Shanghai's local handicraft industry and agricultural and sideline industries are also very good at gold lacquer inlay, ivory carving, wood carving, mahogany carving, jade carving, gold and silver jewelry, toys, silk flowers, carpets, velvet embroidery, sandalwood fans, Shanghai homespun cloth, Nanqiao bean curd, watermelon, Longhua peach, honey pear, sprinkling red peach, candied fruit, salted water ham, smoked ham, pig casing, Pudong chicken, fragrant japonica rice, Yangxing cucumber, Jiading white garlic, Zhangjiang waist Ling are all well-known brands.

The main rivers in Shanghai are the Huangpu River, Suzhou Creek and the Yangtze River. The Huangpu River originates from the Dianshan Lake in the southeast of Taihu Lake, flows to Wusong through the mouth of the Yangtze River, and flows into the sea through the mouth of the Yangtze River, and the Suzhou Creek (also known as the Wusong River) originates from the Taihu Lake near Suzhou, which plays a great role in connecting Shanghai with the mainland.

In ancient times, it was also called the river that flowed into the sea alone

"Blasphemy" so Shanghai is called

Abbreviation of "Hudu".

"Shanghai". Coming to the edge of the city, Liu Ziguang couldn't help but secretly admire, standing on the hill and looking at it from afar, only to see a huge city surrounded by city walls in front of him, this is the most open and most accessible port city in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the product of capitalism to a certain level, and the cultural exchanges between the East and the West make the people here more flexible and more unfettered by tradition, according to the intelligence of the South Factory, Shanghai Dao is more than Suzhou and Hangzhou, and is not controlled by the imperial court, the wealthy families here, the rich are rival the country, and there are also quite powerful private soldiers, Chen Liangjue, the governor of Shanghai, has been an official for many years, and he has a lot of connections in Shanghai, his people are very deep in the city, and he is ruthless at the critical moment, and he is by no means as easy to deal with as Cao Yin。

The water in Shanghai is too deep, and the power of the wealthy family is also very strong secretly, so that there are almost no too valuable clues in the archives left by Dongchang, in order to find the truth, Liu Ziguang decided to make a private visit to Weifu, the partner of the private interview is the big shopkeeper of Rishengchang, Hu Yimin, the strength of this heroine should not be underestimated, this time there are as many as fifty swordsmen who came to Shanghai to accompany him, each of them is an orphan cultivated by the Hu family since his youth, although he has no name in the rivers and lakes, but he is ruthless and ruthless, and it is definitely a team with strong combat effectiveness, in order to create the illusion that he is still in Suzhou, Liu Ziguang did not bring a soldier of the Red Shirt Regiment, Liu Xiaomei and Han Xueer were left in Daguan Garden, he onlyHe rushed to Shanghai with Miss Hu.

Since it is a private visit to Weifu, it can't be too ostentatious in the clothes, ordinary carriages, ordinary cloth clothes, the two of them pretended to be scholars and entered the bustling Shanghai, Rishengchang's bodyguards were scattered far away to protect Hu Yimin, I have seen Liu Ziguang's skills, there is such a 10,000 enemies by his side, what is there to be afraid of, she is not the first time to come to Shanghai, but it is the first time to walk on the streets of Shanghai like this, so it seems to be brisk and smiling.

Shanghai is an undefended city, there are almost no patrolling officers and soldiers on the streets, all kinds of people come and go, walking on the streets, restaurants and tea shops on both sides of the road, one after another, under the guise of colorful flags, fluttering all over the eyes, and the difference between the capital is that the restaurants here play a dazzling variety of signboards, what is the Japanese raw fish feast, French snail meal, Spanish turkey, English steak are all unheard of foreign dishes, and the style shops in the streets and alleys, the small faces painted white, the Luo Huan legs in kimono clogs, the woman, and the dark-skinned, scantily dressed Nanyang girl, fair-skinned and debauched Western Yanmar are all standing at the door of the store, peddling themselves to the men who come and go in unauthentic official language。

It was a lot of exoticism, Liu Ziguang was dizzying, he saw the Arabs wearing turbans and sticking scimitars at their waists, the short-legged and short people of the Ronin, the Europeans with slender swords, and the Nanyang natives who were surrounded by rags, of course, the most were the Ming people with buns on their heads and the right gown, and people of all races drinking tea and eating together, talking and communicating in different languages.

There are many types of currency used by these Fanbang barbarians, basically gold and silver coins, but the weight, pattern and purity are different, and the merchants have figured out the rules for a long time, these complicated coins have their own fixed exchange rates, the Spaniards' eagle and ocean are the best, the British queen's head can also make do with the gold coins of the Song Dynasty is the most popular hard currency, the silver ingots of the Ming Dynasty eat everything, and the silver tickets of the rising sun are not a lot.

Hu Yimin explained that these foreigners are all merchants who come and go in a hurry, and they are used to carrying hard currency with them, and Rishengchang has no semicolon overseas, so silver tickets can only be used by domestic merchants.

Rishengchang's semicolon in Shanghai is more of a role in cashing, the country's merchants have brought silver tickets to Shanghai, and then from the semicolon to take out the silver, and then buy goods from foreigners, foreigners sometimes also collect cash tickets, but only when they buy goods locally, in the end, when they leave, they still have to exchange the silver tickets in their hands for real money.

"Let's go to the famous Bund and have a look, where the Shibo Lifting Division is located." Hu Yimin proposed: secretly exploring the city is the main purpose of their trip, and of course Liu Ziguang readily agreed.

Lin Sheng is a native of Gaoqiaonan, Huangpu Jiangdong, since he was a child, his parents died, he was raised by his uncle until he was 14 years old, and he went to Shanghai alone for eight years, and he was 22 years old this year, he had not yet married, and every day he pushed a small car to the Bund to sell fruits and earn some money to make a living.

Lin Sheng's knife skills are very good, he can use a knife to peel off the skin of pears with one hand, and he also likes to make friends

"Fruit Asheng" The weather is very good today, and there are several foreign cargo ships docking, and people who have been running at sea for months need to replenish fruits and vegetables the most, and the vendors on the Bund know that the first thing those sailors do when they get off the ship is to buy a few juicy and sweet fruits and feast on them before going to find a bitch.

But in the past few days, the limelight is very wrong, the government has to clean them every three or five times, these small stalls and hawkers say that the Lord Qincha is coming, and the city will not be allowed to be destroyed by them, which is fatal, the small vendors have earned hard money in the wind and rain, and there is no ration for a day without a stall, Lin Sheng is not afraid, anyway, he eats alone, the whole family is not hungry, but the other dealers who drag their families are miserable, who is not old and young, for the sake of the family, so that the old and the young will not be hungry, these small vendors always take advantage of the government not to pay attention to secretly put up stalls。

Lin Sheng propped up the wheelbarrow as usual, and the fruits were arranged neatly, and now it was autumn, and only local radishes were available, and the green radishes were cut into petals, rich in juice, refreshing and delicious.

A fruit knife made of iron pieces was placed on the desk, and the rag was wrapped around the handle, and the blade shone with a cold light. Lin Sheng took out a clay pot and sprinkled water on the radish to make it look more watery and beautiful, and just as he was concentrating on the work, two carriages had quietly surrounded each other from both ends of the road.

At the end of the carriage sat an official in dark green official robes, soap boots, and black hats, and there was an eye-catching sign at the end of the carriage, with eight big characters written in serious official script

"Patrol law enforcement stops at any time".